On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 8:17 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When we added sanitising of map names before loading programs to libbpf, we
> still allowed periods in the name. While the kernel will accept these for
> the map names themselves, they are not allowed in file names when pinning
That sounds like an unnecessary difference in kernel behavior. If the
kernel allows maps with '.' in the name, why not allow to pin it?
Should we fix that in the kernel?
> maps. This means that bpf_object__pin_maps() will fail if called on an
> object that contains internal maps (such as sections .rodata).
>
> Fix this by replacing periods with underscores when constructing map pin
> paths. This only affects the paths generated by libbpf when
> bpf_object__ping_maps() is called with a path argument. Any pin paths set
> by bpf_map__set_pin_path() are unaffected, and it will still be up to the
> caller to avoid invalid characters in those.
>
> Fixes: 113e6b7e15e2 ("libbpf: Sanitise internal map names so they are not rejected by the kernel")
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> index 8d05132e1945..8a3b4713b356 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> @@ -7665,8 +7665,8 @@ int bpf_object__pin_maps(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *path)
> }
>
> bpf_object__for_each_map(map, obj) {
> + char buf[PATH_MAX], *s = buf;
> char *pin_path = NULL;
> - char buf[PATH_MAX];
>
> if (path) {
> int len;
> @@ -7680,6 +7680,8 @@ int bpf_object__pin_maps(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *path)
> err = -ENAMETOOLONG;
> goto err_unpin_maps;
> }
> + while ((s = strstr(s, ".")))
> + *s = '_';
Let's extract this into a helper method?
> pin_path = buf;
> } else if (!map->pin_path) {
> continue;
> @@ -7712,8 +7714,8 @@ int bpf_object__unpin_maps(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *path)
> return -ENOENT;
>
> bpf_object__for_each_map(map, obj) {
> + char buf[PATH_MAX], *s = buf;
> char *pin_path = NULL;
> - char buf[PATH_MAX];
>
> if (path) {
> int len;
> @@ -7724,6 +7726,8 @@ int bpf_object__unpin_maps(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *path)
> return -EINVAL;
> else if (len >= PATH_MAX)
> return -ENAMETOOLONG;
> + while ((s = strstr(s, ".")))
> + *s = '_';
> pin_path = buf;
> } else if (!map->pin_path) {
> continue;
> --
> 2.29.2
>
