fix: enforce metadata size limits - #1742
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WalkthroughThe change adds ledger metadata limits and validation, applies validation during controller operations, centralizes bounded JSON body decoding, and maps metadata and oversized-body errors to API responses. ChangesMetadata and API validation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change enforces metadata and request-size limits, but the current implementation can still accept commands whose merged metadata exceeds 256 KiB and mishandle chunked v2 revert requests by dropping metadata or bypassing the 4 MiB rejection; oversized query bodies also return the wrong status. These are concrete API and correctness risks that should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant APIClient
participant APIController
participant commonDecodeBody
participant LedgerController
participant ValidateMetadata
APIClient->>APIController: submit JSON request
APIController->>commonDecodeBody: decode bounded body
commonDecodeBody-->>APIController: decoded request or HTTP error
APIController->>LedgerController: execute ledger operation
LedgerController->>ValidateMetadata: validate resulting metadata
ValidateMetadata-->>LedgerController: validation result
LedgerController-->>APIController: operation result or metadata error
APIController-->>APIClient: API response
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🛑 Changes requested — automated reviewThe optional create-ledger body now rejects valid empty chunked requests, introducing a behavioral regression. |
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| data, err := io.ReadAll(r.Body) | ||
| if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, io.EOF) { | ||
| common.InternalServerError(w, r, err) | ||
| if r.ContentLength != 0 && !common.DecodeBody(w, r, &configuration) { |
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🟠 [major] Preserve empty chunked ledger creation requests
When the optional request body is sent with chunked transfer encoding, ContentLength is -1 even if the body is empty. This condition therefore calls DecodeBody, which rejects the empty payload as invalid JSON, whereas the previous implementation accepted it and created the ledger with default configuration. Read the bounded body first and only unmarshal it when non-empty.
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In `@internal/api/v2/common.go`:
- Around line 54-56: Update every getResourceQuery and getPaginatedQuery caller
to detect common.ErrBodyTooLarge separately from other body-read errors,
returning HTTP 413 with the REQUEST_BODY_TOO_LARGE error instead of mapping it
to VALIDATION; preserve existing handling for all other errors.
In `@internal/api/v2/controllers_transactions_revert.go`:
- Line 32: Update the request-body handling around common.DecodeBody to invoke
it whenever r.ContentLength is not zero, including unknown-length chunked
requests, so metadata is preserved and the 4 MiB limit applies. Add coverage for
chunked requests carrying metadata and for chunked bodies exceeding 4 MiB.
In `@internal/controller/ledger/controller_default.go`:
- Around line 516-520: The post-merge validation in the
upsertTransactionAccounts flow only checks each account’s metadata
independently; rebuild the command metadata from finalMetadata and all returned
accounts, then apply MaxCommandMetadataSize to that combined result before
returning. Preserve per-account validation and add coverage for multiple merged
accounts whose combined metadata exceeds 256 KiB while each account remains
individually valid.
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Map oversized query bodies to HTTP 413.
Query handlers map common.ErrBodyTooLarge to VALIDATION instead of HTTP 413 with REQUEST_BODY_TOO_LARGE. Handle this error separately in every getResourceQuery and getPaginatedQuery caller.
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In `@internal/api/v2/common.go` around lines 54 - 56, Update every
getResourceQuery and getPaginatedQuery caller to detect common.ErrBodyTooLarge
separately from other body-read errors, returning HTTP 413 with the
REQUEST_BODY_TOO_LARGE error instead of mapping it to VALIDATION; preserve
existing handling for all other errors.
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| api.BadRequest(w, common.ErrValidation, errors.New("expected JSON body with metadata")) | ||
| if !common.DecodeBody(w, r, &x) { |
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According to the Go net/http Request documentation, what value does Request.ContentLength have when the request body length is unknown, including chunked requests?
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According to the Go net/http documentation, the Request.ContentLength field is set to -1 to indicate that the request body length is unknown [1][2][3]. This value is commonly used for chunked requests, as well as for HTTP/2 requests where the content length is not explicitly provided in the headers [4]. It is important to note that the interpretation of ContentLength can vary depending on the context: 1. Server Requests: A value of -1 explicitly indicates that the length is unknown [1][2]. 2. Client Requests: While -1 is the standard indicator for an unknown length, the net/http package historically treats a value of 0 with a non-nil Body as also representing an unknown length for compatibility reasons [1][2][5][3]. Values of 0 or greater in the ContentLength field indicate that the specified number of bytes may be read from the Body [1][2]. If a body is empty, it is standard practice to either set the ContentLength to 0 or set the Body to nil (or http.NoBody) [6][7].
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- 2: https://tip.golang.org/src/net/http/request.go?m=text
- 3: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/request.go
- 4: https://www.endorlabs.com/vulnerability/cve-2026-50197
- 5: net/http: NewRequest started setting ContentLength to -1 and breaking people? golang/go#18117
- 6: net/http: Transfer-Encoding: chunked is sometimes used when making HTTP2 requests golang/go#43303
- 7: net/http/httputil: DumpRequestOut has wrong headers on chunked body w/ ContentLength 0 (unknown) golang/go#34504
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Decode request bodies with an unknown length.
When r.ContentLength != 0, call common.DecodeBody so chunked requests preserve metadata and enforce the 4 MiB limit. Add tests for chunked metadata and oversized chunked bodies.
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In `@internal/api/v2/controllers_transactions_revert.go` at line 32, Update the
request-body handling around common.DecodeBody to invoke it whenever
r.ContentLength is not zero, including unknown-length chunked requests, so
metadata is preserved and the 4 MiB limit applies. Add coverage for chunked
requests carrying metadata and for chunked bodies exceeding 4 MiB.
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| if err := ledger.ValidateMetadata(account.Metadata); err != nil { | ||
| return nil, err | ||
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Validate the post-merge command total.
Line 516 validates each returned account separately. It does not reapply MaxCommandMetadataSize to finalMetadata and the returned account metadata.
A command can pass line 498 with small input metadata. Account defaults or persisted metadata can then make several accounts valid individually but exceed 256 KiB together. This accepts a command outside the stated command metadata limit.
Build metadata from accounts and validate the combined result after upsertTransactionAccounts. Add a test with multiple post-merge accounts that exceed 256 KiB only in total.
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In `@internal/controller/ledger/controller_default.go` around lines 516 - 520, The
post-merge validation in the upsertTransactionAccounts flow only checks each
account’s metadata independently; rebuild the command metadata from
finalMetadata and all returned accounts, then apply MaxCommandMetadataSize to
that combined result before returning. Preserve per-account validation and add
coverage for multiple merged accounts whose combined metadata exceeds 256 KiB
while each account remains individually valid.
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