It's a valuable information for users, especially because the channel
number can be ambiguous.
Before:
$ nmcli device wifi
IN-USE BSSID SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY
42:00:00:AA:DD:CC test Infra 44 1170 Mbit/s 85 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
92:00:00:AB:DD:CC guest Infra 44 1170 Mbit/s 85 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
After:
$ nmcli device wifi
IN-USE BSSID SSID MODE BAND CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY
42:00:00:AA:DD:CC test Infra 5 GHz 44 1170 Mbit/s 85 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
42:00:00:AB:DD:CC guest Infra 5 GHz 44 1170 Mbit/s 85 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
Clients typically want to show the band of an AP. The information is
already available because we export the frequency, but it is necessary
to implement some conversion logic.
Export libnm symbol nm_utils_wifi_freq_to_band() to do
that. Previously the function was used internally to generate the
value of the "band" string property from the frequency. For a public
function it is clearer if we return a enum value.
Until now the Wi-Fi bands were named after the first 802.11 standard
that introduced them: "a" for 5GHz introduced in 802.11a and "bg" for
2.4GHz introduced in 802.11b/g. With new bands added, this naming
scheme doesn't sound very intuitive to remember for users. Furthermore
we have now 6GHz that is introduced by 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), but the
compatible devices can use all three the bands (2.4, 5, 6 GHz).
For the 6 GHz band, simply name it "6GHz".
Co-authored-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com>
The formula is wrong for channels above 144 because the layout of the
80MHz channels is not regular. Use a lookup table.
Fixes: 7bb5961779 ('supplicant: honor the 'wifi.channel-width' property in AP mode')
The powersave setting was apparently not touched at all in the iwd device,
so this adds the configuration, analogous to how the wifi device does.
Fixes#1750
It's clearer this way, and it will allow to modify directly the
"Version:" and "Release:" fields to bump the version. It is more aligned
with the layout of other projects' spec files too.
Snapshot is only used from nm-copr-build.sh script, so not very useful.
Git_sha is used from build.sh. Other than that, downstream is always
nil.
Remove them and modify build.sh to use --define "dist xxx" instead of
them. This change is motivated by Packit not being able to modify the
release number if it has the %{snap} suffix.
When dist_version is defined in meson, NM installs plugins to a
directory called `NetworkManager-${dist_version}`. If the dist version
contains a `~`, like `1.56~rc1`, defining nmplugindir with
`%{version_no_tilde}` makes it `NetworkManager-1.56-rc1`, causing
rpmbuild errors due to the mismatch.
Fix it by defining nmplugindir with `%{version}` instead.
Fixes: d975389bcd ('spec: use versioning scheme with ~dev and ~rc suffixes')
The purpose of the validation is to check that we pass to the
supplicant a configuration that it can understand. For certificates
and keys we enforce a maximum length of 64KiB; that means that the
value of the property we send (i.e. the file path or the blob id) can
be at most 64KiB. Instead we wrongly checked the size of the blob
data.
Fix the validation. Also, enforce a maximum blob size of 32MiB.
Fixes: e85cc46d0b ('core: pass certificates as blobs to supplicant for private connections')
The previous commits has unified the versioning scheme to only use the
version names like 1.56-rc2, 1.56.2 and 1.57.1-dev, like the version
names that we use in the Git tags. The scheme with micro>=90 for RCs
will be used only internally, in the C headers. The tarballs will be
named with the new scheme.
Adapt the release.sh script to correctly understand this versioning
scheme and to create the tarballs with the right new name.
This will enable us to use Packit to automate rpm updates.
In the previous commit meson.build was adapted to use versions with -dev
and -rc suffixes, as we create them in the Git tags, instead of versions
with micro>90 for RCs as we used to do. The tarball name will contain
the version with the new scheme, so adapt the spec file for it.
This will enable us to use Packit to do automatic updates.
This will create the tarball with names NetworkManager-1.56-rc2.tar.xz
or NetworkManager-1.57.1-dev.tar.xz. This way they will match with the
name of the Git tag, making easier for users, and specially for tools
like Packit, to understand the versioning scheme.
The goal is to make that there is only one public versioning scheme, the
one with -rc and -dev suffixes. Version numbers with micro>=90 for RC
releases is kept only as an internal thing for the C headers. Users of
the API can still use it.
Bump meson version to 0.56 to use str.substring().
Currently NetworkManager depends on the external ping binary to
perform the reachability check on IP addresses. This means that the NM
daemon package must depend on another package. On Fedora the iputils
package is 800KiB.
Implement the same functionality natively so that we can drop such
dependency.
Introduce a function that pings a given host. It opens a "ping socket"
(IPPROTO_ICMP), binds it to the given ifindex, connects it to the
remote address, and keep sending ICMP echo-request packets until it
receives a reply or the optional timeout is reached. By using this
kind of socket, the kernel automatically sets the ICMP ID on outgoing
packets and matches incoming packets by the same ID.
Wireless Extensions is the legacy, ioctl-based kernel interface used
to configure Wi-Fi cards. It has been deprecated and replaced by the
cfg80211/nl80211 API since 2007, as it doesn't support modern Wi-Fi
encryption and technologies. Mark it as deprecated, so that we can get
rid of some unmaintained and untested code in a future release.
When connecting to a wifi network and providing the password on the
command line, nmcli first looks if there is a compatible connection to
reuse. If there is not, it creates and activates a new one via a
single call to AddAndActivate().
If there is a compatible connection, nmcli first calls Update() on it
to set the new password and then Activate() to bring it up. Before
that, it registers a secret agent that can prompt for a new password
in case of authentication failure.
However, as soon as nmcli registers a secret agent, NM tries to
activate again the connection if it was blocked due to a previous
authentication failure. This connection attempt is going to fail
because it still uses the old password, as new one hasn't been set via
Update().
Change the order of operations to register the agent after Update()
and before Activate().
Reproducer:
nmcli device wifi connect SSID password BAD_PASSWORD
nmcli device wifi connect SSID password GOOD_PASSWORD
Fixes: c8ff1b30fb ('nmcli/dev: use secret agent for nmcli d [wifi] connect')
Executing this command twice, or when a connection profile already
exists for the SSID:
nmcli device wifi connect $SSID password $PASSWORD
returns error:
Error: 802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt: property is missing.
When setting the password nmcli was wiping the existing wireless
security setting.
Fixes: c8ff1b30fb ('nmcli/dev: use secret agent for nmcli d [wifi] connect')
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1688
Avoid build failures in some distros.
ERROR: Assert failed: systemd required but not found, please provide a valid systemd user generator dir or disable it
Fixes: 636fb5ef24 ('systemd: install initrd services using a generator')
The function strerror_r returns an int per POSIX spec, but GNU version
returns char *. Using it fails the compilation in Alpine, so use
_nm_strerror_r instead that handles both cases.
Fixes: 41e28b900f ('daemon-helper: add read-file-as-user')
Add a new public function nm_utils_copy_cert_as_user() to libnm. It
reads a certificate or key file on behalf of the given user and writes
it to a directory in /run/NetworkManager. It is useful for VPN plugins
that run as root and need to verify that the user owning the
connection (the one listed in the connection.permissions property) can
access the file.
Only allow private VPN connections if the VPN plugin declares the
supports-safe-private-file-access capability. Also check that the
private connection doesn't have more than one owner.
The new API indicates that the VPN plugin supports reading files
(certificates, keys) of private connections in a safe way
(i.e. checking user permissions), or that it doesn't need to read any
file from disk.
If we add a new property in the future and it references a certificate
or key stored on disk, we need to also implement the logic to verify
the access to the file for private connections.
Add a new property flag NM_SETTING_PARAM_CERT_KEY_FILE to existing
certificate and key properties, so that it's easier to see that they
need special treatment. Also add some assertions to verify that the
properties with the flag are handled properly.
While at it, move the enumeration of private-files to the settings.
In case of private connections, the device has already read the
certificates and keys content from disk, validating that the owner of
the connection has access to them. Pass those files as blobs to the
supplicant so that it doesn't have to read them again from the
filesystem, creating the opportunity for TOCTOU bugs.
During stage2 (prepare) of an activation, check if the connection is
private and if it contains any certificate/key path. If so, start
reading the files and delay stage2. Once done, store the files'
content into priv->private_files.table and continue the activation.
Add function nm_utils_read_private_files(). It can be used to read a
list of paths as the given user. It spawns the daemon-helper to read
each path and returns asynchronously a hash table containing the files
content.
Also add nm_utils_get_connection_private_files_paths() to return a
list of file paths referenced in a connection. The function currently
returns only 802.1x file paths for certificates and keys.
The full output of the daemon helper is added to a NMStrBuf, without
interpreting it as a string (that is, without stopping at the first
NUL character).
However, when we retrieve the content from the NMStrBuf we assume it's
a string. This is fine for certain commands that expect a string
output, but it's not for other commands as the read-file-as-user one.
Add a new argument to nm_utils_spawn_helper() to specify whether the
output is binary or not. Also have different finish functions
depending on the return type.
When connecting, we add the blobs to the Interface object of the
supplicant. Those blobs are not removed on disconnect and so when we
try to add blobs with the same id, the supplicant returns an error.
Make sure we start from a clean slate on each connection attempt, by
deleting all existing blobs. Probably we should also delete the added
blobs on disconnect, but that's left for a future improvement.
Add a new command to read the content of a file after switching to the
given user. This command can be used to enforce Unix filesystem
permissions when accessing a file on behalf of a user.
