tailscale/util/linuxfw/iptables.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 && !ts_omit_iptables
package linuxfw
import (
"bytes"
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"os/exec"
"strings"
"unicode"
"github.com/coreos/go-iptables/iptables"
"tailscale.com/types/logger"
"tailscale.com/version/distro"
)
func init() {
isNotExistError = func(err error) bool {
var e *iptables.Error
return errors.As(err, &e) && e.IsNotExist()
}
}
// DebugNetfilter prints debug information about iptables rules to the
// provided log function.
func DebugIptables(logf logger.Logf) error {
// unused.
return nil
}
// detectIptables returns the number of iptables rules that are present in the
// system, ignoring the default "ACCEPT" rule present in the standard iptables
// chains.
//
// It only returns an error when there is no iptables binary, or when iptables -S
// fails. In all other cases, it returns the number of non-default rules.
//
// If the iptables binary is not found, it returns an underlying exec.ErrNotFound
// error.
func detectIptables() (int, error) {
// run "iptables -S" to get the list of rules using iptables
// exec.Command returns an error if the binary is not found
cmd := exec.Command("iptables", "-S")
output, err := cmd.Output()
ip6cmd := exec.Command("ip6tables", "-S")
ip6output, ip6err := ip6cmd.Output()
var allLines []string
outputStr := string(output)
lines := strings.Split(outputStr, "\n")
ip6outputStr := string(ip6output)
ip6lines := strings.Split(ip6outputStr, "\n")
switch {
case err == nil && ip6err == nil:
allLines = append(lines, ip6lines...)
case err == nil && ip6err != nil:
allLines = lines
case err != nil && ip6err == nil:
allLines = ip6lines
default:
return 0, FWModeNotSupportedError{
Mode: FirewallModeIPTables,
Err: fmt.Errorf("iptables command run fail: %w", errors.Join(err, ip6err)),
}
}
// count the number of non-default rules
count := 0
for _, line := range allLines {
trimmedLine := strings.TrimLeftFunc(line, unicode.IsSpace)
if line != "" && strings.HasPrefix(trimmedLine, "-A") {
// if the line is not empty and starts with "-A", it is a rule appended not default
count++
}
}
// return the count of non-default rules
return count, nil
}
// newIPTablesRunner constructs a NetfilterRunner that programs iptables rules.
// If the underlying iptables library fails to initialize, that error is
// returned. The runner probes for IPv6 support once at initialization time and
// if not found, no IPv6 rules will be modified for the lifetime of the runner.
func newIPTablesRunner(logf logger.Logf) (*iptablesRunner, error) {
ipt4, err := iptables.NewWithProtocol(iptables.ProtocolIPv4)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
supportsV6, supportsV6NAT, supportsV6Filter := false, false, false
v6err := CheckIPv6(logf)
ip6terr := checkIP6TablesExists()
var ipt6 *iptables.IPTables
switch {
case v6err != nil:
logf("disabling tunneled IPv6 due to system IPv6 config: %v", v6err)
case ip6terr != nil:
logf("disabling tunneled IPv6 due to missing ip6tables: %v", ip6terr)
default:
supportsV6 = true
ipt6, err = iptables.NewWithProtocol(iptables.ProtocolIPv6)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
supportsV6Filter = checkSupportsV6Filter(ipt6, logf)
supportsV6NAT = checkSupportsV6NAT(ipt6, logf)
logf("netfilter running in iptables mode v6 = %v, v6filter = %v, v6nat = %v", supportsV6, supportsV6Filter, supportsV6NAT)
}
return &iptablesRunner{
ipt4: ipt4,
ipt6: ipt6,
v6Available: supportsV6,
v6NATAvailable: supportsV6NAT,
v6FilterAvailable: supportsV6Filter}, nil
}
// checkSupportsV6Filter returns whether the system has a "filter" table in the
// IPv6 tables. Some container environments such as GitHub codespaces have
// limited local IPv6 support, and containers containing ip6tables, but do not
// have kernel support for IPv6 filtering.
// We will not set ip6tables rules in these instances.
func checkSupportsV6Filter(ipt *iptables.IPTables, logf logger.Logf) bool {
if ipt == nil {
return false
}
_, filterListErr := ipt.ListChains("filter")
if filterListErr == nil {
return true
}
logf("ip6tables filtering is not supported on this host: %v", filterListErr)
return false
}
// checkSupportsV6NAT returns whether the system has a "nat" table in the
// IPv6 netfilter stack.
//
// The nat table was added after the initial release of ipv6
// netfilter, so some older distros ship a kernel that can't NAT IPv6
// traffic.
// ipt must be initialized for IPv6.
func checkSupportsV6NAT(ipt *iptables.IPTables, logf logger.Logf) bool {
if ipt == nil || ipt.Proto() != iptables.ProtocolIPv6 {
return false
}
_, natListErr := ipt.ListChains("nat")
if natListErr == nil {
return true
}
// TODO (irbekrm): the following two checks were added before the check
// above that verifies that nat chains can be listed. It is a
// container-friendly check (see
// https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/11344), but also should
// be good enough on its own in other environments. If we never observe
// it falsely succeed, let's remove the other two checks.
bs, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/net/ip6_tables_names")
if err != nil {
return false
}
if bytes.Contains(bs, []byte("nat\n")) {
logf("[unexpected] listing nat chains failed, but /proc/net/ip6_tables_name reports a nat table existing")
return true
}
if exec.Command("modprobe", "ip6table_nat").Run() == nil {
logf("[unexpected] listing nat chains failed, but modprobe ip6table_nat succeeded")
return true
}
return false
}
func init() {
hookIPTablesCleanup.Set(ipTablesCleanUp)
}
// ipTablesCleanUp removes all Tailscale added iptables rules.
// Any errors that occur are logged to the provided logf.
func ipTablesCleanUp(logf logger.Logf) {
switch distro.Get() {
case distro.Gokrazy, distro.JetKVM:
// These use nftables and don't have the "iptables" command.
// Avoid log spam on cleanup. (#12277)
return
}
err := clearRules(iptables.ProtocolIPv4, logf)
if err != nil {
logf("linuxfw: clear iptables: %v", err)
}
err = clearRules(iptables.ProtocolIPv6, logf)
if err != nil {
logf("linuxfw: clear ip6tables: %v", err)
}
}
// clearRules clears all the iptables rules created by Tailscale
// for the given protocol. If error occurs, it's logged but not returned.
func clearRules(proto iptables.Protocol, logf logger.Logf) error {
ipt, err := iptables.NewWithProtocol(proto)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var errs []error
if err := delTSHook(ipt, "filter", "INPUT", logf); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, err)
}
if err := delTSHook(ipt, "filter", "FORWARD", logf); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, err)
}
if err := delTSHook(ipt, "nat", "POSTROUTING", logf); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, err)
}
if err := delChain(ipt, "filter", "ts-input"); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, err)
}
if err := delChain(ipt, "filter", "ts-forward"); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, err)
}
if err := delChain(ipt, "nat", "ts-postrouting"); err != nil {
errs = append(errs, err)
}
return errors.Join(errs...)
}