inet_aton() is very accepting when parsing the address. For example,
it accepts addresses with fewer octets (interpreting the last octet
as a number in network byte order for multiple bytes). It also ignores
any trailing garbage after the first delimiting whitespace (at least,
the glibc implementation). It also accepts octets in hex and octal
notation.
For the initrd reader we want to be more forgiving than inet_pton()
and also accept addresses like 255.000.000.000 (octal notation). For
that we would want to use inet_aton(). But we should not accept all the
craziness that inet_aton() otherwise accepts.
Use nm_utils_parse_inaddr_bin_full() instead. This function implements
our way how we want to interpret IP addresses in string representation.
Under the hood, of course it also uses inet_pton() and even inet_aton(),
but it is stricter than inet_aton() and only accepts certain formats.
(cherry picked from commit d68373c305)
The @family argument is an input and output argument.
Initially, the family is set to AF_UNSPEC, in which case the family
gets detected based on the IP address. However, we call
dt_get_ipaddr_property() multiple times to parse the netmask, the
gateway and the IP address.
That means, after the first successfull call, the @family is set to
AF_INET or AF_INET6.
Note that the previous code (in the switch block) would only check that
the family is set to AF_UNSPEC, but it would not check that the @family
matches the expected binary address length @len. Later, we then might call
nm_ip_address_new_binary() with a family and a binary address of
unexpected length.
Also drop the error checking for nm_ip_address_new_binary().
nm_ip_address_new_binary() can only fail if the prefix length is larger
than 32/128. The function has no way to validate the input arguments
beyond that and can thus not fail (short of undefined behavior).
(cherry picked from commit 9618f1bb4b)
This adds capability to hand over the network configuration from
OpenFirmware (and potentially other boot loaders with openfirmware
support such as U-Boot) to NetworkManager.
It's done analogously to ACPI/iBFT. In fact, the same ip=ibft command
line option is used, adding a more general ip=fw alias. This probably
deserves some documentation, but I'm not adding any at this time.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/257
