There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and this place in the code produced a warning (W=1). In this particular case remove a ‘:’ so as to match the regular expression expected by GCC. This commit remove the following warning: fs/locks.c:1473:16: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/locks.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c index ff6af2c32601..d958c3863b4b 100644 --- a/fs/locks.c +++ b/fs/locks.c @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ static void lease_clear_pending(struct file_lock *fl, int arg) switch (arg) { case F_UNLCK: fl->fl_flags &= ~FL_UNLOCK_PENDING; - /* fall through: */ + /* fall through */ case F_RDLCK: fl->fl_flags &= ~FL_DOWNGRADE_PENDING; } -- 2.19.2