commit c5438ed610bde49957d8d406f6e98a481e68bef3
Author: Tim Duesterhus <tim@bastelstu.be>
Date:   Sun Jan 12 13:55:40 2020 +0100

    MINOR: lua: Add lua-prepend-path configuration option
    
    lua-prepend-path allows the administrator to specify a custom Lua library
    path to load custom Lua modules that are useful within the context of HAProxy
    without polluting the global Lua library folder.
    
    (cherry picked from commit dd74b5f2372f610cfa60e8cb2e151e2de377357e)
    Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>

diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 36291a339..54d155b36 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -598,6 +598,7 @@ The following keywords are supported in the "global" section :
    - log-tag
    - log-send-hostname
    - lua-load
+   - lua-prepend-path
    - mworker-max-reloads
    - nbproc
    - nbthread
@@ -1037,6 +1038,31 @@ lua-load <file>
   This global directive loads and executes a Lua file. This directive can be
   used multiple times.
 
+lua-prepend-path <string> [<type>]
+  Prepends the given string followed by a semicolon to Lua's package.<type>
+  variable.
+  <type> must either be "path" or "cpath". If <type> is not given it defaults
+  to "path".
+
+  Lua's paths are semicolon delimited lists of patterns that specify how the
+  `require` function attempts to find the source file of a library. Question
+  marks (?) within a pattern will be replaced by module name. The path is
+  evaluated left to right. This implies that paths that are prepended later
+  will be checked earlier.
+
+  As an example by specifying the following path:
+
+    lua-prepend-path /usr/share/haproxy-lua/?/init.lua
+    lua-prepend-path /usr/share/haproxy-lua/?.lua
+
+  When `require "example"` is being called Lua will first attempt to load the
+  /usr/share/haproxy-lua/example.lua script, if that does not exist the
+  /usr/share/haproxy-lua/example/init.lua will be attempted and the default
+  paths if that does not exist either.
+
+  See https://www.lua.org/pil/8.1.html for the details within the Lua
+  documentation.
+
 master-worker [no-exit-on-failure]
   Master-worker mode. It is equivalent to the command line "-W" argument.
   This mode will launch a "master" which will monitor the "workers". Using
diff --git a/src/hlua.c b/src/hlua.c
index 10d615211..a245f9b7d 100644
--- a/src/hlua.c
+++ b/src/hlua.c
@@ -7474,8 +7474,36 @@ static int hlua_prepend_path(struct hlua ctx, char *type, char *path)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int hlua_config_prepend_path(char **args, int section_type, struct proxy *curpx,
+                                    struct proxy *defpx, const char *file, int line,
+                                    char **err)
+{
+	char *path;
+	char *type = "path";
+	if (too_many_args(2, args, err, NULL)) {
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	if (!(*args[1])) {
+		memprintf(err, "'%s' expects to receive a <path> as argument", args[0]);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	path = args[1];
+
+	if (*args[2]) {
+		if (strcmp(args[2], "path") != 0 && strcmp(args[2], "cpath") != 0) {
+			memprintf(err, "'%s' expects <type> to either be 'path' or 'cpath'", args[0]);
+			return -1;
+		}
+		type = args[2];
+	}
+
+	return hlua_prepend_path(gL, type, path);
+}
+
 /* configuration keywords declaration */
 static struct cfg_kw_list cfg_kws = {{ },{
+	{ CFG_GLOBAL, "lua-prepend-path",         hlua_config_prepend_path },
 	{ CFG_GLOBAL, "lua-load",                 hlua_load },
 	{ CFG_GLOBAL, "tune.lua.session-timeout", hlua_session_timeout },
 	{ CFG_GLOBAL, "tune.lua.task-timeout",    hlua_task_timeout },