I do not prefer special comments for one static analyzer.

Is there an alternative design/implementation of this code
to make it more readable and not trigger any static analysis
false positives?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ranbir
> Singh
> Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 10:48 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; rsi...@ventanamicro.com
> Cc: Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com>;
> Veeresh Sangolli <veeresh.sango...@dellteam.com>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 2/2] MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbMouseDxe:
> Fix MISSING_BREAK Coverity issues
> 
> From: Ranbir Singh <ranbir.sin...@dell.com>
> 
> The function GetNextHidItem has a switch-case code in which the
> case 1: falls through to case 2: and then case 2: falls through
> to case 3: in the block.
> 
> While this may be intentional, it is not evident to any general
> code reader as well as any static analyzer tool. Just adding
> 
>     // No break; here as this is an intentional fallthrough.
> 
> as comment in between makes a reader as well as Coverity happy.
> 
> REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4222
> 
> Cc: Hao A Wu <hao.a...@intel.com>
> Cc: Ray Ni <ray...@intel.com>
> Co-authored-by: Veeresh Sangolli <veeresh.sango...@dellteam.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ranbir Singh <ranbir.sin...@dell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ranbir Singh <rsi...@ventanamicro.com>
> ---
>  MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbMouseDxe/MouseHid.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbMouseDxe/MouseHid.c
> b/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbMouseDxe/MouseHid.c
> index acc19acd98e0..bc9a4824208b 100644
> --- a/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbMouseDxe/MouseHid.c
> +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbMouseDxe/MouseHid.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ GetNextHidItem (
>            return StartPos;
> 
>          }
> 
> 
> 
> +        //
> 
> +        // No break; here as this is an intentional fallthrough
> 
> +        //
> 
> +
> 
>        case 2:
> 
>          //
> 
>          // 2-byte data
> 
> @@ -99,6 +103,10 @@ GetNextHidItem (
>            return StartPos;
> 
>          }
> 
> 
> 
> +        //
> 
> +        // No break; here as this is an intentional fallthrough
> 
> +        //
> 
> +
> 
>        case 3:
> 
>          //
> 
>          // 4-byte data, adjust size
> 
> --
> 2.34.1
> 
> 
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