Re: [PATCH 1/2] nwfilter: Pass the VM's UUID into the nwfilter subsystem

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On 11/28/2011 11:32 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> A preparatory patch for DHCP snooping where we want to be able to
> differentiate between a VM's interface using the tuple of
> <VM UUID, Interface MAC address>. We assume that MAC addresses could
> possibly be re-used between different networks (VLANs) thus do not only
> want to rely on the MAC address to identify an interface.
> 
> At the current 'final destination' in virNWFilterInstantiate I am leaving
> the vmuuid parameter as ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED until the DHCP snooping patches arrive.
> (we may not post the DHCP snooping patches for 0.9.8, though)

You may want to tweak the commit message, now that 0.9.8 is out :)

> 
> Mostly this is a pretty trivial patch. On the lowest layers, in lxc_driver
> and uml_conf, I am passing the virDomainDefPtr around until I am passing
> only the VM's uuid into the NWFilter calls.

This patch applied cleanly after your return status cleanup, and does
indeed look straight-forward.

> ---
>  src/conf/domain_nwfilter.c             |    3 ++-
>  src/conf/domain_nwfilter.h             |    2 ++
>  src/lxc/lxc_driver.c                   |    5 ++++-
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c         |    6 ++++--
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_gentech_driver.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_gentech_driver.h |    5 ++++-
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c    |    3 ++-
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                |    2 +-
>  src/qemu/qemu_process.c                |    2 +-
>  src/uml/uml_conf.c                     |   11 +++++++----
>  10 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: libvirt-acl/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c
> ===================================================================
> --- libvirt-acl.orig/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c
> +++ libvirt-acl/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c
> @@ -704,7 +704,8 @@ learnIPAddressThread(void *arg)
>                            "cache for interface %s"), inetaddr, req->ifname);
>              }
>  
> -            ret = virNWFilterInstantiateFilterLate(req->ifname,
> +            ret = virNWFilterInstantiateFilterLate(NULL,
> +                                                   req->ifname,

Is this going to bite us later?  Obviously, with the ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED in
this patch, it won't, but I'm wondering if you need to pass the uuid
through a few more calls (but that can be a separate patch).

ACK.

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Eric Blake   eblake@xxxxxxxxxx    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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