Re: [RFC][PATCH] sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

From: Helge Deller
Date: Wed Oct 02 2019 - 14:53:57 EST


On 02.10.19 00:53, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the
code....>...
I copied everyone who had put this into a defconfig and I will wait a
little more to see if anyone screams. I think it is a safe guess that
several of the affected configurations are dead (or at least
unmaintained) as I received 17 bounces when copying everyone.

arch/parisc/configs/c8000_defconfig | 1 -
arch/parisc/configs/generic-32bit_defconfig | 1 -

I'm not aware that we require the sysctl syscall somewhere on parisc,
so I think it's safe to remove the code.

Helge