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treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

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Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
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Joel Granados
2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
parent 6d61a53dd6
commit 1751f872cc
106 changed files with 114 additions and 114 deletions
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ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int ipc_mni = IPCMNI;
int ipc_mni_shift = IPCMNI_SHIFT;
int ipc_min_cycle = RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE;
static struct ctl_table ipc_sysctls[] = {
static const struct ctl_table ipc_sysctls[] = {
{
.procname = "shmmax",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.shm_ctlmax,

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ipc/mq_sysctl.c
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static int msg_max_limit_max = HARD_MSGMAX;
static int msg_maxsize_limit_min = MIN_MSGSIZEMAX;
static int msg_maxsize_limit_max = HARD_MSGSIZEMAX;
static struct ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = {
static const struct ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = {
{
.procname = "queues_max",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.mq_queues_max,