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| author | Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2023-03-02 12:28:18 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2023-05-17 13:59:01 +0200 |
| commit | c2b956a3abd97935b3fa50a3506e0920e2a6cc70 (patch) | |
| tree | 34949147f294ecffcab8c75800143d7af6109086 | |
| parent | 0f1bbbb08681b4db7ba5ba86d1276c080b570c48 (diff) | |
sysctl: clarify register_sysctl_init() base directory order
commit 228b09de936395ddd740df3522ea35ae934830d8 upstream.
Relatively new docs which I added which hinted the base directories needed
to be created before is wrong, remove that incorrect comment. This has been
hinted before by Eric twice already [0] [1], I had just not verified that
until now. Now that I've verified that updates the docs to relax the context
described.
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875ys0azt8.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbiud6s.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 78077dc53926..d20b3e5f64d0 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -1445,10 +1445,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_sysctl); * register_sysctl() failing on init are extremely low, and so for both reasons * this function does not return any error as it is used by initialization code. * - * Context: Can only be called after your respective sysctl base path has been - * registered. So for instance, most base directories are registered early on - * init before init levels are processed through proc_sys_init() and - * sysctl_init_bases(). + * Context: if your base directory does not exist it will be created for you. */ void __init __register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table, const char *table_name) |