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Commit d03eba99 authored by David Laight's avatar David Laight Committed by Andrew Morton
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minmax: allow min()/max()/clamp() if the arguments have the same signedness.



The type-check in min()/max() is there to stop unexpected results if a
negative value gets converted to a large unsigned value.  However it also
rejects 'unsigned int' v 'unsigned long' compares which are common and
never problematc.

Replace the 'same type' check with a 'same signedness' check.

The new test isn't itself a compile time error, so use static_assert() to
report the error and give a meaningful error message.

Due to the way builtin_choose_expr() works detecting the error in the
'non-constant' side (where static_assert() can be used) also detects
errors when the arguments are constant.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe7e6c542e094bfca655abcd323c1c98@AcuMS.aculab.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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