diff --git a/src/journal/journal-verify.c b/src/journal/journal-verify.c
index 5eff80a99f0..0a06ce7b847 100644
--- a/src/journal/journal-verify.c
+++ b/src/journal/journal-verify.c
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static uint64_t scale_progress(uint64_t scale, uint64_t p, uint64_t m) {
          * Currently all callers use m >= 1, but we keep the check to be defensive.
          */
 
-        if (p >= m || m == 0) /* lgtm [cpp/constant-comparison] */
+        if (p >= m || m == 0) // lgtm[cpp/constant-comparison]
                 return scale;
 
         return scale * p / m;