ngroups_max is a read-only sysctl entry, reflecting NGROUPS_MAX. Make it const, in the same way as cap_last_cap. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> --- This is split out from 2f4c33063ad7 ("docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max") which conflicted with f461d2dcd511 ("sysctl: avoid forward declarations"). kernel/sysctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 349cab382081..cc1fcba9d4d2 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE; static int maxolduid = 65535; static int minolduid; -static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX; +static const int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX; static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP; /* @@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { #endif { .procname = "ngroups_max", - .data = &ngroups_max, + .data = (void *)&ngroups_max, .maxlen = sizeof (int), .mode = 0444, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, base-commit: bdecf38f228bcca73b31ada98b5b7ba1215eb9c9 -- 2.20.1