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This change adds the ability to subscribe to netlink rule (policy routing) change events, mirroring the existing RouteSubscribe API.

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Public API

  • RuleSubscribe(ch chan<- RuleUpdate, done <-chan struct{}) error
  • RuleSubscribeAt(ns netns.NsHandle, ch chan<- RuleUpdate, done <-chan struct{}) error
  • RuleSubscribeWithOptions(ch chan<- RuleUpdate, done <-chan struct{}, options RuleSubscribeOptions) error
  • type RuleSubscribeOptions struct
  • type RuleUpdate struct

The API and behavior are intentionally aligned with RouteSubscribe:

  • Subscribes to RTNLGRP_IPV4_RULE and RTNLGRP_IPV6_RULE multicast groups.
  • Emits RTM_NEWRULE / RTM_DELRULE updates on the provided channel.
  • Supports optional namespace selection, error callback, and listing existing rules via ListExisting.
  • Closes the netlink socket when the done channel is closed.

Internal changes

  • Extracted deserializeRule from the inline parsing in RuleListFiltered so the same decoding logic is reused for both dump results and live subscription messages.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for subscribing to network rule changes, including new and deleted rules.
    • Added subscription options for network namespaces, existing-rule listings, receive settings, and error handling.
    • Added rule update notifications with change type and rule details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved rule decoding to correctly handle table, type, and unset priority values.
    • Updated rule handling for normalized default rule types.

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The change adds RuleUpdate notifications, shared netlink rule decoding, namespace-aware subscription APIs, optional existing-rule listing, and tests for rule events, errors, namespaces, and normalized values.

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Rule subscription

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule update contract and decoding
rule.go, rule_linux.go
RuleUpdate carries a netlink event type and embedded Rule. deserializeRule decodes rule type, table, priority, and attributes for rule listings and subscriptions.
Namespace-aware rule subscription
rule_linux.go
Subscription APIs support IPv4 and IPv6 updates, namespace selection, existing-rule listing, receive configuration, shutdown signals, source validation, error callbacks, and asynchronous RuleUpdate delivery.
Subscription behavior validation
rule_test.go
Tests cover normalized rule types, add and delete events, error callbacks, network namespaces, and existing-rule notifications.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a4c77

The new rule subscription and decoding behavior still has unresolved cancellation, resource-lifecycle, and data-decoding defects. Valid policy-routing rules can crash consumers or report incorrect values, so these issues should be addressed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant RuleSubscribeWithOptions
  participant Netlink
  participant UpdateChannel
  Caller->>RuleSubscribeWithOptions: provide subscription options
  RuleSubscribeWithOptions->>Netlink: subscribe to IPv4 and IPv6 rule groups
  RuleSubscribeWithOptions->>Netlink: request existing rules when enabled
  Netlink-->>RuleSubscribeWithOptions: deliver rule messages
  RuleSubscribeWithOptions->>UpdateChannel: send decoded RuleUpdate
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In `@rule_linux.go`:
- Line 385: Update the RuleUpdate delivery send in the receive goroutine to
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channel-close behavior without blocking on an unsubscribed consumer.
- Around line 344-345: Update the initial dump send error path in ListExisting
to close the socket s before returning the Send error, including when done is
nil; preserve the existing successful subscription cleanup behavior.
- Around line 244-248: Update deserializeRule to copy the netlink header’s
msg.Family into the newly created Rule’s Family field, preserving the correct
IPv4 or IPv6 family even when no address selector is present.

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- Around line 491-495: Update both test locations in rule_test.go (lines 491-495
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In `@cmd/rulesubscribe/main.go`:
- Line 58: Update both os.Exit(1) sites in cmd/rulesubscribe/main.go at lines 58
and 91 to clean up the named network namespace before exiting, or route both
subscription-error paths through a return path that allows the deferred
netns.DeleteNamed cleanup to run.

In `@rule_linux.go`:
- Around line 394-399: Update the socket-option setup around SetReceiveTimeout
and SetReceiveBufferSize so every error return closes s before returning the
error. Preserve the existing successful setup flow and ensure cleanup occurs
before the done watcher is started.

In `@scripts/test_rule_add_del_update.sh`:
- Around line 57-59: Add an EXIT cleanup trap in
scripts/test_rule_add_del_update.sh that removes only the three test rules
created by the rule-add commands, including both IPv4 and IPv6 entries with
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- Line 682: Update expectRuleUpdate to receive update, ok from ch and return
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In `@rule_linux.go`:
- Around line 321-322: Update the FRA_IP_PROTO handling in the rule decoding
switch to read the first payload byte directly and convert it to int, replacing
the four-byte native.Uint32 slice access while preserving the existing
rule.IPProto assignment.
- Around line 299-300: Update the FRA_TUN_ID handling in the rule attribute
parsing switch to decode the 64-bit value with networkOrder.Uint64 instead of
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