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 */ >