From 1751f872cc97f992ed5c4c72c55588db1f0021e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:48:37 +0100
Subject: 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 78eb4ea25cd5 ("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>
---
 kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'kernel/time/timer.c')

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 40706cb36920..c8f776dc6ee0 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int timer_migration_handler(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static struct ctl_table timer_sysctl[] = {
+static const struct ctl_table timer_sysctl[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "timer_migration",
 		.data		= &sysctl_timer_migration,
-- 
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