On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:44:32PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and none > of the common distributions enable it. The only indication that I can find that > anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel enable it. However > that is a small fractions of the defconfigs so I suspect it just a lack of care > rather than a reflection of software using the the sysctl system call. > > As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the > code so that the proc filesystem can be simplified. nitpick: line lengths near 80 characters > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> But, yes, I would love to see this gone. :) Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kees Cook
