Test Suite - KVM

Libreswan comes with an extensive test suite, written mostly in python, that uses KVM virtual machines and virtual networks. It has replaced the old UML test suite. Apart from KVM, the test suite uses libvirtd and qemu. It is strongly recommended to run the test suite natively on the OS (not in a VM itself) on a machine that has a CPU wth virtualization instructions. The PLAN9 filesystem (9p) is used to mount host directories in the guests - NFS is avoided to prevent network lockups when an IPsec test case would cripple the guest's networking.

Test Frameworks

This page describes the make kvm framework.

Instead of using virtual machines, it is possible to use Docker instances.

More information is found in Test Suite - Docker in this Wiki

Preparing the host machine

In the following it is assumed that your account is called "build".

Add Yourself to sudo

Some of the test scrips need to be run as root. The test environment assumes this can be done using sudo without a password vis:

sudo pwd

XXX: Surely qemu can be driven without root?

This is done by creating a no-pasword rule to /etc/sudoers.d/.

To set this up, add your account to the wheel group and permit wheel to have no-password access. Issue the following commands as root:

echo '%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/swantest
chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/swantest
chown root.root /etc/sudoers.d/swantest
usermod -a -G wheel build

Fight SELinux

SELinux blocks some actions that we need. We have not created any SELinux rules to avoid this. The options are:

• set SELinux to permissive (recommended)

sudo sed --in-place=.ORIG -e 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config
sudo setenforce Permissive

• disable SELinux

sudo sed --in-place=.ORIG -e 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config
sudo reboot

• (experimental) label source tree for SELinux

The source tree on the host is shared with the virtual machines. SELinux considers this a bug unless the tree is labelled with type svirt_image_t.

sudo dnf install policycoreutils-python-utils
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t svirt_image_t "$(pwd)"'(/.*)?'
sudo restorecon -vR /home/build/libreswan

There may be other things that SELinux objects to.

Install Required Dependencies

Now we are ready to install the various components of libvirtd, qemu and kvm and then start the libvirtd service.

Fedora

To get qemu working (while virt-manager isn't strictly required it's useful on a desktop):

sudo dnf install -y make git
sudo dnf install -y qemu virt-manager virt-install libvirt-daemon-kvm libvirt-daemon-qemu
sudo dnf install -y python3-pexpect

so web pages can be generated:

sudo dnf install jq nodejs-typescript

?why?

sudo dnf install -y bind-dnssec-utils

Once all is installed start libvirtd and then check it is running:

sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
sudo systemctl start libvirtd
sudo systemctl status libvirtd

There should be no errors and warnings.

On testing and F29, this failed with the error:

error : virQEMUCapsNewForBinaryInternal:4664 : internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP: /usr/bin/qemu-system-xtensa: error while loading shared libraries: libbrlapi.so.0.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and it was found that 'brlapi' needed to be manually installed.

Debian

Anyone?

Setting Users and Groups

You need to add yourself to the qemu group. For instance:

sudo usermod -a -G qemu $(id -u -n)

You will need to re-login for this to take effect.

The path to your build needs to be accessible (executable) by root:

chmod a+x ~

Fix /var/lib/libvirt/qemu

sudo chmod g+w /var/lib/libvirt/qemu

Create /etc/modules-load.d/virtio.conf

Several virtio modules need to be loaded into the host's kernel. This could be done by modprobe ahead of running any virtual machines but it is easier to install them whenever the host boots. This is arranged by listing the modules in a file within /etc/modules-load.d. The host must be rebooted for this to take effect.

sudo dd <<EOF of=/etc/modules-load.d/virtio.conf
virtio_blk
virtio-rng
virtio_console
virtio_net
virtio_scsi
virtio
virtio_balloon
virtio_input
virtio_pci
virtio_ring
9pnet_virtio
EOF

As of Fedora 28, several of these modules are now built into the kernel and will not show up in /proc/modules (virtio, virtio_rng, virtio_pci, virtio_ring).

Ensure that the host has enough entropy

Entropy matters

With KVM, a guest systems uses entropy from the host through the kernel module "virtio_rng" in the guest's kernel (set above). This has advantages:

• entropy only needs to be gathered on one machine (the host) rather than all machines (the host and the guests)
• the host is in the Real World and thus has more sources of real entropy
• any hacking to make entropy available need only be done on one machine

To ensure the host has enough randomness, run either jitterentropy-rngd or havegd.

Fedora commands for using jitterentropy-rngd (broken on F26, service file specifies /usr/local for path):

sudo dnf install jitterentropy-rngd
sudo systemctl enable jitterentropy-rngd
sudo systemctl start jitterentropy-rngd

Fedora commands for using havegd:

sudo dnf install haveged
sudo systemctl enable haveged
sudo systemctl start haveged

Download and configure libreswan

Fetch Libreswan

The libreswan source tree includes all the components that are used on the host and inside the test VMs. To get the latest source code using git:

git clone https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan
cd libreswan

Create the Pool directory - KVM_POOLDIR

The pool directory is used used to store KVM disk images and other configuration files. By default $(top_srcdir)/../pool is used (that is, adjacent to your source tree).

To change the location of the pool directory, set the KVM_POOLDIR make variable in Makefile.inc.local. For instance:

$ grep KVM_POOLDIR Makefile.inc.local
KVM_POOLDIR=/home/libreswan/pool

Make tests run in parallel - KVM_PREFIXES

By default only one test is run at a time. This can be changed using KVM_PREFIXES make variable which specifies the prefix to prepend to test domains. The default value is:

KVM_PREFIXES=''

which creates the domains east, west, et.al. (i.e., after expansion east, west, et.al.).

Multiple tests can be run in parallel by specifying more prefixes - a rule of thumb is one prefix per two CPU cores. For instance, on a 4-core machine, two prefixes can be specified using:

KVM_PREFIXES='' 1.

which creates, after expansion, the domains east, west, et.al. and 1.east, 1.west, et.al.

Serve test results as HTML pages on the test server (optional)

If you want to be able to see the results of testruns in HTML, you can enable a webserver:

dnf install httpd
systemctl enable httpd
systemctl start httpd
mkdir /var/www/html/results/
chown build /var/www/html/results/
chmod 755 /var/www/html/results/
cd ~
ln -s /var/www/html/results

If you want it to be the main page of the website, you can create the file /var/www/html/index.html containing:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=/results/"></HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

and then add:

WEB_SUMMARYDIR=/var/www/html/results

To Makefile.inc.local

Running the testsuite

Generate the Certificates

The full testsuite requires a number of certificates. If not present, they will be automatically generated (using the domain build) before the testsuite is run.

Just note that the certificates have a limited lifetime. If the test system detects out-of-date certificates it will issue an error. Should this happen, then the commands:

make kvm-keys-clean
make kvm-keys

can be used to force the generation of new certificates.

Build (update) and Install libreswan

To build the VMs, and build (update) and install libreswan, use:

make kvm-install

To force a scratch build (re-constructing build and test domains, re-generating the certificates, and build/install libreswan from scratch), use:

make kvm-clean
make kvm-install

To also force an OS upgrade of the domains, use:

make kvm-purge
make kvm-install

(make kvm-demolish wipes out everything)

Run the testsuite

To (re)run all test cases, use:

make kvm-test

To just run tests that previously failed:

make kvm-retest

Inspect the test results

See kvmresults.py, make kvm-results

Stopping pluto tests (gracefully)

Type control-C; it will eventually stop (but may need to wait for all threads to become idle).

If you grow impatient, just type control-C again.

Shell and Console Access (Logging In)

There are several different ways to gain shell access to the domains.

Each method, depending on the situation, has both advantages and disadvantages. For instance:

• while make kvmsh-host provide quick access to the console, it doesn't support file copy
• while SSH takes more to set up, it supports things like proper terminal configuration and file copy

Serial Console access using "make kvmsh-HOST" (kvmsh.py)

"kvmsh", is a wrapper around "virsh". It automatically handles things like booting the machine, logging in, and correctly configuring the terminal:

$ ./testing/utils/kvmsh.py east
[...]
Escape character is ^]
[root@east ~]# printenv TERM
xterm
[root@east ~]# stty -a
...; rows 52; columns 185; ... 
[root@east ~]#

"kvmsh.py" can also be used to script remote commands (for instance, it is used to run "make" on the build domain):

$ ./testing/utils/kvmsh.py east ls
[root@east ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg

Finally, "make kvmsh-HOST" provides a short cut for the above; and if your using multiple build trees (see further down), it will connect to the DOMAIN that corresponds to HOST. For instance, notice how the domain "a.east" is passed to kvmsh.py in the below:

$ make kvmsh-east
/home/libreswan/pools/testing/utils/kvmsh.py --output ++compile-log.txt --chdir . a.east
Escape character is ^]
[root@east source]# 

Limitations:

• no file transfer but files can be accessed via /testing

Graphical Console access using virt-manager

"virt-manager", a gnome tool can be used to access individual domains.

While easy to use, it doesn't support cut/paste or mechanisms for copying files.

Shell access using SSH

While requiring slightly more effort to set up, it provides full shell access to the domains.

Since you will be using ssh a lot to login to these machines, it is recommended to either put their names in /etc/hosts:

# /etc/hosts entries for libreswan test suite
192.1.2.45 west
192.1.2.23 east
192.0.3.254 north
192.1.3.209 road
192.1.2.254 nic

or add entries to .ssh/config such as:

Host west
        Hostname 192.1.2.45

If you wish to be able to ssh into all the VMs created without using a password, add your ssh public key to testing/baseconfigs/all/etc/ssh/authorized_keys. This file is installed as /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on all VMs

Using ssh becomes easier if you are running ssh-agent (you probably are) and your public key is known to the virtual machine. This command, run on the host, installs your public key on the root account of the guest machines west. This assumes that west is up (it might not be, but you can put this off until you actually need ssh, at which time the machine would need to be up anyway). Remember that the root password on each guest machine is "swan".

ssh-copy-id root@west

You can use ssh-copy for any VM. Unfortunately, the key is forgotten when the VM is restarted.

Run an individual test (or tests)

All the test cases involving VMs are located in the libreswan directory under testing/pluto/ . The most basic test case is called basic-pluto-01. Each test case consists of a few files:

• description.txt to explain what this test case actually tests
• ipsec.conf files - for host west is called west.conf. This can also include configuration files for strongswan or racoon2 for interop testig
• ipsec.secret files - if non-default configurations are used. also uses the host syntax, eg west.secrets, east.secrets.
• An init.sh file for each VM that needs to start (eg westinit.sh, eastinit.sh, etc)
• One run.sh file for the host that is the initiator (eg westrun.sh)
• Known good (sanitized) output for each VM (eg west.console.txt, east.console.txt)
• testparams.sh if there are any non-default test parameters

You can run this test case by issuing the following command on the host:

Either:

make kvm-test KVM_TESTS+=testing/pluto/basic-pluto-01/

or:

./testing/utils/kvmtest.py testing/pluto/basic-pluto-01

multiple tests can be selected with:

make kvm-test KVM_TESTS+=testing/pluto/basic-pluto-*

or:

./testing/utils/kvmresults.py testing/pluto/basic-pluto-*

Once the test run has completed, you will see an OUTPUT/ directory in the test case directory:

$ ls OUTPUT/
east.console.diff  east.console.verbose.txt  RESULT       west.console.txt          west.pluto.log
east.console.txt   east.pluto.log            swan12.pcap  west.console.diff  west.console.verbose.txt

• RESULT is a text file (whose format is sure to change in the next few months) stating whether the test succeeded or failed.
• The diff files show the differences between this testrun and the last known good output.
• Each VM's serial (sanitized) console log (eg west.console.txt)
• Each VM's unsanitized verbose console output (eg west.console.verbose.txt)
• A network capture from the bridge device (eg swan12.pcap)
• Each VM's pluto log, created with plutodebug=all (eg west.pluto.log)
• Any core dumps generated if a pluto daemon crashed

Debugging inside the VM

Debugging pluto on east

Terminal 1 - east: log into east, start pluto, and attach gdb

make kvmsh-east
east# cd /testing/pluto/basic-pluto-01
east# sh -x ./eastinit.sh
east# gdb /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/pluto $(pidof pluto)
(gdb) c

Terminal 2 - west: log into west, start pluto and the test

make kvmsh-west
west# sh -x ./westinit.sh ; sh -x westrun.sh

If pluto wasn't running, gdb would complain: --p requires an argument

When pluto crashes, gdb will show that and await commands. For example, the bt command will show a backtrace.

Debugging pluto on west

See above, but also use virt as a terminal.

/root/.gdbinit

If you want to get rid of the warning "warning: File "/testing/pluto/ikev2-dpd-01/.gdbinit" auto-loading has been declined by your `auto-load safe-path'"

echo "set auto-load safe-path /" >> /root/.gdbinit

Updating the VMs

1. delete all the copies of the base VM:

   $ make kvm-purge

2. install again

   $ make kvm-install

Publishing Results on the web: http://testing.libreswan.org/results/

This is experimental and uses:

• CSS
• javascript

Two scripts are available:

• testing/web/setup.sh

sets up the directory ~/results adding any dependencies

• testing/web/publish.sh

runs the testsuite and then copies the results to ~/results

To view this, use file:///.

To get this working with httpd (Apache web server):

sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo ln -s ~/results /var/www/html/
sudo sh -c 'echo "AddType text/plain .diff" >/etc/httpd/conf.d/diff.conf'

To view the results, use http://localhost/results.