Infinite loop statement

Reports for, while, or do statements that can only exit by throwing an exception. While such statements may be correct, they often happen due to coding errors.

Example:

  for (;;) {
  }

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.

InfiniteLoopStatement

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 | Control flow issues

Use the Ignore when placed in Thread.run option to ignore the infinite loop statements inside Thread.run. It may be useful for the daemon threads.

Example:

  new Thread(() -> {
    while (true) {
    }
  }).start();

Inspection ID: InfiniteLoopStatement

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Infinite loop statement inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore when placed in Thread.run

Option ID:

myIgnoreInThreadTopLevel

Default value:

Selected

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 InfiniteLoopStatement

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025