inet_aton() also supports IPv4 addresses in octal (with a leading '0')
or where not all 4 digits of the address are present.
Add nm_utils_parse_inaddr_bin_full() to optionally fallback to
parse the address with inet_aton().
Note taht inet_aton() also supports all crazy formats, including
ignoring trailing garbage after a whitespace. We don't want to accept
that in general.
Note that even in legacy format we:
- accept everything that inet_pton() would accept
- additionally, we also accept some forms which inet_aton() would
accept, but not all.
That means, the legacy format that we accept is a superset of
inet_pton() and a subset of inet_aton(). Which is desirable.
We will rework NMClient entirely. Then, the synchronous initialization will also use
the asynchronous code paths. The difference will be that with synchronous initialization,
all D-Bus interaction will be done with an internal GMainContext as current thread default,
and that internal context will run until initialization completes.
Note that even after initialization completes, it cannot be swapped back to the user's
(outer) GMainContext. That is because contexts are essentially the queue for our
D-Bus events, and we cannot swap from one queue to the other in a race
free manner (or a full resync). In other words, the two contexts are not in sync,
so after using the internal context NMClient needs to stick to that (at least, until
the name owner gets lost, which gives an opportunity to resync and switch back to the
user's main context).
We thus need to hook the internal (inner) GMainContext with the user's (outer) context,
so when the user iterates the outer context, events on the inner context get dispatched.
Add nm_utils_g_main_context_create_integrate_source() to create such a GSource for
integrating two contexts.
Note that the use-case here is limited: the integrated, inner main context must
not be explicitly iterated except from being dispatched by the integrating
source. Otherwise, you'd get recursive runs, possible deadlocks and general
ugliness. NMClient must show restrain how to use the inner context while it is
integrated.
Several points.
- We spawn the dnsmasq process directly. That has several downsides:
- The lifetime of the process is tied to NetworkManager's. When
stopping NetworkManager, we usually also stop dnsmasq. Or we keep
the process running, but later the process is no longer a child process
of NetworkManager and we can only kill it using the pidfile.
- We don't do special sandboxing of the dnsmasq process.
- Note that we want to ensure that only one dnsmasq process is running
at any time. We should track that in a singletone. Note that NMDnsDnsmasq
is not a singleton. While there is only one instance active at any time,
the DNS plugin can be swapped (e.g. during SIGHUP). Hence, don't track the
process per-NMDnsDnsmasq instance, but in a global variable "gl_pid".
- Usually, when NetworkManager quits, it also stops the dnsmasq process.
Previously, we would always try to terminate the process based on the
pidfile. That is wrong. Most of the time, NetworkManager spawned the
process itself, as a child process. Hence, the PID is known and NetworkManager
will get a signal when dnsmasq exits. The only moment when NetworkManager should
use the pidfile, is the first time when checking to kill the previous instance.
That is: only once at the beginning, to kill instances that were
intentionally or unintentionally (crash) left running earlier.
This is now done by _gl_pid_kill_external().
- Previously, before starting a new dnsmasq instance we would kill a
possibly already running one, and block while waiting for the process to
disappear. We should never block. Especially, since we afterwards start
the process also in non-blocking way, there is no reason to kill the
existing process in a blocking way. For the most part, starting dnsmasq
is already asynchronous and so should be the killing of the dnsmasq
process.
- Drop GDBusProxy and only use GDBusConnection. It fully suffices.
- When we kill a dnsmasq instance, we actually don't have to wait at
all. That can happen fully in background. The only pecularity is that
when we restart a new instance before the previous instance is killed,
then we must wait for the previous process to terminate first. Also, if
we are about to exit while killing the dnsmasq instance, we must register
nm_shutdown_wait_obj_*() to wait until the process is fully gone.
Coverity says
CID 202453 (#1 of 1): Wrong sizeof argument (SIZEOF_MISMATCH)suspicious_sizeof:
Passing argument user_data of type gconstpointer and argument (gsize)nargs * 8UL /* sizeof (gconstpointer) */ to function g_slice_free1 is suspicious.
Let's pass instead the "data" pointer. It's the same, but maybe that
avoids the warning.
(cherry picked from commit d76df4c139)
Coverity doesn't like us ignoring the return value, although
we really only care about the "p" output pointer.
Try casting the result to (void), maybe that silences Coverity.
(cherry picked from commit e6fa3ce2df)
- don't let no_auto_default_from_file() do any preprocessing of
the lines that it reads. It merely splits the lines at '\n'
and utf8safe-unescapes them.
This was previously duplicated also by NMConfigData's property
setter. We don't need to do it twice.
- sort the lines. This makes the entire handling O(n*ln(n)) instead
of O(n^2). Also, sorting effectively normalizes the content, and
it's desirable to have one true representation of what we write.
In particular when calling nm_utils_strv_sort() with a positive length
argument, then this is not a %NULL terminated strv arrary. That may mean
that it makes sense for the input array to contain %NULL strings.
Use a strcmp() function that accepts %NULL too.
While this is not used at the moment, I think nm_utils_strv_sort()
should accept %NULL strings beause otherwise it's a possibly unexpected
restriction of its API. The function should handle sensible input gracefully.
It is like strcmp(), but has a signature suitable for GCompareDataFunc.
This is necessary with nm_utils_ptrarray_find_binary_search()
to search a sorted strv array.
The fault is here really C, which doesn't allow inline static functions.
So, you need all kinds of slightly different flavors for the same
callbacks (with or without user-data).
Note that glib2 internally just casts strcmp() to GCompareDataFunc ([1]),
relying on the fact how arguments are passed to the function and
ignoring the additional user-data argument. But I find that really
ugly and probably not permissible in general C. Dunno whether POSIX
would guarantee for this to work. I'd rather not do such function
pointer casts.
[1] 0c0cf59858/glib/garray.c (L1792)
Usually we avoid GSList, because I think it's not a great data type.
Anyway, our match-specs are just a GSList of strings, so we need some
API to handle them.
We no longer add these. If you use Emacs, configure it yourself.
Also, due to our "smart-tab" usage the editor anyway does a subpar
job handling our tabs. However, on the upside every user can choose
whatever tab-width he/she prefers. If "smart-tabs" are used properly
(like we do), every tab-width will work.
No manual changes, just ran commands:
F=($(git grep -l -e '-\*-'))
sed '1 { /\/\* *-\*- *[mM]ode.*\*\/$/d }' -i "${F[@]}"
sed '1,4 { /^\(#\|--\|dnl\) *-\*- [mM]ode/d }' -i "${F[@]}"
Check remaining lines with:
git grep -e '-\*-'
The ultimate purpose of this is to cleanup our files and eventually use
SPDX license identifiers. For that, first get rid of the boilerplate lines.
From the files under "shared/nm-utils" we build an internal library
that provides glib-based helper utilities.
Move the files of that basic library to a new subdirectory
"shared/nm-glib-aux" and rename the helper library "libnm-core-base.la"
to "libnm-glib-aux.la".
Reasons:
- the name "utils" is overused in our code-base. Everything's an
"utils". Give this thing a more distinct name.
- there were additional files under "shared/nm-utils", which are not
part of this internal library "libnm-utils-base.la". All the files
that are part of this library should be together in the same
directory, but files that are not, should not be there.
- the new name should better convey what this library is and what is isn't:
it's a set of utilities and helper functions that extend glib with
funcitonality that we commonly need.
There are still some files left under "shared/nm-utils". They have less
a unifying propose to be in their own directory, so I leave them there
for now. But at least they are separate from "shared/nm-glib-aux",
which has a very clear purpose.
(cherry picked from commit 80db06f768)
