NetworkManager/shared/nm-utils
Thomas Haller f0de7d347f platform: add non-exclusive routes and drop route-manager
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.
2017-08-24 10:48:03 +02:00
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c-list-util.c c-list: add c_list_sort() 2017-07-25 06:42:14 +02:00
c-list-util.h c-list: add c_list_sort() 2017-07-25 06:42:14 +02:00
c-list.h shared: update c-list 2017-07-05 14:22:10 +02:00
gsystem-local-alloc.h shared: move shared files to subdirectory "shared/nm-utils/" 2016-06-16 10:45:53 +02:00
nm-dedup-multi.c platform: add non-exclusive routes and drop route-manager 2017-08-24 10:48:03 +02:00
nm-dedup-multi.h platform: add non-exclusive routes and drop route-manager 2017-08-24 10:48:03 +02:00
nm-enum-utils.c shared: cast from/to argument to unsigned for GFlags in _nm_utils_enum_get_values() 2017-04-27 18:01:58 +02:00
nm-enum-utils.h libnm: move public nm_utils_enum_*() functions back to libnm-core 2017-04-05 18:38:31 +02:00
nm-glib.h all: use "static inline" keywords instead of "inline static" 2017-02-23 15:28:27 +01:00
nm-macros-internal.h platform: refactor NMPObject cast macros using _Generic() 2017-07-05 22:17:42 +02:00
nm-obj.h all: add base object type in "nm-obj.h" 2017-07-05 14:22:10 +02:00
nm-shared-utils.c shared: add nm_utils_str_utf8safe_*() API to sanitize UTF-8 strings 2017-05-19 09:46:08 +02:00
nm-shared-utils.h shared: add nm_g_slice_free_fcn() util 2017-08-23 18:37:21 +02:00
nm-test-utils.h test: redirect glib logging to stdout 2017-08-12 16:02:11 +02:00
nm-udev-utils.c libnm: don't cunescape \x00 encoding in nm_udev_utils_property_decode() 2017-05-19 09:46:08 +02:00
nm-udev-utils.h udev: add and use nm_udev_utils_property_decode() function 2017-03-22 12:41:06 +01:00
nm-vpn-editor-plugin-call.h shared: include "gsystem-local-alloc.h" from "nm-glib.h" 2016-06-16 10:45:54 +02:00
nm-vpn-plugin-macros.h shared: add nm_utils_syslog_coerce_from_nm() util 2016-09-19 15:35:33 +02:00
nm-vpn-plugin-utils.c shared: add "nm-utils/nm-vpn-plugin-utils.h" 2016-06-16 10:45:54 +02:00
nm-vpn-plugin-utils.h shared: add "nm-utils/nm-vpn-plugin-utils.h" 2016-06-16 10:45:54 +02:00
unaligned.h shared: add unaligned.h 2016-10-14 11:16:13 +02:00