NetworkManager/src
Beniamino Galvani e9ca5583e5 platform: add bpf filter to ignore routes from routing daemons
Routing daemons can add a large amount of routes to the
system. Currently NM receives netlink notifications for all those
routes and exposes them on D-Bus. With many routes, the daemon becomes
increasingly slow and uses a lot of memory.

The rtm_protocol field of the route indicates the source of the
route. From /usr/include/linux/rtnetlink.h, the allowed values are:

  #define RTPROT_UNSPEC          0
  #define RTPROT_REDIRECT        1        /* Route installed by ICMP redirects;
                                             not used by current IPv4 */
  #define RTPROT_KERNEL          2        /* Route installed by kernel */
  #define RTPROT_BOOT            3        /* Route installed during boot */
  #define RTPROT_STATIC          4        /* Route installed by administrator */

  /* Values of protocol >= RTPROT_STATIC are not interpreted by kernel;
     they are just passed from user and back as is.
     It will be used by hypothetical multiple routing daemons.
     Note that protocol values should be standardized in order to
     avoid conflicts.
   */

  #define RTPROT_GATED           8        /* Apparently, GateD */
  #define RTPROT_RA              9        /* RDISC/ND router advertisements */
  #define RTPROT_MRT            10        /* Merit MRT */
  #define RTPROT_ZEBRA          11        /* Zebra */
  #define RTPROT_BIRD           12        /* BIRD */
  #define RTPROT_DNROUTED       13        /* DECnet routing daemon */
  #define RTPROT_XORP           14        /* XORP */
  #define RTPROT_NTK            15        /* Netsukuku */
  #define RTPROT_DHCP           16        /* DHCP client */
  #define RTPROT_MROUTED        17        /* Multicast daemon */
  #define RTPROT_KEEPALIVED     18        /* Keepalived daemon */
  #define RTPROT_BABEL          42        /* Babel daemon */
  #define RTPROT_OPENR          99        /* Open Routing (Open/R) Routes */
  #define RTPROT_BGP           186        /* BGP Routes */
  #define RTPROT_ISIS          187        /* ISIS Routes */
  #define RTPROT_OSPF          188        /* OSPF Routes */
  #define RTPROT_RIP           189        /* RIP Routes */
  #define RTPROT_EIGRP         192        /* EIGRP Routes */

Since NM uses only values <= RTPROT_STATIC, plus RTPROT_RA and
RTPROT_DHCP, add a BPF filter to the netlink socket to discard
notifications for other route types.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861527
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1038
2021-12-09 13:19:45 +01:00
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c-list src/c-list: reimport 2021-10-01 16:18:06 +02:00
c-rbtree c-rbtree: re-import git-subtree for 'src/c-rbtree' 2021-10-01 16:12:15 +02:00
c-siphash c-siphash: re-import git-subtree for 'src/c-siphash' 2021-10-01 16:07:26 +02:00
c-stdaux src/c-stdaux: reimport 2021-10-01 15:57:23 +02:00
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core nm-device: prefer manually configured addresses to automatic 2021-12-01 15:04:16 +01:00
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libnm-log-null all: add some README.md files describing the purpose of our sources 2021-08-19 17:51:11 +02:00
libnm-platform platform: add bpf filter to ignore routes from routing daemons 2021-12-09 13:19:45 +01:00
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libnm-systemd-core systemd: byte order to host before using the lifetime 2021-11-30 11:42:40 +01:00
libnm-systemd-shared systemd: merge branch systemd into main 2021-10-08 18:04:37 +02:00
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linux-headers linux-headers: update nl802154.h kernel header 2021-09-06 10:00:36 +02:00
n-acd n-acd: fix handling of N_ACD_E_DROPPED 2021-09-30 15:10:17 +02:00
n-dhcp4 n-dhcp4: add an accessor for the file name in the lease 2021-07-27 09:36:33 +02:00
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nm-initrd-generator initrd: don't add a connection if there's a connection dir with rd.neednet 2021-12-01 15:13:16 +01:00
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nmcli nmcli: fix "remove" command to really remove the property 2021-12-01 12:08:04 +01:00
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tests cli: add support for connection.dns-over-tls 2021-10-15 10:00:46 +02:00
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src/

Most of the subdirectories are static helper libraries, which get linked into one of the final build artifacts (like libnm, nmcli or NetworkManager). Static libraries are internal API.

The only public API is libnm, which is a shared library provided client implementations.

Our own clients (like nmcli and nmtui) also use libnm, the shared library. But they also use additional static helper libraries.

The daemon statically links against a part of libnm, the part that provides connection profiles. That is libnm-core. libnm-core is thus statically linked with libnm and the daemon. It does not get linked by clients that already link with libnm (like nmtui).

Read the individual README.md files in the subdirectories for details:

Directory Description
core/ the NetworkManager daemon
nmcli/ nmcli application, a command line client for NetworkManager
nmtui/ nmtui application, a text UI client for NetworkManager
nm-cloud-setup/ service to automatically configure NetworkManager in cloud environment
nm-initrd-generator/ generates NetworkManager configuration by parsing kernel command line options for dracut/initrd
nm-dispatcher/ NetworkManager-dispatcher service to run user scripts
nm-online/ application which checks whether NetworkManager is done, for implementing NetworkManager-wait-online.service
nm-sudo/ internal service for privileged operations
nm-daemon-helper/ internal helper binary spawned by NetworkManager
libnm-std-aux/ internal helper library for standard C
libnm-glib-aux/ internal helper library for glib
libnm-log-null/ internal helper library with dummy (null) logging backend
libnm-log-core/ internal helper library with logging backend (syslog) used by daemon
libnm-base/ internal helper library with base definitions
libnm-platform/ internal helper library for netlink and other platform/kernel API
libnm-udev-aux/ internal helper library for libudev
libnm-core-public/ public API of libnm (libnm-core part)
libnm-core-intern/ internal API of libnm-core, used by libnm and daemon
libnm-core-impl/ implementation of libnm-core
libnm-core-aux-intern/ internal helper library on top of libnm-core (used by libnm-core itself)
libnm-core-aux-extern/ internal helper library on top of libnm-core (not used by libnm-core)
libnm-client-public/ public API of libnm (NMClient part)
libnm-client-impl/ implementation of libnm (NMClient)
libnm-client-aux-extern/ internal helper library on top of libnm (not used by libnm itself)
libnmc-base/ internal helper library for libnm clients
libnmc-setting/ internal helper library for setting connection profiles (used by nmcli)
libnmt-newt/ internal helper library for libnewt for nmtui
linux-headers/ extra Linux kernel UAPI headers
contrib/ sources that are not used by NetworkManager itself
tests/ unit tests that are not specific to one of the other directories
libnm-client-test/ internal helper library with test utils for libnm
c-list/ fork of c-util helper library for intrusive, doubly linked list
c-rbtree/ fork of c-util helper library for intrusive Red-Black Tree
c-siphash/ fork of c-util helper library for SIPHash24
c-stdaux/ fork of c-util general purpose helpers for standard C
n-acd/ fork of nettools IPv4 ACD library
n-dhcp4/ fork of nettools DHCPv4 library
libnm-systemd-core/ fork of systemd code as network library
libnm-systemd-shared/ fork of systemd code as general purpose library