Praparation series to enable constification of struct ctl_table further down the line. No functional changes are intended. These changes have been split out and reworked from my original const sysctl patchset [0]. I'm resubmitting the patchset in smaller chunks for easier review. Each split-out series is meant to be useful on its own. Changes since the original series: * Explicit initializartion of header->type in init_header() * Some additional cleanups [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231204-const-sysctl-v2-0-7a5060b11447@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ --- Thomas Weißschuh (4): sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check sysctl: remove unnecessary sentinel element fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 19 ++++++++----------- include/linux/sysctl.h | 22 +++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- base-commit: b401b621758e46812da61fa58a67c3fd8d91de0d change-id: 20231216-sysctl-empty-dir-71d7631f7bfe Best regards, -- Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
