NMSetting internally already tracked a list of all proper GObject properties
and D-Bus-only properties.
Rework the tracking of the list, so that:
- instead of attaching the data to the GType of the setting via
g_type_set_qdata(), it is tracked in a static array indexed by
NMMetaSettingType. This allows to find the setting-data by simple
pointer arithmetic, instead of taking a look and iterating (like
g_type_set_qdata() does).
Note, that this is still thread safe, because the static table entry is
initialized in the class-init function with _nm_setting_class_commit().
And it only accessed by following a NMSettingClass instance, thus
the class constructor already ran (maybe not for all setting classes,
but for the particular one that we look up).
I think this makes initialization of the metadata simpler to
understand.
Previously, in a first phase each class would attach the metadata
to the GType as setting_property_overrides_quark(). Then during
nm_setting_class_ensure_properties() it would merge them and
set as setting_properties_quark(). Now, during the first phase,
we only incrementally build a properties_override GArray, which
we finally hand over during nm_setting_class_commit().
- sort the property infos by name and do binary search.
Also expose this meta data types as internal API in nm-setting-private.h.
While not accessed yet, it can prove beneficial, to have direct (internal)
access to these structures.
Also, rename NMSettingProperty to NMSettInfoProperty to use a distinct
naming scheme. We already have 40+ subclasses of NMSetting that are called
NMSetting*. Likewise, NMMetaSetting* is heavily used already. So, choose a
new, distinct name.
- Don't use @parent_class name. This local variable (and @object_class) is
the class instance up-cast to the pointer types of the parents. The point
here is not that it is the direct parent. The point is, that it's the
NMSettingClass type.
Also, it can only be used inconsistently, in face of NMSettingIP4Config,
who's parent type is NMSettingIPConfig. Clearly, inside
nm-setting-ip4-config.c we wouldn't want to use the "parent_class"
name. Consistently rename @parent_class to @setting_class.
- Also rename the pointer to the own class to @klass. "setting_class" is also the
wrong name for that, because the right name would be something like
"setting_6lowpan_class".
However, "klass" is preferred over the latter, because we commonly create new
GObject implementations by copying an existing one. Generic names like "klass"
and "self" inside a type implementation make that simpler.
- drop useless comments like
/* virtual functions */
/* Properties */
It's better to logically and visually structure the code, and avoid trival
remarks about that. They only end up being used inconsistently. If you
even need a stronger visual separator, then an 80 char /****/ line
should be preferred.
We commonly don't use the glib typedefs for char/short/int/long,
but their C types directly.
$ git grep '\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>' | wc -l
587
$ git grep '\<\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>' | wc -l
21114
One could argue that using the glib typedefs is preferable in
public API (of our glib based libnm library) or where it clearly
is related to glib, like during
g_object_set (obj, PROPERTY, (gint) value, NULL);
However, that argument does not seem strong, because in practice we don't
follow that argument today, and seldomly use the glib typedefs.
Also, the style guide for this would be hard to formalize, because
"using them where clearly related to a glib" is a very loose suggestion.
Also note that glib typedefs will always just be typedefs of the
underlying C types. There is no danger of glib changing the meaning
of these typedefs (because that would be a major API break of glib).
A simple style guide is instead: don't use these typedefs.
No manual actions, I only ran the bash script:
FILES=($(git ls-files '*.[hc]'))
sed -i \
-e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>\( [^ ]\)/\1\2/g' \
-e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\> /\1 /g' \
-e 's/\<g\(char\|short\|int\|long\|float\|double\)\>/\1/g' \
"${FILES[@]}"
Similarly to what systemd-resolved does, introduce the concept of
"routing" domain, which is a domain in the search list that is used
only to decide the interface over which a query must be forwarded, but
is not used to complete unqualified host names. Routing domains are
those starting with a tilde ('~') before the actual domain name.
Domains without the initial tilde are used both for completing
unqualified names and for the routing decision.
The order in which the attribute names are returns should
be defined and stable. Sort them and re-use the helper functions.
Sorting is good, because it gives a consistent order. Maybe we don't
want to commit to this in the API, officially the order is still
arbitrary. In practice, we rely on the order of attribute names
when converting the attributes to a string. The same configuration
should produce the same string representation.
That doesn't mean we commit to a fixed order in the string
representation. It does not mean, that the order must always be this
way, we can still change it. But between multiple runs of the same
binary, the order should be stable.
Note that our hash tables are seeded with a random number. Hence,
their order is not only abitrary, it is also unstable and changes
for each run of the application.
"no_value" indicates that the the attribute is a single word, not a
key=value pair. If the type is BOOLEAN then the attribute is considered
true, if it's a STRING then the key is used instead of a value.
"consumes_rest" indicates that the particular key takes the unparseable
tail of the string for a value.
This allows parsing tc-style strings. Consider this filter:
,------ regular key/value pair
,-----'----.
root handle 1234: matchall action simple foo bar baz
| | `-----------.-----------'
| | `- "", STRING, consumes_rest
| `------------------- "kind", STRING, no_value
`-------------------------------------- "root', BOOLEAN, no_value
We also do this for libnm and libnm-core, where it causes visible changes
in behavior. But if somebody would rely on the hashing implementation
for hash tables, it would be seriously flawed.
Kernel doesn't support it for IPv6.
This is especially useful, if you combine static routes
with DHCP. In that case, you might want to get the device-route
to the gateway automatically, but add a static-route for it.
We want to support large number of routes. Reduce the number
of copies, by adding internal accessor functions.
Also, work around a complaint from coverity:
46. NetworkManager-1.9.2/libnm-core/nm-utils.c:1987:
dereference: Dereferencing a null pointer "names".
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".
Expose previously internal function nm_ip_route_equal_full(). It's
just useful API.
However, add a @cmp_flags argument, so that in the future we could
extend it.
For kernel and NetworkManager's core, route identity is a complicated topic
(see NM_PLATFORM_IP_ROUTE_CMP_TYPE_ID). For example, a route
without explity table is treated identical to "table 254" or "table 0".
It would be complicated to have nm_setting_ip_config_add_route()
implement that logic, especially since libnm offers not public API
to expose kernel's logic.
However, previously nm_setting_ip_config_add_route() would only consider
dest/prefix,next_hop,metric when comparing for equality. Hence, with
nmcli connection modify "$CON" +ipv4.routes '192.168.5.0/24'
nmcli connection modify "$CON" +ipv4.routes '192.168.5.0/24 table=42'
the second route was not actually added, although it is a very different
route. Fix that, and consider attributes too. Note that this allows the user
to add two routes that look different to libnm, but are actually idential:
nmcli connection modify "$CON" +ipv4.routes '192.168.5.0/24'
nmcli connection modify "$CON" +ipv4.routes '192.168.5.0/24 table=254'
In the above example, the route instances look different, but
sementically they are both the same route in the main table (254).
This also allows the user to add routes that are semantically different, but
are treated as the same route by kernel:
nmcli connection modify "$CON" +ipv6.routes 'a🅱️c::/120'
nmcli connection modify "$CON" +ipv6.routes 'a🅱️c::/120 mtu=600'
I think libnm should allow to add routes as long as they look different
to libnm. Regardless how kernel and NetworkManager-core thinks about
route identity.
This changes API of nm_setting_ip_config_add_route(). However, I think
the previous behavior was just broken.
Same for nm_setting_ip_config_remove_route_by_value().
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.
The previous parsing was done using regex. One could implement a
complex regex to parse the setting. However, as it was implemented,
the regex would just pick out parts of the line that it expects,
and ignore unknown parts.
Let's be strict about what we parse. The only strong requirement
is that NM can parse everything that was written by NM itself.
Eventually, we could extend the parser to accept everything that
initscripts accept.
Initscripts split the line at $IFS and do filename globbing on the
arguments. That is ugly, because globbing is of coures wrong (we don't
do that). But also, the splitting at $IFS cannot be escaped, hence for
initscripts it is impossible to use '<space><tab><newline>'. We do that
too, as it makes it easy to parse. Later we may want to extend this to
allow a form of escaping/quoting.
Yes, we may now ignore routes that are not defined as we expect them.
- kernel ignores rtm_tos for IPv6 routes. While iproute2 accepts it,
let libnm reject TOS attribute for routes as well.
- move the tos field from NMPlatformIPRoute to NMPlatformIP4Route.
- the tos field is part of the weak-id of an IPv4 route. Meaning,
`ip route add` can add routes that only differ by their TOS.
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.
Backported symbols only make sense for libnm itself, not for
libnm-core which is statically linked with NetworkManager and
nm-ifcace-helper. Declaring the symbols in libnm-core, means
that NetworkManager binary also contains them, although there
are not used.
Move them to libnm.
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.
Commit bdd0e7fec0 which added symbol
nm_setting_ip_config_get_dns_priority to libnm_1_4_0 was backported
to nm-1-2 in commit ad1cdcf6571da23e3197b09f1b4b14d23b8899d1.
Add the backported symbol to master to allow seemless upgrading
from 1.2.4 to 1.4.0.
Having a gateway defined when never-default=yes causes troubles in
connection matching and anyway makes no sense.
If the combination is found, remove the gateway during the
normalization phase.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313091
Adding addresses with a prefix of zero is valid. Don't
reject them.
Note that this is an actual bug. If you configure an
address with prefix length zero, nmcli will report:
$nmcli connection
(process:1040): libnm-WARNING **: Ignoring invalid IP4 address: Invalid IPv4 address prefix '0'
In some situations, we want strict checking of errors, for example when
NetworkManager receives a new connection from a client, the connection
must make sense as a whole (and since NetworkManager service is backward
compatible to the clients and not the other way around, there is no
excuse for sending invalid data to the server).
In other situations, we want a best-effort behavior. Like when
NetworkManager sends a connection to its clients, those clients
want to extract as many properties as they understand, but in order
to be forward compatible against newer server versions, invalid
or unknown properties must be accepted.
Previously, a mixture of both was done. Some issues caused a failure
to create a new NMSetting, other invalid parts were just silently
ignored or triggered a g_warning() in glib.
Now allow for both. When doing strict-validation, be more strict and
reject all unknown properties and catch when the user sets an invalid
argument. On the other hand, allow for a best-effort mode that
effectively cannot fail and will return a new NMSetting instance.
For now, add NMSettingParseFlags so that the caller can choose the
old behavior, strict parsing, or best effort.
This patch doesn't have any externally visible change except that
no more g_warnings will be emitted.
- All internal source files (except "examples", which are not internal)
should include "config.h" first. As also all internal source
files should include "nm-default.h", let "config.h" be included
by "nm-default.h" and include "nm-default.h" as first in every
source file.
We already wanted to include "nm-default.h" before other headers
because it might contains some fixes (like "nm-glib.h" compatibility)
that is required first.
- After including "nm-default.h", we optinally allow for including the
corresponding header file for the source file at hand. The idea
is to ensure that each header file is self contained.
- Don't include "config.h" or "nm-default.h" in any header file
(except "nm-sd-adapt.h"). Public headers anyway must not include
these headers, and internal headers are never included after
"nm-default.h", as of the first previous point.
- Include all internal headers with quotes instead of angle brackets.
In practice it doesn't matter, because in our public headers we must
include other headers with angle brackets. As we use our public
headers also to compile our interal source files, effectively the
result must be the same. Still do it for consistency.
- Except for <config.h> itself. Include it with angle brackets as suggested by
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Configuration-Headers
