[PATCH 14/29] sysctl: A more obvious version of grab_header.
From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-27 04:49:55
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Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), proc filesystem, proc sysctl, the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Kees Cook, Joel Granados, Linus Torvalds
Instead of relying on sysct_head_next(NULL) to magically return the right header for the root directory instead explicitly transform NULL into the root directories header. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <redacted> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index e573f9b..1544485 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c@@ -267,10 +267,10 @@ static struct ctl_table *find_in_table(struct ctl_table *p, struct qstr *name) static struct ctl_table_header *grab_header(struct inode *inode) { - if (PROC_I(inode)->sysctl) - return sysctl_head_grab(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl); - else - return sysctl_head_next(NULL); + struct ctl_table_header *head = PROC_I(inode)->sysctl; + if (!head) + head = &root_table_header; + return sysctl_head_grab(head); } static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
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