sysctl: simplify ->strategy

name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
index 4ab9659d269e..3b34b3545936 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int proc_do_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
 /* The generic string strategy routine: */
-static int sysctl_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
+static int sysctl_uts_string(ctl_table *table,
                   void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
                   void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
 {
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ static int sysctl_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
         write = newval && newlen;
         memcpy(&uts_table, table, sizeof(uts_table));
         uts_table.data = get_uts(table, write);
-        r = sysctl_string(&uts_table, name, nlen,
-                oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
+        r = sysctl_string(&uts_table, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
         put_uts(table, write, uts_table.data);
         return r;
 }