ocfs2 was did not have the binary number it uses under CTL_FS registered in
sysctl.h. Register it to avoid future conflicts, and change the name of the
definition to be in line with the rest of the sysctl numbers.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Putting ntfs-debug under FS_NRINODE was not a kosher thing to do so don't give
it any binary number.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Will converting the coda sysctl initializers I discovered that it is yet
another user of sysctl that was stomping CTL_KERN. So off with it's
sys_sysctl support since it wasn't done in a supportable way.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Basically everything was done but I removed all element initializers from the
trailing entries to make it clear the entire last entry should be zero filled.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While doing the C99 conversion I notices that the top level sh64 directory was
using the binary number for CTL_KERN. That is a no-no so I removed the
support for the sysctl binary interface only leaving sysctl /proc support.
At least the sysctl tables were placed at the end of the list so user space
did not see this mistake.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While C99 converting the ctl_table initializers I realized that the binary
sysctl numbers were in conflict with the binary values under CTL_KERN.
Including CTL_KERN KERN_VERSION as used by glibc. So I just removed the
sysctl binary interface for these values, as it was unsupportable.
Luckily these sysctl were inserted at the end of the sysctl list so this bug
was not visible to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The assignment of binary numbers for sys_sysctl use was in shambles and
despite requiring methods. Nothing was implemented on the sys_sysctl side.
So this patch gives a mercy killing to the sys_sysctl support for
powermanagment on mips/au1000.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This convters the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers. While I was
looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of the sysctl binary
addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE which was completely inappropriate.
So I completely removed all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid
the ABI conflict.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By not using the enumeration in sysctl.h (or even understanding it) the SN
platform placed their arch specific xpc directory on top of CTL_KERN and only
because they didn't have 4 entries in their xpc directory got lucky and didn't
break glibc.
This is totally irresponsible. So this patch entirely removes sys_sysctl
support from their sysctl code. Hopefully they don't have ascii name
conflicts as well.
And now that they have no ABI numbers add them to the end instead of the
sysctl list instead of the head so nothing else will be overridden.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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>
Since the binary sysctl numbers are unique putting the registered sysctls at
the head of the sysctl list where they can override existing sysctls serves no
useful purpose.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With unique binary numbers setting insert_at_head to insert yourself at the
head of sysctl list and thus override existing sysctl entries serves no point.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no need for open files in /proc/sys/XXX to hold a reference count on
the module that provides the file to prevent module unload races. While there
is code active in the module p->used in the sysctl_table_header is
incremented, preventing the sysctl from being unregisted. Once the sysctl is
unregistered it cannot be found. Open files are also not a problem as they
revalidate the sysctl information and bump p->used before accessing module
code.
So setting de->owner is unnecessary, makes for a bad example and gets in my
way of removing ctl_table->de.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag does not
succeed in overriding any sysctls, and is just confusing because it doesn't.
Clear the flag.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is
there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being
ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :)
The patches in this series fall into several general categories.
- Removal of useless attempts to override the standard sysctls
- Registers of sysctl numbers in sysctl.h so someone else does not use
the magic number and conflict.
- C99 conversions so it becomes possible to change the layout of
struct ctl_table without breaking everything.
- Removal of useless claims of module ownership, in the proc dir entries
- Removal of sys_sysctl support where people had used conflicting sysctl
numbers. Trying to break glibc or other applications by changing the
ABI is not cool. 9 instances of this in the kernel seems a little
extreme.
- General enhancements when I got the junk I could see out.
This patch:
Since x25 uses unique binary numbers inserting yourself at the head of the
search list for sysctls so you can override already registered sysctls is
pointless.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
