On 03/01/2019 06:52 AM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:31 PM Daniel Borkmann [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Trivial addition to allow '.' aside from '_' as "special" characters
in the object name. Used to name maps from loader side as ".bss",
".data", ".rodata".

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <redacted>

quoted

 kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index d3ef45e01d7a..90044da3346e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c

@@ -440,10 +440,10 @@ static int bpf_obj_name_cpy(char *dst, const char *src)
        const char *end = src + BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN;

        memset(dst, 0, BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN);
-
-       /* Copy all isalnum() and '_' char */
+       /* Copy all isalnum(), '_' and '.' chars. */

Is there any reason names are so restrictive? Say, why not '-' as
well? It's perfectly safe even in filenames. Or even '/' and '\'? Is
this name used by anything else in the system, except for
introspection?

Could be done, presumably it was more restrictive in case one might
need some reserved names in unforeseeable future, but looks so far
noone run into the need to extend it further than this. :)

quoted

        while (src < end && *src) {
-               if (!isalnum(*src) && *src != '_')
+               if (!isalnum(*src) &&
+                   *src != '_' && *src != '.')
                        return -EINVAL;
                *dst++ = *src++;
        }
--
2.17.1