Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file
From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Tue Jun 06 2023 - 14:46:10 EST
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:20:46PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:29 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The security keys sysctls are already declared on its own file,
> > just move the sysctl registration to its own file to help avoid
> > merge conflicts on sysctls.c, and help with clearing up sysctl.c
> > further.
> >
> > This creates a small penalty of 23 bytes:
> >
> > ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.1 vmlinux.2
> > add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 49/-26 (23)
> > Function old new delta
> > init_security_keys_sysctls - 33 +33
> > __pfx_init_security_keys_sysctls - 16 +16
> > sysctl_init_bases 85 59 -26
> > Total: Before=21256937, After=21256960, chg +0.00%
> >
> > But soon we'll be saving tons of bytes anyway, as we modify the
> > sysctl registrations to use ARRAY_SIZE and so we get rid of all the
> > empty array elements so let's just clean this up now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/key.h | 3 ---
> > kernel/sysctl.c | 4 ----
> > security/keys/sysctl.c | 7 +++++++
> > 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Ultimately I'll leave the ACK to David or Jarkko, but this looks
> reasonable to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I've queued this onto sysctl-next as I haven't seen any complaints.
I can drop it if there are complaints or regressions reported by
folks on linux-next.
Luis