[PATCH 2/2] sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file

Luis Chamberlain mcgrof at kernel.org
Tue Jun 6 18:45:45 UTC 2023


On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:20:46PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:29 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > The security keys sysctls are already declared on its own file,
> > just move the sysctl registration to its own file to help avoid
> > merge conflicts on sysctls.c, and help with clearing up sysctl.c
> > further.
> >
> > This creates a small penalty of 23 bytes:
> >
> > ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.1 vmlinux.2
> > add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 49/-26 (23)
> > Function                                     old     new   delta
> > init_security_keys_sysctls                     -      33     +33
> > __pfx_init_security_keys_sysctls               -      16     +16
> > sysctl_init_bases                             85      59     -26
> > Total: Before=21256937, After=21256960, chg +0.00%
> >
> > But soon we'll be saving tons of bytes anyway, as we modify the
> > sysctl registrations to use ARRAY_SIZE and so we get rid of all the
> > empty array elements so let's just clean this up now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/key.h    | 3 ---
> >  kernel/sysctl.c        | 4 ----
> >  security/keys/sysctl.c | 7 +++++++
> >  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Ultimately I'll leave the ACK to David or Jarkko, but this looks
> reasonable to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

I've queued this onto sysctl-next as I haven't seen any complaints.
I can drop it if there are complaints or regressions reported by
folks on linux-next.

  Luis



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