Extend the "ethernet.cloned-mac-address" and "wifi.cloned-mac-address"
settings. Instead of specifying an explicit MAC address, the additional
special values "permanent", "preserve", "random", "random-bia", "stable" and
"stable-bia" are supported.
"permanent" means to use the permanent hardware address. Previously that
was the default if no explict cloned-mac-address was set. The default is
thus still "permanent", but it can be overwritten by global
configuration.
"preserve" means not to configure the MAC address when activating the
device. That was actually the default behavior before introducing MAC
address handling with commit 1b49f941a6.
"random" and "random-bia" use a randomized MAC address for each
connection. "stable" and "stable-bia" use a generated, stable
address based on some token. The "bia" suffix says to generate a
burned-in address. The stable method by default uses as token the
connection UUID, but the token can be explicitly choosen via
"stable:<TOKEN>" and "stable-bia:<TOKEN>".
On a D-Bus level, the "cloned-mac-address" is a bytestring and thus
cannot express the new forms. It is replaced by the new
"assigned-mac-address" field. For the GObject property, libnm's API,
nmcli, keyfile, etc. the old name "cloned-mac-address" is still used.
Deprecating the old field seems more complicated then just extending
the use of the existing "cloned-mac-address" field, although the name
doesn't match well with the extended meaning.
There is some overlap with the "wifi.mac-address-randomization" setting.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705545https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708820https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758301
The Network_ID for generating RFC 7217 stable privacy IPv6 addresses
is by default the UUID of the connection.
Alternatively, prefer "connection.stable-id" as Network_ID to generate
the stable addresses. This allows to configure a set of connections that
all use the same Network_ID for generating stable addresses.
Note that the stable-id and the UUID do no overlap, that is two
connections
[connection]
uuid=uuid1
stable-id=
and
[connection]
uuid=uuid2
stable-id=uuid1
generate distinct addresses.
When a reverse DNS entry must be added to dnsmasq, instead of
considering IP addresses as classful use the prefix to compute one or
more "in-addr.arpa" according to CIDR rules.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767174
NM_UTILS_LOOKUP_DEFAULT_NM_ASSERT() is useful because unless
compiled with NM_MORE_ASSERTS, there is no assertion.
An assertion includes the function name, and can make the
function ineligible for inlining.
NM_UTILS_ERROR is our way to say, that we don't care about
the GError domain and code. nmcli sometimes passes domain "1"
and code "0" to g_set_error(), which could be considered
a bug.
We usually don't care about the error but only about the error
message, so let's have a universally available error quark around.
We used to pad the lifetime since the beginning (commit
f121995fad).
However, there is not race involved, since our platform cache
is in sync with the messages from kernel (which didn't used to
be the case).
Also, when receiving a RA with a zero preferred time, we must
not extend the address lifetime by 5 seconds, but instead deprecate
the address immediately.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763513
str_if_set() was added to replace the non-standard gcc extension "?:".
However, "?:" is supported by clang as well and we already use it at
several places.
Also, str_if_set() did not follow our naming scheme and renaming to
nm_str_if_set() would be ugly. So just drop it.
Most functions defined in "nm-platform-utils.h" perform a lookup
of link properties, for example via ethtool or sysfs. Those functions
depend on the system configuration, such as the current network namespace.
Move the simple helper functions away to "nm-core-internal.h", so that
all remaining functions from "nm-platform-utils.h" are really related to
somthing that interacts with the system/kernel.
Coverity complains rightly about "strncpy (dst, ifname, IFNAMSIZ)"
because it might leave @dst non-NULL-terminated, in case @ifname
is too long (which already would be a bug in the first place).
Replace the strcpy() uses by a new helper nm_utils_ifname_cpy()
that asserts against valid arguments.
"NetworkManagerUtils.h" contains a bunch of helper tools for core
daemon ("src/").
Unfortunately, it has dependencies to other parts of core,
such as "nm-device.h" and "nm-platform.h". Split out a part
of tools that are independent so that they can be used without
dragging in other dependencies.
"nm-core-utils.h" should only use libnm-core, "nm-logging.h"
and shared.
"NetworkManagerUtils.h" should provide all "nm-core-utils.h" and
possibly other utilities that have larger dependencies.
