The permanent MAC address of an NMDevice shall not change as
long as the device is realized. That is, we read it only once
and don't change it afterwards.
There are two issues that this commit tries to mitigate:
(1) users are advised to use UDEV to rename interfaces. As we lookup
the permenent MAC address using ethtool (which uses the interface
name), there is a race where we could read the permanent MAC
address using the wrong interface name. We should wait until
UDEV finished initializing the device and until the interface
name is stable (see rh#1388286).
This commit still cannot avoid the race of ethtool entirely. It only
tries to avoid ethtool until UDEV has done its work. That is, until we
expect the interface name no longer to change.
(2) some device types, don't have a permanent MAC address so we fall
back to use the currently set address (fake). Again, users are advised
to use UDEV to configure the MAC addresses on such software devices.
Thus, we should not get the fake MAC address until UDEV initialized
the device.
This patch actually doesn't solve the problem at all yet.
The reason is that a regular caller of nm_device_get_permanent_hw_address() can
not afford to wait until UDEV settled. Thus, any user who requests the
permanent MAC address before the link is initialized, runs into the
problems above.
In a next step, we shall revisit such calls to nm_device_get_permanent_hw_address()
and delay them until the link is initialized.
We repeatedly call nm_device_update_hw_address() to reset the cached
MAC address of the device. However, we don't allow changing the address
length once it is set.
Multiple entities (initial, current and permanent MAC address) are all
checked to have the same address length. Changing the length would be a
very strange thing (and probably indicate a bug somewhere else).
Just don't allow that.
On devices that have no real permanent hardware address (as returned
by ethtool), we take the current MAC address of the device.
Currently, NM is a bit flaky about whether to accept such fake permanent
addresses for settings like keyfile.unmanaged-devices or the per-
connection property ethernet.mac-address. Probably, we should allow
using fake addresses there in general.
However, that leads to problems because NetworkManager itself changes
the current MAC address of such devices. For example when
configuing
keyfile.unmanaged-device=22:33:44:55:66:77
and later activating a connection with
ethernet.cloned-mac-address=22:33:44:55:66:77
we have a strange situation after restart and the device becomes
unmanaged.
We are going to avoid that, by remembering the fake permanent address
in the device state file.
This only matters:
- for devices that don't have a real permanent address (veth)
- if the user or NetworkManager itself changed the MAC address
of the device
- after a restart of NetworkManager, without reboot. A reboot
clears the device state for /var/run/NetworkManager.
_nm_utils_hwaddr_length() did a validation of the string
and returned the length of the address. In all cases where
we were interested in that, we also either want to validate
the address, get the address in binary form, or canonicalize
the address.
We can avoid these duplicate checks, by using _nm_utils_hwaddr_aton()
which both does the parsing and returning the length.
Since connection.autoconnect-slaves was introduced, we only allowed it
to autoactivate slaves for connections that were not slave themselves.
It seems useful to remove such limitation, but we must prevent an
infinite loop if there is a circular dependency between connections.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360386
nm_settings_connection_set_autoconnect_blocked_reason() must be called
on the settings-connection. Fixes the following:
GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from 'NMSimpleConnection' to 'NMSettingsConnection'
Fixes: 06da353242
When running under load (e.g. with parallel make and valgrind
enabled), the checked time interval might be too short. Relax
the assertion
NetworkManager:ERROR:src/tests/test-general-with-expect.c:65:test_nm_utils_monotonic_timestamp_as_boottime: assertion failed (now_boottime_2 - now_boottime <= NM_UTILS_NS_PER_SECOND / 1000): (15156494 <= 1000000)
When a global checkpoint is created (one with empty device list) we
save the status of all devices to restore it later. After the
checkpoint new interfaces and connections may appear and they can
significantly influence the overall networking status, but we don't
consider them at the moment.
Introduce a new flag DELETE_NEW_CONNECTIONS to delete any connection
added after the checkpoint and similarly a DISCONNECT_NEW_DEVICES to
ensure that the connection active on newly appeared devices doesn't
disrupt network connectivity.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378393
The user can configure the configuration paths via command line
arguments. If the user configures /var/run/NetworkManager/conf.d
as --system-config-dir or --config-dir, avoid using it as run-config
directory.
Yes, this doesn't catch
NetworkManager --config-dir=/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d \
--system-config-dir=/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/
This is useful for configuration that gets auto-generated from another source.
These are then not primary configuration files and thus should not be put into
/etc.
This mirrors the structure of udev rules or systemd units, which can also be in
/usr, /run/, or /etc/.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.trudel-lapierre@canonical.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773069
NetworkManager and nm-iface-helper compiled nm-dhcp-manager.c twice,
the latter with setting -DNM_DHCP_INTERNAL_ONLY to only enable the
internal plugin.
Change that to compile nm-dhcp-manager.c once for both users
by putting it into libNetworkManagerBase.
We only needed proper glib enum types for having properties
and signal arguments. These got all converted to plain int,
so no longer generate such an enum type.
Depending on how arguments are passed to the called function,
this could lead to a crash.
Maybe not on 32 bit machines where the size of the pointer is
the size of an int.
Maybe not on x86_64, where the arguments are passed in registers.
Fixes: b88c309167
