diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
index c73b5a3ab7b91f971d7ca9f3f09e7814fd113856..a53d744d4212507520c7b15958b8014f874caa4c 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, __volatile__ void * ptr, int
 	return x;
 }
 
-#define xchg(ptr,x) ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__xchg((unsigned long)(x),(ptr),sizeof(*(ptr))))
+#define xchg(ptr,x) ({(__typeof__(*(ptr)))__xchg((unsigned long)(x),(ptr),sizeof(*(ptr)));})
 
 /* Emulate cmpxchg() the same way we emulate atomics,
  * by hashing the object address and indexing into an array