fix(policy-controller)!: Disallow requests to undefined service ports #14149
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Fixes #13922
When a meshed client attempts to connect to a clusterIP Service on a port that is not present in that service's spec, Linkerd allows that connection through anyway. This is in contrast to bare kube-proxy behavior where only the ports defined in the service spec are forwarded to the service endpoints.
We update the policy-controller to return an opaque route with a forbidden filter for such connections. This causes the outbound Linkerd proxy to immediately reset the connection if a client attempts to connect to a port not defined in the service spec.
This shows up in Linkerd proxy metrics as a Forbidden error with the
"undefined-port"
synthetic route: