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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-15 22:04:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:47 -0700
commitf221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126 (patch)
treea05f674caac693dc9aec7e46dd06115389f7ece3 /include
parentf40cbaa5b0a4719489e6e7947351c99a159aca30 (diff)
sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array may be needed (name). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ] Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h2
-rw-r--r--include/net/ip.h2
-rw-r--r--include/net/ndisc.h5
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index d0437f36921f..39d471d1163b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ extern int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root,
typedef struct ctl_table ctl_table;
-typedef int ctl_handler (struct ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
+typedef int ctl_handler (struct ctl_table *table,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen);
diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index 1cbccaf0de3f..bc026ecb513f 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ extern void ip_local_error(struct sock *sk, int err, __be32 daddr, __be16 dport,
int ipv4_doint_and_flush(ctl_table *ctl, int write,
struct file* filp, void __user *buffer,
size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
-int ipv4_doint_and_flush_strategy(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
+int ipv4_doint_and_flush_strategy(ctl_table *table,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen);
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
diff --git a/include/net/ndisc.h b/include/net/ndisc.h
index a01b7c4dc763..11dd0137c6a5 100644
--- a/include/net/ndisc.h
+++ b/include/net/ndisc.h
@@ -129,9 +129,8 @@ extern int ndisc_ifinfo_sysctl_change(struct ctl_table *ctl,
void __user *buffer,
size_t *lenp,
loff_t *ppos);
-int ndisc_ifinfo_sysctl_strategy(ctl_table *ctl, int __user *name,
- int nlen, void __user *oldval,
- size_t __user *oldlenp,
+int ndisc_ifinfo_sysctl_strategy(ctl_table *ctl,
+ void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen);
#endif