tailscale/net/netns/netns.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
// Package netns contains the common code for using the Go net package
// in a logical "network namespace" to avoid routing loops where
// Tailscale-created packets would otherwise loop back through
// Tailscale routes.
//
// Despite the name netns, the exact mechanism used differs by
// operating system, and perhaps even by version of the OS.
//
// The netns package also handles connecting via SOCKS proxies when
// configured by the environment.
package netns
import (
"context"
"net"
"net/netip"
"runtime"
"sync/atomic"
"tailscale.com/net/netknob"
"tailscale.com/net/netmon"
"tailscale.com/types/logger"
)
var disabled atomic.Bool
// SetEnabled enables or disables netns for the process.
// It defaults to being enabled.
func SetEnabled(on bool) {
disabled.Store(!on)
}
var bindToInterfaceByRoute atomic.Bool
// SetBindToInterfaceByRoute enables or disables whether we use the system's
// route information to bind to a particular interface. It is the same as
// setting the TS_BIND_TO_INTERFACE_BY_ROUTE.
//
// Currently, this only changes the behaviour on macOS and Windows.
func SetBindToInterfaceByRoute(logf logger.Logf, v bool) {
if bindToInterfaceByRoute.Swap(v) != v {
logf("netns: bindToInterfaceByRoute changed to %v", v)
}
}
var disableBindConnToInterface atomic.Bool
// SetDisableBindConnToInterface disables the (normal) behavior of binding
// connections to the default network interface on Darwin nodes.
//
// Unless you intended to disable this for tailscaled on macos (which is likely
// to break things), you probably wanted to set
// SetDisableBindConnToInterfaceAppleExt which will disable explicit interface
// binding only when tailscaled is running inside a network extension process.
func SetDisableBindConnToInterface(logf logger.Logf, v bool) {
if disableBindConnToInterface.Swap(v) != v {
logf("netns: disableBindConnToInterface changed to %v", v)
}
}
var disableBindConnToInterfaceAppleExt atomic.Bool
// SetDisableBindConnToInterfaceAppleExt disables the (normal) behavior of binding
// connections to the default network interface but only on Apple clients where
// tailscaled is running inside a network extension.
func SetDisableBindConnToInterfaceAppleExt(logf logger.Logf, v bool) {
if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" && disableBindConnToInterfaceAppleExt.Swap(v) != v {
logf("netns: disableBindConnToInterfaceAppleExt changed to %v", v)
}
}
// Listener returns a new net.Listener with its Control hook func
// initialized as necessary to run in logical network namespace that
// doesn't route back into Tailscale.
func Listener(logf logger.Logf, netMon *netmon.Monitor) *net.ListenConfig {
if netMon == nil {
panic("netns.Listener called with nil netMon")
}
if disabled.Load() {
return new(net.ListenConfig)
}
return &net.ListenConfig{Control: control(logf, netMon)}
}
// NewDialer returns a new Dialer using a net.Dialer with its Control
// hook func initialized as necessary to run in a logical network
// namespace that doesn't route back into Tailscale. It also handles
// using a SOCKS if configured in the environment with ALL_PROXY.
func NewDialer(logf logger.Logf, netMon *netmon.Monitor) Dialer {
if netMon == nil {
panic("netns.NewDialer called with nil netMon")
}
return FromDialer(logf, netMon, &net.Dialer{
KeepAlive: netknob.PlatformTCPKeepAlive(),
})
}
// FromDialer returns sets d.Control as necessary to run in a logical
// network namespace that doesn't route back into Tailscale. It also
// handles using a SOCKS if configured in the environment with
// ALL_PROXY.
func FromDialer(logf logger.Logf, netMon *netmon.Monitor, d *net.Dialer) Dialer {
if netMon == nil {
panic("netns.FromDialer called with nil netMon")
}
if disabled.Load() {
return d
}
d.Control = control(logf, netMon)
if wrapDialer != nil {
return wrapDialer(d)
}
return d
}
// IsSOCKSDialer reports whether d is SOCKS-proxying dialer as returned by
// NewDialer or FromDialer.
func IsSOCKSDialer(d Dialer) bool {
if d == nil {
return false
}
_, ok := d.(*net.Dialer)
return !ok
}
// wrapDialer, if non-nil, specifies a function to wrap a dialer in a
// SOCKS-using dialer. It's set conditionally by socks.go.
var wrapDialer func(Dialer) Dialer
// Dialer is the interface for a dialer that can dial with or without a context.
// It's the type implemented both by net.Dialer and the Go SOCKS dialer.
type Dialer interface {
Dial(network, address string) (net.Conn, error)
DialContext(ctx context.Context, network, address string) (net.Conn, error)
}
func isLocalhost(addr string) bool {
host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(addr)
if err != nil {
// error means the string didn't contain a port number, so use the string directly
host = addr
}
// localhost6 == RedHat /etc/hosts for ::1, ip6-loopback & ip6-localhost == Debian /etc/hosts for ::1
if host == "localhost" || host == "localhost6" || host == "ip6-loopback" || host == "ip6-localhost" {
return true
}
ip, _ := netip.ParseAddr(host)
return ip.IsLoopback()
}