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>

7 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/audio_kc705_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/audio_kc705_defconfig
index f378e56f9ce6..b6367af71d65 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/audio_kc705_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/audio_kc705_defconfig
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
 CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/cadence_csp_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/cadence_csp_defconfig
index 62f32a902568..f4eef6decd2a 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/cadence_csp_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/cadence_csp_defconfig
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="$$KERNEL_INITRAMFS_SOURCE"
 # CONFIG_RD_LZO is not set
 # CONFIG_RD_LZ4 is not set
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/generic_kc705_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/generic_kc705_defconfig
index 8bebe07f1060..c925165cf760 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/generic_kc705_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/generic_kc705_defconfig
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
 CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
index 4bb5b76d9524..d1c01742baf4 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
 CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 # CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE is not set
 # CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ is not set
 # CONFIG_PCI is not set
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig
index 933ab2adf434..380e366730d5 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 # CONFIG_RD_LZO is not set
 # CONFIG_RD_LZ4 is not set
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/smp_lx200_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/smp_lx200_defconfig
index e29c5b179a5b..d46b58f34098 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/smp_lx200_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/smp_lx200_defconfig
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
 CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/virt_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/virt_defconfig
index bfc45a138e72..4fddd8512350 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/virt_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/virt_defconfig
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
 CONFIG_RELAY=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 CONFIG_EXPERT=y
-CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
 CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
 CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
 CONFIG_XTENSA_VARIANT_DC233C=y