The excess ; after the closing parenthesis is just code-noise it has no and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr(a)hofr.at&gt; --- Problem located by coccinelle ./kernel/auditfilter.c:341:2-3: Unneeded semicolon ./kernel/auditfilter.c:415:2-3: Unneeded semicolon Patch was compiletested with: x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_AUDIT ) Patch is against 4.10.0 (localversion-next is next-20170222) kernel/auditfilter.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c index 880519d..239d11c 100644 --- a/kernel/auditfilter.c +++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static int audit_field_valid(struct audit_entry *entry, struct audit_field *f) entry->rule.listnr != AUDIT_FILTER_USER) return -EINVAL; break; - }; + } switch(f->type) { default: @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static int audit_field_valid(struct audit_entry *entry, struct audit_field *f) if (entry->rule.listnr != AUDIT_FILTER_EXIT) return -EINVAL; break; - }; + } return 0; } -- 2.1.4