Build Housecarl 0.1.0: the nftables firewall manager

Zones, address sets (IPv4 and IPv6 mixed, dynamic sets with timeouts) and
services, ordered rules in the early, input, forward and output chains,
port forwards with hairpin NAT and IPv6 pinholes, source NAT, redirects,
and switchable built-ins (loopback, conntrack, ICMPv6, antispoofing, MSS
clamping, DHCPv6 client, flowtable). Every change is validated, checked
with nft -c and applied in one transaction to Housecarl's own table,
inet housecarl; changes made over the network roll back unless
confirmed, and the confirmed ruleset is loaded at boot by
housecarl-ruleset.service. An empty configuration applies nothing.

Also: hit counters and the drop log (nflog), 'hc import' of an existing
nftables ruleset and 'hc takeover', the hc CLI, the REST API and the web
UI, users, scoped tokens (sets:write:NAME), the audit log, the web UI's
certificate through Jarl, Debian packages, docs, unit tests with real
nft 1.1.3, and an e2e test with real traffic (71 checks).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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package server
import (
"net/http"
"sort"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
"housecarl/internal/api"
"housecarl/internal/auth"
"housecarl/internal/model"
"housecarl/internal/render"
"housecarl/internal/store"
"housecarl/internal/validate"
"housecarl/internal/version"
)
// ---- status
func (s *Server) status(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
if !p.Can(auth.ResConfig, false) && !p.Can(auth.ResLog, false) {
return forbidden("permission denied: this needs config:read or log:read")
}
st := s.eng.State()
out := api.Status{Build: version.Info(), Started: s.started, Problems: s.eng.Problems(), Probation: s.probationStatus(),
Interfaces: s.hostInterfaces(st), Counts: map[string]int{}, OtherTables: []string{}}
if out.Problems == nil {
out.Problems = []validate.Problem{}
}
if p.IsAdmin() {
out.Database = s.store.Path()
}
for _, k := range model.Kinds {
out.Counts[k] = len(st.Objects(k))
}
if _, err := s.fw.Table(r.Context()); err != nil && st.Empty() {
out.Unconfigured = true
} else if err != nil {
out.ApplyError = err.Error()
} else {
out.Applied = true
}
if data, err := s.fw.ListRuleset(r.Context()); err == nil {
out.OtherTables = otherTables(data)
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, out)
return nil
}
// hostInterfaces lists the machine's interfaces with their zones.
func (s *Server) hostInterfaces(st *model.State) []api.HostInterface {
out := []api.HostInterface{}
if s.ifaces == nil {
return out
}
all, err := s.ifaces.All()
if err != nil {
return out
}
for name, ps := range all {
hi := api.HostInterface{Name: name, Addresses: []string{}, Up: s.ifaces.Up(name), Zone: zoneOf(st, name)}
for _, a := range ps {
hi.Addresses = append(hi.Addresses, a.String())
}
out = append(out, hi)
}
sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Name < out[j].Name })
return out
}
// zoneOf names the zone an interface is in: an exact name, else the
// longest matching wildcard.
func zoneOf(st *model.State, name string) string {
best, bestLen := "", -1
for _, z := range st.Zones {
for _, i := range z.Interfaces {
if i == name {
return z.Name
}
if p, ok := strings.CutSuffix(i, "*"); ok && strings.HasPrefix(name, p) && len(p) > bestLen {
best, bestLen = z.Name, len(p)
}
}
}
return best
}
func (s *Server) interfaces(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
if err := require(p, auth.ResConfig, false); err != nil {
return err
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, s.hostInterfaces(s.eng.State()))
return nil
}
func (s *Server) counters(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
if err := require(p, auth.ResLog, false); err != nil {
return err
}
t, err := s.fw.Table(r.Context())
if err != nil && s.eng.State().Empty() {
// Nothing applied yet: nothing counted.
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, api.Counters{Since: s.started, Counters: map[string]api.Counter{}})
return nil
}
if err != nil {
return err
}
out := api.Counters{Since: t.Since, Counters: map[string]api.Counter{}}
for k, c := range t.Counters {
out.Counters[k] = api.Counter{Packets: c.Packets, Bytes: c.Bytes}
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, out)
return nil
}
func (s *Server) listAudit(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
if err := require(p, auth.ResAudit, false); err != nil {
return err
}
q := r.URL.Query()
evs, err := s.store.ListAudit(r.Context(), store.AuditFilter{Username: q.Get("user"), Action: q.Get("action"), Result: q.Get("result"),
Search: q.Get("q"), Before: int64(queryInt(r, "before", 0)), Limit: queryInt(r, "limit", 200)})
if err != nil {
return err
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, evs)
return nil
}
func (s *Server) catalog(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
roles := map[string][]string{}
for n, gs := range auth.Roles {
roles[n] = grantStrings(gs)
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, map[string]any{
"services": model.BuiltinServices(), "chains": model.Chains, "actions": model.Actions,
"roles": roles, "log_group": render.LogGroup,
})
return nil
}
// ---- dynamic sets' entries
func (s *Server) dynamicSet(r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal, write bool) (*model.AddressSet, error) {
name := r.PathValue("ref")
if !p.CanSet(name, write) {
access := "read"
if write {
access = "write"
}
return nil, forbidden("permission denied: this needs sets:%s for %s", access, name)
}
set := s.eng.State().Set(name)
if set == nil {
return nil, notFound("no set %s", name)
}
if !set.Dynamic {
return nil, badRequest("set %s isn't dynamic: change its entries with PATCH /sets/%s", set.Name, set.Name)
}
return set, nil
}
func (s *Server) listElements(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
set, err := s.dynamicSet(r, p, false)
if err != nil {
return err
}
t, err := s.fw.Table(r.Context())
if err != nil {
return err
}
out := []api.Element{}
for _, e := range t.Elements[set.Name] {
out = append(out, api.Element{Address: e.Addr, Timeout: e.Timeout})
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, out)
return nil
}
func (s *Server) addElement(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
set, err := s.dynamicSet(r, p, true)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var in api.Element
if err := decodeJSON(r, &in); err != nil {
return err
}
a, err := model.ParseAddress(in.Address)
if err != nil || !a.Prefix.IsSingleIP() {
return badRequest("a dynamic set takes single addresses (%q)", in.Address)
}
if in.Timeout < 0 || in.Timeout > 366*24*3600 {
return badRequest("the timeout is in seconds, up to a year")
}
if err := s.fw.AddElement(r.Context(), set.Name, a.String(), in.Timeout); err != nil {
return err
}
s.eng.Audit(r.Context(), p, "set.add", set.Name+" "+a.String(), "success", "")
writeJSON(w, http.StatusCreated, api.Element{Address: a.String(), Timeout: in.Timeout})
return nil
}
func (s *Server) deleteElement(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
set, err := s.dynamicSet(r, p, true)
if err != nil {
return err
}
a, err := model.ParseAddress(r.PathValue("addr"))
if err != nil {
return badRequest("%v", err)
}
if err := s.fw.DeleteElement(r.Context(), set.Name, a.String()); err != nil {
return notFound("%s isn't in set %s", a, set.Name)
}
s.eng.Audit(r.Context(), p, "set.delete", set.Name+" "+a.String(), "success", "")
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
return nil
}
// ---- the log
// logRing keeps the latest logged packets.
type logRing struct {
mu sync.Mutex
max int
list []api.LogEntry
}
func newLogRing(max int) *logRing { return &logRing{max: max} }
// Add records a logged packet.
func (l *logRing) Add(e api.LogEntry) {
l.mu.Lock()
defer l.mu.Unlock()
l.list = append(l.list, e)
if len(l.list) > l.max {
l.list = append([]api.LogEntry(nil), l.list[len(l.list)-l.max:]...)
}
}
// Latest returns up to n entries, newest first, after a time.
func (l *logRing) Latest(n int, after time.Time, keep func(api.LogEntry) bool) []api.LogEntry {
l.mu.Lock()
defer l.mu.Unlock()
out := []api.LogEntry{}
for i := len(l.list) - 1; i >= 0 && (n <= 0 || len(out) < n); i-- {
e := l.list[i]
if !e.Time.After(after) {
break
}
if keep == nil || keep(e) {
out = append(out, e)
}
}
return out
}
// LogPacket records a packet the firewall logged (internal/nflog calls
// it).
func (s *Server) LogPacket(e api.LogEntry) { s.logs.Add(e) }
func (s *Server) listLog(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p *auth.Principal) error {
if err := require(p, auth.ResLog, false); err != nil {
return err
}
q := r.URL.Query()
var after time.Time
if v := q.Get("after"); v != "" {
after, _ = time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, v)
}
search := strings.ToLower(q.Get("q"))
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, s.logs.Latest(queryInt(r, "limit", 200), after, func(e api.LogEntry) bool {
if search == "" {
return true
}
return strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(e.Prefix+" "+e.Source+" "+e.Dest+" "+e.In+" "+e.Out+" "+e.Protocol), search)
}))
return nil
}