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David S. Miller b7058842c9 net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.
This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
David S. Miller 6cdee2f96a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/yellowfin.c
2009-09-02 00:32:56 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 36e4d64a82 convert hamradio drivers to netdev_txreturnt_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:12 -07:00
Ralf Baechle c6ba973b8f NETROM: Fix use of static buffer
The static variable used by nr_call_to_digi might result in corruption if
multiple threads are trying to usee a node or neighbour via ioctl.  Fixed
by having the caller pass a structure in.  This is safe because nr_add_node
rsp. nr_add_neigh will allocate a permanent structure, if needed.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-17 18:05:32 -07:00
David S. Miller aa11d958d1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
2009-08-12 17:44:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet f6b97b2951 netrom: Fix nr_getname() leak
nr_getname() can leak kernel memory to user.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-06 13:08:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 31e6d363ab net: correct off-by-one write allocations reports
commit 2b85a34e91
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

We need to take into account this offset when reporting
sk_wmem_alloc to user, in PROC_FS files or various
ioctls (SIOCOUTQ/TIOCOUTQ)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
Eric Dumazet c564039fd8 net: sk_wmem_alloc has initial value of one, not zero
commit 2b85a34e91
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

Some protocols check sk_wmem_alloc value to determine if a timer
must delay socket deallocation. We must take care of the sk_wmem_alloc
value being one instead of zero when no write allocations are pending.

Reported by Ingo Molnar, and full diagnostic from David Miller.

This patch introduces three helpers to get read/write allocations
and a followup patch will use these helpers to report correct
write allocations to user.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-17 04:31:25 -07:00
Jean Delvare cc29c70dd5 net/netrom: Fix socket locking
Patch "af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size"
(commit 83e0bbcbe2) from Alan Cox got
locking wrong. If we bail out due to user frame size being too large,
we must unlock the socket beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-22 00:49:51 -07:00
David S. Miller 80e20f6f36 Revert "netrom: zero length frame filtering in NetRom"
This reverts commit a3ac80a130.

Alan Cox says that zero length writes do have special meaning
and are useful in this protocol.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-27 17:22:55 -07:00
Alan Cox 83e0bbcbe2 af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size
Otherwise we can wrap the sizes and end up sending garbage.

Closes #10423

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-27 00:28:21 -07:00
Bernard Pidoux a3ac80a130 netrom: zero length frame filtering in NetRom
A zero length frame filter was recently introduced in ROSE protocole.
Previous commit makes the same at AX25 protocole level.
This patch has the same purpose for NetRom  protocole.
The reason is that empty frames have no meaning in NetRom protocole.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21 13:34:20 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 0f6c5c8e79 netrom: convert to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21 14:02:02 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger b51414b691 netrom: convert to internal net_device_stats
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21 14:02:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0191b625ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
2008-12-28 12:49:40 -08:00
David Howells ba95b2353c CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the netrom protocol
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:08 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6d9f239a1e net: '&' redux
I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
compilation.

So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
handler, it was never needed in fact.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00
Jarek Poplawski 859f4c74d8 netrom: Fix sock_orphan() use in nr_release
While debugging another bug it was found that NetRom socks
are sometimes seen unorphaned in sk_free(). This patch moves
sock_orphan() in nr_release() to the beginning (like in ax25,
or rose).

Reported-and-tested-by: Bernard Pidoux f6bvp <f6bvp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-06 12:54:57 -07:00
David S. Miller cf508b1211 netdev: Handle ->addr_list_lock just like ->_xmit_lock for lockdep.
The new address list lock needs to handle the same device layering
issues that the _xmit_lock one does.

This integrates work done by Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-22 14:16:42 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 721499e893 netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, namespace is always &init_net.
Compiler will be able to omit namespace comparisons with this patch.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
David S. Miller e8a0464cc9 netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.
alloc_netdev_mq() now allocates an array of netdev_queue
structures for TX, based upon the queue_count argument.

Furthermore, all accesses to the TX queues are now vectored
through the netdev_get_tx_queue() and netdev_for_each_tx_queue()
interfaces.  This makes it easy to grep the tree for all
things that want to get to a TX queue of a net device.

Problem spots which are not really multiqueue aware yet, and
only work with one queue, can easily be spotted by grepping
for all netdev_get_tx_queue() calls that pass in a zero index.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:00 -07:00
David S. Miller c773e847ea netdev: Move _xmit_lock and xmit_lock_owner into netdev_queue.
Accesses are mostly structured such that when there are multiple TX
queues the code transformations will be a little bit simpler.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 23:13:53 -07:00
David S. Miller 48c5732f4a netrom: Kill spurious NULL'ing of sk->sk_socket.
In nr_release(), one code path calls sock_orphan() which
will NULL out sk->sk_socket already.

In the other case, handling states other than NR_STATE_{0,1,2,3},
seems to not be possible other than due to bugs.  Even for an
uninitialized nr->state value, that would be zero or NR_STATE_0.
It might be wise to stick a WARN_ON() here.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-17 03:19:58 -07:00
David S. Miller 7b66767f96 netrom: Use sock_graft() and remove bogus sk_socket and sk_sleep init.
This is the netrom variant of changeset
9375cb8a12
("ax25: Use sock_graft() and remove bogus sk_socket and sk_sleep init.")

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-17 02:36:44 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 3b1e0a655f [NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set()
and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:55 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Pavel Emelyanov b5ccd792fa [NET]: Simple ctl_table to ctl_path conversions.
This patch includes many places, that only required
replacing the ctl_table-s with appropriate ctl_paths
and call register_sysctl_paths().

Nothing special was done with them.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:07 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov b24b8a247f [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and  timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.

The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
David S. Miller c6e6ca712b [NET]: Correct two mistaken skb_reset_mac_header() conversions.
This operation helper abstracts:

	skb->mac_header = skb->data;

but it was done in two more places which were actually:

	skb->mac_header = skb->network_header;

and those are corrected here.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-20 00:25:54 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 6257ff2177 [NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()
Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from
the callers and from the function prototype.

Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the
assignments inside if-s.

This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one.
I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope 
this particular split helped.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01 00:39:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman e9dc865340 [NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol
stack or a pseudo device.  If a protocol stack that does not have
support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a
device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly
can get confused and do the wrong thing.

To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted
this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on
devices that are not in the initial network namespace.

As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these
checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 1b8d7ae42d [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe.
This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting.  By
virtue of this all socket create methods are touched.  In addition
the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.

Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
exotic protocols are supported.

Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.

[ Integrated AF_IUCV build fixes from Andrew Morton... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 639fc4c381 [NET] NETROM: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-07-19 10:44:32 +09:00
Philippe De Muyter 56b3d975bb [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.
Make all initialized struct seq_operations in net/ const

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov 7562f876cd [NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 15:13:45 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 75606dc69a [AX25/NETROM/ROSE]: Convert to use modern wait queue API
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:15 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1a4e2d093f [SK_BUFF]: Some more conversions to skb_copy_from_linear_data
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:30 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 27d7ff46a3 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_to_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:29 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo d626f62b11 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25 22:28:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo eeeb03745b [SK_BUFF]: More skb_put related conversions to skb_reset_transport_header
This is similar to the skb_reset_network_header(), i.e. at the point we reset
the transport header pointer/offset skb->tail is equal to skb->data.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:59 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo badff6d01a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->h.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->h.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple cases:

skb->h.raw = skb->data;
skb->h.raw = {skb_push|[__]skb_pull}()

The next ones will handle the slightly more "complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:15 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c1d2bbe1cd [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->nh.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:46 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 459a98ed88 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:32 -07:00
Eric Dumazet ae40eb1ef3 [NET]: Introduce SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl to get timestamps with nanosec resolution
Now network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
ioctl() SIOCGSTAMPNS command to get timestamps in 'struct timespec'.
User programs can thus access to nanosecond resolution.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:04 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6fe6b1755c [PATCH] sysctl: netrom: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag serves
no semantic purpose, so it is just confusing.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:55 -08:00