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Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: host: fhci-hcd: annotate PIPE_CONTROL switch case
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To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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On 17/02/2020 10.38, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 02:35:18PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> On 13/02/2020 13.56, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> Shouldn't this be /* fall through */ instead?
>>>
>>> Gustavo, what's the best practice here, I count only a few
>>> "fallthrough;" instances in the kernel, although one is in our coding
>>> style document, and thousands of the /* */ version.
>>
>> Yes, I went with the attribute/macro due to that, and the history is
>> that Linus applied Joe's patches directly
>> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whOF8heTGz5tfzYUBp_UQQzSWNJ_50M7-ECXkfFRDQWFA@mail.gmail.com/),
>> so I assumed that meant the Penguin decided that the attribute/macro is
>> the right thing to do for new code, while existing comment annotations
>> can be left alone or changed piecemeal as code gets refactored anyway.
> 
> But, to be fair, Gustavo went and fixed up thousands of these, with the
> /* */ version, not the attribute.
> 
> Gustavo, can coverity notice the "fallthrough;" attribute properly?  I
> don't want to start adding things that end up triggering
> false-positives.

I'm not Gustavo, and I don't know the answer, but 1.5 years ago some guy
named greg k-h suggested that coverity does grok the fallthrough attribute:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10651357/#22279095

Rasmus