[PATCH 11/27 5.10.y] minmax: relax check to allow comparison between unsigned arguments and signed constants

Eliav Farber
2025-09-19T10:24:31Z

From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>

[ Upstream commit 867046cc7027703f60a46339ffde91a1970f2901 ]

Allow (for example) min(unsigned_var, 20).

The opposite min(signed_var, 20u) is still errored.

Since a comparison between signed and unsigned never makes the unsigned
value negative it is only necessary to adjust the __types_ok() test.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/633b64e2f39e46bb8234809c5595b8c7@AcuMS.aculab.com
Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com>
---
include/linux/minmax.h | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/minmax.h b/include/linux/minmax.h
index 842c1db62ffe..2ec559284a9f 100644
--- a/include/linux/minmax.h
+++ b/include/linux/minmax.h
@@ -10,13 +10,18 @@
/*
* min()/max()/clamp() macros must accomplish three things:
*
- * - avoid multiple evaluations of the arguments (so side-effects like
+ * - Avoid multiple evaluations of the arguments (so side-effects like
* "x++" happen only once) when non-constant.
- * - perform signed v unsigned type-checking (to generate compile
- * errors instead of nasty runtime surprises).
- * - retain result as a constant expressions when called with only
+ * - Retain result as a constant expressions when called with only
* constant expressions (to avoid tripping VLA warnings in stack
* allocation usage).
+ * - Perform signed v unsigned type-checking (to generate compile
+ * errors instead of nasty runtime surprises).
+ * - Unsigned char/short are always promoted to signed int and can be
+ * compared against signed or unsigned arguments.
+ * - Unsigned arguments can be compared against non-negative signed constants.
+ * - Comparison of a signed argument against an unsigned constant fails
+ * even if the constant is below __INT_MAX__ and could be cast to int.
*/
#define __typecheck(x, y) \
(!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
@@ -26,9 +31,14 @@
__builtin_choose_expr(__is_constexpr(is_signed_type(typeof(x))), \
is_signed_type(typeof(x)), 0)

-#define __types_ok(x, y) \
- (__is_signed(x) == __is_signed(y) || \
- __is_signed((x) + 0) == __is_signed((y) + 0))
+/* True for a non-negative signed int constant */
+#define __is_noneg_int(x) \
+ (__builtin_choose_expr(__is_constexpr(x) && __is_signed(x), x, -1) >= 0)
+
+#define __types_ok(x, y) \
+ (__is_signed(x) == __is_signed(y) || \
+ __is_signed((x) + 0) == __is_signed((y) + 0) || \
+ __is_noneg_int(x) || __is_noneg_int(y))

#define __cmp_op_min <
#define __cmp_op_max >
--
2.47.3