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wireguard: allowedips: add WGALLOWEDIP_F_REMOVE_ME flag
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-115598
commit ba3d7b9
Author: Jordan Rife <jordan@jrife.io>
Date: Wed May 21 23:27:06 2025 +0200
wireguard: allowedips: add WGALLOWEDIP_F_REMOVE_ME flag
The current netlink API for WireGuard does not directly support removal
of allowed ips from a peer. A user can remove an allowed ip from a peer
in one of two ways:
1. By using the WGPEER_F_REPLACE_ALLOWEDIPS flag and providing a new
list of allowed ips which omits the allowed ip that is to be removed.
2. By reassigning an allowed ip to a "dummy" peer then removing that
peer with WGPEER_F_REMOVE_ME.
With the first approach, the driver completely rebuilds the allowed ip
list for a peer. If my current configuration is such that a peer has
allowed ips 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 and I want to remove 192.168.0.2
the actual transition looks like this.
[192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3] <-- Initial state
[] <-- Step 1: Allowed ips removed for peer
[192.168.0.3] <-- Step 2: Allowed ips added back for peer
This is true even if the allowed ip list is small and the update does
not need to be batched into multiple WG_CMD_SET_DEVICE requests, as the
removal and subsequent addition of ips is non-atomic within a single
request. Consequently, wg_allowedips_lookup_dst and
wg_allowedips_lookup_src may return NULL while reconfiguring a peer even
for packets bound for ips a user did not intend to remove leading to
unintended interruptions in connectivity. This presents in userspace as
failed calls to sendto and sendmsg for UDP sockets. In my case, I ran
netperf while repeatedly reconfiguring the allowed ips for a peer with
wg.
/usr/local/bin/netperf -H 10.102.73.72 -l 10m -t UDP_STREAM -- -R 1 -m 1024
send_data: data send error: No route to host (errno 113)
netperf: send_omni: send_data failed: No route to host
While this may not be of particular concern for environments where peers
and allowed ips are mostly static, systems like Cilium manage peers and
allowed ips in a dynamic environment where peers (i.e. Kubernetes nodes)
and allowed ips (i.e. pods running on those nodes) can frequently
change making WGPEER_F_REPLACE_ALLOWEDIPS problematic.
The second approach avoids any possible connectivity interruptions
but is hacky and less direct, requiring the creation of a temporary
peer just to dispose of an allowed ip.
Introduce a new flag called WGALLOWEDIP_F_REMOVE_ME which in the same
way that WGPEER_F_REMOVE_ME allows a user to remove a single peer from
a WireGuard device's configuration allows a user to remove an ip from a
peer's set of allowed ips. This enables incremental updates to a
device's configuration without any connectivity blips or messy
workarounds.
A corresponding patch for wg extends the existing `wg set` interface to
leverage this feature.
$ wg set wg0 peer <PUBKEY> allowed-ips +192.168.88.0/24,-192.168.0.1/32
When '+' or '-' is prepended to any ip in the list, wg clears
WGPEER_F_REPLACE_ALLOWEDIPS and sets the WGALLOWEDIP_F_REMOVE_ME flag on
any ip prefixed with '-'.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Rife <jordan@jrife.io>
[Jason: minor style nits, fixes to selftest, bump of wireguard-tools version]
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521212707.1767879-5-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: CKI Backport Bot <cki-ci-bot+cki-gitlab-backport-bot@redhat.com>
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