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[v2,1/4] sysctl: Add register_sysctl_init() interface

Message ID 1589619315-65827-2-git-send-email-nixiaoming@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series cleaning up the sysctls table (hung_task watchdog) | expand

Commit Message

Xiaoming Ni May 16, 2020, 8:55 a.m. UTC 
In order to eliminate the duplicate code for registering the sysctl
interface during the initialization of each feature, add the
register_sysctl_init() interface

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
---
 include/linux/sysctl.h |  2 ++
 kernel/sysctl.c        | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

Comments

Kees Cook May 17, 2020, 2:44 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 04:55:12PM +0800, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
> In order to eliminate the duplicate code for registering the sysctl
> interface during the initialization of each feature, add the
> register_sysctl_init() interface
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 02fa844..43f8ef9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -206,6 +206,8 @@  struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_paths(const struct ctl_path *path,
 void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * table);
 
 extern int sysctl_init(void);
+extern void register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
+				 const char *table_name);
 
 extern struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[];
 
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b9ff323..20c31f5 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1970,6 +1970,25 @@  int __init sysctl_init(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The sysctl interface is used to modify the interface value,
+ * but the feature interface has default values. Even if register_sysctl fails,
+ * the feature body function can also run. At the same time, malloc small
+ * fragment of memory during the system initialization phase, almost does
+ * not fail. Therefore, the function return is designed as void
+ */
+void __init register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
+				 const char *table_name)
+{
+	struct ctl_table_header *hdr = register_sysctl(path, table);
+
+	if (unlikely(!hdr)) {
+		pr_err("failed when register_sysctl %s to %s\n", table_name, path);
+		return;
+	}
+	kmemleak_not_leak(hdr);
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
 
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