Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visiblefashion.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Aug 29 2007 - 00:50:12 EST


On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:40:15 -0600 ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> +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;

Do we want to do all the above if msg_count>=5?

> + 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;
> +}
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