From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> - unquoted
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 <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 -
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 63e1bac..c99e4bb 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 8da6647..e655b11 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ repeat:
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))
--
1.4.4.1.g278f
