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nixos/wpa_supplicant: escape interface names to listen on #54681

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@Ma27 Ma27 commented Jan 27, 2019

Motivation for this change

Systemd provides some functionality to escape strings that are supposed
to be part of a unit name[1]. This seems to be used for interface names
in sys-subsystem-net-devices-{interface}.device and breaks
wpa_supplicant if the wireless interface name has a dash which is
encoded to \x2d.

Such an interface name is rather rare, but used i.e. when configuring
multiple wireless interfaces with networking.wlanInterfaces[2] to have on
interface for wpa_supplicant and another one for hostapd.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-escape.html
[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#networking.wlaninterfaces

Things done
  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Assured whether relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

@Ma27 Ma27 requested a review from infinisil as a code owner January 27, 2019 10:12
Systemd provides some functionality to escape strings that are supposed
to be part of a unit name[1]. This seems to be used for interface names
in `sys-subsystem-net-devices-{interface}.device` and breaks
wpa_supplicant if the wireless interface name has a dash which is
encoded to \x2d.

Such an interface name is rather rare, but used i.e. when configuring
multiple wireless interfaces with `networking.wlanInterfaces`[2] to have on
interface for `wpa_supplicant` and another one for `hostapd`.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-escape.html
[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#networking.wlaninterfaces
@Ma27 Ma27 force-pushed the escape-interface-names-in-wpa-supplicant-unit branch from 1539398 to acbadcd Compare January 27, 2019 10:59
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Ma27 commented Jan 27, 2019

rebased onto latest master to fix breaking ofborg evaluation.

@infinisil infinisil merged commit dede5ba into NixOS:master Jan 27, 2019
@Ma27 Ma27 deleted the escape-interface-names-in-wpa-supplicant-unit branch January 27, 2019 17:22
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