patches/old/sysctl-make-ngroups_max-const.patch

From: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Subject: sysctl: make ngroups_max const

ngroups_max is a read-only sysctl entry, reflecting NGROUPS_MAX.  Make it
const, in the same way as cap_last_cap.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123202347.818157-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/sysctl.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-make-ngroups_max-const
+++ a/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2
 static int maxolduid = 65535;
 static int minolduid;
 
-static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX;
+static const int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX;
 static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP;
 
 
@@ -2291,7 +2291,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 #endif
 	{
 		.procname	= "ngroups_max",
-		.data		= &ngroups_max,
+		.data		= (void *)&ngroups_max,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof (int),
 		.mode		= 0444,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
_