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Matteo Croce eec4844fae proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check
In the sysctl code the proc_dointvec_minmax() function is often used to
validate the user supplied value between an allowed range.  This
function uses the extra1 and extra2 members from struct ctl_table as
minimum and maximum allowed value.

On sysctl handler declaration, in every source file there are some
readonly variables containing just an integer which address is assigned
to the extra1 and extra2 members, so the sysctl range is enforced.

The special values 0, 1 and INT_MAX are very often used as range
boundary, leading duplication of variables like zero=0, one=1,
int_max=INT_MAX in different source files:

    $ git grep -E '\.extra[12].*&(zero|one|int_max)' |wc -l
    248

Add a const int array containing the most commonly used values, some
macros to refer more easily to the correct array member, and use them
instead of creating a local one for every object file.

This is the bloat-o-meter output comparing the old and new binary
compiled with the default Fedora config:

    # scripts/bloat-o-meter -d vmlinux.o.old vmlinux.o
    add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 24/-188 (-164)
    Data                                         old     new   delta
    sysctl_vals                                    -      12     +12
    __kstrtab_sysctl_vals                          -      12     +12
    max                                           14      10      -4
    int_max                                       16       -     -16
    one                                           68       -     -68
    zero                                         128      28    -100
    Total: Before=20583249, After=20583085, chg -0.00%

[mcroce@redhat.com: tipc: remove two unused variables]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530091952.4108-1-mcroce@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c]
[arnd@arndb.de: proc/sysctl: make firmware loader table conditional]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617130014.1713870-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/eventpoll.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-18 17:08:07 -07:00
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acpi It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: 2019-07-09 12:34:26 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2019-07-17 13:13:41 -07:00
clocksource clocksource/drivers: Continue making Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic 2019-07-03 11:00:59 +02:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-07-08 20:57:08 -07:00
drm drm main pull request for v5.3-rc1 (sans mm changes) 2019-07-15 19:04:27 -07:00
dt-bindings This round of clk driver and framework updates is heavy on the driver update 2019-07-17 10:07:48 -07:00
keys request_key improvements 2019-07-08 19:19:37 -07:00
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters 2019-07-05 13:56:22 +01:00
linux proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check 2019-07-18 17:08:07 -07:00
math-emu
media media updates for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-09 09:47:22 -07:00
memory
misc powerpc updates for 5.3 2019-07-13 16:08:36 -07:00
net net: sched: Fix NULL-pointer dereference in tc_indr_block_ing_cmd() 2019-07-12 15:21:53 -07:00
pcmcia It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: 2019-07-09 12:34:26 -07:00
ras
rdma RDMA/core: Make rdma_counter.h compile stand alone 2019-07-09 09:44:47 -03:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20190709 2019-07-11 15:14:01 -07:00
soc
sound ALSA: hda - Don't resume forcibly i915 HDMI/DP codec 2019-07-16 22:46:13 +02:00
target
trace for-5.3-tag 2019-07-16 15:12:56 -07:00
uapi virtio, vhost: fixes, features, performance 2019-07-17 11:26:09 -07:00
vdso vdso: Remove superfluous #ifdef __KERNEL__ in vdso/datapage.h 2019-06-26 07:28:09 +02:00
video drm main pull request for v5.3-rc1 (sans mm changes) 2019-07-15 19:04:27 -07:00
xen
Kbuild kbuild: compile-test kernel headers to ensure they are self-contained 2019-07-09 21:44:37 +09:00