linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm, mempolicy: make mpol_to

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Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:11:27 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, mempolicy: make mpol_to_str robust and always succeed

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 07:58:22PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:

 >  	case MPOL_BIND:
 > -		/* Fall through */
 >  	case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
 >  		nodes = pol->v.nodes;
 >  		break;

Any reason not to leave this ?

"missing break" is the 2nd most common thing that coverity picks up.
Most of them are false positives like the above, but the lack of annotations
in our source makes it time-consuming to pick through them all to find the
real bugs.

	Dave

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