When building with automatic stack variable initialization, GCC 12 complains about variables defined outside of switch case statements. Move the variable into the case that uses it, which silences the warning: drivers/rtc/dev.c: In function 'rtc_dev_ioctl': drivers/rtc/dev.c:394:30: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable] 394 | long offset; | ^~~~~~ Fixes: 6a8af1b6568a ("rtc: add parameter ioctl") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/dev.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/dev.c b/drivers/rtc/dev.c index e104972a28fd..69325aeede1a 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/dev.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/dev.c @@ -391,14 +391,14 @@ static long rtc_dev_ioctl(struct file *file, } switch(param.param) { - long offset; case RTC_PARAM_FEATURES: if (param.index != 0) err = -EINVAL; param.uvalue = rtc->features[0]; break; - case RTC_PARAM_CORRECTION: + case RTC_PARAM_CORRECTION: { + long offset; mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock); if (param.index != 0) return -EINVAL; @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static long rtc_dev_ioctl(struct file *file, if (err == 0) param.svalue = offset; break; - + } default: if (rtc->ops->param_get) err = rtc->ops->param_get(rtc->dev.parent, ¶m); -- 2.30.2