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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-02-14 11:34:07 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-14 19:09:59 +0300
commit6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840 (patch)
tree5e142a12e33f5f29890878d7fb615fbe2f92cf7e
parent2abc26fc6b6f60fc70d6957b842ef4e5f805df7b (diff)
downloadlinux-6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840.tar.xz
[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>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 5b8af9069797..51acdec88a61 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -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
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))