We want to add addresses in a particular order so that source address
selection works.
Note that @known_addresses contains the desired addresses in order of
least-important first, while @plat_addresses contains them in opposite
order. Previously, this inverted order was not considered, and we
essentially ended up removing and re-adding all addresses every time.
Fix that. While at it, get rid of the O(n^2) runtime complexity, and
make it O(n) by iterating both lists simultaneously.
Often, we want in API that an input argument is read-only and not modified
by the function call. Not modifying input arguments is a good
convention.
However, in this case there are only two callers, and both clearly do
not care whether the @known_addresses array will be modified.
Clear out addresses that are already expired and enforce that there are
no duplicate addresses. Basically, use @known_addresses for bookkeeping
which addresses are to be ignored.
Add a function that allows to re-request all objects of a certain type.
Usually, the cache is supposed to keep itself in a consistent state and
this function is not useful.
It is however useful during testing and debugging to explicitly reload
an object type.
If you ever think to need this function in non-testing code, then
something else is probably wrong with the cache implementation.
XXX was used to either raise attention (NOTE) or to indicate
that this is ugly code that should be fixed (FIXME). The usage
was inconsistent.
Let's avoid XXX and use either NOTE or FIXME.
It only makes sense to call delete() with NMPObjects that
we obtained from the platform cache. Otherwise, if we didn't
get it from the cache in the first place, we wouldn't know
what to delete.
Hence, the input argument is (almost) always an NMPObject
in the first place. That is different from add(), where
we might create a new specific NMPlatform* instance on the
stack. For add() it makes slightly more sense to have different
functions depending on the type. For delete(), it doesn't.
The "onlink" flag for IPv4 routes is part of the route ID.
Consider it in nm_platform_ip4_route_cmp().
Also, allow configuring the flag when adding a route.
Note that for IPv6, the onlink flag is still ignored.
Pretty much like kernel does.
Setting the MTU failes under regular conditions, for example when
setting the MTU of a master larger then the MTU of the slaves.
Logging a warning it too alarming.
We often want to cascade hashing, meaning, to combine the
outcome of various hash functions in a larger hash.
Instead of having each hash function return a guint hash value,
accept a hash state argument. This saves the overhead of initializing
and completing the intermediate hash states.
It also avoids loosing entropy when we reduce the larger hash state
into the intermediate guint hash value.
Whenever we call a platform operation that reads or writes the netlink
socket, there is the possibility that the cache gets updated, as we
receive netlink events.
It is thus racy, if nm_platform_ip_route_sync() *first* adds routes, and
then obtains a list of routes to delete. The correct approach is to
determine which routes to delete first (and keep it in a list
@routes_prune), and pass that list down to nm_platform_ip_route_sync().
Arguably, this doesn't yet solve every race. For example, NMDevice
calls update_ext_ip_config() during ip4_config_merge_and_apply().
That is good, as it resyncs with platform. However, before calling
nm_ip4_config_commit() it calls other platform operations, like
_commit_mtu(). So, the race is still there.
Kernel does not allow to add a route with table 0 (RT_TABLE_UNSPEC). It
effectively is an alias for the main table. We must consider that when
comparing routes sementically.
Kernel does not allow to add IPv6 routes with "src", as long as the
corresponding address is still tentative (related bug rh#1457196).
The workaround for this is cumbersome. First, when we fail to add such a
route with "pref_src", we guess that it happend due to this issue. In
that case, nm_ip6_config_commit() returns the list of routes that could
not be added for the moment (but hopefully can be added later).
We track this list in NMDevice, and keep trying to merge the routes
back into ip6_config. In order to not try indefinitely, keep track of a
timestamp when we tried to add this route for the first time.
Another uglyness is that pending tentative routes don't explicitly block
activation. In practice they may do, because for these routes we also have
an IPv6 address that is still doing DAD, so the IP configuration is
still pending due to that.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452684
Let's not treat those routes special. I think this was originally done, because
we relied on kernel to add the IPv4 device route, so we would ignore RTPROT_KERNEL
routes and not delete them.
We want to track them for various reasons:
- for consistency, there is nothing special except that they might be
added by kernel.
- we expose the routes of NMIP4Config/NMIP6Config on D-Bus. That should
include also routes such as device routes. Note, this commit changes
that we now expose device routes on D-Bus too.
For kernel, route ID compare identical according to NM_PLATFORM_IP_ROUTE_CMP_TYPE_ID.
Well, mostly. In practice, NM ignores several route properties that
kernel considers part of the ID too. This leaves the possibility that
kernel allows addition of two routes that compare idential for
NetworkManager.
Anyway, NMIP4Config/NMIP6Config should use the same equality as platform
cache. Otherwise, there is the odd situation that ip-config merges routes
that are treated as different by kernel.
For IP addresses the ID operator already corresponded to what kernel
does. There is no change for addresses.
Note that NMSettingIPConfig also uses a different algorithm for
comparing routes. But that doesn't really matter here, it it differed
before too.
Change the output of nm_platform_error_to_string() to print the numeric value.
Also, accept a string buffer instead of using an alloca() allocated buffer.
There is still a macro to provide the previous functionality, but it
was ill-suited to call from inside a loop.
Let nm_platform_ip_route_add() and friends return an NMPlatformError
failure reason.
Also, do_add_addrroute() did not return the response from kernel.
Instead, it determined success/failure based on the presence of the
object in the cache. That is racy and does not allow to give a failure
reason from kernel.
Instead, determine success solely based on the netlink reply from
kernel. The received errno shall be authorative, there is no need
to second guess the response.
There is a problem that netlink is not a reliable protocol. In case
of receive buffer overflow, the response is lost and we don't know
whether the command succeeded (it likely did). It's unclear how to fix
that, but for now just return "unspecified" error. We probably avoid
that already by having a huge buffer size.
Also, downgrade the error message to <warn> level. <error> is really
for bugs only.
Inspired from iproute2. As such, don't use libnl3's "struct nl_msg", but
add _nl_addattr_l() and use a stack-allocated "struct nlmsghdr". With
this, we are closer to the raw netlink API. It really is simple enough.
The complicated part of the patch is that we re-use the existing netlink
socket for events. Hence, we must process the socket via our common
event_handler_recvmsgs(). That also means, that we get the netlink
response a few layers down the stack and have to return the result
via DelayedActionWaitForNlResponseData.
Previously, we would add exclusive routes via netlink message flags
NLM_F_CREATE | NLM_F_REPLACE for RTM_NEWROUTE. Similar to `ip route replace`.
Using that form of RTM_NEWROUTE message, we could only add a certain
route with a certain network/plen,metric triple once. That was already
hugely inconvenient, because
- when configuring routes, multiple (managed) interfaces may get
conflicting routes (multihoming). Only one of the routes can be actually
configured using `ip route replace`, so we need to track routes that are
currently shadowed.
- when configuring routes, we might replace externally configured
routes on unmanaged interfaces. We should not interfere with such
routes.
That was worked around by having NMRouteManager (and NMDefaultRouteManager).
NMRouteManager would keep a list of the routes which NetworkManager would like
to configure, even if momentarily being unable to do so due to conflicting routes.
This worked mostly well but was complicated. It involved bumping metrics to
avoid conflicts for device routes, as we might require them for gateway routes.
Drop that now. Instead, use the corresponding of `ip route append` to configure
routes. This allows NetworkManager to confiure (almost) all routes that we care.
Especially, it can configure all routes on a managed interface, without
replacing/interfering with routes on other interfaces. Hence, NMRouteManager
becomes obsolete.
It practice it is a bit more complicated because:
- when adding an IPv4 address, kernel will automatically create a device route
for the subnet. We should avoid that by using the IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE flag for
IPv4 addresses (still to-do). But as kernel may not support that flag for IPv4
addresses yet (and we don't require such a kernel yet), we still need functionality
similar to nm_route_manager_ip4_route_register_device_route_purge_list().
This functionality is now handled via nm_platform_ip4_dev_route_blacklist_set().
- trying to configure an IPv6 route with a source address will be rejected
by kernel as long as the address is tentative (see related bug rh#1457196).
Preferably, NMDevice would keep the list of routes which should be configured,
while kernel would have the list of what actually is configured. There is a
feed-back loop where both affect each other (for example, when externally deleting
a route, NMDevice must forget about it too). Previously, NMRouteManager would have
the task of remembering all routes which we currently want to configure, but cannot
due to conflicting routes.
We get rid of that, because now we configure non-exclusive routes. We however still
will need to remember IPv6 routes with a source address, that currently cannot be
configured yet. Hence, we will need to keep track of routes that
currently cannot be configured, but later may be.
That is still not done yet, as NMRouteManager didn't handle this
correctly either.
Rename to nm_platform_ip_address_flush(), it's more consistent with naming
for other platform functions.
Also, pass an address family argument. Sometimes I feel an option makes it clearer
what the function does. Otherwise, from the name it's not clear which address
families are affected. As an API, it feels more correct to me.
We soon also get a nm_platform_ip_route_flush() function, which will
look similar.
Until now, NetworkManager's platform cache for routes used the quadruple
network/plen,metric,ifindex for equaliy. That is not kernel's
understanding of how routes behave. For example, with `ip route append`
you can add two IPv4 routes that only differ by their gateway. To
the previous form of platform cache, these two routes would wrongly
look identical, as the cache could not contain both routes. This also
easily leads to cache-inconsistencies.
Now that we have NM_PLATFORM_IP_ROUTE_CMP_TYPE_ID, fix the route's
compare operator to match kernel's.
Well, not entirely. Kernel understands more properties for routes then
NetworkManager. Some of these properties may also be part of the ID according
to kernel. To NetworkManager such routes would still look identical as
they only differ in a property that is not understood. This can still
cause cache-inconsistencies. The only fix here is to add support for
all these properties in NetworkManager as well. However, it's less serious,
because with this commit we support several of the more important properties.
See also the related bug rh#1337855 for kernel.
Another difficulty is that `ip route replace` and `ip route change`
changes an existing route. The replaced route has the same
NM_PLATFORM_IP_ROUTE_CMP_TYPE_WEAK_ID, but differ in the actual
NM_PLATFORM_IP_ROUTE_CMP_TYPE_ID:
# ip -d -4 route show dev v
# ip monitor route &
# ip route add 192.168.5.0/24 dev v
192.168.5.0/24 dev v scope link
# ip route change 192.168.5.0/24 dev v scope 10
192.168.5.0/24 dev v scope 10
# ip -d -4 route show dev v
unicast 192.168.5.0/24 proto boot scope 10
Note that we only got one RTM_NEWROUTE message, although from NMPCache's
point of view, a new route (with a particular ID) was added and another
route (with a different ID) was deleted. The cumbersome workaround is,
to keep an ordered list of the routes, and figure out which route was
replaced in response to an RTM_NEWROUTE. In absence of bugs, this should
work fine. However, as we only rely on events, we might wrongly
introduce a cache-inconsistancy as well. See the related bug rh#1337860.
Also drop nm_platform_ip4_route_get() and the like. The ID of routes
is complex, so it makes little sense to look up a route directly.
Via the flags of the RTM_NEWROUTE netlink message, kernel and iproute2
support various variants to add a route.
- ip route add
- ip route change
- ip route replace
- ip route prepend
- ip route append
- ip route test
Previously, our nm_platform_ip4_route_add() function was basically
`ip route replace`. In the future, we should rather user `ip route
append` instead.
Anyway, expose the netlink message flags in the API. This allows to
use the various forms, and makes it also more apparent to the user that
they even exist.
- kernel ignores rtm_tos for IPv6 routes. While iproute2 accepts it,
let libnm reject TOS attribute for routes as well.
- move the tos field from NMPlatformIPRoute to NMPlatformIP4Route.
- the tos field is part of the weak-id of an IPv4 route. Meaning,
`ip route add` can add routes that only differ by their TOS.
There are various notions of how to compare routes. Collect them all
in nm_platform_ip4_route_cmp(), nm_platform_ip4_route_hash(),
nm_platform_ip6_route_cmp(), and nm_platform_ip6_route_hash().
This way, we have them side-by-side, which makes the differences more
discoverable.
The mss (advmss, RTA_METRICS.RTAX_ADVMSS) is in a way part of
the ID for IPv4 routes. That is, you can add multiple IPv4 routes, that
only differ by mss.
On the other hand, that is not the case for IPv6. Two IPv6 routes
that only differ by mss are considered the same.
Another issue is, that you cannot selectively delete an IPv4 route based
on the mss:
ip netns del x
ip netns add x
IP() {
ip netns exec x ip "$@"
}
IP link add type veth
IP link set veth0 name v
IP link set veth1 up
IP link set v up
IP route append 192.168.7.0/24 dev v advmss 6
IP route append 192.168.7.0/24 dev v advmss 7
IP -d route show dev v
IP route delete 192.168.7.0/24 dev v advmss 7
IP -d route show dev v
It seems for deleting routes, kernel ignores mss (which doesn't really
matter for IPv6, but does so for IPv4).
