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sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 1 Oct 2019 18:01:19 +0000 (13:01 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:03:56 +0000 (13:03 -0600)
commit61a47c1ad3a4dc6882f01ebdc88138ac62d0df03
treed4797e7d2eff82aea6ab9654b7302b6217882d43
parent54ecb8f7028c5eb3d740bb82b0f1d90f2df63c5c
sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and
in a survey of the linux distributions I can no longer find any of them
that enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL.  The only indication that I can find
that anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel
enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL.  However this appears in only 31 of 414
defconfigs in the kernel, so I suspect this symbols presence is simply
because it is harmless to include rather than because it is necessary.

As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the
code.  As this removes one of the few uses of the internal kernel mount
of proc I hope this allows for even more simplifications of the proc
filesystem.

Cc: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>
Cc: Anders Berg <anders.berg@lsi.com>
Cc: Apelete Seketeli <apelete@seketeli.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chee Nouk Phoon <cnphoon@altera.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@imgtec.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hongliang Tao <taohl@lemote.com>
Cc: Hua Yan <yanh@lemote.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Cc: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet@abilis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Scott Telford <stelford@cadence.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: Tanmay Inamdar <tinamdar@apm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
34 files changed:
arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig
arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig
arch/arm/configs/lpc32xx_defconfig
arch/arm/configs/moxart_defconfig
arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig
arch/arm/configs/zx_defconfig
arch/m68k/configs/m5475evb_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/malta_qemu_32r6_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/maltaaprp_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_eva_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/maltaup_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/omega2p_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/qi_lb60_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/vocore2_defconfig
arch/nios2/configs/10m50_defconfig
arch/nios2/configs/3c120_defconfig
arch/parisc/configs/c8000_defconfig
arch/parisc/configs/generic-32bit_defconfig
arch/powerpc/configs/40x/klondike_defconfig
arch/sh/configs/rsk7264_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/audio_kc705_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/cadence_csp_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/generic_kc705_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/smp_lx200_defconfig
arch/xtensa/configs/virt_defconfig
init/Kconfig
kernel/sysctl_binary.c