sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and
in a survey of the linux distributions I can no longer find any of them
that enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL.  The only indication that I can find
that anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel
enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL.  However this appears in only 31 of 414
defconfigs in the kernel, so I suspect this symbols presence is simply
because it is harmless to include rather than because it is necessary.

As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the
code.  As this removes one of the few uses of the internal kernel mount
of proc I hope this allows for even more simplifications of the proc
filesystem.

Cc: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>
Cc: Anders Berg <anders.berg@lsi.com>
Cc: Apelete Seketeli <apelete@seketeli.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chee Nouk Phoon <cnphoon@altera.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@imgtec.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hongliang Tao <taohl@lemote.com>
Cc: Hua Yan <yanh@lemote.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Cc: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet@abilis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Scott Telford <stelford@cadence.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: Tanmay Inamdar <tinamdar@apm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

10 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
index cb4aa23a2bf4..be41df2a81fb 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
 CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
 CONFIG_USER_NS=y
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 # CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not set
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig
index 90ee0084d786..409dc9a43f58 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
 CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_MACH_LOONGSON64=y
 CONFIG_LOONGSON_MACH3X=y
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/malta_qemu_32r6_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/malta_qemu_32r6_defconfig
index e6c600dc1814..614af02d83e6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/malta_qemu_32r6_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/malta_qemu_32r6_defconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_SLAB=y
 CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA=y
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/maltaaprp_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/maltaaprp_defconfig
index 82b44b774553..9c051f8fd330 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/maltaaprp_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/maltaaprp_defconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONFIG_AUDIT=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_SLAB=y
 CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA=y
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_defconfig
index 4190fc6189a0..2e90d97551d6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_defconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_SLAB=y
 CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA=y
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_eva_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_eva_defconfig
index a13c10e910ec..d1f7fdb27284 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_eva_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/maltasmvp_eva_defconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_SLAB=y
 CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA=y
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/maltaup_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/maltaup_defconfig
index b35f1fc690fb..48e5bd492452 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/maltaup_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/maltaup_defconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_SLAB=y
 CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA=y
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/omega2p_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/omega2p_defconfig
index a39426e57e91..fc39ddf610a9 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/omega2p_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/omega2p_defconfig
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
 CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
 CONFIG_USER_NS=y
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 # CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not set
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/qi_lb60_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/qi_lb60_defconfig
index d3f4d5248d9f..97c9a69d1528 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/qi_lb60_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/qi_lb60_defconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
 # CONFIG_CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH is not set
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 # CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not set
diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/vocore2_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/vocore2_defconfig
index 523b944fd527..a14f8ea5c386 100644
--- a/arch/mips/configs/vocore2_defconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/configs/vocore2_defconfig
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
 CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
 CONFIG_USER_NS=y
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 # CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not set