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authorXiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>2022-01-21 22:12:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-01-22 08:33:35 +0200
commit5475e8f03c80bbce7b43a57d861f5acc44a60b22 (patch)
treeffacf1e4ad822f03bd8511e6eaaaed3786e051dc /drivers
parent6aad36d421d8bfe156508fa4edfe67827234cf0f (diff)
random: move the random sysctl declarations to its own file
kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic. So move the random sysctls to their own file and use register_sysctl_init(). [mcgrof@kernel.org: commit log update to justify the move] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124231435.1445213-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk> Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index b411182df6f6..68613f0b6887 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1992,8 +1992,7 @@ static int proc_do_entropy(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
}
static int sysctl_poolsize = POOL_BITS;
-extern struct ctl_table random_table[];
-struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
+static struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
{
.procname = "poolsize",
.data = &sysctl_poolsize,
@@ -2055,6 +2054,17 @@ struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
#endif
{ }
};
+
+/*
+ * rand_initialize() is called before sysctl_init(),
+ * so we cannot call register_sysctl_init() in rand_initialize()
+ */
+static int __init random_sysctls_init(void)
+{
+ register_sysctl_init("kernel/random", random_table);
+ return 0;
+}
+device_initcall(random_sysctls_init);
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
struct batched_entropy {