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authorLucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>2011-02-01 18:44:56 +0200
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2011-02-01 11:54:02 -0500
commit4916ca401e3051dad326ddd69765bd0e3f32fb9b (patch)
tree593778babcd691a498a909a5eaf462f29d241cf6 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent8e6c96935fcc1ed3dbebc96fddfef3f2f2395afc (diff)
security: remove unused security_sysctl hook
The only user for this hook was selinux. sysctl routes every call through /proc/sys/. Selinux and other security modules use the file system checks for sysctl too, so no need for this hook any more. Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ae5cbb1e3ce..e24254c27ea 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1691,13 +1691,8 @@ static int test_perm(int mode, int op)
int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
{
- int error;
int mode;
- error = security_sysctl(table, op & (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
- if (error)
- return error;
-
if (root->permissions)
mode = root->permissions(root, current->nsproxy, table);
else