sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from  userspace in common code.  This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 96d21a792b57..c03a8c914922 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void invalid_numa_statistics(void)
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(vm_numa_stat_lock);
 
 int sysctl_vm_numa_stat_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
-		void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
+		void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	int ret, oldval;
 
@@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ static void refresh_vm_stats(struct work_struct *work)
 }
 
 int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
-		   void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+		   void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	long val;
 	int err;