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Bug 1740678 - firewalld should use libnftables JSON interface
Summary: firewalld should use libnftables JSON interface
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firewalld
Version: 8.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Eric Garver
QA Contact: Tomas Dolezal
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1740670
Blocks: 1738635 1751994
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-08-13 13:18 UTC by Eric Garver
Modified: 2020-04-28 16:51 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firewalld-0.8.0-1.el8
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Feature: firewalld now uses libnftables. Reason: Allow for faster and more reliable rule application. Result: Better performance and reliability.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:51:23 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2020:1836 0 None None None 2020-04-28 16:51:53 UTC

Description Eric Garver 2019-08-13 13:18:06 UTC
Currently firewalld uses calls to the "nft" binary. This is slow and causes lots of forking. We should use the new libnftables JSON interface. This will allow batching and eliminate forking which will drastically speed up rule application.

Comment 2 Jan Friesse 2019-09-12 16:12:11 UTC
This BZ is very important for corosync daemon to make reload of firewall possible without loosing packets and creating new cluster membership (more info - bug 1663588).

Comment 3 Eric Garver 2019-09-12 20:39:28 UTC
Upstream:

52e2becbf7d5 ("improvement: remove transaction flush for RFC3964_IPv4")
3f7419dcb50a ("chore: remove nft build dependency")
1582c5dd736a ("feat: nftables: convert to libnftables JSON interface")
e519f08d33fd ("chore: travis: no longer run testsuite")
3ea3aa7e1c4a ("chore: nftables: remove unused fill_exists() function")
ff713d793c02 ("improvement: if a transaction fails, dump traceback to debug")
a4fa472540b5 ("chore: fw: don't return anything from set_rules()")
719e239fbff1 ("fix: tests/regression/rhbz1601610: add missing CHECK_IPSET")

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:51:23 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:1836


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