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

- From: Kees Cook \<kees@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2025-01-23 23:20:49 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2025/01/2900569
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2025/01/2900329/t.md

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 04:33:34PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

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Kees Cook
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