appc,ipn: prevent undesirable route advertisements

Individual route advertisements that are covered by existing routes are
no longer advertised. If an upstream returns 0.0.0.0, 127.x, and other
common unwanted addresses those are also rejected.

Updates #16425
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>

appc/appconnector.go

@@ -206,9 +206,8 @@ func (e *AppConnector) ObserveDNSResponse(res []byte) {
 		if slices.Contains(addrs, addr) {
 			continue
 		}
-		// TODO(raggi): check for existing prefixes
 		if err := e.routeAdvertiser.AdvertiseRoute(netip.PrefixFrom(addr, addr.BitLen())); err != nil {
-			e.logf("failed to advertise route for %v: %v", addr, err)
+			e.logf("failed to advertise route for %s: %v: %v", domain, addr, err)
 			continue
 		}
 		e.logf("[v2] advertised route for %v: %v", domain, addr)
@@ -217,5 +216,4 @@ func (e *AppConnector) ObserveDNSResponse(res []byte) {
 		e.domains[domain] = append(addrs, addr)
 		e.mu.Unlock()
 	}
-
 }

ipn/ipnlocal/local.go

@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ func (b *LocalBackend) UpdateStatus(sb *ipnstate.StatusBuilder) {
 				}
 				if !prefs.ExitNodeID().IsZero() {
 					if exitPeer, ok := b.netMap.PeerWithStableID(prefs.ExitNodeID()); ok {
-						var online = false
+						online := false
 						if v := exitPeer.Online(); v != nil {
 							online = *v
 						}
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ func (b *LocalBackend) populatePeerStatusLocked(sb *ipnstate.StatusBuilder) {
 		if p.LastSeen() != nil {
 			lastSeen = *p.LastSeen()
 		}
-		var tailscaleIPs = make([]netip.Addr, 0, p.Addresses().Len())
+		tailscaleIPs := make([]netip.Addr, 0, p.Addresses().Len())
 		for i := range p.Addresses().LenIter() {
 			addr := p.Addresses().At(i)
 			if addr.IsSingleIP() && tsaddr.IsTailscaleIP(addr.Addr()) {
@@ -4200,7 +4200,6 @@ func (b *LocalBackend) enterStateLockedOnEntry(newState ipn.State) {
 	default:
 		b.logf("[unexpected] unknown newState %#v", newState)
 	}
-
 }
 
 // hasNodeKey reports whether a non-zero node key is present in the current
@@ -5781,12 +5780,21 @@ func (b *LocalBackend) ObserveDNSResponse(res []byte) {
 	appConnector.ObserveDNSResponse(res)
 }
 
+// ErrDisallowedAutoRoute is returned by AdvertiseRoute when a route that is not allowed is requested.
+var ErrDisallowedAutoRoute = errors.New("route is not allowed")
+
 // AdvertiseRoute implements the appc.RouteAdvertiser interface. It sets a new
 // route advertisement if one is not already present in the existing routes.
+// If the route is disallowed, ErrDisallowedAutoRoute is returned.
 func (b *LocalBackend) AdvertiseRoute(ipp netip.Prefix) error {
+	if !allowedAutoRoute(ipp) {
+		return ErrDisallowedAutoRoute
+	}
 	currentRoutes := b.Prefs().AdvertiseRoutes()
-	// TODO(raggi): check if the new route is a subset of an existing route.
+	if currentRoutes.ContainsFunc(func(r netip.Prefix) bool {
-	if currentRoutes.ContainsFunc(func(r netip.Prefix) bool { return r == ipp }) {
+		// TODO(raggi): add support for subset checks and avoid subset route creations.
+		return ipp.IsSingleIP() && r.Contains(ipp.Addr()) || r == ipp
+	}) {
 		return nil
 	}
 	routes := append(currentRoutes.AsSlice(), ipp)
@@ -5799,6 +5807,36 @@ func (b *LocalBackend) AdvertiseRoute(ipp netip.Prefix) error {
 	return err
 }
 
+var (
+	disallowedAddrs = []netip.Addr{
+		netip.MustParseAddr("::1"),
+		netip.MustParseAddr("::"),
+		netip.MustParseAddr("0.0.0.0"),
+	}
+	disallowedRanges = []netip.Prefix{
+		netip.MustParsePrefix("127.0.0.0/8"),
+		netip.MustParsePrefix("224.0.0.0/4"),
+		netip.MustParsePrefix("ff00::/8"),
+	}
+)
+
+// allowedAutoRoute determines if the route being added via AdvertiseRoute (the app connector featuge) should be allowed.
+func allowedAutoRoute(ipp netip.Prefix) bool {
+	// Note: blocking the addrs for globals, not solely the prefixes.
+	for _, addr := range disallowedAddrs {
+		if ipp.Addr() == addr {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	for _, pfx := range disallowedRanges {
+		if pfx.Overlaps(ipp) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	// TODO(raggi): exclude tailscale service IPs and so on as well.
+	return true
+}
+
 // mayDeref dereferences p if non-nil, otherwise it returns the zero value.
 func mayDeref[T any](p *T) (v T) {
 	if p == nil {

ipn/ipnlocal/local_test.go

@@ -265,7 +265,6 @@ func TestPeerRoutes(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		})
 	}
-
 }
 
 func TestPeerAPIBase(t *testing.T) {
@@ -700,7 +699,6 @@ func TestPacketFilterPermitsUnlockedNodes(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		})
 	}
-
 }
 
 func TestStatusWithoutPeers(t *testing.T) {
@@ -1173,6 +1171,26 @@ func TestRouteAdvertiser(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestRouterAdvertiserIgnoresContainedRoutes(t *testing.T) {
+	b := newTestBackend(t)
+	testPrefix := netip.MustParsePrefix("192.0.0.0/24")
+	ra := appc.RouteAdvertiser(b)
+	must.Do(ra.AdvertiseRoute(testPrefix))
+
+	routes := b.Prefs().AdvertiseRoutes()
+	if routes.Len() != 1 || routes.At(0) != testPrefix {
+		t.Fatalf("got routes %v, want %v", routes, []netip.Prefix{testPrefix})
+	}
+
+	must.Do(ra.AdvertiseRoute(netip.MustParsePrefix("192.0.0.8/32")))
+
+	// the above /32 is not added as it is contained within the /24
+	routes = b.Prefs().AdvertiseRoutes()
+	if routes.Len() != 1 || routes.At(0) != testPrefix {
+		t.Fatalf("got routes %v, want %v", routes, []netip.Prefix{testPrefix})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestObserveDNSResponse(t *testing.T) {
 	b := newTestBackend(t)
 
@@ -1886,7 +1904,6 @@ func TestApplySysPolicy(t *testing.T) {
 			})
 
 			t.Run("set prefs", func(t *testing.T) {
-
 				b := newTestBackend(t)
 				b.SetPrefs(tt.prefs.Clone())
 				if !b.Prefs().Equals(tt.wantPrefs.View()) {