[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for CTL_ANY

There are currently no users in the kernel for CTL_ANY and it only has effect
on the binary interface which is practically unused.

So this complicates sysctl lookups for no good reason so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 5b8af9069797..51acdec88a61 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ struct __sysctl_args {
 
 /* For internal pattern-matching use only: */
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-#define CTL_ANY         -1      /* Matches any name */
 #define CTL_NONE        0
 #define CTL_UNNUMBERED  CTL_NONE        /* sysctl without a binary number */
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index fc2ce3d8f97e..48708a73852d 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ repeat:
         for ( ; table->ctl_name || table->procname; table++) {
                 if (!table->ctl_name)
                         continue;
-                if (n == table->ctl_name || table->ctl_name == CTL_ANY) {
+                if (n == table->ctl_name) {
                         int error;
                         if (table->child) {
                                 if (ctl_perm(table, 001))