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<entry>
<title>NFC: trf7970a: Ignore antenna noise when checking for RF field</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Geurts</name>
<email>paul.geurts@prodrive-technologies.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-22T10:09:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a9bc28aa4e64320668131349436a650bf42591a5 ]

The main channel Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurement
is used to determine whether an RF field is present or not. RSSI != 0
is interpreted as an RF Field is present. This does not take RF noise
and measurement inaccuracy into account, and results in false positives
in the field.

Define a noise level and make sure the RF field is only interpreted as
present when the RSSI is above the noise level.

Fixes: 851ee3cbf850 ("NFC: trf7970a: Don't turn on RF if there is already an RF field")
Signed-off-by: Paul Geurts &lt;paul.geurts@prodrive-technologies.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Greer &lt;mgreer@animalcreek.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422100930.581237-1-paul.geurts@prodrive-technologies.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a9bc28aa4e64320668131349436a650bf42591a5 ]

The main channel Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurement
is used to determine whether an RF field is present or not. RSSI != 0
is interpreted as an RF Field is present. This does not take RF noise
and measurement inaccuracy into account, and results in false positives
in the field.

Define a noise level and make sure the RF field is only interpreted as
present when the RSSI is above the noise level.

Fixes: 851ee3cbf850 ("NFC: trf7970a: Don't turn on RF if there is already an RF field")
Signed-off-by: Paul Geurts &lt;paul.geurts@prodrive-technologies.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Greer &lt;mgreer@animalcreek.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422100930.581237-1-paul.geurts@prodrive-technologies.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfc: s3fwrn5: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T13:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pengpeng Hou</name>
<email>pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-02T04:21:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5c14a19d5b1645cce1cb1252833d70b23635b632 ]

s3fwrn82_uart_read() reports the number of accepted bytes to the serdev
core. The current code consumes bytes into recv_skb and may already
deliver a complete frame before allocating a fresh receive buffer.

If that alloc_skb() fails, the callback returns 0 even though it has
already consumed bytes, and it leaves recv_skb as NULL for the next
receive callback. That breaks the receive_buf() accounting contract and
can also lead to a NULL dereference on the next skb_put_u8().

Allocate the receive skb lazily before consuming the next byte instead.
If allocation fails, return the number of bytes already accepted.

Fixes: 3f52c2cb7e3a ("nfc: s3fwrn5: Support a UART interface")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou &lt;pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402042148.65236-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5c14a19d5b1645cce1cb1252833d70b23635b632 ]

s3fwrn82_uart_read() reports the number of accepted bytes to the serdev
core. The current code consumes bytes into recv_skb and may already
deliver a complete frame before allocating a fresh receive buffer.

If that alloc_skb() fails, the callback returns 0 even though it has
already consumed bytes, and it leaves recv_skb as NULL for the next
receive callback. That breaks the receive_buf() accounting contract and
can also lead to a NULL dereference on the next skb_put_u8().

Allocate the receive skb lazily before consuming the next byte instead.
If allocation fails, return the number of bytes already accepted.

Fixes: 3f52c2cb7e3a ("nfc: s3fwrn5: Support a UART interface")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou &lt;pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402042148.65236-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T08:39:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pengpeng Hou</name>
<email>pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-05T00:40:00+00:00</published>
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commit c71ba669b570c7b3f86ec875be222ea11dacb352 upstream.

pn532_receive_buf() reports the number of accepted bytes to the serdev
core. The current code consumes bytes into recv_skb and may already hand
a complete frame to pn533_recv_frame() before allocating a fresh receive
buffer.

If that alloc_skb() fails, the callback returns 0 even though it has
already consumed bytes, and it leaves recv_skb as NULL for the next
receive callback. That breaks the receive_buf() accounting contract and
can also lead to a NULL dereference on the next skb_put_u8().

Allocate the receive skb lazily before consuming the next byte instead.
If allocation fails, return the number of bytes already accepted.

Fixes: c656aa4c27b1 ("nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou &lt;pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405094003.3-pn533-v2-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c71ba669b570c7b3f86ec875be222ea11dacb352 upstream.

pn532_receive_buf() reports the number of accepted bytes to the serdev
core. The current code consumes bytes into recv_skb and may already hand
a complete frame to pn533_recv_frame() before allocating a fresh receive
buffer.

If that alloc_skb() fails, the callback returns 0 even though it has
already consumed bytes, and it leaves recv_skb as NULL for the next
receive callback. That breaks the receive_buf() accounting contract and
can also lead to a NULL dereference on the next skb_put_u8().

Allocate the receive skb lazily before consuming the next byte instead.
If allocation fails, return the number of bytes already accepted.

Fixes: c656aa4c27b1 ("nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou &lt;pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405094003.3-pn533-v2-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFC: pn533: bound the UART receive buffer</title>
<updated>2026-04-11T12:19:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pengpeng Hou</name>
<email>pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T14:20:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 30fe3f5f6494f827d812ff179f295a8e532709d6 ]

pn532_receive_buf() appends every incoming byte to dev-&gt;recv_skb and
only resets the buffer after pn532_uart_rx_is_frame() recognizes a
complete frame. A continuous stream of bytes without a valid PN532 frame
header therefore keeps growing the skb until skb_put_u8() hits the tail
limit.

Drop the accumulated partial frame once the fixed receive buffer is full
so malformed UART traffic cannot grow the skb past
PN532_UART_SKB_BUFF_LEN.

Fixes: c656aa4c27b1 ("nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou &lt;pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326142033.82297-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 30fe3f5f6494f827d812ff179f295a8e532709d6 ]

pn532_receive_buf() appends every incoming byte to dev-&gt;recv_skb and
only resets the buffer after pn532_uart_rx_is_frame() recognizes a
complete frame. A continuous stream of bytes without a valid PN532 frame
header therefore keeps growing the skb until skb_put_u8() hits the tail
limit.

Drop the accumulated partial frame once the fixed receive buffer is full
so malformed UART traffic cannot grow the skb past
PN532_UART_SKB_BUFF_LEN.

Fixes: c656aa4c27b1 ("nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou &lt;pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326142033.82297-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFC: nxp-nci: allow GPIOs to sleep</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Ray</name>
<email>ian.ray@gehealthcare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-17T08:53:36+00:00</published>
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commit 55dc632ab2ac2889b15995a9eef56c753d48ebc7 upstream.

Allow the firmware and enable GPIOs to sleep.

This fixes a `WARN_ON' and allows the driver to operate GPIOs which are
connected to I2C GPIO expanders.

-- &gt;8 --
kernel: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2636 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3880 gpiod_set_value+0x88/0x98
-- &gt;8 --

Fixes: 43201767b44c ("NFC: nxp-nci: Convert to use GPIO descriptor")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ian Ray &lt;ian.ray@gehealthcare.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317085337.146545-1-ian.ray@gehealthcare.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 55dc632ab2ac2889b15995a9eef56c753d48ebc7 upstream.

Allow the firmware and enable GPIOs to sleep.

This fixes a `WARN_ON' and allows the driver to operate GPIOs which are
connected to I2C GPIO expanders.

-- &gt;8 --
kernel: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2636 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3880 gpiod_set_value+0x88/0x98
-- &gt;8 --

Fixes: 43201767b44c ("NFC: nxp-nci: Convert to use GPIO descriptor")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ian Ray &lt;ian.ray@gehealthcare.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317085337.146545-1-ian.ray@gehealthcare.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfc: pn533: properly drop the usb interface reference on disconnect</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:05:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T11:28:30+00:00</published>
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commit 12133a483dfa832241fbbf09321109a0ea8a520e upstream.

When the device is disconnected from the driver, there is a "dangling"
reference count on the usb interface that was grabbed in the probe
callback.  Fix this up by properly dropping the reference after we are
done with it.

Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: c46ee38620a2 ("NFC: pn533: add NXP pn533 nfc device driver")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026022329-flashing-ought-7573@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 12133a483dfa832241fbbf09321109a0ea8a520e upstream.

When the device is disconnected from the driver, there is a "dangling"
reference count on the usb interface that was grabbed in the probe
callback.  Fix this up by properly dropping the reference after we are
done with it.

Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: c46ee38620a2 ("NFC: pn533: add NXP pn533 nfc device driver")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026022329-flashing-ought-7573@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfc: nxp-nci: remove interrupt trigger type</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:20:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carl Lee</name>
<email>carl.lee@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-05T11:11:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 57be33f85e369ce9f69f61eaa34734e0d3bd47a7 ]

For NXP NCI devices (e.g. PN7150), the interrupt is level-triggered and
active high, not edge-triggered.

Using IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING in the driver can cause interrupts to fail
to trigger correctly.

Remove IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING and rely on the IRQ trigger type configured
via Device Tree.

Signed-off-by: Carl Lee &lt;carl.lee@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205-fc-nxp-nci-remove-interrupt-trigger-type-v2-1-79d2ed4a7e42@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 57be33f85e369ce9f69f61eaa34734e0d3bd47a7 ]

For NXP NCI devices (e.g. PN7150), the interrupt is level-triggered and
active high, not edge-triggered.

Using IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING in the driver can cause interrupts to fail
to trigger correctly.

Remove IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING and rely on the IRQ trigger type configured
via Device Tree.

Signed-off-by: Carl Lee &lt;carl.lee@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205-fc-nxp-nci-remove-interrupt-trigger-type-v2-1-79d2ed4a7e42@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "nfc/nci: Add the inconsistency check between the input data length and count"</title>
<updated>2026-01-30T09:27:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo</name>
<email>cascardo@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-13T20:24:58+00:00</published>
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commit f40ddcc0c0ca1a0122a7f4440b429f97d5832bdf upstream.

This reverts commit 068648aab72c9ba7b0597354ef4d81ffaac7b979.

NFC packets may have NUL-bytes. Checking for string length is not a correct
assumption here. As long as there is a check for the length copied from
copy_from_user, all should be fine.

The fix only prevented the syzbot reproducer from triggering the bug
because the packet is not enqueued anymore and the code that triggers the
bug is not exercised.

The fix even broke
testing/selftests/nci/nci_dev, making all tests there fail. After the
revert, 6 out of 8 tests pass.

Fixes: 068648aab72c ("nfc/nci: Add the inconsistency check between the input data length and count")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113202458.449455-1-cascardo@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f40ddcc0c0ca1a0122a7f4440b429f97d5832bdf upstream.

This reverts commit 068648aab72c9ba7b0597354ef4d81ffaac7b979.

NFC packets may have NUL-bytes. Checking for string length is not a correct
assumption here. As long as there is a check for the length copied from
copy_from_user, all should be fine.

The fix only prevented the syzbot reproducer from triggering the bug
because the packet is not enqueued anymore and the code that triggers the
bug is not exercised.

The fix even broke
testing/selftests/nci/nci_dev, making all tests there fail. After the
revert, 6 out of 8 tests pass.

Fixes: 068648aab72c ("nfc/nci: Add the inconsistency check between the input data length and count")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113202458.449455-1-cascardo@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfc: pn533: Fix error code in pn533_acr122_poweron_rdr()</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:21:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-09T06:56:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 885bebac9909994050bbbeed0829c727e42bd1b7 ]

Set the error code if "transferred != sizeof(cmd)" instead of
returning success.

Fixes: dbafc28955fa ("NFC: pn533: don't send USB data off of the stack")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aTfIJ9tZPmeUF4W1@stanley.mountain
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 885bebac9909994050bbbeed0829c727e42bd1b7 ]

Set the error code if "transferred != sizeof(cmd)" instead of
returning success.

Fixes: dbafc28955fa ("NFC: pn533: don't send USB data off of the stack")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aTfIJ9tZPmeUF4W1@stanley.mountain
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>minmax: make generic MIN() and MAX() macros available everywhere</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-09-29T17:17:22+00:00</published>
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This just standardizes the use of MIN() and MAX() macros, with the very
traditional semantics.  The goal is to use these for C constant
expressions and for top-level / static initializers, and so be able to
simplify the min()/max() macros.

These macro names were used by various kernel code - they are very
traditional, after all - and all such users have been fixed up, with a
few different approaches:

 - trivial duplicated macro definitions have been removed

   Note that 'trivial' here means that it's obviously kernel code that
   already included all the major kernel headers, and thus gets the new
   generic MIN/MAX macros automatically.

 - non-trivial duplicated macro definitions are guarded with #ifndef

   This is the "yes, they define their own versions, but no, the include
   situation is not entirely obvious, and maybe they don't get the
   generic version automatically" case.

 - strange use case #1

   A couple of drivers decided that the way they want to describe their
   versioning is with

	#define MAJ 1
	#define MIN 2
	#define DRV_VERSION __stringify(MAJ) "." __stringify(MIN)

   which adds zero value and I just did my Alexander the Great
   impersonation, and rewrote that pointless Gordian knot as

	#define DRV_VERSION "1.2"

   instead.

 - strange use case #2

   A couple of drivers thought that it's a good idea to have a random
   'MIN' or 'MAX' define for a value or index into a table, rather than
   the traditional macro that takes arguments.

   These values were re-written as C enum's instead. The new
   function-line macros only expand when followed by an open
   parenthesis, and thus don't clash with enum use.

Happily, there weren't really all that many of these cases, and a lot of
users already had the pattern of using '#ifndef' guarding (or in one
case just using '#undef MIN') before defining their own private version
that does the same thing. I left such cases alone.

Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber &lt;farbere@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1a251f52cfdc417c84411a056bc142cbd77baef4 ]

This just standardizes the use of MIN() and MAX() macros, with the very
traditional semantics.  The goal is to use these for C constant
expressions and for top-level / static initializers, and so be able to
simplify the min()/max() macros.

These macro names were used by various kernel code - they are very
traditional, after all - and all such users have been fixed up, with a
few different approaches:

 - trivial duplicated macro definitions have been removed

   Note that 'trivial' here means that it's obviously kernel code that
   already included all the major kernel headers, and thus gets the new
   generic MIN/MAX macros automatically.

 - non-trivial duplicated macro definitions are guarded with #ifndef

   This is the "yes, they define their own versions, but no, the include
   situation is not entirely obvious, and maybe they don't get the
   generic version automatically" case.

 - strange use case #1

   A couple of drivers decided that the way they want to describe their
   versioning is with

	#define MAJ 1
	#define MIN 2
	#define DRV_VERSION __stringify(MAJ) "." __stringify(MIN)

   which adds zero value and I just did my Alexander the Great
   impersonation, and rewrote that pointless Gordian knot as

	#define DRV_VERSION "1.2"

   instead.

 - strange use case #2

   A couple of drivers thought that it's a good idea to have a random
   'MIN' or 'MAX' define for a value or index into a table, rather than
   the traditional macro that takes arguments.

   These values were re-written as C enum's instead. The new
   function-line macros only expand when followed by an open
   parenthesis, and thus don't clash with enum use.

Happily, there weren't really all that many of these cases, and a lot of
users already had the pattern of using '#ifndef' guarding (or in one
case just using '#undef MIN') before defining their own private version
that does the same thing. I left such cases alone.

Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber &lt;farbere@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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