From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 11:18:03 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dmesg: drop core at impossible case in read_buffer() [oclint]
X-Git-Tag: v2.29-rc1~143^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6f1356f1c633e65413d13be927fe1e56e8515be;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

dmesg: drop core at impossible case in read_buffer() [oclint]

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
---

diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.c b/sys-utils/dmesg.c
index 4544388427..92de6e26fd 100644
--- a/sys-utils/dmesg.c
+++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.c
@@ -591,6 +591,8 @@ static ssize_t read_buffer(struct dmesg_control *ctl, char **buf)
 		if (n == 0 && ctl->action == SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_CLEAR)
 			n = klogctl(SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR, NULL, 0);
 		break;
+	default:
+		abort();	/* impossible method -> drop core */
 	}
 
 	return n;