[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: do not try to load library with a local pathname

[Neil Horman]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 03:50:22PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> From: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>
> 
> When loading a library "libfoo.so" (depending on "libbar.so", located in an
> entirely different folder), with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libfoo.so", it
> returns an error:
> 
>  EAL: ./libfoo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> If the first dlopen() fails (here, because it can't find all dependencies),
> the code requires for a second dlopen() that looks for "./libfoo.so". It
> turns on pathname matching, which does not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a result,
> it fails because it cannot find "./libfoo.so".
> 
> The error message matches the error of the second dlopen(), not the first's.
> 
> Do not try to look for a different library ("./"-prefixed) than the one
> provided in argument. Let the dynamic library management handle it, just
> provide an appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>

> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c |    6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> index 3ded563..d2753ec 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> @@ -1049,12 +1049,6 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
>  	TAILQ_FOREACH(solib, &solib_list, next) {
>  		RTE_LOG(INFO, EAL, "open shared lib %s\n", solib->name);
>  		solib->lib_handle = dlopen(solib->name, RTLD_NOW);
> -		if ((solib->lib_handle == NULL) && (solib->name[0] != '/')) {
> -			/* relative path: try again with "./" prefix */
> -			char sopath[PATH_MAX];
> -			snprintf(sopath, sizeof(sopath), "./%s", solib->name);
> -			solib->lib_handle = dlopen(sopath, RTLD_NOW);
> -		}
>  		if (solib->lib_handle == NULL)
>  			RTE_LOG(WARNING, EAL, "%s\n", dlerror());
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
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