A previous commit introduced use of locking with invocation
of iptables in the viriptables.c module
commit ba95426d6f
Author: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri Nov 1 12:36:59 2013 -0500
util: use -w flag when calling iptables
This only ever had effect with the virtual network driver,
as it was not wired up into the nwfilter driver. Unfortunately
in the firewall refactoring the use of the -w flag was
accidentally lost.
This patch introduces it to the virfirewall.c module so that
both the virtual network and nwfilter drivers will be using
it. It also ensures that the equivalent --concurrent flag
to ebtables is used.
The network and nwfilter drivers both have a need to update
firewall rules. The currently share no code for interacting
with iptables / firewalld. The nwfilter driver is fairly
tied to the concept of creating shell scripts to execute
which makes it very hard to port to talk to firewalld via
DBus APIs.
This patch introduces a virFirewallPtr object which is able
to represent a complete sequence of rule changes, with the
ability to have multiple transactional checkpoints with
rollbacks. By formally separating the definition of the rules
to be applied from the mechanism used to apply them, it is
also possible to write a firewall engine that uses firewalld
DBus APIs natively instead of via the slow firewalld-cmd.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
