linux-kernel - Re: Current state of the sysctl constification effort

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Message-ID: <20240607094053.x3cmkhmrgaw6jqd3@joelS2.panther.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:40:53 +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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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/

All this is coming together nicely. Is there anything left to do besides
what is being discussed in this mail, to start changing the ctl_tables
to `static const`?

Best

-- 

Joel Granados