proc: remove kernel.maps_protect

After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 50ec0886fa3d..cc3e0d7a5acf 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
 extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
 extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
 extern int compat_log;
-extern int maps_protect;
 extern int latencytop_enabled;
 extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
@@ -810,16 +809,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                 .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
         },
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
-        {
-                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
-                .procname       = "maps_protect",
-                .data           = &maps_protect,
-                .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
-                .mode           = 0644,
-                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
-        },
-#endif
         {
                 .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
                 .procname       = "poweroff_cmd",