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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-15 22:04:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:47 -0700
commitf221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126 (patch)
treea05f674caac693dc9aec7e46dd06115389f7ece3 /ipc
parentf40cbaa5b0a4719489e6e7947351c99a159aca30 (diff)
downloadlinux-f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126.tar.gz
sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/ipc_sysctl.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
index 69bc85978ba0..0dfebc509426 100644
--- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
 /* The generic sysctl ipc data routine. */
-static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
+static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table,
 		void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
 		void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
 {
@@ -169,14 +169,13 @@ static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name,
-		int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
+static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ctl_table *table,
+		void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
 		void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
 {
 	int rc;
 
-	rc = sysctl_ipc_data(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval,
-		newlen);
+	rc = sysctl_ipc_data(table, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
 
 	if (newval && newlen && rc > 0)
 		/*