sysctl: fix false positives when PROC_SYSCTL=n
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:50:07 +0000 (16:50 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:39:30 +0000 (07:39 -0700)
Having ->procname but not ->proc_handler is valid when PROC_SYSCTL=n,
people use such combination to reduce ifdefs with non-standard handlers.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14408

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sysctl_check.c

index b38423c..b6e7aae 100644 (file)
@@ -1521,7 +1521,7 @@ int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table)
                        if (!table->ctl_name && table->strategy)
                                set_fail(&fail, table, "Strategy without ctl_name");
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
                        if (table->procname && !table->proc_handler)
                                set_fail(&fail, table, "No proc_handler");
 #endif