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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 /kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
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 'kernel/utsname_sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/utsname_sysctl.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
index 4ab9659d269e..3b34b3545936 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
@@ -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;
}