Able to delete VRF when it is referenced in PBR

mugunthan-krishnan · January 10, 2026, 9:21am

Hey everyone,

I am using vyos versions 1.5-stream-2025-Q2 and 2025.11 and I have a policy based route configuration. The PBR has a rule that references a vrf, which is part of my network topology. I have noticed in the above latest vyos versions, I am able to delete the vrf completely even though the vrf is referenced in the policy based route rule.

My expectation and understanding is that, the vrf shouldn’t be allowed to deleted if it is referenced in a PBR rule.

Please let me know if I’m missing something here or is that the expected behaviour.

Thank you for the help in advance.

Mugunthan Krishnan

c-po · January 10, 2026, 7:20pm

Thanks for reporting. Tracked as ⚓ T8169 Able to delete VRF when it is referenced in PBR

c-po · January 10, 2026, 8:30pm

github.com/vyos/vyos-1x

vrf: T8169: prevent deletion if instance referenced in policy based routing

current ← c-po:vrf-pbr

opened 08:30PM - 10 Jan 26 UTC

c-po

+67 -4

## Change summary Check if the VRF which is about to be removed is referenc…ed in any PBR rule, where any is one or more of route, route6, local-route or local-route6. ## Types of changes - [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) - [ ] Code style update (formatting, renaming) - [ ] Refactoring (no functional changes) - [ ] Migration from an old Vyatta component to vyos-1x, please link to related PR inside obsoleted component - [ ] Other (please describe): ## Related Task(s) * https://vyos.dev/T8169 ## Related PR(s) ## How to test / Smoketest result ``` vyos@vyos:~$ /usr/libexec/vyos/tests/smoke/cli/test_vrf.py -k test_vrf_policy_based_route test_vrf_policy_based_route (__main__.VRFTest.test_vrf_policy_based_route) ... ok ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 7.660s OK ``` ## Checklist: - [x] I have read the [**CONTRIBUTING**](https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/blob/current/CONTRIBUTING.md) document - [x] I have linked this PR to one or more Phabricator Task(s) - [x] I have run the components [**SMOKETESTS**](https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/tree/current/smoketest/scripts/cli) if applicable - [x] My commit headlines contain a valid Task id - [ ] My change requires a change to the documentation - [ ] I have updated the documentation accordingly

mugunthan-krishnan · January 11, 2026, 10:18am

Thank you for the very quick response @c-po. Would the fix be released in a future release or would it also be patched in the versions - 1.5-stream-2025-Q2 and 2025.11?