* wg-quick and iptables race condition bug
@ 2022-01-31 7:05 Ali Intika
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From: Ali Intika @ 2022-01-31 7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: wireguard
Hi,
First thanks for this amazing piece of code :)
The bug: iptables rules can not be applied in parallel, thus iptables
have the "-w" option (--wait, maximum wait to acquire xtables lock
before giving up) to circumvent this; the "-w" parameter is not used
in wireguard-tools which lead to a racing condition on some systems.
When using wg-quick on a system that do handle often the iptables
rules, especially if we are using wg-quick for a long manipulation (eg
turn up/down multiple interfaces), the command just fail if an other
iptables manipulation is going on, on the system. replacing "iptables"
with "iptables -w 10" on the Wireguard's script/c app (for android)
will solve the issue.
eg where the issue occur
- server handling iptables rules dynamically
- server/client where iptables is often manipulated
Personally I am mainly having this issue on android where the script
is a binary and not as easily editable as an sh file.
Thanks for your consideration
:)
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