Resolves: bz2076416
Upstream: Fedora
Conflict: None
commit 568623e69a
Author: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Sep 23 14:25:01 2021 +0800
Address the cases where a NIC has a different name in kdump kernel
A NIC may get a different name in the kdump kernel from 1st kernel
in cases like,
- kernel assigned network interface names are not persistent e.g. [1]
- there is an udev rule to rename the NIC in the 1st kernel but the
kdump initrd may not have that rule e.g. [2]
If NM tries to match a NIC with a connection profile based on NIC name
i.e. connection.interface-name, it will fail the above bases. A simple
solution is to ask NM to match a connection profile by MAC address.
Note we don't need to do this for user-created NICs like vlan, bridge and
bond.
An remaining issue is passing the name of a NIC via the kdumpnic dracut
command line parameter which requires passing ifname=<interface>:<MAC> to
have fixed NIC name. But we can simply drop this requirement. kdumpnic
is needed because kdump needs to get the IP by NIC name and use the IP
to created a dumping folder named "{IP}-{DATE}". We can simply pass the
IP to the kdump kernel directly via a new dracut command line parameter
kdumpip instead. In addition to the benefit of simplifying the code,
there are other three benefits brought by this approach,
- make use of whatever network to transfer the vmcore. Because as long
as we have the network to we don't care which NIC is active.
- if obtained IP in the kdump kernel is different from the one in the
1st kernel. "{IP}-{DATE}" would better tell where the dumped vmcore
comes from.
- without passing ifname=<interface>:<MAC> to kdump initrd, the
issue of there are two interfaces with the same MAC address for
Azure Hyper-V NIC SR-IOV [3] is resolved automatically.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121778
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810107
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1962421
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
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