Re: WARNING in __proc_create

[Cong Wang]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 03/09/2018 02:56 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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>> I sent a patch a while back, but Pablo/Florian wanted more than that
>> simple fix.
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>> We also need to filter special characters like '/'

proc_create_data() itself accepts '/', so it must be xt_hashlimit doesn't
want it.

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>> Or maybe I am mixing with something else.
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> Yes, Florian mentioned that we also had to reject "."  and ".."
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It could be, but looks like not as trivial as just strstr(".")?

BTW, the warning itself is all about empty names, so perhaps
it's better to fix them separately.