We already have Update(), UpdateUnsaved() and Save(), which serve
similar purposes. We will need a form of update with another argument.
Most notably, to block autoconnect while doing the update.
Other use cases could be to prevent reapplying connection.zone and
connection.metered, to to reapply all changes.
Instead of adding a specific update function that only serves that
new use-case, add a extensible Update2() function. It can be extended
to cope with future variants of update.
It's complicated what happens during a commit/replace/update (whatever
you call it).
It doesn't get simpler by spreading it out to various functions.
Let's have one large function (_commit_changes_full()) which does
all the steps necessary. There should be no alternative ways
how to update a connection.
All callers of _replace_settings_full() now use _commit_changes_full().
commit-changes should contain all the logic what to do when updating
a connection. Now, the connection might optionally be written to disk.
_commit_changes_full() calls _replace_settings_full() which already emits signals
about the changed connection. We should mark the connectin as saved earlier.
In fact, we can tell _replace_settings_full() to mark it as not-unsaved
via the persist-mode parameter.
_replace_settings_full() does more then just replace the settings.
It at least also sets some flags, like saved/unsaved depending
on @persist_mode.
_replace_settings_full() also emits the "updated" signal. Note that
previously it would just return without signal if nm_connection_compare()
indicates that there is no difference. But the caller probably cares
about whether the user tries to change the connection at all, not
whether the change actually introduced a real difference in the
settings. Like, policy might re-set the autoconnect blocked flags.
But it should do so on every user-update, regardless of whether
a change was actually made.
It makes sense to call _replace_settings_full() with a @new_connection
of %NULL, to mean: just update the flags, but keep the current connection.
Extend _replace_settings_full() to allow for that.
Also, update update_auth_cb() to always call _replace_settings_full(),
even if no new connection is provided. In this case, only update
the connection flags accordingly.
Note how nm_settings_connection_commit_changes() would call
prepare() a second time. Don't do that.
Also, move the prepare step earlier, and call _replace_settings_full()
without preparing the new connection again.
The current behavior of update_unsaved is confusing. Give the argument
an enum with a name that describes better what's happening. Also, it
makes the uses grep-able.
The wireless-security setting has a 'wep-key-type' property that is
used to specify the WEP key type and is needed because some keys could
be interpreted both as a passphrase or a hex/ascii key.
The ifcfg-rh plugin currently stores the key type implicitly: if
wep-key-type is 'passphrase' it uses the KEY_PASSPHRASE%d variable, if
it's 'key' the KEY%d variable and when it's 'unknown' it uses either
variables depending on the detected type (preferring 'key' in case
both are compatible).
This means that some connections will be read differently from how
they were written, because once the KEY (or KEY_PASSPHRASE) is read
there is no way to know whether the 'wep-key-type' property was 'key'
(or 'passphrase') or 'unknown'.
Fix this by persisting the key type explicitly in the file. The new
variable is redundant in most cases because the variables used for
keys also determine the key type.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1518177
Until now the ifcfg-rh plugin merged the values of 'ipv4.dns-options'
and 'ipv6.dns-options' and wrote the result to the RES_OPTIONS
variable. This is wrong because writing a connection and reading it
back gives a different connection compared to the original.
This behavior existed since when DNS options were introduced, but it
became more evident now that we reread the connection after write,
because after doing a:
$ nmcli connection modify ethie ipv4.dns-options ndots:2
the connection has both ipv4.dns-options and ipv6.dns-options set. In
order to delete the option, an user has to delete it from both
settings:
$ nmcli connection modify ethie ipv4.dns-options "" ipv6.dns-options ""
To improve this let's use different variables for IPv4 and IPv6. To
keep backwards compatibility IPv4 still uses RES_OPTIONS, while IPv6
uses a new IPV6_RES_OPTIONS variable.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517794
When activation of the connection fails with no-secrets, we block
autoconnect due to that. However, NMPolicy also unblocks such
autoconnect, whenever a new secret-agent registers. The reason
is obviously, that the new secret-agent might be able to provide
the previously missing secrets.
However, there is a race between
- making the secret request, failing activation and blocking autoconnect
- new secret-agent registers
If the secret-agent registers after making the request, but before we
block autoconnect, then autoconnect stays blocked.
[1511468634.5759] device (wlp4s0): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
[1511468634.5772] device (wlp4s0): No agents were available for this request.
[1511468638.4082] agent-manager: req[0x55ea7e58a5d0, :1.32/org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement/1000]: agent registered
[1511468638.4082] policy: re-enabling autoconnect for all connections with failed secrets
[1511468664.6280] device (wlp4s0): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
[1511468664.6287] policy: connection 'tuxmobil' now blocked from autoconnect due to no secrets
Note the long timing between making the secret request and the
activation failure. This race already existed before, but now with
WPS push-button method enabled by default, the duraction of the
activation is much longer and the race is easy to hit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790571
Extend the enum and API to use flags for the blocked reasons.
A connection is blocked from autoconnect if it has any reason
set.
There is no behavioral change in this patch beyond that, because
where we previously would set blocked-reason NONE, we would still
clear all flags, and not only a particular one.
Later of course, we want to set and clear individual flags
independently.
It's not ever going to change(*), and NMPolicy calls reset() a lot.
No need to lookup the configuration in the GKeyFile every time.
(*) per NMConfigData instance. The config may be reloaded, in which
case NMConfig creates a new NMConfigData instance, but the NMConfigData
instance itself is immutable.
NMPolicy would at various time call nm_settings_connection_autoconnect_retries_reset()
followed by nm_settings_connection_autoconnect_retries_get().
This resulted in two logging messages, first to indicate that the value
was unset, and then reset it to the value from configuration. While that
is correct, it causes a lot of verbose logging. Especially for all connections
which autoconnect retry counter didn't actually change.
The advantage of that was, that we only loaded the actual value when we
need it the first time (during get()). That means, the user could reload
the configuration, and the value would be loaded and cached at a later
pointer.
However, the duplicate logging was annoying, but we still want to see
a message about the resetting.
So, now during reset load the value setting from NetworkManager.conf
and set it right away. Skip the intermediate UNSET value. In most
cases nothing changed now, and we don't log anything for most
connections.
Note that for the
if (nm_device_state_reason_check (reason) == NM_DEVICE_STATE_REASON_NO_SECRETS)
case we no longer do the
if (nm_settings_connection_autoconnect_retries_get (connection) == 0)
check. But that is fine, because we only skip schedling a reset_connections_retries()
action. But note, that that previously we also would never actually
scheudle a new timeout, because
- either nm_settings_connection_autoconnect_retries_get (connection) != 0
- or the retries count was zero, in which case we already have a
reset_connections_retries action pending (from the time when we
set it to zero.
So, there is no change in behavior at all except dropping of a redundant
logging line.
NMSettingsConnection has 3 properties that are related to autoconnect:
- autoconnect_retries
- autoconnect_blocked_until
- autoconnect_blocked_reason
autoconnect_blocked_reason is entirely independent from the other two.
A connection have have autoconnect blocked via a blocked-reason, but the
retry count is not affected by that. The retry count is an independent
mechanism, that may additionally prevent autoconnect.
However autoconnect_retries and autoconnect_retries_blocked_until are
strongly related. The latter is set if and only if autoconnect_retries is
at zero.
Rename to reflect that better.
We cannot just call g_object_set() with an integer that is out of bound.
Otherwise, glib will warn. We can use nm_g_object_set_property*() to return
an error without asserting.
Currently both bridge.mac-address and ethernet.cloned-mac-address get
written to the same MACADDR ifcfg-rh variable; the ethernet property
wins if both are present.
When one property is set and the connection is saved (and thus reread)
both properties are populated with the same value. This is wrong
because, even if the properties have the same meaning, the setting
plugin should not read something different from what was written. Also
consider that after the following steps:
$ nmcli con mod c ethernet.cloned-mac-address 00:11:22:33:44:55
$ nmcli con mod c ethernet.cloned-mac-address ""
the connection will still have the new mac address set in the
bridge.mac-address property, which is certainly unexpected.
In general, mapping multiple properties to the same variable is
harmful and must be avoided. Therefore, let's use a different variable
for bridge.mac-address. This changes behavior, but not so much:
- connections that have MACADDR set will behave as before; the only
difference will be that the MAC will be present in the wired
setting instead of the bridge one;
- initscripts compatibility is not relevant because MACADDR for
bridges was a NM extension;
- if someone creates a new connection and sets bridge.mac-address NM
will set the BRIDGE_MACADDR property instead of MACADDR. But this
shouldn't be a big concern as bridge.mac-address is documented as
deprecated and should not be used for new connections.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516659
