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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-02-14 00:34:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-14 08:09:59 -0800
commit6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840 (patch)
tree5e142a12e33f5f29890878d7fb615fbe2f92cf7e /kernel/sysctl.c
parent2abc26fc6b6f60fc70d6957b842ef4e5f805df7b (diff)
downloadlinux-6703ddfcce61ad66db606085a8d42dcab264f840.tar.gz
[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index fc2ce3d8f97e..48708a73852d 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -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))