NetworkManager/shared
Thomas Haller cdd8c65799 platform: fix cache to use kernel's notion for equality of routes
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.
2017-08-12 16:04:28 +02:00
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nm-utils platform: fix cache to use kernel's notion for equality of routes 2017-08-12 16:04:28 +02:00
nm-common-macros.h all: modify line separator comments to be 80 chars wide 2016-10-03 12:01:15 +02:00
nm-dbus-compat.h build: rename directory "include" to "shared" 2015-12-24 11:42:37 +01:00
nm-default.h build: disable type checks in G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST() macros (bgo#771120) 2016-09-12 13:53:34 +02:00
nm-dispatcher-api.h build: cleanup src/Makefile.am 2016-08-11 11:54:18 +02:00
nm-meta-setting.c cli: don't mark field names for translation 2017-04-23 23:45:02 +02:00
nm-meta-setting.h cli: add meta data for NMSettingGeneric 2017-04-12 14:12:20 +02:00
nm-test-libnm-utils.h shared: move shared files to subdirectory "shared/nm-utils/" 2016-06-16 10:45:53 +02:00
nm-test-utils-impl.c build: allow specifying the python interpreter for building 2016-12-14 19:00:42 +01:00
nm-version-macros.h.in release: bump version to 1.9.0 (development) 2017-03-28 16:34:22 +02:00