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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-05-09 22:09:14 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-07-01 10:36:39 -0500
commitf9bd6733d3f11e24f3949becf277507d422ee1eb (patch)
tree79d33823e26cb5be0af93bae37b2abca3fdaa5dc /include/linux
parentfbabfd0f4ee2e8847bf56edf481249ad1bb8c44d (diff)
sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
Add a magic sysctl table sysctl_mount_point that when used to create a directory forces that directory to be permanently empty. Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when accessing permanently empty directories. Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories. Update /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc to be a permanently empty directory. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 795d5fea5697..fa7bc29925c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_paths(const struct ctl_path *path,
void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * table);
extern int sysctl_init(void);
+
+extern struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[];
+
#else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
static inline struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table * table)
{