Trivial addition to allow '.' aside from '_' as "special" characters
in the object name. Used to allow for substrings in maps from loader
side such as ".bss", ".data", ".rodata", but could also be useful for
other purposes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
---
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 b3ce516e5a20..198c9680bf0d 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -474,10 +474,10 @@ 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. */
while (src < end && *src) {
- if (!isalnum(*src) && *src != '_')
+ if (!isalnum(*src) &&
+ *src != '_' && *src != '.')
return -EINVAL;
*dst++ = *src++;
}
--
2.17.1
