From: Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>

Drop redundant parentheses; the & operator has higher precedence than the
return statement's implicit evaluation, making the grouping redundant.

Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>
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Changes in v2:
*) Don't remove parentheses in multiple checks. (Bill Xiang)
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 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
index 4e371c93ae16..56cacc06225e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline bool cpu_has_load_perf_global_ctrl(void)
 
 static inline bool cpu_has_load_cet_ctrl(void)
 {
-	return (vmcs_config.vmentry_ctrl & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_CET_STATE);
+	return vmcs_config.vmentry_ctrl & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_CET_STATE;
 }
 
 static inline bool cpu_has_save_perf_global_ctrl(void)

base-commit: 5128b972fb2801ad9aca54d990a75611ab5283a9
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2.53.0

On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:12:53 -0800, Xin Li (Intel) wrote:
> Drop redundant parentheses; the & operator has higher precedence than the
> return statement's implicit evaluation, making the grouping redundant.

Applied to kvm-x86 vmx, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: VMX: Remove unnecessary parentheses
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/577da677aa7c

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https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/tree/next