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Commit ae836810 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines 



parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a
directory.  To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys
interface has no analog to it.

So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code
easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6703ddfc

kernel/sysctl.c

+0 −8
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1175,14 +1175,6 @@ repeat: 
			if (table->child) {

				if (ctl_perm(table, 001))

					return -EPERM;

				if (table->strategy) {

					error = table->strategy(

						table, name, nlen,

						oldval, oldlenp,

						newval, newlen);

					if (error)

						return error;

				}

				name++;

				nlen--;

				table = table->child;