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tailscale/cmd/containerboot/forwarding.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
//go:build linux
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"log"
"net"
"net/netip"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"tailscale.com/util/linuxfw"
)
// ensureIPForwarding enables IPv4/IPv6 forwarding for the container.
func ensureIPForwarding(root, clusterProxyTargetIP, tailnetTargetIP, tailnetTargetFQDN string, routes *string) error {
var (
v4Forwarding, v6Forwarding bool
)
if clusterProxyTargetIP != "" {
proxyIP, err := netip.ParseAddr(clusterProxyTargetIP)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid cluster destination IP: %v", err)
}
if proxyIP.Is4() {
v4Forwarding = true
} else {
v6Forwarding = true
}
}
if tailnetTargetIP != "" {
proxyIP, err := netip.ParseAddr(tailnetTargetIP)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid tailnet destination IP: %v", err)
}
if proxyIP.Is4() {
v4Forwarding = true
} else {
v6Forwarding = true
}
}
// Currently we only proxy traffic to the IPv4 address of the tailnet
// target.
if tailnetTargetFQDN != "" {
v4Forwarding = true
}
if routes != nil && *routes != "" {
for _, route := range strings.Split(*routes, ",") {
cidr, err := netip.ParsePrefix(route)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid subnet route: %v", err)
}
if cidr.Addr().Is4() {
v4Forwarding = true
} else {
v6Forwarding = true
}
}
}
return enableIPForwarding(v4Forwarding, v6Forwarding, root)
}
func enableIPForwarding(v4Forwarding, v6Forwarding bool, root string) error {
var paths []string
if v4Forwarding {
paths = append(paths, filepath.Join(root, "proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"))
}
if v6Forwarding {
paths = append(paths, filepath.Join(root, "proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding"))
}
// In some common configurations (e.g. default docker,
// kubernetes), the container environment denies write access to
// most sysctls, including IP forwarding controls. Check the
// sysctl values before trying to change them, so that we
// gracefully do nothing if the container's already been set up
// properly by e.g. a k8s initContainer.
for _, path := range paths {
bs, err := os.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("reading %q: %w", path, err)
}
if v := strings.TrimSpace(string(bs)); v != "1" {
if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("1"), 0644); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("enabling %q: %w", path, err)
}
}
}
return nil
}
func installEgressForwardingRule(_ context.Context, dstStr string, tsIPs []netip.Prefix, nfr linuxfw.NetfilterRunner) error {
dst, err := netip.ParseAddr(dstStr)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var local netip.Addr
for _, pfx := range tsIPs {
if !pfx.IsSingleIP() {
continue
}
if pfx.Addr().Is4() != dst.Is4() {
continue
}
local = pfx.Addr()
break
}
if !local.IsValid() {
return fmt.Errorf("no tailscale IP matching family of %s found in %v", dstStr, tsIPs)
}
if err := nfr.DNATNonTailscaleTraffic("tailscale0", dst); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing egress proxy rules: %w", err)
}
if err := nfr.EnsureSNATForDst(local, dst); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing egress proxy rules: %w", err)
}
if err := nfr.ClampMSSToPMTU("tailscale0", dst); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing egress proxy rules: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
// installTSForwardingRuleForDestination accepts a destination address and a
// list of node's tailnet addresses, sets up rules to forward traffic for
// destination to the tailnet IP matching the destination IP family.
// Destination can be Pod IP of this node.
func installTSForwardingRuleForDestination(_ context.Context, dstFilter string, tsIPs []netip.Prefix, nfr linuxfw.NetfilterRunner) error {
dst, err := netip.ParseAddr(dstFilter)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var local netip.Addr
for _, pfx := range tsIPs {
if !pfx.IsSingleIP() {
continue
}
if pfx.Addr().Is4() != dst.Is4() {
continue
}
local = pfx.Addr()
break
}
if !local.IsValid() {
return fmt.Errorf("no tailscale IP matching family of %s found in %v", dstFilter, tsIPs)
}
if err := nfr.AddDNATRule(dst, local); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing rule for forwarding traffic to tailnet IP: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
func installIngressForwardingRule(_ context.Context, dstStr string, tsIPs []netip.Prefix, nfr linuxfw.NetfilterRunner) error {
dst, err := netip.ParseAddr(dstStr)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var local netip.Addr
proxyHasIPv4Address := false
for _, pfx := range tsIPs {
if !pfx.IsSingleIP() {
continue
}
if pfx.Addr().Is4() {
proxyHasIPv4Address = true
}
if pfx.Addr().Is4() != dst.Is4() {
continue
}
local = pfx.Addr()
break
}
if proxyHasIPv4Address && dst.Is6() {
log.Printf("Warning: proxy backend ClusterIP is an IPv6 address and the proxy has a IPv4 tailnet address. You might need to disable IPv4 address allocation for the proxy for forwarding to work. See https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/12156")
}
if !local.IsValid() {
return fmt.Errorf("no tailscale IP matching family of %s found in %v", dstStr, tsIPs)
}
if err := nfr.AddDNATRule(local, dst); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing ingress proxy rules: %w", err)
}
if err := nfr.ClampMSSToPMTU("tailscale0", dst); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing ingress proxy rules: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
func installIngressForwardingRuleForDNSTarget(_ context.Context, backendAddrs []net.IP, tsIPs []netip.Prefix, nfr linuxfw.NetfilterRunner) error {
var (
tsv4 netip.Addr
tsv6 netip.Addr
v4Backends []netip.Addr
v6Backends []netip.Addr
)
for _, pfx := range tsIPs {
if pfx.IsSingleIP() && pfx.Addr().Is4() {
tsv4 = pfx.Addr()
continue
}
if pfx.IsSingleIP() && pfx.Addr().Is6() {
tsv6 = pfx.Addr()
continue
}
}
// TODO: log if more than one backend address is found and firewall is
// in nftables mode that only the first IP will be used.
for _, ip := range backendAddrs {
if ip.To4() != nil {
v4Backends = append(v4Backends, netip.AddrFrom4([4]byte(ip.To4())))
}
if ip.To16() != nil {
v6Backends = append(v6Backends, netip.AddrFrom16([16]byte(ip.To16())))
}
}
// Enable IP forwarding here as opposed to at the start of containerboot
// as the IPv4/IPv6 requirements might have changed.
// For Kubernetes operator proxies, forwarding for both IPv4 and IPv6 is
// enabled by an init container, so in practice enabling forwarding here
// is only needed if this proxy has been configured by manually setting
// TS_EXPERIMENTAL_DEST_DNS_NAME env var for a containerboot instance.
if err := enableIPForwarding(len(v4Backends) != 0, len(v6Backends) != 0, ""); err != nil {
log.Printf("[unexpected] failed to ensure IP forwarding: %v", err)
}
updateFirewall := func(dst netip.Addr, backendTargets []netip.Addr) error {
if err := nfr.DNATWithLoadBalancer(dst, backendTargets); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("installing DNAT rules for ingress backends %+#v: %w", backendTargets, err)
}
// The backend might advertize MSS higher than that of the
// tailscale interfaces. Clamp MSS of packets going out via
// tailscale0 interface to its MTU to prevent broken connections
// in environments where path MTU discovery is not working.
if err := nfr.ClampMSSToPMTU("tailscale0", dst); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("adding rule to clamp traffic via tailscale0: %v", err)
}
return nil
}
if len(v4Backends) != 0 {
if !tsv4.IsValid() {
log.Printf("backend targets %v contain at least one IPv4 address, but this node's Tailscale IPs do not contain a valid IPv4 address: %v", backendAddrs, tsIPs)
} else if err := updateFirewall(tsv4, v4Backends); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("Installing IPv4 firewall rules: %w", err)
}
}
if len(v6Backends) != 0 && !tsv6.IsValid() {
if !tsv6.IsValid() {
log.Printf("backend targets %v contain at least one IPv6 address, but this node's Tailscale IPs do not contain a valid IPv6 address: %v", backendAddrs, tsIPs)
} else if !nfr.HasIPV6NAT() {
log.Printf("backend targets %v contain at least one IPv6 address, but the chosen firewall mode does not support IPv6 NAT", backendAddrs)
} else if err := updateFirewall(tsv6, v6Backends); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("Installing IPv6 firewall rules: %w", err)
}
}
return nil
}