When pinning a file under the BPF virtual file system (traditionally
/sys/fs/bpf), using a dot in the name of the location to pin at is not
allowed. For example, trying to pin at "/sys/fs/bpf/foo.bar" will be
rejected with -EPERM.
This check was introduced at the same time as the BPF file system
itself, with commit b2197755b2 ("bpf: add support for persistent
maps/progs"). At this time, it was checked in a function called
"bpf_dname_reserved()", which made clear that using a dot was reserved
for future extensions.
This function disappeared and the check was moved elsewhere with commit
0c93b7d85d ("bpf: reject invalid names right in ->lookup()"), and the
meaning of the dot ban was lost.
The present commit simply adds a comment in the source to explain to the
reader that the usage of dots is reserved for future usage.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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