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Brad Fitzpatrick 2ee809d10d feature: add TS_DISABLE_FEATURE to disable features at runtime
The ts_omit_<name> build tags omit a feature at build time; there has
been no way to do the same at runtime. Some users (either proactively
or in response to a security announcement) might like a way to disable
a feature that's linked-in in their binaries that they're not using.
Then a mitigation announcement can say "set this env var" without
asking users to rebuild or wait for a new release.

This adds env var TS_DISABLE_FEATURE, a comma-separated list of
feature names to disable, and the listed set is reported by the
debug-optional-features LocalAPI endpoint next to the registered set.
The legacy per-feature knobs such as TS_DISABLE_SSH_SERVER and
TS_DISABLE_TAILDROP keep working independently.

A disabled feature behaves as if it had not been linked: it is absent
from feature.IsRegistered, its hooks are unset, and its extensions and
handlers are not registered. Three pieces make that happen:

  * feature.Register now returns bool, false when disabled, and
    feature packages gate their registration init on it. It was added
    to the feature packages that never called it (including taildrop
    and ssh), which also completes the picture reported by
    debug-optional-features. taildrop, routecheck, favorites, and
    serviceclientprefs had registration split across several inits and
    now register from one gated init.
  * ipnext.RegisterExtension ignores a disabled feature's extension.
  * feature.Hook.Set and feature.Hooks.Add walk the call stack and
    silently skip when the calling package under feature/<name> is
    disabled. This covers sub-packages such as
    feature/captiveportal/netcheckhook, which cannot call Register
    themselves without colliding with their parent, and future
    packages whose authors forget the gate.

ssh/tailssh's registrations moved from its inits into tailssh.Register,
called from feature/ssh's gated init. The aws and kube state stores and
syspolicy's Windows store registration are gated too.

feature/register_disable_test.go runs this test binary as a child
process (it links condregister, as tailscaled does) with
TS_DISABLE_FEATURE set to every registered feature at once, and fails
if any of them register anyway, so a feature that ignores the variable
cannot land.

Updates #12614

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I720af6ccab844ae060a9dfd1539fee577fd483e3
2026-09-15 08:37:47 -07:00
Brad Fitzpatrick 692f84df8d wgengine,wgcfg,feature/netlog: move network flow logging behind a feature hook
wgcfg.Config.NetworkLogging carried the network flow logging identity
inside the WireGuard config, where it was unrelated to WireGuard; it
lived there mainly so that identity changes would defeat Reconfig's
ErrNoChanges check and reach the netlog startup/shutdown logic.

Remove the field and move the whole netlog lifecycle into a new
feature/netlog package, installed on the engine via the new
wgengine.HookNewNetLogger hook, like other feature/* packages. The
logging identity now comes from LocalBackend's current netmap via the
widened NetLogSource interface (replacing Engine.SetNetLogNodeSource),
so nmcfg no longer parses audit log IDs into the config. The engine
still calls the hook before its ErrNoChanges return and before
router.Set (to capture initial packets), and again after router.Set
(to capture final packets), preserving the previous ordering.

Core wgengine no longer imports wgengine/netlog, so minimal builds
drop it entirely. tailscaled keeps netlog via feature/condregister,
and tsnet imports feature/condregister/netlog explicitly to keep
netlog enabled by default in tsnet-based binaries (tsidp,
k8s-operator).

This is pulled out of a future change that removes wgcfg.Config.Peers,
to make that PR smaller.

Updates #12542
Updates #12614

Change-Id: I41ca7dfe43c51e977c41b5f8e934bd1f0e6e6e24
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-07-09 12:56:37 -07:00