user/sven/linux.git/net/sysctl_net.c, branch v3.6.9

net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring

2012-05-16T00:14:35Z

We are going to delete the Token ring support. This removes any special processing in the core networking for token ring, (aside from net/tr.c itself), leaving the drivers and remaining tokenring support present but inert. The mass removal of the drivers and net/tr.c will be in a separate commit, so that the history of these files that we still care about won't have the giant deletion tied into their history. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

net: Remove register_net_sysctl_table

2012-04-21T01:22:30Z

All of the users have been converted to use registera_net_sysctl so we no longer need register_net_sysctl. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Kill register_sysctl_rotable

2012-04-21T01:21:17Z

register_sysctl_rotable never caught on as an interesting way to register sysctls. My take on the situation is that what we want are sysctls that we can only see in the initial network namespace. What we have implemented with register_sysctl_rotable are sysctls that we can see in all of the network namespaces and can only change in the initial network namespace. That is a very silly way to go. Just register the network sysctls in the initial network namespace and we don't have any weird special cases to deal with. The sysctls affected are: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_secret_interval /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_max_dist /proc/sys/net/ipv6/ip6frag_secret_interval /proc/sys/net/ipv6/mld_max_msf I really don't expect anyone will miss them if they can't read them in a child user namespace. CC: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.

2012-04-21T01:21:16Z

If the netfilter code is modified to use register_net_sysctl_table the kernel fails to boot because the per net sysctl infrasturce is not setup soon enough. So to avoid races call net_sysctl_init from sock_init(). Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net sysctl: Register an empty /proc/sys/net

2012-04-21T01:21:16Z

Implementation limitations of the sysctl core won't let /proc/sys/net reside in a network namespace. /proc/sys/net at least must be registered as a normal sysctl. So register /proc/sys/net early as an empty directory to guarantee we don't violate this constraint and hit bugs in the sysctl implementation. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Implement register_net_sysctl.

2012-04-21T01:21:15Z

Right now all of the networking sysctl registrations are running in a compatibiity mode. The natvie sysctl registration api takes a cstring for a path and a simple ctl_table. Implement register_net_sysctl so that we can register network sysctls without needing to use compatiblity code in the sysctl core. Switching from a ctl_path to a cstring results in less boiler plate and denser code that is a little easier to read. I would simply have changed the arguments to register_net_sysctl_table instead of keeping two functions in parallel but gcc will allow a ctl_path pointer to be passed to a char * pointer with only issuing a warning resulting in completely incorrect code can be built. Since I have to change the function name I am taking advantage of the situation to let both register_net_sysctl and register_net_sysctl_table live for a short time in parallel which makes clean conversion patches a bit easier to read and write. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy

2012-01-25T00:40:30Z

An nsproxy argument here has always been awkard and now the nsproxy argument is completely unnecessary so remove it, replacing it with the set we want the registered tables to show up in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set

2012-01-25T00:40:29Z

Add a ctl_table_root pointer to ctl_table set so it is easy to go from a ctl_table_set to a ctl_table_root. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

sysctl: Remove the unnecessary sysctl_set parent concept.

2012-01-25T00:37:55Z

In sysctl_net register the two networking roots in the proper order. In register_sysctl walk the sysctl sets in the reverse order of the sysctl roots. Remove parent from ctl_table_set and setup_sysctl_set as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

sysctl: Implement retire_sysctl_set

2012-01-25T00:37:55Z

This adds a small helper retire_sysctl_set to remove the intimate knowledge about the how a sysctl_set is implemented from net/sysct_net.c Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman