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<title>udp: Reduce scope of rport in udp_invert_portmap()</title>
<updated>2024-06-24T13:41:38+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-21T13:21:26+00:00</published>
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cppcheck 2.14 warns that the scope of the rport variable could be
reduced: do that, as reverted commit c80fa6a6bb44 ("udp: Make rport
calculation more local") did, but keep the temporary variable of
in_port_t type, otherwise the sum gets promoted to int.

While at it, add a comment explaining why we calculate rport like
this instead of directly using the sum as array index.

Reported-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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cppcheck 2.14 warns that the scope of the rport variable could be
reduced: do that, as reverted commit c80fa6a6bb44 ("udp: Make rport
calculation more local") did, but keep the temporary variable of
in_port_t type, otherwise the sum gets promoted to int.

While at it, add a comment explaining why we calculate rport like
this instead of directly using the sum as array index.

Reported-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>Revert "udp: Make rport calculation more local"</title>
<updated>2024-06-24T13:41:38+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-21T11:59:48+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit c80fa6a6bb4415ad48f9e11424310875d0d99bc7, as it
reintroduces the issue fixed by commit 1e6f92b995a9 ("udp: Fix 16-bit
overflow in udp_invert_portmap()").

Reported-by: Laurent Jacquot &lt;jk@lutty.net&gt;
Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=80
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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This reverts commit c80fa6a6bb4415ad48f9e11424310875d0d99bc7, as it
reintroduces the issue fixed by commit 1e6f92b995a9 ("udp: Fix 16-bit
overflow in udp_invert_portmap()").

Reported-by: Laurent Jacquot &lt;jk@lutty.net&gt;
Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=80
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>log: Don't report syslog failures to stderr after initialisation</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-20T14:59:29+00:00</published>
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If we daemonised, we can't use standard error. If we didn't, it's
rather annoying to have all those messages on standard error anyway,
and kind of pointless too, as the messages we wanted to print were
printed to standard error anyway.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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If we daemonised, we can't use standard error. If we didn't, it's
rather annoying to have all those messages on standard error anyway,
and kind of pointless too, as the messages we wanted to print were
printed to standard error anyway.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>conf, passt: Don't call __openlog() if a log file is used</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:46+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-19T19:25:30+00:00</published>
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If a log file is configured, we would otherwise open a connection to
the system logger (if any), print any message that we might have
before we initialise the log file, and then keep that connection
around for no particular reason.

Call __openlog() as an alternative to the log file setup, instead.

This way, we might skip printing some messages during the
initialisation phase, but they're probably not really valuable to
have in a system log, and we're going to print them to standard
error anyway.

Suggested-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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If a log file is configured, we would otherwise open a connection to
the system logger (if any), print any message that we might have
before we initialise the log file, and then keep that connection
around for no particular reason.

Call __openlog() as an alternative to the log file setup, instead.

This way, we might skip printing some messages during the
initialisation phase, but they're probably not really valuable to
have in a system log, and we're going to print them to standard
error anyway.

Suggested-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>treewide: Replace strerror() calls</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-17T09:55:04+00:00</published>
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Now that we have logging functions embedding perror() functionality,
we can make _some_ calls more terse by using them. In many places,
the strerror() calls are still more convenient because, for example,
they are used in flow debugging functions, or because the return code
variable of interest is not 'errno'.

While at it, convert a few error messages from a scant perror style
to proper failure descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Now that we have logging functions embedding perror() functionality,
we can make _some_ calls more terse by using them. In many places,
the strerror() calls are still more convenient because, for example,
they are used in flow debugging functions, or because the return code
variable of interest is not 'errno'.

While at it, convert a few error messages from a scant perror style
to proper failure descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>treewide: Replace perror() calls with calls to logging functions</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T22:37:11+00:00</published>
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perror() prints directly to standard error, but in many cases standard
error might be already closed, or we might want to skip logging, based
on configuration. Our logging functions provide all that.

While at it, make errors more descriptive, replacing some of the
existing basic perror-style messages.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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perror() prints directly to standard error, but in many cases standard
error might be already closed, or we might want to skip logging, based
on configuration. Our logging functions provide all that.

While at it, make errors more descriptive, replacing some of the
existing basic perror-style messages.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>log: Add _perror() logging function variants</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T22:25:23+00:00</published>
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In many places, we have direct perror() calls, which completely bypass
logging functions and log files.

They are definitely convenient: offer similar convenience with
_perror() logging variants, so that we can drop those direct perror()
calls.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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In many places, we have direct perror() calls, which completely bypass
logging functions and log files.

They are definitely convenient: offer similar convenience with
_perror() logging variants, so that we can drop those direct perror()
calls.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>log, passt: Always print to stderr before initialisation is complete</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T20:47:51+00:00</published>
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After commit 15001b39ef1d ("conf: set the log level much earlier"), we
had a phase during initialisation when messages wouldn't be printed to
standard error anymore.

Commit f67238aa864d ("passt, log: Call __openlog() earlier, log to
stderr until we detach") fixed that, but only for the case where no
log files are given.

If a log file is configured, vlogmsg() will not call passt_vsyslog(),
but during initialisation, LOG_PERROR is set, so to avoid duplicated
prints (which would result from passt_vsyslog() printing to stderr),
we don't call fprintf() from vlogmsg() either.

This is getting a bit too complicated. Instead of abusing LOG_PERROR,
define an internal logging flag that clearly represents that we're not
done with the initialisation phase yet.

If this flag is not set, make sure we always print to stderr, if the
log mask matches.

Reported-by: Yalan Zhang &lt;yalzhang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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After commit 15001b39ef1d ("conf: set the log level much earlier"), we
had a phase during initialisation when messages wouldn't be printed to
standard error anymore.

Commit f67238aa864d ("passt, log: Call __openlog() earlier, log to
stderr until we detach") fixed that, but only for the case where no
log files are given.

If a log file is configured, vlogmsg() will not call passt_vsyslog(),
but during initialisation, LOG_PERROR is set, so to avoid duplicated
prints (which would result from passt_vsyslog() printing to stderr),
we don't call fprintf() from vlogmsg() either.

This is getting a bit too complicated. Instead of abusing LOG_PERROR,
define an internal logging flag that clearly represents that we're not
done with the initialisation phase yet.

If this flag is not set, make sure we always print to stderr, if the
log mask matches.

Reported-by: Yalan Zhang &lt;yalzhang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>conf, log: Instead of abusing log levels, add log_conf_parsed flag</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T17:00:27+00:00</published>
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We currently use a LOG_EMERG log mask to represent the fact that we
don't know yet what the mask resulting from configuration should be,
before the command line is parsed.

However, we have the necessity of representing another phase as well,
that is, configuration is parsed but we didn't daemonise yet, or
we're not ready for operation yet. The next patch will add that
notion explicitly.

Mapping these cases to further log levels isn't really practical.
Introduce boolean log flags to represent them, instead of abusing
log priorities.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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We currently use a LOG_EMERG log mask to represent the fact that we
don't know yet what the mask resulting from configuration should be,
before the command line is parsed.

However, we have the necessity of representing another phase as well,
that is, configuration is parsed but we didn't daemonise yet, or
we're not ready for operation yet. The next patch will add that
notion explicitly.

Mapping these cases to further log levels isn't really practical.
Introduce boolean log flags to represent them, instead of abusing
log priorities.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>conf, passt: Make --stderr do nothing, and deprecate it</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T13:32:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-19T18:10:10+00:00</published>
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The original behaviour of printing messages to standard error by
default when running from a non-interactive terminal was introduced
because the first KubeVirt integration draft used to start passt in
foreground and get messages via standard error.

For development purposes, the system logger was more convenient at
that point, and passt was running from interactive terminals only if
not started by the KubeVirt integration.

This behaviour was introduced by 84a62b79a2bc ("passt: Also log to
stderr, don't fork to background if not interactive").

Later, I added command-line options in 1e49d194d017 ("passt, pasta:
Introduce command-line options and port re-mapping") and accidentally
reversed this condition, which wasn't a problem as --stderr could
force printing to standard error anyway (and it was used by KubeVirt).

Nowadays, the KubeVirt integration uses a log file (requested via
libvirt configuration), and the same applies for Podman if one
actually needs to look at runtime logs. There are no use cases left,
as far as I know, where passt runs in foreground in non-interactive
terminals.

Seize the chance to reintroduce some sanity here. If we fork to
background, standard error is closed, so --stderr is useless in that
case.

If we run in foreground, there's no harm in printing messages to
standard error, and that accidentally became the default behaviour
anyway, so --stderr is not needed in that case.

It would be needed for non-interactive terminals, but there are no
use cases, and if there were, let's log to standard error anyway:
the user can always redirect standard error to /dev/null if needed.

Before we're up and running, we need to print to standard error anyway
if something happens, otherwise we can't report failure to start in
any kind of usage, stand-alone or in integrations.

So, make --stderr do nothing, and deprecate it.

While at it, drop a left-over comment about --foreground being the
default only for interactive terminals, because it's not the case
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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The original behaviour of printing messages to standard error by
default when running from a non-interactive terminal was introduced
because the first KubeVirt integration draft used to start passt in
foreground and get messages via standard error.

For development purposes, the system logger was more convenient at
that point, and passt was running from interactive terminals only if
not started by the KubeVirt integration.

This behaviour was introduced by 84a62b79a2bc ("passt: Also log to
stderr, don't fork to background if not interactive").

Later, I added command-line options in 1e49d194d017 ("passt, pasta:
Introduce command-line options and port re-mapping") and accidentally
reversed this condition, which wasn't a problem as --stderr could
force printing to standard error anyway (and it was used by KubeVirt).

Nowadays, the KubeVirt integration uses a log file (requested via
libvirt configuration), and the same applies for Podman if one
actually needs to look at runtime logs. There are no use cases left,
as far as I know, where passt runs in foreground in non-interactive
terminals.

Seize the chance to reintroduce some sanity here. If we fork to
background, standard error is closed, so --stderr is useless in that
case.

If we run in foreground, there's no harm in printing messages to
standard error, and that accidentally became the default behaviour
anyway, so --stderr is not needed in that case.

It would be needed for non-interactive terminals, but there are no
use cases, and if there were, let's log to standard error anyway:
the user can always redirect standard error to /dev/null if needed.

Before we're up and running, we need to print to standard error anyway
if something happens, otherwise we can't report failure to start in
any kind of usage, stand-alone or in integrations.

So, make --stderr do nothing, and deprecate it.

While at it, drop a left-over comment about --foreground being the
default only for interactive terminals, because it's not the case
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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