Android denies app UIDs both NETLINK_ROUTE (golang/go#40569, #2293)
and /proc/net, so net.Interfaces always fails and netmon.New errors
out before a standalone binary can do anything. The Android app solves
this from Java via netmon.RegisterInterfaceGetter, but raw binaries
run under Termux or a rooted shell have no Java to lean on. This is
the second half of #21129, following the androiddns feature.
I added a netmon fallback hook, consulted only when no interface
getter was registered and net.Interfaces failed, and a new androidbin
feature (ts_omit_androidbin) that implements it: report a single
synthetic interface whose v4 and v6 addresses come from asking the
kernel to route an outbound UDP socket, which sends no packets and is
permitted in the app sandbox. That's enough for magicsock to discover
local endpoints. The fallback also requires runtime evidence of
Android (GOOS=android, or /dev/__properties__ existing for GOOS=linux
binaries running under an Android kernel), so it's inert on regular
Linux.
The androidbin feature also blank imports androiddns, and fixes a
third gap I found while testing: GOOS=linux binaries on Android have
an empty CA root pool, because Go's unix root loader doesn't know
Android's /system/etc/security/cacerts (the GOOS=android loader
does), so all TLS verification fails. On Android it points
SSL_CERT_DIR there unless the user already set it, as Termux's
ca-certificates package does.
The feature is on by default in tailscaled builds on Linux and
Android via condregister, and deliberately not linked into tsnet by
default; tsnet apps and other programs opt in with a blank import of
tailscale.com/feature/androidbin.
I verified on an Android 13 emulator with SELinux enforcing, running
GOOS=linux static binaries under the app UID (run-as), where
net.Interfaces fails with the exact netlinkrib permission denial from
the issue: netmon.New succeeds with the synthetic interface, and a
tailcat binary importing this feature does DNS via dnsproxyd, fetches
its DERP map over TLS using the Android cert store, completes STUN,
selects a DERP region, and prints its address.
Updates #21129
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: If7dbcbb825ecd24bcf6d9d64b1e334dd00700d51
