Re: [PATCH 1/1 linux-next] affs: add default case in switch

From: Fabian Frederick
Date: Sun May 03 2015 - 14:39:22 EST




> On 03 May 2015 at 20:23 Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Am 03.05.2015 um 20:15 schrieb Fabian Frederick:
> >> If the code can be reached you need to take a proper action of not the
> >> warning is bogus.
> >
> > As far as I understand, switch in affs_lookup() only updates inode number
> > when
> > it's a link so we can simply add default:break to silence gcc warning or
> > replace
> > by if().
>
> Does the warning trigger with our default set of compiler warnings?
> Not all gcc warnings are useful. :)
Only with W=123

>
> > affs_iget() switch on the other hand applies to any type of file.
> > Maybe we could add default: BUG() to avoid working on bad inode ?
>
> Or cancel the operation and return -EIO to userspace.
Ok, thanks, I'll send another version :)

Regards,
Fabian
>
> Thanks,
> //richard
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