libvirt/src/network
Thomas Woerner bf156385a0 network: use firewalld instead of iptables, when available
* configure.ac, spec file: firewalld defaults to enabled if dbus is
  available, otherwise is disabled. If --with_firewalld is explicitly
  requested and dbus is not available, configure will fail.

* bridge_driver: add dbus filters to get the FirewallD1.Reloaded
  signal and DBus.NameOwnerChanged on org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.
  When these are encountered, reload all the iptables reuls of all
  libvirt's virtual networks (similar to what happens when libvirtd is
  restarted).

* iptables, ebtables: use firewall-cmd's direct passthrough interface
  when available, otherwise use iptables and ebtables commands. This
  decision is made once the first time libvirt calls
  iptables/ebtables, and that decision is maintained for the life of
  libvirtd.

* Note that the nwfilter part of this patch was separated out into
  another patch by Stefan in V2, so that needs to be revised and
  re-reviewed as well.

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All the configure.ac and specfile changes are unchanged from Thomas'
V3.

V3 re-ran "firewall-cmd --state" every time a new rule was added,
which was extremely inefficient.  V4 uses VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT to set
up a one-time initialization function.

The VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT(x) macro references a static function called
vir(Ip|Eb)OnceInit(), which will then be called the first time that
the static function vir(Ip|Eb)TablesInitialize() is called (that
function is defined for you by the macro). This is
thread-safe, so there is no chance of any race.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I've left the VIR_DEBUG messages in these two init
functions (one for iptables, on for ebtables) as VIR_WARN so that I
don't have to turn on all the other debug message just to see
these. Even if this patch doesn't need any other modification, those
messages need to be changed to VIR_DEBUG before pushing.

This one-time initialization works well. However, I've encountered
problems with testing:

1) Whenever I have enabled the firewalld service, *all* attempts to
call firewall-cmd from within libvirtd end with firewall-cmd hanging
internally somewhere. This is *not* the case if firewall-cmd returns
non-0 in response to "firewall-cmd --state" (i.e. *that* command runs
and returns to libvirt successfully.)

2) If I start libvirtd while firewalld is stopped, then start
firewalld later, this triggers libvirtd to reload its iptables rules,
however it also spits out a *ton* of complaints about deletion failing
(I suppose because firewalld has nuked all of libvirt's rules). I
guess we need to suppress those messages (which is a more annoying
problem to fix than you might think, but that's another story).

3) I noticed a few times during this long line of errors that
firewalld made a complaint about "Resource Temporarily
unavailable. Having libvirtd access iptables commands directly at the
same time as firewalld is doing so is apparently problematic.

4) In general, I'm concerned about the "set it once and never change
it" method - if firewalld is disabled at libvirtd startup, causing
libvirtd to always use iptables/ebtables directly, this won't cause
*terrible* problems, but if libvirtd decides to use firewall-cmd and
firewalld is later disabled, libvirtd will not be able to recover.
2012-08-21 13:40:58 -04:00
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bridge_driver.c network: use firewalld instead of iptables, when available 2012-08-21 13:40:58 -04:00
bridge_driver.h Desert the FSF address in copyright 2012-07-23 10:50:50 +08:00
default.xml Move config files to align with driver sources 2009-09-21 14:41:45 +01:00