How to escape colon when add device to docker container?

[atline]

Description

As the question post here, if device name has : in it, --device cannot work.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

 docker run -it --rm --device /dev/serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:8:1.0-port0 -v /dev:/dev ubuntu /bin/bash

Describe the results you received:

invalid argument "/dev/serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:8:1.0-port0" for "--device" flag: bad format for path: /dev/serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:8:1.0-port0

Describe the results you expected:

No error.

Output of docker version:

Client:
 Version:           18.09.2
 API version:       1.39
 Go version:        go1.10.6
 Git commit:        6247962
 Built:             Sun Feb 10 04:13:47 2019
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          18.09.1
  API version:      1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.10.6
  Git commit:       4c52b90
  Built:            Wed Jan  9 19:02:44 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false

Output of docker info:

Containers: 12
 Running: 5
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 7
Images: 168
Server Version: 18.09.1
Storage Driver: overlay2
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Supports d_type: true
 Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay
 Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 9754871865f7fe2f4e74d43e2fc7ccd237edcbce
runc version: 96ec2177ae841256168fcf76954f7177af9446eb
init version: fec3683
Security Options:
 apparmor
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.15.0-29-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 7.591GiB
Name: shubuntu1
ID: KPEF:JCF2:SO6Y:P4BN:NJTG:4QWN:D324:MUJP:3TM4:4VYC:K3VB:FUNV
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false
Product License: Community Engine

WARNING: No swap limit support

[olljanat]

Based on how it looks to be implemented I think that it is not possible to escape it:
https://github.com/docker/cli/blob/2432af701a7973ea582196b4b9488831156f3458/cli/command/container/opts.go#L961-L1004

So your options are either use path under by-id or use some other client (curl, etc) which sends and on valid format directly to dockerd.

[hidai]

Linux Industridl I/O devices uses /dev/iio:deviceX form, and it seems impossible to pass them for --device.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/driver-api/iio/core.html

[thaJeztah]

#22825 also discusses this

I think there was a proposal somewhere to extend the --mount flag (and API) to accept a type=device option, something like;

--mount type=device,src=/dev/serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:8:1.0-port0,dst=/dev/xvdc

[Thermi]

This bug also prevents assigning persistent devices, e.g. /dev/dri devices because (like /dev/sd*), the device names in /dev/dri are assigned in ascending order and not by actual device location (e.g. PCI slot/address). Because the device locations in PCI paths use colons (check /dev/dri/by-path/), one can't make any specific device accessible to any containers without having that actually be dependent on device initialization order, which is subject to the kernel module handling that device.

[haoship]

I have the same problems run DPDK apps too, any news, does the latest docker version solve this issue ?