This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #1758072

I am copying this bug because: it also applies to RHEL8



Description of problem:

teamd uses the libdaemon facility to send logs. When configuring a Team with LACP, customers can see 1 message from Debug level being printed every second, even though NetworkManager's log level (and teamd) is set to Info:

-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
eth1: lacp info state: XXX
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

This is very annoying and pollutes the journal.

It appears that when using libdaemon and syslog facility, *no* filtering is performed by the libdaemon library:

dlog.c:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
 35 static int daemon_verbosity_level = LOG_INFO;

 46 void daemon_logv(int prio, const char* template, va_list arglist) {
 47     int saved_errno;
 48 
 49     saved_errno = errno;
 50 
 51     if (daemon_log_use & DAEMON_LOG_SYSLOG) {
 52         openlog(daemon_log_ident ? daemon_log_ident : "UNKNOWN", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
 53         vsyslog(prio | LOG_DAEMON, template, arglist);
 54     }
 55 
 56     if (prio > daemon_verbosity_level)
 57         goto end_daemon_logv;
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

This is intended behaviour and the root cause of the issue:

dlog.h:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
 94 /** Setter for the verbosity level of standard output.
 95  *
 96  * @param verbosity_prio Minimum priority level for messages to output
 97  * on standard output/error
 98  *
 99  * Allows to decide which messages to output on standard output/error
100  * streams. All messages are logged to syslog and this setting does
101  * not influence that.
102  *
103  * The default value is LOG_WARNING.
104  *
105  * @since 0.14
106  * @see DAEMON_SET_VERBOSITY_AVAILABLE
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

See also BZ #1758066 related to libdaemon to clarify if this is really intented behaviour.
If so, then libteam needs to filter out unwanted levels.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libteam


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a team with LACP

  TEAM_CONFIG="{ \"device\": \"team0\", \"runner\": { \"name\": \"lacp\", \"active\": true, \"fast_rate\": true, \"tx_hash\": [\"eth\", \"ipv4\", \"ipv6\"] }, \"link_watch\": {\"name\": \"ethtool\"}, \"ports\": {\"eth1\": {}, \"eth2\": {}} }"

Actual results:

Message printed every second

Expected results:

No message