[libvirt] [PATCHv3 1/2] network: added waiting for DAD to finish for bridge address.

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Thu Oct 15 18:03:45 UTC 2015


Sorry I keep delaying replying about this patch. Whenever I start, I run 
into a problem with it, then while I'm trying to decide how to respond I 
get distracted by something else and forget to come back.


On 09/29/2015 06:16 AM, Maxim Perevedentsev wrote:
> This is a fix for commit db488c79173b240459c7754f38c3c6af9b432970
> dnsmasq main process exits without waiting for DAD, this is dnsmasq
> daemon's task. So we periodically poll the kernel using netlink and
> check whether there are any IPv6 addresses assigned to bridge
> which have 'tentative' state. After DAD is finished, execution continues.
> I guess that is what dnsmasq was assumed to do.

Correct. The author of that patch assumed that DAD would be finished by 
the time dnsmasq daemonized, but as we learned from Simon Kelley on the 
dnsmasq mailing list, this isn't the case. We can go ahead and state 
this as fact in the commit message.

> ---
>
> Difference to v1: fixed syntax (comments and alignment).
> Difference to v2: moved to virnetdev.
>
>   src/libvirt_private.syms    |   1 +
>   src/network/bridge_driver.c |  35 +++++++++-
>   src/util/virnetdev.c        | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   src/util/virnetdev.h        |   2 +
>   4 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
> index c87efa1..514560b 100644
> --- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
> +++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
> @@ -1791,6 +1791,7 @@ virNetDevSetRcvMulti;
>   virNetDevSetupControl;
>   virNetDevSysfsFile;
>   virNetDevValidateConfig;
> +virNetDevWaitDadFinish;
>
>
>   # util/virnetdevbandwidth.h
> diff --git a/src/network/bridge_driver.c b/src/network/bridge_driver.c
> index c343e5b..0a93678 100644
> --- a/src/network/bridge_driver.c
> +++ b/src/network/bridge_driver.c
> @@ -2026,6 +2026,33 @@ networkAddRouteToBridge(virNetworkObjPtr network,
>   }
>
>   static int
> +networkWaitDadFinish(virNetworkObjPtr network)
> +{
> +    virNetworkIpDefPtr ipdef;
> +    virSocketAddrPtr *addrs = NULL;
> +    size_t i;
> +    int ret;
> +    for (i = 0;
> +         (ipdef = virNetworkDefGetIpByIndex(network->def, AF_INET6, i));
> +         i++) {}
> +
> +    if (i == 0)
> +        return 0;
> +    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(addrs, i))
> +        return -1;
> +
> +    for (i = 0;
> +         (ipdef = virNetworkDefGetIpByIndex(network->def, AF_INET6, i));
> +         i++) {
> +        addrs[i] = &ipdef->address;
> +    }

This code could be much more compact (and only very slightly less 
efficient) by using something like:

    virNetworkIpDefPtr ipdef;
    virSocketAddrPtr addrs = NULL;
    size_t i, naddrs = 0;
    for (i = 0; (ipdef == virNetworkDefGetIpByIndex(...); i++) {
        if (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT_COPY(addrs, naddrs, ipdef->address) < 0)
            return -1;
    }
    if (naddrs == 0)
        return 0;


addrs would then be a pointer to an array of addresses rather than a 
pointer to an array of pointers to addresses, so the lower functions 
would need to be adjusted accordingly.

(NB: due to the switch from stuff** to stuff*, there would be fewer 
mallocs than your existing code, although at each malloc you could 
potentially incur the penalty of a copy of all existing elements. For 
the size of array we're talking about though, this is inconsequential 
(especially since any good malloc implementation will carve out memory 
in larger chunks, and so will not need to do a copy each time the region 
is realloced).

> +
> +    ret = virNetDevWaitDadFinish(addrs, i);

s/i/naddrs/ after the above change.

> +    VIR_FREE(addrs);

The way you have this now, the above leaks the memory pointed to by each 
element in the array. (once you switch from virSocketAddrPtr* to 
virSocketAddr* this would no longer be a problem).

> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int
>   networkStartNetworkVirtual(virNetworkDriverStatePtr driver,
>                              virNetworkObjPtr network)
>   {
> @@ -2159,7 +2186,13 @@ networkStartNetworkVirtual(virNetworkDriverStatePtr driver,
>       if (v6present && networkStartRadvd(driver, network) < 0)
>           goto err4;
>
> -    /* DAD has happened (dnsmasq waits for it), dnsmasq is now bound to the
> +    /* dnsmasq main process does not wait for DAD to complete,
> +     * so we need to wait for it ourselves.
> +     */
> +    if (v6present && networkWaitDadFinish(network) < 0)
> +        goto err4;
> +
> +    /* DAD has happened, dnsmasq is now bound to the
>        * bridge's IPv6 address, so we can now set the dummy tun down.
>        */
>       if (tapfd >= 0) {
> diff --git a/src/util/virnetdev.c b/src/util/virnetdev.c
> index 579ff3b..3d77b37 100644
> --- a/src/util/virnetdev.c
> +++ b/src/util/virnetdev.c
> @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ VIR_LOG_INIT("util.netdev");
>   # define FEATURE_BIT_IS_SET(blocks, index, field)        \
>       (FEATURE_WORD(blocks, index, field) & FEATURE_FIELD_FLAG(index))
>   #endif
> +# define IP_BUF_SIZE 4096
>
>   typedef enum {
>       VIR_MCAST_TYPE_INDEX_TOKEN,
> @@ -1305,6 +1306,103 @@ int virNetDevClearIPAddress(const char *ifname,
>       return ret;
>   }
>
> +/* return whether there is a known address with 'tentative' flag set */
> +static int
> +virNetDevParseDadStatus(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int len,
> +                        virSocketAddrPtr *addrs, size_t count)
> +{
> +    struct ifaddrmsg *ifaddrmsg_ptr;
> +    unsigned int ifaddrmsg_len;
> +    struct rtattr *rtattr_ptr;
> +    size_t i;
> +    struct in6_addr *addr;
> +    for (; NLMSG_OK(nlh, len); nlh = NLMSG_NEXT(nlh, len)) {
> +        if (NLMSG_PAYLOAD(nlh, 0) < sizeof(struct ifaddrmsg)) {
> +            /* Message without payload is the last one. */
> +            break;
> +        }
> +
> +        ifaddrmsg_ptr = (struct ifaddrmsg *)NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
> +        if (!(ifaddrmsg_ptr->ifa_flags & IFA_F_TENTATIVE)) {
> +            /* Not tentative: we are not interested in this entry. */
> +            continue;
> +        }
> +
> +        ifaddrmsg_len = IFA_PAYLOAD(nlh);
> +        rtattr_ptr = (struct rtattr *) IFA_RTA(ifaddrmsg_ptr);
> +        for (; RTA_OK(rtattr_ptr, ifaddrmsg_len);
> +            rtattr_ptr = RTA_NEXT(rtattr_ptr, ifaddrmsg_len)) {
> +            if (RTA_PAYLOAD(rtattr_ptr) != sizeof(struct in6_addr)) {
> +                /* No address: ignore. */
> +                continue;
> +            }
> +
> +            /* We check only known addresses. */
> +            for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> +                addr = &addrs[i]->data.inet6.sin6_addr;
> +                if (!memcmp(addr, RTA_DATA(rtattr_ptr),
> +                            sizeof(struct in6_addr))) {
> +                    /* We found matching tentative address. */
> +                    return 1;
> +                }
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/* return after DAD finishes for all known IPv6 addresses or an error */
> +int
> +virNetDevWaitDadFinish(virSocketAddrPtr *addrs, size_t count)
> +{
> +    struct nl_msg *nlmsg = NULL;
> +    struct ifaddrmsg ifa;
> +    struct nlmsghdr *resp = NULL;
> +    unsigned int recvbuflen;
> +    int ret = -1, dad = 1;
> +
> +    if (!(nlmsg = nlmsg_alloc_simple(RTM_GETADDR,
> +                                     NLM_F_REQUEST | NLM_F_DUMP))) {
> +        virReportOOMError();
> +        return -1;
> +    }
> +
> +    memset(&ifa, 0, sizeof(ifa));
> +    /* DAD is for IPv6 adresses only. */
> +    ifa.ifa_family = AF_INET6;
> +    if (nlmsg_append(nlmsg, &ifa, sizeof(ifa), NLMSG_ALIGNTO) < 0) {
> +        virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
> +                       _("allocated netlink buffer is too small"));
> +        goto cleanup;
> +    }
> +
> +    /* Periodically query netlink until DAD finishes on all known addresses. */
> +    while (dad) {
> +        if (virNetlinkCommand(nlmsg, &resp, &recvbuflen, 0, 0,
> +                              NETLINK_ROUTE, 0) < 0)
> +            goto cleanup;
> +
> +        if (virNetlinkGetErrorCode(resp, recvbuflen) < 0) {
> +            virReportError(VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR, "%s",
> +                           _("error reading DAD state information"));
> +            goto cleanup;
> +        }
> +
> +        /* Parse response. */
> +        dad = virNetDevParseDadStatus(resp, recvbuflen, addrs, count);
> +        if (dad)
> +            usleep(1000 * 10);
> +
> +        VIR_FREE(resp);
> +    }


This loop *really* bothers me, because there is no failsafe to terminate 
it if we never get positive notification that DAD has completed. This 
would lock up the network driver startup, which would lock up libvirtd 
startup. I think we need to decide on what is the maximum time this 
could possibly take to complete (maybe it is somehow based on the number 
of interfaces? or maybe it doesn't matter...) and timeout from the loop 
after the appropriate iterations.


> +    ret = 0;
> +
> + cleanup:
> +    VIR_FREE(resp);
> +    nlmsg_free(nlmsg);
> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
>   #else /* defined(__linux__) && defined(HAVE_LIBNL) */
>
>   int virNetDevSetIPAddress(const char *ifname,
> @@ -1424,6 +1522,68 @@ int virNetDevClearIPAddress(const char *ifname,
>       return ret;
>   }
>
> +/* return whether there is a known address with 'tentative' flag set */
> +static int
> +virNetDevParseDadStatus(char *outbuf,
> +                        virSocketAddrPtr *addrs, size_t count)
> +{
> +    virSocketAddr sockaddr;
> +    size_t i, j;
> +    int ret = 0;
> +    char **addr_strings = virStringSplit(outbuf, "\n", 0);
> +    for (j = 0; addr_strings[j] != NULL; ++j) {
> +        if (virSocketParseAddr(strings[j], &sockaddr, AF_INET6) < 0)
> +            continue;
> +        for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> +            if (virSocketAddrEqual(addrs[i], &sockaddr)) {
> +                ret = 1;
> +                goto cleanup;
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> + cleanup:
> +    virStringFreeList(addr_strings);
> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
> +/* return after DAD finishes for all known IPv6 addresses or an error */
> +int
> +virNetDevWaitDadFinish(virSocketAddrPtr *addrs, size_t count)
> +{
> +    int ret = -1, dad = 1;
> +    char *outbuf = NULL;
> +    virCommandPtr cmd = NULL;
> +
> +# ifdef IP_PATH
> +    while (dad) {
> +        cmd = virCommandNew(POSIX_SHELL);
> +        virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-c",
> +                             IP_PATH "-6 addr show tentative | \
> +                             awk '/inet6/{split(\\$2, a, \\\"/\\\"); \
> +                             print a[1]}'", NULL);
> +        virCommandSetOutputBuffer(cmd, &outbuf);
> +        if (virCommandRun(cmd, NULL))
> +            goto cleanup;
> +        virCommandFree(cmd);
> +
> +        dad = virNetDevParseDadStatus(outbuf, addrs, count);
> +        if (dad)
> +            usleep(1000 * 10);
> +
> +        VIR_FREE(outbuf);
> +    }
> +    ret = 0;
> +# else
> +    virReportSystemError(ENOSYS, "%s", _("Unable to check IPv6 DAD"));
> +# endif

Is the "ip" command available on non-linux platforms? I know there is *a 
lot* of netlink stuff in there). Aside from that, POSIX_SHELL isn't even 
defined, so this code would fail to compile on non-Linux platforms with 
IP_PATH defined (and it would fail to compile on non-Linux with IP_PATH 
*not* defined, since addrs and count would then need ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED). 
Anyway we try to avoid execing external binaries unless absolutely 
necessary, so I think it's reasonable to only have a stub function that 
says "not supported" in place of this (very polite but non-working) 
replacement.


Once these 3 issues are dealt with, I think we can (finally) push this.

> +
> + cleanup:
> +    virCommandFree(cmd);
> +    VIR_FREE(outbuf);
> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
>   #endif /* defined(__linux__) && defined(HAVE_LIBNL) */
>
>   /**
> diff --git a/src/util/virnetdev.h b/src/util/virnetdev.h
> index a27504b..9108be6 100644
> --- a/src/util/virnetdev.h
> +++ b/src/util/virnetdev.h
> @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ int virNetDevClearIPAddress(const char *ifname,
>       ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK;
>   int virNetDevGetIPAddress(const char *ifname, virSocketAddrPtr addr)
>       ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK;
> +int virNetDevWaitDadFinish(virSocketAddrPtr *addrs, size_t count)
> +    ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2);
>
>
>   int virNetDevSetMAC(const char *ifname,
> --
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