From 802549362f6693b2f98d09214c0fc04672688d3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@home-assistant.io>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:57:59 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] help clang-tidy

---
 .../components/http_request/update/http_request_update.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/http_request/update/http_request_update.cpp b/esphome/components/http_request/update/http_request_update.cpp
index bf6cc3448b8..c63e55d159c 100644
--- a/esphome/components/http_request/update/http_request_update.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/http_request/update/http_request_update.cpp
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ namespace http_request {
 
 // The update function runs in a task only on ESP32s.
 #ifdef USE_ESP32
-#define UPDATE_RETURN vTaskDelete(nullptr)  // Delete the current update task
+// vTaskDelete doesn't return, but clang-tidy doesn't know that
+#define UPDATE_RETURN \
+  do { \
+    vTaskDelete(nullptr); \
+    __builtin_unreachable(); \
+  } while (0)
 #else
 #define UPDATE_RETURN return
 #endif