On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 02:07:46AM +0000, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Hi Martin!
> 
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:37:53 -0700, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
> > index 33ccc474fb04..252f4bc9eb25 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/bpf.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
> > @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct bpf_map {
> >     struct work_struct work;
> >     atomic_t usercnt;
> >     struct bpf_map *inner_map_meta;
> > +   u8 name[BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN];
> 
> Any reason not to use plain char?  I was looking at adding names to
> bpftool and:
Happy to have early user :)

It was mostly due to my early idea on treating the name as
a blob without much char checking, which was then trashed
but did not reflect that here.

I will make a followup patch later.
> 
> map.c: In function ‘show_map_close’:
> map.c:386:13: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ 
> differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign]
>   if (strlen(info->name))
>              ^~~~
> In file included from map.c:43:0:
> /usr/include/string.h:399:15: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is 
> of type ‘__u8 * {aka unsigned char *}’
>  extern size_t strlen (const char *__s)
>                ^~~~~~
> >  };
> >  
> >  /* function argument constraints */
> 

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