Re: [RFC PATCH 13/35] syscalls: do not call sys_ioperm() within the kernel

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Dominik Brodowski
<li...@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:
> While at it, use SYSCALL_DEFINE3() instead of a hand-crafted syscall
> definition.

Great!

>  static void complete_change_console(struct vc_data *vc);
> @@ -420,12 +420,12 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty,
>                         ret = -EINVAL;
>                         break;
>                 }
> -               ret = sys_ioperm(arg, 1, (cmd == KDADDIO)) ? -ENXIO : 0;
> +               ret = ksys_ioperm(arg, 1, (cmd == KDADDIO)) ? -ENXIO : 0;
>                 break;
>
>         case KDENABIO:
>         case KDDISABIO:
> -               ret = sys_ioperm(GPFIRST, GPNUM,
> +               ret = ksys_ioperm(GPFIRST, GPNUM,
>                                   (cmd == KDENABIO)) ? -ENXIO : 0;
>                 break;
>  #endif

I wonder if we can just delete this code.