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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Well Maxim review would help too, so Cc'ing him.

On 5/5/21 6:13 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> 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
>>
>>         -- 
>>         2.31.1.295.g9ea45b61b8-goog
>>
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