sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n

When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to
keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely.  Then
just make it default to n and remove the doc from
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index a2dc0c2175c58d414eb0f8e3363aef6cb78ae1a3..e9a07414a794ad47fb8cc8fed3ef737beb0d02db 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -133,41 +133,6 @@ Who:       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:  sys_sysctl
-When:  September 2010
-Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
-Why:   The same information is available in a more convenient from
-       /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
-       important performance wise.
-
-       Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
-       bugs and security issues.
-
-       When I looked several months ago all I could find after
-       searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
-       glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
-
-       The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
-       space programs.
-
-       sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
-       space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
-
-       For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
-       sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
-
-       Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
-       properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
-       2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
-       them and end the pain.
-
-       In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
-       in a piecewise fashion.
-
-Who:   Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:  /proc/<pid>/oom_adj
 When:  August 2012
 Why:   /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 493e0ffefcbecdbf1a660e5cbd76e347b30a0293..6dfc8c3a282a538d3c88e62f15e89b24b954db06 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ config UID16
 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
        bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
        depends on PROC_SYSCTL
-       default y
+       default n
        select SYSCTL
        ---help---
          sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
          trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
          making your kernel marginally smaller.
 
-         If unsure say Y here.
+         If unsure say N here.
 
 config KALLSYMS
         bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT