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Message-ID: <20240603072124.gagi6uxkdux2p6qa@joelS2.panther.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 09:21:24 +0200
From: Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@...ch.de>
CC: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: Current state of the sysctl constification effort

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Hi Joel, Hi Luis,
> 
> most of the sysctl handler preparation patches have been picked up by
> the subsystem maintainers and are available in -next.
> 
> Only two are missing:
> 
> * utsname: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function [0]
> * sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function [1]
> 
> Both of them are going through the sysctl tree anyways.
Indeed. These are going to go into sysctl-next as soon as I get around
to creating the branch (this week, if all goes well :)

> 
> With this done it should be possible to also queue up 
> sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers [2]
> for the bots to chew on in -next.
> 
> My local builds are still succeeding on the last submitted version of
> the patch.
Indeed, and I have also tested it in the kernel test bots through my
kernel.org repos. So this is no surprise. 

> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240518-sysctl-const-handler-utsname-v1-1-27a6c8813620@weissschuh.net/
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240513-jag-constfy_sysctl_proc_args-v1-1-bba870a480d5@samsung.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240423-sysctl-const-handler-v3-11-e0beccb836e2@weissschuh.net/

-- 

Joel Granados

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