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Commit: 6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840
Parent: 2abc26fc6b6f60fc70d6957b842ef4e5f805df7b
Author: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 14 00:34:07 2007 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Feb 14 08:09:59 2007 -0800
[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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 -
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 5b8af90..51acdec 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 fc2ce3d..48708a7 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))
-
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