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Implemented the decoded-size mitigation: automatic HTTP inflation now obeys http_server.buffer_max_size, rejects malformed/unsupported encodings, and removes the HTTP layer’s extra full-body copy.

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• Build and HTTP/compression CTests.
• Five integration cases normally and under strict Valgrind; zero memory errors or lost allocations.

And added http_server.max_decoded_body_size, independent of the wire-buffer limit:

[INPUT]
    Name                              http
    http_server.buffer_max_size       4M
    http_server.max_decoded_body_size  100M

The decoded limit defaults to 100 MB. You can raise or lower it; 0 restores the default.

Build, focused CTests, and all 15 integration cases passed normally and under strict Valgrind.

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tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/in_http/tests/test_http_inflation_limit.py -q
VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/in_http/tests/test_http_inflation_limit.py -q

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a configurable limit for the size of HTTP request bodies after decompression. The default is 100 MB, and the limit can be set independently of the input buffer limit.
• Bug Fixes
  • Requests with unsupported compression encodings, malformed compressed data, or decoded bodies over the configured limit now fail instead of being processed. Missing or identity content encoding is handled without decompression.

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Walkthrough

HTTP server configuration now includes a maximum decoded request-body size. The server applies this limit during automatic decompression, handles supported and unsupported content encodings explicitly, and validates configured values. Unit and integration tests cover limits, encodings, and malformed payloads.

Changes: Bounded HTTP Body Decompression

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure the decoded-body limit include/fluent-bit/http_server/flb_http_server.h, include/fluent-bit/http_server/flb_http_server_config.h, src/http_server/flb_http_server_config_map.c	HTTP server options and configuration include max_decoded_body_size. The setting defaults to 100,000,000 bytes and is exposed in the configuration map.
Apply the limit during request inflation src/http_server/flb_http_server.c, src/flb_http_common.c, tests/internal/http_server.c, tests/integration/scenarios/in_http/*	The server propagates and validates the limit, then uses it for automatic request-body inflation. Decompression handles identity and unsupported encodings explicitly. Unit and integration tests cover configured, default, and zero limits, payload boundaries, codecs, and malformed inputs.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• fluent/fluent-bit#12705: Sets an OTLP HTTP decompression limit from the request payload limit. This change defines a separate decoded-body limit for the same HTTP input path.
• fluent/fluent-bit#12568: Adds a budget parameter to flb_http_request_uncompress_body and uses buffer_max_size as its decompression budget. This change uses max_decoded_body_size instead.

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The title "http_server: mitigate automatic inflation bypass" matches the main change. The PR adds a separate decoded-body size limit (http_server.max_decoded_body_size, default 100 MB) for automatically decompressed request bodies, rejects malformed or unsupported Content-Encoding values, and removes an extra full-body copy. The title names the core goal, which is limiting automatic inflation. It does not mention the new config option or the encoding rejection, but it does not need to cover every detail. The title is specific and uses the prefix convention for the affected component.

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tests/integration/scenarios/in_http/tests/test_http_inflation_limit.py: 1

107-115: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an over-limit wire-body assertion.

Every compressed payload currently satisfies len(payload) < WIRE_LIMIT. The test does not detect acceptance of a valid compressed body larger than http_server.buffer_max_size. Add one valid over-limit gzip body and assert that the server does not return 201.

Suggested fix

 import concurrent.futures
 import gzip
 import http.client
 import json
+import os
@@
         payload = encode(prefix + b" " * (LIMIT + 1 - len(prefix)), codec)
         assert len(payload) < WIRE_LIMIT
+        if codec == "gzip":
+            wire_over_limit = gzip.compress(os.urandom(WIRE_LIMIT + 256))
+            assert len(wire_over_limit) > WIRE_LIMIT
+            assert post(port, wire_over_limit, encoding) in (None, 413)
         with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=8) as pool:

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- Around line 438-458: Extend the bounded decompression path to support the
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