diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index f7103356ef56..ac5146d53c4c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -3136,8 +3136,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t e1000_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		hdr_len = skb_transport_offset(skb) + tcp_hdrlen(skb);
 		if (skb->data_len && hdr_len == len) {
 			switch (hw->mac_type) {
+			case e1000_82544: {
 				unsigned int pull_size;
-			case e1000_82544:
+
 				/* Make sure we have room to chop off 4 bytes,
 				 * and that the end alignment will work out to
 				 * this hardware's requirements
@@ -3158,6 +3159,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t e1000_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				}
 				len = skb_headlen(skb);
 				break;
+			}
 			default:
 				/* do nothing */
 				break;