On Sun, 2017-09-10 at 09:52 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> void foo(int a)
>       switch (a) {
>       case 'h':
>               fun1();
>               exit(1);
>       default:
> }
> 
> creates a warning
> Possible switch case/default not preceded by break
> or fallthrough comment
> 
> exit( should be treated like return.

OK, but

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -4361,7 +4361,7 @@ sub process {
>                               next if ($fline =~ /^.[\s$;]*$/);
>                               $has_statement = 1;
>                               $count++;
> -                             $has_break = 1 if ($fline =~ 
> /\bswitch\b|\b(?:break\s*;[\s$;]*$|return\b|goto\b|continue\b)/);
> +                             $has_break = 1 if ($fline =~ 
> /\bswitch\b|\b(?:break\s*;[\s$;]*$|exit\(\b|return\b|goto\b|continue\b)/);

exit\s*\(

Although this could have a false negative
on some code.

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