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The test if a table is a permanently empty one, inspects the address of the registered ctl_table argument. However as sysctl_mount_point is an empty array and does not occupy and space it can end up sharing an address with another object in memory. If that other object itself is a "struct ctl_table" then registering that table will fail as it's incorrectly recognized as permanently empty. Avoid this issue by adding a dummy element to the array so that is not empty anymore. Explicitly register the table with zero elements as otherwise the dummy element would be recognized as a sentinel element which would lead to a runtime warning from the sysctl core. While the issue seems not being encountered at this time, this seems mostly to be due to luck. Also a future change, constifying sysctl_mount_point and root_table, can reliably trigger this issue on clang 18. Given that empty arrays are non-standard in the first place it seems prudent to avoid them if possible. Fixes: |
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