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<title>seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering</title>
<updated>2025-11-02T13:15:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-20T11:21:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 89d1d8434d246c96309a6068dfcf9e36dc61227b ]

Adding uprobe as another exception to the seccomp filter alongside
with the uretprobe syscall.

Same as the uretprobe the uprobe syscall is installed by kernel as
replacement for the breakpoint exception and is limited to x86_64
arch and isn't expected to ever be supported in i386.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250720112133.244369-21-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 89d1d8434d246c96309a6068dfcf9e36dc61227b ]

Adding uprobe as another exception to the seccomp filter alongside
with the uretprobe syscall.

Same as the uretprobe the uprobe syscall is installed by kernel as
replacement for the breakpoint exception and is limited to x86_64
arch and isn't expected to ever be supported in i386.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250720112133.244369-21-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>seccomp: Fix a race with WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV if the tracer replies too fast</title>
<updated>2025-10-15T09:59:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Nixdorf</name>
<email>johannes@nixdorf.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-25T16:31:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cce436aafc2abad691fdd37de63ec8a4490b42ce ]

Normally the tracee starts in SECCOMP_NOTIFY_INIT, sends an
event to the tracer, and starts to wait interruptibly. With
SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV, if the tracer receives the
message (SECCOMP_NOTIFY_SENT is reached) while the tracee was waiting
and is subsequently interrupted, the tracee begins to wait again
uninterruptibly (but killable).

This fails if SECCOMP_NOTIFY_REPLIED is reached before the tracee
is interrupted, as the check only considered SECCOMP_NOTIFY_SENT as a
condition to begin waiting again. In this case the tracee is interrupted
even though the tracer already acted on its behalf. This breaks the
assumption SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV wanted to ensure,
namely that the tracer can be sure the syscall is not interrupted or
restarted on the tracee after it is received on the tracer. Fix this
by also considering SECCOMP_NOTIFY_REPLIED when evaluating whether to
switch to uninterruptible waiting.

With the condition changed the loop in seccomp_do_user_notification()
would exit immediately after deciding that noninterruptible waiting
is required if the operation already reached SECCOMP_NOTIFY_REPLIED,
skipping the code that processes pending addfd commands first. Prevent
this by executing the remaining loop body one last time in this case.

Fixes: c2aa2dfef243 ("seccomp: Add wait_killable semantic to seccomp user notifier")
Reported-by: Ali Polatel &lt;alip@chesswob.org&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220291
Signed-off-by: Johannes Nixdorf &lt;johannes@nixdorf.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725-seccomp-races-v2-1-cf8b9d139596@nixdorf.dev
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cce436aafc2abad691fdd37de63ec8a4490b42ce ]

Normally the tracee starts in SECCOMP_NOTIFY_INIT, sends an
event to the tracer, and starts to wait interruptibly. With
SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV, if the tracer receives the
message (SECCOMP_NOTIFY_SENT is reached) while the tracee was waiting
and is subsequently interrupted, the tracee begins to wait again
uninterruptibly (but killable).

This fails if SECCOMP_NOTIFY_REPLIED is reached before the tracee
is interrupted, as the check only considered SECCOMP_NOTIFY_SENT as a
condition to begin waiting again. In this case the tracee is interrupted
even though the tracer already acted on its behalf. This breaks the
assumption SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV wanted to ensure,
namely that the tracer can be sure the syscall is not interrupted or
restarted on the tracee after it is received on the tracer. Fix this
by also considering SECCOMP_NOTIFY_REPLIED when evaluating whether to
switch to uninterruptible waiting.

With the condition changed the loop in seccomp_do_user_notification()
would exit immediately after deciding that noninterruptible waiting
is required if the operation already reached SECCOMP_NOTIFY_REPLIED,
skipping the code that processes pending addfd commands first. Prevent
this by executing the remaining loop body one last time in this case.

Fixes: c2aa2dfef243 ("seccomp: Add wait_killable semantic to seccomp user notifier")
Reported-by: Ali Polatel &lt;alip@chesswob.org&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220291
Signed-off-by: Johannes Nixdorf &lt;johannes@nixdorf.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725-seccomp-races-v2-1-cf8b9d139596@nixdorf.dev
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>seccomp: passthrough uretprobe systemcall without filtering</title>
<updated>2025-02-17T09:05:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eyal Birger</name>
<email>eyal.birger@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-02T16:29:20+00:00</published>
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commit cf6cb56ef24410fb5308f9655087f1eddf4452e6 upstream.

When attaching uretprobes to processes running inside docker, the attached
process is segfaulted when encountering the retprobe.

The reason is that now that uretprobe is a system call the default seccomp
filters in docker block it as they only allow a specific set of known
syscalls. This is true for other userspace applications which use seccomp
to control their syscall surface.

Since uretprobe is a "kernel implementation detail" system call which is
not used by userspace application code directly, it is impractical and
there's very little point in forcing all userspace applications to
explicitly allow it in order to avoid crashing tracked processes.

Pass this systemcall through seccomp without depending on configuration.

Note: uretprobe is currently only x86_64 and isn't expected to ever be
supported in i386.

Fixes: ff474a78cef5 ("uprobe: Add uretprobe syscall to speed up return probe")
Reported-by: Rafael Buchbinder &lt;rafi@rbk.io&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHsH6Gs3Eh8DFU0wq58c_LF8A4_+o6z456J7BidmcVY2AqOnHQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250121182939.33d05470@gandalf.local.home/T/#me2676c378eff2d6a33f3054fed4a5f3afa64e65b
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250128145806.1849977-1-eyal.birger@gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger &lt;eyal.birger@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250202162921.335813-2-eyal.birger@gmail.com
[kees: minimized changes for easier backporting, tweaked commit log]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit cf6cb56ef24410fb5308f9655087f1eddf4452e6 upstream.

When attaching uretprobes to processes running inside docker, the attached
process is segfaulted when encountering the retprobe.

The reason is that now that uretprobe is a system call the default seccomp
filters in docker block it as they only allow a specific set of known
syscalls. This is true for other userspace applications which use seccomp
to control their syscall surface.

Since uretprobe is a "kernel implementation detail" system call which is
not used by userspace application code directly, it is impractical and
there's very little point in forcing all userspace applications to
explicitly allow it in order to avoid crashing tracked processes.

Pass this systemcall through seccomp without depending on configuration.

Note: uretprobe is currently only x86_64 and isn't expected to ever be
supported in i386.

Fixes: ff474a78cef5 ("uprobe: Add uretprobe syscall to speed up return probe")
Reported-by: Rafael Buchbinder &lt;rafi@rbk.io&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHsH6Gs3Eh8DFU0wq58c_LF8A4_+o6z456J7BidmcVY2AqOnHQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250121182939.33d05470@gandalf.local.home/T/#me2676c378eff2d6a33f3054fed4a5f3afa64e65b
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250128145806.1849977-1-eyal.birger@gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger &lt;eyal.birger@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250202162921.335813-2-eyal.birger@gmail.com
[kees: minimized changes for easier backporting, tweaked commit log]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>seccomp: release task filters when the task exits</title>
<updated>2024-06-28T16:37:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-28T02:10:12+00:00</published>
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Previously, seccomp filters were released in release_task(), which
required the process to exit and its zombie to be collected. However,
exited threads/processes can't trigger any seccomp events, making it
more logical to release filters upon task exits.

This adjustment simplifies scenarios where a parent is tracing its child
process. The parent process can now handle all events from a seccomp
listening descriptor and then call wait to collect a child zombie.

seccomp_filter_release takes the siglock to avoid races with
seccomp_sync_threads. There was an idea to bypass taking the lock by
checking PF_EXITING, but it can be set without holding siglock if
threads have SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT. This means it can happen concurently
with seccomp_filter_release.

This change also fixes another minor problem. Suppose that a group
leader installs the new filter without SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC, exits,
and becomes a zombie. Without this change, SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC
from any other thread can never succeed, seccomp_can_sync_threads() will
check a zombie leader and is_ancestor() will fail.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628021014.231976-3-avagin@google.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen &lt;tandersen@netflix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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Previously, seccomp filters were released in release_task(), which
required the process to exit and its zombie to be collected. However,
exited threads/processes can't trigger any seccomp events, making it
more logical to release filters upon task exits.

This adjustment simplifies scenarios where a parent is tracing its child
process. The parent process can now handle all events from a seccomp
listening descriptor and then call wait to collect a child zombie.

seccomp_filter_release takes the siglock to avoid races with
seccomp_sync_threads. There was an idea to bypass taking the lock by
checking PF_EXITING, but it can be set without holding siglock if
threads have SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT. This means it can happen concurently
with seccomp_filter_release.

This change also fixes another minor problem. Suppose that a group
leader installs the new filter without SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC, exits,
and becomes a zombie. Without this change, SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC
from any other thread can never succeed, seccomp_can_sync_threads() will
check a zombie leader and is_ancestor() will fail.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628021014.231976-3-avagin@google.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen &lt;tandersen@netflix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seccomp: interrupt SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV when all users have exited</title>
<updated>2024-06-28T16:37:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-28T02:10:11+00:00</published>
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SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV promptly returns when a seccomp filter becomes
unused, as a filter without users can't trigger any events.

Previously, event listeners had to rely on epoll to detect when all
processes had exited.

The change is based on the 'commit 99cdb8b9a573 ("seccomp: notify about
unused filter")' which implemented (E)POLLHUP notifications.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628021014.231976-2-avagin@google.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen &lt;tandersen@netflix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV promptly returns when a seccomp filter becomes
unused, as a filter without users can't trigger any events.

Previously, event listeners had to rely on epoll to detect when all
processes had exited.

The change is based on the 'commit 99cdb8b9a573 ("seccomp: notify about
unused filter")' which implemented (E)POLLHUP notifications.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628021014.231976-2-avagin@google.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen &lt;tandersen@netflix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00</published>
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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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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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<title>seccomp: Constify sysctl subhelpers</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T19:50:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-08T17:13:41+00:00</published>
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The read_actions_logged() and write_actions_logged() helpers called by the
sysctl proc handler seccomp_actions_logged_handler() are already expecting
their sysctl table argument to be read-only. Actually mark the argument
as const in preparation[1] for global constification of the sysctl tables.

Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240423-sysctl-const-handler-v3-11-e0beccb836e2@weissschuh.net/ [1]
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508171337.work.861-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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The read_actions_logged() and write_actions_logged() helpers called by the
sysctl proc handler seccomp_actions_logged_handler() are already expecting
their sysctl table argument to be read-only. Actually mark the argument
as const in preparation[1] for global constification of the sysctl tables.

Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240423-sysctl-const-handler-v3-11-e0beccb836e2@weissschuh.net/ [1]
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508171337.work.861-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T13:30:23+00:00</published>
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from seccomp_sysctl_table.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from seccomp_sysctl_table.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>file: remove __receive_fd()</title>
<updated>2023-12-12T13:24:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-30T12:49:11+00:00</published>
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Honestly, there's little value in having a helper with and without that
int __user *ufd argument. It's just messy and doesn't really give us
anything. Just expose receive_fd() with that argument and get rid of
that helper.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130-vfs-files-fixes-v1-5-e73ca6f4ea83@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Honestly, there's little value in having a helper with and without that
int __user *ufd argument. It's just messy and doesn't really give us
anything. Just expose receive_fd() with that argument and get rid of
that helper.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130-vfs-files-fixes-v1-5-e73ca6f4ea83@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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