This uses compat_alloc_userspace to remove the various
hacks to allow do_sysctl to write to throuh oldlenp.
The rest of our mature compat syscall helper facitilies
are used as well to ensure we have a nice clean maintainable
compat syscall that can be used on all architectures.
The motiviation for a generic compat sysctl (besides the
obvious hack removal) is to reduce the number of compat
sysctl defintions out there so I can refactor the
binary sysctl implementation.
ppc already used the name compat_sys_sysctl so I remove the
ppcs version here.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Read in the binary sysctl path once, instead of reread it
from user space each time the code needs to access a path
element.
The deprecated sysctl warning is moved to do_sysctl so
that the compat_sysctl entries syscalls will also warn.
The return of -ENOSYS when !CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL is moved
to binary_sysctl. Always leaving a do_sysctl available
that handles !CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL and printing the
deprecated sysctl warning allows for a single defitition
of the sysctl syscall.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
In preparation for more invasive cleanups separate the core
binary sysctl logic into it's own file.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman