hscontrol: preserve nil expiry on tailscaled restart

The guard added for #2862 in handleRegister checked
node.Expiry().Valid() before preserving node state on
Auth=nil + Expiry=zero registration requests. Valid() returns false
when node.Expiry is nil, the default for tagged nodes and for untagged
nodes registered against a preauth key with no default node.expiry
configured. Both fell through to handleLogout, which wrote
&time.Time{} (0001-01-01T00:00:00Z) over the original nil — the
user-visible 0001-01-01 expiry that `headscale nodes list` reports
after restart.

IsExpired() already returns false for both nil and zero-time, so the
Valid() check was redundant. Drop it so all nil-expiry nodes are
covered by the same preservation path.

Fixes #3170
Fixes #3262
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Kristoffer Dalby 2026-04-16 14:48:26 +00:00
parent 5d502bfb88
commit 4ad200ab73
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@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ connected" routers that maintain their control session but cannot route packets.
- Install `config-example.yaml` as example for the debian package [#3186](https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/pull/3186)
- **Node Expiry**: Fix user owned re registration with zero client expiry and no default storing `0001-01-01 00:00:00` in the database instead of NULL [#3199](https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/pull/3199)
- Pre-existing rows with `0001-01-01 00:00:00` are not backfilled; they clear themselves the next time the node re-registers
- **Node Expiry**: Fix tailscaled restart on a node with no expiry resetting `NULL` to `0001-01-01 00:00:00` in the database, affecting both tagged and untagged nodes [#3197](https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/pull/3197)
## 0.28.0 (2026-02-04)