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Don't take "our" MAC address from the host

When sending frames to the guest over the tap link, we need a source MAC
address.  Currently we take that from the MAC address of the main interface
on the host, but that doesn't actually make much sense:
 * We can't preserve the real MAC address of packets from anywhere
   external so there's no transparency case here
 * In fact, it's confusingly different from how we handle IP addresses:
   whereas we give the guest the same IP as the host, we're making the
   host's MAC the one MAC that the guest *can't* use for itself.
 * We already need a fallback case if the host doesn't have an Ethernet
   like MAC (e.g. if it's connected via a point to point interface, such
   as a wireguard VPN).

Change to just just use an arbitrary fixed MAC address - I've picked
9a:55:9a:55:9a:55.  It's simpler and has the small advantage of making
the fact that passt/pasta is in use typically obvious from guest side
packet dumps.  This can still, of course, be overridden with the -M option.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
David Gibson 2024-08-21 14:20:14 +10:00 committed by Stefano Brivio
parent 356de97e43
commit 90e83d50a9
3 changed files with 13 additions and 35 deletions

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conf.c
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@ -612,12 +612,10 @@ static int conf_ip4_prefix(const char *arg)
* conf_ip4() - Verify or detect IPv4 support, get relevant addresses
* @ifi: Host interface to attempt (0 to determine one)
* @ip4: IPv4 context (will be written)
* @mac: MAC address to use (written if unset)
*
* Return: Interface index for IPv4, or 0 on failure.
*/
static unsigned int conf_ip4(unsigned int ifi,
struct ip4_ctx *ip4, unsigned char *mac)
static unsigned int conf_ip4(unsigned int ifi, struct ip4_ctx *ip4)
{
if (!ifi)
ifi = nl_get_ext_if(nl_sock, AF_INET);
@ -660,19 +658,7 @@ static unsigned int conf_ip4(unsigned int ifi,
ip4->addr_seen = ip4->addr;
if (MAC_IS_ZERO(mac)) {
int rc = nl_link_get_mac(nl_sock, ifi, mac);
if (rc < 0) {
char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
err("Couldn't discover MAC address for %s: %s",
if_indextoname(ifi, ifname), strerror(-rc));
return 0;
}
if (MAC_IS_ZERO(mac))
memcpy(mac, MAC_LAA, ETH_ALEN);
}
ip4->our_tap_addr = ip4->gw;
if (IN4_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip4->addr))
return 0;
@ -684,12 +670,10 @@ static unsigned int conf_ip4(unsigned int ifi,
* conf_ip6() - Verify or detect IPv6 support, get relevant addresses
* @ifi: Host interface to attempt (0 to determine one)
* @ip6: IPv6 context (will be written)
* @mac: MAC address to use (written if unset)
*
* Return: Interface index for IPv6, or 0 on failure.
*/
static unsigned int conf_ip6(unsigned int ifi,
struct ip6_ctx *ip6, unsigned char *mac)
static unsigned int conf_ip6(unsigned int ifi, struct ip6_ctx *ip6)
{
int prefix_len = 0;
int rc;
@ -724,19 +708,6 @@ static unsigned int conf_ip6(unsigned int ifi,
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL(&ip6->gw))
ip6->our_tap_ll = ip6->gw;
if (MAC_IS_ZERO(mac)) {
rc = nl_link_get_mac(nl_sock, ifi, mac);
if (rc < 0) {
char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
err("Couldn't discover MAC address for %s: %s",
if_indextoname(ifi, ifname), strerror(-rc));
return 0;
}
if (MAC_IS_ZERO(mac))
memcpy(mac, MAC_LAA, ETH_ALEN);
}
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip6->addr) ||
IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip6->our_tap_ll))
return 0;
@ -1287,6 +1258,7 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
c->tcp.fwd_in.mode = c->tcp.fwd_out.mode = FWD_UNSET;
c->udp.fwd_in.mode = c->udp.fwd_out.mode = FWD_UNSET;
memcpy(c->our_tap_mac, MAC_OUR_LAA, ETH_ALEN);
optind = 1;
do {
@ -1657,9 +1629,9 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
nl_sock_init(c, false);
if (!v6_only)
c->ifi4 = conf_ip4(ifi4, &c->ip4, c->our_tap_mac);
c->ifi4 = conf_ip4(ifi4, &c->ip4);
if (!v4_only)
c->ifi6 = conf_ip6(ifi6, &c->ip6, c->our_tap_mac);
c->ifi6 = conf_ip6(ifi6, &c->ip6);
if ((!c->ifi4 && !c->ifi6) ||
(*c->ip4.ifname_out && !c->ifi4) ||
(*c->ip6.ifname_out && !c->ifi6))

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@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ union epoll_ref;
#include "tcp.h"
#include "udp.h"
/* Default address for our end on the tap interface. Bit 0 of byte 0 must be 0
* (unicast) and bit 1 of byte 1 must be 1 (locally administered). Otherwise
* it's arbitrary.
*/
#define MAC_OUR_LAA \
((uint8_t [ETH_ALEN]){0x9a, 0x55, 0x9a, 0x55, 0x9a, 0x55})
/**
* union epoll_ref - Breakdown of reference for epoll fd bookkeeping
* @type: Type of fd (tells us what to do with events)

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util.h
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@ -96,7 +96,6 @@
#define PORT_IS_EPHEMERAL(port) ((port) >= PORT_EPHEMERAL_MIN)
#define MAC_ZERO ((uint8_t [ETH_ALEN]){ 0 })
#define MAC_LAA ((uint8_t [ETH_ALEN]){ BIT(1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 })
#define MAC_IS_ZERO(addr) (!memcmp((addr), MAC_ZERO, ETH_ALEN))
#ifndef __bswap_constant_16