sysctl: clarify register_sysctl_init() base directory order

commit 228b09de936395ddd740df3522ea35ae934830d8 upstream.

Relatively new docs which I added which hinted the base directories needed
to be created before is wrong, remove that incorrect comment. This has been
hinted before by Eric twice already [0] [1], I had just not verified that
until now. Now that I've verified that updates the docs to relax the context
described.

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875ys0azt8.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbiud6s.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 0880971094ef154a94e3a41b407f45df77271803..72f2b373221ed99278a944be8ccef03e12ce9d7a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1439,10 +1439,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_sysctl);
  * 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_bases().
+ * Context: if your base directory does not exist it will be created for you.
  */
 void __init __register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
                                 const char *table_name)