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>

6 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
index 31bfe1647d28..f53634af014b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
 CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
 CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 # CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig
index 3d5f5b501330..f33f5d76365f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
 CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y
 CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 # CONFIG_ELF_CORE is not set
 # CONFIG_BASE_FULL is not set
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/lpc32xx_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/lpc32xx_defconfig
index 09deb57db942..989bcc84e7fb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/lpc32xx_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/lpc32xx_defconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_SLAB=y
 # CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V7 is not set
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/moxart_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/moxart_defconfig
index 9b98761e51c9..45d27190c9c9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/moxart_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/moxart_defconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
 CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 # CONFIG_ELF_CORE is not set
 # CONFIG_BASE_FULL is not set
 # CONFIG_SIGNALFD is not set
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig
index 02f1e7b7c8f6..67c306fff376 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
 CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
 CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 # CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not set
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/zx_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/zx_defconfig
index c4070c19ea6c..4d2ef785ed34 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/zx_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/zx_defconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y
 CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
 CONFIG_USER_NS=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y