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53 changes: 51 additions & 2 deletions tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/IFace.java
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import android.system.OsConstants;
import android.util.Log;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;

import io.netbird.gomobile.android.TunAdapter;
import io.netbird.client.tool.wg.BackendException;
import io.netbird.client.tool.wg.InetAddresses;
import io.netbird.client.tool.wg.InetNetwork;

class IFace implements TunAdapter {

private static final String LOGTAG = "IFace";
private static final int HOST_PREFIX_V4 = 32;
private static final int HOST_PREFIX_V6 = 128;
private final VPNService vpnService;

public IFace(VPNService vpnService) {
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private int createTun(String ip, int prefixLength, InetNetwork addrV6, int mtu, String dns, String[] searchDomains, LinkedList<Route> routes) throws Exception {
VpnService.Builder builder = vpnService.getBuilder();
builder.addAddress(ip, prefixLength);

// Assign the overlay addresses as single hosts and express the overlay
// network as an explicit route instead of letting it fall out of the
// address prefix. A prefix wider than a single host makes the tunnel a
// directly connected, broadcast-capable subnet, which is one of the
// things Android's local network protection keys on when deciding
// whether an app needs ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK to reach a destination.
// Reachability is unchanged: the route below covers exactly the range
// the address prefix used to cover.
builder.addAddress(ip, HOST_PREFIX_V4);
addNetworkRoute(builder, InetAddresses.parse(ip), prefixLength);
if (addrV6 != null) {
builder.addAddress(addrV6.getAddress().getHostAddress(), addrV6.getMask());
builder.addAddress(addrV6.getAddress().getHostAddress(), HOST_PREFIX_V6);
addNetworkRoute(builder, addrV6.getAddress(), addrV6.getMask());
Log.d(LOGTAG, "add IPv6 address: " + addrV6.getAddress().getHostAddress() + "/" + addrV6.getMask());
}
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builder.allowFamily(OsConstants.AF_INET);
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}
}

/**
* Adds the route covering the overlay network the given address belongs to.
* No-op for an address that is already a single host, and for a malformed
* prefix, where dropping the route is safer than throwing away the whole
* tunnel.
*/
private void addNetworkRoute(VpnService.Builder builder, InetAddress address, int prefixLength) {
byte[] raw = address.getAddress();
if (prefixLength <= 0 || prefixLength >= raw.length * 8) {
return;
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- related symbols and parser usages ---'
rg -n --glob '*.java' 'InetNetwork\.parse|maskAddress|addRoute|prefixLength' tool/src/main/java
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sed -n '200,230p' tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/IFace.java
printf '%s\n' '--- InetNetwork parser ---'
cat -n tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/wg/InetNetwork.java
printf '%s\n' '--- InetAddresses parser ---'
cat -n tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/wg/InetAddresses.java
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from ipaddress import ip_address

def mask_address(raw, prefix_length):
    masked = bytearray(raw)
    for i in range(len(masked)):
        bits_kept = min(8, max(0, prefix_length - i * 8))
        mask = 0 if bits_kept == 0 else (0xFF << (8 - bits_kept)) & 0xFF
        masked[i] &= mask
    return bytes(masked)

def current_action(address, prefix_length):
    raw = ip_address(address).packed
    if prefix_length <= 0 or prefix_length >= len(raw) * 8:
        return None
    return f"{ip_address(mask_address(raw, prefix_length))}/{prefix_length}"

def proposed_action(address, prefix_length):
    raw = ip_address(address).packed
    maximum = len(raw) * 8
    if prefix_length < 0 or prefix_length > maximum:
        return "reject"
    if prefix_length == maximum:
        return "host-sized no-op"
    return f"{ip_address(mask_address(raw, prefix_length))}/{prefix_length}"

for address, prefix in [
    ("10.0.0.1", 0),
    ("10.0.0.1", 24),
    ("10.0.0.1", 32),
    ("2001:db8::1", 0),
    ("2001:db8::1", 64),
    ("2001:db8::1", 128),
    ("10.0.0.1", -1),
    ("10.0.0.1", 33),
    ("2001:db8::1", 129),
]:
    print(f"{address}/{prefix}: current={current_action(address, prefix)!r}; proposed={proposed_action(address, prefix)!r}")
PY

Repository: netbirdio/android-client

Length of output: 632

Preserve valid /0 overlay routes.

Allow /0 through so 10.0.0.1/0 produces 0.0.0.0/0 and IPv6 /0 produces ::/0. Reject and log only prefixes outside the valid range, while retaining the host-sized no-op for /32 or /128.

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In `@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/IFace.java` around lines 165 - 167,
Update the prefix validation in the relevant IFace route-normalization method to
allow prefixLength 0, reject and log only values below 0 or above the address
bit width, and retain the existing host-sized no-op behavior for /32 and /128
while producing zero-network routes for valid /0 inputs.

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byte[] masked = maskAddress(raw, prefixLength);
try {
String network = InetAddress.getByAddress(masked).getHostAddress();
builder.addRoute(network, prefixLength);
Log.d(LOGTAG, "add overlay network route: " + network + "/" + prefixLength);
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
Log.e(LOGTAG, "failed to derive the overlay network route", e);
}
}

/** Clears every host bit beyond prefixLength, returning the network address. */
private static byte[] maskAddress(byte[] raw, int prefixLength) {
byte[] masked = raw.clone();
for (int i = 0; i < masked.length; i++) {
int bitsKeptInThisByte = Math.min(8, Math.max(0, prefixLength - i * 8));
int mask = bitsKeptInThisByte == 0 ? 0 : (0xFF << (8 - bitsKeptInThisByte)) & 0xFF;
masked[i] = (byte) (masked[i] & mask);
}
return masked;
}

private void disallowApp(VpnService.Builder builder, String packageName) {
try {
builder.addDisallowedApplication(packageName);
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