Thomas Haller
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There are various functions to set the DUID of a DHCPv6 client. However, none of them allows to set arbitrary data. The closest is sd_dhcp6_client_set_duid(), which would still do validation of the DUID's content via dhcp_validate_duid_len(). Relax the validation and only log a debug message if the DUID does not validate. Note that dhcp_validate_duid_len() already is not very strict. For example with DUID_TYPE_LLT it only ensures that the length is suitable to contain hwtype and time. It does not further check that the length of hwaddr is non-zero or suitable for hwtype. Also, non-well-known DUID types are accepted for extensibility. Why reject certain DUIDs but allowing clearly wrong formats otherwise? The validation and failure should happen earlier, when accepting the unsuitable DUID. At that point, there is more context of what is wrong, and a better failure reason (or warning) can be reported to the user. Rejecting the DUID when setting up the DHCPv6 client seems not optimal, in particular because the DHCPv6 client does not care about actual content of the DUID and treats it as opaque blob. Also, NetworkManager (which uses this code) allows to configure the entire binary DUID in binary. It intentionally does not validate the binary content any further. Hence, it needs to be able to set _invalid_ DUIDs, provided that some basic constraints are satisfied (like the maximum length). sd_dhcp6_client_set_duid() has two callers: both set the DUID obtained from link_get_duid(), which comes from configuration. `man networkd.conf` says: "The configured DHCP DUID should conform to the specification in RFC 3315, RFC 6355.". It does not not state that it MUST conform. Note that dhcp_validate_duid_len() has another caller: DHCPv4's dhcp_client_set_iaid_duid_internal(). In this case, continue with strict validation, as the callers are more controlled. Also, there is already sd_dhcp_client_set_client_id() which can be used to bypass this check and set arbitrary client identifiers.
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