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/ --- Changes in v2: - Rebase onto next-20240322 without changes - Squash patch 4 into patch 3 (Joel) - Rework commit messages as per Joels requests - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222-sysctl-empty-dir-v1-0-45ba9a6352e8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Thomas Weißschuh (3): sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 19 ++++++++----------- include/linux/sysctl.h | 22 +++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 13ee4a7161b6fd938aef6688ff43b163f6d83e37 change-id: 20231216-sysctl-empty-dir-71d7631f7bfe Best regards, -- Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
