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sysctl: simplify ->strategy

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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>
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Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-15 22:04:23 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f40cbaa5b0
commit f221e726bf
16 changed files with 56 additions and 73 deletions
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kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int proc_do_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
/* The generic string strategy routine: */
static int sysctl_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
static int sysctl_uts_string(ctl_table *table,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
{
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ static int sysctl_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
write = newval && newlen;
memcpy(&uts_table, table, sizeof(uts_table));
uts_table.data = get_uts(table, write);
r = sysctl_string(&uts_table, name, nlen,
oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
r = sysctl_string(&uts_table, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
put_uts(table, write, uts_table.data);
return r;
}