Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] sysfs: constify struct bin_attribute (Part 1)

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 02:43:49AM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> struct bin_attribute contains a bunch of pointer members, which when
> overwritten by accident or malice can lead to system instability and
> security problems.
> Moving the definitions of struct bin_attribute to read-only memory
> makes these modifications impossible.
> The same change has been performed for many other structures in the
> past. (struct class, struct ctl_table...)
> 
> For the structure definitions throughout the core to be moved to
> read-only memory the following steps are necessary.
> 
> 1) Change all callbacks invoked from the sysfs core to only pass const
>    pointers
> 2) Adapt the sysfs core to only work in terms of const pointers
> 3) Adapt the sysfs core APIs to allow const pointers
> 4) Change all structure definitions through the core to const
> 
> This series provides the foundation for step 1) above.
> It converts some callbacks in a single step to const and provides a
> foundation for those callbacks where a single step is not possible.
> 
> This series is marked as RFC and only sent to the sysfs maintainers to
> get some feedback on the general aproach.
> The same techniques employed by this series can later be reused for the
> same change for 'struct attribute'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

At a quick glance, this is great!  I'll review it "better" next week
when my travel calms down, so if you want to resend this as a non-rfc
patch, and it looks sane, I'll be glad to queue it up.

thanks!

greg k-h