[PATCH] component: replace ternary operator with min()

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jul 12 07:17:58 UTC 2022


On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 03:12:23PM +0800, Jiangshan Yi wrote:
> From: Jiangshan Yi <yijiangshan at kylinos.cn>
> 
> Fix the following coccicheck warning:
> 
> drivers/base/component.c:544: WARNING opportunity for min().
> drivers/base/component.c:740: WARNING opportunity for min().
> 
> min() macro is defined in include/linux/minmax.h. It avoids
> multiple evaluations of the arguments when non-constant and performs
> strict type-checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiangshan Yi <yijiangshan at kylinos.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/base/component.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/component.c b/drivers/base/component.c
> index 5eadeac6c532..349c54694481 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/component.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/component.c
> @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ int component_master_add_with_match(struct device *parent,
>  
>  	mutex_unlock(&component_mutex);
>  
> -	return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
> +	return min(ret, 0);

This is a traditional "if there is an error, report it, otherwise return
0" pattern, and not really a min() call.  So perhaps the original should
stay, or be turned into:
	if (ret < 0)
		return ret
	return 0;
to make it more obvious?

thanks,

greg k-h


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