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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-02-14 00:34:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -0800 |
| commit | 6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e142a12e33f5f29890878d7fb615fbe2f92cf7e /kernel | |
| parent | 2abc26fc6b6f60fc70d6957b842ef4e5f805df7b (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840.tar.gz lwn-6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840.zip | |
[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index fc2ce3d8f97e..48708a73852d 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ repeat: 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)) |