Merging upstream version 4.19.282.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index c95f32b83..7c62a5265 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 static const struct dentry_operations proc_sys_dentry_operations;
@@ -1376,6 +1377,38 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl(const char *path, struct ctl_table *tab
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_sysctl);
 
+/**
+ * __register_sysctl_init() - register sysctl table to path
+ * @path: path name for sysctl base
+ * @table: This is the sysctl table that needs to be registered to the path
+ * @table_name: The name of sysctl table, only used for log printing when
+ *              registration fails
+ *
+ * The sysctl interface is used by userspace to query or modify at runtime
+ * a predefined value set on a variable. These variables however have default
+ * values pre-set. Code which depends on these variables will always work even
+ * if register_sysctl() fails. If register_sysctl() fails you'd just loose the
+ * ability to query or modify the sysctls dynamically at run time. Chances of
+ * register_sysctl() failing on init are extremely low, and so for both reasons
+ * this function does not return any error as it is used by initialization code.
+ *
+ * Context: Can only be called after your respective sysctl base path has been
+ * registered. So for instance, most base directories are registered early on
+ * init before init levels are processed through proc_sys_init() and
+ * sysctl_init().
+ */
+void __init __register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
+				 const char *table_name)
+{
+	struct ctl_table_header *hdr = register_sysctl(path, table);
+
+	if (unlikely(!hdr)) {
+		pr_err("failed when register_sysctl %s to %s\n", table_name, path);
+		return;
+	}
+	kmemleak_not_leak(hdr);
+}
+
 static char *append_path(const char *path, char *pos, const char *name)
 {
 	int namelen;