Re: [PATCH v4 10/30] util/network: new virFirewallBackend enum

(This paragraph is for historical reference only, described only to avoid confusion of past use of the name with its new use) In a past life, virFirewallBackend had been a private static in virfirewall.c that was set at daemon init time, and used to globally (i.e. for all drivers in the daemon) determine whether to directly execute iptables commands, or to run them indirectly via the firewalld passthrough API. This was removed in commit d566cc55, since we decided that using the firewalld passthrough API is never appropriate. Now the same enum, virFirewallBackend, is being reintroduced, with a different meaning and usage pattern. It will be used to pick between using nftables commands or iptables commands (in either case directly handled by libvirt, *not* via firewalld). Additionally, rather than being a static known only within virfirewall.c and applying to all firewall commands for all drivers, each virFirewall object will have its own backend setting, which will be set during virFirewallNew() by the driver who wants to add a firewall rule. This will allow the nwfilter and network drivers to each have their own backend setting, even when they coexist in a single unified daemon. At least as important as that, it will also allow an instance of the network driver to remove iptables rules that had been added by a previous instance, and then add nftables rules for the new instance (in the case that an admin, or possibly an update, switches the driver backend from iptables to nftable) Initially, the enum will only have one usable value - VIR_FIREWALL_BACKEND_IPTABLES, and that will be hardcoded into all calls to virFirewallNew(). The other enum value (along with a method of setting it for each driver) will be added later, when it can be used (when the nftables backend is in the code). Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com&gt;

--- src/libvirt_private.syms | 3 +++ src/network/network_iptables.c | 6 +++--- src/nwfilter/nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.c | 16 ++++++++-------- src/util/virebtables.c | 4 ++-- src/util/virfirewall.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- src/util/virfirewall.h | 11 ++++++++++- tests/virfirewalltest.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 7 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)