Hello Liam R. Howlett, The patch 058c2f0f755f: "Maple Tree: add new data structure" from Jul 17, 2022, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: lib/maple_tree.c:6969 mas_validate_limits() warn: add some parenthesis here? '!piv & (i != 0)' lib/maple_tree.c 6952 static void mas_validate_limits(struct ma_state *mas) 6953 { 6954 int i; 6955 unsigned long prev_piv = 0; 6956 enum maple_type type = mte_node_type(mas->node); 6957 void __rcu **slots = ma_slots(mte_to_node(mas->node), type); 6958 unsigned long *pivots = ma_pivots(mas_mn(mas), type); 6959 6960 /* all limits are fine here. */ 6961 if (mte_is_root(mas->node)) 6962 return; 6963 6964 for (i = 0; i < mt_slots[type]; i++) { 6965 unsigned long piv; 6966 6967 piv = mas_safe_pivot(mas, pivots, i, type); 6968 --> 6969 if (!piv & (i != 0)) Sparse and Smatch both hate this. I think this code is correct and it should be: if ((!piv) & (i != 0)) However the vast majority of the time this warning indicates a precendence bug where what was intended was: if (!(piv & (i != 0))) I guess it's not common to use booleans for bitwise ANDs... 6970 break; 6971 6972 if (!mte_is_leaf(mas->node)) { regards, dan carpenter