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

Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>
---
v4: No change
v3: No change
v2: No change

 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 1b6e7268af75..b636c3c50248 100644
--- a/include/linux/minmax.h
+++ b/include/linux/minmax.h
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@
 	__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 >
-- 
2.17.1

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