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abrown38andClaude Opus 5.5 de075edd5d Shadow mode: Housecarl beside the firewall in force, changing nothing
shadow.enabled in housecarl.yaml loads Housecarl's ruleset so that it
blocks, rejects and translates nothing: drops and rejects count and
accept (an accept only ends Housecarl's chain), policies accept and log
what they would drop, NAT only counts, MSS clamping and the flowtable
are left out, and raw rules that do more than accept, drop or reject are
left out with a warning. Comments mark what would happen ([would drop]).
Filter chains run after the other firewall's (+10) or before (-10); NAT
chains always first. Every change is checked by nftables in both forms.
No probation; takeovers and closing connections are refused. The boot
fallback filters nothing. internal/tablewatch puts the table back after
a flush ruleset. Mode in status, healthz, whoami, the web UI, the log
and the tracer; hc ruleset --enforcing. docs/shadow.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-20 18:11:01 +01:00

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// Package trace follows packets through the whole ruleset, every table's
// chains, with nftables' own tracing: a table of its own (housecarl-trace,
// hooked before everything else) marks the packets a filter picks
// (meta nftrace set 1), and `nft monitor trace` reports each chain and
// rule they pass, and what decided their fate. Packets are counted per
// trace id: one packet through the hooks it crosses.
package trace
import (
"fmt"
"net/netip"
"regexp"
"strconv"
"strings"
"time"
"housecarl/internal/api"
)
// Table is the tracing table's name (family inet).
const Table = "housecarl-trace"
// Script builds the tracing table for a filter: packets from or to the
// address, on the port (either way), of the protocol. A limit keeps a
// flood from swamping the trace.
func Script(in api.TraceInput) (string, error) {
var addr netip.Prefix
if in.Address != "" {
p, err := netip.ParsePrefix(in.Address)
if err != nil {
a, err2 := netip.ParseAddr(in.Address)
if err2 != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("address %q: give an address or a prefix (192.168.1.50, 2001:db8::/64)", in.Address)
}
p = netip.PrefixFrom(a, a.BitLen())
}
addr = p.Masked()
}
if in.Port < 0 || in.Port > 65535 {
return "", fmt.Errorf("port %d: 1 to 65535", in.Port)
}
proto := strings.ToLower(in.Protocol)
switch proto {
case "", "tcp", "udp", "sctp", "icmp", "icmpv6":
default:
return "", fmt.Errorf("protocol %q: tcp, udp, sctp, icmp, icmpv6, or nothing for any", in.Protocol)
}
if !addr.IsValid() && in.Port == 0 {
return "", fmt.Errorf("say what to trace: an address, a port, or both")
}
if in.Port != 0 && (proto == "icmp" || proto == "icmpv6") {
return "", fmt.Errorf("ICMP has no ports")
}
var l4 string
switch {
case proto != "":
l4 = "meta l4proto " + proto
case in.Port != 0:
l4 = "meta l4proto { tcp, udp, sctp }"
}
addrs := []string{""}
if addr.IsValid() {
ip := "ip"
if addr.Addr().Is6() {
ip = "ip6"
}
addrs = []string{ip + " saddr " + addr.String(), ip + " daddr " + addr.String()}
}
ports := []string{""}
if in.Port != 0 {
ports = []string{fmt.Sprintf("th dport %d", in.Port), fmt.Sprintf("th sport %d", in.Port)}
}
var rules []string
for _, a := range addrs {
for _, p := range ports {
parts := []string{}
for _, x := range []string{a, l4, p, "limit rate 20/second", "meta nftrace set 1"} {
if x != "" {
parts = append(parts, x)
}
}
rules = append(rules, "\t\t"+strings.Join(parts, " "))
}
}
body := strings.Join(rules, "\n")
return fmt.Sprintf(`table inet %[1]s {}
delete table inet %[1]s
table inet %[1]s {
chain pre {
type filter hook prerouting priority -301; policy accept;
%[2]s
}
chain out {
type filter hook output priority -301; policy accept;
%[2]s
}
}
`, Table, body), nil
}
// ---- reading `nft monitor trace`
// "trace id 38ff3662 inet housecarl input rule … (verdict accept)"
var lineRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^trace id (\S+) (\S+) (\S+) (\S+) (packet: (.*)|rule (.*) \(verdict ([^)]*)\)|policy (\S+)|(.*))$`)
var (
fieldRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\b(iif|oif) "([^"]*)"`)
addrRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\b(ip6?) (saddr|daddr) (\S+)`)
portRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\b(tcp|udp|sctp) (sport|dport) (\d+)`)
flagsRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\btcp flags == (\S+)`)
icmpRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\b(icmp|icmpv6) type (\S+)`)
protoRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\bmeta l4proto (\S+)|\bip protocol (\S+)|\bip6 nexthdr (\S+)`)
markRe = regexp.MustCompile(`comment "hc:(\S+)`)
)
// Tracer collects packets from trace lines.
type Tracer struct {
// Max is how many packets it keeps (0: 200).
Max int
Now func() time.Time
packets []*api.TracePacket
byID map[string]*api.TracePacket
// seen are the chains a packet entered: the kernel reuses trace ids
// (they come from the packet's buffer), so entering one again means
// another packet.
seen map[*api.TracePacket]map[string]bool
}
// Packets returns what was traced so far, oldest first.
func (t *Tracer) Packets() []api.TracePacket {
out := make([]api.TracePacket, 0, len(t.packets))
for _, p := range t.packets {
out = append(out, *p)
}
return out
}
// Full reports whether it keeps no more packets.
func (t *Tracer) Full() bool {
max := t.Max
if max == 0 {
max = 200
}
return len(t.packets) >= max
}
// Line reads one line of `nft monitor trace`. The tracing table's own
// steps are left out.
func (t *Tracer) Line(line string) {
m := lineRe.FindStringSubmatch(strings.TrimSpace(line))
if m == nil {
return
}
id, table, chain := m[1], m[2]+" "+m[3], m[4]
if m[3] == Table {
return
}
if t.byID == nil {
t.byID, t.seen = map[string]*api.TracePacket{}, map[*api.TracePacket]map[string]bool{}
}
p := t.byID[id]
isPacket := m[6] != "" || strings.HasPrefix(m[5], "packet:")
if p != nil && isPacket && t.seen[p][table+" "+chain] {
p = nil // the same id, another packet
}
if p == nil {
if t.Full() {
return
}
now := time.Now
if t.Now != nil {
now = t.Now
}
p = &api.TracePacket{ID: id, Time: now(), Verdict: "accepted"}
t.byID[id] = p
t.seen[p] = map[string]bool{}
t.packets = append(t.packets, p)
}
switch {
case isPacket:
t.seen[p][table+" "+chain] = true
readPacket(p, m[6])
case m[7] != "":
step := api.TraceStep{Table: table, Chain: chain, Kind: "rule", Rule: m[7], Verdict: m[8]}
if mk := markRe.FindStringSubmatch(m[7]); mk != nil {
step.Mark = strings.TrimSuffix(mk[1], `"`)
}
p.Steps = append(p.Steps, step)
decide(p, step)
case m[9] != "":
step := api.TraceStep{Table: table, Chain: chain, Kind: "policy", Verdict: m[9]}
p.Steps = append(p.Steps, step)
decide(p, step)
}
}
// wouldRe finds shadow mode's marker in a rule's comment (render.Would):
// "[would drop]", "[would reject]".
var wouldRe = regexp.MustCompile(`"hc:\S+ \[would (drop|reject)\]|"\[would (drop|reject)\]`)
// decide notes a packet's fate: the first drop (or reject) ends it. In
// shadow mode Housecarl's rules accept what they would drop: that is
// noted apart, and decides nothing.
func decide(p *api.TracePacket, s api.TraceStep) {
if s.Kind == "rule" && wouldRe.MatchString(s.Rule) {
if p.WouldDrop == nil && p.Verdict != "dropped" {
step := s
p.WouldDrop = &step
}
return
}
if p.Verdict == "dropped" {
return
}
switch strings.Fields(s.Verdict + " ")[0] {
case "drop", "reject":
p.Verdict, p.DecidedBy = "dropped", s
case "accept":
// What let it through is a filter chain's accept: Housecarl's
// input, forward or output (NAT chains accept everything they
// see). Another table's accept counts when Housecarl's says
// nothing.
filter := s.Table == "inet housecarl" && (s.Chain == "input" || s.Chain == "forward" || s.Chain == "output")
if filter || p.DecidedBy.Verdict == "" && s.Table != "inet housecarl" {
p.DecidedBy = s
}
}
}
// readPacket fills in a packet's headers from its "packet:" line (once:
// the first hook's view, before any NAT).
func readPacket(p *api.TracePacket, f string) {
for _, m := range fieldRe.FindAllStringSubmatch(f, -1) {
if m[1] == "iif" && p.In == "" {
p.In = m[2]
}
if m[1] == "oif" && p.Out == "" {
p.Out = m[2]
}
}
if p.Source != "" {
return
}
for _, m := range addrRe.FindAllStringSubmatch(f, -1) {
if m[2] == "saddr" {
p.Source = m[3]
} else {
p.Destination = m[3]
}
}
for _, m := range portRe.FindAllStringSubmatch(f, -1) {
p.Protocol = m[1]
n, _ := strconv.Atoi(m[3])
if m[2] == "sport" {
p.SourcePort = n
} else {
p.DestinationPort = n
}
}
if m := flagsRe.FindStringSubmatch(f); m != nil {
p.TCPFlags = m[1]
}
if m := icmpRe.FindStringSubmatch(f); m != nil {
p.Protocol, p.ICMPType = m[1], m[2]
}
if p.Protocol == "" {
if m := protoRe.FindStringSubmatch(f); m != nil {
p.Protocol = strings.TrimSpace(m[1] + m[2] + m[3])
}
}
}