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| author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2008-10-15 22:04:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 11:21:47 -0700 |
| commit | f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126 (patch) | |
| tree | a05f674caac693dc9aec7e46dd06115389f7ece3 /ipc | |
| parent | f40cbaa5b0a4719489e6e7947351c99a159aca30 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126.tar.gz lwn-f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126.zip | |
sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "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 'ipc')
| -rw-r--r-- | ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c index 69bc85978ba0..0dfebc509426 100644 --- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c +++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write, #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL /* The generic sysctl ipc data routine. */ -static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen, +static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp, void __user *newval, size_t newlen) { @@ -169,14 +169,13 @@ static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen, return 1; } -static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, - int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp, +static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ctl_table *table, + void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp, void __user *newval, size_t newlen) { int rc; - rc = sysctl_ipc_data(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, - newlen); + rc = sysctl_ipc_data(table, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen); if (newval && newlen && rc > 0) /* |