Commit ae836810 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines

parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a
directory.  To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys
interface has no analog to it.

So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code
easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6703ddfc
......@@ -1175,14 +1175,6 @@ static int parse_table(int __user *name, int nlen,
if (table->child) {
if (ctl_perm(table, 001))
return -EPERM;
if (table->strategy) {
error = table->strategy(
table, name, nlen,
oldval, oldlenp,
newval, newlen);
if (error)
return error;
}
name++;
nlen--;
table = table->child;
......
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