Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] sysctl: treewide: prepare ctl_table_root for ctl_table constification

[Joel Granados]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 07:11:29PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The two patches were previously submitted on their own.
> In commit f9436a5d0497
> ("sysctl: allow to change limits for posix messages queues")
> a code dependency was introduced between the two callbacks.
> This code dependency results in a dependency between the two patches, so
> now they are submitted as a series.
> 
> The series is meant to be merged via the sysctl tree.
> 
> There is an upcoming series that will introduce a new implementation of
> .set_ownership and .permissions which would need to be adapted [0].
> 
> These changes ere originally part of the sysctl-const series [1].
> To slim down that series and reduce the message load on other
> maintainers to a minimum, the patches are split out.
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240222160915.315255-1-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231204-const-sysctl-v2-2-7a5060b11447@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Drop now spurious argument in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> - Rebase on next-20240315
> - Incorporate permissions patch.
> - Link to v2 (ownership): https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240223-sysctl-const-ownership-v2-1-f9ba1795aaf2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> - Link to v1 (permissions): https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226-sysctl-const-permissions-v1-1-5cd3c91f6299@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Rework commit message
> - Mention potential conflict with upcoming per-namespace kernel.pid_max
>   sysctl
> - Delete unused parameter table
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226-sysctl-const-ownership-v1-1-d78fdd744ba1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> ---
> Thomas Weißschuh (2):
>       sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
>       sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
> 
>  fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c  | 2 +-
>  include/linux/sysctl.h | 3 +--
>  ipc/ipc_sysctl.c       | 5 ++---
>  ipc/mq_sysctl.c        | 5 ++---
>  kernel/ucount.c        | 2 +-
>  net/sysctl_net.c       | 3 +--
>  6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: a1e7655b77e3391b58ac28256789ea45b1685abb
> change-id: 20231226-sysctl-const-ownership-ff75e67b4eea
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Will put this to test and then try to rebase it to 6.9-rc1 once it comes
out.

Thx.

-- 

Joel Granados

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