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

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Wed May 31 21:20:46 UTC 2023


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>

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