[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 5b8af90..51acdec 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
/* For internal pattern-matching use only: */
#ifdef __KERNEL__
-#define CTL_ANY -1 /* Matches any name */
#define CTL_NONE 0
#define CTL_UNNUMBERED CTL_NONE /* sysctl without a binary number */
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index fc2ce3d..48708a7 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@
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))