The purpose is to clear the entire available buffer, not only
up to the first '\0'. This is done, because otherwise we might
leak sensitive data that happens to be after the first '\0',
or we might give away the length of the secrets.
Of course, those are very (very) minor concerns. But avoiding them is
easy enough.
The latter requires __auto_type which is not available in GCC versions
older than 4.9. Fix the following compile error on RHEL 7.8:
CC src/src_libNetworkManagerBase_la-NetworkManagerUtils.lo
shared/n-dhcp4/src/n-dhcp4-c-probe.c: In function 'n_dhcp4_client_probe_transition_nak':
shared/n-dhcp4/src/n-dhcp4-c-probe.c:1008:17: error: unknown type name '__auto_type'
probe->ns_nak_restart_delay = c_clamp(probe->ns_nak_restart_delay * 2,
^
shared/n-dhcp4/src/n-dhcp4-c-probe.c:1008:17: error: unknown type name '__auto_type'
shared/n-dhcp4/src/n-dhcp4-c-probe.c:1008:17: error: unknown type name '__auto_type'
Fixes: 218782a9a3 ('n-dhcp4: restart the transaction after a NAK')
There is however a serious issue currently: when NetworkManager creates
virtual devices, it starts from an unrealized NMDevice, creates the
netdev device, realizes the device, and transitions through states
UNMANAGED and DISCONNECTED. Thereby, the state of NMDevice gets cleared
again. That means, if the profile has "connection.stable-id=${RANDOM}"
and "ethernet.cloned-mac-address=stable", then we will first set a
random MAC address when creating the device. Then, the NMDevice
transitions through UNMANAGED state, forgets the MAC address it
generated and creates a new MAC address in stage 1. This should be
fixed by better handling unrealized devices. It also affects all
software devices that set the MAC address upon creation of the
interfaces (as they all should).
In several cases, the layer 2 and layer 3 type are very similar, also from
kernel's point of view. For example, "gre"/"gretap" and "ip6tnl"/"ip6gre"/"ip6gretap"
and "macvlan"/"macvtap".
While it makes sense that these have different NMLinkType types
(NM_LINK_TYPE_MACV{LAN,TAP}) and different NMPObject types
(NMPObjectLnkMacv{lan,tap}), it makes less sense that they have
different NMPlatformLnk* structs.
Remove the NMPlatformLnkMacvtap typedef. A typedef does not make things simpler,
but is rather confusing. Because several API that we would usually have, does
not exist for the typedef (e.g. there is no nm_platform_lnk_macvtap_to_string()).
Note that we also don't have such a typedef for NMPlatformLnkIp6Tnl
and NMPlatformLnkGre, which has the same ambiguity between the link type
and the struct with the data.
IP tunnels honor ethernet.cloned-mac-address. That is a MAC address of 6 bytes (ETH_ALEN).
Note that for example for gre tunnels, kernel exposes an address 00:00:00:00. Hence, trying
to set ethernet.cloned-mac-address with an gre tunnel leads to an assertion failure.
Instead, report and log a regular error.
The 'retracted' event is emitted when the client receives a NAK in the
rebooting, requesting, renewing or rebinding state, while 'expired'
means that the client wasn't able to renew the lease before expiry.
In both cases the old lease is no longer valid and n-dhcp4 keep trying
to get a lease, so the two events should be handlded in the same way.
Note that the systemd client doesn't have a 'retracted' event and
considers all NAKs as 'expired' events.
It is not enough to set the INIT state after a NAK; a timeout
(ns_deferred) must be set so that it is added to the event fd. The
client retries immediately the first time, so that in the successful
case it gets an address quickly. To avoid flooding the network in case
of servers always replying with NAKs, next attempts are done with
intervals from 2 seconds to 5 minutes using exponential backoff. See
also systemd commit [1].
[1] 1d1a3e0afbhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/325
When the client enters the INIT state, it calls listen() on the
connection connection to create the packet socket. However, if the
client is coming from the REBOOTING state after a NAK, the connection
is already in the listening state; do nothing in such case.
When iterating the GMainContext of the NMClient instance, D-Bus events
get processed. That means, every time you iterate the context (or "return to
the main loop"), the content of the cache might change completely.
It makes sense to keep a reference to an NMObject instance, do something,
and afterwards check whether the instance can still be found in the cache.
Add an API for that. nm_object_get_client() allows to know whether the
object is still cached.
Likewise, while NMClient abstracts D-Bus, it should still provide a way
to look up an NMObject by D-Bus path. Add nm_client_get_object_by_path()
for that.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/384
Don't build the same sources multiple times. The test code should
statically link against the tested code, just like the device plugin
that uses the code in production.
Oddly enough, valgrind was not complaining about this leak...
Fixes: 87b2d783b6 ('core: accept 'ssids':aay option in RequestScan() dictionary parameter')
