The keyfile plugin is special. For one, NetworkManager will always load
it.
In the future, only this plugin should handle in-memory connections.
In-memory connections are kinda special, and we don't need general
plugins to be concerned about them. They should be handled by keyfile
plugin.
But then NMSettings needs to have a reference to the keyfile plugin
instance at hand.
- in _nm_connection_ensure_normalized() allow also to only check that
the UUID is as expected, without really resetting it.
- split the normalization part out of nm_connection_normalize() and
reuse it in _nm_connection_ensure_normalized(). As we already verified
the connnection, we know that normalization is due and don't need to
verify again.
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.
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.
pppd restores the previous settings for the serial port it uses right
before exiting. It is especially important to do so because otherwise
ModemManager is not able to recover the port as it can receive a hangup
event from the port due to CLOCAL not being restored. However, there is
currently a race condition that produces this issue. This is because
when PHASE_DEAD is notified, pppd still has not restored the port
settings - it does that a bit later, in the die() function.
This patch delays notifying PHASE_DEAD until when the exitnotify() hook
is called by pppd: when this happens the port settings have already been
restored.
There were previously efforts to fix this in commit fe090c34b7, so
PHASE_DEAD was used instead of PHASE_DISCONNECT to notify MM that the
port was disconnected, but that still early to ensure that the port
settings are restored.
The MM traces seen when the bug is triggered are:
ModemManager[2158]: <warn> (ttyACM1): could not re-acquire serial port lock: (5) Input/output error
ModemManager[2158]: <warn> Couldn't load Operator Code: 'Cannot run sequence: 'Could not open serial device ttyACM1: it has been forced close'
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2019-June/msg00014.html
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.
Note that now the empty list will be represented as %NULL instead of an
empty strv array.
That makes no difference in pratice. The main use of this property is as
glue for NMDBusManager to expose the property on D-Bus. Thereby it uses
g_dbus_gvalue_to_gvariant() which handles %NULL just fine.
NMManager and NMSettings both may have multiple authorization requests
ongoing. They need to keep track of them, at the very least to be able
to cancel them on shutdown.
Since NMAuthChain is not ref-countable, it always has only one clear
user/owner. It makes little sense otherwise. Since most callers already
want to track their NMAuthChain instances, let NMAuthChain help with that.
Embed a "parent" CList field inside NMAuthChain. This avoids requiring
an additional GSList allocation to track the element. Also, it allows to
link and append an element without iterating the list.
This ties the caller and the NMAuthChain a bit tighter together (making them
less indepdendent). Generally that is not desirable. But here it seems the
logic (of tracking the NMAuthChain) is still trivial and well separated.
It's just that NMAuthChain instances now can be linked in a CList.
VPN settings (for openconnect) can only be handled by the keyfile settings
plugin.
In any case, such special casing belongs to the settings plugin and not
"nm-settings.c". The reason is that the settings plugin already has an
intimate understanding of the content of connections, it knows which fields
exist, their meaning, etc. It makes sense special handling of
openconnect is done there.
See also commit 304d0b869b ('core: openconnect migration hack').
Unfortunately it's not clear to me why/whether this is still the
right thing to do.
nm_device_check_connection_compatible() is potentially expensive.
Check first whether the connection candidate is of a relevant type,
hoping that this check is cheaper and thus shortcuts other checks
early.
NMSettings is complicated enough. We should try to move independent code out
of it, so that there is only logic that is essential there.
While at it, rework how we copy the GSList items. I don't like GSList as
a data structure, but there really is no need to allocate a new list.
Just unlink the list element and prepend it in the other list.
As nm_settings_plugin_initialize() could not fail (it returned no value indicating
failure), there is no reason to explicitly call this. Instead just
initialize the plugin when needed.
Also, we don't need the plugin to initialize early before nm_settings_plugin_get_connections().
Instead of
<info> [1558284380.2045] settings: Loaded settings plugin: SettingsPluginIfcfg ("/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/1.19.2/libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-rh.so")
log
<info> [1558284380.2045] settings: Loaded settings plugin: ifcfg-rh ("/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/1.19.2/libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-rh.so")
Note how `man NetworkManager.conf` documents "main.plugins" configuration
option where settings plugins have names like "keyfile" and "ifcfg-rh".
It's not helpful to log the GObject type name, which is an implementation
detail.
It was only kept to compare whether we loaded the same
plugin multiple times.
Note that load_plugins() already checks for duplicate plugin names,
so it actually could not happen that we tried to load the same file
more than once.
For a "is" check, it's inconvenient to assert against the parameter
being %NULL. We should accept %NULL and just say that it's not a valid
uuid.
This relaxes previous API.
Also drop the paragraph about "autoconf mechanism". The general
guideline is self evident, while it didn't mention meson builds.
Also, a first time contributor likely won't likely be concerned about
this, as this is already advanced.
