This allows to adjust the timeout of an existing checkpoint.
The main usecase of checkpoints, is to have a fail-safe when
configuring the network remotely. By allowing to reset the timeout,
the user can perform a series of actions, and keep bumping the
timeout. That way, the entire series is still guarded by the same
checkpoint, but the user can start with short timeout, and
re-adjust the timeout as he goes along.
The libnm API only implements the async form (at least for now).
Sync methods are fundamentally wrong with D-Bus, and it's probably
not needed. Also, follow glib convenction, where the async form
doesn't have the _async name suffix. Also, accept a D-Bus path
as argument, not a NMCheckpoint instance. The libnm API should
not be more restricted than the underlying D-Bus API. It would
be cumbersome to require the user to lookup the NMCheckpoint
instance first, especially since libnm doesn't provide an efficient
or convenient lookup-by-path method. On the other hand, retrieving
the path from a NMCheckpoint instance is always possible.
Keep the include paths clean and separate. We use directories to group source
files together. That makes sense (I guess), but then we should use this
grouping also when including files. Thus require to #include files with their
path relative to "src/".
Also, we build various artifacts from the "src/" tree. Instead of having
individual CFLAGS for each artifact in Makefile.am, the CFLAGS should be
unified. Previously, the CFLAGS for each artifact differ and are inconsistent
in which paths they add to the search path. Fix the inconsistency by just
don't add the paths at all.
- use _NM_GET_PRIVATE() and _NM_GET_PRIVATE_PTR() everywhere.
- reorder statements, to have GObject related functions (init, dispose,
constructed) at the bottom of each file and in a consistent order w.r.t.
each other.
- unify whitespaces in signal and properties declarations.
- use NM_GOBJECT_PROPERTIES_DEFINE() and _notify()
- drop unused signal slots in class structures
- drop unused header files for device factories
- don't include "nm-default.h" in header files. Every source file must
include as first header "nm-default.h", thus our headers get the
default include already implicitly.
- we don't support compiling NetworkManager itself with a C++ compiler. Remove
G_BEGIN_DECLS/G_END_DECLS from internal headers. We do however support
users of libnm to use C++, thus they stay in public headers.
(cherry picked from commit f19aff8909)
Add new Reload D-Bus command to reload NetworkManager configuration.
For now, this is like sending SIGHUP to the process. There are several
advantages here:
- it is guarded via PolicyKit authentication while signals
can only be sent by root.
- the user can wait for the reload to be complete instead of sending
an asynchronous signal. For now, we operation completes after
nm_config_reload() returns, but later we could delay the response
further until specific parts are fully reloaded.
- SIGHUP reloads everything including re-reading configuration from
disk while SIGUSR1 reloads just certain parts such as writing out DNS
configuration anew.
Now, the Reload command has a flags argument which is more granular
in selecting parts which are to be reloaded. For example, via
signals the user can:
1) send SIGUSR1: this writes out the DNS configuration to
resolv.conf and possibly reloads other parts without
re-reading configuration and without restarting the DNS plugin.
2) send SIGHUP: this reloads configuration from disk,
writes out resolv.conf and restarts the DNS plugin.
There is no way, to only restart the DNS plugin without also reloading
everything else.
The main purpose of audit logging is to understand who did what to the
system configuration, so it is useful to log also the list of changed
properties when a connection is updated:
op="connection-update"
uuid="2f3e48fc-5f47-41d9-9278-d2871378df43"
name="pppoe1"
args="pppoe.username,pppoe.password" <========
pid=9523
uid=1001
result="success"
Reapplying a connection should not be done by iterating over and
(unsorted) @diffs array. Instead the order matters! E.g. first layer 2
before IP settings. Thus extracting those individual updates on a per-setting
base to different reapply_*() functions is more complicated, albeit incorrect
in complex cases. We need full control over how to reapply changes, one
after the other.
Also, once we start applying changes, we cannot really abort on error.
We can only continue best-effort and hope for the best.
Also, always reapply certain settings, even if the configuration doesn't
change. That means, if the user externally deletes a static IP address,
he can call reapply() to restore it. Even though he doesn't provide a
different setting to apply.
Also revert the changes to nm_device_reapply_settings_immediately().
Effectively there is little code that can be reused.
Add audit logging.
Clone the connection upon activation. This makes it safe for the user
to modify the original connection while it is activated.
This involves several changes:
- NMActiveConnection gets @settings_connection and @applied_connection.
To support add-and-activate, we constructing a NMActiveConnection with
no connection set. Previously, we would set the "connection" field to
a temporary NMConnection. Now NMManager piggybacks this temporary
connection as object-data (TAG_ACTIVE_CONNETION_ADD_AND_ACTIVATE).
- get rid of the functions nm_active_connection_get_connection_type()
and nm_active_connection_get_connection_uuid(). From their names
it is unclear whether this returns the settings or applied connection.
The (few) callers should figure that out themselves.
- rename nm_active_connection_get_id() to
nm_active_connection_get_settings_connection_id(). This function
is only used internally for logging.
- dispatcher calls now get two connections as well. The
applied-connection is used for the connection data, while
the settings-connection is used for the connection path.
- needs special handling for properties that apply immediately
when changed (nm_device_reapply_settings_immediately()).
Co-Authored-By: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724041
Introduce some primitives to deliver messages about relevant
configuration changes to the Linux audit subsystem through libaudit
(if enabled at build time) and to the logging system.
