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-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c64
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 62e53a0de4a3..c25e67e19af7 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
#endif
+static int deprecated_sysctl_warning(struct __sysctl_args *args);
+
#if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
/* External variables not in a header file. */
@@ -1347,10 +1349,15 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sysctl(struct __sysctl_args __user *args)
if (copy_from_user(&tmp, args, sizeof(tmp)))
return -EFAULT;
+ error = deprecated_sysctl_warning(&tmp);
+ if (error)
+ goto out;
+
lock_kernel();
error = do_sysctl(tmp.name, tmp.nlen, tmp.oldval, tmp.oldlenp,
tmp.newval, tmp.newlen);
unlock_kernel();
+out:
return error;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL */
@@ -2540,35 +2547,19 @@ int sysctl_ms_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
asmlinkage long sys_sysctl(struct __sysctl_args __user *args)
{
- static int msg_count;
struct __sysctl_args tmp;
- int name[CTL_MAXNAME];
- int i;
+ int error;
- /* Read in the sysctl name for better debug message logging */
if (copy_from_user(&tmp, args, sizeof(tmp)))
return -EFAULT;
- if (tmp.nlen <= 0 || tmp.nlen >= CTL_MAXNAME)
- return -ENOTDIR;
- for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++)
- if (get_user(name[i], tmp.name + i))
- return -EFAULT;
- /* Ignore accesses to kernel.version */
- if ((tmp.nlen == 2) && (name[0] == CTL_KERN) && (name[1] == KERN_VERSION))
- goto out;
+ error = deprecated_sysctl_warning(&tmp);
- if (msg_count < 5) {
- msg_count++;
- printk(KERN_INFO
- "warning: process `%s' used the removed sysctl "
- "system call with ", current->comm);
- for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++)
- printk("%d.", name[i]);
- printk("\n");
- }
-out:
- return -ENOSYS;
+ /* If no error reading the parameters then just -ENOSYS ... */
+ if (!error)
+ error = -ENOSYS;
+
+ return error;
}
int sysctl_data(struct ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
@@ -2608,6 +2599,33 @@ int sysctl_ms_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL */
+static int deprecated_sysctl_warning(struct __sysctl_args *args)
+{
+ static int msg_count;
+ int name[CTL_MAXNAME];
+ int i;
+
+ /* Read in the sysctl name for better debug message logging */
+ for (i = 0; i < args->nlen; i++)
+ if (get_user(name[i], args->name + i))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ /* Ignore accesses to kernel.version */
+ if ((args->nlen == 2) && (name[0] == CTL_KERN) && (name[1] == KERN_VERSION))
+ return 0;
+
+ if (msg_count < 5) {
+ msg_count++;
+ printk(KERN_INFO
+ "warning: process `%s' used the deprecated sysctl "
+ "system call with ", current->comm);
+ for (i = 0; i < args->nlen; i++)
+ printk("%d.", name[i]);
+ printk("\n");
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* No sense putting this after each symbol definition, twice,
* exception granted :-)