There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and this place in the code produced a warning (W=1).
In this particular case change put the fall through comment on a single line so as to match the regular expression expected by GCC. This commit remove the following warning: kernel/capability.c:95:3: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> --- kernel/capability.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index 1e1c0236f55b..e60be18b98e2 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -93,9 +93,7 @@ static int cap_validate_magic(cap_user_header_t header, unsigned *tocopy) break; case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2: warn_deprecated_v2(); - /* - * fall through - v3 is otherwise equivalent to v2. - */ + /* fall through - v3 is otherwise equivalent to v2. */ case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3: *tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3; break; -- 2.19.2

