sysctl: allow registration of const struct ctl_table

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Putting structure, especially those containing function pointers,
into read-only memory makes the safer and easier to reason about.
Change the sysctl registration APIs to allow registration of
"const struct ctl_table".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> # security/*
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>

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Thomas Weißschuh 2024-08-05 11:39:38 +02:00 • committed by Joel Granados

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fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c

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include/linux/sysctl.h

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