From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Subject: Re: [REPOST][RFC][PATCH] sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 14:05:24 -0700 Message-ID: <201910031404.C30A0F16@keescook> References: <8736gcjosv.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <201910011140.EA0181F13@keescook> <87y2y271ws.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87tv8pftjj.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tv8pftjj.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Florian Weimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn , Arnd Bergmann , Helge Deller List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org 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" But, yes, I would love to see this gone. :) Reviewed-by: Kees Cook -- Kees Cook