nm_config_set_no_auto_default_for_device() is called by NMSettings,
so it makes sense that also NMSettings checks whether the device is
blocked.
Of course, there is little difference in practice.
The only downside is that most device types don't implement
new_default_connection(). So the previous form performed the
cheaper check first. On the other hand, we do expect to have
profiles for the devices anyway.
Only NMDeviceEthernet implements new_default_connection(). Anyway, it
makes only sense to do this precheck by the caller first, and not by
each implementation.
Completely rework how settings plugin handle connections and how
NMSettings tracks the list of connections.
Previously, settings plugins would return objects of (a subtype of) type
NMSettingsConnection. The NMSettingsConnection was tightly coupled with
the settings plugin. That has a lot of downsides.
Change that. When changing this basic relation how settings connections
are tracked, everything falls appart. That's why this is a huge change.
Also, since I have to largely rewrite the settings plugins, I also
added support for multiple keyfile directories, handle in-memory
connections only by keyfile plugin and (partly) use copy-on-write NMConnection
instances. I don't want to spend effort rewriting large parts while
preserving the old way, that anyway should change. E.g. while rewriting ifcfg-rh,
I don't want to let it handle in-memory connections because that's not right
long-term.
--
If the settings plugins themself create subtypes of NMSettingsConnection
instances, then a lot of knowledge about tracking connections moves
to the plugins.
Just try to follow the code what happend during nm_settings_add_connection().
Note how the logic is spread out:
- nm_settings_add_connection() calls plugin's add_connection()
- add_connection() creates a NMSettingsConnection subtype
- the plugin has to know that it's called during add-connection and
not emit NM_SETTINGS_PLUGIN_CONNECTION_ADDED signal
- NMSettings calls claim_connection() which hocks up the new
NMSettingsConnection instance and configures the instance
(like calling nm_settings_connection_added()).
This summary does not sound like a lot, but try to follow that code. The logic
is all over the place.
Instead, settings plugins should have a very simple API for adding, modifying,
deleting, loading and reloading connections. All the plugin does is to return a
NMSettingsStorage handle. The storage instance is a handle to identify a profile
in storage (e.g. a particular file). The settings plugin is free to subtype
NMSettingsStorage, but it's not necessary.
There are no more events raised, and the settings plugin implements the small
API in a straightforward manner.
NMSettings now drives all of this. Even NMSettingsConnection has now
very little concern about how it's tracked and delegates only to NMSettings.
This should make settings plugins simpler. Currently settings plugins
are so cumbersome to implement, that we avoid having them. It should not be
like that and it should be easy, beneficial and lightweight to create a new
settings plugin.
Note also how the settings plugins no longer care about duplicate UUIDs.
Duplicated UUIDs are a fact of life and NMSettings must handle them. No
need to overly concern settings plugins with that.
--
NMSettingsConnection is exposed directly on D-Bus (being a subtype of
NMDBusObject) but it was also a GObject type provided by the settings
plugin. Hence, it was not possible to migrate a profile from one plugin to
another.
However that would be useful when one profile does not support a
connection type (like ifcfg-rh not supporting VPN). Currently such
migration is not implemented except for migrating them to/from keyfile's
run directory. The problem is that migrating profiles in general is
complicated but in some cases it is important to do.
For example checkpoint rollback should recreate the profile in the right
settings plugin, not just add it to persistent storage. This is not yet
properly implemented.
--
Previously, both keyfile and ifcfg-rh plugin implemented in-memory (unsaved)
profiles, while ifupdown plugin cannot handle them. That meant duplication of code
and a ifupdown profile could not be modified or made unsaved.
This is now unified and only keyfile plugin handles in-memory profiles (bgo #744711).
Also, NMSettings is aware of such profiles and treats them specially.
In particular, NMSettings drives the migration between persistent and non-persistent
storage.
Note that a settings plugins may create truly generated, in-memory profiles.
The settings plugin is free to generate and persist the profiles in any way it
wishes. But the concept of "unsaved" profiles is now something explicitly handled
by keyfile plugin. Also, these "unsaved" keyfile profiles are persisted to file system
too, to the /run directory. This is great for two reasons: first of all, all
profiles from keyfile storage in fact have a backing file -- even the
unsaved ones. It also means you can create "unsaved" profiles in /run
and load them with `nmcli connection load`, meaning there is a file
based API for creating unsaved profiles.
The other advantage is that these profiles now survive restarting
NetworkManager. It's paramount that restarting the daemon is as
non-disruptive as possible. Persisting unsaved files to /run improves
here significantly.
--
In the past, NMSettingsConnection also implemented NMConnection interface.
That was already changed a while ago and instead users call now
nm_settings_connection_get_connection() to delegate to a
NMSimpleConnection. What however still happened was that the NMConnection
instance gets never swapped but instead the instance was modified with
nm_connection_replace_settings_from_connection(), clear-secrets, etc.
Change that and treat the NMConnection instance immutable. Instead of modifying
it, reference/clone a new instance. This changes that previously when somebody
wanted to keep a reference to an NMConnection, then the profile would be cloned.
Now, it is supposed to be safe to reference the instance directly and everybody
must ensure not to modify the instance. nmtst_connection_assert_unchanging()
should help with that.
The point is that the settings plugins may keep references to the
NMConnection instance, and so does the NMSettingsConnection. We want
to avoid cloning the instances as long as they are the same.
Likewise, the device's applied connection can now also be referenced
instead of cloning it. This is not yet done, and possibly there are
further improvements possible.
--
Also implement multiple keyfile directores /usr/lib, /etc, /run (rh #1674545,
bgo #772414).
It was always the case that multiple files could provide the same UUID
(both in case of keyfile and ifcfg-rh). For keyfile plugin, if a profile in
read-only storage in /usr/lib gets modified, then it gets actually stored in
/etc (or /run, if the profile is unsaved).
--
While at it, make /etc/network/interfaces profiles for ifupdown plugin reloadable.
--
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772414https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744711https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674545
4 properties are not really relevant for an already activated connection
or it makes not sense to change them. These are connection.id, connection.uuid,
connection.autoconnect and connection.stable-id.
For convenience, we allow to reapply these. This way, one can take
a different setting (e.g. with a different connection.id or
connection.uuid) and reapply them, but such changes are silently
ignored.
However this was done wrongly. Instead of reverting the change to the new
applied connection, we would change the input connection.
This is bad, for example with
nmcli connection up uuid cb922f18-e99a-49c6-b200-1678b5070a82
nmcli connection modify cb922f18-e99a-49c6-b200-1678b5070a82 con-name "bogus"
nmcli device reapply eth0
the last re-apply would reset the settings-connection's connection ID to
what was before, while accepting the new name on the applied-connection
(while it should have been rejected).
Fixes: bf3b3d444c ('device: avoid changing immutable properties during reapply')
IP addresses, routes, TC and QDiscs are all tied to a certain interface.
So when NetworkManager manages an interface, it can be confident that
all related entires should be managed, deleted and modified by NetworkManager.
Routing policy rules are global. For that we have NMPRulesManager which
keeps track of whether NetworkManager owns a rule. This allows multiple
connection profiles to specify the same rule, and NMPRulesManager can
consolidate this information to know whether to add or remove the rule.
NMPRulesManager would also support to explicitly block a rule by
tracking it with negative priority. However that is still unused at
the moment. All that devices do is to add rules (track with positive
priority) and remove them (untrack) once the profile gets deactivated.
As rules are not exclusively owned by NetworkManager, NetworkManager
tries not to interfere with rules that it knows nothing about. That
means in particular, when NetworkManager starts it will "weakly track"
all rules that are present. "weakly track" is mostly interesting for two
cases:
- when NMPRulesManager had the same rule explicitly tracked (added) by a
device, then deactivating the device will leave the rule in place.
- when NMPRulesManager had the same rule explicitly blocked (tracked
with negative priority), then it would restore the rule when that
block gets removed (as said, currently nobody actually does this).
Note that when restarting NetworkManager, then the device may stay and
the rules kept. However after restart, NetworkManager no longer knows
that it previously added this route, so it would weakly track it and
never remove them again.
That is a problem. Avoid that, by whenever explicitly tracking a rule we
also make sure to no longer weakly track it. Most likely this rule was
indeed previously managed by NetworkManager. If this was really a rule
added by externally, then the user really should choose distinct
rule priorities to avoid such conflicts altogether.
The previous code returned that the device was available when it had
only unmanaged-flags that can be overridden by user, without actually
considering the @flags argument.
Fixes: 920346a5b9 ('device: add and use overrule-unmanaged flag for nm_device_check_connection_available()')
Drop nm_platform_link_get_address_as_bytes() and introduce
nmp_link_address_get_as_bytes() so that it becomes possible to obtain
also the broadcast address without an additional lookup of the link.
The DHCP client is not meant to use the assigned address before DAD
has completed successfully, if enabled. And if DAD fails, the server
should be notified with a DECLINE, in order to potentially blacklist
the address.
Currently, none of the clients support this, but add the required
callbacks, and allow clients to opt in if they want.
NMDevicePPP only handles connections with the pppoe.parent property
set. match_connection() already checks this when we creating a new
device. We should also perform the same check in
check_connection_compatible().
Fixes: 6c3195931e ('core: implement activation of PPP devices')
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/203
- most connections are not Wi-Fi connections and thus don't have a seen-bssids
list. Only create the seen_bssids hash when required. This avoids allocating the
hash in common cases and avoids checking the hash for the content (which is often
empty).
- nm_settings_connection_get_seen_bssids() should return a sorted list.
Leaving the sort order undefined is ugly.
- in try_fill_ssid_for_hidden_ap(), we need to check all
NMSettingsConnection instances whether they know this bssid.
Reorder the checks, to first call nm_settings_connection_has_seen_bssid(), which
is faster and in most cases returns a negative result (shortcutting
the rest).
nm_connection_verify() returns success for fully valid (normalized)
connections and also connections that are NM_SETTING_VERIFY_NORMALIZABLE.
We really want to fully normalize the profiles during add-and-activate.
NMConnectivity can now distinguish between LIMITED and NONE connectivity
and it does so based on whether IP addresses and routes are configured.
Previously, NMConnectivity would not differenciate between limited and
no connectivity, which is why NMDevice added some additional logic on top
to coerce LIMITED to NONE (if the device is not logically connected).
But note that the connectivity state (whether a network is reachable on
an interface) depends on what is configured in kernel and whether the
internet is reachable on that interface. It does not depend on the
logical device state.
On the other hand, whether the device is configured in a manner to have
connectivity depends on the logical state of the device (as NetworkManager
is configuring the device).
So, in many cases, the logical state and the connectivity state agree now,
but for the right reasons.
This reverts commit 4c4dbcb78d.
If the interface has no carrier, no addresses or no routes there is no
point in starting a connectivity check on it because it will fail.
Moreover, doing the check on a device without routes causes the
addition of a negative entry in the ARP table for each of the
addresses associated with the connectivity check host; this can lead
to poor network performances.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/181
Changing "ipv4.route-table" and "ipv6.route-table" was not allowed
during reapply.
The main difficulty for supporting that is changing the sync-mode.
With route-table 0, we don't sync all tables but only the main table.
So, when reapply changes from full-sync to no-full-sync, it's slightly
more complicated.
But it's probably not too complicated either. The change from
no-full-sync to full-sync is simple: we just start doing a full-sync.
The reverse change is slightly more complicated, because we need to
do one last full-sync, to get rid of routes that we configured on those
other tables.
This doesn't make any difference in practice, but it seems more correct.
It would cause issues if we decided to remove an interface from the
signal handler.
When an interface (other OVS device types can not fail) encounters an error
it indicates it by changing the error column. Watch for those changes so
that we can eventually communicate them to the OVS factory to deal with
them.
Don't crash in situations, where the bridge or a port has a child with
UUID we don't know. This could happen if we mess up the parsing of
messages from OVSDB, but could also theoretically happen in OVSDB sends
us bad data.
The values cached in the device may be stale when we start a new
activation because in a disconnected state we might have called
ip_config_merge_and_apply() which cached the main table value.
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.
While at it, rename the "addr" field to "l_address". The term "addr" is
used over and over. Instead we should use distinct names that make it
easier to navigate the code.
NM_MODEM_OPERATOR_CODE property is construct-only. Add our common
code comment to the property setter.
Construct-only setters are pretty simple. They run before the object is
constructed, hence their scope is clearer. As such, there is no need to
emit property changed notifications (also because that is already taken
care by the GObject property setter). Don't call _nm_modem_set_operator_code(),
just directly set the property.
Usually we aim to have only one place where we set state (_nm_modem_set_operator_code()).
But a construct-only property setter is trivial enough that we can affort having two
places to modify the property. In particular, because the property setter does not "modify"
the property, it merely initializes it before the object is fully
constructed.
If the AddAndActivate() caller didn't explicitely a MAC address, default
to pinpointing the connection to the device by the means of an interface
name. This makes more sense than a MAC address with stable device names.
If the AddAndActivate() caller didn't explicitely a MAC address, default
to pinpointing the connection to the device by the means of an interface
name. This makes more sense than a MAC address with stable device names.
If the AddAndActivate() caller didn't explicitely a MAC address, default
to pinpointing the connection to the device by the means of an interface
name. This makes more sense than a MAC address with stable device names.
