LengthAwarePaginator returns the total provided regardless of the total actual count of the data

[ismailnakkar]

Laravel Version

11.13

PHP Version

8.3

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

Paginate should return the correct total (not the total provided by the user when providing one)

Currently the code in paginate is $total = value($total) ?? $this->toBase()->getCountForPagination();

But I believe it should be $total = $total ? min(value($total), $this->toBase()->getCountForPagination()) : $this->toBase()->getCountForPagination();

Steps To Reproduce

Paginate any model, if you choose the total to be 10000, it will return 10000 even if there is less than that in the total count of the model

[crynobone]

See #46410

[crynobone]

The $total parameter was added to skip running the default aggregate count query, so this seems to be the expected behavior now.