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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sysctl.h, branch v6.16-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: update comments to new registration APIs</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T13:28:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-10T17:00:35+00:00</published>
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The sysctl registration APIs do not need a terminating table entry
anymore and with commit acc154691fc7 ("sysctl: Warn on an empty procname
element") even emit warnings if such a sentinel entry is supplied.

While at it also remove the mention of "table-&gt;de" which was removed in
commit 3fbfa98112fc ("[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member
for the sysctl tables") back in 2007.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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The sysctl registration APIs do not need a terminating table entry
anymore and with commit acc154691fc7 ("sysctl: Warn on an empty procname
element") even emit warnings if such a sentinel entry is supplied.

While at it also remove the mention of "table-&gt;de" which was removed in
commit 3fbfa98112fc ("[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member
for the sysctl tables") back in 2007.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: allow registration of const struct ctl_table</title>
<updated>2024-10-09T11:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-05T09:39:38+00:00</published>
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Putting structure, especially those containing function pointers,
into read-only memory makes the safer and easier to reason about.
Change the sysctl registration APIs to allow registration of
"const struct ctl_table".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt; # security/*
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Putting structure, especially those containing function pointers,
into read-only memory makes the safer and easier to reason about.
Change the sysctl registration APIs to allow registration of
"const struct ctl_table".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt; # security/*
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: move internal interfaces to const struct ctl_table</title>
<updated>2024-10-09T11:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-05T09:39:37+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
As a preparation to make all the core sysctl code work with const struct
ctl_table switch over the internal function to use the const variant.

Some pointers to "struct ctl_table" need to stay non-const as they are
newly allocated and modified before registration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
As a preparation to make all the core sysctl code work with const struct
ctl_table switch over the internal function to use the const variant.

Some pointers to "struct ctl_table" need to stay non-const as they are
newly allocated and modified before registration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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<pre>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function</title>
<updated>2024-06-03T13:16:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-13T09:25:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In a future commit the proc_handlers themselves will change to
"const struct ctl_table". As a preparation for that adapt the internal
helper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
In a future commit the proc_handlers themselves will change to
"const struct ctl_table". As a preparation for that adapt the internal
helper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00</published>
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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
</content>
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<pre>
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
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-22T17:05:57+00:00</published>
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Move the SYSCTL_TABLE_TYPE_{DEFAULT,PERMANENTLY_EMPTY} enums from
ctl_table to ctl_table_header.
Removing the mutable member is necessary to constify static instances
of struct ctl_table.

Move the initialization of the sysctl_mount_point type into
init_header() where all the other header fields are also initialized.

As a side-effect the memory usage of the sysctl core is reduced.
Each ctl_table_header instance can manage multiple ctl_table instances
and is only allocated when the table is actually registered.
This saves 8 bytes of memory per ctl_table on 64bit, 4 due to the enum
field itself and 4 due to padding.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Move the SYSCTL_TABLE_TYPE_{DEFAULT,PERMANENTLY_EMPTY} enums from
ctl_table to ctl_table_header.
Removing the mutable member is necessary to constify static instances
of struct ctl_table.

Move the initialization of the sysctl_mount_point type into
init_header() where all the other header fields are also initialized.

As a side-effect the memory usage of the sysctl core is reduced.
Each ctl_table_header instance can manage multiple ctl_table instances
and is only allocated when the table is actually registered.
This saves 8 bytes of memory per ctl_table on 64bit, 4 due to the enum
field itself and 4 due to padding.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T18:11:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=795f90c6f13c30484ff10355a6775979f57f78cb'/>
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<content type='text'>
The permissions callback should not modify the ctl_table. Enforce this
expectation via the typesystem. This is a step to put "struct ctl_table"
into .rodata throughout the kernel.

The patch was created with the following coccinelle script:

  @@
  identifier func, head, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
    struct ctl_table_header *head,
  - struct ctl_table *ctl)
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl)
  { ... }

(insert_entry() from fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c is a false-positive)

No additional occurrences of '.permissions =' were found after a
tree-wide search for places missed by the conccinelle script.

Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The permissions callback should not modify the ctl_table. Enforce this
expectation via the typesystem. This is a step to put "struct ctl_table"
into .rodata throughout the kernel.

The patch was created with the following coccinelle script:

  @@
  identifier func, head, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
    struct ctl_table_header *head,
  - struct ctl_table *ctl)
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl)
  { ... }

(insert_entry() from fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c is a false-positive)

No additional occurrences of '.permissions =' were found after a
tree-wide search for places missed by the conccinelle script.

Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T18:11:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=520713a93d550406dae14d49cdb8778d70cecdfd'/>
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<content type='text'>
Remove the 'table' argument from set_ownership as it is never used. This
change is a step towards putting "struct ctl_table" into .rodata and
eventually having sysctl core only use "const struct ctl_table".

The patch was created with the following coccinelle script:

  @@
  identifier func, head, table, uid, gid;
  @@

  void func(
    struct ctl_table_header *head,
  - struct ctl_table *table,
    kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
  { ... }

No additional occurrences of 'set_ownership' were found after doing a
tree-wide search.

Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Remove the 'table' argument from set_ownership as it is never used. This
change is a step towards putting "struct ctl_table" into .rodata and
eventually having sysctl core only use "const struct ctl_table".

The patch was created with the following coccinelle script:

  @@
  identifier func, head, table, uid, gid;
  @@

  void func(
    struct ctl_table_header *head,
  - struct ctl_table *table,
    kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
  { ... }

No additional occurrences of 'set_ownership' were found after doing a
tree-wide search.

Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg</title>
<updated>2024-04-22T07:56:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
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<published>2024-04-18T09:40:08+00:00</published>
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To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to
remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the
sysctl core.
One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header.

Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of
struct ctl_table instances.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to
remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the
sysctl core.
One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header.

Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of
struct ctl_table instances.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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