sysctl: Don't look at ctl_name and strategy in the generic code
The ctl_name and strategy fields are unused, now that sys_sysctl
is a compatibility wrapper around /proc/sys. No longer looking
at them in the generic code is effectively what we are doing
now and provides the guarantee that during further cleanups
we can just remove references to those fields and everything
will work ok.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index f6dacc3..b6b6eb1 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@
static void sysctl_set_parent(struct ctl_table *parent, struct ctl_table *table)
{
- for (; table->ctl_name || table->procname; table++) {
+ for (; table->procname; table++) {
table->parent = parent;
if (table->child)
sysctl_set_parent(table, table->child);
@@ -1650,11 +1650,11 @@
return NULL;
/* ... and nothing else */
- if (branch[1].procname || branch[1].ctl_name)
+ if (branch[1].procname)
return NULL;
/* table should contain subdirectory with the same name */
- for (p = table; p->procname || p->ctl_name; p++) {
+ for (p = table; p->procname; p++) {
if (!p->child)
continue;
if (p->procname && strcmp(p->procname, s) == 0)
@@ -1699,8 +1699,7 @@
*
* The members of the &struct ctl_table structure are used as follows:
*
- * ctl_name - This is the numeric sysctl value used by sysctl(2). The number
- * must be unique within that level of sysctl
+ * ctl_name - Dead
*
* procname - the name of the sysctl file under /proc/sys. Set to %NULL to not
* enter a sysctl file
@@ -1716,7 +1715,7 @@
*
* proc_handler - the text handler routine (described below)
*
- * strategy - the strategy routine (described below)
+ * strategy - Dead
*
* de - for internal use by the sysctl routines
*
@@ -1730,19 +1729,6 @@
* struct enable minimal validation of the values being written to be
* performed, and the mode field allows minimal authentication.
*
- * More sophisticated management can be enabled by the provision of a
- * strategy routine with the table entry. This will be called before
- * any automatic read or write of the data is performed.
- *
- * The strategy routine may return
- *
- * < 0 - Error occurred (error is passed to user process)
- *
- * 0 - OK - proceed with automatic read or write.
- *
- * > 0 - OK - read or write has been done by the strategy routine, so
- * return immediately.
- *
* There must be a proc_handler routine for any terminal nodes
* mirrored under /proc/sys (non-terminals are handled by a built-in
* directory handler). Several default handlers are available to
@@ -1769,13 +1755,13 @@
struct ctl_table_set *set;
/* Count the path components */
- for (npath = 0; path[npath].ctl_name || path[npath].procname; ++npath)
+ for (npath = 0; path[npath].procname; ++npath)
;
/*
* For each path component, allocate a 2-element ctl_table array.
* The first array element will be filled with the sysctl entry
- * for this, the second will be the sentinel (ctl_name == 0).
+ * for this, the second will be the sentinel (procname == 0).
*
* We allocate everything in one go so that we don't have to
* worry about freeing additional memory in unregister_sysctl_table.
@@ -1792,7 +1778,6 @@
for (n = 0; n < npath; ++n, ++path) {
/* Copy the procname */
new->procname = path->procname;
- new->ctl_name = path->ctl_name;
new->mode = 0555;
*prevp = new;