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Message-Id: <20260105-uapi-limits-v1-1-023bc7a13037@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:26:47 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>, 
 Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, 
 Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, 
 coreteam@...filter.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH RFC net-next 1/3] uapi: add INT_MAX and INT_MIN constants

Some UAPI headers use INT_MAX and INT_MIN. Currently they include
<limits.h> for their definitions, which introduces a problematic
dependency on libc.

Add custom, namespaced definitions of INT_MAX and INT_MIN using the
same values as the regular kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
---
 include/uapi/linux/limits.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/limits.h b/include/uapi/linux/limits.h
index 6bcbe3068761..35ffa2667309 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/limits.h
@@ -18,4 +18,7 @@
 
 #define RTSIG_MAX	  32
 
+#define __KERNEL_INT_MAX ((int)(~0U >> 1))
+#define __KERNEL_INT_MIN (-__KERNEL_INT_MAX - 1)
+
 #endif

-- 
2.52.0


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