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Served-git hardening for #62, plus the follow-ups raised in review. The total-duration timeout (#165) and the teardown-wiring test (#150) are already merged; this adds the concurrency cap and the per-source / duration-bound / anti-farm hardening on top, and closes the admission/permit-lifetime holes jatmn raised.

What this does

Concurrency cap. A bounded semaphore limits how many served git operations run at once; past the cap a request is shed with a clean 503 + Retry-After before spawning git, instead of exhausting the PID/thread table. The routing is four-way and disjoint: the upload-pack POST and the upload-pack info/refs advertisement draw from git_read_semaphore (GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_OPS, default 128); authenticated git-receive-pack POSTs draw from git_write_semaphore (GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_PUSHES, default 32); and the anon-reachable receive-pack info/refs advertisement draws from its own dedicated git_push_advert_semaphore (sized like, but disjoint from, the write pool), so an advertisement flood can shed neither a read nor an authenticated push. Config ranges are clap-bounded, so 0 and an oversized value that would panic tokio's Semaphore at boot are clean CLI errors.

Per-source sub-caps. Each caller is bounded per source IP so one caller cannot monopolize a pool: upload-pack and its advertisement via git_read_per_caller (GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_READS_PER_CALLER), and the anon-reachable receive-pack advertisement via git_push_advert_per_caller. Keys resolve through the trusted-proxy-aware client_key (socket-peer fallback), and every cap keys on the source IP rather than the signed DID, so a disposable-did:key farm cannot multiply its budget.

Admission is held until the work it admitted actually completes. On the plain (non-path-scoped) info/refs / upload-pack / receive-pack spawn paths, the global + per-source permits are now moved into the process-group reaper and released only after the group is ESRCH-confirmed reaped, on complete, timeout, or client-disconnect. Previously the permits dropped the instant the handler future dropped on a disconnect, while the detached reaper kept tearing the group down, so a disconnect-spammer could admit replacements past both caps during the teardown window. (be0cdd6 already did this for the path-scoped upload-pack walk; this closes the residual plain paths.)

The acquisition phase is bounded too. The permit is taken before RepoStore::{acquire,acquire_fresh,acquire_write}, which awaits Tigris HEAD/GET (and, on push, a per-iteration pg_try_advisory_lock that can block on a hung Postgres pool). That phase now runs under GITLAWB_GIT_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT_SECS (default 30, separate from the git-run timeout); on expiry the permit is released and the request sheds 503, so a stalled storage backend can no longer pin every permit and 503 the pool until restart. The /ipfs per-repo acquire loop shares this deadline.

The /ipfs/{cid} visibility walk is admission-gated. This public route ran a per-repo full-history git walk in spawn_blocking with no concurrency cap and no rate limit. It now takes a dedicated git_ipfs_walk global permit + a per-source sub-cap (bounded, reject-before-insert map) held through the spawn_blocking — since a tokio timeout cannot cancel a blocking thread, the slot reflects real thread occupancy — plus a per-request cap on repos walked, and an IP rate limit on the route. Knobs: GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_IPFS_WALKS (32), GITLAWB_IPFS_WALK_PER_SOURCE (4), GITLAWB_IPFS_MAX_REPOS_WALKED (64), GITLAWB_IPFS_RATE_LIMIT (600/hr).

Post-push encryption work is bounded without dropping durable work. Every path-scoped push spawned a detached task that parked on git_encrypt_semaphore.acquire_owned().await; the semaphore caps active walks but the parked-waiter set was unbounded. It is now bounded by per-repo coalescing (a bounded in-flight set): a repo with a task already pending does not spawn a duplicate, and the guard releases the repo key on task completion, error, or panic. The acquire_owned defer stays — dropping the walk would lose the withheld-blob recovery copy and there is no reconciliation sweep to rebuild it. The Pinata replication spawn is deliberately not coalesced (it does per-push per-ref work; coalescing would drop a later push's announcements).

Unsupported services are rejected before the read slot. git_info_refs now validates the ?service= is exactly git-upload-pack or git-receive-pack immediately after parsing, returning 400 before any read permit or DB/Tigris work, so an unauthenticated ?service=anything can no longer consume a read slot.

Every served git child is duration-bounded and reaped. The pack path already tears its process group down on drop; this discipline extends to info/refs and the withheld-blob classification walk under one shared deadline (GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS) with process_group(0) + SIGTERM/SIGKILL reap, on every consumer (upload-pack serve, receive-pack replication, full-scan, encrypt-then-pin, and the /ipfs gate).

Capacity note (operators). Holding admission through teardown means each op's effective occupancy includes the reap window (up to the ~4s SIGKILL cap; ~ms on the happy path). Size pools with teardown in mind; the per-source sub-cap, acquired before spawn and released at ESRCH, is what keeps disconnect-spam bounded per source.

Testing

Sheds are proven at the handler layer, not helper-only: each pool sheds the exact 503/504 at the router with Semaphore::new(0), and dropping the wiring line turns the test RED. Cases are driven both ways (granted 2xx and shed/deny/hung 503/504/400) by the lowest-privilege anonymous caller. Every fix in this round is mutation-verified (revert the exact production line → RED):

  • Plain upload-pack disconnect: the global read slot stays held (available_permits()==0) while a SIGTERM-ignoring group is reaped and a cross-source replacement sheds 503; releasing the permit immediately turns it RED.
  • Acquisition deadline: a held pg advisory lock makes acquire_write retry; the request sheds 503 at the deadline and the permit recovers; removing the timeout wrapper hangs to the test ceiling (RED).
  • /ipfs walk: shed-at-capacity 503, per-source cap, None-key arm, bounded map, repos-walked cap, and the walk permit held through the spawn_blocking (RED when dropped before the loop); the route IP rate limit fires 429 (RED when the extension is dropped).
  • Post-push encrypt: ≤1 pending task per repo under saturation (RED without coalescing → N tasks); a coalesced repo is reprocessed after its task ends, never permanently skipped (RED when the guard drop is a no-op — the durability regression).
  • Unsupported ?service=: 400 before the read pool even when the pool is exhausted (RED → 503 without the validation).
  • The prior round's cases (read/advert/write pool sheds, per-source advert cap, did:key farm, hung withheld-blob walk 504, SIGTERM-ignoring child SIGKILLed) still pass.

Full workspace suite green; fmt and clippy --workspace --all-targets clean.

Closes #62.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable Git concurrency limits: GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_OPS, GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_PUSHES, and per-caller GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_READS_PER_CALLER.
    • Introduced per-source/per-caller admission caps for info/refs and upload-pack paths (including trusted-proxy-aware keying and bypass semantics).
    • Split read vs authenticated push admission using separate global budgets.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved limit/overload shedding with 503 and Retry-After: 1.
    • Made git subprocess-driven visibility and pack-building flows fully timeout-bounded, mapping timeouts to 504.
  • Documentation / Tests

    • Updated timeout/config documentation and expanded tests for bounded execution, shedding behavior, and per-caller cap properties.

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Adds configurable global and per-caller concurrency limits for served-Git operations, sheds saturated requests with HTTP 503 responses, and applies timeout-controlled process-group teardown to smart HTTP Git subprocesses and visibility walks.

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Git operation hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Admission configuration and shared state
crates/gitlawb-node/src/config.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/state.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/main.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/auth/mod.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs, .env.example, README.md
Adds validated Git limits, separate read/write pools, per-caller controls, overload responses, and updated timeout documentation.
Timeout-bounded smart HTTP execution
crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/smart_http.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs
Runs ref advertisement and filtered pack construction with shared deadlines, process-group teardown, and timeout-aware errors.
Bounded visibility and replication walks
crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/visibility_pack.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/ipfs.rs
Routes visibility, replication, pinning, encryption-recipient, and IPFS walks through bounded helpers with fail-closed behavior.
Handler admission and validation
crates/gitlawb-node/src/rate_limit.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs
Adds RAII per-caller permits, global capacity shedding, source-IP keying, separate receive-pack write handling, and HTTP-layer tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GitClient
  participant GitHandler
  participant AdmissionControls
  participant VisibilityWalk
  participant SmartHttp
  participant GitProcess
  GitClient->>GitHandler: Submit smart HTTP request
  GitHandler->>AdmissionControls: Acquire global and caller permits
  AdmissionControls-->>GitHandler: Permit or overload rejection
  GitHandler->>VisibilityWalk: Compute bounded visibility data
  VisibilityWalk->>GitProcess: Run Git walk with deadline
  GitHandler->>SmartHttp: Run bounded Git service
  SmartHttp->>GitProcess: Stream process-group I/O
  GitProcess-->>SmartHttp: Output or timeout
  SmartHttp-->>GitHandler: Git response or mapped error
  GitHandler-->>GitClient: Response or 503 Retry-After
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Suggested labels: kind:security, subsystem:api, sev:high

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crates/gitlawb-node/src/auth/mod.rs (1)

488-524: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider consolidating the duplicated AppState test-builders.

This PR had to add git_semaphore in two near-identical places: make_test_state here and build_state in test_support.rs. Extracting a single shared constructor (parameterized by node_did/pool where they differ) would prevent future field additions from needing to be mirrored by hand in both files.

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/auth/mod.rs` around lines 488 - 524, Consolidate the
duplicated AppState test builders by extracting a shared constructor for the
common initialization currently duplicated in make_test_state and build_state.
Parameterize the helper with differing values such as node_did and the database
pool, then update both callers to use it so future AppState fields are
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@beardthelion beardthelion added crate:node gitlawb-node — the serving node and REST API kind:feature New capability or surface subsystem:identity DID/UCAN, http-sig auth, push authorization labels Jul 10, 2026

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

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  • [P1] Reserve capacity for authenticated pushes
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:512
    git_info_refs and git_upload_pack are anonymous-reachable, but both consume the same state.git_semaphore that git_receive_pack consumes at line 881. An anonymous client can keep every read slot busy (the normal upload-pack timeout is 600 seconds), which makes a legitimate authenticated push fail at admission with this new 503 before it reaches its auth or owner checks. Please reserve write capacity or split the read and write pools, and add a regression test that holds anonymous-read capacity while verifying that a receive-pack request can still enter.

  • [P1] Do not release the cap while its Git process is still running
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:512
    The owned permit is dropped with the handler future, but info_refs uses a bare Command::output() and the filtered upload path reaches uncancellable spawn_blocking work. A client can start either operation and disconnect repeatedly: each request returns its permit while its Git work continues, so the number of live Git processes can exceed the configured cap and still exhaust PID/CPU resources. The new config documentation explicitly describes this escape hatch. Please keep a slot accounted for until those children are reaped, or give both paths the same cancellation-safe process-group teardown as run_git_service, with an abort/disconnect regression test.

t added 8 commits July 10, 2026 12:10
PR3 of the #62 served-git hardening stack (timeout #165 and teardown
wiring #150 are merged). A bounded semaphore caps how many upload-pack /
receive-pack / info-refs operations run at once; past the cap a request
is shed with a clean 503 + Retry-After before spawning another git
subprocess, instead of exhausting the PID/thread table. A permit is
acquired at the top of each of the three handlers and held for the whole
op, releasing on return.

The cap is a portable backstop: the compose pids_limit is absent on Fly,
whose 500-connection cap is a different axis. Size --max-concurrent-git-ops
(GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_OPS, default 128) below the process budget.
Range 1..=1_048_576 so 0 (shed everything) and an oversized value that
would panic tokio's Semaphore at boot are clean CLI errors.

Known gap, tracked separately: info/refs and the withheld-blob
(upload_pack_excluding) path are not duration-bounded and do not reap
their git child on client disconnect, so a hung git on those two paths
holds its slot until it exits and live git can briefly exceed the cap.
The main pack path (run_git_service) tears its group down on drop.

Tests: Overloaded maps to 503 + Retry-After; the config knob defaults
and rejects out-of-range; git_permit sheds at capacity and releases; and
each of the three endpoints sheds with 503 when the semaphore is
exhausted (load-bearing: drop the permit line and the endpoint test goes
red).
Add max_concurrent_git_pushes (default 32) and max_concurrent_reads_per_caller (default 16), both clap range(1..=1_048_576) so an oversized value is a clean CLI error, not a Semaphore::new boot panic. The per-caller knob documents that per-source-IP keying is only as granular as GITLAWB_TRUSTED_PROXY. Wiring lands in the following commits; these are the config surface for the #174 concurrency-fairness fix.

Resolves jatmn P1a/P1b groundwork on #174.
git-receive-pack now draws from a separate git_write_semaphore (max_concurrent_git_pushes) instead of the shared pool, so a flood of anonymous reads can no longer shed an authenticated push at admission (jatmn P1a). The shared field is renamed git_read_semaphore and continues to gate upload-pack and both info/refs advertisements. The write permit stays above acquire_write so it precedes the Tigris fresh-acquire (INV-10).

Handler-layer tests: write-pool shed (503), and a cross-boundary proof that an exhausted read pool does NOT shed a push; both mutation-checked (routing receive-pack back to the read pool flips each RED). 497 tests pass.

Part of #174.
Adds PerCallerConcurrency, a bounded-keyed in-flight limiter (distinct from the request-rate RateLimiter) so no single caller monopolizes the served-git read pool. Each caller (per-DID when signed via optional_signature, else per-source-IP via client_key) may hold at most max_concurrent_reads_per_caller concurrent reads; over that it sheds 503. The key map is self-bounding (a key is dropped when its in-flight count hits zero) with a reject-before-insert max_keys backstop so a key farm can't grow it (INV-15). Applied in git_upload_pack and both info/refs advertisements, acquired after the visibility gate so a denied request never consumes a slot (KTD7).

Primitive unit-tested (cap + self-bounding + reject-before-insert) and mutation-checked. Handler-layer SC2: same-caller sheds while a different caller passes, proven on BOTH git_info_refs and git_upload_pack with independent mutation probes; plus a None-key bypass test. Per-source-IP keying is trust-config dependent, documented on the config knob. 502 tests pass.

Part of #174.
info_refs ran a bare Command::output() with no timeout and no process-group teardown, so a hung git pinned its concurrency slot indefinitely and a client disconnect orphaned the child (jatmn P1b). Extract the timeout + process_group(0) + KillGroupOnDrop core from run_git_service into a shared drive_git_child, and route info_refs through it with an injectable git_bin. A hung advertisement now aborts with GitServiceTimeout (mapped to 504); disconnect reaps the group.

run_git_service's teardown tests all pass through the shared core (proving the group teardown info_refs inherits), the real-git filter tests cover the advertisement happy path, and a new watchdog-bounded test proves a hung advertisement times out. 503 tests pass.

Part of #174.
The filtered-pack path ran the whole rev-list + pack-objects build inside a spawn_blocking, so an outer tokio timeout could not cancel the blocking thread and a client disconnect orphaned the git child while the permit freed (jatmn P1b, the second gap path). Split it: rev-list enumeration stays blocking off the runtime (rev_list_keep), but the streaming pack-objects stage now runs under the shared drive_git_child on the async side, so it is duration-bounded (GitServiceTimeout -> 504) and its process group is reaped on disconnect. build_filtered_pack becomes async and takes a git_bin seam + timeout; upload_pack_excluding threads the git_service_timeout through.

A watchdog-bounded test proves a hung pack-objects times out (rev-list fast, pack-objects hangs). The refactor's happy path is covered by the existing filtered-pack correctness and real-git partial-clone/fetch tests, all still green; disconnect/group-teardown is the shared drive_git_child code proven by the run_git_service tests. 504 tests pass.

Part of #174.
#62)

The max_concurrent_git_ops and git_service_timeout_secs doc-comments (and .env.example) described the info/refs and withheld-blob paths as unbounded follow-up gaps. Both are now closed (#174): the comments reflect the read/write pool split, the per-caller sub-cap, and that every capped path is duration-bounded with process-group teardown. Verified the pattern-doc pre-ship checklist: every git_permit / write-permit / per-caller site holds only a timeout+teardown git path, and all three size knobs are range(1..=1_048_576).

Closes the #174 work. No behavior change.
Review of the served-git concurrency cap found no P0/P1; these are the
verified P2 follow-ups.

config: the max_concurrent_git_ops doc overclaimed that "every capped path
is duration-bounded." The rev-list object enumeration in the withheld-blob
path still runs in an uncancellable spawn_blocking, so a stuck rev-list can
hold its slot until git exits. Scope the guarantee to the streaming stages
and name the residual. Also tighten the fairness claim: the receive-pack
advertisement shares the read pool (a shed advertisement is a cheap retryable
GET); only the push POST is on the isolated write pool.

api/repos: add info_refs_per_caller_cap_keys_on_did_not_ip, the missing
handler proof that a signed caller is keyed by its DID, not its source IP.
Filling the DID slot sheds a request from a free IP; collapsing read_caller_key
to its IP arm turns the assertion green-not-503 (mutation-verified RED).

api/repos: extract acquire_read_caller_permit so both read handlers share one
shed path instead of a duplicated match block.

rate_limit: recover from a poisoned PerCallerConcurrency mutex instead of
panicking. The critical section is pure counter arithmetic and cannot poison
the lock, but a panic there would brick the limiter for every caller.

505 tests pass; clippy -D warnings and fmt clean.

Part of #174.
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crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/smart_http.rs (1)

352-412: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the timeout to rev-list as well.

Line 362 still uses blocking Command::output(), so a hung rev-list survives cancellation and holds the endpoint’s concurrency permit indefinitely. The new test only exercises a fast rev-list, leaving this failure mode uncovered.

Run both stages through drive_git_child using one deadline and add a hung-rev-list regression test.

Also applies to: 438-448, 1292-1329

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/smart_http.rs` around lines 352 - 412, Apply the
same timeout deadline to both rev-list and pack-objects: replace rev_list_keep’s
blocking Command::output path with drive_git_child, preserving injectable
git_bin and filtering withheld OIDs from rev-list output before packing. Compute
one deadline or remaining timeout and ensure cancellation reaps either child
process, including when rev-list hangs. Update build_filtered_pack and related
callers/tests accordingly, and add a regression test using a hung rev-list
fixture to verify timeout and permit release.
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In @.env.example:
- Around line 112-130: Add a GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_OPS example entry to
.env.example near GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_PUSHES, including a concise
description and the intended default value, so the general Git operation
concurrency setting is discoverable alongside the related push and read limits.

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/smart_http.rs`:
- Around line 352-412: Apply the same timeout deadline to both rev-list and
pack-objects: replace rev_list_keep’s blocking Command::output path with
drive_git_child, preserving injectable git_bin and filtering withheld OIDs from
rev-list output before packing. Compute one deadline or remaining timeout and
ensure cancellation reaps either child process, including when rev-list hangs.
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Both P1s are resolved on the new head (5069cd1).

P1a (reserve push capacity). Split the pool. git-receive-pack now draws from a dedicated git_write_semaphore (max_concurrent_git_pushes, default 32); the reads (git_upload_pack + both info/refs advertisements) stay on git_read_semaphore, so a read flood can no longer shed a push at admission. I also added a per-caller in-flight sub-cap on the read pool (max_concurrent_reads_per_caller, keyed per-DID when signed else per-source-IP) so one anonymous caller can't monopolize reads either. The regression you asked for is at the handler layer: git_receive_pack_sheds_with_503 (write pool) and git_receive_pack_not_shed_by_exhausted_read_pool (holds read capacity, verifies a receive-pack still enters), both mutation-checked (route receive-pack back to the read pool and each flips RED).

P1b (don't free the slot while its git runs). Extracted the run_git_service teardown core (tokio::time::timeout + process_group(0) + KillGroupOnDrop) into a shared drive_git_child, and routed both info_refs and the streaming pack-objects stage of the filtered upload through it. A hung advertisement or pack build now aborts with GitServiceTimeout (504) and reaps its process group on disconnect, with the permit held until the child is reaped. Proof: info_refs_times_out_a_hung_advertisement and build_filtered_pack_times_out_a_hung_pack_objects (both watchdog-bounded), with the disconnect/group-teardown carried by the shared drive_git_child path the run_git_service teardown tests exercise.

One residual I'd rather name than bury: the rev-list object enumeration in the filtered path still runs in an uncancellable spawn_blocking. Unlike the 600s upload-pack hang, it's a bounded walk that terminates, so a disconnect frees the permit and rev-list runs to completion rather than lingering. I scoped the config comment to the streaming stages and documented this explicitly rather than leaving the old escape-hatch note. Happy to move rev-list to the async side too if you'd prefer it fully closed here.

505 tests pass; clippy -D warnings and fmt clean.

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beardthelion requested a review from jatmn July 10, 2026 19:04
t added 2 commits July 10, 2026 16:05
The read-pool knob was referenced by the push and per-caller entries'
comments but had no example line of its own, so operators couldn't
discover it from the template. Add it with the config default (128).

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

  • [P1] Reserve capacity for the receive-pack advertisement as well
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:512
    A push starts with the signed GET /info/refs?service=git-receive-pack before its git-receive-pack POST, but this handler always acquires git_read_semaphore. Consequently, an anonymous clone/read flood can exhaust the read pool and return 503 to the push during its required advertisement phase, before it can reach the new write semaphore. The existing isolation test exercises only the POST, so it misses the protocol-level path. Put receive-pack advertisements behind capacity that reads cannot consume (or otherwise reserve an end-to-end push path) and add a full-handshake regression.

  • [P1] Keep filtered-upload Git work inside the timeout and concurrency lifecycle
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/smart_http.rs:402
    rev_list_keep is launched through spawn_blocking and uses a bare Command::output() without either the configured deadline or process-group teardown. The preceding withheld-blob classification walk has the same pattern in api/repos.rs:762. If either stage stalls, it can hold a read slot indefinitely; if the client disconnects, the handler drops its permits while Tokio continues the blocking task and its Git child. Repeating that path-scoped fetch can therefore exceed the configured live-Git cap and exhaust processes/threads. Run all of these children under cancellation-safe, deadline-bounded management (or retain admission until they are reaped), and cover hung/disconnect cases for both enumeration stages.

  • [P1] Do not let disposable signed DIDs bypass the per-source read cap
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:647
    read_caller_key discards the source-IP key whenever an optional signature is present, even though public read routes accept any valid did:key signature without an admission/registration step. A single host can mint eight DIDs and hold 16 slots under each at the defaults, filling the 128-slot read pool while the same host would be capped at 16 when unsigned. Enforce a non-farmable source budget alongside (or instead of) the DID budget, and add a multi-DID/same-peer regression.

  • [P2] Update the operator timeout documentation
    README.md:346
    The README still says GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS does not bound info/refs, but this PR routes that operation through drive_git_child with the configured timeout. This contradicts the updated .env.example and config help, so operators are left with inaccurate deployment guidance. Update the table entry to describe the current coverage and the remaining filtered-enumeration limitation precisely.

t added 8 commits July 11, 2026 23:44
…ID (#174)

read_caller_key returned the authenticated DID when a caller signed, dropping the
source-IP key. Public read routes accept any valid did:key via optional_signature
with no admission step, so one host could mint N disposable DIDs and hold
max_concurrent_reads_per_caller slots under each, multiplying its budget N-fold and
filling the global read pool, while the same host unsigned was capped on its IP.

Key the read sub-cap on the resolved source IP for every caller, signed or not,
mirroring the push path's IpRateLimiter which already throttles on source IP for
this exact DID-farm reason. Drops the now-unused caller_did parameter at both call
sites (git_info_refs, git_upload_pack).

Inverts info_refs_per_caller_cap_keys_on_did_not_ip into
info_refs_per_caller_cap_keys_on_ip_not_did: fill one source IP's slot, then two
requests signed under different DIDs from that same IP both shed 503 (farm
defeated), while a signed request from a different IP keeps its own budget. RED on
the DID-keyed tree, GREEN after.
)

git_info_refs acquired git_read_semaphore for BOTH services, so the push handshake
(GET /info/refs?service=git-receive-pack) competed in the global read pool. An
anonymous clone flood could exhaust that pool and shed a legitimate push with 503
during its required advertisement phase, before it ever reached git_write_semaphore
on the POST. The write pool exists precisely so anonymous reads cannot shed an
authenticated push, but only the POST drew from it.

Select the pool by service: the receive-pack advertisement (phase one of a push)
now draws from git_write_semaphore, like the git-receive-pack POST, so a saturated
read pool cannot starve it. The per-IP push_rate_limiter that already brakes the
advertisement stays as the anti-flood control, and the advertisement stays
reader-visible with no new auth requirement. Because the receive-pack branch is now
a write-path op, it no longer consumes a read per-caller slot.

Handler-layer proofs: with the read pool at zero the receive-pack advertisement
survives while the upload-pack advertisement sheds; with the write pool at zero the
receive-pack advertisement sheds while upload-pack is unaffected; and a receive-pack
advertisement from an IP whose read per-caller budget is full still gets through
(mutation-checked, RED when the skip is neutralized).
…#174)

The withheld-blob classification walk (blob_paths) fanned out blocking git children
with no deadline and no process-group teardown: git for-each-ref, git cat-file, git
rev-list, a git ls-tree per commit, and an uncounted git rev-parse (via
store::head_commit). A hung or pathologically slow child pinned the caller's
served-git permit for the whole hang, and on client disconnect the spawn_blocking
task and its git children ran on, orphaned. blob_paths is the shared core of five
callers: the upload-pack serve path (holds a read permit) AND, inside
git_receive_pack, the post-push replication and encrypt-then-pin walks (hold the
write permit U2 reserves for pushes). So the same unbounded walk could pin either
pool, and leaving the write-side twin unbounded would have made U2's reservation a
claim that does not match behavior.

Bound every git child at the blob_paths spawn seam on the blocking side: each child
runs in its own process group with a watchdog thread that SIGTERMs (then SIGKILLs)
the group on one shared deadline spanning the whole walk, and retains admission
until the group is reaped. This is the blocking-side counterpart of
smart_http::drive_git_child (spawn_blocking cannot be cancelled by an async
timeout). blob_paths stays sync, so all five callers keep their signatures and the
32 classification tests are unchanged; because every caller funnels through
blob_paths, one seam bounds both the serve and replication paths. The previously
unbounded store::head_commit child becomes a bounded git rev-parse inside the walk.
A walk that hits its deadline carries GitServiceTimeout, which the serve handler now
maps to 504 rather than a generic 500.

Proof: a fake git that hangs on rev-list makes blob_paths return GitServiceTimeout
within the watchdog budget (not block on the child) and the recorded process-group
leader is reaped, not orphaned; neutralizing the watchdog kill makes it hang past
the budget (RED). The 32 real-git classification tests stay green through the
refactor, including detached-HEAD, non-standard-ref, and deleted-in-history cases.
GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS bounds the info/refs advertisement too:
smart_http::info_refs drives it through drive_git_child under this timeout, with a
passing test proving the 504. The old note claimed it does not. It also claimed the
withheld-blob path is unbounded; after the blob_paths seam bound (this PR) the walk
is bounded and reaped, by a fixed internal deadline rather than this env var, so the
line now states that precisely instead of overclaiming this setting covers it.
Code review found run_bounded_git's watchdog could return a spurious 504 and
signal a recycled process group. The watchdog runs off a wall clock on its own
thread; done_tx.send() only fires after child.wait() reaps the leader, so a walk
that finished within microseconds of the deadline took the watchdog's Timeout
branch, discarded a fully-captured successful result, and returned GitServiceTimeout
(a 504 for a walk that actually completed). Worse, the Timeout branch SIGTERMed
-pgid unconditionally after the leader was reaped, so a recycled pgid could be
signalled, the exact hazard smart_http guards via disarm-after-wait.

Set a reaped AtomicBool the instant the main thread reaps the child; the watchdog
checks it before every kill and stands down if the leader is already reaped. Gate
the timeout verdict on !status.success(), so a child that exited on its own is never
reported as a timeout even if the watchdog fired late. Add the survived-SIGKILL warn
smart_http's reap already emits, for operator visibility on a wedged (D-state) git.

The hung-walk test stays green (a killed child exits by signal, not success, so it
still surfaces GitServiceTimeout and reaps the group) and the 32 real-git
classification tests stay green (a fast walk is never spuriously killed).
…nnot starve the write pool (#174)

U2 moved the receive-pack info/refs advertisement onto git_write_semaphore to keep
an anonymous read flood from starving the push handshake. But the advertisement is
anon-reachable on public repos and holds its write permit across the slow
acquire_fresh Tigris download, and the only per-source brake on it was the push
RATE limiter, not a concurrency cap. So a multi-source flood of receive-pack
advertisements could hold the write pool's slots across those downloads and shed
authenticated pushes (both the advertisement and the owner-gated git-receive-pack
POST draw from the same pool). U2 thus introduced the first anonymous consumer of
the write pool the state doc promised anon could never reach; the plan's residual
note (no worse than the POST) was wrong, because the POST is owner-gated and the
advertisement is not.

Add git_push_advert_per_caller, a per-source concurrency sub-cap on the receive-pack
advertisement keyed on the resolved source IP (the same PerCallerConcurrency
mechanism U1 uses for reads), sized to an eighth of the write pool so a single
source holds at most that share and saturating the pool takes many distinct source
IPs, each also braked by the per-IP push rate limiter. The upload-pack advertisement
keeps its read-pool per-caller cap; the owner-gated POST is unchanged. Correct the
state doc for git_write_semaphore accordingly.

Handler-layer proof: a source at its receive-pack advertisement cap sheds 503 (RED
before the acquisition, 500-not-503), while a different source and the upload-pack
advertisement are unaffected. Full suite 510 green.
…d timeout (#174)

Close the reasoned-not-run gaps from the code review by making the walk's git
binary and timeout injectable, then driving the missing branches with a real
handler and a fake git instead of reasoning about them.

- Add state.git_bin and *_bounded variants of the walk entry points taking
  (git_bin, timeout); the served handlers (upload-pack serve, receive-pack
  replication and full-scan and encrypt-pin, and the ipfs gate) now pass the
  operator-configured GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS, so the whole walk is bounded
  by the same budget as the other served-git ops rather than a fixed constant. The
  git_bin-less wrappers stay for the real-git classification tests.

Newly vetted by execution (not reasoning):
- receive-pack replication path is bounded: replication_withheld_set with an injected
  hung git returns within the budget and fails closed, so it cannot pin the write
  permit git_receive_pack holds across it.
- a hung withheld-blob walk on the upload-pack POST returns 504 (real handler, real
  repo on disk, injected hung git), proving the GitServiceTimeout -> git_service_app_error
  wiring end to end.
- the watchdog status-gate: a child that exits successfully is not reported as a
  timeout even when the watchdog fired (mutation-checked: drop the guard -> RED).
- SIGKILL escalation: a SIGTERM-ignoring child is still reaped via SIGKILL and the
  group is gone; a truly uninterruptible D-state child (unreapable by any signal) is
  the documented residual, matching the async teardown.
- the advertisement per-source cap sizing never derives 0.

Full gitlawb-node suite 515 green.
…a fixed const (#174)

Follow-up to threading the configured timeout into the walk: the walk now honors
GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS on both the serve and replication paths, so the
README no longer says a fixed internal deadline.
t added 7 commits July 30, 2026 13:41
…ish (#174)

pin_new_objects runs under a pin_semaphore permit and that pool defers rather
than sheds. Both sinks in ipfs_pin.rs built a bare reqwest::Client::new(),
which carries no timeout, so a silent endpoint parked the pool indefinitely.
Both now use the shared no-redirect client from build_http_client() through a
module-local OnceLock, rather than the hand-rolled twin its docstring forbids.

The client alone does not bound the hold: without a ceiling the loop is O(N)
with N chosen by the pusher. A 120s batch budget is taken once at loop start
and gated at the top of every iteration, so no object's work begins with zero
budget left. The remainder is also passed to each add as a per-request
timeout, which is what lets one large healthy upload run past the client's 10s
default without letting the batch run forever. RequestBuilder::timeout
replaces the client value for that request only and leaks nothing to other
callers, verified by execution against the pinned reqwest.

An earlier version of this commit classified a dead endpoint by
reqwest::Error::is_timeout() || is_connect() and broke the batch. That was
wrong in both directions and is gone. It missed the ordinary dead-peer shapes,
since a peer closing mid-request yields IncompleteMessage and a peer RST
mid-upload yields ConnectionReset, both observed with is_timeout and is_connect
false, so a load-balancer idle timeout evaded it entirely. And it fired on a
slow but alive endpoint, because .timeout() is a total deadline covering body
upload, so a healthy multi-megabyte add was read as a dead endpoint and
abandoned the rest of the push. A wall-clock bound needs neither judgement.

The docstring now states what is bounded and what is not, rather than implying
the hold is closed. Not bounded: the git read, since store::read_object shells
two bare Command::output() calls with no timeout or process-group reaping and
this loop does not run it under spawn_blocking; the DB round-trips; and the
pool itself, since the Pinata replication task holds the same semaphore across
a full git re-derivation with no deadline. Truncation is stated plainly: a
batch stopped at the deadline leaves the rest unpinned and nothing sweeps them
up, so recovery is opportunistic through a later full-scan push.

Tests written first, both RED by assertion rather than by a harness timeout:

  pin_new_objects_stops_the_batch_at_its_deadline ... FAILED
    the batch must stop partway, not pin all five and not stall on the
    first: pinned 5
  pin_new_objects_does_not_abandon_the_batch_on_a_slow_but_alive_endpoint ... FAILED
    a slow but progressing endpoint must pin both objects: an upload past
    the client's 10s default is not a dead endpoint
    left: 1, right: 2

Both guards mutation-proved load-bearing against present-but-wrong mutants,
each red on its own message: the loop-top break widened to continue, and the
per-request timeout replaced with None.

Also bounds encrypted_pin.rs's pin_git_object call, where a hang wedged a
repo's EncryptInflight key. Its Drop backstop covers unwind, not hang.

Full suite 730 passed, 0 failed. fmt and clippy clean.
The walk's deadline clamp was computed on the async side, before
spawn_blocking was called, then used inside the closure. Time spent queued
for a blocking thread went uncharged, so the walk ran with a budget larger
than the request's true remainder. The clamp is now derived inside the
closure at task start.

This is the sibling of the upload-pack site fixed in 28a6ca4, and unlike
that one it sits on the anonymously reachable route.

A queue delay that eats the whole remainder saturates the clamp to zero and
the bounded walk fails closed through the existing taint arm, no verdict,
which is the safe direction.

Testing gap, recorded at the site rather than papered over: the queue-delay
path is reasoned, not executed. Observing it needs a runtime with the
blocking pool pinned and parked, and the sqlx::test harness gives no seam
for that. 28a6ca4 shipped with the same gap for the same reason, verified
against its diff and message rather than assumed. The tests in this file
saturate the admission semaphores, never the blocking pool, so there was
nothing to reuse. An assertion on the arithmetic would only restate the
implementation.

cargo test ipfs::: 24 passed, 0 failed.
…#174)

separator_prevents_the_owner_name_boundary_collision asserted that
("a","b_c") and ("a_b","c") produce different keys. Those differ under any
join at all, bare included (ab_c against a_bc), so deleting the separator
from repo_identity_key left the test green. It could not fail for the reason
it named.

The inputs are now ("a","bc") against ("ab","c"), both abc under a bare
join. The test docstring said the separator was \0; the code joins with /.
Corrected. The docstring on repo_identity_key itself carried the same wrong
collision example, so it is corrected too.

Proven by mutation rather than argued, joining with no separator:

  old inputs, injected, re-running ... still green
    VACUOUS  the guard's own defect was injected and nothing failed
    0/1 load-bearing

  new inputs, injected, re-running ... red, on the expected message
    LOAD-BEARING  matched 'owner/name boundary must not be ambiguous'
    1/1 load-bearing

Separator restored, no mutation residue. All 6 repo_identity_key_tests pass.
…#174)

advert_per_caller_cap_sizing_is_never_zero opened with a local closure
re-implementing (pushes / 8).max(1), so it bound nothing. Production derives
that expression twice, and the second site was added after the test was
written. per_source_push_cap now lives in rate_limit.rs next to
PerCallerConcurrency, the type the value feeds, and both main.rs sites and
the test call it.

The finding was confirmed by execution before the fix. Deleting .max(1) from
both production sites with the closure still in place:

  injected (2 sites), re-running ... still green
    VACUOUS  the guard's own defect was injected and nothing failed
    0/1 load-bearing

And after, deleting .max(1) from the helper:

  injected (1 site), re-running ... red, on the expected message
    LOAD-BEARING  matched 'advert cap must be >= 1 for pushes=1'
    1/1 load-bearing

The first attempt at that second proof came back RED-WRONG-REASON against
'minimum write pool must derive cap 1, not 0': the loop's assertion for
pushes=1 fires first and aborts before that line is reached. Same property,
earlier assertion.

No mutation residue. Test green, fmt and clippy clean.
The pinata_object_list_for_refs docstring said a visibility tightening that
lands after tail-start is covered by the reconciliation sweep. No such sweep
exists; state.rs says so directly, that a dropped job would be lost forever
precisely because there is none.

The claim is dropped and nothing replaces it. An earlier draft wanted to
substitute a next-push claim, which no site establishes either, and swapping
one unbacked claim for another is the same defect.

Four pre-existing sites make the same claim (repos.rs:30, push_delta.rs at 8,
189 and 281 with warns at 349 and 358). They predate this PR and are left for
a follow-up rather than widening a nine-round diff.
…ing lacks (#174)

Both new comments said saturating the pool takes ~8 distinct source IPs,
each also rate-limited. Neither half holds for an IPv6 caller with a routed
/64: the sub-cap and the rate limiter both key on rate_limit::client_key,
which with TrustedProxy::None falls through to the full peer address with no
prefix folding, so one caller has 2^64 keys. max_keys does not compensate,
since keys are freed on permit drop and live keys never approach the 100,000
default.

The comments now say what the cap actually bounds, concurrent slots per
resolved client key, and name the residual.

The keying fix stays deferred as a design call, and that deferral is
defensible: full-IP keying predates this PR, so these caps help IPv4 and
single-address callers without regressing anything. Landing a comment that
overstates the guarantee is not defensible, in a round that corrects a
weaker overclaim one screen away.

The per_source_push_cap docstring added earlier in this round repeated the
same claim, so it is corrected here rather than shipping fresh.

Comments only, no behaviour change. check, fmt clean.
…rors (#174)

Review finding from jatmn, round nine. RepoWriteGuard::release closes the
connection when pg_advisory_unlock returns Err (F3b): the await resolved, so
the session is alive and still holds the lock, and returning that connection
to the pool hands the next caller a lock nobody tracks. The Drop backstop
carried the same hazard and only logged.

Both arms are fixed.

The spawned detached unlock now closes the connection through
close_conn_bounded on the error path, instead of letting the async block end
and return it to the pool.

The off-runtime arm was worse than the finding described. It dropped an
already-taken connection with no unlock attempted at all, and this turned out
to panic rather than leak: PoolConnection::drop calls rt::spawn for its
return-to-pool task, whose no-runtime fallback panics with "this
functionality requires a Tokio context". So any off-runtime guard drop
panicked in a destructor today. It now detaches, which gives up the pool slot
and yields a plain PgConnection whose drop closes the socket, ending the
session that holds the lock. Drop cannot await, so detach is the whole
disposal available here. Confirmed against the vendored sqlx 0.8.6 source
rather than assumed, and min_connections is 0 everywhere in this repo.

Three tests, modeled on the release F3b cases, on a pool with the idle reaper
disabled so a reaped session cannot pass the assertion for us. Observed RED
first:

  write_guard_dropped_off_runtime_disposes_the_connection ... FAILED
    panicked at sqlx-core-0.8.6/src/pool/connection.rs:208:
    this functionality requires a Tokio context
    then: dropping a write guard off a Tokio runtime must not panic
  write_guard_drop_with_failing_unlock_does_not_return_the_connection ... FAILED
    timed out waiting for the connection whose detached unlock errored to be
    closed rather than returned to the pool still holding the session lock
  write_guard_drop_with_successful_unlock_keeps_the_connection ... ok

The success case is green on both sides on purpose: it is the must-not case,
so it only ever catches a widening of disposal onto the healthy path.

GREEN after, and all 12 guard tests pass, so the release coverage did not
regress. Both new guards mutation-proved load-bearing, each red on its own
message, 2/2.

Full suite 729 passed, 0 failed. fmt and clippy clean.
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Both findings addressed. New head b9d901f.

[P1] Base. Resolved, but by merge rather than rebase, and the difference is worth stating. Replaying the branch onto current main conflicts at 65d7af2, the commit that moved the post-receive tail into a detached task, against main's owner_did additions to RefUpdateBroadcast and the extra parameter on notify_peer_of_refs. Hand-resolving that is exactly the path where a containment gate gets silently dropped. Merging c83cbc5 was conflict free, so I took that instead: 39bd4d8.

Checked against the merged tree rather than assumed: validate_path_components, validate_owner_did, and validate_repo_name are each present in crates/gitlawb-node/src/git/repo_store.rs, along with all twenty slug_* and containment_* tests, including the one pinning the owner half at the filesystem name limit. cargo metadata --locked exits 0, so the lock is in sync with the six steps #243 added.

The push was a fast forward rather than a force push, since the merge keeps 4b69c45 as a parent, so your existing inline anchors still resolve.

[P2] Drop-path disposal. Fixed in b9d901f. The spawned detached unlock now routes its error path through close_conn_bounded, the same disposal release uses, instead of letting the async block end and hand the connection back to the pool.

The off-runtime arm was worse than the finding described. It was not only returning a lock-holding connection: PoolConnection's own Drop spawns its return-to-pool task, and the no-runtime fallback panics, so any off-runtime guard drop panicked inside a destructor. That was the pre-fix RED, a panic out of sqlx-core-0.8.6/src/pool/connection.rs reading "this functionality requires a Tokio context". That arm now detaches, which gives up the pool slot and yields a plain PgConnection whose drop closes the socket and ends the session.

Three tests, on a pool with the idle reaper disabled so a reaped session cannot satisfy the assertion for us: poisoned unlock (the connection must not return, and the lock must end free), healthy unlock (the connection must still return, which is the case that catches this being widened into always-close), and the off-runtime drop. Both new guards go red when removed.

One change you did not ask for, since it rewrote a commit you had already reviewed. The IPFS pin commit at the base of this range previously classified a dead endpoint as is_timeout() || is_connect() and broke the batch on it. That test is wrong in both directions. In reqwest 0.12.28's error.rs, is_timeout() is true only for a TimedOut marker or a hyper::Error whose own is_timeout() holds, and is_connect() only for a hyper_util error that failed to establish a connection, so a peer closing mid-request or resetting mid-upload satisfies neither and walks past the check. In the other direction it fires on a healthy slow upload, because the client timeout covers body upload too: with the new per-request timeout mutated back to None, a 13s upload to a live endpoint dies at the shared client's 10s ceiling, which is the same signal the classifier was reading as death.

It is now a wall-clock batch budget, with the remainder passed as each request's timeout, which needs no judgement about why a request failed. The docstring states what the change does not bound, including that the Pinata replication task holds the same semaphore with no deadline of its own.

Local gates on this head: 730 tests pass, clippy --locked --workspace --all-targets -D warnings and fmt clean.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

  • [P2] Validate the derived lease timeout before multiplying it
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:1732
    GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS accepts every positive u64 and its help text explicitly permits setting it very large, but this calculation does unchecked * 2 + 60. A valid high value therefore panics every push in debug builds or wraps to a short Duration in release builds, letting a waiter steal the same-repo lease well before the configured service timeout. Reject values that cannot support the derived duration (or use checked/saturating arithmetic with a safe maximum) before this path is reachable.

t added 3 commits July 30, 2026 17:28
…ing it (#174)

GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS accepts every positive u64, so deriving the
per-repo write-lease steal bound as `* 2 + 60` panics every push in a debug
build across the top of the accepted range, and in release wraps to a short
Duration that would let a waiter steal a live push's lease.

Saturating keeps the knob's documented meaning: a timeout that large means the
service bound is effectively off, so the steal bound should be effectively
infinite rather than tiny.

The regression drives git_receive_pack rather than the arithmetic, so the
call-site wiring is what is under test. RED before at repos.rs:1733 with
"attempt to multiply with overflow", GREEN after; re-confirmed load-bearing by
reinstating the unchecked expression.
…n represent (#174)

Tracing the lease-bound overflow to its other consumers turned up a worse
instance of the same defect. This PR routed git_service_timeout_secs into
build_filtered_pack and blob_paths, and both build a deadline as
`Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(..)`. That addition panics on overflow in
RELEASE as well as debug, so a large-but-accepted value crashes the serve path
rather than merely disabling a timeout.

Hardening each arithmetic site as it is found would leave the next one open, so
the bound goes where the value enters: clap now rejects anything above 365 days
at parse time, which keeps every derived duration in range at once and fails
fast at boot instead of at the first path-scoped clone. A year is many orders of
magnitude above any real clone or push, so it remains the practical way to
disable the bound.

The test pins both derivations at the maximum and rejects the value one past it
and u64::MAX. RED when the upper bound is dropped from the value_parser.
…ot tidiness (#174)

A second-model pass on the previous two commits caught an upgrade footgun in the
first and stale prose in the second.

The 365-day ceiling was tighter than the defect required. The help text has
always told operators to set this very large to disable the bound, and clap
accepted every positive u64, so values like 999999999 (~31 years) are working
production "off" settings that neither overflow `* 2 + 60` nor exceed an Instant
deadline. A node running one of those would have failed to start after this
upgrade, over a value that was never the defect. The ceiling moves to 100 years,
which clears every such setting and stays an order of magnitude under the
~584-year limit of a u64-nanosecond Instant, the tightest representation on any
platform we build for. Every value that worked before still parses; only the
ones that would have panicked are rejected. The test now pins the pre-existing
disable values alongside the rejections so the distinction cannot quietly
regress.

Clamp-and-warn was the suggested remedy and is not what landed: it would keep
accepting a value the node cannot honor and silently substitute a different one,
where the range says what is representable and fails fast, matching how every
other bound in this file behaves.

The lease-bound comment and its test still described the pre-ceiling world. Both
now say what is true, and the test deliberately keeps u64::MAX rather than moving
to the ceiling as suggested: Config is reachable by direct construction, and at
the ceiling the arithmetic does not overflow, so a test pinned there would pass
with the saturation removed and prove nothing. Re-confirmed load-bearing after
the rewording.
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Addressed on 578ae5b, suite green, plus a sibling defect a self-review turned up while tracing the same knob.

[P2] Validate the derived lease timeout before multiplying it. Confirmed and fixed. GITLAWB_GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS accepted every positive u64, so git_service_timeout_secs * 2 + 60 overflowed across the top of the accepted range, panicking the push in debug and wrapping to a short bound in release. The lease derivation in git_receive_pack is saturating now. The regression drives the handler rather than the expression, so the call-site wiring is what is under test: it fails on the pre-fix line with "attempt to multiply with overflow" and passes after, and it goes back to red when the unchecked expression is reinstated.

The sibling, which is worse than the original. This PR routed git_service_timeout_secs into build_filtered_pack and blob_paths, and both derive their deadline as Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(..). That addition panics on overflow in release builds, not only in debug, so the same operator value takes down the serve path rather than merely disabling a timeout.

Patching each arithmetic site would have left the next one open, so the bound went where the value enters the system: clap now rejects anything the derived deadlines cannot represent. One check covers every consumer, and it fails at boot rather than at the first path-scoped clone.

On the ceiling, since my first choice was wrong. I set it to 365 days initially. The help text has always told operators to set this very large to disable the bound, so values like 999999999 are working production "off" settings that overflow nothing and sit well inside what an Instant deadline can hold. A tighter cap would have failed those nodes at boot on upgrade, over a value that was never the defect. It is 100 years now, which clears every such setting and stays an order of magnitude under the limit of a u64-nanosecond Instant. Every value that parsed before still parses; only the ones that would have panicked are rejected. The test pins those pre-existing disable values alongside the rejections so the distinction cannot quietly regress.

Clamping an oversized value down to the maximum was the other option and I did not take it: it keeps accepting a value the node cannot honor and silently substitutes a different one, where a range says what is representable and fails fast, which is how the other bounds in config.rs behave.

README and .env.example carry the accepted range. Full workspace suite green, clippy --locked -D warnings clean.

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One interaction worth recording here rather than acting on.

The replication gate this PR moves into the receive-pack tail, and the second instance it adds on the coalescing path, both decide announceability from a repo row's own (rules, is_public) pair. That pair is vacuous for a mirror row with no canonical twin: mirrors are stored public with no rules and sync never replicates the owner's, so the decision resolves to allow against an empty rule set. I confirmed the consequence by running the real publish-list builder over one on-disk repo and changing only the row state: the mirror row publishes the blob that the same disk with a /secret/** deny rule excludes.

Nothing to change in this PR. main carries the same gate today in the receive-pack tail, so it is not something this branch introduced, and it is filed separately as #294. Noting it here so the interaction is tracked against this code rather than rediscovered later.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

  • [P2] Apply a real admission limit before the database visibility work
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:570
    available_permits() is only a snapshot: while one read permit remains, an attacker can start an arbitrary number of info/refs or git-upload-pack requests, and each proceeds through get_repo, quarantine, and visibility-rule queries before the per-source and global permits are acquired at lines 646/685 (or 1314/1332). If Postgres is slow, that defeats the new pre-DB load-shed guarantee and leaves an unbounded unauthenticated DB queue. Acquire a bounded admission token before those awaits, or describe this as best-effort rather than protection for the database.

  • [P1] Acquire the pin budget before retaining the local-IPFS object list
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs:2118
    The replication tail constructs the full object_list and moves it into a detached per-repository task, but pin_new_objects_gated does not acquire pin_semaphore until after it receives that vector at line 1146. With a slow IPFS backend, pushes to distinct repositories can leave arbitrarily many parked tasks each retaining an MB-scale list, defeating the new global pin-memory cap and allowing memory exhaustion. Defer/re-derive the list after pin admission (as the Pinata path does), or bound admission before materializing and retaining it.

  • [P2] Reject IPFS request budgets that cannot be represented by Instant
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/config.rs:505
    GITLAWB_IPFS_REQUEST_BUDGET_SECS accepts every positive u64, then get_by_cid adds it directly to Instant at api/ipfs.rs:139. A valid value such as u64::MAX overflows that addition and panics every /ipfs/{cid} handler instead of producing a bounded failure. Give this option the same representability bound as the related git-service timeout, or use a checked deadline construction and reject invalid startup configuration.

t added 4 commits July 31, 2026 00:56
ipfs_request_budget_secs parsed range(1..), so every positive u64 was
accepted, but get_by_cid derives the request deadline as
Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(that). That addition is an explicit
overflow check rather than a debug-only one, so an oversized value aborts
every /ipfs/{cid} request in a release build instead of setting a very
long budget. The route is anon-reachable, so an operator typo is felt
publicly.

Reuse GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS_MAX, the ceiling the sibling knob already
carries: the bound is representability, not a policy view of a sane
budget, so the large "set it very large to disable" values operators were
told to use still parse. Reject rather than clamp, matching the other
bounds in this config.

Execution evidence:
- RED before the change: the new test failed with "3153600001 is past the
  representable ceiling and must be rejected at parse time" while its
  disable-value assertions passed, so the test is not vacuous in either
  direction.
- GREEN after: config::tests 13 passed, including the sibling
  git_service_timeout regression test.

Sweep for the same defect class, re-run with a widened shape because the
original grep missed a site. Passes: Instant::now() sites; from_secs()
fed by config fields; config fields reaching a Duration through an
arithmetic expression; config fields reaching a tokio timer constructor.
The arithmetic and timer passes each return exactly one hit,
heartbeat_interval_hours (config.rs 150, main.rs 916, operator.rs 161),
which has no range at all and multiplies by 3600 before the Duration.
That knob is a separate defect on a path this branch does not touch, so
it is recorded for a follow-up rather than widened into here. Every other
Instant addition derives from the already-bounded git_service_timeout_secs
or from a constant.
The pin pool's docs claimed it bounded "how many MB-scale lists are held
at once across all repos". It does not. On the local IPFS path the caller
materializes the object list before pin_new_objects_gated acquires, so a
task parked waiting for a permit is still holding its full list, and how
many tasks park is capped only per repo by EncryptInflight. Across
distinct repos that retained memory is unbounded, which is the gap a
reviewer raised against this claim.

Correct the claim at each site rather than implying the pool closes an
exposure it cannot see. The pool does bound concurrent pin loops, and
therefore lists held while being pinned; that part was always true and is
kept. The residual is now named where each claim lives, including on the
config knob, so an operator does not read the knob as a memory cap it
cannot deliver.

Bounding the retention is a real change to the capture shape (the Pinata
twin already avoids it by acquiring before it derives) and is not
attempted here.

Sites corrected: pin_new_objects_gated's docstring and its F2b empty-list
comment, the empty-list test's docstring, AppState::pin_semaphore and
AppState::encrypt_inflight field docs, the max_concurrent_pin_tasks knob
doc, and the construction comment in main.

Sweep over pin_semaphore, F6, and "held at once". Left alone with reason:
ipfs_pin.rs 16/31/174-200/518 describe the loop that genuinely holds the
permit, so their claims are about hold duration and are true; repos.rs
1029-1036 and 2276-2294 describe the Pinata path, which acquires before
materializing, so its "at most pin_semaphore permits' worth exist at once"
holds; repos.rs 5898 claims concurrent loops are bounded, which is the
true concurrency claim; the F6 hits in api/ipfs.rs are that file's own
review numbering for walk-permit ordering, unrelated to this pool;
constructions and test fixtures carry no claim.

No behavior change: the diff is comments and docstrings only, checked by
filtering the diff for non-comment lines.
The three handler peeks said they shed "before any DB/disk work", which
reads as an admission bound on the DB window. It is not one. The peek
holds no permit, and permits are only held from the authoritative acquire
below, after the visibility and rate gates, so a burst arriving while
permits are free all proceeds into the DB and none of it sheds. What the
peek actually gives is a cheap 503 for one request once the pool has
ALREADY filled, sparing that request's DB work.

The gate ordering that makes it a peek is deliberate and stays: a denied
or rate-limited request must consume no slot, and one source must not
hold global slots through the DB/visibility window. Reordering to bound
the window would undo that. So this corrects the claims and changes no
behavior; bounding the DB window would need an admission mechanism the
peek is not.

test_support.rs's receive-pack docstring additionally called the peek
"the permit" and "the first statement". Both were wrong at this head: it
is a non-holding peek, and the authoritative write-pool acquire sits
after the per-repo lease. Corrected along with the shed claim. The
"remove the block and this goes red" sentences stay, since those tests
drive an already-saturated pool, which is the case the peek does handle.

Sweep over "before any DB", "before DB", "pre-DB". Left alone with
reason: api/ipfs.rs:142 describes a HELD walk-admission acquire, so its
claim is true; graphql/mutation.rs:201 and test_support.rs:528 are about
auth ordering, unrelated; the repos.rs test docstrings at 4194/4213/4556/
4618/4682 describe test mechanics against a saturated pool, which is the
case the peek delivers.

No behavior change: the diff is comments and docstrings only, checked by
filtering the diff for non-comment lines.
…perator docs

Review round on the three preceding commits.

The knob's doc said a value past the ceiling "aborts every /ipfs/{cid}
request in a release build". That is wrong, and three reviewers plus an
outside model landed on it independently: the ceiling is 100 years, the
Instant addition does not actually overflow until roughly 584 years on a
u64-nanosecond Instant, so values in between are representable and are
rejected as a deliberate safety margin, not because they panic. Reworded
to say that, since a confidently wrong comment is worse than the vague
one it replaced.

Also on the knob:
- GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS_MAX has two consumers now, so its own doc says
  so, and notes this knob derives only the Instant addition and not the
  lease-steal multiply.
- The "clears every disable setting" phrasing overclaimed: u32::MAX sits
  above the ceiling. Now names the documented sentinels instead.

Operator-facing docs: the sibling knob's ceiling commit updated both
README.md and .env.example in the same change, and this one had not. Both
now carry the accepted range, matching that precedent.

House style: five comment lines added by the preceding commits used em
dashes, which this project does not allow. Four were carried over from the
text being edited and one was copied from the sibling test. All replaced.
Checked mechanically over the added lines rather than by eye.

Two comments restated an argument in full immediately after pointing at
the canonical site for it. Trimmed to the pointer plus the local delta.

Scoping correction worth recording: the two preceding commits claimed "no
behavior change". That holds for repos.rs, state.rs, main.rs and
test_support.rs, but a config.rs field doc IS clap --help output, so the
pin-knob doc edit changes operator-visible help text. No runtime behavior
changes either way.

Verification: full suite 733 passed, fmt clean, clippy clean under the CI
form. The range guard was separately proven load-bearing in both
directions by mutation: reverting to range(1..) goes RED on the rejection
assertions, and tightening the ceiling to 500_000_000 goes RED on the
disable-value assertions.

Known residual, not fixed here: the bound is parse-side only, so a Config
built by direct construction rather than through clap can still hold an
unrepresentable value.
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Thanks, all three confirmed against the tree. Two are fixed. The P1 is real and I am not fixing it this round, reasoning below.

Reject IPFS request budgets that cannot be represented by Instant (fixed)

ipfs_request_budget_secs now parses range(1..=GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS_MAX), the ceiling the sibling git_service_timeout_secs already carries. Reject rather than clamp, so an unrepresentable value fails at boot instead of aborting requests at runtime.

One correction to my own first draft of it: the ceiling is a safety margin, not the panic boundary. Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(..) does not overflow until roughly 584 years on a u64-nanosecond Instant, so values between 100 and 584 years are representable and are rejected deliberately. The doc comment says that now rather than implying MAX + 1 panics.

Proven in both directions by mutation rather than inspection: reverting to range(1..) fails the rejection assertions, and tightening the ceiling to 500_000_000 fails the disable-value assertions (1000000000 was a working setting). The second is the one that matters, since a too-tight cap is correct at its own boundary and would otherwise ship silently. README.md and .env.example carry the accepted range, matching what the sibling knob's change did.

Sibling worth knowing about: heartbeat_interval_hours has no range at all and reaches a deadline through config.heartbeat_interval_hours * 3600 in main.rs into tokio::time::interval in operator.rs. Same class, and the multiply wraps in release, which is the worse half. Not on this branch's path, so I am filing it separately rather than widening this PR.

Apply a real admission limit before the database visibility work (mechanism confirmed, taking the second option)

You are right that available_permits() is a snapshot and bounds nothing. The held permits are taken after the visibility and rate gates, so a burst arriving while permits are free all reaches Postgres and none of it sheds. On the upload-pack path there is not even a rate limiter before those queries.

I am keeping the ordering and correcting the description, which is the second half of your own finding. Acquiring before the gates would undo the earlier change that moved the acquire below them, so that a denied or rate-limited request consumes no slot and one source cannot hold global slots through the DB window. Trading that for a peek that still would not bound the window is a bad trade.

The three handler sites and the four test docstrings now state what the peek does (a cheap 503 for one request once the pool has already filled, sparing that request's DB work) and what it does not (an admission bound on the DB window). One of those docstrings also called the peek "the permit" and "the first statement", both wrong at this head; corrected. Bounding the window itself needs real admission and is out of scope here.

Acquire the pin budget before retaining the local-IPFS object list (real, not fixed this round)

Confirmed: the tail materializes object_list and moves it into the detached task, and the permit is not taken until pin_new_objects_gated, so a parked task holds its full list while the parked-task count is capped only per repo. Across repos it is unbounded.

I attempted the fix you describe, mirroring the Pinata path's capture-and-re-derive, and abandoned it. Each attempt was right about the mechanism and wrong about the bound it claimed:

  • Capturing ref tuples instead of the list moves the retention without bounding it. parse_ref_updates never validates ref-name length and a pkt-line permits a name near 65 KB, so the capture stays pusher-shaped.
  • Capping that capture at the existing 1024 tip-pair ceiling bounds the count, not the bytes. The constant was sized for fixed-width SHA pairs, roughly 80 KB; the same count of ref tuples is about 64 MB.
  • Deriving after the park needs a fresh identity re-read, because the disk path is keyed on the slug and a delete-and-recreate during the park would walk the new repo under the dead row's rules. Abandoning on an id mismatch then drops a pin the drain would have kept, and there is no reconciliation sweep to recover it.

Rather than ship a third version of a bound that keeps moving outward, I corrected the claim. The docstrings said the pool "bounds how many MB-scale lists are held at once across all repos". They now say it bounds concurrent pin loops, and therefore lists held while being pinned, and name the parked-task retention as unbounded. The Pinata twin does acquire before it derives, so that path is genuinely covered and the corrected text says which is which.

I would rather leave this open and described accurately than closed behind a bound that does not hold. Filing it separately with the three failed shapes recorded.

Head is 807bc93.

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Filed the two follow-ups: #295 for the heartbeat knob, #296 for the pin-retention residual.

Two corrections to what I wrote above, both found while verifying them before filing.

On the heartbeat knob, the multiply is not the interesting half. tokio::time::interval does not panic or overflow on a large Duration (checked against the pinned 1.50 in a release build), and the * 3600 only wraps past roughly 584 billion years, which no typo reaches. What actually bites is 0: it panics the spawned heartbeat task while the node keeps serving, and the "loop starting" line is logged before the spawn, so startup reads healthy while the node silently goes inactive on-chain a day later. Only affects nodes that opted into on-chain staking.

On the pin path, I said the Pinata twin was genuinely covered. That holds for the object list and not more broadly: it captures full ref names, parse_ref_updates applies no length check to the ref name, and that task is deliberately not coalesced, so its parked count is one per push. The ordering avoids retaining the object list; it does not make that path free of retention. #296 says so rather than holding it up as the clean example.

…agnitude

Both doc comments describing GIT_SERVICE_TIMEOUT_SECS_MAX said the 100-year
ceiling sits "an order of magnitude" under the ~584-year limit of a
u64-nanosecond Instant. The real margin is 3,153,600,000 seconds against
18,446,744,074, a factor of about 5.85. An order of magnitude means ten.

Worth noting how it spread, since the fix is trivial and the pattern is not.
The phrase was written once on the constant, then copied into the
ipfs_request_budget_secs doc by the commit that was at that moment correcting
a different false claim in the same file. Nobody re-ran the division at either
site, because quoting an existing sentence feels like citation rather than
assertion.

The direction of the error is the part that matters: a vague "well under"
would have been true and would have invited a reader to check. The
precise-sounding "order of magnitude" was false and discouraged checking.

Comments only; the diff carries no executable line, checked by filtering it
for non-comment changes. fmt and clippy clean under the CI form.

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I found an issue that needs to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

  • [P1] Resolve the failing required cargo audit check
    GitHub reports the cargo audit job in the PR Checks workflow as failed on the current head (b048248). The remaining build, test, formatting/clippy, CodeQL, MSRV, and Docker-smoke checks are green, but this failure leaves the PR merge state blocked. Please identify and remediate the audit result (or rerun/document it if the failure is confirmed to be infrastructure-only) before merge.

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Confirmed, and it is not from this diff.

The job reports exactly one vulnerability: RUSTSEC-2026-0220 in ruint, incorrect overflow flags and truncated shift amounts on Uint shifts. The other eight advisory IDs in that log are warning: unmaintained notices that the job counts separately as allowed. Everything else on b048248 is green, as you said.

ruint is transitive, entering through alloy-primitives, and origin/main's own Cargo.lock pins the same vulnerable 1.17.2. This branch's base is level with main, so it inherits the advisory rather than introducing it, and every open PR cut from main fails that job the same way.

The fix is #292, a lockfile-only bump to 1.20.0. You approved it early this morning and it is mergeable, waiting on @kevincodex1. Once it lands I will rebase this branch onto main and the audit job should clear; if it does not, that is mine to chase and I will report it here rather than ask you to re-look.

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