Re: [RFC PATCH 18/17] util/qemu-sockets: Display IPv6 addresses within square brackets

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 03:40:51PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> See RFC3986 "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax"
> section 3.2.2. 'Host' [1]:
> 
>    A host identified by an Internet Protocol literal address, version
>    6 [RFC3513] or later, is distinguished by enclosing the IP literal
>    within square brackets ("[" and "]").  This is the only place where
>    square bracket characters are allowed in the URI syntax.
> 
> and RFC5952 "A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation"
> section 6. 'Notes on Combining IPv6 Addresses with Port Numbers' [2]:
> 
>    The [] style as expressed in [RFC3986] SHOULD be employed, and is
>    the default unless otherwise specified. [...] For URIs containing
>    IPv6 address literals, [RFC3986] MUST be followed [...].
> 
> [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.2.2
> [2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5952#section-6
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>  tests/qtest/netdev-socket.c | 4 ++--
>  util/qemu-sockets.c         | 4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/netdev-socket.c b/tests/qtest/netdev-socket.c
> index 4ea66b4c69..65f0e01db1 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/netdev-socket.c
> +++ b/tests/qtest/netdev-socket.c
> @@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ static void test_stream_inet_ipv6(void)
>                         "addr.ipv4=off,addr.ipv6=on,"
>                         "addr.host=localhost,addr.port=%d", port);
>  
> -    expect = g_strdup_printf("st0: index=0,type=stream,tcp:::1:%d\r\n",
> +    expect = g_strdup_printf("st0: index=0,type=stream,tcp:[::1]:%d\r\n",
>                               port);
>      EXPECT_STATE(qts1, expect, 0);
>      g_free(expect);
>  
>      /* the port is unknown, check only the address */
> -    EXPECT_STATE(qts0, "st0: index=0,type=stream,tcp:::1", ':');
> +    EXPECT_STATE(qts0, "st0: index=0,type=stream,tcp:[::1]", ':');
>  
>      qtest_quit(qts1);
>      qtest_quit(qts0);
> diff --git a/util/qemu-sockets.c b/util/qemu-sockets.c
> index a9926af714..19af96fa2c 100644
> --- a/util/qemu-sockets.c
> +++ b/util/qemu-sockets.c
> @@ -1081,8 +1081,10 @@ char *socket_uri(SocketAddress *addr)
>  {
>      switch (addr->type) {
>      case SOCKET_ADDRESS_TYPE_INET:
> -        return g_strdup_printf("tcp:%s:%s",
> +        return g_strdup_printf("tcp:%s%s%s:%s",
> +                               addr->u.inet.ipv6 ? "[" : "",
>                                 addr->u.inet.host,
> +                               addr->u.inet.ipv6 ? "]" : "",
>                                 addr->u.inet.port);

"host" is not required to be numeric and using [..] is  only
valid for numeric IPv6 addresses, not  hostnames. So you
need to actually check "host" is fully numeric.

With regards,
Daniel
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