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fix(node): bound the request body the signature middleware buffers before it verifies - #262
require_signature buffers the whole request body with an unlimited body.collect() before it parses a single header, and nothing upstream caps it.
On the git write routes the pack-size RequestBodyLimitLayer (2 GB by default, 500 MB in production) is applied to the inner router while add_auth_layers wraps it. A later .layer() is the outer service, so the middleware runs first and sees the raw body; the limit never applies to it. The other signed groups carry no limit layer at all and rely on axum's 2 MB DefaultBodyLimit, which the extractors enforce through a request extension this middleware never consults, so that default is bypassed as well.
Measured against the real router, with GITLAWB_MAX_PACK_BYTES set to 64 KiB and a 4 MiB body on an unsigned push:
The full body is read, then the request is rejected for having no signature. No DID, no signature and no repo are needed to get there. In front of it sits only a per-IP arrivals-per-hour counter, and there is no timeout layer and no connection cap on axum::serve.
The reach is wider than the git routes: optional_signature forwards into the same code whenever a caller merely presents signature headers, so /graphql, /ipfs/{cid} and the other optional-signature groups have it too. Fifteen route groups in total.
The fix
The collect now runs through http_body_util::Limited, so reading stops at the limit rather than after the fact, and an over-limit request gets 413 instead of the 400 reserved for a genuinely unreadable body.
The limit is per route group. add_auth_layers takes it and hands it to the middleware as state; the git groups keep max_pack_bytes so large pushes are unaffected, and the rest get a constant equal to axum's default, which is already what their extractors enforce. That makes the change behavior-preserving on the response path and purely a memory fix. Signature verification, the content-digest check, clock skew, and the request reconstruction are untouched.
Verification
The regression test asserts bytes actually polled out of a streaming body rather than the status code, because a status assertion passes whether or not the body was drained.
There is also an end-to-end pair driving a real push: a source repo with a 300 KiB blob and the byte-for-byte receive-pack body captured off the wire from an actual git push. Under the limit it asserts the ref moved and the tree resolves, not merely a 200. That distinction is load-bearing, since a truncated body still returns 200 with the failure inside report-status; only the on-disk assertion catches it. Running the whole suite under a truncation mutation leaves exactly one test failing. Over the limit it asserts 413 with neither the ref nor the commit present, so a rejected push cannot half-write.
Each guard was checked by reverting it: neutralizing the limit turns the drain tests red, handing every group the git limit turns the non-git test red, and returning 400 instead of 413 turns the status test red.
518 tests pass, fmt and clippy are clean.
Residual
This bounds per-request buffering only. It does not bound how many such requests are in flight, or how long each may take to send its body, so total resident memory is still proportional to concurrent connections times the limit.
To be precise about what does exist, since the first version of this paragraph was wrong: the Fly configs do cap connections (hard_limit = 500), and they do set idle_timeout = 120. Neither helps. The connection cap is sized above what a 1024 MB machine can hold, and a body dripping a byte every few seconds is never idle. There is no request-duration or body-read timeout in process, and rate_limit_by_ip counts arrivals per window rather than bounding concurrency.
…fore it verifies
`require_signature` buffered the whole request body with an unlimited
`body.collect()` before parsing a single header, and nothing upstream capped it.
On the git write routes the 2 GB `RequestBodyLimitLayer` is applied to the inner
router while `add_auth_layers` wraps it, and a later `.layer()` is the outer
service, so the middleware ran first and saw the raw body. The other signed
groups carry no limit layer at all and lean on axum's 2 MB `DefaultBodyLimit`,
which the extractors enforce through a request extension this middleware never
consults, so that default was bypassed too. `optional_signature` forwards to the
same code whenever a caller merely presents signature headers, so the reach
extended to `/graphql`, `/ipfs/{cid}` and the other optional-signature groups.
Measured against the real router: an unsigned push with `GITLAWB_MAX_PACK_BYTES`
set to 64 KiB drained the full 4 MiB body and only then returned 401. No DID, no
signature, and no repo were required, and in front of it sits only a per-IP
arrivals-per-hour counter, no timeout layer and no connection cap.
The collect now runs through `http_body_util::Limited`, so reading stops at the
limit instead of after the fact, and an over-limit request gets 413 rather than
the 400 reserved for a genuinely unreadable body. The limit is per route group:
`add_auth_layers` takes it and passes it to the middleware as state, the git
groups keep `max_pack_bytes` so large pushes are unaffected, and the rest get a
constant equal to axum's default because that is already what their extractors
enforce. Verification, content-digest, clock-skew and the request reconstruction
are untouched.
The regression test asserts bytes actually polled out of a streaming body, not
the status code, because a status assertion passes whether or not the body was
drained. Neutralizing the limit turns it red; handing every group the git limit
turns the non-git test red; returning 400 instead of 413 turns the status test
red.
This bounds per-request buffering only. Total resident memory is still
O(connections x limit); a read timeout and a connection cap are what close that
and are deliberately not in this change.
… over-limit one writes nothing
The body-limit guard was covered only by tests that reject. Nothing proved it
still admits what it should, so the fix could have passed every test by refusing
everything, and nothing would have caught a middleware that truncated or
corrupted the body it hands downstream.
These drive a real push: a source repo with a 300 KiB incompressible blob, an
empty bare repo at the path the store resolves, and the byte-for-byte
receive-pack request body captured off the wire from an actual `git push`. The
body is captured rather than generated, because `git send-pack --stateless-rpc`
emits remote-curl's extra RPC framing (a wrapping length plus a stray flush
before PACK) and `git receive-pack --stateless-rpc` rejects it with a pack
signature mismatch.
The positive case sets the cap just above the body and asserts the ref moved and
the tree resolves, not merely that the status was 200. That distinction is
load-bearing: under a truncation mutation the status stays 200, because git
reports the failure inside report-status, and only the on-disk assertion goes
red. Running the whole suite under that mutation leaves exactly one test failing,
so this is the only thing standing between a corrupted body and a green build.
The negative case sets the cap just below the body and asserts 413 with neither
the ref nor the commit present afterwards, so a rejected push cannot half-write.
Its existence check peels to ^{commit}, since rev-parse echoes any well-formed
40-hex string back and would have passed vacuously.
Signature authentication now buffers request bodies up to a configured limit. Signed routes use a shared limit, while Git routes use their pack limit. Oversized bodies return 413. IPFS CID routes also apply per-IP rate limiting. Integration tests cover bounded reads and Git push outcomes.
Adds SignatureBodyLimit and bounded body buffering for required and optional signature verification. Oversized bodies return 413; other body-read failures retain the 400 response.
Twigpine/node#306: Changes Content-Digest validation used by signature verification.
Twigpine/node#314: Changes key resolution used during signed-request authentication.
Twigpine/node#334: Changes timestamp validation called during HTTP signature verification.
Suggested reviewers:kevincodex1, jatmn
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to eb200
The body limits appear consistent with existing route limits. An additional optional-signature test would improve confidence.
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crates/gitlawb-node/src/server.rs (1)
225-237: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial
Memory ceiling on the push path is now max_pack_bytes × in-flight unauthenticated pushes.
Bounding the pre-auth buffer is the right fix, but with the 2 GB default a handful of concurrent unsigned receive-pack POSTs can still pin a lot of RAM before any identity check. The per-IP limiter in front helps only for repeat offenders from one source. Worth pairing this with a global in-flight concurrency cap (e.g. tower::limit::GlobalConcurrencyLimitLayer on the git write group) or a request read timeout, tracked separately if it's out of scope here.
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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/server.rs` around lines 225 - 237, The git write
routes lack a global in-flight concurrency safeguard, allowing concurrent
unauthenticated pushes to consume excessive memory. Update the git_write_routes
middleware stack around add_auth_layers to apply a global concurrency limit (for
example, tower’s GlobalConcurrencyLimitLayer) to the entire git write group,
while preserving the existing body limit, pack_limit, and per-IP rate-limiting
behavior.
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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/server.rs`:
- Around line 225-237: The git write routes lack a global in-flight concurrency
safeguard, allowing concurrent unauthenticated pushes to consume excessive
memory. Update the git_write_routes middleware stack around add_auth_layers to
apply a global concurrency limit (for example, tower’s
GlobalConcurrencyLimitLayer) to the entire git write group, while preserving the
existing body limit, pack_limit, and per-IP rate-limiting behavior.
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Thanks for the contribution. I do not see any actionable issues from my review.
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Mergeability: MERGEABLE; GitHub merge state is BLOCKED (policy/review gate, not a conflict).
Required PR checks on head e8393fdc8008da2a07dd81da73b00d8f7616e2ba: fmt + clippy, test (stable), test (beta), build --release, cargo audit, MSRV, Docker smoke, and the rest of the PR Checks workflow are green. Analyze (swift) was still pending on the CodeQL workflow at review time; it is unrelated to this Rust-only diff.
What I verified
The core fix is sound: per-group SignatureBodyLimit wired through add_auth_layers and optional_signature, http_body_util::Limited on pre-auth collect(), and 413 body_too_large for over-limit streams close the unbounded pre-auth drain on both git and non-git signed surfaces.
Production wiring matches the stated intent: non-git signed groups use SIGNED_BODY_LIMIT (2_097_152, matching axum’s default), git write/read groups use pack_limit.
All eight new body-limit tests passed locally, including the real receive-pack e2e fixtures. cargo clippy -p gitlawb-node -- -D warnings is clean.
Out of scope / follow-up (not blockers)
Residual memory still scales with concurrent connections × per-route limit; read timeout and global in-flight cap are appropriately deferred.
Header-before-buffer fast reject for incomplete signature attempts (one header present, or missing headers on require_signature routes) is real hardening in the same area but pre-existing ordering this PR does not worsen; worth a separate follow-up if desired.
Overlap with #261 (replay ledger) will need merge coordination but does not conflict with this limit wiring.
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labeled needs-tests, which is what happened on #275 (three added
`#[sqlx::test]` functions) and #262 (eight).
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Resolves the 368-commit drift that left this PR mergeable:false/dirty.
server.rs takes the union — the branch's stateful optional_signature
(carrying SignatureBodyLimit) plus main's rate_limit_by_ip layer and
ipfs limiter extension. test_support.rs was a both-added block; both
suites are kept.
Two adaptations the merge forced: main's own tests still constructed
require_signature/optional_signature with from_fn, which no longer
type-checks now that both take SignatureBodyLimit as state, so they
use from_fn_with_state; and a capture server here called info_refs
before main widened it to take a git binary, timeout and admission
guard.
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Correct diagnosis and correct fix: the signature middleware really does collect the body before any header check and sits outside RequestBodyLimitLayer, and DefaultBodyLimit rides extractor extensions that the raw collect bypasses. Wrapping in http_body_util::Limited (stopping the read rather than read-then-measure), making the limit required state so a new signed group cannot skip it, and the distinct 413 are all the right calls, with tests proving bytes are actually not drained plus a real-push e2e pair asserting on-disk state. The residual aggregate-concurrency concern honestly filed as #263 is the right split.
Add a signed streaming-body test for optional_signature.
The changed drain tests use require_signature, and the signed Git over-limit test also uses require_signature. The existing optional-signature test sends an empty body. Add a focused test at this drain-test location that mounts optional_signature, sends a signed counting_body larger than its configured limit, and asserts both StatusCode::PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE and polled <= limit + DRAIN_CHUNK.
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Review comment at @crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs around lines 18721 -
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Add a focused test alongside
unsigned_oversize_profile_write_is_not_drained_into_memory that mounts
optional_signature and sends a signed counting_body larger than the configured
limit; assert StatusCode::PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE and that polled is no greater than
limit + DRAIN_CHUNK. Reuse the existing signing setup and limit configuration
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Review comments at @crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs:
- Around line 18721-18725: Add a focused test alongside
unsigned_oversize_profile_write_is_not_drained_into_memory that mounts
optional_signature and sends a signed counting_body larger than the configured
limit; assert StatusCode::PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE and that polled is no greater than
limit + DRAIN_CHUNK. Reuse the existing signing setup and limit configuration
for optional_signature.
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require_signaturebuffers the whole request body with an unlimitedbody.collect()before it parses a single header, and nothing upstream caps it.On the git write routes the pack-size
RequestBodyLimitLayer(2 GB by default, 500 MB in production) is applied to the inner router whileadd_auth_layerswraps it. A later.layer()is the outer service, so the middleware runs first and sees the raw body; the limit never applies to it. The other signed groups carry no limit layer at all and rely on axum's 2 MBDefaultBodyLimit, which the extractors enforce through a request extension this middleware never consults, so that default is bypassed as well.Measured against the real router, with
GITLAWB_MAX_PACK_BYTESset to 64 KiB and a 4 MiB body on an unsigned push:The full body is read, then the request is rejected for having no signature. No DID, no signature and no repo are needed to get there. In front of it sits only a per-IP arrivals-per-hour counter, and there is no timeout layer and no connection cap on
axum::serve.The reach is wider than the git routes:
optional_signatureforwards into the same code whenever a caller merely presents signature headers, so/graphql,/ipfs/{cid}and the other optional-signature groups have it too. Fifteen route groups in total.The fix
The collect now runs through
http_body_util::Limited, so reading stops at the limit rather than after the fact, and an over-limit request gets 413 instead of the 400 reserved for a genuinely unreadable body.The limit is per route group.
add_auth_layerstakes it and hands it to the middleware as state; the git groups keepmax_pack_bytesso large pushes are unaffected, and the rest get a constant equal to axum's default, which is already what their extractors enforce. That makes the change behavior-preserving on the response path and purely a memory fix. Signature verification, the content-digest check, clock skew, and the request reconstruction are untouched.Verification
The regression test asserts bytes actually polled out of a streaming body rather than the status code, because a status assertion passes whether or not the body was drained.
There is also an end-to-end pair driving a real push: a source repo with a 300 KiB blob and the byte-for-byte receive-pack body captured off the wire from an actual
git push. Under the limit it asserts the ref moved and the tree resolves, not merely a 200. That distinction is load-bearing, since a truncated body still returns 200 with the failure inside report-status; only the on-disk assertion catches it. Running the whole suite under a truncation mutation leaves exactly one test failing. Over the limit it asserts 413 with neither the ref nor the commit present, so a rejected push cannot half-write.Each guard was checked by reverting it: neutralizing the limit turns the drain tests red, handing every group the git limit turns the non-git test red, and returning 400 instead of 413 turns the status test red.
518 tests pass, fmt and clippy are clean.
Residual
This bounds per-request buffering only. It does not bound how many such requests are in flight, or how long each may take to send its body, so total resident memory is still proportional to concurrent connections times the limit.
To be precise about what does exist, since the first version of this paragraph was wrong: the Fly configs do cap connections (
hard_limit = 500), and they do setidle_timeout = 120. Neither helps. The connection cap is sized above what a 1024 MB machine can hold, and a body dripping a byte every few seconds is never idle. There is no request-duration or body-read timeout in process, andrate_limit_by_ipcounts arrivals per window rather than bounding concurrency.Filed as #263 with the measurements.
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413 Payload Too Largeresponse.