On 10/3/19 11:05 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > 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> And for the record, the manual page has since 2007 documented that this system call is likely to go away in the future. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
