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Joel Granados 1751f872cc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
 		2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
..
syscalls fs/xattr: add *at family syscalls 2024-11-06 12:59:44 -05:00
vdso treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
vsyscall x86/mm: Remove broken vsyscall emulation code from the page fault code 2024-05-01 09:41:43 +02:00
Makefile x86/entry: Merge thunk_64.S and thunk_32.S into thunk.S 2024-04-09 09:57:56 +02:00
calling.h Core x86 changes for v6.9: 2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
common.c treewide: context_tracking: Rename CONTEXT_* into CT_STATE_* 2024-07-29 07:33:10 +05:30
entry.S x86/stackprotector: Work around strict Clang TLS symbol requirements 2024-11-08 13:16:00 +01:00
entry_32.S x86/entry_32: Clear CPU buffers after register restore in NMI return 2024-10-08 15:16:28 -07:00
entry_64.S objtool: Fix ANNOTATE_REACHABLE to be a normal annotation 2024-12-02 12:01:44 +01:00
entry_64_compat.S x86/bhi: Avoid warning in #DB handler due to BHI mitigation 2024-07-03 13:26:30 +02:00
entry_64_fred.S x86/entry: Add fred_entry_from_kvm() for VMX to handle IRQ/NMI 2024-01-31 22:03:16 +01:00
entry_fred.c x86/irq: Install posted MSI notification handler 2024-04-30 00:54:42 +02:00
syscall_32.c x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn 2024-06-28 15:23:38 +02:00
syscall_64.c x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn 2024-06-28 15:23:38 +02:00
syscall_x32.c x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn 2024-06-28 15:23:38 +02:00
thunk.S x86/entry: Merge thunk_64.S and thunk_32.S into thunk.S 2024-04-09 09:57:56 +02:00