net: Improve the warnings for dubious command line option combinations
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1 /*
2 * QEMU System Emulator
4 * Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
5 * Copyright (c) 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
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26 #include "net/tap.h"
27 #include "net/tap-linux.h"
29 #include <net/if.h>
30 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
32 #include "sysemu.h"
33 #include "qemu-common.h"
34 #include "qemu-error.h"
36 #define PATH_NET_TUN "/dev/net/tun"
38 int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr, int vnet_hdr_required)
40 struct ifreq ifr;
41 int fd, ret;
43 TFR(fd = open(PATH_NET_TUN, O_RDWR));
44 if (fd < 0) {
45 error_report("could not open %s: %m", PATH_NET_TUN);
46 return -1;
48 memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
49 ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_TAP | IFF_NO_PI;
51 if (*vnet_hdr) {
52 unsigned int features;
54 if (ioctl(fd, TUNGETFEATURES, &features) == 0 &&
55 features & IFF_VNET_HDR) {
56 *vnet_hdr = 1;
57 ifr.ifr_flags |= IFF_VNET_HDR;
58 } else {
59 *vnet_hdr = 0;
62 if (vnet_hdr_required && !*vnet_hdr) {
63 error_report("vnet_hdr=1 requested, but no kernel "
64 "support for IFF_VNET_HDR available");
65 close(fd);
66 return -1;
70 if (ifname[0] != '\0')
71 pstrcpy(ifr.ifr_name, IFNAMSIZ, ifname);
72 else
73 pstrcpy(ifr.ifr_name, IFNAMSIZ, "tap%d");
74 ret = ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, (void *) &ifr);
75 if (ret != 0) {
76 error_report("could not configure %s (%s): %m", PATH_NET_TUN, ifr.ifr_name);
77 close(fd);
78 return -1;
80 pstrcpy(ifname, ifname_size, ifr.ifr_name);
81 fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
82 return fd;
85 /* sndbuf implements a kind of flow control for tap.
86 * Unfortunately when it's enabled, and packets are sent
87 * to other guests on the same host, the receiver
88 * can lock up the transmitter indefinitely.
90 * To avoid packet loss, sndbuf should be set to a value lower than the tx
91 * queue capacity of any destination network interface.
92 * Ethernet NICs generally have txqueuelen=1000, so 1Mb is
93 * a good value, given a 1500 byte MTU.
95 #define TAP_DEFAULT_SNDBUF 0
97 int tap_set_sndbuf(int fd, QemuOpts *opts)
99 int sndbuf;
101 sndbuf = qemu_opt_get_size(opts, "sndbuf", TAP_DEFAULT_SNDBUF);
102 if (!sndbuf) {
103 sndbuf = INT_MAX;
106 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETSNDBUF, &sndbuf) == -1 && qemu_opt_get(opts, "sndbuf")) {
107 error_report("TUNSETSNDBUF ioctl failed: %s", strerror(errno));
108 return -1;
110 return 0;
113 int tap_probe_vnet_hdr(int fd)
115 struct ifreq ifr;
117 if (ioctl(fd, TUNGETIFF, &ifr) != 0) {
118 error_report("TUNGETIFF ioctl() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
119 return 0;
122 return ifr.ifr_flags & IFF_VNET_HDR;
125 int tap_probe_has_ufo(int fd)
127 unsigned offload;
129 offload = TUN_F_CSUM | TUN_F_UFO;
131 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETOFFLOAD, offload) < 0)
132 return 0;
134 return 1;
137 /* Verify that we can assign given length */
138 int tap_probe_vnet_hdr_len(int fd, int len)
140 int orig;
141 if (ioctl(fd, TUNGETVNETHDRSZ, &orig) == -1) {
142 return 0;
144 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETVNETHDRSZ, &len) == -1) {
145 return 0;
147 /* Restore original length: we can't handle failure. */
148 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETVNETHDRSZ, &orig) == -1) {
149 fprintf(stderr, "TUNGETVNETHDRSZ ioctl() failed: %s. Exiting.\n",
150 strerror(errno));
151 assert(0);
152 return -errno;
154 return 1;
157 void tap_fd_set_vnet_hdr_len(int fd, int len)
159 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETVNETHDRSZ, &len) == -1) {
160 fprintf(stderr, "TUNSETVNETHDRSZ ioctl() failed: %s. Exiting.\n",
161 strerror(errno));
162 assert(0);
166 void tap_fd_set_offload(int fd, int csum, int tso4,
167 int tso6, int ecn, int ufo)
169 unsigned int offload = 0;
171 /* Check if our kernel supports TUNSETOFFLOAD */
172 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETOFFLOAD, 0) != 0 && errno == EINVAL) {
173 return;
176 if (csum) {
177 offload |= TUN_F_CSUM;
178 if (tso4)
179 offload |= TUN_F_TSO4;
180 if (tso6)
181 offload |= TUN_F_TSO6;
182 if ((tso4 || tso6) && ecn)
183 offload |= TUN_F_TSO_ECN;
184 if (ufo)
185 offload |= TUN_F_UFO;
188 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETOFFLOAD, offload) != 0) {
189 offload &= ~TUN_F_UFO;
190 if (ioctl(fd, TUNSETOFFLOAD, offload) != 0) {
191 fprintf(stderr, "TUNSETOFFLOAD ioctl() failed: %s\n",
192 strerror(errno));