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commit d03eba99f5bf7cbc6e2fdde3b6fa36954ad58e09 upstream. 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: 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> (cherry picked from commit d03eba99f5bf7cbc6e2fdde3b6fa36954ad58e09) Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.