fix(code-runtime-python): bound stray capture by serialized cost, chunk-scan, and flush on destroy

The line-aggregating stray capture from the previous round regressed three
ways the review caught. Rewrite it on the fd-3 reader's raw-Buffer-chunk
shape: accumulate chunks with a byte counter and split on the raw 0x0a byte,
so a large newline-free write no longer re-copies the residual and re-scans
from index 0 per chunk (both O(N^2)). Meter each admitted entry by serialized
cost through a new jsonStringCostUpTo that walks to the cap and stops, so a
near-budget control-char-dense line never allocates the sixfold-inflated
JSON.stringify result the old ledger did (the critical: ~1.6 GiB transient
under a large maxLogBytes). Flush the residual explicitly in the closeDeadline
handler before it destroys the streams, so a setsid escapee's path (which
fires no end) does not drop a leader's final newline-free diagnostic.

Harden the sync-spawn leak assertion to a set difference against a pre-run
snapshot, immune to a parallel worker's concurrent tmpdir create/delete.

Decline the round-2 request to enforce the fd-3 ceiling per-frame: the counter
check must precede Buffer.concat to prevent ~2x memory doubling (two
regression tests assert this), and the batch-edge false reject it would fix is
reachable only at a maxLogBytes/maxValueBytes configured within one pipe read
of the 256 MiB ceiling, far past the defaults. Documented at the check and in
the note Alternatives.

Add flood, NUL-flood, short-escape, and closeDeadline-flush regression tests
(restoring per-file 100% coverage); update the Agent Note and zh pair.
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Chinesezjc
2026-08-31 14:21:57 +08:00
committed by Tianyi Cui
parent c8bf75cbe4
commit 8093d22164
6 changed files with 195 additions and 66 deletions
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
*/
import { spawn, type ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'node:child_process'
import { StringDecoder } from 'node:string_decoder'
import { accessSync, copyFileSync, constants as fsConstants, mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs'
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
import { delimiter, dirname, isAbsolute, join } from 'node:path'
@@ -313,6 +312,37 @@ const TRUNCATION_MARKER = '… [truncated]'
*/
const TRUNCATION_MARKER_BYTES = Buffer.byteLength(TRUNCATION_MARKER, 'utf8')
/**
* Serialized JSON-string cost of `text` (the two quotes plus each character's
* escaped byte width), measured WITHOUT materializing the escaped copy, and
* abandoned the instant it exceeds `maxBytes`. `JSON.stringify(text)` would
* allocate the whole escaped form first — up to sixfold a control-char-dense
* string — so a near-budget line under a large `maxLogBytes` could momentarily
* allocate over a gigabyte just to measure it. This walks code point by code
* point and stops at the cap, so the measurement allocates nothing.
* @param text - the candidate string.
* @param maxBytes - the largest serialized size the caller can admit.
* @returns the exact serialized byte cost, or `undefined` once it exceeds `maxBytes`.
*/
function jsonStringCostUpTo(text: string, maxBytes: number): number | undefined {
let bytes = 2 // the enclosing quotes
for (const character of text) {
const code = character.codePointAt(0) as number
// Control characters below 0x20 escape to `\uXXXX` (6) except the five with
// short forms `\b \t \n \f \r` (2); `"` and `\` escape to 2; everything else
// rides at its raw UTF-8 width.
if (code < 0x20) {
bytes += code === 0x08 || code === 0x09 || code === 0x0a || code === 0x0c || code === 0x0d ? 2 : 6
} else if (code === 0x22 || code === 0x5c) {
bytes += 2
} else {
bytes += Buffer.byteLength(character, 'utf8')
}
if (bytes > maxBytes) return undefined
}
return bytes
}
/**
* Cap a done-frame `error.message` to `maxValueBytes` host-side: a forged done
* frame can carry an arbitrarily long message, so truncate by RAW UTF-8 byte
@@ -729,26 +759,22 @@ export class PythonCodeRuntime extends CodeRuntime {
logs.push(logTruncationMarker(this.config.maxLogBytes))
return
}
// Past the lower bound the escape expands the string at most sixfold,
// so this copy is bounded by ~6x the remaining budget.
const cost = Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(text), 'utf8') + 1
if (cost > logBudget) {
// Past the lower bound, measure the exact serialized cost without
// allocating the escaped copy: `jsonStringCostUpTo` walks to the cap and
// stops, so even a near-budget control-char-dense line never materializes
// a sixfold-inflated `JSON.stringify` result. `+ 1` for the separator.
const measured = jsonStringCostUpTo(text, logBudget - 1)
if (measured === undefined) {
logsTruncated = true
logs.push(logTruncationMarker(this.config.maxLogBytes))
return
}
logBudget -= cost
logBudget -= measured + 1
logs.push(text)
}
// Stray-byte capture: anything the child writes to its stdout/stderr
// (native prints, C-extension writes) still counts against the ledger.
// One STREAMING decoder per pipe: a multibyte UTF-8 sequence can span
// two chunks (native writes, os.write past the pipe buffer), and
// decoding each chunk independently would corrupt both halves into
// replacement characters. StringDecoder holds the partial sequence
// until its continuation bytes arrive; the pipes are separate byte
// streams, so they cannot share one decoder.
//
// Output is admitted per LINE, not per transport chunk. `logs` entries
// are joined with `\n` downstream (Code Mode), so each entry must be one
@@ -756,47 +782,67 @@ export class PythonCodeRuntime extends CodeRuntime {
// boundary into a model-visible newline, so a single 200 KiB native write
// split across pipe reads would read back with spurious line breaks. The
// child's own `log` frames are already line-granular; stray capture
// matches them by holding a per-stream residual and admitting only on a
// real `\n`. A run of bytes carrying no newline accumulates in the
// residual; the ledger bounds it — `admit` charges each completed line, so
// a newline-free flood is capped when the pending residual would cross the
// budget, and the trailing partial is flushed once on `end`.
const strayOut = { decoder: new StringDecoder('utf8'), residual: '' }
const strayErr = { decoder: new StringDecoder('utf8'), residual: '' }
const captureStray = (stray: { decoder: StringDecoder; residual: string }, chunk: Buffer): void => {
// matches them by splitting on `\n`.
//
// Buffered as raw `Buffer` chunks with a running byte counter, exactly
// like the fd-3 reader below and for the same reasons: a string `+=`
// accumulator re-copies the whole residual on every pipe chunk (quadratic
// on a large newline-free write), and scanning it from index 0 each chunk
// is a second quadratic. Appending a chunk is O(1); the split happens only
// when a `\n` actually arrived. A newline never appears inside a UTF-8
// multibyte sequence (continuation bytes are 0x800xBF), so splitting on
// the raw 0x0a byte and decoding each complete line is safe without a
// streaming decoder — a line's bytes are whole by construction.
interface StrayBuffer { chunks: Buffer[]; bytes: number }
const strayOut: StrayBuffer = { chunks: [], bytes: 0 }
const strayErr: StrayBuffer = { chunks: [], bytes: 0 }
const captureStray = (stray: StrayBuffer, chunk: Buffer): void => {
// Once the ledger has truncated, stop buffering: admit() is a no-op past
// that point, so continuing to grow the residual would retain host
// memory for output that can never be admitted.
// that point, so continuing to accumulate would retain host memory for
// output that can never be admitted.
if (logsTruncated) return
stray.residual += stray.decoder.write(chunk)
let newline = stray.residual.indexOf('\n')
while (newline >= 0) {
admit(stray.residual.slice(0, newline))
stray.residual = stray.residual.slice(newline + 1)
newline = stray.residual.indexOf('\n')
stray.chunks.push(chunk)
stray.bytes += chunk.length
if (chunk.includes(0x0a)) {
let buffered = Buffer.concat(stray.chunks)
let newline: number
while ((newline = buffered.indexOf(0x0a)) >= 0) {
admit(buffered.subarray(0, newline).toString('utf8'))
buffered = buffered.subarray(newline + 1)
}
// Carry the residual as a fresh right-sized copy, not the subarray view
// (which would pin the whole concat allocation). See detachResidual.
stray.chunks = detachResidual(buffered)
stray.bytes = buffered.length
}
// Newline-free residual is bounded by the ledger, not left to grow with
// the stream: an `os.write(1, b"A"*N)` flood carrying no newline would
// otherwise accumulate N bytes in host memory before `end`. When the
// pending residual would cross the budget, admit it now — admit()
// truncates and marks the ledger, and the truncation short-circuit above
// stops further buffering on the next chunk.
if (stray.residual.length + 3 > logBudget) {
admit(stray.residual)
stray.residual = ''
// pending residual would cross the budget, admit it now — admit() charges
// its serialized cost, truncates, and marks the ledger, and the
// truncation short-circuit above stops buffering on the next chunk. The
// raw byte count is a safe lower bound on the serialized cost, so this
// fires no later than the budget is genuinely at risk.
if (stray.bytes + 3 > logBudget) {
flushStray(stray)
}
}
// Flush a pipe's residual into `logs`. Called on the budget threshold
// above, on the pipe's `end` (normal drain), and — for the setsid-escapee
// path where destroy() forces settlement without an `end` — explicitly in
// the closeDeadline handler. Idempotent: it clears what it admits, so a
// later flush is a no-op. The `chunks.length` guard is the only emptiness
// check needed — `data` never emits a zero-length Buffer, so a non-empty
// chunk list always decodes to a non-empty tail.
function flushStray(stray: StrayBuffer): void {
if (stray.chunks.length === 0) return
const tail = Buffer.concat(stray.chunks).toString('utf8')
stray.chunks = []
stray.bytes = 0
admit(tail)
}
child.stdout.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => { captureStray(strayOut, chunk) })
child.stderr.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => { captureStray(strayErr, chunk) })
// Flush each pipe's residual and decoder when it ends: a final line with
// no trailing newline, plus output that STOPS mid-sequence (native code
// killed between bytes) leaves a partial character in the decoder, which
// end() renders as U+FFFD rather than dropping the evidence. `end` fires
// before `close` settles the run, so the flush is admitted into `logs`.
const flushStray = (stray: { decoder: StringDecoder; residual: string }): void => {
const tail = stray.residual + stray.decoder.end()
if (tail.length > 0) admit(tail)
}
child.stdout.on('end', () => { flushStray(strayOut) })
child.stderr.on('end', () => { flushStray(strayErr) })
@@ -829,11 +875,23 @@ export class PythonCodeRuntime extends CodeRuntime {
// ceiling this check exists to enforce. The counter is exact and free,
// and the retained chunks are released here so the rejected payload is
// not still held while the run settles.
// Reading the counter rather than the line length also charges the
// whole unframed buffer, which over-counts by at most the newline-
// bearing chunk's own length (one pipe read): the residual carried in
// is always a partial line, so nothing but the current line can be
// larger than that.
//
// The counter charges the whole unframed buffer, which over-counts by at
// most the newline-bearing chunk's own length (one pipe read): the
// residual carried in is always a partial line, so nothing but the
// current line can be larger than that. That over-count is deliberate and
// load-bounded on the OTHER side: the config cap is `ceiling - envelope`,
// and a legitimate near-cap frame plus a following chunk's leading bytes
// could in principle nudge the counter over the ceiling for one read
// window — but only when maxLogBytes/maxValueBytes is configured within
// one pipe read of the 256 MiB ceiling, orders of magnitude past the
// 32/64 KiB defaults. Enforcing the ceiling per-frame instead (splitting
// before the check) would require `Buffer.concat`-ing an over-ceiling
// single frame before rejecting it, reintroducing the peak-memory
// doubling this pre-concat check and its regression tests exist to
// prevent; the memory-safety bound against hostile input at any config
// takes precedence over a false-reject reachable only at a pathological
// near-ceiling config.
if (pendingBytes > FRAME_CEILING_BYTES) {
pendingChunks = []
sealedBlocks = []
@@ -1233,12 +1291,17 @@ export class PythonCodeRuntime extends CodeRuntime {
// `close` awaits every stdio stream draining, which a setsid-escaped
// orphan holding our inherited pipes can prevent forever. Bound that
// wait: after SIGKILL has had the grace window plus a margin to reap the
// child itself, force settlement on the decided result. Detaching the
// stream handles lets `close` land as a no-op if it ever arrives, and
// stops the orphan's stray output from being accounted against a run
// that already finished. `unref` so the deadline never keeps the host
// process alive on its own.
// child itself, force settlement on the decided result. Flush any
// newline-free stray residual FIRST — a leader that wrote a diagnostic
// with `os.write(1, ...)` and exited leaves it buffered, and destroying
// the stream below drops it before an `end`/`close` flush could run, so
// the diagnostic would be lost from `logs`. Detaching the stream handles
// then lets `close` land as a no-op if it ever arrives, and stops the
// orphan's stray output from being accounted against a run that already
// finished. `unref` so the deadline never keeps the host process alive.
closeDeadline = setTimeout(() => {
flushStray(strayOut)
flushStray(strayErr)
proto.destroy()
child.stdout.destroy()
child.stderr.destroy()