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| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) --- name: wireguard protocol: genetlink-legacy doc: | **Netlink protocol to control WireGuard network devices.** The below enums and macros are for interfacing with WireGuard, using generic netlink, with family ``WG_GENL_NAME`` and version ``WG_GENL_VERSION``. It defines two commands: get and set. Note that while they share many common attributes, these two commands actually accept a slightly different set of inputs and outputs. These differences are noted under the individual attributes. c-family-name: wg-genl-name c-version-name: wg-genl-version max-by-define: true definitions: - name-prefix: wg- name: key-len type: const value: 32 - name: --kernel-timespec type: struct header: linux/time_types.h members: - name: sec type: u64 doc: Number of seconds, since UNIX epoch. - name: nsec type: u64 doc: Number of nanoseconds, after the second began. - name: wgdevice-flags name-prefix: wgdevice-f- enum-name: wgdevice-flag type: flags entries: - replace-peers - name: wgpeer-flags name-prefix: wgpeer-f- enum-name: wgpeer-flag type: flags entries: - remove-me - replace-allowedips - update-only - name: wgallowedip-flags name-prefix: wgallowedip-f- enum-name: wgallowedip-flag type: flags entries: - remove-me attribute-sets: - name: wgdevice enum-name: wgdevice-attribute name-prefix: wgdevice-a- attr-cnt-name: --wgdevice-a-last attributes: - name: unspec type: unused value: 0 - name: ifindex type: u32 - name: ifname type: string checks: max-len: 15 - name: private-key type: binary doc: Set to all zeros to remove. display-hint: hex checks: exact-len: wg-key-len - name: public-key type: binary display-hint: hex checks: exact-len: wg-key-len - name: flags type: u32 doc: | ``0`` or ``WGDEVICE_F_REPLACE_PEERS`` if all current peers should be removed prior to adding the list below. enum: wgdevice-flags - name: listen-port type: u16 doc: Set as ``0`` to choose randomly. - name: fwmark type: u32 doc: Set as ``0`` to disable. - name: peers type: indexed-array sub-type: nest nested-attributes: wgpeer doc: | The index/type parameter is unused on ``SET_DEVICE`` operations and is zero on ``GET_DEVICE`` operations. - name: wgpeer enum-name: wgpeer-attribute name-prefix: wgpeer-a- attr-cnt-name: --wgpeer-a-last attributes: - name: unspec type: unused value: 0 - name: public-key type: binary display-hint: hex checks: exact-len: wg-key-len - name: preshared-key type: binary doc: Set as all zeros to remove. display-hint: hex checks: exact-len: wg-key-len - name: flags type: u32 doc: | ``0`` and/or ``WGPEER_F_REMOVE_ME`` if the specified peer should not exist at the end of the operation, rather than added/updated and/or ``WGPEER_F_REPLACE_ALLOWEDIPS`` if all current allowed IPs of this peer should be removed prior to adding the list below and/or ``WGPEER_F_UPDATE_ONLY`` if the peer should only be set if it already exists. enum: wgpeer-flags - name: endpoint type: binary doc: struct sockaddr_in or struct sockaddr_in6 checks: min-len: 16 - name: persistent-keepalive-interval type: u16 doc: Set as ``0`` to disable. - name: last-handshake-time type: binary struct: --kernel-timespec checks: exact-len: 16 - name: rx-bytes type: u64 - name: tx-bytes type: u64 - name: allowedips type: indexed-array sub-type: nest nested-attributes: wgallowedip doc: | The index/type parameter is unused on ``SET_DEVICE`` operations and is zero on ``GET_DEVICE`` operations. - name: protocol-version type: u32 doc: | Should not be set or used at all by most users of this API, as the most recent protocol will be used when this is unset. Otherwise, must be set to ``1``. - name: wgallowedip enum-name: wgallowedip-attribute name-prefix: wgallowedip-a- attr-cnt-name: --wgallowedip-a-last attributes: - name: unspec type: unused value: 0 - name: family type: u16 doc: IP family, either ``AF_INET`` or ``AF_INET6``. - name: ipaddr type: binary doc: Either ``struct in_addr`` or ``struct in6_addr``. display-hint: ipv4-or-v6 checks: min-len: 4 - name: cidr-mask type: u8 - name: flags type: u32 doc: | ``WGALLOWEDIP_F_REMOVE_ME`` if the specified IP should be removed; otherwise, this IP will be added if it is not already present. enum: wgallowedip-flags operations: enum-name: wg-cmd name-prefix: wg-cmd- list: - name: get-device value: 0 doc: | Retrieve WireGuard device ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The command should be called with one but not both of: - ``WGDEVICE_A_IFINDEX`` - ``WGDEVICE_A_IFNAME`` The kernel will then return several messages (``NLM_F_MULTI``). It is possible that all of the allowed IPs of a single peer will not fit within a single netlink message. In that case, the same peer will be written in the following message, except it will only contain ``WGPEER_A_PUBLIC_KEY`` and ``WGPEER_A_ALLOWEDIPS``. This may occur several times in a row for the same peer. It is then up to the receiver to coalesce adjacent peers. Likewise, it is possible that all peers will not fit within a single message. So, subsequent peers will be sent in following messages, except those will only contain ``WGDEVICE_A_IFNAME`` and ``WGDEVICE_A_PEERS``. It is then up to the receiver to coalesce these messages to form the complete list of peers. Since this is an ``NLA_F_DUMP`` command, the final message will always be ``NLMSG_DONE``, even if an error occurs. However, this ``NLMSG_DONE`` message contains an integer error code. It is either zero or a negative error code corresponding to the errno. attribute-set: wgdevice flags: [uns-admin-perm] dump: pre: wg-get-device-start post: wg-get-device-done request: attributes: - ifindex - ifname reply: &all-attrs attributes: - ifindex - ifname - private-key - public-key - flags - listen-port - fwmark - peers - name: set-device value: 1 doc: | Set WireGuard device ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This command should be called with a wgdevice set, containing one but not both of ``WGDEVICE_A_IFINDEX`` and ``WGDEVICE_A_IFNAME``. It is possible that the amount of configuration data exceeds that of the maximum message length accepted by the kernel. In that case, several messages should be sent one after another, with each successive one filling in information not contained in the prior. Note that if ``WGDEVICE_F_REPLACE_PEERS`` is specified in the first message, it probably should not be specified in fragments that come after, so that the list of peers is only cleared the first time but appended after. Likewise for peers, if ``WGPEER_F_REPLACE_ALLOWEDIPS`` is specified in the first message of a peer, it likely should not be specified in subsequent fragments. If an error occurs, ``NLMSG_ERROR`` will reply containing an errno. attribute-set: wgdevice flags: [uns-admin-perm] do: request: *all-attrs |