Re: [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 09:54:46AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Adapt the proc_hander function signature to make it clear that handlers
> are not supposed to modify their ctl_table argument.
> 
> This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table structs into
> rodata.
> By migrating all handlers at once a lengthy transition can be avoided.
> 
> The patch was mostly generated by coccinelle with the following script:
> 
>     @@
>     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)
>     { ... }
> 
> In addition to the scripted changes some other changes are done:
> 
> * the typedef proc_handler is adapted
> 
> * the prototypes of non-static handler are adapted
> 
> * kernel/seccomp.c:{read,write}_actions_logged() and
>   kernel/watchdog.c:proc_watchdog_common() are adapted as they need to
>   adapted together with the handlers for type-consistency reasons
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>

...

>  arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c        | 10 ++---
>  arch/s390/kernel/debug.c                  |  2 +-
>  arch/s390/kernel/topology.c               |  2 +-
>  arch/s390/mm/cmm.c                        |  6 +--

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> # s390