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| author |   Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2021-06-29 15:11:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2021-07-12 15:17:47 -0500 |
| commit | b48c7236b13cb5ef1b5fdf744aa8841df0f7b43a (patch) | |
| tree | 51f6b8e92bfc09e9472d82e488f9441217d56aaa /include | |
| parent | Linux 5.14-rc1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-b48c7236b13cb5ef1b5fdf744aa8841df0f7b43a.tar.xz linux-dev-b48c7236b13cb5ef1b5fdf744aa8841df0f7b43a.zip | |
exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call
The bdflush system call has been deprecated for a very long time.
Recently Michael Schmitz tested[1] and found that the last known
caller of of the bdflush system call is unaffected by it's removal.
Since the code is not needed delete it.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36123b5d-daa0-6c2b-f2d4-a942f069fd54@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87sg10quue.fsf_-_@disp2133
Tested-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/capability.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index 69c9a7010081..2b47584eb843 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -1158,7 +1158,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ustat(unsigned dev, struct ustat __user *ubuf); asmlinkage long sys_vfork(void); asmlinkage long sys_recv(int, void __user *, size_t, unsigned); asmlinkage long sys_send(int, void __user *, size_t, unsigned); -asmlinkage long sys_bdflush(int func, long data); asmlinkage long sys_oldumount(char __user *name); asmlinkage long sys_uselib(const char __user *library); asmlinkage long sys_sysfs(int option, diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h index 2ddb4226cd23..463d1ba2232a 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h @@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ struct vfs_ns_cap_data { /* Allow examination and configuration of disk quotas */ /* Allow setting the domainname */ /* Allow setting the hostname */ -/* Allow calling bdflush() */ /* Allow mount() and umount(), setting up new smb connection */ /* Allow some autofs root ioctls */ /* Allow nfsservctl */ |