LocalBackend.Start previously shut down the previous control client in a goroutine, letting it run concurrently with the new one. An in-flight lite map update carrying stale Hostinfo.RequestTags could then be processed by the control plane after the new client had already changed the node's tags. Control treats such a request as an invalid tag transition and expires the node key to force a reauth, so retagging a node with "tailscale up --advertise-tags" intermittently logged the machine out. Instead, detach the old client under b.mu and shut it down synchronously with the lock released, before creating the new client. Shutdown cancels the old client's in-flight requests and waits for its goroutines to exit, so the cancellation of any stale update reaches the server before the new client sends its first request. Per the deadlock history in #18052, Shutdown must not be called with b.mu held; this uses the same pattern as DisconnectControl. Also teach the testcontrol server to model the control plane's tag transition handling (including expiring the node key on an invalid transition and ignoring updates from canceled requests), add an integration test reproducing the race, and add an ipnlocal test verifying that Start waits for the old client to shut down. Updates #20365 Updates #18052 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com> Change-Id: If8c8e145bdadcef1b1b8fe6209453cf5f5a8d616
Tailscale
Private WireGuard® networks made easy
Overview
This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code.
Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and
the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows,
macOS, and to varying degrees
on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's
code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.
Other Tailscale repos of note:
- the Android app is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
- the Synology package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology
- the QNAP package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg
- the Chocolatey packaging is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-chocolatey
For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.
Using
We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.
Other clients
The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.
Building
We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.26. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)
go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}
If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh
instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of
build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your
distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.
Bugs
Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.
Contributing
PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.
We require Developer Certificate of
Origin
Signed-off-by lines in commits.
See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.
About Us
Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/graphs/contributors
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/graphs/contributors
Legal
WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.