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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 09:22:55 +0200
From: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
CC: Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <thomas@t-8ch.de>, Luis Chamberlain
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Subject: Re: Current state of the sysctl constification effort
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On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:31:24AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Thomas Wei?schuh 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?
I was pulling all this into 6.11.

> 
> -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

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Joel Granados