# \[PATCH 1/2\] yama: Make sysctl table const

- From: Ricardo B. Marliere \<hidden\>
- Date: 2025-01-23 19:35:44 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2025/01/2900331
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2025/01/2900329/t.md

```text
Since commit 7abc9b53bd51 ("sysctl: allow registration of const struct
ctl_table"), the sysctl registration API allows for struct ctl_table to be
in read-only memory. Move yama_sysctl_table to be declared at build time,
instead of having to be dynamically allocated at boot time.

Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <redacted>
---
 security/yama/yama_lsm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index e1a5e13ea269d4917fe2c78cb79f1d44881653c2..54bd5f535ac1fef9409ea96ad60825f565318daf 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ static int yama_dointvec_minmax(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 static int max_scope = YAMA_SCOPE_NO_ATTACH;
 
-static struct ctl_table yama_sysctl_table[] = {
+static const struct ctl_table yama_sysctl_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname       = "ptrace_scope",
 		.data           = &ptrace_scope,

-- 
2.48.1

```
