The patch titled Subject: kernel/signal.c: annotate implicit fall through has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is signal-annotate-implicit-fall-through.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/signal-annotate-implicit-fall-through.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/signal-annotate-implicit-fall-through.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/signal.c: annotate implicit fall through There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and this place in the code produced a warning (W=1). This commit remove the following warning: kernel/signal.c:795:13: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114203505.17875-1-malat@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-annotate-implicit-fall-through +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig */ if (!sid || sid == task_session(current)) break; + /* fall through */ default: return -EPERM; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from malat@xxxxxxxxxx are signal-annotate-implicit-fall-through.patch