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Rayhaan JaufeerallyandClaude Fable 5.1 1fc44798b7 Install best routes in the Linux kernel over netlink
New crate bgp-fib. It follows the routing table's best routes and keeps
the kernel's routing table the same, and learns the machine's interfaces
and addresses from the kernel, which is what says whether a next hop can
be reached.

- netlink: the rtnetlink messages used (routes, addresses, links, errors),
  as bytes and back. No I/O; property tested and fuzzed.
- interfaces: what is directly reachable, and from which interface.
- plan: what to ask the kernel for, given the best routes and what the
  kernel has. No I/O; tested against a model kernel.
- kernel (Linux only): the sockets and the task. Requests go in batches;
  routes of ours found at startup are kept if still right and removed if
  not; a change of interfaces has every route worked out again; a clean
  stop removes our routes.

Only routes marked proto bgp with the configured table and metric are
ever touched. A best route is installed if its next hop is a neighbor;
next hops further away are not resolved through other routes yet, and
such prefixes are counted and shown instead.

Configured with `kernel { table metric }`; off by default. The daemon
needs CAP_NET_ADMIN and stops if the kernel refuses it. On shutdown it
closes sessions and then removes its routes.

/api/kernel and the status page show installed, unresolved and refused
counts, the last error and the interfaces; five bgp_kernel_* metrics.

Testing: scripts/kernel-tests.sh runs, in network namespaces of their
own and with only the capabilities the daemon needs, the installer
against `ip route`, the daemon with a peer, and two daemons that route
for each other with pings across over IPv4 and IPv6.
scripts/linux-vm.sh runs that, or anything else, in a Lima VM from
macOS. CI runs the kernel tests and fuzzes the netlink decoder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 15:15:43 +02:00

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Fuzz targets

Coverage-guided fuzzing of everything that reads input we do not control. The property tests (cargo test, e.g. crates/packet/tests/properties.rs) check the same things on generated input and run on every build; these targets go further by letting libFuzzer follow code coverage for as long as you leave them running.

Target Input
message Raw bytes as they come off a TCP connection
message_body A message body behind a correct header (reaches the body parsers)
prefix_text A prefix as text
config The configuration file
rtr A stream of RTR PDUs, as an RPKI cache sends them
netlink Messages from the kernel's routing socket

For the two message targets a finding is either a panic, or a message the decoder accepted that cannot be written and read back as itself.

Running

libFuzzer needs a nightly toolchain and cargo-fuzz:

rustup toolchain install nightly
cargo install cargo-fuzz

Then, from this directory:

cargo +nightly fuzz run message_body corpus/message_body seeds/message_body -- -max_total_time=300

The first directory is the working corpus, which the fuzzer adds to and which is not checked in. seeds/ holds a few valid inputs to start from. Leave out -max_total_time to run until interrupted.

When it finds something

The input is saved under artifacts/<target>/. Reproduce it with

cargo +nightly fuzz run message_body artifacts/message_body/crash-...

Fix the bug, and add a unit test with the input next to the code it broke, so that cargo test keeps it fixed without anyone having to run the fuzzer.