On 2020/5/15 16:06, Kees Cook wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:33:42PM +0800, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
Add the shared variable SYSCTL_NEG_ONE to replace the variable neg_one
used in both sysctl_writes_strict and hung_task_warnings.

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaom...@huawei.com>
---
  fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c     | 2 +-
  include/linux/sysctl.h    | 1 +
  kernel/hung_task_sysctl.c | 3 +--
  kernel/sysctl.c           | 3 +--

How about doing this refactoring in advance of the extraction patch?
Before advance of the extraction patch, neg_one is only used in one file, does it seem to have no value for refactoring?



  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index b6f5d45..acae1fa 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  static const struct inode_operations proc_sys_dir_operations;
/* shared constants to be used in various sysctls */
-const int sysctl_vals[] = { 0, 1, INT_MAX };
+const int sysctl_vals[] = { 0, 1, INT_MAX, -1 };
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_vals);
/* Support for permanently empty directories */
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 02fa844..6d741d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
  #define SYSCTL_ZERO   ((void *)&sysctl_vals[0])
  #define SYSCTL_ONE    ((void *)&sysctl_vals[1])
  #define SYSCTL_INT_MAX        ((void *)&sysctl_vals[2])
+#define SYSCTL_NEG_ONE ((void *)&sysctl_vals[3])

Nit: let's keep these value-ordered? i.e. -1, 0, 1, INT_MAX.
Thanks for guidance, your method is better

Thanks.
Xiaoming Ni

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