From 6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:34:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 - kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 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 @@ static int parse_table(int __user *name, int nlen, 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)) -- GitLab