'finally' block which can not complete normally

Reports return, throw, break, continue, and yield statements that are used inside finally blocks. These cause the finally block to not complete normally but to complete abruptly. Any exceptions thrown from the try and catch blocks of the same try-catch statement will be suppressed.

Example:

  void x() {
    try {
      throw new RuntimeException();
    } finally {
      // if bar() returns true, the RuntimeException will be suppressed
      if (bar()) return;
    }
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

finally

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Error handling

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection finally

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025