[libvirt] [PATCH 00/26] Rewrite firewall code to use formal API

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Apr 15 11:42:37 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:40:41AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 04/15/2014 04:29 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:47:50PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> >>On 04/08/2014 11:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>>Currently we have three places which interact with the firewall
> >>>
> >>>   - util/virebtables - simple MAC filtering used by QEMU driver
> >>>   - util/viriptables - used by network driver
> >>>   - nwfilter - general purpose guest filtering
> >>Oh my, so much work! -- Thanks
> >>
> >>I'll review as much as I can.
> >Thanks, I appreciate any review you can do particularly of the big
> >nwfilter patches, since you're main expert in that area.
> 
> Some of the patches are so involved that besides looking at them
> I'll mostly have to rely on the TCK tests to see whether they still
> pass. The TCK tests unfortunately also need updating due to recent
> changes in the code (elimination of the source MAC tests in recent
> patches) as well as different output by the ip6tables command
> related to IPv6 addresses.

The TCK tests shouldn't need updating. The current libvirt-tck GIT
master nwfilter tests pass against libvirt GIT master, and also
pass after this patch series is applied (at least on Fedora 20).

Regards,
Daniel
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