[Linux-stm32] Patch "minmax: deduplicate __unconst_integer_typeof()" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Oct 17 08:05:10 UTC 2025


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    minmax: deduplicate __unconst_integer_typeof()

to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     minmax-deduplicate-__unconst_integer_typeof.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From stable+bounces-183615-greg=kroah.com at vger.kernel.org Wed Oct  8 17:32:08 2025
From: Eliav Farber <farbere at amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:29:28 +0000
Subject: minmax: deduplicate __unconst_integer_typeof()
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Message-ID: <20251008152946.29285-4-farbere at amazon.com>

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>

[ Upstream commit 5e57418a2031cd5e1863efdf3d7447a16a368172 ]

It appears that compiler_types.h already have an implementation of the
__unconst_integer_typeof() called __unqual_scalar_typeof().  Use it
instead of the copy.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911154913.4176033-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina at bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere at amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/minmax.h |   25 ++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/minmax.h
+++ b/include/linux/minmax.h
@@ -169,27 +169,6 @@
 #define max_t(type, x, y)	__careful_cmp(max, (type)(x), (type)(y))
 
 /*
- * Remove a const qualifier from integer types
- * _Generic(foo, type-name: association, ..., default: association) performs a
- * comparison against the foo type (not the qualified type).
- * Do not use the const keyword in the type-name as it will not match the
- * unqualified type of foo.
- */
-#define __unconst_integer_type_cases(type)	\
-	unsigned type:  (unsigned type)0,	\
-	signed type:    (signed type)0
-
-#define __unconst_integer_typeof(x) typeof(			\
-	_Generic((x),						\
-		char: (char)0,					\
-		__unconst_integer_type_cases(char),		\
-		__unconst_integer_type_cases(short),		\
-		__unconst_integer_type_cases(int),		\
-		__unconst_integer_type_cases(long),		\
-		__unconst_integer_type_cases(long long),	\
-		default: (x)))
-
-/*
  * Do not check the array parameter using __must_be_array().
  * In the following legit use-case where the "array" passed is a simple pointer,
  * __must_be_array() will return a failure.
@@ -203,13 +182,13 @@
  * 'int *buff' and 'int buff[N]' types.
  *
  * The array can be an array of const items.
- * typeof() keeps the const qualifier. Use __unconst_integer_typeof() in order
+ * typeof() keeps the const qualifier. Use __unqual_scalar_typeof() in order
  * to discard the const qualifier for the __element variable.
  */
 #define __minmax_array(op, array, len) ({				\
 	typeof(&(array)[0]) __array = (array);				\
 	typeof(len) __len = (len);					\
-	__unconst_integer_typeof(__array[0]) __element = __array[--__len]; \
+	__unqual_scalar_typeof(__array[0]) __element = __array[--__len];\
 	while (__len--)							\
 		__element = op(__element, __array[__len]);		\
 	__element; })


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from farbere at amazon.com are

queue-5.15/minmax-fix-indentation-of-__cmp_once-and-__clamp_once.patch
queue-5.15/minmax-add-in_range-macro.patch
queue-5.15/minmax-deduplicate-__unconst_integer_typeof.patch
queue-5.15/minmax-avoid-overly-complicated-constant-expressions-in-vm-code.patch
queue-5.15/minmax-introduce-min-max-_array.patch



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