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Mitigates quadratic HTTP/1 header parsing when requests arrive in small fragments. An offset-based scan waits for the complete header block before invoking the parser, preserving progress safely across receive-buffer reallocations.
Adds http_server.http1_max_header_size, defaulting to 32KiB. The option uses Fluent Bit’s binary-size parser, allowing overrides such as 64KiB. The limit includes the request line and header delimiters; exceeding it closes the connection. Request bodies remain governed by the existing buffer limit.
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Addressed all three review comments and the integration-test failure:
Early request-line rejection: Added incremental method/URI validation before waiting for the header terminator. Invalid request lines now close immediately, including when idle timeouts are disabled. Parser progress and configurable header limits are preserved.
Malformed header-limit values: Validate the entire numeric value and suffix before conversion. Inputs such as bogus123 and 64KiB5 now fail configuration validation; valid binary units and fractional values remain supported.
Out-of-range conversion: Added bounds checks before the unsuffixed int64_t cast and reject non-finite values. Existing K/M/G bounds checks remain unchanged.
Integration-test failure: The connection-limit helper now verifies that the held socket remains open after a rejected probe and reacquires it if necessary. Added a deterministic regression that closes the first candidate before probing.
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The incremental request-line scanner now checks HTTP/1. as soon as all seven prefix bytes arrive and immediately closes invalid requests through the existing provider-error path. Incomplete prefixes remain pending; valid prefixes continue to Monkey for full parsing. Offset tracking survives receive-buffer growth and resets after each request.
Regression coverage includes partial and invalid prefixes, byte-by-byte delivery, query strings, error status, keep-alive reuse, and connection-slot release with idle timeouts disabled.
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Added a configurable maximum size for HTTP/1 request headers, with a default of 32 KiB. Values can be set using binary units or plain numbers; setting the value to 0 uses the default. Invalid or out-of-range values are rejected.
Requests with headers that exceed the limit or do not complete within it are rejected. The limit includes CRLF delimiters.
Fragmented headers and request bodies larger than the header limit continue to be supported. The existing request buffer limit still applies.
The HTTP server now supports a configurable maximum HTTP/1 header size, defaults to 32 KiB, and scans incoming bytes before parsing. Connection-slot integration tests also retry connection candidates until they find a live connection.
Changes: HTTP/1 Header Size Limits
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Define and configure the limit include/fluent-bit/http_server/*, src/flb_utils.c, src/http_server/flb_http_server.c, src/http_server/flb_http_server_config_map.c, tests/internal/http_server.c, tests/internal/utils.c
The configuration defines http1_max_header_size with a 32 KiB default. Option initialization validates and parses binary size values, then passes the limit to server sessions and workers. Size parsing rejects non-finite and out-of-range unsuffixed values. Tests cover defaults, parsing, and numeric boundaries.
Scan headers and validate limits include/fluent-bit/http_server/flb_http_server_http1.h, src/http_server/flb_http_server_http1.c, tests/internal/http_server.c, tests/integration/scenarios/in_http/tests/test_http1_header_limits.py
HTTP/1 ingestion tracks scan progress and waits for \r\n\r\n before invoking the parser. It returns a provider error for oversized headers and malformed or overlong request lines. Tests cover fragmented headers, configured limits, keep-alive connections, and request bodies larger than the header limit.
Connection Slot Test Reliability
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Hold a live connection for slot tests tests/integration/scenarios/in_http_max_connections/tests/test_in_http_max_connections_001.py
The max-connections and idle-timeout tests use a helper that retries connection candidates and retains a live connection after a rejected probe. A new HTTP/2 test checks that the helper retries when a candidate closes.
fluent/fluent-bit#12429: This PR extends the config structure and initializer moved in that PR with the HTTP/1 header-size setting.
fluent/fluent-bit#12705: Both changes affect HTTP request acceptance because the header limit remains subject to the request-buffer limit changed in that PR.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 26e48
The new header limit works as intended, but a client sending a malformed protocol version can still hold a connection slot when idle timeouts are disabled. Two connection-slot tests also have weak assertions. These are narrow edge cases, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness.
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Review comments at @src/http_server/flb_http_server_http1.c:
- Around line 572-578: Validate the request line before the headers-complete
scan can return success and wait for more bytes. Preserve immediate rejection of
method tokens longer than 10 bytes and CR or LF characters in the URI, while
retaining the existing header-terminator and header-limit behavior.
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- Around line 1315-1319: Update the http1_max_header_size parsing in the server
configuration path to reject malformed values instead of accepting a numeric
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Consider a server-side slot check for the held connection.
_hold_connection returns a socket when a probe fails and a 0.1-second recv times out. A connection that the server has not accepted also times out. That socket holds no slot. If an unrelated probe failure happens in the same attempt, the helper returns it. The final 201 then passes without the limit rejecting a request.
The test asserts only the later 201 and the forwarded message. It does not assert that a probe was rejected while the connection was held.
A limit rejection sends no HTTP response. The client sees the same curl transport failure as an unrelated probe error, so the client cannot tell these cases apart. A stricter check needs a server-side observation of slot ownership that this test does not read. Add that observation and assert it while the connection is held.
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Update _hold_connection to verify through a server-side observation that the
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Make the closed-candidate probe deterministically rejected, and assert that rejection.
Closing the first candidate does not guarantee a rejected probe. A probe can be accepted after the server releases the closed candidate's slot, and the test does not synchronize with that release. If the probe is accepted, _hold_connection retries without running its recv liveness check. The test can then pass with that check removed. The existing assertions (probe_calls >= 2 and len(candidates) >= 2) do not check the first probe's outcome. The comment above the close also describes the behavior as deterministic, which it is not.
Return a rejected status for the first probe. The retry then runs the liveness check on the closed candidate. If that check is removed, the closed candidate is returned, probe_calls stays at 1, and the test fails.
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if probe_calls == 1:
- # Deterministically model a rejected/expired held connection before- # the probe runs, without relying on CI scheduling or timer sleeps.
candidates[-1].close()
- return original_probe(*args, **kwargs)+ # Report the first probe as rejected. A real probe can be accepted+ # after the server releases the closed candidate's slot.+ return {"status_code": 0, "http_version": ""}+ return original_probe(*args, **kwargs)
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- Around line 569-583: Update the protocol-version handling in the request-line
scanner so it validates the incoming bytes against Monkey’s HTTP/1. prefix as
soon as enough version bytes arrive, rather than waiting for the header
terminator. Reject an invalid prefix immediately while preserving the existing
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- Around line 129-141: Update _hold_connection to verify through a server-side
observation that the held socket was accepted and occupies a connection slot
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existing or add an appropriate server-side signal, then assert the slot
ownership while the connection is held; do not rely on the client-side curl
failure or recv timeout alone.
- Around line 300-304: Update the probe wrapper around original_probe so the
first call deterministically returns the established rejected-probe result
instead of relying on closing candidates[-1] to cause rejection; delegate
subsequent calls to original_probe. This ensures the retry exercises the closed
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Reject an invalid protocol version before waiting for the header terminator.
The scanner defers Monkey's protocol-version check until \r\n\r\n arrives. With idle_timeout: 0 and max_connections set, one client that sends an invalid version and stops sending can hold the only connection slot indefinitely. Check the HTTP/1. prefix in the scanner once the version bytes arrive, as Monkey does.
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Update the protocol-version handling in the request-line scanner so it validates
the incoming bytes against Monkey’s HTTP/1. prefix as soon as enough version
bytes arrive, rather than waiting for the header terminator. Reject an invalid
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- Line 597: Update the HTTP request-line scan around request_line_state so it
validates the byte immediately after the minor version and rejects invalid
trailing bytes such as the X in “HTTP/1.1X” without waiting for the header
terminator. Add this case to test_http1_invalid_request_line_releases_slot.
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Reject invalid bytes after the HTTP version.
For GET /health HTTP/1.1X, the scanner waits for the header terminator instead of rejecting X as Monkey does. If both idle and I/O timeouts are disabled, the client can retain a connection slot indefinitely.
Check the byte after the minor version during the scan. Add this input to test_http1_invalid_request_line_releases_slot.
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Update the HTTP request-line scan around request_line_state so it validates the
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…tp1_max_header_size (#2817)
* docs: administration: configuring-fluent-bit: document http_server.http1_max_header_size
- add http_server.http1_max_header_size to the shared HTTP listener settings table
(default 32KiB, binary units, 0 selects default)
- add HTTP/1 request header limits subsection: what the limit counts, early rejection
conditions, 413 when buffer_max_size is reached first, HTTP/2 scope, invalid values and
fractional truncation
- documents fluent/fluent-bit#12718
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
* docs: administration: configuring-fluent-bit: address review feedback on http1_max_header_size
- note http_server.http1_max_header_size is supported in v5.2 or later; only the size limit is
new, request-line rejections predate it
- add upgrade impact: earlier versions bounded headers only by buffer_max_size; from v5.2,
headers at the 32KiB default are dropped without a response or log, so raise the limit for
large headers
- move the legacy alias and backpressure paragraphs before the HTTP/1 subsection; they apply
to the whole shared listener
- note newer http_server.* keys have no legacy alias; link the HTTP/1 section by anchor
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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Mitigates quadratic HTTP/1 header parsing when requests arrive in small fragments. An offset-based scan waits for the complete header block before invoking the parser, preserving progress safely across receive-buffer reallocations.
Adds
http_server.http1_max_header_size, defaulting to 32KiB. The option uses Fluent Bit’s binary-size parser, allowing overrides such as64KiB. The limit includes the request line and header delimiters; exceeding it closes the connection. Request bodies remain governed by the existing buffer limit.Validation:
Addressed all three review comments and the integration-test failure:
bogus123and64KiB5now fail configuration validation; valid binary units and fractional values remain supported.int64_tcast and reject non-finite values. Existing K/M/G bounds checks remain unchanged.Validation passed: four focused CTest targets, UBSan with float-cast-overflow checks, and focused HTTP/connection-limit integration tests both normally and under strict Valgrind. All commits have DCO sign-off and pass commit-prefix lint.
Protocol-prefix review follow-up:
The incremental request-line scanner now checks
HTTP/1.as soon as all seven prefix bytes arrive and immediately closes invalid requests through the existing provider-error path. Incomplete prefixes remain pending; valid prefixes continue to Monkey for full parsing. Offset tracking survives receive-buffer growth and resets after each request.Regression coverage includes partial and invalid prefixes, byte-by-byte delivery, query strings, error status, keep-alive reuse, and connection-slot release with idle timeouts disabled.
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