When using vici over RPyC and its (awesome) splitbrain, encoding and decoding
strings fails in vici, most likely because of the Monkey-Patch magic splitbrain
uses.
When specifying the implicit UTF-8 as encoding scheme explicitly, Python uses
the correct method to encode/decode the string, making vici useable in
splitbrain contexts.
While trap and regular policies now often look the same (mainly because
reqids are kept constant) trap policies still need to have a lower priority
than regular policies to handle unroute/route correctly if e.g. IPComp
is used or the mode changes. But if we use a completely different
priority range that's lower than that of regular policies it is not possible
to install overlapping trap policies. By differentiating trap from
regular policies via the priority's LSB this issue is avoided while
still maintaining the proper ordering of trap and regular policies.
Fixes#1243.
The Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) seems to fail in some
cases (`dadfailed` in `ip addr`) rendering the virtual IP address unusable.
Fixes#2183.
This implements rule 6 of RFC 6724 using the default priority table,
so that e.g. global addresses are preferred over ULAs (which also have
global scope) when the destination is a global address.
Fixes#2138.
By default, the kernel incorrectly uses an 8 byte alignment, which is
mandatory for IPv6 but prohibited for IPv4. For many algorithms this
doesn't matter but that's not the case for HMAC_SHA2_256_128.
Since 2.6.39 the kernel can be explicitly configured to use a 4 byte
alignment.
Otherwise, we'd end up with an empty TS list, which is not valid.
Because end->tohost is set to !end->subnets in starter the removed branch was
never used.
The Python VICI library does not check if the socket is closed.
If the daemon closes the connection, _recvall() spins forever.
Closesstrongswan/strongswan#56.
Fix for "Permission denied (you must be root)" error when calling
iptc_init(), which opens a RAW socket to communicate with the kernel,
when built with "--with-capabilities=libcap".
Closes strongswan/strongswan#53.
Fixes#2157.
A wrong variable is used (route instead of best), so much that the
returned interface belongs to the last seen route instead of the best
choice route.
get_route() may therefore return mismatching interface and gateway.
Fixes: 66e9165bc6 ("kernel-netlink: Return outbound interface in get_nexthop()")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@6wind.com>
The kernel will apply the mask to the mark on the packet and then
compare it to the configured mark. So to match only unmarked packets we
have to be able to set 0/0xffffffff.
If the number of flows over a gateway exceeds the flow cache size of the Linux
kernel, policy lookup gets very expensive. Policies covering more than a single
address don't get hash-indexed by default, which results in wasting most of
the cycles in xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype() and its xfrm_policy_match() use.
Starting with several hundred policies the overhead gets inacceptable.
Starting with Linux 3.18, Linux can hash the first n-bit of a policy subnet
to perform indexed lookup. With correctly chosen netbits, this can completely
eliminate the performance impact of policy lookups, freeing the resources
for ESP crypto.
WARNING: Due to a bug in kernels 3.19 through 4.7, the kernel crashes with a
NULL pointer dereference if a socket policy is installed while hash thresholds
are changed. And because the hashtable rebuild triggered by the threshold
change that causes this is scheduled it might also happen if the socket
policies are seemingly installed after setting the thresholds.
The fix for this bug - 6916fb3b10b3 ("xfrm: Ignore socket policies when
rebuilding hash tables") - is included since 4.8 (and might get backported).
As a workaround `charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.port_bypass` may be enabled
to replace the socket policies that allow IKE traffic with port specific
bypass policies.
When fresh CRLs are released with a high update frequency (e.g.
every 24 hours) or OCSP is used then the certificate cache gets
quickly filled with stale CRLs or OCSP responses. The new VICI
flush-certs command allows to flush e.g. cached CRLs or OCSP
responses only. Without the type argument all kind of certificates
(e.g. also received end entity and intermediate CA certificates)
are purged.
Martin Willi