[libvirt] [PATCH v1 2/2] Add ip6tables support for IPv6 filtering

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:41:19PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This patch adds IPv6 filtering support for the following protocols:
> - tcp-ipv6
> - udp-ipv6
> - udplite-ipv6
> - esp-ipv6
> - ah-ipv6
> - sctp-ipv6
> - all-ipv6
> - icmpv6
> 
> 
> Many of the IPv4 data structure could be re-used for IPv6 support.
> Since ip6tables also supports pretty much the same command line parameters
> as iptables does, also much of the code could be re-used and now 
> command lines are invoked with the ip(6)tables tool parameter passed
> through the functions as a parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at us.ibm.com>
> 
> 
> ---
>  configure.ac                              |    3 
>  src/conf/nwfilter_conf.c                  |  165 +++++++++++++++--
>  src/conf/nwfilter_conf.h                  |    8 
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.c |  287 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.h |    2 
>  5 files changed, 370 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: libvirt-acl/configure.ac
> ===================================================================
> --- libvirt-acl.orig/configure.ac
> +++ libvirt-acl/configure.ac
> @@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([BASH_PATH], "$BASH_P
>  AC_PATH_PROG([IPTABLES_PATH], [iptables], /sbin/iptables, [/usr/sbin:$PATH])
>  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([IPTABLES_PATH], "$IPTABLES_PATH", [path to iptables binary])
>  
> +AC_PATH_PROG([IP6TABLES_PATH], [ip6tables], /sbin/ip6tables, [/usr/sbin:$PATH])
> +AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([IP6TABLES_PATH], "$IP6TABLES_PATH", [path to ip6tables binary])
> +
>  AC_PATH_PROG([EBTABLES_PATH], [ebtables], /sbin/ebtables, [/usr/sbin:$PATH])
>  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([EBTABLES_PATH], "$EBTABLES_PATH", [path to ebtables binary])

  The patch looks fine, based on the existing code, but I'm a bit
surprized by the fact that while there is a lookup for
ip6tables/iptables at configure time, i.e. when it's compiled, there
is no check at runtime to verify that the binaries which were detected
then are actually available on the target.
  I think some of this should be relaxed like we do for other commands
launched at runtime and somehow we should instead use
  virFindFileInPath() from util.h
to find the location of the preferred ip[6]tables.

  ACK,

Daniel

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