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    Merge tag 'sysctl-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl · f8a8b94d
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
    
     - Remove "->procname == NULL" check when iterating through sysctl table
       arrays
    
       Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
       and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. With all
       ctl_table sentinels gone, the additional check for ->procname == NULL
       that worked in tandem with the ARRAY_SIZE to calculate the size of
       the ctl_table arrays is no longer needed and has been removed. The
       sysctl register functions now returns an error if a sentinel is used.
    
     - Preparation patches for sysctl constification
    
       Constifying ctl_table structs prevents the modification of
       proc_handler function pointers as they would reside in .rodata. The
       ctl_table arguments in sysctl utility functions are const qualified
       in preparation for a future treewide proc_handler argument
       constification commit.
    
     - Misc fixes
    
       Increase robustness of set_ownership by providing sane default
       ownership values in case the callee doesn't set them. Bound check
       proc_dou8vec_minmax to avoid loading buggy modules and give sysctl
       testing module a name to avoid compiler complaints.
    
    * tag 'sysctl-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
      sysctl: Warn on an empty procname element
      sysctl: Remove ctl_table sentinel code comments
      sysctl: Remove "child" sysctl code comments
      sysctl: Remove superfluous empty allocations from sysctl internals
      sysctl: Replace nr_entries with ctl_table_size in new_links
      sysctl: Remove check for sentinel element in ctl_table arrays
      mm profiling: Remove superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table
      locking: Remove superfluous sentinel element from kern_lockdep_table
      sysctl: Add module description to sysctl-testing
      sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
      utsname: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
      sysctl: move the extra1/2 boundary check of u8 to sysctl_check_table_array
      sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
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