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sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root
authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:44 +0000 (01:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:23 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
commitd7321cd62470b70d2717dae5a963e7a8fabff4d5
tree1e3468e44239a310b03c3f8dabf754e64b6ad281
parent2c4c7155f25192da3511a6c911db4d08102d36c4
sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root

When reading from/writing to some table, a root, which this table came from,
may affect this table's permissions, depending on who is working with the
table.

The core hunk is at the bottom of this patch.  All the rest is just pushing
the ctl_table_root argument up to the sysctl_perm() function.

This will be mostly (only?) used in the net sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
include/linux/sysctl.h
kernel/sysctl.c