Re: [REPOST][RFC][PATCH] sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:44:32PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and none
of the common distributions enable it.  The only indication that I can find that
anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel enable it.  However
that is a small fractions of the defconfigs so I suspect it just a lack of care
rather than a reflection of software using the the sysctl system call.

As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the
code so that the proc filesystem can be simplified.

nitpick: line lengths near 80 characters

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

But, yes, I would love to see this gone. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

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Kees Cook