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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
	"Joel Granados" <j.granados@samsung.com>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	"Iurii Zaikin" <yzaikin@google.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] sysctl: constify sysctl ctl_tables
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:18:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8927yqv.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZXlhkJm2KjCymcqu@bombadil.infradead.org> (Luis Chamberlain's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:47:28 -0800")

Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
>> Before sending it I'd like to get feedback on the internal rework of the
>> is_empty detection from you and/or Luis.
>> 
>> https://git.sr.ht/~t-8ch/linux/commit/ea27507070f3c47be6febebe451bbb88f6ea707e
>> or the attached patch.
>
> Please send as a new patch as RFC and please ensure on the To field is
> first "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> with a bit more
> elaborate commit log as suggested from my review below. If there are
> any hidden things me and Joel could probably miss I'm sure Eric will
> be easily able to spot it.
>
>> From ea27507070f3c47be6febebe451bbb88f6ea707e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 21:56:46 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: move permanently empty flag to ctl_dir
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>> 
>> Simplify the logic by always keeping the permanently_empty flag on the
>> ctl_dir.
>> The previous logic kept the flag in the leaf ctl_table and from there
>> transferred it to the ctl_table from the directory.
>> 
>> This also removes the need to have a mutable ctl_table and will allow
>> the constification of those structs.

> Please elaborate a bit more on this here in your next RFC.

> It's a pretty aggressive cleanup, specially with the new hipster guard()
> call but I'd love Eric's eyeballs on a proper v2.

I will look at a v2 time permitting.

My sense is that changing the locking probably make sense as a separate
patch.

Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2023-12-13 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2023-12-04  7:52 ` [PATCH v2 00/18] sysctl: constify sysctl ctl_tables Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 01/18] watchdog/core: remove sysctl handlers from public header Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 02/18] sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 03/18] sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-07 14:09     ` Joel Granados
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 04/18] cgroup: bpf: constify ctl_table arguments and fields Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 05/18] seccomp: constify ctl_table arguments of utility functions Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04 22:12     ` Kees Cook
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 06/18] hugetlb: " Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 07/18] utsname: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 08/18] stackleak: don't modify ctl_table argument Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04 22:14     ` Kees Cook
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 09/18] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_root::set_ownership Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 10/18] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_root::permissions Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 11/18] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 12/18] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04 22:17     ` Kees Cook
2023-12-05  9:50     ` kernel test robot
2023-12-05 16:05     ` kernel test robot
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 13/18] sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-05 22:33     ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-05 22:41       ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-05 22:50         ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-06  5:53           ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-07 12:14             ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 19:29               ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-21 12:09             ` Joel Granados
2023-12-23 13:04               ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-24 18:51                 ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 12:05           ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 11:31     ` Joel Granados
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 14/18] sysctl: move internal interfaces to const struct ctl_table Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 15/18] sysctl: allow registration of " Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 16/18] const_structs.checkpatch: add ctl_table Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 17/18] sysctl: make ctl_table sysctl_mount_point const Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-04  7:52   ` [PATCH v2 18/18] sysctl: constify standard sysctl tables Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-05  5:50   ` [PATCH v2 00/18] sysctl: constify sysctl ctl_tables Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-05  8:04     ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-05 17:16       ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-05 22:27         ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-07 11:23           ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 11:19         ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 19:23           ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-07 11:05       ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 10:43   ` Joel Granados
2023-12-07 19:19     ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-08  9:59       ` Joel Granados
2023-12-11 11:25         ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-12  9:09           ` Joel Granados
2023-12-13  7:51             ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-15 16:40               ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-15 17:05                 ` Julia Lawall
2023-12-17 12:02               ` Joel Granados
2023-12-17 22:10                 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-18 21:21                   ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-19 19:29                     ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-12-19 20:39                       ` Julia Lawall
2023-12-19 21:09                       ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-19 21:21                         ` Julia Lawall
2023-12-20  0:09                           ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-20  7:39                             ` Julia Lawall
2023-12-20 14:34                               ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-19 23:04                         ` Julia Lawall
2023-12-21 12:44                       ` Joel Granados
2023-12-21 12:36                     ` Joel Granados
2023-12-21 12:12                   ` Joel Granados
2023-12-13  7:47           ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-12-13 18:18             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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