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Compact OTLP protobuf requests can allocate large message trees despite staying within wire-size and nesting limits. This change adds allocation budgeting before unpacking and a hard ceiling on cumulative logs-arena allocations.
Add protobuf_decode_max_size, defaulting to 128 MiB, configurable as a positive byte size.
Apply preflight accounting to logs, metrics, traces, and enabled profiles, sharing the budget across gRPC frames before ingestion.
Account for message structures, field occurrences, and packed scalar expansion.
Bound logs-arena allocations, including intermediate arrays retained during protobuf message merging.
Align the OTLP HTTP/gRPC default request limit with 64 MiB, including decompressed payloads. Preserve explicit buffer-size overrides and allow bounded protocol overhead.
Use bounded geometric growth for HTTP/2 receive buffers to avoid repeated large reallocations.
Preflight exhaustion returns HTTP 413 or gRPC RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED. Logs-arena exhaustion follows existing decode-failure handling. Allocation-heavy legitimate requests may require smaller batches or a larger configured budget. These limits do not cap total process RSS. Bundled libraries remain unchanged; direct CMetrics/CTraces/CProfiles decoder APIs are outside this mitigation.
147 distinct integration cases passed across focused runs and corrected reruns, both normally and under strict Linux Valgrind, with no reported memory errors or lost allocations.
Coverage includes exact 64 MiB boundaries, compression, multi-frame accounting, all signals, configurable limits, arena exhaustion, recovery, and HTTP protocol compatibility.
Initial raw HTTP/2 Valgrind timeouts exposed excessive reallocations. After the growth fix, all six affected boundary cases passed within the original timeout.
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The OpenTelemetry input now applies configurable request-size and protobuf decode limits. The HTTP server also supports bounded decompression and grows request buffers within configured limits. Tests cover decode budgets, request boundaries, and compressed payloads.
The OpenTelemetry input accepts a protobuf decode limit, defaulting to 128 MiB. The validator charges payload and message costs against a shared budget. Logs decoding applies the limit to validation and arena allocations. Unit and integration tests cover configured budgets, rejection, and recovery requests.
The HTTP server carries a decompression limit and uses it during automatic request decompression. Decompression output buffers grow within that limit. Tests cover gzip, zstd, and Snappy payloads.
The input configures request and decompression limits, validates protobuf HTTP bodies and gRPC frames, and returns size or validation status codes. HTTP/2 request-body buffers grow within the configured maximum. Integration tests cover default and overridden request boundaries.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant HTTPServer
participant validate_protobuf_request
participant flb_opentelemetry_protobuf_validate_with_budget
Client->>HTTPServer: Send HTTP or gRPC request
HTTPServer->>validate_protobuf_request: Pass body or prepared frames
validate_protobuf_request->>flb_opentelemetry_protobuf_validate_with_budget: Validate protobuf data against decode budget
flb_opentelemetry_protobuf_validate_with_budget-->>validate_protobuf_request: Return validation result
validate_protobuf_request-->>HTTPServer: Return request validation result
HTTPServer-->>Client: Return HTTP or gRPC status
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fluent/fluent-bit#12673: It adds the shared protobuf log decoder and decode-options struct that this change extends with the decode-size limit.
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Decompression error handling may reject some encodings or return non-retryable 400 errors under failure. The default request limit does not bound total memory across concurrent connections, which the PR states is out of scope. Both are bounded concerns for owners to review.
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Add a positive control for the profiles decode budget.
All four cases assert only status 8. A request-size limit can also return status 8 before the decode-budget check.
Assert the decode-budget response message. Also send a small valid profiles request under the same configuration and assert that it succeeds.
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Update test_in_opentelemetry_protobuf_decode_budget_profiles to distinguish
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- buffer_max_size: default is now 64 MiB instead of 4M
- add http_server.max_decoded_body_size and protobuf_decode_max_size
- add request size limits section: protocol overhead, 413 and gRPC
status responses, decode budget checked before ingestion, logs
conversion limit, decimal units
- gRPC message size limit now follows buffer_max_size instead of a
fixed 16 MiB
- documents fluent/fluent-bit#12705
- buffer_max_size: note it's the alias for http_server.buffer_max_size
- raw_traces: applies to JSON only; Protocol Buffers and gRPC traces
are size-checked and decoded as traces
- request size limits: the 413 message is only sent when the request
reaches the plugin; the listener rejects oversized requests with an
empty 413 (HTTP/1.1) or fails them (HTTP/2)
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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- pipeline-section: add http_server.max_decoded_body_size to the
shared HTTP listener table; add request body decompression section
(gzip, zstd, snappy; 413, 503, 400 responses; deflate now rejected;
oauth2 token checked before decompression; opentelemetry default)
- http, splunk, elasticsearch, prometheus-remote-write: add the
http_server.max_decoded_body_size row
- http: list zstd and snappy, link the decompression section
- documents fluent/fluent-bit#12568, fluent/fluent-bit#12581 and
fluent/fluent-bit#12705
- pipeline-section: 0 selects 100M for every input; opentelemetry's
default applies only when the key is unset; opentelemetry also
enforces buffer_max_size after decompression; note its 64 MiB
buffer_max_size default; GET /health exemption from token checks
- http: zstd and snappy decompression since 3.0.0 with http2 on,
and since 5.0 regardless of http2
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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- pipeline-section: add http_server.max_decoded_body_size to the
shared HTTP listener table; add request body decompression section
(gzip, zstd, snappy; 413, 503, 400 responses; deflate now rejected;
oauth2 token checked before decompression; opentelemetry default)
- http, splunk, elasticsearch, prometheus-remote-write: add the
http_server.max_decoded_body_size row
- http: list zstd and snappy, link the decompression section
- documents fluent/fluent-bit#12568, fluent/fluent-bit#12581 and
fluent/fluent-bit#12705
- pipeline-section: 0 selects 100M for every input; opentelemetry's
default applies only when the key is unset; opentelemetry also
enforces buffer_max_size after decompression; note its 64 MiB
buffer_max_size default; GET /health exemption from token checks
- http: zstd and snappy decompression since 3.0.0 with http2 on,
and since 5.0 regardless of http2
- pipeline-section: shared decompression of gzip, zstd and snappy
applies in v5.0 or later regardless of http2; tokens are validated
before decompression in v5.2, after it in v5.0 and v5.1; note the
GET /health exemption
- http: zstd and snappy need http2 in v3.x only; every request is
validated except GET /health with enable_health_endpoint
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
…2831)
- buffer_max_size: default is now 64 MiB instead of 4M
- add http_server.max_decoded_body_size and protobuf_decode_max_size
- add request size limits section: protocol overhead, 413 and gRPC
status responses, decode budget checked before ingestion, logs
conversion limit, decimal units
- gRPC message size limit now follows buffer_max_size instead of a
fixed 16 MiB
- documents fluent/fluent-bit#12705
- buffer_max_size: note it's the alias for http_server.buffer_max_size
- raw_traces: applies to JSON only; Protocol Buffers and gRPC traces
are size-checked and decoded as traces
- request size limits: the 413 message is only sent when the request
reaches the plugin; the listener rejects oversized requests with an
empty 413 (HTTP/1.1) or fails them (HTTP/2)
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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…ize (#2830)
- pipeline-section: add http_server.max_decoded_body_size to the
shared HTTP listener table; add request body decompression section
(gzip, zstd, snappy; 413, 503, 400 responses; deflate now rejected;
oauth2 token checked before decompression; opentelemetry default)
- http, splunk, elasticsearch, prometheus-remote-write: add the
http_server.max_decoded_body_size row
- http: list zstd and snappy, link the decompression section
- documents fluent/fluent-bit#12568, fluent/fluent-bit#12581 and
fluent/fluent-bit#12705
- pipeline-section: 0 selects 100M for every input; opentelemetry's
default applies only when the key is unset; opentelemetry also
enforces buffer_max_size after decompression; note its 64 MiB
buffer_max_size default; GET /health exemption from token checks
- http: zstd and snappy decompression since 3.0.0 with http2 on,
and since 5.0 regardless of http2
- pipeline-section: shared decompression of gzip, zstd and snappy
applies in v5.0 or later regardless of http2; tokens are validated
before decompression in v5.2, after it in v5.0 and v5.1; note the
GET /health exemption
- http: zstd and snappy need http2 in v3.x only; every request is
validated except GET /health with enable_health_endpoint
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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Compact OTLP protobuf requests can allocate large message trees despite staying within wire-size and nesting limits. This change adds allocation budgeting before unpacking and a hard ceiling on cumulative logs-arena allocations.
protobuf_decode_max_size, defaulting to 128 MiB, configurable as a positive byte size.Preflight exhaustion returns HTTP 413 or gRPC
RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED. Logs-arena exhaustion follows existing decode-failure handling. Allocation-heavy legitimate requests may require smaller batches or a larger configured budget. These limits do not cap total process RSS. Bundled libraries remain unchanged; direct CMetrics/CTraces/CProfiles decoder APIs are outside this mitigation.Verification
ctest --test-dir build -R 'flb-it-(opentelemetry|http_server)' --output-on-failure: 3 targets passed.Exact verification commands and results.
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