Keep io varint decoding defined on overlong input - #23776
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Several varint decoders shifted accumulated bits past the width of the target type when fed more continuation bytes than fit, which is undefined behavior and can decode malformed metadata to arbitrary values (issue NVIDIA#23478). The shift accumulation in the Parquet page header get_u32, the Thrift CompactProtocolReader::get_varint, and the DELTA_BINARY get_uleb128 is now bounded by the width of the target type, so overlong encodings truncate deterministically instead. CompactProtocolReader keeps consuming the full encoded length; only the accumulation is bounded, so stream positions and valid decodes are unchanged. The Avro host decoder container::get_encoded now throws a logic_error when a varint runs past the maximum encodable length instead of silently returning a truncated value. A new AVRO_TEST gtest covers both a hand-built valid one-row file and a malformed over-long metadata varint that must throw. The ORC protobuf reader was already guarded by NVIDIA#22186; the ORC stripe decoders use bounded unrolled shifts by construction and are unchanged. The unguarded first-byte read in the Parquet get_vlq32 predates this change and needs caller-side validation work; it is left as-is here. Test Plan: nvcc -c syntax compile against libcudf 26.10.00a302 headers (CCCL 3.6) of every touched translation unit plus their kernel consumers: parquet/page_hdr.cu, parquet/compact_protocol_reader.cpp, parquet/decode_fixed.cu, parquet/page_delta_decode.cu, avro/avro.cpp, tests/io/avro_test.cpp; all pass. clang-format --dry-run --Werror on all touched files: pass. Full gtest run requires a full local libcudf build; not run here.
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WalkthroughThe change bounds varint shifts in Avro and Parquet readers, rejects overlong Avro encodings, and adds Avro tests for valid decoding and malformed metadata. ChangesVarint decoding and Avro validation
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cpp/tests/io/avro_test.cpp (2)
58-95: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winKeep the test declarations out of the global namespace.
AvroReaderTestand bothTEST_Fdeclarations are outside the anonymous namespace closed on Line 56. Keep the fixture and tests inside an anonymous namespace.As per coding guidelines,
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74-95: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd boundary tests for all changed varint decoders.
This test uses a 13-byte malformed representation. It does not test the permitted 10-byte limit or the first rejected 11-byte representation. It also does not exercise the changed Compact Protocol, DELTA_BINARY, or page-header decoders.
Add boundary tests that verify both result semantics and byte consumption for each decoder.
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318-318: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd a unit benchmark for the new varint guards.
The PR changes host and device decode loops, but it adds no benchmark for normal or overlong continuation input. Add and register a unit benchmark to detect throughput regressions.
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In `@cpp/src/io/parquet/compact_protocol_reader.hpp`:
- Around line 59-61: Update the varint loop in the compact protocol reader so
the uint32_t shift counter stops advancing once l reaches or exceeds sizeof(T) *
8, preventing wraparound during excessively long continuation sequences;
preserve reading and truncation behavior while ensuring only active accumulation
advances l.
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In `@cpp/tests/CMakeLists.txt`:
- Line 318: Add and register a unit benchmark covering normal and overlong
continuation inputs for the new varint decode guards, including both host and
device decode paths where applicable. Register the benchmark alongside
ConfigureTest(AVRO_TEST io/avro_test.cpp) and ensure it measures throughput to
detect regressions.
In `@cpp/tests/io/avro_test.cpp`:
- Around line 58-95: Move the AvroReaderTest fixture and its ValidSingleRowFile
and OverlongMetadataVarintThrows TEST_F declarations into the existing anonymous
namespace opened earlier, keeping them before its closing brace and out of the
global namespace.
- Around line 74-95: The AvroReaderTest varint coverage only checks a 13-byte
failure case; add boundary tests for every modified varint decoder, including
Avro, Compact Protocol, DELTA_BINARY, and page-header decoding. Verify the valid
10-byte maximum and the first rejected 11-byte representation, asserting both
decoded-result semantics and the exact number of bytes consumed while preserving
the expected Invalid varint failure behavior.
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The counter kept incrementing even when shifts were skipped, so a crafted file with hundreds of millions of continuation bytes could wrap it back under sizeof(T)*8 and resume accumulating at wrong offsets. Stop incrementing once the width is consumed; decoding result and byte consumption are unchanged for all well-formed inputs.
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Description
closes #23478
Several varint decoders shifted accumulated bits past the width of the target type when fed more continuation bytes than fit. That is undefined behavior, and malformed ORC/Avro/Parquet metadata could decode to arbitrary values instead of failing cleanly.
cpp/src/io/parquet/page_hdr.cuget_u32: shift accumulation is now guarded byl < 32. Termination is unchanged: reading past the end returns 0, which lacks the continuation bit.cpp/src/io/parquet/compact_protocol_reader.hppget_varint<T>: the accumulation is bounded bysizeof(T) * 8, but the loop still consumes every byte of the encoding, so stream positions are identical for all inputs and only the accumulated value becomes a deterministic truncation. Astatic_assertrestricts it to unsigned types;<type_traits>added.cpp/src/io/parquet/delta_binary.cuhget_uleb128: same guard with the boundl < 64; consumption unchanged, so the existing post-read validation in the DELTA kernels still sees the same positions.cpp/src/io/avro/avro.cppcontainer::get_encoded<uint64_t>: throwscudf::logic_error("Invalid varint: exceeds maximum encoded length") when no terminating byte arrives within the encodable length, matching the guard the ORC protobuf reader got in Prevent memory corruption in ORC reader #22186.The ORC stripe decoders use bounded unrolled shifts by construction and are unchanged. The unguarded first-byte read in
get_vlq32predates this change and needs caller-side validation work; it is left as-is here.Checklist
Test Plan
New
AVRO_TESTgtest target with two cases:ValidSingleRowFile: a hand-assembled minimal one-row Avro file (one int column) parses and returns exactly that row, guarding against over-eager failure on valid input.OverlongMetadataVarintThrows: Avro magic followed by a metadata item count encoded as twelve continuation bytes must throwcudf::logic_errorwith message containing "Invalid varint". Before this change the same input silently parsed as an empty table.Compile-level verification performed locally (libcudf 26.10.00a302 headers, CCCL 3.6, CUDA 12.9, sm_120):
clang-format --dry-run --Werroron all touched files: pass.The new gtest was not executed locally because running it requires a full libcudf build; CI will run it. The UB shift sites themselves have no deterministic before/after runtime signature (that is what makes them UB), which is why the verification here is by construction plus compile checks.