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Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mka@...omium.org
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dianders@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4: fib_trie: Avoid cryptic ternary expressions

From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:14:40 -0700

> empty_child_inc/dec() use the ternary operator for conditional
> operations. The conditions involve the post/pre in/decrement
> operator and the operation is only performed when the condition
> is *not* true. This is hard to parse for humans, use a regular
> 'if' construct instead and perform the in/decrement separately.
> 
> This also fixes two warnings that are emitted about the value
> of the ternary expression being unused, when building the kernel
> with clang + "kbuild: Remove unnecessary -Wno-unused-value"
> (https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1089869/):
> 
> CC      net/ipv4/fib_trie.o
> net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:351:2: error: expression result unused [-Werror,-Wunused-value]
>         ++tn_info(n)->empty_children ? : ++tn_info(n)->full_children;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>

Applied to net-next, thanks.

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