diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn-rewrite.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn-rewrite.cpp
index a62403b98e..c87dc17473 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn-rewrite.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn-rewrite.cpp
@@ -56,9 +56,8 @@ inline void ggml_zdnn_load_tensor(zdnn_ztensor & ztensor,
 inline void ggml_zdnn_init_tensor(ggml_backend_zdnn_buffer * buffer, const ggml_tensor * tensor) {
     switch (tensor->op) {
         case GGML_OP_NONE:
-            {
-                // noop here because we will initialise it during the compute graph execution
-            } break;
+            // noop here because we will initialise it during the compute graph execution
+            return;
 
         case GGML_OP_MUL_MAT:
             {