From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> The fallthrough comment for an ignored cmpxchg() return value produces a harmless warning with 'make W=1': fs/posix_acl.c: In function 'get_acl': fs/posix_acl.c:127:36: error: suggest braces around empty body in an 'if' statement [-Werror=empty-body] 127 | /* fall through */ ; | ^ Rewrite it as gcc suggests as a step towards a clean W=1 build. On most architectures, we could just drop the if() entirely, but in some cases this causes a different warning. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/posix_acl.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c index f3309a7edb49..ee6b040c8b43 100644 --- a/fs/posix_acl.c +++ b/fs/posix_acl.c @@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ struct posix_acl *get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type) * to just call ->get_acl to fetch the ACL ourself. (This is going to * be an unlikely race.) */ - if (cmpxchg(p, ACL_NOT_CACHED, sentinel) != ACL_NOT_CACHED) - /* fall through */ ; + if (cmpxchg(p, ACL_NOT_CACHED, sentinel) != ACL_NOT_CACHED) { + /* fall through */ + } /* * Normally, the ACL returned by ->get_acl will be cached. -- 2.29.2