tailscale/net/packet/geneve.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 packet
import (
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"io"
)
const (
// GeneveFixedHeaderLength is the length of the fixed size portion of the
// Geneve header, in bytes.
GeneveFixedHeaderLength = 8
)
const (
// GeneveProtocolDisco is the IEEE 802 Ethertype number used to represent
// the Tailscale Disco protocol in a Geneve header.
GeneveProtocolDisco uint16 = 0x7A11
// GeneveProtocolWireGuard is the IEEE 802 Ethertype number used to represent the
// WireGuard protocol in a Geneve header.
GeneveProtocolWireGuard uint16 = 0x7A12
)
// VirtualNetworkID is a Geneve header (RFC8926) 3-byte virtual network
// identifier. Its methods are NOT thread-safe.
type VirtualNetworkID struct {
_vni uint32
}
const (
vniSetMask uint32 = 0xFF000000
vniGetMask uint32 = ^vniSetMask
)
// IsSet returns true if Set() had been called previously, otherwise false.
func (v *VirtualNetworkID) IsSet() bool {
return v._vni&vniSetMask != 0
}
// Set sets the provided VNI. If VNI exceeds the 3-byte storage it will be
// clamped.
func (v *VirtualNetworkID) Set(vni uint32) {
v._vni = vni | vniSetMask
}
// Get returns the VNI value.
func (v *VirtualNetworkID) Get() uint32 {
return v._vni & vniGetMask
}
// GeneveHeader represents the fixed size Geneve header from RFC8926.
// TLVs/options are not implemented/supported.
//
// +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
// |Ver| Opt Len |O|C| Rsvd. | Protocol Type |
// +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
// | Virtual Network Identifier (VNI) | Reserved |
// +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
type GeneveHeader struct {
// Ver (2 bits): The current version number is 0. Packets received by a
// tunnel endpoint with an unknown version MUST be dropped. Transit devices
// interpreting Geneve packets with an unknown version number MUST treat
// them as UDP packets with an unknown payload.
Version uint8
// Protocol Type (16 bits): The type of protocol data unit appearing after
// the Geneve header. This follows the Ethertype [ETYPES] convention, with
// Ethernet itself being represented by the value 0x6558.
Protocol uint16
// Virtual Network Identifier (VNI) (24 bits): An identifier for a unique
// element of a virtual network. In many situations, this may represent an
// L2 segment; however, the control plane defines the forwarding semantics
// of decapsulated packets. The VNI MAY be used as part of ECMP forwarding
// decisions or MAY be used as a mechanism to distinguish between
// overlapping address spaces contained in the encapsulated packet when load
// balancing across CPUs.
VNI VirtualNetworkID
// O (1 bit): Control packet. This packet contains a control message.
// Control messages are sent between tunnel endpoints. Tunnel endpoints MUST
// NOT forward the payload, and transit devices MUST NOT attempt to
// interpret it. Since control messages are less frequent, it is RECOMMENDED
// that tunnel endpoints direct these packets to a high-priority control
// queue (for example, to direct the packet to a general purpose CPU from a
// forwarding Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) or to separate
// out control traffic on a NIC). Transit devices MUST NOT alter forwarding
// behavior on the basis of this bit, such as ECMP link selection.
Control bool
}
var ErrGeneveVNIUnset = errors.New("VNI is unset")
// Encode encodes GeneveHeader into b. If len(b) < [GeneveFixedHeaderLength] an
// [io.ErrShortBuffer] error is returned. If !h.VNI.IsSet() then an
// [ErrGeneveVNIUnset] error is returned.
func (h *GeneveHeader) Encode(b []byte) error {
if len(b) < GeneveFixedHeaderLength {
return io.ErrShortBuffer
}
if !h.VNI.IsSet() {
return ErrGeneveVNIUnset
}
if h.Version > 3 {
return errors.New("version must be <= 3")
}
b[0] = 0
b[1] = 0
b[0] |= h.Version << 6
if h.Control {
b[1] |= 0x80
}
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(b[2:], h.Protocol)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(b[4:], h.VNI.Get()<<8)
return nil
}
// Decode decodes GeneveHeader from b. If len(b) < [GeneveFixedHeaderLength] an
// [io.ErrShortBuffer] error is returned.
func (h *GeneveHeader) Decode(b []byte) error {
if len(b) < GeneveFixedHeaderLength {
return io.ErrShortBuffer
}
h.Version = b[0] >> 6
if b[1]&0x80 != 0 {
h.Control = true
}
h.Protocol = binary.BigEndian.Uint16(b[2:])
h.VNI.Set(binary.BigEndian.Uint32(b[4:]) >> 8)
return nil
}