diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 782a92fb8..45fe8eadc 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 	- Fix memory leak when message parse fails partway through copy.
 	- remove unused udpsize assignment in message encode.
 	- nicer bio free code in unbound-anchor.
+	- annotate exit functions with noreturn in unbound-control.
 
 11 September 2018: Wouter
 	- Fixed unused return value warnings in contrib/fastrpz.patch for
diff --git a/smallapp/unbound-control.c b/smallapp/unbound-control.c
index 9e4c006f3..54be62e65 100644
--- a/smallapp/unbound-control.c
+++ b/smallapp/unbound-control.c
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
 #include <sys/un.h>
 #endif
 
+static void usage(void) ATTR_NORETURN;
+static void ssl_err(const char* s) ATTR_NORETURN;
+static void ssl_path_err(const char* s, const char *path) ATTR_NORETURN;
+
 /** Give unbound-control usage, and exit (1). */
 static void
 usage(void)