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docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max 

This is a read-only export of NGROUPS_MAX, so this patch also changes
the declarations in kernel/sysctl.c to const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515160222.7994-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Stephen Kitt 2020-05-15 18:02:22 +02:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 56b6254078
commit 2f4c33063a
2 changed files with 11 additions and 2 deletions
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Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
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@ -517,6 +517,15 @@ Notes:
successful IPC object allocation. If an IPC object allocation syscall
fails, it is undefined if the value remains unmodified or is reset to -1.
ngroups_max
===========
Maximum number of supplementary groups, _i.e._ the maximum size which
``setgroups`` will accept. Exports ``NGROUPS_MAX`` from the kernel.
nmi_watchdog
============

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kernel/sysctl.c
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@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
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;
/*
@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ 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,