Re: Current state of the sysctl constification effort

[Kees Cook]

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.

This is great! Is the target v6.11 or v6.10 for these?

-Kees

> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240513-jag-constfy_sysctl_proc_args-v1-1-bba870a480d5@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240423-sysctl-const-handler-v3-11-e0beccb836e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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Kees Cook