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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] sysctl: remove useless ctl_table->parent field
Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> writes:

> The 'parent' field was added for selinux in:
> commit d912b0cc1a617d7c590d57b7ea971d50c7f02503
> [PATCH] sysctl: add a parent entry to ctl_table and set the parent entry
>
> and then was used for sysctl_check_table.
>
> Both of the users have found other implementations.

This seems reasonable but we need to be careful in how we merge this so
the individual trees are correct.

> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
> ---
> include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 -
> kernel/sysctl.c | 11 -----------
> kernel/sysctl_check.c | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
> index 7bb5cb6..1f1da4b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
> @@ -1018,7 +1018,6 @@ struct ctl_table
> int maxlen;
> mode_t mode;
> struct ctl_table *child;
> - struct ctl_table *parent; /* Automatically set */
> proc_handler *proc_handler; /* Callback for text formatting */
> void *extra1;
> void *extra2;
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 56f6fc1..42025ec 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -1695,18 +1695,8 @@ int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
> 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 __init int sysctl_init(void)
> {
> - sysctl_set_parent(NULL, root_table);
> #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
> sysctl_check_table(current->nsproxy, root_table);
> #endif
> @@ -1864,7 +1854,6 @@ struct ctl_table_header *__register_sysctl_paths(
> header->used = 0;
> header->unregistering = NULL;
> header->root = root;
> - sysctl_set_parent(NULL, header->ctl_table);
> header->count = 1;
> #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
> if (sysctl_check_table(namespaces, header->ctl_table)) {
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
> index 9b4fecd..b7d9c66 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
> @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ static int __sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces,
> for (; table->procname; table++) {
> const char *fail = NULL;
>
> - if (table->parent) {
> - if (table->procname && !table->parent->procname)
> + if (depth != 0) { /* has parent */
> + if (table->procname && !parents[depth - 1]->procname)
> SET_FAIL("Parent without procname");
> }
> if (!table->procname)


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