[client] Detect default route changes in the Linux network monitor (#8216)

The Linux network monitor skipped every route update whose Dst was not
nil, treating a nil Dst as the default route. Since the bump to
vishvananda/netlink v1.3 (v0.43.0) the default route arrives as an
explicit 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0, so every default route change was filtered
out and the monitor never fired on Linux, no matter how the underlay
moved.

Treat both a nil Dst and a zero-length prefix as the default route.
This commit is contained in:
Riccardo Manfrin
2026-10-15 12:19:57 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent 9d837c6ae6
commit 547dd1f177
2 changed files with 55 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net"
"syscall"
log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ func checkChange(ctx context.Context, nexthopv4, nexthopv6 systemops.Nexthop) er
// handle route changes
case route := <-routeChan:
// default route and main table
if route.Dst != nil || route.Table != syscall.RT_TABLE_MAIN {
if !isDefaultRoute(route.Dst) || route.Table != syscall.RT_TABLE_MAIN {
continue
}
switch route.Type {
@@ -52,3 +53,13 @@ func checkChange(ctx context.Context, nexthopv4, nexthopv6 systemops.Nexthop) er
}
}
}
// isDefaultRoute reports whether dst is a default route. netlink v1.3 reports
// the default as 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0, older versions as a nil Dst.
func isDefaultRoute(dst *net.IPNet) bool {
if dst == nil {
return true
}
ones, _ := dst.Mask.Size()
return ones == 0
}
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
//go:build !android
package networkmonitor
import (
"net"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
)
func TestIsDefaultRoute(t *testing.T) {
mustCIDR := func(s string) *net.IPNet {
t.Helper()
_, n, err := net.ParseCIDR(s)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("parse %s: %v", s, err)
}
return n
}
tests := []struct {
name string
dst *net.IPNet
want bool
}{
// netlink before v1.3 left Dst nil for the default route.
{name: "nil dst", dst: nil, want: true},
// netlink v1.3 reports the default route with an explicit zero-length prefix.
{name: "v4 default", dst: mustCIDR("0.0.0.0/0"), want: true},
{name: "v6 default", dst: mustCIDR("::/0"), want: true},
// The exit node split routes and ordinary prefixes are not defaults.
{name: "v4 split half", dst: mustCIDR("0.0.0.0/1"), want: false},
{name: "v4 subnet", dst: mustCIDR("10.0.0.0/8"), want: false},
{name: "v4 host", dst: mustCIDR("1.1.1.1/32"), want: false},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, tt.want, isDefaultRoute(tt.dst), "default route detection")
})
}
}