Creating firewall rules for the virtual networks causes the kernel to
load the conntrack module. This imposes a significant performance
penalty on Linux network traffic. Thus we want to only take that hit if
we actually have virtual networks running.
We need to create global firewall rules during startup in order to
"upgrade" rules for any running networks created by older libvirt.
If no running networks are present though, we can safely delay setup
until the time we actually start a network.
Reviewed-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
During startup we create some top level chains in which all
virtual network firewall rules will be placed. The upfront
creation is done to avoid slowing down creation of individual
virtual networks by checking for chain existance every time.
There are some factors which can cause this upfront creation
to fail and while a message will get into the libvirtd log
this won't be seen by users who later try to start a virtual
network. Instead they'll just get a message saying that the
libvirt top level chain does not exist. This message is
accurate, but unhelpful for solving the root cause.
This patch thus saves any error during daemon startup and
reports it when trying to create a virtual network later.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Allow the platform driver impls to run logic before and after the
firewall reload process.
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
In many files there are header comments that contain an Author:
statement, supposedly reflecting who originally wrote the code.
In a large collaborative project like libvirt, any non-trivial
file will have been modified by a large number of different
contributors. IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,
omitting people who have made significant contribitions.
In some places Author: lines have been added despite the person
merely being responsible for creating the file by moving existing
code out of another file. IOW, the Author: lines give an incorrect
record of authorship.
With this all in mind, the comments are useless as a means to identify
who to talk to about code in a particular file. Contributors will always
be better off using 'git log' and 'git blame' if they need to find the
author of a particular bit of code.
This commit thus deletes all Author: comments from the source and adds
a rule to prevent them reappearing.
The Copyright headers are similarly misleading and inaccurate, however,
we cannot delete these as they have legal meaning, despite being largely
inaccurate. In addition only the copyright holder is permitted to change
their respective copyright statement.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The networkCheckRouteCollision, networkAddFirewallRules and
networkRemoveFirewallRules APIs all take a virNetworkObjPtr
instance, but only ever access the 'def' member. It thus
simplifies testing if the APIs are changed to just take a
virNetworkDefPtr instead
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The bridge_driver_platform.h defines many functions that
a platform driver must implement. Only two of these
functions are actually called from the main bridge driver
code. The remainder can be made internal to the linux
driver only.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
* Move platform specific things (e.g. firewalling and route
collision checks) into bridge_driver_platform
* Create two platform specific implementations:
- bridge_driver_linux: Linux implementation using iptables,
it's actually the code moved from bridge_driver.c
- bridge_driver_nop: dumb implementation that does nothing
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
