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Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*
Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
likely place where the final series that removes the check for
proc_name == NULL will land.
This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.
- Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
- Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
- Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
- Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure
Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
Weißschuh.
* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
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