If it was bothering anyone else: yes, the parenthesis in the patch in the email are unbalanced, and the code was checked in as: if (*p && ((*p)

If it was bothering anyone else: yes, the parenthesis in the patch in the email are unbalanced, and the code was checked in as: if (*p && ((*p)->state == TASK_RUNNING || (*p)->state == TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE || (*p)->state == TASK_SWAPPING))