sysctl: Remove the now unused ctl_table parent field.
While useful at one time for selinux and the sysctl sanity
checks those users no longer use the parent field and we can
safely remove it.
Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmil.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index a492ff6..e573f9b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -218,16 +218,6 @@
return test_perm(mode, op);
}
-static void sysctl_set_parent(struct ctl_table *parent, struct ctl_table *table)
-{
- for (; table->procname; table++) {
- table->parent = parent;
- if (table->child)
- sysctl_set_parent(table, table->child);
- }
-}
-
-
static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb,
struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table)
{
@@ -947,10 +937,10 @@
header->used = 0;
header->unregistering = NULL;
header->root = root;
- sysctl_set_parent(NULL, header->ctl_table);
header->count = 1;
if (sysctl_check_table(path, table))
goto fail;
+
spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
header->set = lookup_header_set(root, namespaces);
header->attached_by = header->ctl_table;