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Thomas Haller
2730dc60de all: move setting 802-1x.auth-retries to connection.auth-retries
The number of authentication retires is useful also for passwords aside
802-1x settings. For example, src/devices/wifi/nm-device-wifi.c also has
a retry counter and uses a hard-coded value of 3.

Move the setting, so that it can be used in general. Although it is still
not implemented for other settings.

This is an API and ABI break.
2017-11-02 11:41:01 +01:00
Thomas Haller
4199c976da libnm: fix normalizing and verifying OVS connections
Normalizing can be complicated, as settings depend on each other and possibly
conflict.

That is, because verify() must exactly anticipate whether normalization will
succeed and how the result will look like. That is because we only want to
modify the connection, if we are sure that the result will verify.

Hence, verify() and normalize() are strongly related. The implementation
should not be spread out between NMSettingOvsInterface:verify(),
NMSettingOvsPatch:verify() and _normalize_ovs_interface_type().

Also, add some unit-tests.
2017-10-30 21:46:55 +01:00
Beniamino Galvani
0a7b08968d libnm-core: normalize "tx_hash" when comparing team config
teamd adds the "tx_hash" property for "lacp" and "loadbalance" runners
when not present. Do the same so that our original configuration
matches with the one reported by teamd.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1497333
2017-10-19 14:31:07 +02:00
Thomas Haller
cfe8546df9 all: extend hash functions with an NMHashState argument
We often want to cascade hashing, meaning, to combine the
outcome of various hash functions in a larger hash.

Instead of having each hash function return a guint hash value,
accept a hash state argument. This saves the overhead of initializing
and completing the intermediate hash states.
It also avoids loosing entropy when we reduce the larger hash state
into the intermediate guint hash value.
2017-10-18 13:29:22 +02:00
Thomas Haller
2f56de7492 all: add helper functions for nm_hash_update*()
By using a macro, we don't cast all the types to guint. Instead,
we use their native types directly. Hence, we don't need
nm_hash_update_uint64() nor nm_hash_update_ptr().
Also, for types smaller then guint like char, we save hashing
the all zero bytes.
2017-10-18 13:29:22 +02:00
Thomas Haller
ee76b0979f all: use siphash24 for hashing
siphash24() is wildly used by projects nowadays.

It's certainly slower then our djb hashing that we used before.
But quite likely it's fast enough for us, given how wildly it is
used. I think it would be hard to profile NetworkManager to show
that the performance of hash tables is the issue, be it with
djb or siphash24.

Certainly with siphash24() it's much harder to exploit the hashing
algorithm to cause worst case hash operations (provided that the
seed is kept private). Does this better resistance against a denial
of service matter for us? Probably not, but let's better be safe then
sorry.

Note that systemd's implementation uses a different seed for each hash
table (at least, after the hash table grows to a certain size).
We don't do that and use only one global seed.
2017-10-18 13:27:02 +02:00
Thomas Haller
0e9e35e309 all: refactor hashing by introducing NMHashState
The privious NM_HASH_* macros directly operated on a guint value
and were thus close to the actual implementation.

Replace them by adding a NMHashState struct and accessors to
update the hash state. This hides the implementation better
and would allow us to carry more state. For example, we could
switch to siphash24() transparently.

For now, we still do a form basically djb2 hashing, albeit with
differing start seed.

Also add nm_hash_str() and nm_str_hash():

- nm_hash_str() is our own string hashing implementation

- nm_str_hash() is our own string implementation, but with a
  GHashFunc signature, suitable to pass it to g_hash_table_new().
  Also, it has this name in order to remind you of g_str_hash(),
  which it is replacing.
2017-10-18 13:05:00 +02:00
Thomas Haller
cc1ee1d286 all: rework configuring route table support by adding "route-table" setting
We added "ipv4.route-table-sync" and "ipv6.route-table-sync" to not change
behavior for users that configured policy routing outside of NetworkManager,
for example, via a dispatcher script. Users had to explicitly opt-in
for NetworkManager to fully manage all routing tables.

These settings were awkward. Replace them with new settings "ipv4.route-table"
and "ipv6.route-table". Note that this commit breaks API/ABI on the unstable
development branch by removing recently added API.

As before, a connection will have no route-table set by default. This
has the meaning that policy-routing is not enabled and only the main table
will be fully synced. Once the user sets a table, we recognize that and
NetworkManager manages all routing tables.

The new route-table setting has other important uses: analog to
"ipv4.route-metric", it is the default that applies to all routes.
Currently it only works for static routes, not DHCP, SLAAC,
default-route, etc. That will be implemented later.

For static routes, each route still can explicitly set a table, and
overwrite the per-connection setting in "ipv4.route-table" and
"ipv6.route-table".
2017-10-09 22:05:36 +02:00
Thomas Haller
f1009bcde3 shared: add nm_strquote() util
We already have nm_strquote_a(). That is useful, but uses alloca(), hence it
is ill suited to be called from a macro, inside a loop, or from a function
that should be inlined.

Instead, add nm_strquote() that has the same purpose but writes to a provided
string buffer.
2017-10-06 11:08:39 +02:00
Thomas Haller
d06c46b80f libnm: make index variable i unsigned for iterating array
GArray's and GPtrArray's plen argument is unsigned. The index variable
to iterate the list, should not have a smaller range (or different data type).

Also, assert against negative idx argument.
2017-09-27 18:58:53 +02:00
Thomas Haller
c71f26bf92 libnm,cli: add IP setting "route-table-sync" 2017-09-26 19:39:36 +02:00
Thomas Haller
daa4604c12 shared: add nm_utils_strsplit_set() helper
A replacement for g_strsplit_set(). While g_strsplit_set()
does (n+1) malloc and n slice allocations, this needs
roughtly (O(log(n))) mallocs.

Another difference from g_strsplit_set() is that this function
treats multiple delimiters as one (and thus never returns empty
words). While I can see that sometimes you may want to keep empty
words (like parsing a CSV file and preserve empty cells), we usually
use this function for splitting user input. In such case, we want
to treat multiple delimiters as one.
2017-09-18 20:14:09 +02:00
Thomas Haller
5c42cdb287 all: use _nm_utils_ip4_*() utils functions 2017-09-05 18:44:04 +02:00
Thomas Haller
d100ce28e0 shared: add nm_g_slice_free_fcn() util
Useful, when you need a GDestroyNotify function for g_slice_free() of
a certain type.
2017-08-23 18:37:21 +02:00
Thomas Haller
1c5d98292a c-list: add c_list_sort()
Add a stable, recursive merge sort for CList.

This could be improved by doing an iterative implementation.
The recursive implementation's stack depth is not an issue,
as it is bound by O(ln(n)). But an iterative implementation
would safe the overhead of O(n*log(n)) function calls and be
potentially faster.
2017-07-25 06:42:14 +02:00
Thomas Haller
ad5f5c81ef core: shortcut equal operator for identical object reference in NMDedupMultiIndex
And get rid of the unused obj_full_equality_allows_different_class.
It's hard to grasp how to implement different object types that can compare
despite having different klasses. The idea was, that stack allocated
objects (used as lookup needles), are some small lightweight objects,
that still compare equal to the full instance. But it's unused. Drop it.
2017-07-10 21:55:00 +02:00
Thomas Haller
28340588d9 core: remove NMDedupMultiBox object and track NMDedupMultiObj instances directly
Implement the reference counting of NMPObject as part of
NMDedupMultiObj and get rid of NMDedupMultiBox.

With this change, the NMPObject is aware in which NMDedupMultiIndex
instance it is tracked.

- this saves an additional GSlice allocation for the NMDedupMultiBox.

- it is immediately known, whether an NMPObject is tracked by a
  certain NMDedupMultiIndex or not. This saves an additional hash
  lookup.

- previously, when all idx-types cease to reference an NMDedupMultiObj
  instance, it was removed. Now, a tracked objects stays in the
  NMDedupMultiIndex until it's last reference is deleted. This possibly
  extends the lifetime of the object and we may reuse it better.

- it is no longer possible to add one object to more then one
  NMDedupMultiIndex instance. As we anyway want to have only one
  instance to deduplicate the objects, this is fine.

- the ref-counting implementation is now part of NMDedupMultiObj.
  Previously, NMDedupMultiIndex could also track objects that were
  not ref-counted. Hoever, the object anyway *must* implement the
  NMDedupMultiObj API, so this flexibility is unneeded and was not
  used.

- a downside is, that NMPObject grows by one pointer size, even if
  it isn't tracked in the NMDedupMultiIndex. But we really want to
  put all objects into the index for sharing and deduplication. So
  this downside should be acceptable. Still, code like
  nmp_object_stackinit*() needs to handle a larger object.
2017-07-05 18:37:39 +02:00
Thomas Haller
f9202c2ac1 shared: add NMDedupMultiIndex "nm-dedup-multi.h"
Add the NMDedupMultiIndex cache. It basically tracks
objects as doubly linked list. With the addition that
each object and the list head is indexed by a hash table.
Also, it supports tracking multiple distinct lists,
all indexed by the idx-type instance.
It also deduplicates the tracked objects and shares them.

 - the objects that can be put into the cache must be immutable
   and ref-counted. That is, the cache will deduplicate them
   and share the reference. Also, as these objects are immutable
   and ref-counted, it is safe that users outside the cache
   own them too (as long as they keep them immutable and manage
   their reference properly).

   The deduplication uses obj_id_hash_func() and obj_id_equal_func().
   These functions must cover *every* aspect of the objects when
   comparing equality. For example nm_platform_ip4_route_cmp()
   would be a function that qualifies as obj_id_equal_func().

   The cache creates references to the objects as needed and
   gives them back. This happens via obj_get_ref() and
   obj_put_ref(). Note that obj_get_ref() is free to create
   a new object, for example to convert a stack-allocated object
   to a (ref-counted) heap allocated one.

   The deduplication process creates NMDedupIndexBox instances
   which are the ref-counted entity. In principle, the objects
   themself don't need to be ref-counted as that is handled by
   the boxing instance.

 - The cache doesn't only do deduplication. It is a multi-index,
   meaning, callers add objects using a index handle NMDedupMultiIdxType.
   The NMDedupMultiIdxType instance is the access handle to lookup
   the list and objects inside the cache. Note that the idx-type
   instance may partition the objects in distinct lists.

For all operations there are cross-references and  hash table lookups.
Hence, every operation of this data structure is O(1) and the memory
overhead for an index tracking an object is constant.

The cache preserves ordering (due to linked list) and exposes the list
as public API. This allows users to iterate the list without any
additional copying of elements.
2017-07-05 14:22:10 +02:00
Thomas Haller
a973eacb3b libnm: add enum for setting priorities
Using plain numbers make it cumbersome to grep for
setting types by priority.

The only downside is, that with the enum values it
is no longer obvious which value has higher or lower
priority.

Also, introduce NM_SETTING_PRIORITY_INVALID. This is what
_nm_setting_type_get_base_type_priority() returns. For the moment
it still has the same numerical value 0 as before. Later, that
shall be distinct from NM_SETTING_PRIORITY_CONNECTION.
2017-06-07 09:07:17 +02:00
Lubomir Rintel
2c1a178f5b core: negotiate the best base setting
When the two base settings are present, use one of higher priority.

This will pick the "bridge" setting when both "bridge" and "bluetooth" are
present for a Bluetooth NAP connection.
2017-05-31 20:15:24 +02:00
Lubomir Rintel
02e527f644 core/connections: pick base setting from settings the connection actually has
We will need multiple base settings for Bluetooth NAP servers: bluetooth and
bridge. We want to identify the device as "bluetooth" to the user, but leave
the Bridge factory handle it.

The "connection.type" is somewhat redundant -- let's keep it for what the user
sees. And identify the actual base setting to pick the right factory by the
actually present setting.
2017-05-31 20:14:17 +02:00
Thomas Haller
a2663803c3 shared: refactor nm_utils_is_power_of_two() to return false for 0
Returning TRUE for zero makes no sense. Obviously, zero is not a power
of two.

Also, the function is used to check whether a number has only one bit
(flag) set, so, an alternative name would be "has-one-bit-set", which
also should return FALSE for zero. All callers didn't really care for
the previous meaning "has-at-most-one-bit-set".

This also avoids the issue of checking (x >= 0), which causes
-Wtype-limits warnings for unsigned types. Which was avoided
by doing (x == 0 || x > 0), which caused -Wlogical-op warning,
which then was avoided (x == 0 || (x > 0 && 1)). Just don't.
2017-05-22 14:01:07 +02:00
Francesco Giudici
7c2ecaa4e0 build: work around GCC -Wlogical-op for "nm_utils_is_power_of_two" macros
We recently added -Wlogical-op in our build process
(commit #41e7fca59762dc928c9d67b555b1409c3477b2b0).
Seems that old versions of gcc (4.8.x) will hit that warning with our
implementation of our "nm_utils_is_power_of_two" and
"test_nm_utils_is_power_of_two_do" macros.
Fool it just adding an always TRUE check.
2017-05-22 12:05:51 +02:00
Thomas Haller
df6d27b33a shared: add nm_utils_str_utf8safe_*() API to sanitize UTF-8 strings
Use C-style backslash escaping to sanitize non-UTF-8 strings.
The functions are compatible with glib's g_strcompress() and
g_strescape().

The difference is only that g_strescape() escapes all non-printable,
non ASCII character as well, while nm_utils_str_utf8safe_escape()
-- depending on the flags -- preserves valid UTF-8 sequence except
backslash.

The flags allow to optionally escape ASCII control characters and
all non-ASCII (valid UTF-8) characters. But the option to preserve
valid UTF-8 (non-ASCII) characters verbatim, is what distinguishes
from g_strescape().
2017-05-19 09:46:08 +02:00
Thomas Haller
d58d8d7518 test: fix undefined behavior shifting signed integer in test 2017-04-17 13:19:47 +02:00
Thomas Haller
31d0d0ef83 shared: add NM_PTRARRAY_LEN() utility macro
I used to use g_strv_length ((char **) p) instead, but that feels
ugly because it g_strv_length() is not designed to operate on
arbitrary pointer arrays.
2017-04-12 11:24:03 +02:00
Thomas Haller
112f09cf4b libnm: return zero flags value from nm_utils_enum_to_str()
It is not uncommon that a flags type has also the value 0 mapped,
for example to "unknown" or "none".

In that case, we should not return an empty string, but instead
that zero value.

Also, flags actually have an unsigned type. That isn't a real
problem to cast it to a signed int. But be more careful about
it and use unsigned while handling unsigned values and only
cast to int once.
2017-03-30 13:09:54 +02:00
Thomas Haller
4ec7dd987e libnm: add NMSettingUser
This only adds new API for a NMSettingUser. The setting class
is still entirely unused.

The point is getting the new API into 1.8.0 release of libnm.
It's easier to backport the use of the API to a stable branch
then backporting public API.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776276
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421429
2017-03-28 14:58:21 +02:00
Beniamino Galvani
80dfb8cdab core,libnm-core: use same route attribute names of iproute2
Users are probably more familiar with iproute2 route option names than
kernel ones.

Fixes: 54e58eb96b
2017-03-22 12:04:25 +01:00
Beniamino Galvani
54e58eb96b libnm-core: define known route attribute names and validation function
This adds definition of a set of known route option attributes to
libnm-core and helper functions.

nm_ip_route_attribute_validate() performs the validation of the
attribute type and, in case of a formatted string attribute, of its
content.

nm_ip_route_get_variant_attribute_spec() returns the attribute format
specifier to be passed to nm_utils_parse_variant_attributes(). Since
at the moment NMIPRoute is the only user of NMVariantAttributeSpec and
the type is opaque to users of the library, the struct is extended to
carry some other data useful for validation.
2017-03-06 15:20:25 +01:00
Thomas Haller
1525b44714 utils: support unknown numeric values in nm_utils_enum_to_str() and nm_utils_enum_from_str()
- for nm_utils_enum_to_str(), whenever encounter a numeric value
  that has no expression as enum/flag, encode the value numerically.
  For enums, encode it as decimal. For flags, encode it as hexadecimal
  (with 0x prefix).
  Also check that an existing value_nick cannot be wrongly interpreted
  as a integer, and if they would, encode them instead as integers only.

- Likewise, in nm_utils_enum_from_str() accept numerical values
  and for nm_utils_enum_get_values() return enum nicks that look
  like numeric values in their numeric form only.

- In nm_utils_enum_from_str(), don't use g_strsplit(), but clone the
  string only once and manipulate it inplace.

- Accept '\n' and '\r' as additional delimiters for flags.

- For consistency, also return an err_token for enum types. If the caller
  doesn't care about that, he should simply not pass the out-argument.
2017-02-20 13:45:32 +01:00
Thomas Haller
c218fd44bc tests: fix tests without libjansson support (--enable-json-validation=no)
(cherry picked from commit a5acd0bdc6)
2017-01-17 23:52:18 +01:00
Thomas Haller
3aa41c6e17 libnm: merge hwaddr_aton() and nm_utils_hexstr2bin()
Have nm_utils_hexstr2bin() take over the allocated buffer
via g_bytes_new_take().
2016-11-28 10:06:27 +01:00
Beniamino Galvani
51d7a18f2e libnm-core: introduce connection.autoconnect-retries property
While technically it's already possible to implement a fail-over
mechanism using multiple connections (for example, defining a higher
priority DHCP connection with short DHCP timeout and a lower priority
one with static address), in practice this doesn't work well as we try
to autoactivate each connection 4 times before switching to the next
one.

Introduce a connection.autoconnect-retries property that can be used
to change the number of retries. The special value 0 means infinite
and can be used to try the connection forever. A -1 value means the
global configured default, which is equal to 4 unless overridden.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763524
2016-10-16 10:08:13 +02:00
Thomas Haller
814b1aec53 libnm/tests: fix bug in test
Fixes: 6b904a51ee
2016-10-11 14:08:36 +02:00
Thomas Haller
6b904a51ee shared: re-define _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR() to allow nesting g_assert()
g_assert() uses G_LIKELY(), which in turn uses _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR().
As glib's version of _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR() uses a local variable
_g_boolean_var_, we cannot nest a G_LIKELY() inside a G_LIKELY(),
or inside a g_assert(), or a g_assert() inside a g_assert().

Workaround that, by redefining the macro.

I already encountered this problem before, when having a nm_assert()
inside a ({...}) block, inside a g_assert(). Then I just avoided that
combination, but this situation is quite easy to encounter.
2016-10-11 13:14:43 +02:00
Thomas Haller
8b51e345af libnm/proxy: add proxy setting for non-slave connection during normalization
And reject slave settings with proxies.
2016-10-05 14:53:21 +02:00
Thomas Haller
b4e66c4818 shared: add nm_clear_g_free() 2016-10-03 12:02:34 +02:00
Thomas Haller
a83eb773ce all: modify line separator comments to be 80 chars wide
sed 's#^/\*\{5\}\*\+/$#/*****************************************************************************/#' $(git grep -l '\*\{5\}' | grep '\.[hc]$') -i
2016-10-03 12:01:15 +02:00
Thomas Haller
32f78ae6c3 libnm: expose nm_utils_is_json_object() utility function
Since we possibly already link against libjansson, we can also expose some
helper utils which allows nmcli to do basic validation of JSON without
requiring to duplicate the effort of using libjansson.

Also, tighten up the cecks to ensure that we have a JSON object at hand.
We are really interested in that and not of arrays or literals.
2016-09-27 10:56:42 +02:00
Thomas Haller
ee86069601 shared: add test for NM_SET_OUT() 2016-09-26 17:00:38 +02:00
Thomas Haller
c3ecca225c core: add _nm_utils_array_find_binary_search()
Also add nm_cmp_uint32_p_with_data(). Will be used later.
2016-09-23 15:49:29 +02:00
Thomas Haller
08f5681b0e core: const arguments for _nm_utils_ptrarray_find_*() functions 2016-09-23 15:34:17 +02:00
Thomas Haller
b1fd5a06c4 macros: simplify NM_IN_SET() and NM_IN_STRSET() macros
and support up to 16 arguments.
2016-09-22 16:34:22 +02:00
Beniamino Galvani
eaad7ae431 libnm-core: drop extra IPs from shared connections during normalization
The core only consider the first address for shared connections, don't
pretend we accept multiple addresses.  This change doesn't prevent
supporting multiple addresses in the future.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763937
2016-09-14 23:30:41 +02:00
Lubomir Rintel
f24d44ee87 libnm-core: drop unused variable
Fixes: ac73758305
2016-07-07 11:41:41 +02:00
Beniamino Galvani
ac73758305 libnm-core: ip-config: normalize may-fail for disabled IP methods
Since commit 7d1709d7f6 ("device: check may_fail when progressing to
IP_CHECK") NM correctly checks the may-fail properties to decide
whether a connection must fail after the completion of IP
configuration. But for ipv4.method=disabled and ipv6.method=ignore the
IP configuration is always considered failed and thus setting
may-fail=no results in a connection that can never succeed.

To prevent such wrong configuration, force may-fail to TRUE for those
methods during connection normalization.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1334884
2016-07-06 09:52:35 +02:00
Thomas Haller
96cabbcbb8 all: make MAC address randomization algorithm configurable
For the per-connection settings "ethernet.cloned-mac-address"
and "wifi.cloned-mac-address", and for the per-device setting
"wifi.scan-rand-mac-address", we may generate MAC addresses using
either the "random" or "stable" algorithm.

Add new properties "generate-mac-address-mask" that allow to configure
which bits of the MAC address will be scrambled.

By default, the "random" and "stable" algorithms scamble all bits
of the MAC address, including the OUI part and generate a locally-
administered, unicast address.

By specifying a MAC address mask, we can now configure to perserve
parts of the current MAC address of the device. For example, setting
"FF:FF:FF:00:00:00" will preserve the first 3 octects of the current
MAC address.

One can also explicitly specify a MAC address to use instead of the
current MAC address. For example, "FF:FF:FF:00:00:00 68:F7:28:00:00:00"
sets the OUI part of the MAC address to "68:F7:28" while scrambling
the last 3 octects.
Similarly, "02:00:00:00:00:00 00:00:00:00:00:00" will scamble
all bits of the MAC address, except clearing the second-least
significant bit. Thus, creating a burned-in address, globally
administered.

One can also supply a list of MAC addresses like
"FF:FF:FF:00:00:00 68:F7:28:00:00:00 00:0C:29:00:00:00 ..." in which
case a MAC address is choosen randomly.

To fully scamble the MAC address one can configure
"02:00:00:00:00:00 00:00:00:00:00:00 02:00:00:00:00:00".
which also randomly creates either a locally or globally administered
address.

With this, the following macchanger options can be implemented:

  `macchanger --random`
   This is the default if no mask is configured.
   -> ""
   while is the same as:
   -> "00:00:00:00:00:00"
   -> "02:00:00:00:00:00 02:00:00:00:00:00"

  `macchanger --random --bia`
   -> "02:00:00:00:00:00 00:00:00:00:00:00"

  `macchanger --ending`
   This option cannot be fully implemented, because macchanger
   uses the current MAC address but also implies --bia.
   -> "FF:FF:FF:00:00:00"
      This would yields the same result only if the current MAC address
      is already a burned-in address too. Otherwise, it has not the same
      effect as --ending.
   -> "FF:FF:FF:00:00:00 <MAC_ADDR>"
      Alternatively, instead of using the current MAC address,
      spell the OUI part out. But again, that is not really the
      same as macchanger does because you explictly have to name
      the OUI part to use.

  `machanger --another`
  `machanger --another_any`
  -> "FF:FF:FF:00:00:00 <MAC_ADDR> <MAC_ADDR> ..."
     "$(printf "FF:FF:FF:00:00:00 %s\n" "$(sed -n 's/^\([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\) \([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\) \([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\) .*/\1:\2:\3:00:00:00/p' /usr/share/macchanger/wireless.list | xargs)")"
2016-06-30 08:32:50 +02:00
Thomas Haller
8eed67122c device: extend MAC address handling including randomization for ethernet and wifi
Extend the "ethernet.cloned-mac-address" and "wifi.cloned-mac-address"
settings. Instead of specifying an explicit MAC address, the additional
special values "permanent", "preserve", "random", "random-bia", "stable" and
"stable-bia" are supported.

"permanent" means to use the permanent hardware address. Previously that
was the default if no explict cloned-mac-address was set. The default is
thus still "permanent", but it can be overwritten by global
configuration.

"preserve" means not to configure the MAC address when activating the
device. That was actually the default behavior before introducing MAC
address handling with commit 1b49f941a6.

"random" and "random-bia" use a randomized MAC address for each
connection. "stable" and "stable-bia" use a generated, stable
address based on some token. The "bia" suffix says to generate a
burned-in address. The stable method by default uses as token the
connection UUID, but the token can be explicitly choosen via
"stable:<TOKEN>" and "stable-bia:<TOKEN>".

On a D-Bus level, the "cloned-mac-address" is a bytestring and thus
cannot express the new forms. It is replaced by the new
"assigned-mac-address" field. For the GObject property, libnm's API,
nmcli, keyfile, etc. the old name "cloned-mac-address" is still used.
Deprecating the old field seems more complicated then just extending
the use of the existing "cloned-mac-address" field, although the name
doesn't match well with the extended meaning.

There is some overlap with the "wifi.mac-address-randomization" setting.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705545
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708820
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758301
2016-06-30 08:29:56 +02:00
Thomas Haller
807f846610 libnm: fix comparing NMSettingIPConfig for address and route properties
When comparing settings, nm_setting_compare() performs a complicated
logic, which basically serializes each GObject property to a GVariant
for the D-Bus representation.
That is wrong for example for ipv4.addresses, which don't contain
address labels. That is, the GObject property is called "addresses",
but the D-Bus field "addresses" cannot encode every information
and thus comparison fails. Instead, it would have to look into
"address-data".

Traditionally, we have virtual functions like compare_property() per
NMSetting to do the comparison. That comparison is based on the GObject
properties. I think that is wrong, because we should have a generic
concept of what a property is, independent from GObject properties.
With libnm, we added NMSettingProperty, which indeed is such an
GObject independent representation to define properties.
However, it is not used thoroughly, instead compare_property() is a hack
of special cases, overloads from NMSettingProperty, overloads of
compare_property(), and default behavior based on GParamSpec.
This should be cleaned up.

For now, just hack it by handle the properties with the problems
explicitly.
2016-06-30 08:29:54 +02:00