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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/vrf.c, branch v6.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<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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<pre>
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>net: vrf: move to generic dstat helpers</title>
<updated>2024-06-12T02:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Kerr</name>
<email>jk@codeconstruct.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T10:25:26+00:00</published>
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The vrf driver has its own dstats-to-rtnl_link_stats64 collection, but
we now have a generic implementation for dstats collection, so switch to
this.

In doing so, we fix a minor issue where the (non-percpu)
dev-&gt;stats-&gt;tx_errors value was never collected into rtnl_link_stats64,
as the generic dev_get_dstats64() consumes the starting values from
dev-&gt;stats.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-3-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The vrf driver has its own dstats-to-rtnl_link_stats64 collection, but
we now have a generic implementation for dstats collection, so switch to
this.

In doing so, we fix a minor issue where the (non-percpu)
dev-&gt;stats-&gt;tx_errors value was never collected into rtnl_link_stats64,
as the generic dev_get_dstats64() consumes the starting values from
dev-&gt;stats.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-3-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: core,vrf: Change pcpu_dstat fields to u64_stats_t</title>
<updated>2024-06-12T02:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Kerr</name>
<email>jk@codeconstruct.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T10:25:24+00:00</published>
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The pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_lstats structs both contain a set of
u64_stats_t fields for individual stats, but pcpu_dstats uses u64s
instead.

Make this consistent by using u64_stats_t across all stats types.

The per-cpu dstats are only used by the vrf driver at present, so update
that driver as part of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-1-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_lstats structs both contain a set of
u64_stats_t fields for individual stats, but pcpu_dstats uses u64s
instead.

Make this consistent by using u64_stats_t across all stats types.

The per-cpu dstats are only used by the vrf driver at present, so update
that driver as part of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-1-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: introduce dst_rtable() helper</title>
<updated>2024-05-01T01:32:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-29T13:30:09+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
I added dst_rt6_info() in commit
e8dfd42c17fa ("ipv6: introduce dst_rt6_info() helper")

This patch does a similar change for IPv4.

Instead of (struct rtable *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rtable(_ptr) \
             container_of_const(_ptr, struct rtable, dst)

Patch is smaller than IPv6 one, because IPv4 has skb_rtable() helper.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429133009.1227754-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
I added dst_rt6_info() in commit
e8dfd42c17fa ("ipv6: introduce dst_rt6_info() helper")

This patch does a similar change for IPv4.

Instead of (struct rtable *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rtable(_ptr) \
             container_of_const(_ptr, struct rtable, dst)

Patch is smaller than IPv6 one, because IPv4 has skb_rtable() helper.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429133009.1227754-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: introduce dst_rt6_info() helper</title>
<updated>2024-04-29T12:32:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-26T15:19:52+00:00</published>
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Instead of (struct rt6_info *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rt6_info(_ptr) \
         container_of_const(_ptr, struct rt6_info, dst)

Some places needed missing const qualifiers :

ip6_confirm_neigh(), ipv6_anycast_destination(),
ipv6_unicast_destination(), has_gateway()

v2: added missing parts (David Ahern)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Instead of (struct rt6_info *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rt6_info(_ptr) \
         container_of_const(_ptr, struct rt6_info, dst)

Some places needed missing const qualifiers :

ip6_confirm_neigh(), ipv6_anycast_destination(),
ipv6_unicast_destination(), has_gateway()

v2: added missing parts (David Ahern)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg</title>
<updated>2024-04-22T07:56:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-18T09:40:08+00:00</published>
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To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to
remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the
sysctl core.
One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header.

Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of
struct ctl_table instances.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to
remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the
sysctl core.
One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header.

Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of
struct ctl_table instances.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Move {l,t,d}stats allocation to core and convert veth &amp; vrf</title>
<updated>2023-11-20T18:15:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-14T00:42:14+00:00</published>
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Move {l,t,d}stats allocation to the core and let netdevs pick the stats
type they need. That way the driver doesn't have to bother with error
handling (allocation failure checking, making sure free happens in the
right spot, etc) - all happening in the core.

Co-developed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231114004220.6495-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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Move {l,t,d}stats allocation to the core and let netdevs pick the stats
type they need. That way the driver doesn't have to bother with error
handling (allocation failure checking, making sure free happens in the
right spot, etc) - all happening in the core.

Co-developed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231114004220.6495-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net, vrf: Move dstats structure to core</title>
<updated>2023-11-20T18:15:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-14T00:42:13+00:00</published>
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Just move struct pcpu_dstats out of the vrf into the core, and streamline
the field names slightly, so they better align with the {t,l}stats ones.

No functional change otherwise. A conversion of the u64s to u64_stats_t
could be done at a separate point in future. This move is needed as we are
moving the {t,l,d}stats allocation/freeing to the core.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231114004220.6495-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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Just move struct pcpu_dstats out of the vrf into the core, and streamline
the field names slightly, so they better align with the {t,l}stats ones.

No functional change otherwise. A conversion of the u64s to u64_stats_t
could be done at a separate point in future. This move is needed as we are
moving the {t,l,d}stats allocation/freeing to the core.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231114004220.6495-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2023-10-11T19:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-02T08:55:27+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 from vrf_table

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&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 from vrf_table

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX-&gt;ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX-&gt;ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
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