Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add support for ipv6 host forwarding

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

Cc'ing Marc-André

On 5/5/21 5:21 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> Ping.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 8:37 PM Doug Evans <dje@google.com
> <mailto:dje@google.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Ping.
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:39 PM Doug Evans <dje@google.com
>     <mailto:dje@google.com>> wrote:
> 
>         This patchset takes the original patch from Maxim,
>         https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569573.html <https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569573.html>
>         and updates it.
> 
>         Option hostfwd is extended to support ipv6 addresses.
>         Commands hostfwd_add, hostfwd_remove are extended as well.
> 
>         The libslirp part of the patch has been committed upstream,
>         and is now in qemu. See patch 1/4.
> 
>         Changes from v5:
> 
>         1/4 slirp: Advance libslirp submodule to current master
>         NOTE TO REVIEWERS: It may be a better use of everyone's time if a
>         maintainer takes on advancing QEMU's libslirp to libslirp's master.
>         Beyond that, I really don't know what to do except submit this
>         patch as
>         is currently provided.
> 
>         2/4: util/qemu-sockets.c: Split host:port parsing out of inet_parse
> 
>         Also split out parsing of ipv4=on|off, ipv6=on|off
> 
>         3/4: net/slirp.c: Refactor address parsing
> 
>         Use InetSocketAddress and getaddrinfo().
>         Use new libslirp calls: slirp_remove_hostxfwd, slirp_add_hostxfwd.
> 
>         4/4: net: Extend host forwarding to support IPv6
> 
>         Recognize ipv4=,ipv6= options.
> 
>         Note: v5's 3/5 "Recognize []:port (empty ipv6 address)" has been
>         deleted:
>         the churn on this patch series needs to be reduced.
>         This change is not required, and can easily be done in a later
>         patch.
> 
>         Changes from v4:
> 
>         1/5 slirp: Advance libslirp submodule to add ipv6 host-forward
>         support
>         NOTE TO REVIEWERS: I need some hand-holding to know what The Right
>         way to submit this particular patch is.
> 
>         - no change
> 
>         2/5 util/qemu-sockets.c: Split host:port parsing out of inet_parse
> 
>         - move recognition of "[]:port" to separate patch
>         - allow passing NULL for ip_v6
>         - fix some formatting issues
> 
>         3/5 inet_parse_host_and_addr: Recognize []:port (empty ipv6 address)
> 
>         - new in this patchset revision
> 
>         4/5 net/slirp.c: Refactor address parsing
> 
>         - was 3/4 in v4
>         - fix some formatting issues
> 
>         5/5 net: Extend host forwarding to support IPv6
> 
>         - was 4/4 in v4
>         - fix some formatting issues
> 
>         Changes from v3:
> 
>         1/4 slirp: Advance libslirp submodule to add ipv6 host-forward
>         support
> 
>         - pick up latest libslirp patch to reject ipv6 addr-any for
>         guest address
>           - libslirp currently only provides a stateless DHCPv6 server,
>         which means
>             it can't know in advance what the guest's IP address is, and
>         thus
>             cannot do the "addr-any -> guest ip address" translation
>         that is done
>             for ipv4
> 
>         2/4 util/qemu-sockets.c: Split host:port parsing out of inet_parse
> 
>         - this patch is new in v4
>           - provides new utility: inet_parse_host_and_port, updates
>         inet_parse
>             to use it
> 
>         3/4 net/slirp.c: Refactor address parsing
> 
>         - this patch renamed from 2/3 to 3/4
>         - call inet_parse_host_and_port from util/qemu-sockets.c
>         - added tests/acceptance/hostfwd.py
> 
>         4/4 net: Extend host forwarding to support IPv6
> 
>         - this patch renamed from 3/3 to 4/4
>         - ipv6 support added to existing hostfwd option, commands
>           - instead of creating new ipv6 option, commands
>         - added tests to tests/acceptance/hostfwd.py
> 
>         Changes from v2:
>         - split out libslirp commit
>         - clarify spelling of ipv6 addresses in docs
>         - tighten parsing of ipv6 addresses
> 
>         Change from v1:
>         - libslirp part is now upstream
>         - net/slirp.c changes split into two pieces (refactor, add ipv6)
>         - added docs
> 
>         Doug Evans (4):
>           slirp: Advance libslirp submodule to add ipv6 host-forward support
>           util/qemu-sockets.c: Split host:port parsing out of inet_parse
>           net/slirp.c: Refactor address parsing
>           net: Extend host forwarding to support IPv6
> 
>          hmp-commands.hx             |  18 ++-
>          include/qemu/sockets.h      |   5 +
>          net/slirp.c                 | 236
>         ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>          slirp                       |   2 +-
>          tests/acceptance/hostfwd.py | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>          util/qemu-sockets.c         |  82 +++++++++----
>          6 files changed, 436 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>          create mode 100644 tests/acceptance/hostfwd.py
> 
>         -- 
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