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WalkthroughGRE tunnel collision validation now treats key ChangesGRE collision validation
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- Around line 427-449: Update the tunnels mapping in
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initialized source_if2 symbol instead of the undefined source_if_alt, preserving
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Learning: In VyOS smoketests that verify processes running inside a VRF using iproute2, remember that `ip vrf pids <vrf>` outputs one entry per line as `<pid> <process_name>` (e.g., `300431 nginx`), not PIDs alone. Therefore, assertions should check for the presence of the expected process name in the command output (e.g., `assertIn(PROCESS_NAME, cmd(f'ip vrf pids {vrf}'))`) rather than trying to match PID-only output.
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Relevant VyOS task context
- T9193 — “GRE tunnel key uniqueness check ignores remote address and source-interface” is Open with priority “Requires assessment”. It documents the exact keyed-GRE defect addressed here: keyed tunnels with different remotes or source interfaces were rejected despite Linux distinguishing them by local address, remote address, source link, tunnel type, and key. It also records wildcard endpoint equivalence (
0.0.0.0/::and unset). - T9193 explicitly retains rejection for:
- duplicate mGRE tunnels sharing a source interface and key;
- same local/remote unkeyed tunnels on different source interfaces;
- GRE versus gretap comparison, noted as a separate issue.
- Historical related tasks:
- T4267 resolved the keyless case where same-source tunnels with different remotes incorrectly required a key.
- T6157 reported incorrect rejection of tunnels with the same destination but different source addresses.
- T2920 documents kernel
File existsfailures for duplicate mGRE tunnels with the same key. - T4154 documents kernel
File existsfailures for duplicate GRE tunnels bound to the same source interface.
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42-49: LGTM!
166-179: 🎯 Functional CorrectnessConfirm the GRE versus GRETAP collision scope.
Lines 166-179 do not compare
our_encapsulationwiththeir_encapsulation. The existing filter groupsgreandgretap, so matching tuples across these tunnel types remain rejected. The PR objective lists tunnel type as a collision selector. Upstream Linux collision lookup compares device type, and GRE and GRETAP use separate tunnel state. (raw.githubusercontent.com)The supplied T9193 context describes GRE versus GRETAP as separate work. Confirm the intended scope before merge. If tunnel type must distinguish collisions, skip the comparison when the encapsulations differ and add a smoke test.
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On the gre/gretap question: keeping the two pooled here is deliberate - unpooling them is a separate change I am working on under its own task, so this PR stays scoped to the remote/source-interface fix. |
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Pull request overview
Adjusts VyOS tunnel interface validation to more closely match Linux kernel GRE tunnel uniqueness semantics by including remote and source-interface in keyed collision checks and normalizing “any” endpoints (0.0.0.0/::) to the unset case. This lives in the conf-mode tunnel verifier and is backed by added CLI smoketests.
Changes:
- Add endpoint normalization helper and use it during GRE tunnel duplicate detection.
- Update GRE uniqueness verification to consider
remoteandsource-interfaceconsistently for keyed and keyless tunnels. - Add smoketests covering same-key/different-remote, same-key/different-source-interface, and
remote 0.0.0.0vs unset collisions.
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| src/conf_mode/interfaces_tunnel.py | Updates GRE tunnel collision validation logic and adds endpoint normalization helper. |
| smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_tunnel.py | Adds smoketests for GRE key uniqueness behavior across remote/source-interface/any-remote cases. |
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src/conf_mode/interfaces_tunnel.py:203
- Typo in user-facing error message: “more then” should be “more than”.
'running more then one GRE based tunnel on the '
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Good catch, that path is reachable - two tunnels with source-address 0.0.0.0 and the same key land there, and the message came out as source "None". Fixed in 12b9676: it now uses the source-address as configured and falls back to the source-interface. verify_tunnel() already guarantees one of the two is set, so it always prints something the user can act on.
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This is pre-existing wording that I only re-wrapped when reformatting the block - the same "more then" turns up in a handful of other conf-mode scripts (interfaces_wireless, qos, service_pppoe-server, service_router-advert, accel_ppp_util). I would rather not mix an unrelated string change into this fix, but I am happy to clean them all up in one go as a separate commit if that is wanted.
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On reflection I have gone ahead and fixed these in fd253e4 - my earlier reasoning was a bit thin. Two of the three occurrences in this file are on lines the series already re-wrapped, and fixing just those two would have left the comment three lines above them still reading "more then", which is a worse state than either fixing or leaving all of it. So all three in interfaces_tunnel.py are corrected and the file is at least internally consistent.
I have deliberately not touched the remaining occurrences elsewhere in the tree (accel_ppp_util.py, interfaces_wireless.py, qos.py, service_pppoe-server.py, service_router-advert.py, show_openvpn.py) - they are unrelated to GRE tunnel validation and are better off as a standalone cleanup under their own task. Note the typos check will not catch any of these, since "then" is a valid word.
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@statio While testing this branch I hit a case where the new Both commits succeed, and the kernel holds both devices side by side, it separates them on the key (tun20 gets After a reboot tun10 is gone from the kernel and from the running config with no error left behind. In current rolling the same sequence commits fine and both tunnels survive a reboot. |
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In `@src/conf_mode/interfaces_tunnel.py`:
- Around line 196-205: Update the keyless GRE validation condition in the tunnel
configuration logic to reject duplicates only when their_source_if also equals
our_source_if, while preserving rejection for matching source addresses on the
same interface. Add a keyless counterpart to
test_multiple_gre_tunnel_same_key_different_source_interface covering identical
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#5392. - The task specifies the kernel duplicate tuple: local address, remote address, source-interface link, tunnel type, and key.
- It explicitly requires:
- allowing keyed tunnels with different remotes or source interfaces;
- rejecting duplicate unkeyed local/remote tunnels;
- normalizing
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@alexk37 thanks for the careful report - that reproduced exactly as you The bug was in the keyless half of the pairwise check. Once our own tunnel The Kernel only ever matches a tunnel carrying no key against another one Your sequence is a smoketest now, One wrinkle worth flagging, since it fell out of the same fix - Would appreciate another pass over it if you still have the setup handy. |
…s check The pairwise GRE collision check was more restrictive with a key configured than without one. The keyed branch only compared source-address and key - remote and source-interface were not even in scope there, as they are looked up inside the else: branch. Two GRE tunnels sharing a key but using different remote addresses, or bound to different source-interfaces, were thus rejected even though the Kernel keeps them apart just fine. ip_tunnel_find() in net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c considers a tunnel a duplicate only when local address, remote address, source-interface, link type and key all match, and ip_tunnel_lookup() compares local and remote before it looks at the key - so both tunnels are also demultiplexed unambiguously on receive. Model the check on that tuple. As the Kernel stores an unconfigured tunnel endpoint as the any address, "0.0.0.0" and "::" are now normalized to an unset endpoint - previously "remote 0.0.0.0" and an unset remote were treated as distinct, which let a colliding pair pass verify() only to fail on commit with 'add tunnel "gre0" failed: File exists'. Deliberately still rejected: two tunnels sharing local and remote without a key regardless of source-interface, and mGRE tunnels sharing a key on one source-interface, as the Kernel cannot tell either pair apart on receive.
get_tunnel_endpoint() normalises "0.0.0.0" and "::" to None, so building the collision message from the normalised value made a tunnel configured with an any source-address report: Key "127" for source "None" is already used for tunnel "tun1280"! Take the source-address as it was configured instead. verify_tunnel() already guarantees that a source-address or a source-interface is set, so the fallback always yields a name the user can act on.
Two of the three occurrences sit on lines this series already re-wrapped, so fix the remaining comment as well rather than leave one file half-corrected. The same wording exists in a few other conf-mode scripts, those are left alone here as they are unrelated to GRE tunnel validation.
Once our own tunnel carried no key the pairwise check never looked at the other tunnel's key, so a keyless tunnel was rejected whenever a keyed one shared its endpoints. Normalising "0.0.0.0" to an unset remote made that reachable for configurations which commit fine on current rolling: set interfaces tunnel tun10 source-address 192.0.2.1 set interfaces tunnel tun20 source-address 192.0.2.1 set interfaces tunnel tun20 remote 0.0.0.0 set interfaces tunnel tun20 parameters ip key 10 Both tunnels come up, but from then on every commit that re-runs tun10 is rejected, and the interface is silently lost on the next boot. The Kernel only ever matches a tunnel carrying no key against another tunnel carrying no key, see ip_tunnel_key_match() in include/net/ip_tunnels.h, so the two can never occupy the same slot. Leave the keyless branch as soon as the other tunnel has a key. That also makes it symmetric with the keyed branch, which already ignores a keyless neighbour because its key can never compare equal.
The keyless branch rejected two tunnels as soon as they shared a source address and a remote, without ever looking at their source-interface. The Kernel is not that strict: ip_tunnel_find() in net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c matches on parms.link as well, and a source-interface reaches the Kernel as "dev", so binding two otherwise identical tunnels to different interfaces already tells them apart. set interfaces tunnel tun10 source-address 192.0.2.1 set interfaces tunnel tun10 source-interface eth0 set interfaces tunnel tun10 remote 1.2.3.4 set interfaces tunnel tun20 source-address 192.0.2.1 set interfaces tunnel tun20 source-interface eth1 set interfaces tunnel tun20 remote 1.2.3.4 Both of these create fine on kernel 6.12, verified in a network namespace, yet the commit was refused. Require a matching source-interface before raising, which folds the two neighbouring conditions into one - the first was a strict subset of the second and only picked the wording of the error, so that choice moves into the message itself. Same local and remote on the same source-interface stays rejected, as the Kernel still answers that with "add tunnel gre0 failed: File exists".
Skipping every keyed neighbour handed "parameters ip key 0" a distinguishing power it does not have. The IPv4 receive path ends in a flag-blind compare in ip_tunnel_lookup(), and ip6gre_tunnel_locate() compares i_key with no flag gate at all, so a zero key and an absent key are the same thing there even though the IPv4 create path happily accepts both side by side. Keep the neighbour in scope when its key is zero, which restores what rolling did before the previous commit and leaves the pair rejected: set interfaces tunnel tun10 source-interface eth0 set interfaces tunnel tun20 source-interface eth0 set interfaces tunnel tun20 parameters ip key 0 Note this stays one-sided, exactly as it is on rolling: verifying the keyless tunnel refuses the pair, verifying the zero-keyed one does not, because the keyed branch compares the two keys directly and "0" never equals an unset key. Either script running is enough to refuse the commit.
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The typos CI check rejects "parms" as a misspelling of "params", which failed the gate on the two comments citing the Kernel's ip_tunnel_parm field. Describe the compared value as the tunnel link index instead and point at ip_tunnel_find(), which keeps the reference accurate without tripping the checker. Comment only, no functional change.
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- Around line 173-196: Update the own-key branch condition in the tunnel
validation logic to treat a local key value of "0" as keyless, matching the
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#5392is explicitly linked from the task. - The intended collision tuple matches the kernel: local address, remote address, source-interface link, tunnel type, and key.
- Required rejections remain:
- duplicate unkeyed tunnels with identical endpoints;
- mGRE tunnels sharing a key on one source interface;
- identical unkeyed local/remote tunnels even across different source interfaces, because receive-side demultiplexing is nondeterministic.
0.0.0.0/::represent kernel wildcard endpoints and must compare equivalently to unset values; previously, such configurations could pass validation but fail during apply withFile exists.- Cross-comparison of
greandgretapis deliberately retained and identified as work for a separate task. - The task description states the change is additive for previously rejected configurations, except wildcard normalization, which moves an eventual apply-time failure to commit-time validation.
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The pairwise collision check routed our own "parameters ip key 0" through the keyed branch, while a neighbour's zero key was already classified as no key at all. The same pair of tunnels was therefore accepted or rejected depending on which of the two was being verified. A zero-keyed tunnel added next to a keyless one on the same endpoints passed, as the keyed branch compared an unset key with "0" and found no match. Both tunnels commit, and every later commit touching the keyless one is refused from then on - the failure this series already fixed for a keyless tunnel sitting next to a keyed one. Normalise the zero key away on both sides instead, the way get_tunnel_endpoint() already normalises an unset endpoint, so neither side can classify a pair differently. Name the zero key as the cause in the error as well, rather than asking for a parameter the tunnel has.
The collision error picked its noun from the normalised source-address, and an "any" source-address normalises to the unset case, so it fell through to "source-interface" even when neither tunnel had one. Two gretap tunnels sourced from 0.0.0.0 were pointed at a node which cannot be configured for that encapsulation at all. Pick the noun from the source-interface instead. Where it is set both tunnels carry it, the collision requires it to match, and where it is not set verify_tunnel() guarantees a source-address on either side.
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@statio thanks for the additional fixes, I have tested the latest changes and would appreciate you looking into results The zero-key rule rests on this claim from the
The first part is incomplete: the flag-blind compare in I tested this on an image built from this branch (kernel 6.18.44), each case with one keyless and one
The docstring's claim is measured-true only for the last two rows. The rule also fires on pairs sharing a source-address (first row), where the kernel keeps the tunnels apart. Two measured consequences of the current form:
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A zero GRE key was classified as no key at all, on the grounds that the Kernel cannot tell one from an unset key when a packet arrives. That holds only where ip_tunnel_lookup() ends in its last loop, which is reached by tunnels carrying neither a local nor a remote address: it compares the key without testing the flag saying that a key is set at all. A tunnel with an address is matched in one of the three loops before it, through ip_tunnel_key_match(), which tests that flag first, so there a zero key and an unset key are two different tunnels. The docstring cited ip6gre_tunnel_locate() as well, which this gre and gretap only branch never reaches. Measured in a netns on 6.12 with one keyless and one "key 0" tunnel sharing a local address: a packet without a key arrives on the keyless tunnel, a packet with key 0 on the other, and both tunnels are created. With neither a local nor a remote address both packets arrive on the same tunnel and the other one receives nothing. Ignore a zero key only where neither tunnel of the pair carries an address then, so a keyless tunnel is free to sit beside a "key 0" one everywhere else. Executing verify() over the cross product of source-address, remote, source-interface and key moves exactly the keyless against "key 0" pairs and nothing besides.
A GRE tunnel with an any source-address is told from another one by its key, which is why one is required of it. A zero key does not do that for a tunnel which carries no remote either - it catches every packet exactly as a keyless tunnel would, and the pairwise check below already refuses to run two such tunnels side by side. Ask for a non-zero key there, so that a zero key is judged the same way throughout the file rather than counting as a key in one check and not in the other. A tunnel which does carry a remote is unaffected. It is unique without its key, so "key 0" remains acceptable and the error keeps asking only for the key to be set.
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@alexk37 thank you, that is a careful piece of work and you are right on both Reading So I went back and measured the receive side rather than the create side, on which is your first and second row exactly - kept apart with an address, one The rule is conditional now. On your second point, the mGRE check above it: agreed, and it now uses the same Being explicit about what is left of your first consequence: the pair you I will update the T9193 description as well, it still describes the old rule. |
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In my testing the zero-key correction matches the measured kernel boundary:
I also confirmed the One compatibility point remains for the single-tunnel case. On the pre- The final head newly rejected it with: As mentioned by the author it is worth deciding explicitly whether to retain this tightening here, move it to |
Change Summary
The pairwise GRE tunnel collision check in
src/conf_mode/interfaces_tunnel.pywas morerestrictive with a GRE key configured than without one. The keyed branch only compared
source-addressandkey—remoteandsource_interfacewere not even in scope there,as they are looked up inside the
else:branch. It is unchanged since T2920 (2020); T4267added the
remotecomparison to the keyless branch only.Consequently these were rejected, although the Kernel keeps both pairs apart:
ip_tunnel_find()innet/ipv4/ip_tunnel.ctreats a tunnel as a duplicate only whenlocal address, remote address,
parms.link(the source-interface),dev->typeand thekey all match. On receive,
ip_tunnel_lookup()compares local and remote before itlooks at the key and uses
parms.linkas a tie-break, so both pairs also demultiplexunambiguously — this is not merely "the Kernel lets you create it".
This models the check on that tuple. It also normalizes
0.0.0.0/::to an unsetendpoint, because the Kernel stores an unconfigured endpoint as the any address: previously
remote 0.0.0.0and an unsetremotecompared as distinct, letting a colliding pair passverify()and then fail on commit withadd tunnel "gre0" failed: File exists.Deliberately still rejected, as the Kernel cannot demultiplex either pair:
source-interfaceis used —they are byte-identical on the wire outbound;
source-interface(DMVPN).Not addressed here, worth separate tasks:
greandgretapare still compared with eachother although the Kernel keeps them in separate tunnel tables, and
ip6gre/ip6gretapreceive no uniqueness validation at all.
Types of changes
On the breaking-change box: the relaxations are purely additive — configurations that were
rejected now commit, and nothing that worked stops working. The
0.0.0.0normalization isthe one case that goes the other way, newly rejecting at commit time two GRE tunnels that
share a source address and key where one sets
remote 0.0.0.0and the other omitsremote.That configuration already failed to apply with
add tunnel "gre0" failed: File exists, sono working configuration changes behaviour — the failure just moves from apply time to
commit time, where it can be reported properly. No migration script is required and there
are no CLI syntax changes.
Related Task(s)
Component(s) name
tunnel
Proposed changes
verify()now resolvessource-address,source-interface,remoteandkeyfor bothtunnels, skips the peer outright when the remote addresses differ, and applies the same
endpoint comparison to the keyed and keyless branches. A small
get_tunnel_endpoint()helper maps
0.0.0.0/::ontoNoneso the any address and an unset node compare equal.How to test
Verified against the Kernel rather than by inspection alone — Linux 6.12 / iproute2 6.15,
in a network namespace:
The full matrix run covers 22 create/collide cases; the resulting accept/reject sets match
this patch exactly, including every case left deliberately stricter than the Kernel.
Three smoketests added to
smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_tunnel.py:test_multiple_gre_tunnel_same_key_different_remotetest_multiple_gre_tunnel_same_key_different_source_interfacetest_multiple_gre_tunnel_any_remote(the0.0.0.0collision, expects a rejection)The existing
test_multiple_gre_tunnel_same_remoteandtest_multiple_gre_tunnel_different_remoteare unaffected.To be explicit about what I could not run: the smoketests need a live VyOS image, which
I do not have to hand, so they have not been executed locally — I am relying on CI for those.
What was executed locally is the Kernel matrix above, plus
darkerandruff(viagraylint, diff-scoped againstrolling), both clean.Checklist