There is no case after the default from which to fallthrough to. Clang will error in this case (unhelpfully without context, see link below) and GCC will with -Wswitch-unreachable. The previous commit should have just replaced the comment with a break statement. If we consider implicit fallthrough to be a design mistake of C, then all case statements should be terminated with one of the following statements: * break * continue * return * fallthrough * goto * (call of function with __attribute__(__noreturn__)) Fixes: 2a1390c95a69 ("nfs: Convert to use the preferred fallthrough macro") Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47539 Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes v3: * update the commit message as per Joe. * collect tags. Changes v2: * add break rather than no terminating statement as per Joe. * add Joe's suggested by tag. * add blurb about acceptable terminal statements. fs/nfs/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c index d20326ee0475..eb2401079b04 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/super.c +++ b/fs/nfs/super.c @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static struct nfs_server *nfs_try_mount_request(struct fs_context *fc) default: if (rpcauth_get_gssinfo(flavor, &info) != 0) continue; - fallthrough; + break; } dfprintk(MOUNT, "NFS: attempting to use auth flavor %u\n", flavor); ctx->selected_flavor = flavor; -- 2.28.0.681.g6f77f65b4e-goog