[PATCH] arm64: Remove unreachable break after die
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Nov 27 01:20:57 PST 2025
On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 12:26:20AM +0200, Osama Abdelkader wrote:
> die() never returns, the break is unreachable in arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
Is the break causing some problem, e.g. a compiler warning?
If not, then I don't see a reason to remove the break.
There are many other instances of "die(...); break" throughout the
kernel, and this doesn't seem to be speecial.
Mark.
> Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader at gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> index 681939ef5d16..81dd2d7759eb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -1003,7 +1003,6 @@ int bug_brk_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long esr)
> switch (report_bug(regs->pc, regs)) {
> case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG:
> die("Oops - BUG", regs, esr);
> - break;
>
> case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN:
> break;
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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