On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 06-04-21 22:49:26, Julia Lawall wrote: > > From: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Opportunity for min(). > > > > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/minmax.cocci > > > > Fixes: 8636e3295ce3 ("coccinelle: misc: add minmax script") > > CC: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx> > ... > > --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c > > +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c > > @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int inotify_add_to_idr(struct idr > > > > spin_unlock(idr_lock); > > idr_preload_end(); > > - return ret < 0 ? ret : 0; > > + return min(ret, 0); > > } > > Honestly, while previous expression is a standard idiom for "if 'ret' holds > an error, return it", the new expression is harder to understand for me. So > I prefer to keep things as they are in this particular case... OK, I had doubts about it as well, but I forwarded it because I found them equally obscure... Denis, maybe the semantic patch should be updated to avoid this case. julia