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[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY

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There are currently no users in the kernel for CTL_ANY and it only has effect
on the binary interface which is practically unused.

So this complicates sysctl lookups for no good reason so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman 2007-02-14 00:34:07 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2abc26fc6b
commit 6703ddfcce
2 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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include/linux/sysctl.h
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@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ struct __sysctl_args {
/* For internal pattern-matching use only: */
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#define CTL_ANY -1 /* Matches any name */
#define CTL_NONE 0
#define CTL_UNNUMBERED CTL_NONE /* sysctl without a binary number */
#endif

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kernel/sysctl.c
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@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static int parse_table(int __user *name, int nlen,
for ( ; table->ctl_name || table->procname; table++) {
if (!table->ctl_name)
continue;
if (n == table->ctl_name || table->ctl_name == CTL_ANY) {
if (n == table->ctl_name) {
int error;
if (table->child) {
if (ctl_perm(table, 001))