Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] qapi: net: add unix socket type support to netdev backend

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

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 10:59:08AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2022 09:26:39 +0100
> Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 07:36:12PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > > "-netdev socket" only supports inet sockets.
> > > 
> > > It's not a complex task to add support for unix sockets, but
> > > the socket netdev parameters are not defined to manage well unix
> > > socket parameters.
> > > 
> > > As discussed in:
> > > 
> > >   "socket.c added support for unix domain socket datagram transport"
> > >   https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1C0E1BC5-904F-46B0-8044-68E43E67BE60@gmail.com/
> > > 
> > > This series adds support of unix socket type using SocketAddress QAPI structure.
> > > 
> > > A new netdev backend "socket-ng" is added, that is barely a copy of "socket"
> > > backend but it uses the SocketAddress QAPI to provide socket parameters.
> > > And then it also implement unix sockets (TCP and UDP).  
> > 
> > So pulling in the QAPI from patch 2
> > 
> >    { 'enum': 'NetdevSocketNGMode',
> >      'data':  [ 'dgram', 'server', 'client' ] }
> > 
> >    { 'struct': 'NetdevSocketNGOptions',
> >      'data': {
> >        'mode':    'NetdevSocketNGMode',
> >        '*addr':   'SocketAddress',
> >        '*remote': 'SocketAddress',
> >        '*local':  'SocketAddress' } }
> > 
> > > Some examples of CLI syntax:
> > > 
> > >   for TCP:
> > > 
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=server,addr.type=inet,addr.host=localhost,addr.port=1234
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=client,addr.type=inet,addr.host=localhost,addr.port=1234
> > > 
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=dgram,\
> > >           local.type=inet,local.host=localhost,local.port=1234,\
> > >           remote.type=inet,remote.host=localhost,remote.port=1235
> > > 
> > >   for UNIX:
> > > 
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=server,addr.type=unix,addr.path=/tmp/qemu0
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=client,addr.type=unix,addr.path=/tmp/qemu0
> > > 
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=dgram,\
> > >           local.type=unix,local.path=/tmp/qemu0,\
> > >           remote.type=unix,remote.path=/tmp/qemu1
> > > 
> > >   for FD:
> > > 
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=server,addr.type=fd,addr.str=4
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=client,addr.type=fd,addr.str=5
> > > 
> > >   -netdev socket-ng,id=socket0,mode=dgram,local.type=fd,addr.str=4  
> > 
> >                                                           ^^^ local.str=4
> > 
> > I notice that in all these examples, mode=client/server always use
> > the 'addr' field, and mode=dgram always uses the 'local'/'remote'
> > fields. IOW, there is almost no commonality between the dgram scenario
> > and the stream scenario, which feels sub-optimal.
> > 
> > Two alternatives come to mind
> > 
> >  - mode=client could use 'remote' and mode=server could use 'local',
> >    removing the 'addr' field entirely
> 
> To me, "mode is client, address is x" sounds more intuitive than "mode
> is client, remote is x". I mean, of course it's the remote address --
> that's a bit redundant.
> 
> >  - Have completely separate backends, ie '-netdev stream' for
> >    client/server TCP/UNIX sockets, and '-netdev dgram' for UDP
> >    sockets, removing 'mode' field.
> 
> ...this won't work, though, because UNIX domain sockets can be
> stream-oriented or datagram-oriented.

Sure it can work, both the 'stream' and 'dgram' backends would
allow the full range of addr types as they're independant config
dimensions


    -netdev stream,server=no,addr.type=inet,addr.host=localhost,addr.port=1234
    -netdev stream,server=no,addr.type=unix,addr.path=/some/stream/sock


    -netdev dgram,id=ndev0,\
            local.type=inet,local.host=localhost,local.port=1234,\
            remote.type=inet,remote.host=localhost,remote.port=1235
    -netdev dgram,id=ndev0,\
            local.type=unix,local.path=/some/dgram/sock0,
            remote.type=unix,remote.path=/some/dgram/sock1


With regards,
Daniel
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