checkpatch: remove missing switch/case break test

This test doesn't work well and newer compilers are much better
at emitting this warning.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cambda Zhu <cambda@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7e25090c79f6a69d502ab8219863300790192fe2.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches 2020-08-11 18:35:19 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1a3dcf2e6b
commit ef3c005c0e

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@ -6543,31 +6543,6 @@ sub process {
}
}
# check for case / default statements not preceded by break/fallthrough/switch
if ($line =~ /^.\s*(?:case\s+(?:$Ident|$Constant)\s*|default):/) {
my $has_break = 0;
my $has_statement = 0;
my $count = 0;
my $prevline = $linenr;
while ($prevline > 1 && ($file || $count < 3) && !$has_break) {
$prevline--;
my $rline = $rawlines[$prevline - 1];
my $fline = $lines[$prevline - 1];
last if ($fline =~ /^\@\@/);
next if ($fline =~ /^\-/);
next if ($fline =~ /^.(?:\s*(?:case\s+(?:$Ident|$Constant)[\s$;]*|default):[\s$;]*)*$/);
$has_break = 1 if ($rline =~ /fall[\s_-]*(through|thru)/i);
next if ($fline =~ /^.[\s$;]*$/);
$has_statement = 1;
$count++;
$has_break = 1 if ($fline =~ /\bswitch\b|\b(?:break\s*;[\s$;]*$|exit\s*\(\b|return\b|goto\b|continue\b)/);
}
if (!$has_break && $has_statement) {
WARN("MISSING_BREAK",
"Possible switch case/default not preceded by break or fallthrough comment\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
# check for /* fallthrough */ like comment, prefer fallthrough;
my @fallthroughs = (
'fallthrough',