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Quentin Monnet 6d8cb045cd bpf: comment why dots in filenames under BPF virtual FS are not allowed
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>
2018-03-09 10:30:30 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: dsa: marvell: describe compatibility string 2018-03-07 12:18:50 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
drivers cxgb3: remove VLA usage 2018-03-07 15:55:50 -05:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
include bpf: add support to read sample address in bpf program 2018-03-08 02:22:34 +01:00
init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel bpf: comment why dots in filenames under BPF virtual FS are not allowed 2018-03-09 10:30:30 +01:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
mm mm: don't defer struct page initialization for Xen pv guests 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
net ip6mr: remove synchronize_rcu() in favor of SOCK_RCU_FREE 2018-03-07 18:13:41 -05:00
samples samples/bpf: add example to test reading address 2018-03-08 02:22:34 +01:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.16 2018-03-03 10:37:01 -08:00
security net: Convert smack_net_ops 2018-02-27 11:01:39 -05:00
sound ALSA: x86: Fix potential crash at error path 2018-02-28 08:46:00 +01:00
tools tools: bpf: silence make by not deleting intermediate file 2018-03-09 10:22:59 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots 2018-02-24 01:43:36 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS lan743x: Update MAINTAINERS to include lan743x driver 2018-03-07 11:44:42 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc4 2018-03-04 14:54:11 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.