Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2019 14:05:24 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [REPOST][RFC][PATCH] sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call |
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:44:32PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and none > of the common distributions enable it. The only indication that I can find that > anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel enable it. However > that is a small fractions of the defconfigs so I suspect it just a lack of care > rather than a reflection of software using the the sysctl system call. > > As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the > code so that the proc filesystem can be simplified.
nitpick: line lengths near 80 characters
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
But, yes, I would love to see this gone. :)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-- Kees Cook
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