netlink: Add functionality to copy routes from outer namespace

Instead of just fetching the default gateway and configuring a single
equivalent route in the target namespace, on 'pasta --config-net', it
might be desirable in some cases to copy the whole set of routes
corresponding to a given output interface.

For instance, in:
  https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18539
  IPv4 Default Route Does Not Propagate to Pasta Containers on Hetzner VPSes

configuring the default gateway won't work without a gateway-less
route (specifying the output interface only), because the default
gateway is, somewhat dubiously, not on the same subnet as the
container.

This is a similar case to the one covered by commit 7656a6f88882
("conf: Adjust netmask on mismatch between IPv4 address/netmask and
gateway"), and I'm not exactly proud of that workaround.

We also have:
  https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=49
  pasta does not work with tap-style interface

for which, eventually, we should be able to configure a gateway-less
route in the target namespace.

Introduce different operation modes for nl_route(), including a new
NL_DUP one, not exposed yet, which simply parrots back to the kernel
the route dump for a given interface from the outer namespace, fixing
up flags and interface indices on the way, and requesting to add the
same routes in the target namespace, on the interface we manage.

For n routes we want to duplicate, send n identical netlink requests
including the full dump: routes might depend on each other and the
kernel processes RTM_NEWROUTE messages sequentially, not atomically,
and repeating the full dump naturally resolves dependencies without
the need to actually calculate them.

I'm not kidding, it actually works pretty well.

Link: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18539
Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=49
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
index 984c3ce..1f6bbef 100644
--- a/conf.c
+++ b/conf.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ static unsigned int conf_ip4(unsigned int ifi,
 	}
 
 	if (IN4_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip4->gw))
-		nl_route(0, ifi, AF_INET, &ip4->gw);
+		nl_route(NL_GET, ifi, 0, AF_INET, &ip4->gw);
 
 	if (IN4_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip4->addr))
 		nl_addr(0, ifi, AF_INET, &ip4->addr, &ip4->prefix_len, NULL);
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ static unsigned int conf_ip6(unsigned int ifi,
 	}
 
 	if (IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip6->gw))
-		nl_route(0, ifi, AF_INET6, &ip6->gw);
+		nl_route(NL_GET, ifi, 0, AF_INET6, &ip6->gw);
 
 	nl_addr(0, ifi, AF_INET6,
 		IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&ip6->addr) ? &ip6->addr : NULL,