Resolve conflicts against the upstream wave (PRs #2952-#2965, incl. the
typed-response/schema hardening and the drop of Python 3.10):
- controller/node.py: keep upstream's _transitioning/_confirm_status
lifecycle guard; the kernel-anchor link wiring (node_started) runs
after the transition completes.
- controller/link.py: keep upstream's add_node rollback (release_ports
on create failure) and delete via release_ports; release_ports now
resolves ports live (same staleness reason as _bind_members) and
discards the node link unconditionally.
- schemas/controller/links.py: extend LinkFilterType with the eight
kernel-datapath filter types and LinkFilterParameter.type with "str"
so the newly typed /available_filters response validates; Link.filters
stays a free-form dict — the vocabulary is capability-gated per link
and validated by the controller (409), not by a strict request schema.
- schemas/controller/topology.py: drop the type: ignore made redundant
by the dict filters field.
- tests: route-level filter validation now expects the controller's 409
(unknown types, out-of-range values); packet_loss correlation is a
valid kernel parameter (positive test added); OpenAPI assertions match
the free-form filters property.
The kernel's correlated-random generator (get_crandom, sch_netem.c) truncates
instead of wrapping, starving both edges of the stationary distribution: an
event threshold below the correlation value is almost never reached. Measured
with stock iproute2 on this kernel — uBridge's netlink encoding is identical:
loss 1% + correl 25% drops nothing over 2000 pings (expected ~2%), 10%/25%
measures ~1.8% one way, only the 50% symmetry point survives. duplicate and
reorder correl share the same comparison structure and collapse the same way;
gemodel is immune (Markov chain over plain uniform draws) and is the honest
tool for bursty loss at a chosen mean rate.
Documented in the packet-filters correlation-bias bullet, and surfaced in the
two machine-facing descriptions (MCP link_update packet_loss note, controller
filter schema) so agents and clients stop walking into the trap.
The persistent-TAP lifecycle — probe, sweep, create, register, delete —
was implemented four times, once per node type, and the copies had drifted
(probe mechanism, _tap_datapath reset, keep-vs-recreate policy). The
mechanical half moves into KernelDatapathMixin:
- _probe_persistent_taps(probe_name): the scratch-TAP probe, returning the
refusal for the caller's own warning (QEMU, Dynamips);
- _create_anchor_taps(ports, set_owner, keep_existing): sweep + create +
optional ownership handover + carrier down + registry, with the ports
enumerated by the node type and named through the new _tap_name hook;
- _delete_anchor_taps(): the suppressed tap sweep + per-link bridge
cleanup + registry clear.
Each node type keeps what its fd holder dictates: the release step before
the tap sweep (the QEMU process, the IOL bridge, the hypervisor's NIO
bindings, the container port bridges), its probe policy, and its registry
lifetime. QEMU's now-unconditional registry clear aligns it with the other
three; everything else is behavior-preserving.
Compute:
- Track the anchor that owns uBridge's single AF_PACKET capture slot: a
second kernel port's capture is refused with a clear error (its flag
rolled back), a failed start no longer wedges the port, and only the
owning port's stop issues the process-wide `capture stop_kernel`
(docker/qemu/iou/dynamips/switch, via the mixin's slot helpers).
- Unwind failed starts instead of leaking uBridge and the anchor TAPs:
QEMU's stop body runs under try/finally, QEMU and IOU start the datapath
inside the launch try, Dynamips undoes a half-attached port (the retry
used to be short-circuited into a silent black hole), and Docker deletes
the veth pair when the namespace move fails.
- Restore the relay filter guard on IOU (kernel-only filters raise
NodeError, an uncompilable BPF line degrades to a warning), validate the
eBPF/quota/window/bpf filter shapes before touching the bridge (short or
non-numeric values surfaced as 500s after partial state), and refuse a
second NIO on an occupied Docker/QEMU port (the guard IOU and Dynamips
already had).
- Probe fixes: `_probe_bridge_tap` survives a failing uBridge start, and
the probe caches key on ctime too, so a chmod/setcap remedy re-probes.
Controller:
- Parse GNS3_UNIX_SOCKET_NIO like the compute does (line-anchored, truthy
value) and mirror the compute's class selection in kernel_anchor_type.
- Read partial capability reports defensively; make BridgeNIO.bridge
required-but-nullable so an omitted key is a 422 rather than a KeyError.
- Strip the packet_loss correlation slot even when it is zero: the relay
filter takes exactly one argument and rejected `packet_loss 10 0`.
Ethernet switch: skip ports whose absorbed anchor does not exist yet (the
join is deferred by design) and roll the ports_mapping back when the VLAN
reconcile fails, so a retry still diffs against the old mapping.
Agent: reject device config entries without a device_name instead of
silently dropping them (a malformed batch used to execute partially while
reporting success).
Also split the netem builder to clear C901 and drop the two per-file ruff
ignores the PR had added, keeping the remove-only policy.
