4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d64b721d27aef3fbeb16ecda9dd22ee34818ff70 upstream. The implicit fall through case label here is intended, so let us inform that to gcc >= 7: util/strfilter.c: In function 'strfilter_node__sprint': util/strfilter.c:270:6: error: this statement may fall through [-Werror=implicit-fallthrough=] if (len < 0) ^ util/strfilter.c:272:2: note: here case '!': ^~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z2dpywg7u8fim000hjfbpyfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/strfilter.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/tools/perf/util/strfilter.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/strfilter.c @@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ static int strfilter_node__sprint(struct len = strfilter_node__sprint_pt(node->l, buf); if (len < 0) return len; + __fallthrough; case '!': if (buf) { *(buf + len++) = *node->p;