linux-hardening - [PATCH v2 09/18] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_root::set

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Message-Id: <20231204-const-sysctl-v2-9-7a5060b11447@weissschuh.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:52:22 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
 "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>, 
 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/18] sysctl: treewide: constify
 ctl_table_root::set_ownership

In a future commit the sysctl core will only use
"const struct ctl_table". As a preparation for that adapt the
set_ownership callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
---
 include/linux/sysctl.h | 2 +-
 net/sysctl_net.c       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 26a38161c28f..800154e1ff88 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ struct ctl_table_root {
 	struct ctl_table_set default_set;
 	struct ctl_table_set *(*lookup)(struct ctl_table_root *root);
 	void (*set_ownership)(struct ctl_table_header *head,
-			      struct ctl_table *table,
+			      const struct ctl_table *table,
 			      kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid);
 	int (*permissions)(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table);
 };
diff --git a/net/sysctl_net.c b/net/sysctl_net.c
index 051ed5f6fc93..1310ef8f0958 100644
--- a/net/sysctl_net.c
+++ b/net/sysctl_net.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
 }

 static void net_ctl_set_ownership(struct ctl_table_header *head,
-				  struct ctl_table *table,
+				  const struct ctl_table *table,
 				  kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
 {
 	struct net *net = container_of(head->set, struct net, sysctls);

-- 
2.43.0