Re: [PATCH] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_root::set_ownership

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Thu Dec 28 2023 - 08:23:16 EST


On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 01:32:42PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The set_ownership callback is not supposed to modify the ctl_table.
> Enforce this expectation via the typesystem.
>
> The patch was created with the following coccinelle script:
>
> virtual patch
> virtual context
> virtual report

If you remove this virtual stuff and mention how we verify manually
through the build how users do not exits which rely on modifying the the
table I thinkt these two patches are ready, thanks for doing this in
Coccinelle it helps me review this faster!

Luis