[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix plugindir processing to be filesystem agnostic

[David Marchand]

Hello Panu,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Not all filesystems supply struct dirent d_type field, in which case
> everything in the specified directory would go ignored. One such
> filesystem being XFS which RHEL 7 defaults to... stat() the entries
> instead.
>
> Fixes: 9f8eb1d9ca0f ("eal: support driver loading from directory")
>
> Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> index bed7385..e51fa12 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> @@ -191,12 +191,14 @@ eal_plugindir_init(const char *path)
>         }
>
>         while ((dent = readdir(d)) != NULL) {
> -               if (dent->d_type != DT_REG && dent->d_type != DT_LNK)
> -                       continue;
> +               struct stat sb;
>
>                 snprintf(sopath, PATH_MAX-1, "%s/%s", path, dent->d_name);
>                 sopath[PATH_MAX-1] = 0;
>
> +               if (!(stat(sopath, &sb) == 0 && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode)))
> +                       continue;
> +
>                 if (eal_plugin_add(sopath) == -1)
>                         break;
>         }



It looks like you would skip the symbolic links while you were not before.
Intended ?


-- 
David Marchand