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authorXiaoming Ni <[email protected]>2022-01-21 22:12:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2022-01-22 08:33:35 +0200
commit5475e8f03c80bbce7b43a57d861f5acc44a60b22 (patch)
treeffacf1e4ad822f03bd8511e6eaaaed3786e051dc
parent6aad36d421d8bfe156508fa4edfe67827234cf0f (diff)
random: move the random sysctl declarations to its own file
kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic. So move the random sysctls to their own file and use register_sysctl_init(). [[email protected]: commit log update to justify the move] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Cc: Antti Palosaari <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]> Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]> Cc: John Ogness <[email protected]> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]> Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]> Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <[email protected]> Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Cc: Phillip Potter <[email protected]> Cc: Qing Wang <[email protected]> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]> Cc: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c14
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c5
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index b411182df6f6..68613f0b6887 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1992,8 +1992,7 @@ static int proc_do_entropy(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
}
static int sysctl_poolsize = POOL_BITS;
-extern struct ctl_table random_table[];
-struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
+static struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
{
.procname = "poolsize",
.data = &sysctl_poolsize,
@@ -2055,6 +2054,17 @@ struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
#endif
{ }
};
+
+/*
+ * rand_initialize() is called before sysctl_init(),
+ * so we cannot call register_sysctl_init() in rand_initialize()
+ */
+static int __init random_sysctls_init(void)
+{
+ register_sysctl_init("kernel/random", random_table);
+ return 0;
+}
+device_initcall(random_sysctls_init);
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
struct batched_entropy {
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 3985e9c80155..fce05a060bc5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ extern int unaligned_dump_stack;
extern int no_unaligned_warning;
extern struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[];
-extern struct ctl_table random_table[];
#else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
static inline struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table * table)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 5fc3ae16e995..67a5b04f2f84 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2145,11 +2145,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = sysctl_max_threads,
},
{
- .procname = "random",
- .mode = 0555,
- .child = random_table,
- },
- {
.procname = "usermodehelper",
.mode = 0555,
.child = usermodehelper_table,