[PATCH v4 8/8] sysctl: Remove register_sysctl_table

From: Joel Granados
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 08:23:13 EST


This is part of the general push to deprecate register_sysctl_paths and
register_sysctl_table. After removing all the calling functions, we
remove both the register_sysctl_table function and the documentation
check that appeared in check-sysctl-docs awk script.

We save 595 bytes with this change:

./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.1.refactor-base-paths vmlinux.2.remove-sysctl-table
add/remove: 2/8 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 1154/-1749 (-595)
Function old new delta
count_subheaders - 983 +983
unregister_sysctl_table 29 184 +155
__pfx_count_subheaders - 16 +16
__pfx_unregister_sysctl_table.part 16 - -16
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop 16 - -16
__pfx_count_subheaders.part 16 - -16
__pfx___register_sysctl_base 16 - -16
unregister_sysctl_table.part 136 - -136
__register_sysctl_base 478 - -478
register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop 524 - -524
count_subheaders.part 547 - -547
Total: Before=21257652, After=21257057, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[mcgrof: remove register_leaf_sysctl_tables and append_path too and
add bloat-o-meter stats]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 159 --------------------------------------
scripts/check-sysctl-docs | 10 ---
2 files changed, 169 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index f8f19e000d76..8873812d22f3 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1466,19 +1466,6 @@ void __init __register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
kmemleak_not_leak(hdr);
}

-static char *append_path(const char *path, char *pos, const char *name)
-{
- int namelen;
- namelen = strlen(name);
- if (((pos - path) + namelen + 2) >= PATH_MAX)
- return NULL;
- memcpy(pos, name, namelen);
- pos[namelen] = '/';
- pos[namelen + 1] = '\0';
- pos += namelen + 1;
- return pos;
-}
-
static int count_subheaders(struct ctl_table *table)
{
int has_files = 0;
@@ -1498,152 +1485,6 @@ static int count_subheaders(struct ctl_table *table)
return nr_subheaders + has_files;
}

-static int register_leaf_sysctl_tables(const char *path, char *pos,
- struct ctl_table_header ***subheader, struct ctl_table_set *set,
- struct ctl_table *table)
-{
- struct ctl_table *ctl_table_arg = NULL;
- struct ctl_table *entry, *files;
- int nr_files = 0;
- int nr_dirs = 0;
- int err = -ENOMEM;
-
- list_for_each_table_entry(entry, table) {
- if (entry->child)
- nr_dirs++;
- else
- nr_files++;
- }
-
- files = table;
- /* If there are mixed files and directories we need a new table */
- if (nr_dirs && nr_files) {
- struct ctl_table *new;
- files = kcalloc(nr_files + 1, sizeof(struct ctl_table),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!files)
- goto out;
-
- ctl_table_arg = files;
- new = files;
-
- list_for_each_table_entry(entry, table) {
- if (entry->child)
- continue;
- *new = *entry;
- new++;
- }
- }
-
- /* Register everything except a directory full of subdirectories */
- if (nr_files || !nr_dirs) {
- struct ctl_table_header *header;
- header = __register_sysctl_table(set, path, files);
- if (!header) {
- kfree(ctl_table_arg);
- goto out;
- }
-
- /* Remember if we need to free the file table */
- header->ctl_table_arg = ctl_table_arg;
- **subheader = header;
- (*subheader)++;
- }
-
- /* Recurse into the subdirectories. */
- list_for_each_table_entry(entry, table) {
- char *child_pos;
-
- if (!entry->child)
- continue;
-
- err = -ENAMETOOLONG;
- child_pos = append_path(path, pos, entry->procname);
- if (!child_pos)
- goto out;
-
- err = register_leaf_sysctl_tables(path, child_pos, subheader,
- set, entry->child);
- pos[0] = '\0';
- if (err)
- goto out;
- }
- err = 0;
-out:
- /* On failure our caller will unregister all registered subheaders */
- return err;
-}
-
-/**
- * register_sysctl_table - register a sysctl table hierarchy
- * @table: the top-level table structure
- *
- * Register a sysctl table hierarchy. @table should be a filled in ctl_table
- * array. A completely 0 filled entry terminates the table.
- * We are slowly deprecating this call so avoid its use.
- */
-static struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table *table)
-{
- struct ctl_table *ctl_table_arg = table;
- int nr_subheaders = count_subheaders(table);
- struct ctl_table_header *header = NULL, **subheaders, **subheader;
- char *new_path, *pos;
-
- pos = new_path = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!new_path)
- return NULL;
-
- pos[0] = '\0';
- while (table->procname && table->child && !table[1].procname) {
- pos = append_path(new_path, pos, table->procname);
- if (!pos)
- goto out;
- table = table->child;
- }
- if (nr_subheaders == 1) {
- header = __register_sysctl_table(&sysctl_table_root.default_set, new_path, table);
- if (header)
- header->ctl_table_arg = ctl_table_arg;
- } else {
- header = kzalloc(sizeof(*header) +
- sizeof(*subheaders)*nr_subheaders, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!header)
- goto out;
-
- subheaders = (struct ctl_table_header **) (header + 1);
- subheader = subheaders;
- header->ctl_table_arg = ctl_table_arg;
-
- if (register_leaf_sysctl_tables(new_path, pos, &subheader,
- &sysctl_table_root.default_set, table))
- goto err_register_leaves;
- }
-
-out:
- kfree(new_path);
- return header;
-
-err_register_leaves:
- while (subheader > subheaders) {
- struct ctl_table_header *subh = *(--subheader);
- struct ctl_table *table = subh->ctl_table_arg;
- unregister_sysctl_table(subh);
- kfree(table);
- }
- kfree(header);
- header = NULL;
- goto out;
-}
-
-int __register_sysctl_base(struct ctl_table *base_table)
-{
- struct ctl_table_header *hdr;
-
- hdr = register_sysctl_table(base_table);
- kmemleak_not_leak(hdr);
- return 0;
-}
-
static void put_links(struct ctl_table_header *header)
{
struct ctl_table_set *root_set = &sysctl_table_root.default_set;
diff --git a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
index edc9a629d79e..4f163e0bf6a4 100755
--- a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
+++ b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
@@ -146,16 +146,6 @@ curtable && /\.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*".+"/ {
children[curtable][curentry] = child
}

-/register_sysctl_table\(.*\)/ {
- match($0, /register_sysctl_table\(([^)]+)\)/, tables)
- if (debug) print "Registering table " tables[1]
- if (children[tables[1]][table]) {
- for (entry in entries[children[tables[1]][table]]) {
- printentry(entry)
- }
- }
-}
-
END {
for (entry in documented) {
if (!seen[entry]) {
--
2.30.2