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author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-02-14 00:34:13 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-14 08:10:00 -0800 |
commit | d912b0cc1a617d7c590d57b7ea971d50c7f02503 (patch) | |
tree | 04cfb8553ffc3ac054e42af56ce7f3246005097c /kernel/sysctl.c | |
parent | 77b14db502cb85a031fe8fde6c85d52f3e0acb63 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] sysctl: add a parent entry to ctl_table and set the parent entry
Add a parent entry into the ctl_table so you can walk the list of parents and
find the entire path to a ctl_table entry.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index b3ee791..3ca1d5f 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1240,6 +1240,23 @@ int do_sysctl_strategy (ctl_table *table, } #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL */ +static void sysctl_set_parent(struct ctl_table *parent, struct ctl_table *table) +{ + for (; table->ctl_name || table->procname; table++) { + table->parent = parent; + if (table->child) + sysctl_set_parent(table, table->child); + } +} + +static __init int sysctl_init(void) +{ + sysctl_set_parent(NULL, root_table); + return 0; +} + +core_initcall(sysctl_init); + /** * register_sysctl_table - register a sysctl hierarchy * @table: the top-level table structure @@ -1318,6 +1335,7 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->ctl_entry); tmp->used = 0; tmp->unregistering = NULL; + sysctl_set_parent(NULL, table); spin_lock(&sysctl_lock); list_add_tail(&tmp->ctl_entry, &root_table_header.ctl_entry); spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock); |