Subject: [PATCH v2 11/27 5.10.y] minmax: allow comparisons of 'int' against 'unsigned char/short'

From: Eliav Farber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:05:03 +0000

From: David Laight <[email-masked]>

[ Upstream commit 4ead534fba42fc4fd41163297528d2aa731cd121 ]

Since 'unsigned char/short' get promoted to 'signed int' it is safe to
compare them against an 'int' value.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
Signed-off-by: David Laight <[email-masked]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email-masked]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email-masked]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <[email-masked]>
---
 include/linux/minmax.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/minmax.h b/include/linux/minmax.h
index c0e738eacefa..842c1db62ffe 100644
--- a/include/linux/minmax.h
+++ b/include/linux/minmax.h
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@
 	__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))
+#define __types_ok(x, y) 			\
+	(__is_signed(x) == __is_signed(y) ||	\
+		__is_signed((x) + 0) == __is_signed((y) + 0))
 
 #define __cmp_op_min <
 #define __cmp_op_max >
-- 
2.47.3