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[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY

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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@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-14 00:34:07 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2abc26fc6b
commit 6703ddfcce
2 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ 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))