linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/8] random: move the random sysctl declarations to its own file

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Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:14:29 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        yzaikin@...gle.com, nixiaoming@...wei.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
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        jejb@...ux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        mcgrof@...badil.infradead.org, mcgrof@...nel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/8] random: move the random sysctl declarations to its own file

From: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves
their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to
places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers
do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own
piece of code, we just care about the core logic.

So move the random sysctls to its own file and use
register_sysctl_init().

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
[mcgrof: commit log update to justify the move]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/char/random.c  | 14 ++++++++++++--
 include/linux/sysctl.h |  1 -
 kernel/sysctl.c        |  5 -----
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 605969ed0f96..35fcc09c0228 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -2077,8 +2077,7 @@ static int proc_do_entropy(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 }
 
 static int sysctl_poolsize = INPUT_POOL_WORDS * 32;
-extern struct ctl_table random_table[];
-struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
+static struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "poolsize",
 		.data		= &sysctl_poolsize,
@@ -2140,6 +2139,17 @@ struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
 #endif
 	{ }
 };
+
+/*
+ * rand_initialize() is called before sysctl_init(),
+ * so we cannot call register_sysctl_init() in rand_initialize()
+ */
+static int __init random_sysctls_init(void)
+{
+	register_sysctl_init("kernel/random", random_table);
+	return 0;
+}
+device_initcall(random_sysctls_init);
 #endif 	/* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
 
 struct batched_entropy {
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index ae6e66177d88..e4da44567f18 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ extern int unaligned_dump_stack;
 extern int no_unaligned_warning;
 
 extern struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[];
-extern struct ctl_table random_table[];
 
 #else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
 static inline struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table * table)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 3032aaa11ed9..1682714605e6 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2143,11 +2143,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= sysctl_max_threads,
 	},
-	{
-		.procname	= "random",
-		.mode		= 0555,
-		.child		= random_table,
-	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "usermodehelper",
 		.mode		= 0555,
-- 
2.33.0