sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function

This commit adds size to the register_net_sysctl indirection function to
facilitate the removal of the sentinel elements (last empty markers)
from th

sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function

This commit adds size to the register_net_sysctl indirection function to
facilitate the removal of the sentinel elements (last empty markers)
from the ctl_table arrays. Though we don't actually remove any sentinels
in this commit, register_net_sysctl* now has the capability of
forwarding table_size for when that happens.

We create a new function register_net_sysctl_sz with an extra size
argument. A macro replaces the existing register_net_sysctl. The size in
the macro is SIZE_MAX instead of ARRAY_SIZE to avoid compilation errors
while we systematically migrate to register_net_sysctl_sz. Will change
to ARRAY_SIZE in subsequent commits.

Care is taken to add table_size to the stopping criteria in such a way
that when we remove the empty sentinel element, it will continue
stopping in the last element of the ctl_table array.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl

This commit adds table_size to register_sysctl in preparation for the
removal of the sentinel elements in the ctl_table arrays (last empty
markers). And though we

sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl

This commit adds table_size to register_sysctl in preparation for the
removal of the sentinel elements in the ctl_table arrays (last empty
markers). And though we do *not* remove any sentinels in this commit, we
set things up by either passing the table_size explicitly or using
ARRAY_SIZE on the ctl_table arrays.

We replace the register_syctl function with a macro that will add the
ARRAY_SIZE to the new register_sysctl_sz function. In this way the
callers that are already using an array of ctl_table structs do not
change. For the callers that pass a ctl_table array pointer, we pass the
table_size to register_sysctl_sz instead of the macro.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table

We make these changes in order to prepare __register_sysctl_table and
its callers for when we remove the sentinel element (empty element at
the end

sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table

We make these changes in order to prepare __register_sysctl_table and
its callers for when we remove the sentinel element (empty element at
the end of ctl_table arrays). We don't actually remove any sentinels in
this commit, but we *do* make sure to use ARRAY_SIZE so the table_size
is available when the removal occurs.

We add a table_size argument to __register_sysctl_table and adjust
callers, all of which pass ctl_table pointers and need an explicit call
to ARRAY_SIZE. We implement a size calculation in register_net_sysctl in
order to forward the size of the array pointer received from the network
register calls.

The new table_size argument does not yet have any effect in the
init_header call which is still dependent on the sentinel's presence.
table_size *does* however drive the `kzalloc` allocation in
__register_sysctl_table with no adverse effects as the allocated memory
is either one element greater than the calculated ctl_table array (for
the calls in ipc_sysctl.c, mq_sysctl.c and ucount.c) or the exact size
of the calculated ctl_table array (for the call from sysctl_net.c and
register_sysctl). This approach will allows us to "just" remove the
sentinel without further changes to __register_sysctl_table as
table_size will represent the exact size for all the callers at that
point.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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sections: move and rename core_kernel_data() to is_kernel_core_data()

Move core_kernel_data() into sections.h and rename it to
is_kernel_core_data(), also make it return bool value, then update all

sections: move and rename core_kernel_data() to is_kernel_core_data()

Move core_kernel_data() into sections.h and rename it to
is_kernel_core_data(), also make it return bool value, then update all the
callers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930071143.63410-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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net: Ensure net namespace isolation of sysctls

This adds an ensure_safe_net_sysctl() check during register_net_sysctl()
to validate that sysctl table entries for a non-init_net netns are
sufficientl

net: Ensure net namespace isolation of sysctls

This adds an ensure_safe_net_sysctl() check during register_net_sysctl()
to validate that sysctl table entries for a non-init_net netns are
sufficiently isolated. To be netns-safe, an entry must adhere to at
least (and usually exactly) one of these rules:

1. It is marked read-only inside the netns.
2. Its data pointer does not point to kernel/module global data.

An entry which fails both of these checks is indicative of a bug,
whereby a child netns can affect global net sysctl values.

If such an entry is found, this code will issue a warning to the kernel
log, and force the entry to be read-only to prevent a leak.

To test, simply create a new netns:

$ sudo ip netns add dummy

As it sits now, this patch will WARN for two sysctls which will be
addressed in a subsequent patch:
- /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_max
- /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect_max

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Reinhart <Jonathon.Reinhart@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was use

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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net: Drop pernet_operations::async

Synchronous pernet_operations are not allowed anymore.
All are asynchronous. So, drop the structure member.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Sig

net: Drop pernet_operations::async

Synchronous pernet_operations are not allowed anymore.
All are asynchronous. So, drop the structure member.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Convert sysctl_pernet_ops

This patch starts to convert pernet_subsys, registered
from core initcalls.

Methods sysctl_net_init() and sysctl_net_exit() initialize
net::sysctls table of a namespa

net: Convert sysctl_pernet_ops

This patch starts to convert pernet_subsys, registered
from core initcalls.

Methods sysctl_net_init() and sysctl_net_exit() initialize
net::sysctls table of a namespace.

pernet_operations::init()/exit() methods from the rest
of the list do not touch net::sysctls of strangers,
so it's safe to execute sysctl_pernet_ops's methods
in parallel with any other pernet_operations.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root

The function no longer does anything. The is only a single caller of
register_sysctl_root when semantically there should be two. Remove
this function so th

sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root

The function no longer does anything. The is only a single caller of
register_sysctl_root when semantically there should be two. Remove
this function so that if someone decides this functionality is needed
again it will be obvious all of the callers of setup_sysctl_set need
to be audited and modified appropriately.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does n

net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.

The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
[dtor: reapplied after e79c6a4fc923 ("net: make net namespace sysctls
belong to container's owner") accidentally reverted the change.]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: make net namespace sysctls belong to container's owner

If net namespace is attached to a user namespace let's make container's
root owner of sysctls affecting said network namespace instead of

net: make net namespace sysctls belong to container's owner

If net namespace is attached to a user namespace let's make container's
root owner of sysctls affecting said network namespace instead of global
root.

This also allows us to clean up net_ctl_permissions() because we do not
need to fudge permissions anymore for the container's owner since it now
owns the objects in question.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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sysctl: Stop implicitly passing current into sysctl_table_root.lookup

Passing nsproxy into sysctl_table_root.lookup was a premature
optimization in attempt to avoid depending on current. The
direct

sysctl: Stop implicitly passing current into sysctl_table_root.lookup

Passing nsproxy into sysctl_table_root.lookup was a premature
optimization in attempt to avoid depending on current. The
directory /proc/self/sys has not appeared and if and when
it does this code will need to be reviewed closely and reworked
anyway. So remove the premature optimization.

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does n

net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.

The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

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net: sysctl: fix a kmemleak warning

the returned buffer of register_sysctl() is stored into net_header
variable, but net_header is not used after, and compiler maybe
optimise the variable out, and l

net: sysctl: fix a kmemleak warning

the returned buffer of register_sysctl() is stored into net_header
variable, but net_header is not used after, and compiler maybe
optimise the variable out, and lead kmemleak reported the below warning

comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937448 (age 267.270s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
90 38 8b 01 c0 ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .8..............
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffc00020f134>] create_object+0x10c/0x2a0
[<ffffffc00070ff44>] kmemleak_alloc+0x54/0xa0
[<ffffffc0001fe378>] __kmalloc+0x1f8/0x4f8
[<ffffffc00028e984>] __register_sysctl_table+0x64/0x5a0
[<ffffffc00028eef0>] register_sysctl+0x30/0x40
[<ffffffc00099c304>] net_sysctl_init+0x20/0x58
[<ffffffc000994dd8>] sock_init+0x10/0xb0
[<ffffffc0000842e0>] do_one_initcall+0x90/0x1b8
[<ffffffc000966bac>] kernel_init_freeable+0x218/0x2f0
[<ffffffc00070ed6c>] kernel_init+0x1c/0xe8
[<ffffffc000083bfc>] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x50
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff <<end check kmemleak>>

Before fix, the objdump result on ARM64:
0000000000000000 <net_sysctl_init>:
0: a9be7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp,#-32]!
4: 90000001 adrp x1, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
8: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
c: 910003fd mov x29, sp
10: 91000021 add x1, x1, #0x0
14: 91000000 add x0, x0, #0x0
18: a90153f3 stp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
1c: 12800174 mov w20, #0xfffffff4 // #-12
20: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl>
24: b4000120 cbz x0, 48 <net_sysctl_init+0x48>
28: 90000013 adrp x19, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
2c: 91000273 add x19, x19, #0x0
30: 9101a260 add x0, x19, #0x68
34: 94000000 bl 0 <register_pernet_subsys>
38: 2a0003f4 mov w20, w0
3c: 35000060 cbnz w0, 48 <net_sysctl_init+0x48>
40: aa1303e0 mov x0, x19
44: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl_root>
48: 2a1403e0 mov w0, w20
4c: a94153f3 ldp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
50: a8c27bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp],#32
54: d65f03c0 ret
After:
0000000000000000 <net_sysctl_init>:
0: a9bd7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp,#-48]!
4: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
8: 910003fd mov x29, sp
c: a90153f3 stp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
10: 90000013 adrp x19, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
14: 91000000 add x0, x0, #0x0
18: 91000273 add x19, x19, #0x0
1c: f90013f5 str x21, [sp,#32]
20: aa1303e1 mov x1, x19
24: 12800175 mov w21, #0xfffffff4 // #-12
28: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl>
2c: f9002260 str x0, [x19,#64]
30: b40001a0 cbz x0, 64 <net_sysctl_init+0x64>
34: 90000014 adrp x20, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
38: 91000294 add x20, x20, #0x0
3c: 9101a280 add x0, x20, #0x68
40: 94000000 bl 0 <register_pernet_subsys>
44: 2a0003f5 mov w21, w0
48: 35000080 cbnz w0, 58 <net_sysctl_init+0x58>
4c: aa1403e0 mov x0, x20
50: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl_root>
54: 14000004 b 64 <net_sysctl_init+0x64>
58: f9402260 ldr x0, [x19,#64]
5c: 94000000 bl 0 <unregister_sysctl_table>
60: f900227f str xzr, [x19,#64]
64: 2a1503e0 mov w0, w21
68: f94013f5 ldr x21, [sp,#32]
6c: a94153f3 ldp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
70: a8c37bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp],#48
74: d65f03c0 ret

Add the possible error handle to free the net_header to remove the
kmemleak warning

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:40:04 -0500 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
> This was brought up in a Red Hat bug (which may be

net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:40:04 -0500 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
> This was brought up in a Red Hat bug (which may be marked private, I'm sorry):
>
> Bug 987055 - open O_WRONLY succeeds on some root owned files in /proc for process running with unprivileged EUID
>
> "On RHEL7 some of the files in /proc can be opened for writing by an unprivileged EUID."
>
> The flaw existed upstream as well last I checked.
>
> This commit in kernel v3.8 caused the regression:
>
> commit cff109768b2d9c03095848f4cd4b0754117262aa
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Date: Fri Nov 16 03:03:01 2012 +0000
>
> net: Update the per network namespace sysctls to be available to the network namespace owner
>
> - Allow anyone with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights in the user namespace of the
> the netowrk namespace to change sysctls.
> - Allow anyone the uid of the user namespace root the same
> permissions over the network namespace sysctls as the global root.
> - Allow anyone with gid of the user namespace root group the same
> permissions over the network namespace sysctl as the global root group.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> because it changed /sys/net's special permission handler to test current_uid, not
> current_euid; same for current_gid/current_egid.
>
> So in this case, root cannot drop privs via set[ug]id, and retains all privs
> in this codepath.

Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done
in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm()

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid

Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done
in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm()

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.o

net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid

Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done
in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm()

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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user_ns: get rid of duplicate code in net_ctl_permissions

Get rid of duplicate code in net_ctl_permissions and fix the comment.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-b

user_ns: get rid of duplicate code in net_ctl_permissions

Get rid of duplicate code in net_ctl_permissions and fix the comment.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Update the per network namespace sysctls to be available to the network namespace owner

- Allow anyone with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights in the user namespace of the
the netowrk namespace to change s

net: Update the per network namespace sysctls to be available to the network namespace owner

- Allow anyone with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights in the user namespace of the
the netowrk namespace to change sysctls.
- Allow anyone the uid of the user namespace root the same
permissions over the network namespace sysctls as the global root.
- Allow anyone with gid of the user namespace root group the same
permissions over the network namespace sysctl as the global root group.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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sysctl: Pass useful parameters to sysctl permissions

- Current is implicitly avaiable so passing current->nsproxy isn't useful.
- The ctl_table_header is needed to find how the sysctl table is conne

sysctl: Pass useful parameters to sysctl permissions

- Current is implicitly avaiable so passing current->nsproxy isn't useful.
- The ctl_table_header is needed to find how the sysctl table is connected
to the rest of sysctl.
- ctl_table_root is avaiable in the ctl_table_header so no need to it.

With these changes it becomes possible to write a version of
net_sysctl_permission that takes into account the network namespace of
the sysctl table, an important feature in extending the user namespace.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring

We are going to delete the Token ring support. This removes any
special processing in the core networking for token ring, (aside
from

net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring

We are going to delete the Token ring support. This removes any
special processing in the core networking for token ring, (aside
from net/tr.c itself), leaving the drivers and remaining tokenring
support present but inert.

The mass removal of the drivers and net/tr.c will be in a separate
commit, so that the history of these files that we still care
about won't have the giant deletion tied into their history.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

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net: Remove register_net_sysctl_table

All of the users have been converted to use registera_net_sysctl so we
no longer need register_net_sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.

net: Remove register_net_sysctl_table

All of the users have been converted to use registera_net_sysctl so we
no longer need register_net_sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Kill register_sysctl_rotable

register_sysctl_rotable never caught on as an interesting way to
register sysctls. My take on the situation is that what we want are
sysctls that we can only see i

net: Kill register_sysctl_rotable

register_sysctl_rotable never caught on as an interesting way to
register sysctls. My take on the situation is that what we want are
sysctls that we can only see in the initial network namespace. What we
have implemented with register_sysctl_rotable are sysctls that we can
see in all of the network namespaces and can only change in the initial
network namespace.

That is a very silly way to go. Just register the network sysctls
in the initial network namespace and we don't have any weird special
cases to deal with.

The sysctls affected are:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_secret_interval
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_max_dist
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/ip6frag_secret_interval
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/mld_max_msf

I really don't expect anyone will miss them if they can't read them in a
child user namespace.

CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.

If the netfilter code is modified to use register_net_sysctl_table the
kernel fails to boot because the per net sysctl infrasturc

net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.

If the netfilter code is modified to use register_net_sysctl_table the
kernel fails to boot because the per net sysctl infrasturce is not setup
soon enough. So to avoid races call net_sysctl_init from sock_init().

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net sysctl: Register an empty /proc/sys/net

Implementation limitations of the sysctl core won't let /proc/sys/net
reside in a network namespace. /proc/sys/net at least must be registered
as a norma

net sysctl: Register an empty /proc/sys/net

Implementation limitations of the sysctl core won't let /proc/sys/net
reside in a network namespace. /proc/sys/net at least must be registered
as a normal sysctl. So register /proc/sys/net early as an empty directory
to guarantee we don't violate this constraint and hit bugs in the sysctl
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Implement register_net_sysctl.

Right now all of the networking sysctl registrations are running in a
compatibiity mode. The natvie sysctl registration api takes a cstring
for a path and a simp

net: Implement register_net_sysctl.

Right now all of the networking sysctl registrations are running in a
compatibiity mode. The natvie sysctl registration api takes a cstring
for a path and a simple ctl_table. Implement register_net_sysctl so
that we can register network sysctls without needing to use
compatiblity code in the sysctl core.

Switching from a ctl_path to a cstring results in less boiler plate
and denser code that is a little easier to read.

I would simply have changed the arguments to register_net_sysctl_table
instead of keeping two functions in parallel but gcc will allow a
ctl_path pointer to be passed to a char * pointer with only issuing a
warning resulting in completely incorrect code can be built. Since I
have to change the function name I am taking advantage of the situation
to let both register_net_sysctl and register_net_sysctl_table live for a
short time in parallel which makes clean conversion patches a bit easier
to read and write.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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