net: detect unstable network names and trigger a settle if needed

The cloud-init-local.service expects that any network device name changes
have already been completed by the kernel or udev daemon.

In some situations we've found that the renaming of interfaces from kernel
names (eth0, eth1, etc) to their persistent names (eno1, ens3, enp0s1,
etc) may happen after cloud-init-local has started where it reads values
from sysfs about what network devices are present, and which device to use
as a fallback nic.

Subsequently, cloud-init-local would write out network configuration for a
kernel device name which would no longer be present by the time that
networking services start to bring up the devices. The result is that the
instance does not get networking configured. Prior to use of
systemd-networkd, the Ubuntu 'networking.service' unit included a call to
udevadm settle which is why this race is not seen on a Xenial system.

This change adds the ability to detect if an interface has a stable name,
if if we find one without stable names and stable names have not been
disabled (net.ifnames=0 in /proc/cmdline), then cloud-init will invoke
udevadm settle.

LP: #1766287

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/net/tests/test_init.py b/cloudinit/net/tests/test_init.py
index 276556ee..5c017d15 100644
--- a/cloudinit/net/tests/test_init.py
+++ b/cloudinit/net/tests/test_init.py
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ class TestGenerateFallbackConfig(CiTestCase):
         self.sysdir = self.tmp_dir() + '/'
         self.m_sys_path.return_value = self.sysdir
         self.addCleanup(sys_mock.stop)
+        self.add_patch('cloudinit.net.util.udevadm_settle', 'm_settle')
 
     def test_generate_fallback_finds_connected_eth_with_mac(self):
         """generate_fallback_config finds any connected device with a mac."""