sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table

We make these changes in order to prepare __register_sysctl_table and
its callers for when we remove the sentinel element (empty element at
the end of ctl_table arrays). We don't actually remove any sentinels in
this commit, but we *do* make sure to use ARRAY_SIZE so the table_size
is available when the removal occurs.

We add a table_size argument to __register_sysctl_table and adjust
callers, all of which pass ctl_table pointers and need an explicit call
to ARRAY_SIZE. We implement a size calculation in register_net_sysctl in
order to forward the size of the array pointer received from the network
register calls.

The new table_size argument does not yet have any effect in the
init_header call which is still dependent on the sentinel's presence.
table_size *does* however drive the `kzalloc` allocation in
__register_sysctl_table with no adverse effects as the allocated memory
is either one element greater than the calculated ctl_table array (for
the calls in ipc_sysctl.c, mq_sysctl.c and ucount.c) or the exact size
of the calculated ctl_table array (for the call from sysctl_net.c and
register_sysctl). This approach will allows us to "just" remove the
sentinel without further changes to __register_sysctl_table as
table_size will represent the exact size for all the callers at that
point.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
index ef313ecfb53a..8c62e443f78b 100644
--- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
@@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ bool setup_ipc_sysctls(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
 				tbl[i].data = NULL;
 		}
 
-		ns->ipc_sysctls = __register_sysctl_table(&ns->ipc_set, "kernel", tbl);
+		ns->ipc_sysctls = __register_sysctl_table(&ns->ipc_set,
+							  "kernel", tbl,
+							  ARRAY_SIZE(ipc_sysctls));
 	}
 	if (!ns->ipc_sysctls) {
 		kfree(tbl);