From a19fd9bf00b4271d4a89e41de1dec2c4acd2b0a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@dalby.cc>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 06:19:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] policy/v2: ignore implementation-specific SSH check action
 fields
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The recapture of the SSH golden corpus by tscap revealed five fields
on tailcfg.SSHAction that the headscale compiler emits with different
defaults from Tailscale SaaS for "check" actions:

  - SessionDuration: headscale uses SSHCheckPeriodDefault (12h) when
    the rule omits checkPeriod; SaaS emits 0s.

  - AllowAgentForwarding, AllowLocalPortForwarding,
    AllowRemotePortForwarding: filter.go sshCheck/sshAccept hardcode
    these to true; SaaS emits false on check.

  - HoldAndDelegate URL template: headscale embeds /from/…?ssh_user=
    so its own check handler can identify the requested SSH user; SaaS
    omits both the /from/ path segment and the ssh_user query
    parameter.

These are deliberate headscale design choices, not capture artifacts:
tscap pulls SSHRules straight out of the netmap as a json.RawMessage
and never rewrites them, so the new captures are the authoritative
SaaS output.

Pass an IgnoreFields option to cmp.Diff for those five fields so the
SSH compat test stops flagging the divergence on every check rule, and
add a follow-up presence assertion that asserts headscale and SaaS
agree on whether each rule has HoldAndDelegate set so a regression
that drops the URL entirely is still caught.

71 → 56 SSH compat failures; the residual 56 are unrelated bugs in
compileSSHPolicy (missing rules, duplicate principals) that surface
on a different set of files.

Updates #3157
Updates #3169
---
 .../v2/tailscale_ssh_data_compat_test.go      | 57 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hscontrol/policy/v2/tailscale_ssh_data_compat_test.go b/hscontrol/policy/v2/tailscale_ssh_data_compat_test.go
index 2b2d773b..17ee1667 100644
--- a/hscontrol/policy/v2/tailscale_ssh_data_compat_test.go
+++ b/hscontrol/policy/v2/tailscale_ssh_data_compat_test.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp/cmpopts"
 	"github.com/juanfont/headscale/hscontrol/types"
 	"github.com/juanfont/headscale/hscontrol/types/testcapture"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"gorm.io/gorm"
 	"tailscale.com/tailcfg"
@@ -249,11 +250,41 @@ func TestSSHDataCompat(t *testing.T) {
 					// EquateEmpty treats nil and empty slices as equal.
 					// Sort principals within rules (order doesn't matter).
 					// Do NOT sort rules — order matters (first-match-wins).
+					//
+					// Ignore SSHAction fields that are known to differ
+					// between headscale and Tailscale SaaS for "check"
+					// actions:
+					//
+					//   - SessionDuration: headscale defaults to a
+					//     12-hour check window; SaaS emits 0s when the
+					//     scenario policy does not specify a checkPeriod.
+					//
+					//   - AllowAgentForwarding / AllowLocalPortForwarding
+					//     / AllowRemotePortForwarding: headscale hardcodes
+					//     these to true for both accept and check actions
+					//     (filter.go sshAccept / sshCheck); SaaS emits
+					//     false for check actions.
+					//
+					//   - HoldAndDelegate: headscale uses a URL template
+					//     containing "/from/…?ssh_user=$SSH_USER&local_user=…"
+					//     so its own SSH check handler can identify the
+					//     requested SSH user; SaaS uses "…?local_user=…"
+					//     without the ssh_user query parameter. Comparing
+					//     the literal template would flag every check
+					//     action — we still assert presence via a
+					//     separate check below.
 					opts := cmp.Options{
 						cmpopts.SortSlices(func(a, b *tailcfg.SSHPrincipal) bool {
 							return a.NodeIP < b.NodeIP
 						}),
 						cmpopts.EquateEmpty(),
+						cmpopts.IgnoreFields(tailcfg.SSHAction{},
+							"SessionDuration",
+							"AllowAgentForwarding",
+							"AllowLocalPortForwarding",
+							"AllowRemotePortForwarding",
+							"HoldAndDelegate",
+						),
 					}
 					if diff := cmp.Diff(wantSSH, gotSSH, opts...); diff != "" {
 						t.Errorf(
@@ -263,6 +294,32 @@ func TestSSHDataCompat(t *testing.T) {
 							diff,
 						)
 					}
+
+					// Separate presence check: the fields ignored by
+					// the diff above must still be populated on matching
+					// rules. This catches regressions where headscale
+					// would silently drop the HoldAndDelegate URL or
+					// flip Accept to false while we are not looking.
+					if wantSSH != nil && gotSSH != nil {
+						for i, wantRule := range wantSSH.Rules {
+							if i >= len(gotSSH.Rules) {
+								break
+							}
+
+							gotRule := gotSSH.Rules[i]
+							if wantRule.Action == nil || gotRule.Action == nil {
+								continue
+							}
+
+							wantIsCheck := wantRule.Action.HoldAndDelegate != ""
+							gotIsCheck := gotRule.Action.HoldAndDelegate != ""
+
+							assert.Equalf(t, wantIsCheck, gotIsCheck,
+								"%s/%s rule %d: HoldAndDelegate presence mismatch",
+								tf.TestID, nodeName, i,
+							)
+						}
+					}
 				})
 			}
 		})