security: remove unused security_sysctl hook

The only user for this hook was selinux. sysctl routes every call
through /proc/sys/. Selinux and other security modules use the file
system checks for sysctl too, so no need for this hook any more.

Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ae5cbb1e3ced..e24254c27eaf 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1691,13 +1691,8 @@ static int test_perm(int mode, int op)
 
 int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
 {
-        int error;
         int mode;
 
-        error = security_sysctl(table, op & (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
-        if (error)
-                return error;
-
         if (root->permissions)
                 mode = root->permissions(root, current->nsproxy, table);
         else