Restrict export of device routes to the kernel protocol.

In usual configuration, such export is already restricted
with the aid of the direct protocol but there are some
races that can circumvent it. This makes it harder to
break kernel device routes. Also adds an option to
disable this restriction.
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Ondrej Zajicek 2010-04-04 15:41:31 +02:00
parent d2d2b5d2ae
commit c429d4a4ba
7 changed files with 70 additions and 41 deletions

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@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Czech Republic as a student project. It can be freely distributed under the term
Public License.
<p>BIRD has been designed to work on all UNIX-like systems. It has been developed and
tested under Linux 2.0 to 2.4, and then ported to FreeBSD and NetBSD, porting to other
tested under Linux 2.0 to 2.6, and then ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, porting to other
systems (even non-UNIX ones) should be relatively easy due to its highly modular architecture.
<sect>Installing BIRD
@ -454,16 +454,19 @@ to zero to disable it. An empty <cf><m/switch/</cf> is equivalent to <cf/on/
<chapt>Remote control
<p>You can use the command-line client <file>birdc</file> to talk with
a running BIRD. Communication is done using a <file/bird.ctl/ UNIX domain
socket (unless changed with the <tt/-s/ option given to both the server and
the client). The commands can perform simple actions such as enabling/disabling
of protocols, telling BIRD to show various information, telling it to
show routing table filtered by filter, or asking BIRD to
reconfigure. Press <tt/?/ at any time to get online help. Option
a running BIRD. Communication is done using a <file/bird.ctl/ UNIX
domain socket (unless changed with the <tt/-s/ option given to both
the server and the client). The commands can perform simple actions
such as enabling/disabling of protocols, telling BIRD to show various
information, telling it to show routing table filtered by filter, or
asking BIRD to reconfigure. Press <tt/?/ at any time to get online
help. Option <tt/-r/ can be used to enable a restricted mode of BIRD
client, which allows just read-only commands (<cf/show .../). Option
<tt/-v/ can be passed to the client, to make it dump numeric return
codes along with the messages. You do not necessarily need to use <file/birdc/ to talk to BIRD, your
own applications could do that, too -- the format of communication between
BIRD and <file/birdc/ is stable (see the programmer's documentation).
codes along with the messages. You do not necessarily need to use
<file/birdc/ to talk to BIRD, your own applications could do that, too
-- the format of communication between BIRD and <file/birdc/ is stable
(see the programmer's documentation).
Many commands have the <m/name/ of the protocol instance as an argument.
This argument can be omitted if there exists only a single instance.
@ -864,7 +867,7 @@ undefined value is regarded as empty clist for most purposes.
routes). Read-only.
<tag><m/enum/ dest</tag>
Type of destination the packets should be sent to (<cf/RTD_ROUTER/ for forwarding to a neighboring router, <cf/RTD_NETWORK/ for routing to a directly-connected network, <cf/RTD_BLACKHOLE/ for packets to be silently discarded, <cf/RTD_UNREACHABLE/, <cf/RTD_PROHIBIT/ for packets that should be returned with ICMP host unreachable / ICMP administratively prohibited messages). Read-only.
Type of destination the packets should be sent to (<cf/RTD_ROUTER/ for forwarding to a neighboring router, <cf/RTD_DEVICE/ for routing to a directly-connected network, <cf/RTD_BLACKHOLE/ for packets to be silently discarded, <cf/RTD_UNREACHABLE/, <cf/RTD_PROHIBIT/ for packets that should be returned with ICMP host unreachable / ICMP administratively prohibited messages). Read-only.
</descrip>
<p>There also exist some protocol-specific attributes which are described in the corresponding protocol sections.
@ -1273,10 +1276,15 @@ protocol device {
directly connected networks according to the list of interfaces provided
by the kernel via the Device protocol.
<p>It's highly recommended to include this protocol in your configuration
unless you want to use BIRD as a route server or a route reflector, that is
on a machine which doesn't forward packets itself and only participates in
distribution of routing information.
<p>The question is whether it is a good idea to have such device
routes in BIRD routing table. OS kernel usually handles device routes
for directly connected networks by itself so we don't need (and don't
want) to export these routes to the kernel protocol. OSPF protocol
creates device routes for its interfaces itself and BGP protocol is
usually used for exporting aggregate routes. Although there are some
use cases that use the direct protocol (like abusing eBGP as an IGP
routing protocol), in most cases it is not needed to have these device
routes in BIRD routing table and to use the direct protocol.
<p>The only configurable thing about direct is what interfaces it watches:
@ -1302,14 +1310,24 @@ protocol direct {
<sect>Kernel
<p>The Kernel protocol is not a real routing protocol. Instead of communicating
the with other routers in the network, it performs synchronization of BIRD's routing
with other routers in the network, it performs synchronization of BIRD's routing
tables with the OS kernel. Basically, it sends all routing table updates to the kernel
and from time to time it scans the kernel tables to see whether some routes have
disappeared (for example due to unnoticed up/down transition of an interface)
or whether an `alien' route has been added by someone else (depending on the
<cf/learn/ switch, such routes are either deleted or accepted to our
<cf/learn/ switch, such routes are either ignored or accepted to our
table).
<p>Unfortunately, there is one thing that makes the routing table
synchronization a bit more complicated. In the kernel routing table
there are also device routes for directly connected networks. These
routes are usually managed by OS itself (as a part of IP address
configuration) and we don't want to touch that. They are completely
ignored during the scan of the kernel tables and also the export of
device routes from BIRD tables to kernel routing tables is restricted
to prevent accidental interference. This restriction can be disabled using
<cf/device routes/ switch.
<p>If your OS supports only a single routing table, you can configure only one
instance of the Kernel protocol. If it supports multiple tables (in order to
allow policy routing; such an OS is for example Linux 2.2), you can run as many instances as you want, but each of
@ -1327,6 +1345,14 @@ kernel table.
routing tables by other routing daemons or by the system administrator.
This is possible only on systems which support identification of route
authorship.
<tag>device routes <m/switch/</tag> Enable export of device
routes to the kernel routing table. By default, such routes
are rejected (with the exception of explicitly configured
device routes from the static protocol) regardless of the
export filter to protect device routes in kernel routing table
(managed by OS itself) from accidental overwriting or erasing.
<tag>kernel table <m/number/</tag> Select which kernel table should
this particular instance of the Kernel protocol work with. Available
only on systems supporting multiple routing tables.

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@ -167,8 +167,6 @@ do_rte_announce(struct announce_hook *a, int type UNUSED, net *net, rte *new, rt
rte *old0 = old;
int ok;
int fast_exit_hack = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_PIPE
/* The secondary direction of the pipe */
if (proto_is_pipe(p) && (p->table != a->table))
@ -207,11 +205,6 @@ do_rte_announce(struct announce_hook *a, int type UNUSED, net *net, rte *new, rt
else
stats->exp_withdraws_received++;
/* Hack: This is here to prevent 'spurious withdraws'
for loopback addresses during reload. */
if (fast_exit_hack)
return;
/*
* This is a tricky part - we don't know whether route 'old' was
* exported to protocol 'p' or was filtered by the export filter.

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@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ krt_capable(rte *e)
{
rta *a = e->attrs;
#ifdef CONFIG_AUTO_ROUTES
if (a->source == RTS_DEVICE)
return 0;
#endif
return
a->cast == RTC_UNICAST &&
(a->dest == RTD_ROUTER
@ -163,7 +159,7 @@ krt_sock_send(int cmd, rte *e)
#endif
if(!i->addr) {
log(L_ERR "KIF: interface \"%s\" has no IP addess", i->name);
log(L_ERR "KRT: interface %s has no IP addess", i->name);
return;
}
@ -185,7 +181,7 @@ krt_sock_send(int cmd, rte *e)
msg.rtm.rtm_msglen = l;
if ((l = write(rt_sock, (char *)&msg, l)) < 0) {
log(L_ERR "KIF: Error sending route %I/%d to kernel", net->n.prefix, net->n.pxlen);
log(L_ERR "KRT: Error sending route %I/%d to kernel", net->n.prefix, net->n.pxlen);
}
}

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@ -460,20 +460,14 @@ krt_capable(rte *e)
{
rta *a = e->attrs;
if (a->cast != RTC_UNICAST
#if 0
&& a->cast != RTC_ANYCAST
#endif
)
return 0;
if (a->source == RTS_DEVICE) /* Kernel takes care of device routes itself */
if (a->cast != RTC_UNICAST)
return 0;
switch (a->dest)
{
case RTD_ROUTER:
if (ipa_has_link_scope(a->gw) && (a->iface == NULL))
return 0;
case RTD_DEVICE:
case RTD_BLACKHOLE:
case RTD_UNREACHABLE:

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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ CF_DEFINES
CF_DECLS
CF_KEYWORDS(KERNEL, PERSIST, SCAN, TIME, LEARN, DEVICE)
CF_KEYWORDS(KERNEL, PERSIST, SCAN, TIME, LEARN, DEVICE, ROUTES)
CF_GRAMMAR
@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ kern_item:
cf_error("Learning of kernel routes not supported in this configuration");
#endif
}
| DEVICE ROUTES bool { THIS_KRT->devroutes = $3; }
;
/* Kernel interface protocol */

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@ -734,6 +734,25 @@ krt_scan(timer *t UNUSED)
/*
* Updates
*/
static int
krt_import_control(struct proto *P, rte **new, ea_list **attrs, struct linpool *pool)
{
struct krt_proto *p = (struct krt_proto *) P;
rte *e = *new;
if (e->attrs->proto == P)
return -1;
if (!KRT_CF->devroutes &&
(e->attrs->dest == RTD_DEVICE) &&
(e->attrs->source != RTS_STATIC_DEVICE))
return -1;
if (!krt_capable(e))
return -1;
return 0;
}
static void
krt_notify(struct proto *P, struct rtable *table UNUSED, net *net,
@ -743,8 +762,6 @@ krt_notify(struct proto *P, struct rtable *table UNUSED, net *net,
if (shutting_down)
return;
if (new && (!krt_capable(new) || new->attrs->source == RTS_INHERIT))
new = NULL;
if (!(net->n.flags & KRF_INSTALLED))
old = NULL;
if (new)
@ -871,6 +888,7 @@ krt_init(struct proto_config *c)
struct krt_proto *p = proto_new(c, sizeof(struct krt_proto));
p->p.accept_ra_types = RA_OPTIMAL;
p->p.import_control = krt_import_control;
p->p.rt_notify = krt_notify;
return &p->p;
}

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@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct krt_config {
int persist; /* Keep routes when we exit */
int scan_time; /* How often we re-scan routes */
int learn; /* Learn routes from other sources */
int devroutes; /* Allow export of device routes */
};
struct krt_proto {