perf(redaction): add fast-path byte checks to eliminate regex allocations on clean strings - #945
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…ions on clean strings (fixes Gitlawb#932, Gitlawb#922) Evaluating cascading regular expressions across every log line, tool output, and session event incurred ~23 µs and 51 heap allocations even on strings with zero secrets. This introduces fast-path substring checks before invoking expensive regex substitutions, yielding a 70x speedup and 0 B/op heap allocation on clean strings.
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go`:
- Line 148: Update the GitHub bearer-token fixture in the redaction
benchmark/test data to use a suffix of at least 36 characters after “ghp_”, so
it matches textSecretPatterns[2] and exercises token replacement.
In `@internal/redaction/redaction.go`:
- Around line 188-273: The redaction gates in the main redaction flow need
regression coverage rather than benchmark-only validation. Add table-driven
tests covering each conditional pattern gate, including matching and failure
paths, unchanged near-miss inputs, case-insensitive Authorization headers, and
unsupported token prefixes; anchor the tests to the redaction function and
existing patterns such as privateKeyPattern, jsonStringPattern, assignPattern,
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GitHub classic tokens need 36 characters after ghp_. Benchmarks and shape tests now use a matching fixture. A table-driven test checks each fast-path gate, including near-misses and case-insensitive Authorization.
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go`:
- Around line 174-347: Extend TestRedactStringConditionalGates with matching and
near-miss cases for secretHeader and redactURLPasswords: verify an X-API-Key
value and URL password are redacted, while a non-secret header and URL without a
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| func TestRedactStringConditionalGates(t *testing.T) { | ||
| const ghp = "ghp_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890" | ||
| const gho = "gho_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890" | ||
| const pat = "github_pat_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv" | ||
| const ant = "sk-ant-api03-abcdefghijklmnopqrst" | ||
| const glpat = "glpat-abcdefghijkl" | ||
| const aiza = "AIza" + "01234567890123456789012345678901234" | ||
| const slack = "xoxb-1234567890-abcdefghij" | ||
| const akia = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE" | ||
| const jwt = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIn0.signaturexx" | ||
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| tests := []struct { | ||
| name string | ||
| in string | ||
| leaked []string | ||
| keep []string | ||
| wantHit bool | ||
| }{ | ||
| { | ||
| name: "private key match", | ||
| in: "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nabc123\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----", | ||
| leaked: []string{"abc123"}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "private key near-miss", | ||
| in: "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nabc123\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----", | ||
| keep: []string{"abc123"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "json sensitive key", | ||
| in: `{"apiKey":"hunter2secret"}`, | ||
| leaked: []string{"hunter2secret"}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "json non-sensitive key", | ||
| in: `{"name":"hunter2secret"}`, | ||
| keep: []string{"hunter2secret"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "assign sensitive", | ||
| in: "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=supersecretvalue", | ||
| leaked: []string{"supersecretvalue"}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "assign non-sensitive", | ||
| in: "PATH=/usr/bin", | ||
| keep: []string{"/usr/bin"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "authorization header case-insensitive", | ||
| in: "AUTHORIZATION: Bearer " + ghp, | ||
| leaked: []string{ghp}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "authorization near-miss not a header name", | ||
| in: "X-Request-Id: Bearer not-a-token-value", | ||
| keep: []string{"not-a-token-value"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "query token", | ||
| in: "https://example.test/x?token=" + glpat, | ||
| leaked: []string{glpat}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "query near-miss", | ||
| in: "https://example.test/x?page=42", | ||
| keep: []string{"page=42"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "openai sk-proj", | ||
| in: "key=" + "sk-proj-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234", | ||
| leaked: []string{"sk-proj-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234"}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "sk-ant", | ||
| in: ant, | ||
| leaked: []string{ant}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "github_pat", | ||
| in: pat, | ||
| leaked: []string{pat}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "ghp classic", | ||
| in: ghp, | ||
| leaked: []string{ghp}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "gho oauth", | ||
| in: gho, | ||
| leaked: []string{gho}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "ghp too short unchanged", | ||
| in: "ghp_shorttoken", | ||
| keep: []string{"ghp_shorttoken"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "unsupported prefix ghx", | ||
| in: "ghx_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890", | ||
| keep: []string{"ghx_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890"}, | ||
| wantHit: false, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "glpat", | ||
| in: glpat, | ||
| leaked: []string{glpat}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "google aiza", | ||
| in: aiza, | ||
| leaked: []string{aiza}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "slack xoxb", | ||
| in: slack, | ||
| leaked: []string{slack}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "aws akia", | ||
| in: akia, | ||
| leaked: []string{akia}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| { | ||
| name: "jwt", | ||
| in: jwt, | ||
| leaked: []string{jwt}, | ||
| wantHit: true, | ||
| }, | ||
| } | ||
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| for _, tc := range tests { | ||
| t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) { | ||
| got := RedactString(tc.in, Options{}) | ||
| for _, leak := range tc.leaked { | ||
| if strings.Contains(got, leak) { | ||
| t.Fatalf("leaked %q in %q", leak, got) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| for _, keep := range tc.keep { | ||
| if !strings.Contains(got, keep) { | ||
| t.Fatalf("near-miss changed: want %q still in %q", keep, got) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| if tc.wantHit && !strings.Contains(got, RedactedSecret) { | ||
| t.Fatalf("expected %q, got %q", RedactedSecret, got) | ||
| } | ||
| if !tc.wantHit && strings.Contains(got, RedactedSecret) { | ||
| t.Fatalf("unexpected redaction: %q", got) | ||
| } | ||
| }) | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add cases for the secret-header and URL-password gates.
TestRedactStringConditionalGates has no direct match and near-miss cases for secretHeader or redactURLPasswords. Add coverage for a secret header such as X-API-Key and for a URL with a password. Keep a non-secret header and a URL without a password unchanged.
As per coding guidelines, “Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path.”
🧰 Tools
🪛 Betterleaks (1.7.3)
[high] 183-183: Uncovered a JSON Web Token, which may lead to unauthorized access to web applications and sensitive user data.
(jwt)
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go` around lines 174 - 347, Extend
TestRedactStringConditionalGates with matching and near-miss cases for
secretHeader and redactURLPasswords: verify an X-API-Key value and URL password
are redacted, while a non-secret header and URL without a password remain
unchanged.
Source: Coding guidelines
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I went at this one looking for a bypass, because a fast path in a redactor is exactly where one hides. I did not find one, and the win is bigger than the description claims. Details first, then the one thing I want changed.
The gates are sound. I built a differential harness: the pre-change RedactString copied in verbatim as redactStringUngated, then both run over the same corpus. A structured matrix of every token shape crossed with 24 framings (bare, JSON, header, assignment, URL userinfo, query, protocol-relative, whitespace, brackets), plus 200k randomized strings drawn from an alphabet loaded with the delimiters your gates key on. Zero mismatches.
That result only means something if the harness can fail, so I broke one gate on purpose, changing Contains("sk-ant-") to Contains("sk-ant-NEVER"), and it reported the mismatch immediately with the offending input. Happy to hand the harness over if you want it in the PR; it is about 100 lines and it is the only thing that actually pins the property this change depends on.
I also checked the gates by hand against each regex and they all follow. gh[pousr]_ against the five-prefix disjunction is complete. proxy-authorization contains authorization, so the lowered Contains covers both alternatives of headerPattern. queryPattern requires [?&] as its first group, so the ?-or-& gate is implied.
The fixture change is not hiding anything. Lengthening ghp_abc...123456 to ...1234567890 looked like the sort of edit that papers over a regression, so I put the old value back and ran the two tests it touches. They pass on your code. The 32-character original never matched gh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,} in the first place; it was being caught by the header and sensitive-key rules, and still is. Worth a line in the commit message so the next reader does not have to check.
The win is real, and larger than "eliminate regex allocations on clean strings". Measured on both heads, same benchmarks, -benchtime=200x -count=3:
main this branch
clean, no colon 29402 ns 51 allocs 314 ns 0 allocs
clean, with colon 26244 ns 51 allocs 3731 ns 4 allocs
40-line log block 952359 ns 540 allocs 265981 ns 495 allocs
mixed secrets 68184 ns 86 allocs 32284 ns 54 allocs
Even the paths that cannot skip anything get 2x.
The one change I want: bind each gate to its pattern instead of to its index.
textSecretPatterns[0] through [8] are now addressed positionally, with the prefix that guards each one written out separately in RedactString. That is two lists that have to stay in the same order, with nothing connecting them. The old for _, pattern := range textSecretPatterns could not get this wrong; the new form fails silently in the worst possible direction. Add a tenth pattern and it is simply never applied, and no test fails, and nothing in the code reads as broken. Reorder two entries and each is guarded by the other's prefix.
Make it one list: give each entry a pattern plus the prefixes that gate it, and keep the loop. Then a new secret shape cannot be added without a gate, because there is nowhere to put it that skips one. That also makes the property testable directly, which nothing currently is.
Two notes while you are in there, neither blocking.
strings.ToLower(redacted) copies the whole string every time the input contains a colon, purely to do a case-insensitive Contains. That is where the 4 allocations in the colon benchmark come from, and it is why the realistic log block only gets 3.6x when the clean case gets 90x: agent logs have a colon and an = on nearly every line, so they pay for the copy and take the assignPattern scan anyway. A small case-insensitive substring check would get that back without changing behaviour.
The sk- gate on openaiKeyPattern is correct but subtle, since the filter inside deliberately keeps some sk- matches. Worth a comment saying the gate is about the prefix and not about the filter, so nobody later "simplifies" it into the filter.
Everything else is good work. Restructure that list and I will approve.
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Fixes #932, #922 (Z-050)
Problem
RedactStringis evaluated on every session log, command execution output, and tool argument. Previously, it unconditionally executed 10+regexp.ReplaceAllStringFuncpasses across every string, costing 23 µs and 51 heap allocations per call even when no secrets or candidate prefixes were present.Solution
strings.Contains) before executing each regex replacement.Benchmark Results
Validation
All 17 unit tests in
internal/redactionpass withgo test -race.Summary by CodeRabbit
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