firewall-util: introduce context structure

for planned nft backend we have three choices:

- open/close a new nfnetlink socket for every operation
- keep a nfnetlink socket open internally
- expose a opaque fw_ctx and stash all internal data here.

Originally I opted for the 2nd option, but during review it was
suggested to avoid static storage duration because of perceived
problems with threaded applications.

This adds fw_ctx and new/free functions, then converts the existing api
and nspawn and networkd to use it.
This commit is contained in:
Florian Westphal
2020-12-16 00:35:56 +01:00
parent f51343d0af
commit 761cf19d7b
11 changed files with 122 additions and 43 deletions
+15 -10
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@@ -7,48 +7,53 @@
#define MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(a,b,c,d) (union in_addr_union) { .in.s_addr = htobe32((uint32_t) (a) << 24 | (uint32_t) (b) << 16 | (uint32_t) (c) << 8 | (uint32_t) (d))}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
_cleanup_(fw_ctx_freep) FirewallContext *ctx;
int r;
test_setup_logging(LOG_DEBUG);
uint8_t prefixlen = 32;
r = fw_add_masquerade(true, AF_INET, NULL, 0);
r = fw_ctx_new(&ctx);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to init firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_masquerade(&ctx, true, AF_INET, NULL, 0);
if (r == 0)
log_error("Expected failure: NULL source");
r = fw_add_masquerade(true, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,1,2,0), 0);
r = fw_add_masquerade(&ctx, true, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,1,2,0), 0);
if (r == 0)
log_error("Expected failure: 0 prefixlen");
r = fw_add_masquerade(true, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,1,2,3), prefixlen);
r = fw_add_masquerade(&ctx, true, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,1,2,3), prefixlen);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
prefixlen = 28;
r = fw_add_masquerade(true, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,0,2,0), prefixlen);
r = fw_add_masquerade(&ctx, true, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,0,2,0), prefixlen);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_masquerade(false, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,0,2,0), prefixlen);
r = fw_add_masquerade(&ctx, false, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,0,2,0), prefixlen);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_masquerade(false, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,1,2,3), 32);
r = fw_add_masquerade(&ctx, false, AF_INET, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(10,1,2,3), 32);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_local_dnat(true, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 4), 815, NULL);
r = fw_add_local_dnat(&ctx, true, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 4), 815, NULL);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_local_dnat(true, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 4), 815, NULL);
r = fw_add_local_dnat(&ctx, true, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 4), 815, NULL);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_local_dnat(true, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 5), 815, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 4));
r = fw_add_local_dnat(&ctx, true, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 5), 815, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 4));
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");
r = fw_add_local_dnat(false, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 5), 815, NULL);
r = fw_add_local_dnat(&ctx, false, AF_INET, IPPROTO_TCP, 4711, &MAKE_IN_ADDR_UNION(1, 2, 3, 5), 815, NULL);
if (r < 0)
log_error_errno(r, "Failed to modify firewall: %m");