[PATCH] sanitize proc_sysctl

* keep references to ctl_table_head and ctl_table in /proc/sys inodes
* grab the former during operations, use the latter for access to
  entry if that succeeds
* have ->d_compare() check if table should be seen for one who does lookup;
  that allows us to avoid flipping inodes - if we have the same name resolve
  to different things, we'll just keep several dentries and ->d_compare()
  will reject the wrong ones.
* have ->lookup() and ->readdir() scan the table of our inode first, then
  walk all ctl_table_header and scan ->attached_by for those that are
  attached to our directory.
* implement ->getattr().
* get rid of insane amounts of tree-walking
* get rid of the need to know dentry in ->permission() and of the contortions
  induced by that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index c9a0af887033..ff5abcca5ddf 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1932,6 +1932,21 @@ void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * header)
         spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
 }
 
+int sysctl_is_seen(struct ctl_table_header *p)
+{
+        struct ctl_table_set *set = p->set;
+        int res;
+        spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
+        if (p->unregistering)
+                res = 0;
+        else if (!set->is_seen)
+                res = 1;
+        else
+                res = set->is_seen(set);
+        spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
+        return res;
+}
+
 void setup_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *p,
         struct ctl_table_set *parent,
         int (*is_seen)(struct ctl_table_set *))