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Linus Torvalds 91b6163be4 sysctl changes for v6.10-rc1 
Summary
 * Removed sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*
 
   Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size and
   runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for net/, io_uring/,
   mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline through their respective
   subsystems making the next release the most likely place where the final
   series that removes the check for proc_name == NULL will land. This PR adds
   to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.
 
 * Adjusted ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
 
   Adjustments:
     - Removing unused ctl_table function arguments
     - Moving non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
     - Making ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure
 
   Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by keeping the
   pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no ctl_tables where
   made const in this PR, the ground work for making that possible has started
   with these changes sent by Thomas Weißschuh.
 
 Testing
 * These changes went into linux-next after v6.9-rc4; giving it a good month of
   testing.
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl

Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:

 - Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*

   Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
   and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
   net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
   through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
   likely place where the final series that removes the check for
   proc_name == NULL will land.

   This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.

 - Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
     - Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
     - Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
     - Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure

   Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
   keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
   ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
   that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
   Weißschuh.

* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
  sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
  sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
  sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
  sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
2024-05-17 17:31:24 -07:00
..
braille.c printk: Replace strncmp() with str_has_prefix() 2019-08-16 09:54:08 +02:00
braille.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
console_cmdline.h printk: Fix preferred console selection with multiple matches 2020-02-18 09:34:42 +01:00
index.c kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() 2023-02-03 10:42:02 +01:00
internal.h dump_stack: Do not get cpu_sync for panic CPU 2024-02-07 17:23:19 +01:00
Makefile printk: Add non-BKL (nbcon) console basic infrastructure 2023-09-18 17:03:45 +02:00
nbcon.c printk: nbcon: Relocate 32bit seq macros 2024-02-07 17:23:17 +01:00
printk_ringbuffer.c printk: ringbuffer: Skip non-finalized records in panic 2024-02-07 17:23:18 +01:00
printk_ringbuffer.h printk: Wait for all reserved records with pr_flush() 2024-02-07 17:23:18 +01:00
printk_safe.c printk: Consolidate console deferred printing 2023-07-20 13:06:22 +02:00
printk.c printk changes for 6.10 2024-05-15 12:34:46 -07:00
sysctl.c printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array 2024-04-24 09:43:54 +02:00