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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
	alex.huangjianhui@huawei.com, linzichang@huawei.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Delete the code of sys_sysctl
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 08:40:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202006090839.6EDB4BA@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1591683605-8585-1-git-send-email-nixiaoming@huawei.com>

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:20:05PM +0800, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
> Since the commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
> sys_sysctl has lost its actual role: any input can only return an error.
> 
> Delete the code and return -ENOSYS directly at the function entry
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>

Looks right to me.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Should this be taken a step further and just remove the syscall entirely
and update the per-arch tables with the ENOSYS hole?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-09 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-09  6:20 [PATCH] sysctl: Delete the code of sys_sysctl Xiaoming Ni
2020-06-09 15:40 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-06-10 14:17   ` Xiaoming Ni
2020-06-10 15:03     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 19:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-10 14:19   ` Xiaoming Ni

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