sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
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.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 2082b1a..c3eee4c 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1531,12 +1531,6 @@
{ }
};
-#if defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) || defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC_MODULE)
-static struct ctl_table binfmt_misc_table[] = {
- { }
-};
-#endif
-
static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
{
.procname = "inode-nr",
@@ -1690,7 +1684,7 @@
{
.procname = "binfmt_misc",
.mode = 0555,
- .child = binfmt_misc_table,
+ .child = sysctl_mount_point,
},
#endif
{