Marking BUG() unreachable helps us silence unnecessary warnings e.g. "warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]" like the code below.
int foo() { ... if (XXX) return 0; else if (YYY) return 1; else BUG(); } Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.a...@wdc.com> --- kerncompat.h | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kerncompat.h b/kerncompat.h index 01fd93a7b540..7060326fe4f4 100644 --- a/kerncompat.h +++ b/kerncompat.h @@ -333,7 +333,11 @@ static inline void assert_trace(const char *assertion, const char *filename, #endif #define BUG_ON(c) bugon_trace(#c, __FILE__, __func__, __LINE__, (long)(c)) -#define BUG() BUG_ON(1) +#define BUG() \ +do { \ + BUG_ON(1); \ + __builtin_unreachable(); \ +} while (0) #define WARN_ON(c) warning_trace(#c, __FILE__, __func__, __LINE__, (long)(c)) #define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \ -- 2.31.1