The double pluralization was chosen because there are multiple

IP Addresses per interface and there are multiple interfaces. If we

choose to use 'virDomainInterfaceAddresses', then it would look

as if this function will report all the IP Addresses related to a single

Interface only.

> > +
> > +void virDomainInterfaceFree (virDomainInterfacePtr iface);
>
> Likewise.
>
> > diff --git a/src/driver.h b/src/driver.h
> > index be64333..8b6182e 100644
> > --- a/src/driver.h
> > +++ b/src/driver.h
> > @@ -518,6 +518,11 @@ typedef int
> >                                        unsigned int flags);
> >
> >  typedef int
> > +(*virDrvDomainInterfacesAddresses)(virDomainPtr dom,
> > +                                   virDomainInterfacePtr **ifaces,
> > +                                   unsigned int flags);
> > +
> > +typedef int
> >  (*virDrvDomainMemoryStats)(virDomainPtr domain,
> >                             struct _virDomainMemoryStat *stats,
> >                             unsigned int nr_stats,
> > @@ -1238,6 +1243,7 @@ struct _virDriver {
> >      virDrvDomainInterfaceStats domainInterfaceStats;
> >      virDrvDomainSetInterfaceParameters domainSetInterfaceParameters;
> >      virDrvDomainGetInterfaceParameters domainGetInterfaceParameters;
> > +    virDrvDomainInterfacesAddresses    domainInterfacesAddresses;
> >      virDrvDomainMemoryStats domainMemoryStats;
> >      virDrvDomainBlockPeek domainBlockPeek;
> >      virDrvDomainMemoryPeek domainMemoryPeek;
> > diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
> > index 07a3fd5..05e3a03 100644
> > --- a/src/libvirt.c
> > +++ b/src/libvirt.c
> > @@ -8643,6 +8643,94 @@ error:
> >      return -1;
> >  }
> >
> > + /**
> > + * virDomainInterfacesAddresses:
> > + * @dom: domain object
> > + * @ifaces: pointer to an array of pointers pointing interface objects
> > + * @flags: extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
> > + *
> > + * Return a pointer to the allocated array of interfaces present in given
> > + * domain along with their IP and MAC addresses. Note that single interface
> > + * can have multiple or even 0 IP address.
> > + *
> > + * This API dynamically allocates the virDomainInterfacePtr struct based
> > + * on how many interfaces domain @dom has, usually there's 1:1 correlation.
> > + * The count of the interfaces is returned as the return value.
> > + *
> > + * Note that for some hypervisors, a configured guest agent is needed
> > + * for successful return from this API. Moreover, if guest agent is
> > + * used then the interface name is the one seen by guest OS. To match
> > + * such interface with the one from @dom XML use MAC address or IP range.
> > + *
> > + * @ifaces->name is never NULL, @ifaces->hwaddr might be NULL.
> > + *
> > + * The caller *must* free @ifaces when no longer needed. Usual use
> > + * case looks like this:
> > + *
> > + * virDomainInterfacePtr *ifaces = NULL;
> > + * int ifaces_count = 0;
> > + * size_t i, j;
> > + * virDomainPtr dom = ... obtain a domain here ...;
> > + *
> > + * if ((ifaces_count = virDomainInterfacesAddresses(dom, &ifaces, 0)) < 0)
> > + *     goto cleanup;
> > + *
> > + * ... do something with returned values, for example:
> > + * for (i = 0; i < ifaces_count; i++) {
> > + *     printf("name: %s", ifaces[i]->name);
> > + *     if (ifaces[i]->hwaddr)
> > + *         printf(" hwaddr: %s", ifaces[i]->hwaddr);
> > + *
> > + *     for (j = 0; j < ifaces[i]->naddrs; j++) {
> > + *         virDomainIPAddressPtr ip_addr = ifaces[i]->addrs + j;
> > + *         printf("[addr: %s prefix: %d type: %d]",
> > + *                ip_addr->addr, ip_addr->prefix, ip_addr->type);
> > + *     }
> > + *     printf("\n");
> > + * }
> > + *
> > + * cleanup:
> > + * for (i = 0; i < ifaces_count; i++)
> > + *     virDomainInterfaceFree(ifaces[i]);
> > + * free(ifaces);
> > + *
> > + * Returns the number of interfaces on success, -1 in case of error.
> > + */
> > +int
> > +virDomainInterfacesAddresses(virDomainPtr dom,
> > +                             virDomainInterfacePtr **ifaces,
> > +                             unsigned int flags)
> > +{
> > +    virConnectPtr conn;
> > +
> > +    VIR_DOMAIN_DEBUG(dom, "ifaces=%p, flags=%x", ifaces, flags);
> > +
> > +    virResetLastError();
> > +
> > +    if (!VIR_IS_CONNECTED_DOMAIN(dom)) {
> > +        virLibDomainError(VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN, __FUNCTION__);
> > +        goto error;
>
> You must following existing practice and call virDispatchError(NULL)
> and 'return -1' here immediately.
>
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    conn = dom->conn;
> > +
> > +    virCheckNonNullArgGoto(ifaces, error);
> > +
> > +    if (conn->driver->domainInterfacesAddresses) {
> > +        int ret;
> > +        ret = conn->driver->domainInterfacesAddresses(dom, ifaces, flags);
> > +        if (ret < 0)
> > +            goto error;
> > +        return ret;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    virLibConnError(VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT, __FUNCTION__);
> > +
> > +error:
> > +    virDispatchError(dom ? dom->conn : NULL);
>
> This is not safe. VIR_IS_CONNECTED_DOMAIN does more than just
> check whether 'dom' is NULL, so you must not dereference
> 'dom' if that check fails.
>
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * virDomainInterfaceFree:
> > + * @iface: an interface object
> > + *
> > + * Free the interface object. The data structure is
> > + * freed and should not be used thereafter.
> > + */
> > +void
> > +virDomainInterfaceFree(virDomainInterfacePtr iface)
> > +{
> > +    if (iface) {
>
> The usual coding style in libvirt for this is
>
>    if (!iface)
>      return;
>
> > +        size_t i;
> > +        VIR_FREE(iface->name);
> > +        VIR_FREE(iface->hwaddr);
> > +        for (i = 0; i < iface->naddrs; i++)
> > +            VIR_FREE(iface->addrs[i].addr);
> > +        VIR_FREE(iface->addrs);
> > +    }
> > +    VIR_FREE(iface);
> > +}
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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Nehal J Wani
UG3, BTech CS+MS(CL)
IIIT-Hyderabad