security(acp): bound frame size and throttle concurrent request handlers - #944
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…ers (fixes Gitlawb#923) Inbound ACP requests and notifications previously spawned unbound goroutines without rate limiting or concurrency backpressure. This adds maxFrameBytes (64MB) and bounds concurrent in-flight dispatch goroutines via a buffered semaphore (maxConcurrentRequests = 128) in Conn.
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WalkthroughThe ACP JSON-RPC connection now limits NDJSON frames to 64 MiB by default and limits concurrent request handlers to 128. Oversized frames return errors. Canceled requests can skip dispatch, while notifications remain independently dispatchable. ChangesACP resource limits
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change adds frame-size and request-concurrency limits, but oversized frames can still reach request handlers and excess traffic can still create unbounded queued goroutines. This leaves concrete security and availability risks at the current head, so the PR should not merge until admission and oversized-frame handling are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ACPStream
participant ConnServe
participant readNDJSONFrame
participant RequestHandler
participant CancelNotification
ACPStream->>ConnServe: NDJSON input
ConnServe->>readNDJSONFrame: read with frameLimit
readNDJSONFrame-->>ConnServe: frame or frame-limit error
ConnServe->>RequestHandler: dispatch request
RequestHandler->>RequestHandler: acquire request capacity
ACPStream->>ConnServe: session/cancel notification
ConnServe->>CancelNotification: dispatch notification
CancelNotification-->>RequestHandler: unblock handlers
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 79-80: Update Serve’s JSON-RPC reader to enforce maxFrameBytes
while accumulating newline-delimited frames: read bounded fragments, reject and
terminate the connection when an unterminated frame exceeds the limit, and
preserve normal frame handling for valid input. Add a regression test covering
an oversized unterminated frame.
- Around line 307-318: Update handleLine and semaphore admission so response
frames are dispatched without waiting for maxConcurrentRequests capacity, while
new requests and notifications use bounded admission by queueing or rejecting
when saturated. Change acquireSem to report whether it acquired a slot, and only
launch the handler goroutine and call releaseSem when admission succeeds;
preserve correct cancellation behavior and add coverage for nested callbacks and
canceled admission.
Apply the same fix in `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go` around lines 307 - 318.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go`:
- Around line 492-524: Add a regression test for readNDJSONFrame using a
newline-terminated input whose total frame length is limit + 1, ensuring the
final byte is '\n'; assert it returns a frame-limit error. Cover the
delimiter-handling failure path alongside
TestReadNDJSONFrameRejectsOversizedUnterminatedFrame.
- Around line 526-593: Extend
TestConnRejectsSaturatedRequestsWithoutBlockingResponses to send a notification
while b.sem is full, then assert the notification handler is not invoked. Keep
the existing saturated request assertion and release/cleanup flow unchanged,
using a synchronization signal or equivalent bounded wait to verify the notifier
does not run.
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 389-393: Update readNDJSONFrame to reuse a scratch byte buffer
instead of allocating a new got slice for each read, while preserving the
existing frame limit and error behavior. Add a regression test using an
io.Reader that returns one byte per read and assert allocations remain within a
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Both problems are real and the frame reader is the better half of this: handling the unterminated case is exactly what ReadBytes could not do, and returning the partial line alongside the error keeps Serve's existing shape intact. No complaints there.
The throttle is the problem, and specifically what it does to notifications.
The semaphore drops session/cancel, which is the only notifier this repo registers. agent.go:89 is the single HandleNotify call in the tree, and handleCancel reaches sess.invokeCancel(). So the one message that frees occupied slots is now discarded exactly when every slot is occupied. Fill 128 handlers, send a cancel, nothing happens, and the connection stays saturated until those handlers finish on their own. The throttle makes its own trigger condition unrecoverable.
Measured on both heads with the same fixture, 128 blocking work handlers and then one cancel frame:
this branch: PROBE handlers started = 128 of 128
PROBE cancel notifications delivered = 0
main: PROBE handlers started = 128 of 128
PROBE cancel notifications delivered = 1
Notifications should not share a budget with the requests they are meant to interrupt. The simplest correct thing is to leave the notify path alone: it is bounded in practice by the handlers actually registered, and there is exactly one. If you would rather bound it too, give it its own small allowance, or run cancel inline on the read loop since handleCancel only unmarshals and flips a flag.
Two things I looked at and decided are not blocking, noted so nobody re-derives them.
Writing the busy reply from the read loop means an undrained peer blocks reading. That is not new: handleLine already calls writeError on that goroutine for parse errors and bad versions, so the class predates this PR. It does become reachable with well-formed input rather than only malformed input, which is worth knowing, but I would not hold the PR for it.
The limit is off by one against the constant. buf includes the newline, so a frame whose payload is exactly limit bytes is rejected and the real maximum payload is limit - 1. Your own TestReadNDJSONFrameRejectsOversizedTerminatedFrame pins that, so it is deliberate; it just means maxFrameBytes is not quite the number it reads as. Fine either way, only worth a word in the comment.
Also frameLimit has no setter and NewConn never sets it, so in production it is always the constant and the field exists for tests. That is fine, but say so on the field or someone will go looking for the configuration that sets it.
Fix the cancel path and I will approve.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 211-214: Prevent oversized frames from reaching request dispatch:
update readNDJSONFrame to return no frame alongside the limit error, or change
Serve so handleLine is called only when err is nil. Extend the regression test
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| chunk, err := r.ReadSlice('\n') | ||
| buf = append(buf, chunk...) | ||
| if limit > 0 && int64(len(buf)) > limit { | ||
| return buf, fmt.Errorf("acp: frame exceeds limit of %d bytes", limit) |
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Do not dispatch an oversized frame.
readNDJSONFrame returns buf with the limit error. Serve passes every non-empty returned line to handleLine before it checks err at Lines 191-199. A valid frame of limit + 1 bytes can therefore invoke a request handler or notifier before the connection closes.
Return no frame on this error, or gate handleLine on err == nil. Extend the regression test to assert that the oversized ping request does not invoke its handler.
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if limit > 0 && int64(len(buf)) > limit {
- return buf, fmt.Errorf("acp: frame exceeds limit of %d bytes", limit)
+ return nil, fmt.Errorf("acp: frame exceeds limit of %d bytes", limit)
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| chunk, err := r.ReadSlice('\n') | |
| buf = append(buf, chunk...) | |
| if limit > 0 && int64(len(buf)) > limit { | |
| return buf, fmt.Errorf("acp: frame exceeds limit of %d bytes", limit) | |
| chunk, err := r.ReadSlice('\n') | |
| buf = append(buf, chunk...) | |
| if limit > 0 && int64(len(buf)) > limit { | |
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("acp: frame exceeds limit of %d bytes", limit) |
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go` around lines 211 - 214, Prevent oversized frames
from reaching request dispatch: update readNDJSONFrame to return no frame
alongside the limit error, or change Serve so handleLine is called only when err
is nil. Extend the regression test for an oversized ping request to verify its
handler is not invoked.
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The cancel fix is right, and I re-ran the same fixture rather than reading the commit message. 128 handlers saturated, then one session/cancel:
handlers started = 128 of 128
cancel notifications delivered = 1
It was 0 before. Unthrottling the notify path entirely was the right call over giving it its own allowance, since there is exactly one notifier registered and it only unmarshals and flips a flag.
Moving acquireSem inside the goroutine is also the right instinct, and I want to say why explicitly, because the obvious alternative is wrong: acquiring before the go would block the read loop while the semaphore is full, and session/cancel arrives on that same stream, so cancel would stop being READ rather than stop being dispatched. That is the same bug one layer down. Spawning first keeps the stream drainable.
The cost is the thing the PR opens by naming. Measured on this head:
handlers executing = 128 (cap 128)
goroutines: base=4 now=4005 delta=4001 for 4000 queued requests
One goroutine per inbound request, unbounded, which is the sentence at the top of the description. What is bounded now is handler EXECUTION, and that is the expensive half, so this is already better than main on two of three axes. But a peer that streams requests still grows the process without limit, just more cheaply than before.
The missing piece is a bound on the QUEUE, not on execution, and you had the mechanism and removed it: codeServerBusy. Cap the requests waiting for a slot, and reply -32000 past the cap rather than spawning. Cancel stays unthrottled, the stream stays drainable, and the count stops being a function of what the peer sends.
To be clear about weight, since this is the second round: I am asking for it because the unbounded goroutine is the problem this PR exists to fix, not because what is here is worse than what it replaces. If you would rather land the two axes that are fixed and do the queue bound as a follow-up, say so and I will approve this as it stands.
Two smaller things on the rewrite.
readNDJSONFrame is cleaner than the previous version and the ErrBufferFull loop is the right shape. It accumulates up to limit before rejecting, so a hostile peer can still make the process hold 64 MiB per connection, which the old ReadBytes also did without a ceiling; worth a word in the comment that the bound is on retention rather than on nothing.
The comment on the limit now states the off-by-one plainly, which answers my last note.
…usy error when saturated
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Fixes #923 (Z-017)
Summary
In
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go,handleLinespawned an unbounded goroutine for each inbound request without backpressure, exposing the process to potential thread/memory exhaustion from high-cadence streams.Changes
maxFrameBytes = 64 * 1024 * 1024limit constant.sem chan struct{}inConnwith amaxConcurrentRequests = 128limit.handleLineacquires from the semaphore before launching dispatch goroutines, providing natural backpressure to the input stream.Validation
go test -race ./internal/acp/...passes cleanly.Summary by CodeRabbit