Wireless Extensions is the legacy, ioctl-based kernel interface used
to configure Wi-Fi cards. It has been deprecated and replaced by the
cfg80211/nl80211 API since 2007, as it doesn't support modern Wi-Fi
encryption and technologies. Mark it as deprecated, so that we can get
rid of some unmaintained and untested code in a future release.
Add a new public function nm_utils_copy_cert_as_user() to libnm. It
reads a certificate or key file on behalf of the given user and writes
it to a directory in /run/NetworkManager. It is useful for VPN plugins
that run as root and need to verify that the user owning the
connection (the one listed in the connection.permissions property) can
access the file.
In case of private connections, the device has already read the
certificates and keys content from disk, validating that the owner of
the connection has access to them. Pass those files as blobs to the
supplicant so that it doesn't have to read them again from the
filesystem, creating the opportunity for TOCTOU bugs.
This build option allowed non-admin users to create system-wide
connections. Generally, this is not a good idea as system-wide changes
should be done by administrators.
However, the main reason for the change is that this can be used to
bypass filesystem permissions, among possibly other attacks. As the
daemon runs as root, a user can create a system-wide connection that
uses a certificate from a different user to authenticate in a WiFi
network protected with 802.1X or a VPN, because as root user the daemon
can access to the file.
This patch does not completely fix the issue, as users can still create
private connections specifying a path to another user's connection. This
will be addressed in other patch. However, this patch is needed too,
because in system-wide connections we don't store which user created the
connection, so there woudn't be any way to check his/her permissions.
This is part of the fix for CVE-2025-9615
See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1809
Using nm_device_create_l3_config_data_from_connection in favor of
nm_l3_config_data_new_from_connection allows the connection
properties: connection.mdns, connection.llmnr,
connection.dns-over-tls, connection.dnssec, connection.mptcp-flags,
and ipv6.ip6-privacy to be read from the vpn's connection settings
allowing them to be applied to vpn connections.
We've had a few rare instances where a modem stopped retrying
to autoconnect because it briefly didn't have an operator code.
This isn't a permanent failure, so we shouldn't abort completely
for it.
Even if WireGuard is supported since long time in NetworkManager, it
is still not possible to manage the list of peers via nmcli. The
reason is that in the past we wanted to introduce a special syntax
that would allow to manage the peer list more easily. However, this
requires heavy changes to the nmcli output formatting code, and so it
never happened.
Since perfection is the enemy of good, abandon the idea of a custom
handling of peers and treat them as any other composite property. The
property is named "wireguard.peers" and exposes the peers indexed by
public key, with optional attributes.
Example:
$ nmcli connection modify wg0 wireguard.peers "8Wgc1a0jJX3rQULwD5NFFLKrKQnbOnTiaNoerLneG1o= preshared-key=16uGwZvROnwyNGoW6Z3pvJB5GKbd6ncYROA/FFleLQA= allowed-ips=0.0.0.0/0 persistent-keepalive=10"
$ nmcli connection modify wg0 +wireguard.peers "fd2NSxUjkaR/Jft15+gpXU13hKSyZLoe4cp+g+feBCc= allowed-ips=192.168.40.0/24 endpoint=172.25.10.1:8888"
$ nmcli -g wireguard.peers connection show wg0
8Wgc1a0jJX3rQULwD5NFFLKrKQnbOnTiaNoerLneG1o= allowed-ips=0.0.0.0/0 persistent-keepalive=10, fd2NSxUjkaR/Jft15+gpXU13hKSyZLoe4cp+g+feBCc= allowed-ips=192.168.40.0/24 endpoint=172.25.10.1\:8888
$ nmcli connection modify wg0 -wireguard.peers 8Wgc1a0jJX3rQULwD5NFFLKrKQnbOnTiaNoerLneG1o=
$ nmcli -g wireguard.peers connection show wg0
fd2NSxUjkaR/Jft15+gpXU13hKSyZLoe4cp+g+feBCc= allowed-ips=192.168.40.0/24 endpoint=172.25.10.1\:8888
Introduce a new "prefix-delegation" setting. It contains properties
related to the configuration of downstream interfaces using IPv6
prefix-delegation. The only property at the moment is "subnet-id",
which specifies which prefix to choose when the delegation contains
multiple /64 networks.
Decouple from a specific initrd generator (dracut) the systemd services that
provide networking in the initrd using NM, thus allowing other systemd-based
initrd generators to take advantage of it.
These new services are:
- `NetworkManager-config-initrd.service`: it starts very early at boot, parses
the kernel command line using `nm-initrd-generator` and sets the
`/run/NetworkManager/initrd/neednet` flag to activate the other initrd services,
and also sets the hostname if needed.
- `NetworkManager-initrd.service`: it basically does the same job as the
`NetworkManager.service`, but in the initrd.
- `NetworkManager-wait-online-initrd.service`: ordered before
`network-online.target`, it will allow other services that require networking to
delay their start until NM has finished.
Resolve-mode allows user to specify way how the global-dns domains
and DNS connection information should be merged and used.
Certification-authority allows user to specify certification
authority that should be used to verify certificates of encrypted
DNS servers.
Introducing support of ethtool FEC mode:
D-BUS API: `fec-mode: uint32_t`.
Keyfile:
```
[ethtool]
fec-mode=<uint32_t>
```
nmcli: `ethtool.fec-mode` allowing values are any combination of:
* auto
* off
* rs
* baser
* llrs
Unit test cases included.
Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24055
Signed-off-by: Gris Ge <fge@redhat.com>
Initial support for OCI. It doesn't support VLAN configuration yet as
the requirements are not clear. It doesn't support secondary IP
addresses because the IMDS server doesn't expose them.
Instead of using plain text format, it gets a single response in JSON
format and parses it. The dependency to jansson is now mandatory for
that.
When a connection with ipv4.method=auto (DHCP) is configured with
ipv4.link-local=enable we were leaving the link-local address forever,
but this is not correct according to RFC3927[1] which says:
a host SHOULD NOT have both an operable routable address and an IPv4
Link-Local address configured on the same interface.
This adds a new mode that is more compliant, which only sets an IPv4
link-local address if no other address is set (through either DHCP lease
or ivp4.addresses setting)
Closes#1562
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13316
Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3927#section-1.9 [1]
For now, always reapply the VLANs unconditionally, even if they didn't
change in kernel.
To set again the VLANs on the port we need to clear all the existing
one before. However, this deletes also the VLAN for the default-pvid
on the bridge. Therefore, we need some additional logic to inject the
default-pvid in the list of VLANs.
Co-authored-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>
