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    all arch: remove system call sys_sysctl · 88db0aa2
    Xiaoming Ni authored
    Since commit 61a47c1a ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
    sys_sysctl is actually unavailable: any input can only return an error.
    
    We have been warning about people using the sysctl system call for years
    and believe there are no more users.  Even if there are users of this
    interface if they have not complained or fixed their code by now they
    probably are not going to, so there is no point in warning them any
    longer.
    
    So completely remove sys_sysctl on all architectures.
    
    [nixiaoming@huawei.com: s390: fix build error for sys_call_table_emu]
     Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618141426.16884-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>		[arm/arm64]
    Acked-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: chenzefeng <chenzefeng2@huawei.com>
    Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
    Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@flameeyes.com>
    Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
    Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
    Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
    Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
    Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
    Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
    Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
    Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
    Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
    Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
    Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
    Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
    Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
    Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
    Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
    Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
    Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
    Cc: Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616030734.87257-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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