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-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 5b8af906979..51acdec88a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ struct __sysctl_args {
/* For internal pattern-matching use only: */
#ifdef __KERNEL__
-#define CTL_ANY -1 /* Matches any name */
#define CTL_NONE 0
#define CTL_UNNUMBERED CTL_NONE /* sysctl without a binary number */
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index fc2ce3d8f97..48708a73852 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ repeat:
for ( ; table->ctl_name || table->procname; table++) {
if (!table->ctl_name)
continue;
- if (n == table->ctl_name || table->ctl_name == CTL_ANY) {
+ if (n == table->ctl_name) {
int error;
if (table->child) {
if (ctl_perm(table, 001))