From: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
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"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] minmax: remove useless cast in __is_nonneg()
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:39:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251219-remove_wtype-limits-v2-4-2e92b3f566c5@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251219-remove_wtype-limits-v2-0-2e92b3f566c5@kernel.org>
The function like macro __is_nonneg() casts its argument to (long long)
in an attempt to silence -Wtype-limits warnings on unsigned values.
But this workaround is incomplete as proven here:
$ cat foo.c
#include <linux/minmax.h>
int foo(unsigned int a)
{
return __is_nonneg(a);
}
$ make CFLAGS_KERNEL="-Wtype-limits" foo.o
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
DESCEND objtool
INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
CC foo.o
foo.c: In function 'foo':
./include/linux/minmax.h:68:57: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
68 | #define __is_nonneg(ux) statically_true((long long)(ux) >= 0)
| ^~
./include/linux/compiler.h:350:50: note: in definition of macro 'statically_true'
350 | #define statically_true(x) (__builtin_constant_p(x) && (x))
| ^
foo.c:5:16: note: in expansion of macro '__is_nonneg'
5 | return __is_nonneg(a);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/minmax.h:68:57: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
68 | #define __is_nonneg(ux) statically_true((long long)(ux) >= 0)
| ^~
./include/linux/compiler.h:350:57: note: in definition of macro 'statically_true'
350 | #define statically_true(x) (__builtin_constant_p(x) && (x))
| ^
foo.c:5:16: note: in expansion of macro '__is_nonneg'
5 | return __is_nonneg(a);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
And because -Wtype-limits is now globally disabled, such a workaround
now becomes useless. Remove the __is_nonneg()'s cast and its related
comment.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
---
Changelog:
v1 -> v2: new patch
---
include/linux/minmax.h | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/minmax.h b/include/linux/minmax.h
index a0158db54a04..3e2e3e539ba1 100644
--- a/include/linux/minmax.h
+++ b/include/linux/minmax.h
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@
/*
* Check whether a signed value is always non-negative.
*
- * A cast is needed to avoid any warnings from values that aren't signed
- * integer types (in which case the result doesn't matter).
- *
* On 64-bit any integer or pointer type can safely be cast to 'long long'.
* But on 32-bit we need to avoid warnings about casting pointers to integers
* of different sizes without truncating 64-bit values so 'long' or 'long long'
@@ -65,7 +62,7 @@
* but they are handled by the !is_signed_type() case).
*/
#if __SIZEOF_POINTER__ == __SIZEOF_LONG_LONG__
-#define __is_nonneg(ux) statically_true((long long)(ux) >= 0)
+#define __is_nonneg(ux) statically_true((ux) >= 0)
#else
#define __is_nonneg(ux) statically_true( \
(typeof(__builtin_choose_expr(sizeof(ux) > 4, 1LL, 1L)))(ux) >= 0)
--
2.51.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-19 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-19 22:39 [PATCH v2 0/4] kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-19 22:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] " Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-19 22:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] kbuild: cleanup local -Wno-type-limits exceptions Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-19 22:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] overflow: Remove is_non_negative() and is_negative() Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-19 22:39 ` Vincent Mailhol [this message]
2025-12-20 10:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] minmax: remove useless cast in __is_nonneg() David Laight
2025-12-20 10:53 ` Vincent Mailhol
2025-12-20 12:03 ` kernel test robot
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