[PATCH] security: keys: Make sysctl table const

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Thu Feb 27 00:21:39 UTC 2025


On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM Ricardo B. Marliere
<ricardo at marliere.net> wrote:
>
> Since commit 7abc9b53bd51 ("sysctl: allow registration of const struct
> ctl_table"), the sysctl registration API allows for struct ctl_table to be
> in read-only memory. Move key_sysctls to be declared at build time, instead
> of having to be dynamically allocated at boot time.
>
> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <rbm at suse.com>
> ---
>  security/keys/sysctl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks fine to me.  David or Jarkko, this looks like something for the
keys tree, yes?

Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

> diff --git a/security/keys/sysctl.c b/security/keys/sysctl.c
> index 91f000eef3ad82370250e5238d9c9c80757aab61..cde08c478f3272081304e6db34e36b64ce0d321a 100644
> --- a/security/keys/sysctl.c
> +++ b/security/keys/sysctl.c
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>  #include <linux/sysctl.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>
> -static struct ctl_table key_sysctls[] = {
> +static const struct ctl_table key_sysctls[] = {
>         {
>                 .procname = "maxkeys",
>                 .data = &key_quota_maxkeys,
>
> ---
> base-commit: 714d87c90a766e6917f7d69f618b864d350f09d3
> change-id: 20250123-sysctl_const-pcmoore-fa14389b8329
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Ricardo B. Marliere <rbm at suse.com>

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