From ccc69fc3306ecb5fe4275452945910f7ea50e97d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuan Bai <bybai@cn.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 11:22:43 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] remind incorrect syntax in object name regular expression
 (#5455)

Remind incorrect syntax in object name regular expression
---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm
index b1198b346..d454abaf4 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/DBobjectdefs.pm
@@ -3922,6 +3922,16 @@ sub defls
             # the object names are passed in through command line
             if ($::objectsfrom_args || $::opt_o || (($type eq 'node') && ($::opt_o || @::noderange)))
             {
+
+                eval { /$obj/ };
+                if ($@)
+                {
+                    my $rsp = {};
+                    $rsp->{data}->[0] = "Invalid \'$obj\' name, check the object named \'$obj\' of type \'$type\' syntax.";
+                    xCAT::MsgUtils->message("E", $rsp, $::callback);
+                    next;
+                }
+
                 if (!grep(/^$obj$/, @allobjoftype))
                 {
                     my $rsp;