linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] bug: Add unreachable() to generic BUG() to silence warnings

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 22:06:54 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	Nick Krause <xerofoiify@...il.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"open list:GENERIC INCLUDE/A..." <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bug: Add unreachable() to generic BUG() to silence
 warnings

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 03:13:41AM +0200, Nick Krause wrote:
> Architectures which use generic BUG() have warnings like 
> 
> kernel/sched/core.c:2692:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
> net/core/ethtool.c:236:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
> 
> Other BUG() implementations
> have added unreachable() at end but generic does not. I guess
> that is why
> it showing these errors. We can silence them using unreachable().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>

You shouldn't see those warnings.  panic() has __noreturn set, which
should have exactly the same effect.

>  include/asm-generic/bug.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bug.h b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
> index 630dd23..effcc82 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/bug.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct bug_entry {
>  #define BUG() do { \
>  	printk("BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); \
>  	panic("BUG!"); \
> +	unreachable(); \
>  } while (0)
>  #endif
>  
> -- 
> 2.0.1
> 
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