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From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux@weissschuh.net, rbm@suse.com,
	Luis Felipe Hernandez <luis.hernandez093@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] macintosh: declare ctl_table as const
Date: Wed,  1 Jan 2025 14:38:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <173572211262.1875638.13600288150839690769.b4-ty@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241217-constify_ctl_table-v1-1-402ebceaeb8e@gmail.com>

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:55:41 -0500, Luis Felipe Hernandez wrote:
> Since commit 7abc9b53bd51 ("sysctl: allow registration of const struct
> ctl_table"), the sysctl registration API allows struct ctl_table variables
> to be placed into read-only memory.
> 
> mac_hid_files is registered as a sysctl table and should be treated as
> read-only. By declaring the mac_hid_files structure as const, we ensure
> that it cannot be accidentally modified. This change improves safety.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] macintosh: declare ctl_table as const
      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=e834166822a3c9fb403411c898367df8dabf973c 

Thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2025-01-01  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-18  2:55 Luis Felipe Hernandez
2025-01-01  9:08 ` Madhavan Srinivasan [this message]

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