diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8b99103b3a940b0c1a3426c67611ee508470ef4d..a1deac01891f64b77d7105165f62c6fb0e00b15b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     Based upon work by Kumar Krishna (HP, India).
  -- Add multi-core options to salloc and sbatch commands (sbatch.patch and
     cleanup.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
+ -- In select/cons_res properly release resources allocated to job being suspended
+    (rmbreak.patch, from Chris Holmes, HP).
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre2
 =============================
diff --git a/src/plugins/select/cons_res/select_cons_res.c b/src/plugins/select/cons_res/select_cons_res.c
index acd20d20d7c802ea12f1ce013728c7cd81b3402e..50fb694fc9680c8537c0a5de44f57090648a0dca 100644
--- a/src/plugins/select/cons_res/select_cons_res.c
+++ b/src/plugins/select/cons_res/select_cons_res.c
@@ -2067,7 +2067,6 @@ extern int select_p_job_suspend(struct job_record *job_ptr)
 			default:
 				break;
 			}
-			break;
 		}
 		rc = SLURM_SUCCESS;
 		break;
@@ -2147,7 +2146,6 @@ extern int select_p_job_resume(struct job_record *job_ptr)
 			default:
 				break;
 			}
-			break;
 		}
 		rc = SLURM_SUCCESS;
 		break;