sysctl: Factor out sysctl_data.

There as been no easy way to wrap the default sysctl strategy routine except
for returning 0.  Which is not always what we want.  The few instances I have
seen that want different behaviour have written their own version of
sysctl_data.  While not too hard it is unnecessary code and has the potential
for extra bugs.

So to make these situations easier and make that part of sysctl more symetric
I have factord sysctl_data out of do_sysctl_strategy and exported as a
function everyone can use.

Further having sysctl_data be an explicit function makes checking for badly
formed sysctl tables much easier.

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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index f73be4cd662e..5ca510b3cbe2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -972,6 +972,7 @@ extern int do_sysctl_strategy (struct ctl_table *table,
                                void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
                                void __user *newval, size_t newlen);
 
+extern ctl_handler sysctl_data;
 extern ctl_handler sysctl_string;
 extern ctl_handler sysctl_intvec;
 extern ctl_handler sysctl_jiffies;