[PATCH 1/5] network: permit <forward mode='open'/> when a network has no IP address

The whole point of <forward mode='open'/> is to supress libvirt from adding any firewall rules for a network, and someone might want to create a network with no IP address (i.e. they don't want the guests to have connectivity to the host via this interface) and no firewall rules (they don't want any, or they want to add their own). So there's no reason to fail when a network has <forward mode='open'/> and also has no IP address. Kind-of-Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/588 Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/conf/network_conf.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/conf/network_conf.c b/src/conf/network_conf.c index 5cf419acf1..3383906c58 100644 --- a/src/conf/network_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/network_conf.c @@ -1789,7 +1789,6 @@ virNetworkDefParseXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, case VIR_NETWORK_FORWARD_ROUTE: case VIR_NETWORK_FORWARD_NAT: - case VIR_NETWORK_FORWARD_OPEN: /* It's pointless to specify L3 forwarding without specifying * the network we're on. */ @@ -1806,7 +1805,9 @@ virNetworkDefParseXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, def->name); return NULL; } + break; + case VIR_NETWORK_FORWARD_OPEN: if (def->forward.type == VIR_NETWORK_FORWARD_OPEN && def->forward.nifs) { /* an open network by definition can't place any restrictions * on what traffic is allowed or where it goes, so specifying -- 2.46.0