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I did this on top of #412
Sock.sphttp_drain_body compared out.length against the byte count it was handed. On spinel, length counts characters on received bytes, so a multibyte body looked short with every byte already in hand, and the drain keeps reading. On a keep-alive connection it reads the next pipelined request into this request's body, and the app gets both.

5cb6d05 fixed the same comparison in request.rb's two drains and probably missed this one.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Requests containing multibyte text are now read and processed using the correct byte count, including when multiple requests arrive on the same connection.
    • Body-size limits now consistently reject requests at or above the maximum allowed size.
    • Leading zeroes in content-length values and size-limit settings are handled according to their numeric value.
    • Invalid, zero, or excessively large size-limit settings now use the 100 MiB default.

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TEP request handling now counts drained bodies in bytes, parses decimal lengths with leading-zero handling, and applies the configured body cap only when it is below the byte-count ceiling. Tests cover UTF-8 body chunks, pipelined requests, and body-cap boundaries.

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TEP Request Body Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Content-Length parsing and refusal
runtime/spinel/tep/tep_core.rb, runtime/spinel/tep/request.rb
Decimal byte-count parsing ignores leading zeroes when applying the significant-digit limit. Invalid or saturated environment overrides use the default cap. A Content-Length at or above the byte-count ceiling receives a 413 refusal.
Byte-accurate body draining
runtime/spinel/tep/net.rb, tests/tep_server_harness.rb, tests/spinel_body_drain_bytes.rb, tests/spinel_body_drain_bytes.rs
Body draining uses byte counts for multibyte data. The shared harness and regression test exercise UTF-8-tagged chunks, pipelined requests, and the threaded, scheduled, and blocking servers.
Request body cap coverage
tests/spinel_request_body_cap.rb, tests/spinel_request_body_cap.rs
Cap tests use the shared harness and cover zero-padded lengths, oversized lengths, configured-cap expectations, and fallback to the default cap.

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Change: Bug fix

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The request-body changes appear mergeable with a bounded test reliability concern: a low inherited body cap can make the byte-drain regression test fail. Isolate that test’s environment before relying on its result.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d912c

The changes strengthen request-body boundaries and reject unrepresentable lengths without expanding application privileges. Residual uncertainty concerns inherited framing behavior and runtime handling of interrupted or incomplete reads.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Remote HTTP peers control declared lengths and body bytes. The directly affected security outcomes are memory consumption and request-data ownership within each reachable TEP server and its hosted application. The configured cap limits declared per-request size, not aggregate concurrent memory consumption.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The former character-count comparison could keep draining after a multibyte body's declared bytes had arrived and consume a pipelined successor. The changed helper removes that over-read mechanism by requesting only the remaining bytes, assuming the native receive operation honors its requested maximum.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Attacker-controlled Content-Length is checked against centrally owned configuration before additional body consumption. The saturation sentinel can no longer pass by comparing equal to a saturated override. Accepting zero-padded small values does not authorize a numerically larger body.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Inherited behavior still permits body consumers to return partial data after EOF or timeout and subsequently reach dispatch. The parser also assigns buffered bytes after the header terminator without splitting them at Content-Length. These behaviors are outside the changed byte-accounting logic; their end-to-end impact was not resolved, and no expansion of their effective exposure was established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — As separate hardening, define an end-to-end framing invariant that separates successor bytes already present in the initial buffer and prevents incomplete bodies from reaching normal dispatch. Validate it with short-body pipelining and EOF/timeout cases across server modes.
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Review comments at @runtime/spinel/tep/tep_core.rb:
- Around line 61-62: Update the digit-ceiling check in the parsing logic around
`BYTE_COUNT_CEILING` to count significant digits after leading zeros are
ignored, so zero-padded `Content-Length` values and `TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES` values
parse to their configured numeric amounts instead of saturating at the ceiling.

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- Around line 31-33: Update the Command in the byte-drain test to remove the
inherited TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES environment variable before execution, matching the
default-cap test launcher so the test body is not rejected due to external
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Comment thread runtime/spinel/tep/tep_core.rb Outdated
Comment on lines +61 to +62
if n > 18
return BYTE_COUNT_CEILING

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Account for leading zeros before applying the digit ceiling. Content-Length: 0000000000000000001 is a decimal length of one byte, but this branch returns BYTE_COUNT_CEILING and the default server answers 413. The same parsing error makes a zero-padded TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES select the ceiling instead of the configured limit. Strip leading zeros or check significant digits before saturation.

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Review comment at @runtime/spinel/tep/tep_core.rb around lines 61 - 62:
Update the digit-ceiling check in the parsing logic around `BYTE_COUNT_CEILING`
to count significant digits after leading zeros are ignored, so zero-padded
`Content-Length` values and `TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES` values parse to their
configured numeric amounts instead of saturating at the ceiling.

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Comment on lines +31 to +33
let out = Command::new("ruby")
.arg(root.join("tests/spinel_body_drain_bytes.rb"))
.output()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the inherited body cap from this test. If TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES is below 12,006, the server correctly rejects the test body with 413. The byte-drain test then fails for a configuration unrelated to draining. Add .env_remove("TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES") to this command, as the default-cap test launcher does.

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Update the Command in the byte-drain test to remove the inherited
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gregmolnar and others added 3 commits October 4, 2026 16:54
The drain fix in 07de472 said spinel's `length` counts characters on
bytes received through sp_net. Probed on spinel 775ba5f68, it does not
in the shape sphttp_drain_body used: bytes from
`sp_net_recv_some(:binstr)` keep `length == bytesize` through `+`,
character slicing and `byteslice`. Only `<<` onto `+""` gives a String
whose `length` counts characters, which is how the threaded and
scheduled header readers build their blob (and where 5cb6d05's
`raw_body.length` stall came from).

So the old `out.length < n` measured correctly by accident of
`out + chunk` staying binary, and the over-read the test reproduces
was latent, not live. The comments in net.rb, the drain driver and
the shared harness now say that, and call the harness's `utf8:` mode
a stress model rather than spinel's behavior. No code change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tep.decimal_byte_count saturates any run past 18 digits at 10^18,
and TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES went through the same parser. So an override
of more than 18 digits, including a zero-padded small value like
"0000000000000000001024", became a cap of 10^18. A Content-Length
past 18 digits saturates to that same 10^18, compared equal to the
cap, and passed `body_refusal`: the override switched the cap off.

The parser now skips leading zeros before counting digits, so a
zero-padded value reads as its value (Puma's `.to_i` does the same).
An override must be below the ceiling or it leaves the 100 MiB
default, like any other value that is not a positive byte count. And
`body_refusal` refuses a saturated length whatever the cap, so the
ceiling is never compared as a size.

tests/spinel_request_body_cap.rs gains two override runs: the
zero-padded value must produce a 1024-byte cap, and a 25-digit one
must leave the default; both keep a 25-digit Content-Length a 413.
Before the fix, both runs let the 25-digit length reach the app.
Verified on a spin build of real-blog (spinel 775ba5f68): with
TEP_MAX_BODY_BYTES=0000000000000000001024, 1024 bytes is served and
1025 bytes or a 25-digit length is a 413.

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