fix(dhcp-inform): receive DHCPINFORM over UDP and restore identity route lookup - #42
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…ute lookup The responder used an AF_PACKET socket with a BPF filter plus a raw send socket. Road-warrior DHCPINFORM arrives as xfrm-decapsulated tunnel payload that a device-level packet socket never delivers, so the plugin was inert for exactly the clients it exists for. Replace the pair with one UDP socket bound to port 67 (SO_REUSEADDR, SO_BROADCAST, optional SO_BINDTODEVICE): the kernel delivers datagrams there after IP processing, tunnel or wire alike, and the DHCPACK goes back with a plain sendto. This also fixes 300-byte BOOTP-minimum messages, which the old path rejected by demanding the full options capacity, and drops the hand-rolled IP/UDP header and checksum code. Restore the per-identity database lookup that was dropped as dead code when the plugin was first imported from a snapshot that had not wired it up yet: the client's IKE_SA is found by its virtual IP and the v_user_routes view (identity, resource_type ip|cidr|fqdn, resource_value) is consulted next to the existing per-pool v_pool_routes view, with FQDN resources resolved at request time. Providers now take the optional identity. Closes #41 Part of #40
…ectors traffic_selector_create_from_subnet() takes ownership of the passed host and destroys it on both the success and the error path, so the explicit host->destroy() after it in the parse_cidr() helpers freed the object twice. The corruption was unreachable while the old packet socket never delivered a DHCPINFORM; with the receive path working, glibc aborts charon with 'double free detected in tcache' on the first answered request.
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WalkthroughThe DHCP INFORM responder now uses one UDP socket for requests and replies. It passes the matching IKE identity to route providers. The database provider resolves identity and pool routes, including IP, CIDR, and FQDN resources. ChangesDHCP INFORM route delivery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR enables DHCPINFORM reception and identity-aware route lookup, but hosts with another daemon owning UDP port 67 will have the responder disabled, and FQDN cache misses may briefly delay other watched work. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up for these bounded runtime risks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DHCPClient
participant dhcp_inform_responder
participant IKE_SA_manager
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DHCPClient->>dhcp_inform_responder: Send DHCPINFORM to UDP port 67
dhcp_inform_responder->>IKE_SA_manager: Find identity for ciaddr
IKE_SA_manager-->>dhcp_inform_responder: Return peer identity
dhcp_inform_responder->>dhcp_inform_db_provider: Get routes for ciaddr and identity
dhcp_inform_db_provider-->>dhcp_inform_responder: Return traffic selectors
dhcp_inform_responder-->>DHCPClient: Send DHCPACK to ciaddr:68
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453-460: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winValidate the option payload length before returning the option pointer.
The function checks bounds before advancing, but not before returning a match. It returns
opt + 2and reportsopt[1]as the length without confirming thatopt + 2 + opt[1] <= end. A truncated final option then makes the caller read past the received data, and for a full-size datagram it can read one byte pastpkt.🛡️ Proposed fix
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In `@src/libcharon/plugins/dhcp_inform/dhcp_inform_db_provider.c`:
- Around line 204-229: Update the ip and cidr handling in the resource parser to
reject non-IPv4 hosts before creating traffic selectors: validate host’s address
family after host_create_from_string() and after parse_cidr(), and only build
the /32 selector for AF_INET hosts. Preserve the existing behavior for valid
IPv4 inputs and leave fqdn handling unchanged.
- Around line 255-274: Update the identity preparation in the DHCP inform route
lookup to format the identity with the printable %Y representation instead of
using get_encoding(), strip any domain suffix after @, and treat snprintf
results greater than or equal to sizeof(identity_str) as truncation. Use this
printable value for the DB_TEXT query and remove the corresponding
free(identity_str) calls.
In `@src/libcharon/plugins/dhcp_inform/dhcp_inform_responder.c`:
- Around line 186-188: Make the DHCP receive path non-blocking: in the IKE_SA
lookup around create_ike_sa_enumerator(), pass FALSE instead of TRUE (or
dispatch the request through a processor job); in dhcp_inform_db_provider.c
lines 169-193, move getaddrinfo() out of receive_dhcp or cache resolved FQDN
results with a TTL. Apply the required change at both affected sites.
- Around line 725-732: Update dhcp_inform_responder_create() so its coexistence
behavior matches the comment: either configure SO_REUSEPORT alongside
SO_REUSEADDR, including consistent error handling, or bind specifically to the
configured server/VPN interface address instead of INADDR_ANY when the other
daemon cannot be guaranteed to use SO_REUSEPORT.
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In `@src/libcharon/plugins/dhcp_inform/dhcp_inform_responder.c`:
- Around line 453-460: Update the option-matching branch in the DHCP option
parsing function to validate that the payload described by opt[1] remains within
end before storing len or returning opt + 2. Reject truncated options, including
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- skip non-IPv4 ip and cidr resources: options 121/249 encode IPv4 only, an IPv6 /32 selector would cover a huge range and corrupt the encoded option - format the identity lookup key with the printable form instead of get_encoding(), which returns raw DER for DN identities; oversized identities are rejected as truncation - enumerate IKE_SAs without waiting on checked-out SAs and cache FQDN resolutions for five minutes, keeping the datagram handler from stalling its worker thread - set SO_REUSEPORT next to SO_REUSEADDR and describe port sharing accurately: a foreign daemon bound without SO_REUSEPORT still wins the port, SO_REUSEADDR alone never shares a UDP bind - reject DHCP options whose declared payload extends past the received datagram before returning them to callers
…conflict - send the DHCPACK with the configured server address pinned as source via IP_PKTINFO, matching the DHCP server identifier and the IPsec policy; falls back to the route-selected source when the configured address is not local - resolve per-user routes with get_other_eap_id(), preferring the authenticated EAP identity over the outer IKE identity - keep the daemon alive when another process owns port 67 without SO_REUSEPORT: the responder starts disabled with a clear log line instead of failing charon startup - keep CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE instead of CAP_NET_RAW: the UDP socket needs the privileged bind, raw access is gone - strip the domain part of the identity lookup key for mail-style identities only, a DN may contain '@' inside emailAddress - skip non-IPv4 selectors in the option 121/249 encoder, guarding against IPv6 selectors from the TS provider
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…ace capability - FQDN resolution leaves the request path entirely: lookups are served from the cache only, a miss or due refresh queues a background processor job, expired entries keep serving their last address until the refresh lands, and failures are cached with a short TTL so an unreachable resolver is retried at most once per window - route encoding is capped to the space actually left for both option copies (121 and 249) plus END, truncating with a log instead of silently dropping every route once the set outgrows the buffer - keep CAP_NET_RAW in addition to CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE when interface= is configured: SO_BINDTODEVICE on a non-loopback device requires it even for a UDP socket
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- verify the UDP sender before trusting the payload: the source must be ciaddr:68, anything else is dropped with a debug log, so a spoofed ciaddr reaching the wildcard bind can no longer trigger SA scans, database queries or misdirected ACKs - prewarm the FQDN cache at provider start from the distinct fqdn resources in v_user_routes, so resolution stays off the request path without costing the first INFORM its fqdn routes - wait for momentarily checked-out IKE_SAs again: silently omitting identity routes from a successful ACK leaves the client without them for the whole session; the bounded wait happens on a dedicated job - make resolver jobs cancelable so daemon shutdown does not hang on a stuck getaddrinfo() - drop SO_REUSEPORT: it buys a lone socket nothing and a reuse-port group would steal unicast port-67 flows from a co-located DHCP daemon; port conflicts keep degrading to a disabled responder - accept the message-type option only with a payload length of exactly one byte, rejecting zero-length options at the buffer edge
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- expose the FQDN prewarm as a provider method and invoke it as the last step of responder construction: queueing resolver jobs from the provider constructor let them hold a pointer into a provider that a later constructor failure destroys, a use-after-free once a slow resolver returned - bind port 67 without SO_REUSEADDR: UDP has no TIME_WAIT to work around, and with both sockets setting it Linux admits a second wildcard bind next to a running DHCP daemon and diverts its unicast traffic; without it the EADDRINUSE degradation is reliable
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…ails A transient resolver failure on an expired cache entry overwrote the still-usable address with zero, dropping that FQDN route from ACKs for the whole negative-TTL window and contradicting the documented stale-while-refresh behavior. A failed refresh now keeps the last known address and only shortens the interval until the next attempt. Verified with a component harness driving the provider against sqlite and an /etc/hosts name with shortened TTLs (resolve ok, break DNS, expire, failed refresh): the final lookup returned no route before this change and returns the stale address after it. The harness is not part of the tree: the plugin has no in-tree unit test infrastructure to hook a time-dependent cache test into.
Queueing one blocking getaddrinfo() job per name let a database with many FQDN resources occupy the whole charon processor pool when the resolver is slow, starving IKE and other daemon jobs until resolver timeouts expired. Names now go into a pending queue drained by a single worker job, so lookup concurrency is bounded to one worker regardless of how many names are queued. The queue keeps ownership of the head string while it is being looked up, so job cancellation at shutdown leaks nothing; the drain job self-terminates when the queue empties and is re-queued by the next producer.
An ACK missing one cold FQDN route self-heals on the client's next periodic INFORM, while gating startup or the ACK on DNS would trade that for daemon-start latency or a full client timeout.
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The identity lookup enumerated all IKE_SAs in waiting mode, and the manager's wait for a checked-out SA is unbounded, so one SA stuck in a long operation anywhere on the daemon could stall all DHCP service until the client timed out. The enumerator now skips busy SAs: at worst one exchange misses its identity routes and the client's next INFORM refreshes them. The SA scan also ran unconditionally; only the database provider consumes the identity, so TS-only and static-route deployments now skip it entirely. No automated repro lands for this: forcing an IKE_SA to stay checked out requires a full IKE stack with an artificially wedged SA, which the container harness cannot orchestrate.
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extract_ts_from_ike_sa() enumerated the remote side of each CHILD_SA, which on the gateway names the client's own virtual IP: with use_ts_routes enabled the ACK advertised a route to the client itself and omitted the protected networks. The child_sa_t contract defines the local side as our own selectors, which on the gateway are exactly the networks the client reaches through the tunnel; enumerate those. No automated repro lands for this: exercising TS mode needs an established CHILD_SA with negotiated selectors, i.e. a full two-daemon IKE negotiation the container harness does not provide. The fix follows the documented child_sa_t API contract.
The TS provider still enumerated IKE_SAs in waiting mode, so one SA held by a slow or stuck operation anywhere on the daemon could stall DHCP responses without bound, exactly what the identity lookup already avoids. The enumerator now skips busy SAs; a missed match costs one exchange its routes and the client's next INFORM refreshes them.
The identity SA scan ran whenever the database provider was available, even when TS mode was selected and the database provider would never be consulted, so such gateways paid two global SA enumerations per DHCPINFORM. The lookup now lives inside the database branch of the route-source selection: it runs exactly when its sole consumer is the selected source, and TS and static modes never touch the SA manager from this path.
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Serving the last known address through resolver failures had no upper limit, so a name deleted from DNS kept advertising its old IP forever, including to brand-new sessions. Failures now stop the route once the last successful resolution is more than an hour old; transient outages within that window keep serving stale, as before. Verified with the component harness (shortened TTLs): a name that keeps failing past the bound stopped producing a route only after this change.
RFC 2131 section 4.3.5: an ACK answering DHCPINFORM assigns nothing, so yiaddr must stay empty, and siaddr denotes a bootstrap next-server rather than the DHCP server. Both fields now stay zero; the server identity is advertised through option 54 only, as before. Stricter clients could reject an informational ACK that appears to allocate. The container run now asserts both fields are zero in the ACK and failed before this change.
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The watcher was registered before prewarm ran its synchronous database enumeration, so an INFORM already queued on the socket could query the same connection concurrently during startup. SQLite built in multi-thread mode forbids concurrent use of one connection and the driver only takes its own lock for serialized builds. The prewarm enumeration now completes before the watcher can dispatch anything; the DNS resolution it queues stays asynchronous. No automated repro lands: the race needs a multi-thread SQLite build and an INFORM landing inside the startup enumeration window, which the container harness cannot time reliably.
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- Around line 269-287: Make resolve_pending_job’s resolver operation
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Processor workers run with cancellation disabled, so the cancel that teardown requests for the resolver job stayed pending while getaddrinfo() blocked, and processor teardown waits for all workers: a stuck resolver could hang daemon shutdown. Cancelability is now enabled around the blocking lookup, following the same pattern the sender and watcher use for their blocking calls; no lock is held there and the queue still owns the name string, so cancellation leaks nothing. No automated repro lands: forcing a lookup to stay blocked exactly across shutdown needs an unresponsive resolver the container harness cannot stage reliably.
A pool-only database without the optional v_user_routes view paid a full IKE_SA scan plus a doomed query on every DHCPINFORM. The provider now tracks whether the view was usable on the last query: while it is not, requests skip the identity lookup entirely, and after a 60s recheck window one request probes again, so a view created while the daemon runs starts serving without a restart. The prewarm probe seeds the same state at startup. Also documents at the bind site that SO_BINDTODEVICE covers both directions and why an rx-only filter is not possible for this socket. Verified in the container: a pool-only sqlite schema logs the disable at startup, keeps serving pool routes, and the identity path stays off; the FQDN cache scenario is unaffected across repeated runs.
The option binds the whole DHCP socket, so ACKs also egress through the named interface. Asymmetrically routed or multi-homed gateways should leave it unset and let the routing table pick the egress; sender verification and the IPsec policy protect the responder either way.
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Once the recheck window expired, the probe state only advanced through the identity query, which never runs when the SA scan finds no matching peer: a pool-only gateway without matching SAs would re-run the global scan on every INFORM instead of once per window. get_routes now tests the view with an empty-identity lookup whenever a due probe had no identity to query with, so the state advances either way; the state updates are unified in one locked helper.
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The bound was applied only when a refresh completed, so with the single resolver worker stuck on a slow lookup, entries queued behind it kept serving their old address past the limit for as long as the head blocked. Lookups now check the age of the last successful resolution and stop returning the address once the bound is exceeded, regardless of whether the refresh ever finishes. Reproduced in the harness with a blackholed nameserver hanging the refresh: past the bound the route kept serving before this change and stops with it; the fail-fast scenario still passes.
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Summary
The packaged plugin never received the client's DHCPINFORM (#40): the responder used an AF_PACKET socket with a BPF filter, and road-warrior DHCPINFORM arrives as xfrm-decapsulated tunnel payload that a device-level packet socket never delivers. tcpdump saw the packet, the plugin saw nothing.
The plugin's original deployment solved exactly this in its final iteration with a plain UDP socket; those sources were lost, the fork imported an earlier snapshot, and the per-identity route lookup carried by that snapshot was later dropped as dead code because the snapshot had not wired it up yet. This PR restores both, keeping the provider architecture.
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dhcp_inform_responder.c: single UDP socket bound to port 67 (SO_REUSEADDR, SO_BROADCAST, optional SO_BINDTODEVICE for
interface=) replaces the AF_PACKET+BPF receive socket and the raw IP send socket. Receive via watcher, DHCPACK via sendto to ciaddr:68; the hand-rolled IP/UDP headers and checksums are gone. 300-byte BOOTP-minimum messages are now accepted (the old path demanded the full options capacity, rejecting every real Windows INFORM even on the wire) and option parsing is bounded by the received lengthIdentity lookup: the client's IKE_SA is found by its virtual IP, its identity is logged and passed to route providers
dhcp_inform_db_provider.c: consults v_user_routes (identity, resource_type ip|cidr|fqdn, resource_value; identity matched without the domain part) next to the existing v_pool_routes, results merged and deduplicated; either view may be absent. FQDN resources resolve at request time
Double-free fix (separate commit): traffic_selector_create_from_subnet() adopts the passed host, the explicit host->destroy() after it in both parse_cidr() helpers aborted charon with 'double free detected in tcache' on the first answered request, previously unreachable because no request ever arrived
dhcp-inform.conf: documents both database views
Hardening from the review rounds: non-IPv4 resources and selectors are excluded end to end (options 121/249 are IPv4-only), the identity lookup key uses the printable identity of get_other_eap_id() with domain stripping limited to mail-style identities, the DHCPACK source is pinned to the server address via IP_PKTINFO with a routed-source fallback, FQDN resolutions are cached for five minutes, IKE_SA enumeration does not wait on checked-out SAs, truncated DHCP options are rejected, the plugin keeps CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE (not CAP_NET_RAW), and a foreign daemon owning port 67 without SO_REUSEPORT leaves charon running with the responder disabled instead of failing startup
Testing
Full-stack in a clean ubuntu:24.04 container (charon + sqlite routes, NET_ADMIN):
Closes #41
Part of #40