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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-05-09 22:09:14 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-07-21 10:10:00 -0700
commitbdbdf7ee9d561da7b4b840435c963344061953d6 (patch)
treeb28ada9ded70b0e552f65f674e3b08f58a2a453a /include
parentc2f633b99857d27333de18f53d123a180672c52b (diff)
sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
commit f9bd6733d3f11e24f3949becf277507d422ee1eb upstream. Add a magic sysctl table sysctl_mount_point that when used to create a directory forces that directory to be permanently empty. Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when accessing permanently empty directories. Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories. Update /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc to be a permanently empty directory. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 795d5fea5697..fa7bc29925c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ 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 struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[];
+
#else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
static inline struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table * table)
{