I don't think this works as intended.  '|' higher precedence than ?: so
the bitwize OR "0 | (val & STR_MOST)" is a no-op.

I have re-written it to be more clear.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>