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tailscale/util/linuxfw/linuxfw.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 linuxfw returns the kind of firewall being used by the kernel.
package linuxfw
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"strconv"
"strings"
"github.com/tailscale/netlink"
"tailscale.com/feature"
"tailscale.com/tsconst"
"tailscale.com/types/logger"
)
// MatchDecision is the decision made by the firewall for a packet matched by a rule.
// It is used to decide whether to accept or masquerade a packet in addMatchSubnetRouteMarkRule.
type MatchDecision int
const (
Accept MatchDecision = iota
Masq
)
type FWModeNotSupportedError struct {
Mode FirewallMode
Err error
}
func (e FWModeNotSupportedError) Error() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("firewall mode %q not supported: %v", e.Mode, e.Err)
}
func (e FWModeNotSupportedError) Is(target error) bool {
_, ok := target.(FWModeNotSupportedError)
return ok
}
func (e FWModeNotSupportedError) Unwrap() error {
return e.Err
}
type FirewallMode string
const (
FirewallModeIPTables FirewallMode = "iptables"
FirewallModeNfTables FirewallMode = "nftables"
)
// The following bits are added to packet marks for Tailscale use.
//
// We tried to pick bits sufficiently out of the way that it's
// unlikely to collide with existing uses. We have 4 bytes of mark
// bits to play with. We leave the lower byte alone on the assumption
// that sysadmins would use those. Kubernetes uses a few bits in the
// second byte, so we steer clear of that too.
//
// Empirically, most of the documentation on packet marks on the
// internet gives the impression that the marks are 16 bits
// wide. Based on this, we theorize that the upper two bytes are
// relatively unused in the wild, and so we consume bits 16:23 (the
// third byte).
//
// The constants are in the iptables/iproute2 string format for
// matching and setting the bits, so they can be directly embedded in
// commands.
const (
fwmarkMask = tsconst.LinuxFwmarkMask
fwmarkMaskNum = tsconst.LinuxFwmarkMaskNum
subnetRouteMark = tsconst.LinuxSubnetRouteMark
subnetRouteMarkNum = tsconst.LinuxSubnetRouteMarkNum
bypassMark = tsconst.LinuxBypassMark
bypassMarkNum = tsconst.LinuxBypassMarkNum
)
// getTailscaleFwmarkMaskNeg returns the negation of TailscaleFwmarkMask in bytes.
func getTailscaleFwmarkMaskNeg() []byte {
return []byte{0xff, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff}
}
// getTailscaleFwmarkMask returns the TailscaleFwmarkMask in bytes.
func getTailscaleFwmarkMask() []byte {
return []byte{0x00, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00}
}
// getTailscaleSubnetRouteMark returns the TailscaleSubnetRouteMark in bytes.
func getTailscaleSubnetRouteMark() []byte {
return []byte{0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00}
}
// checkIPv6ForTest can be set in tests.
var checkIPv6ForTest func(logger.Logf) error
// checkIPv6 checks whether the system appears to have a working IPv6
// network stack. It returns an error explaining what looks wrong or
// missing. It does not check that IPv6 is currently functional or
// that there's a global address, just that the system would support
// IPv6 if it were on an IPv6 network.
func CheckIPv6(logf logger.Logf) error {
if f := checkIPv6ForTest; f != nil {
return f(logf)
}
_, err := os.Stat("/proc/sys/net/ipv6")
if os.IsNotExist(err) {
return err
}
bs, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6")
if err != nil {
// Be conservative if we can't find the IPv6 configuration knob.
return err
}
disabled, err := strconv.ParseBool(strings.TrimSpace(string(bs)))
if err != nil {
return errors.New("disable_ipv6 has invalid bool")
}
if disabled {
return errors.New("disable_ipv6 is set")
}
// Older kernels don't support IPv6 policy routing. Some kernels
// support policy routing but don't have this knob, so absence of
// the knob is not fatal.
bs, err = os.ReadFile("/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_policy")
if err == nil {
disabled, err = strconv.ParseBool(strings.TrimSpace(string(bs)))
if err != nil {
return errors.New("disable_policy has invalid bool")
}
if disabled {
return errors.New("disable_policy is set")
}
}
if err := CheckIPRuleSupportsV6(logf); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("kernel doesn't support IPv6 policy routing: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
func CheckIPRuleSupportsV6(logf logger.Logf) error {
// First try just a read-only operation to ideally avoid
// having to modify any state.
if rules, err := netlink.RuleList(netlink.FAMILY_V6); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("querying IPv6 policy routing rules: %w", err)
} else {
if len(rules) > 0 {
logf("[v1] kernel supports IPv6 policy routing (found %d rules)", len(rules))
return nil
}
}
// Try to actually create & delete one as a test.
rule := netlink.NewRule()
rule.Priority = 1234
rule.Mark = bypassMarkNum
rule.Table = 52
rule.Family = netlink.FAMILY_V6
// First delete the rule unconditionally, and don't check for
// errors. This is just cleaning up anything that might be already
// there.
netlink.RuleDel(rule)
// And clean up on exit.
defer netlink.RuleDel(rule)
return netlink.RuleAdd(rule)
}
var hookIPTablesCleanup feature.Hook[func(logger.Logf)]
// IPTablesCleanUp removes all Tailscale added iptables rules.
// Any errors that occur are logged to the provided logf.
func IPTablesCleanUp(logf logger.Logf) {
if f, ok := hookIPTablesCleanup.GetOk(); ok {
f(logf)
}
}