From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50DAC155CA1 for ; Fri, 31 May 2024 16:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1717173085; cv=none; b=ixTgL6jJ4GZTIDvv/AiSR3wq1dQFJcnbhLZHTCFggGqPC5U0zC6xZT9z61PGDyR4rgb9kXYWmLAyY/YwTXzkUv4FNFJ/lQZxp19qTs2lJYW9YaHf/FqGXBdB496UxxU76VMuitrSnZBfJZci65qxDbMsBfVhyaXZyc4S4SQFp/Q= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1717173085; c=relaxed/simple; bh=gW5+IhYIVTfSyyZzpp7Cg6cBbmiuzcL52EQEZY9WgeQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=KUHy/KidZpr4suoh4xL9tdQrDUWvNmUIEspn+ut8DZN0+K445cLhOwcLz/sxVznMryR67rxctppyqhmfAzW4urKQdau/g1ICV3+sNqxF/UPjGT72uBSBNCjJ2vkXH9TVNujd4UESm1HpYGBUIxQ6Qas+yMv50hIJWYb1p08ja5M= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=VK6OZ4oS; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="VK6OZ4oS" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1DE5EC116B1; Fri, 31 May 2024 16:31:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1717173085; bh=gW5+IhYIVTfSyyZzpp7Cg6cBbmiuzcL52EQEZY9WgeQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=VK6OZ4oSBr5tBWO+1LiZIbQAMIGGTSbML01M2Z4+76j3EO61SmHFWp2huE9n66PGR BEDOS5DgW3HDvuTYUUbxVM23pspyry0vbU4oO0dg8eVvTY2fbS+QV15CdXnTG3fZAQ JNAZ3uFHTW8eeK/jGmR8eiRGc70ULD+4qiA72rTyx5CTYdGDPkJHeBxKU9ib+hdhM2 UuvYr1bDWkKCLUduBGbnvbje559Ny0sy8/HTUhv1Crdwzn1J/ziLI6RNYit9o+RNTH dGnDAgSdJPneiPW1K3PeI1JJAmMJxNhh2mAYy90jM8oA8DSTNswQZTM+byXJDps3XD XWAoKzsVSa2pw== Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 09:31:24 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= Cc: Joel Granados , Luis Chamberlain , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Current state of the sysctl constification effort Message-ID: <202405310930.5E2728A@keescook> References: <7823ff95-1490-4c1b-b489-a9c05adad645@t-8ch.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <7823ff95-1490-4c1b-b489-a9c05adad645@t-8ch.de> 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@weissschuh.net/ > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240513-jag-constfy_sysctl_proc_args-v1-1-bba870a480d5@samsung.com/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240423-sysctl-const-handler-v3-11-e0beccb836e2@weissschuh.net/ -- Kees Cook