[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] For QEMU 2.5: Network traffic dumping for -netdev devices

[Thomas Huth]

The "-net dump" option only works with the "-net" option. So far, it
is not possible to dump network traffic with the "-netdev" option yet.
This patch series now fixes this ugliness by enabling dumping for the
"-netdev" option, too.

Unlike with the "-net dump" option, the "-netdev" parameter does not
"abuse" the disliked internal vlan hub infrastructure to achieve this
functionality. This patch series introduces a new, clean "dumpfile=xxx"
option for the -netdev parameters instead.

The patches are intended for QEMU version 2.5, but I'm sending them
now already in case somebody got some spare minutes left for reviewing
them again.

Note: I did not address multiqueue devices yet (but added a TODO in the
source code) ... I will address that later when the basic patches have
been accepted.

v2:
- Restructured the code a little bit
- Updated target QEMU version from 2.4. to 2.5
- Addressed review feedback from Jason, Stefan and Markus:
  - Use iov_copy() instead of copying the iov manually
  - Fix return value of net_dump_receive_iov() if fd is invalid
  - Use get_vhost_net() to detect vhost devices
  - Close the fd when netdev is deleted
  - Added some more comments in the source code

Thomas Huth (5):
  net/dump: Add support for receive_iov function
  net/dump: Move DumpState into NetClientState
  net/dump: Rework net-dump init functions
  net/dump: Add dump option for netdev devices
  qemu options: Add information about dumpfile to help text

 include/net/net.h |  8 +++++
 net/clients.h     |  6 ++++
 net/dump.c        | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 net/net.c         | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 qapi-schema.json  | 12 +++++--
 qemu-options.hx   | 26 ++++++++++-----
 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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