Cap the X-Forwarded-For hop walk at 64 entries (closes #124)

The walk now keeps only the rightmost 64 hops, so an attacker-supplied chain cannot burn unbounded CPU in the rate-limit key function. Running off the end of the truncated slice falls back to the peer address, the same fail-closed direction the rest of the function takes. Also corrects the unparseable-RemoteAddr comment, which overclaimed about Unix-socket peers.

internal/middleware/ratelimit.go

@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ const (
 	// receiver rate limit. The configured limit is expressed in
 	// requests per minute.
 	receiverRateInterval = 1 * time.Minute
+
+	// maxForwardedHops bounds how many X-Forwarded-For entries the
+	// chain walk examines. Real chains are one to three hops, but a
+	// client can pad the header up to MaxHeaderBytes, so without a
+	// bound every request pays a walk proportional to whatever the
+	// client sent.
+	maxForwardedHops = 64
 )
 
 // normalizeAddr strips the IPv4-in-IPv6 wrapper and any zone from
@@ -70,12 +77,19 @@ func (m *Middleware) isTrustedProxy(addr netip.Addr) bool {
 // a trusted proxy is the client. A hop that cannot be read as a bare
 // address ends the walk: past it the chain is not the shape assumed
 // here, so the caller falls back to the peer address.
+//
+// Only the last maxForwardedHops entries are examined. A longer chain
+// is padding, and running out of hops falls back to the peer address
+// the same way an unreadable hop does.
 func (m *Middleware) forwardedClientAddr(
 	r *http.Request,
 ) (netip.Addr, bool) {
 	hops := strings.Split(
 		strings.Join(r.Header.Values("X-Forwarded-For"), ","), ",",
 	)
+	if len(hops) > maxForwardedHops {
+		hops = hops[len(hops)-maxForwardedHops:]
+	}
 
 	for _, hop := range slices.Backward(hops) {
 		hop = strings.TrimSpace(hop)
@@ -113,8 +127,10 @@ func (m *Middleware) clientKey(r *http.Request) string {
 	peer, err := netip.ParseAddr(ipFromHostPort(r.RemoteAddr))
 	if err != nil {
 		// Not an address we can reason about; key on the raw
-		// value rather than collapsing such peers into one
-		// shared bucket.
+		// value, the most specific identity left. On a
+		// Unix-socket listener every peer carries the same
+		// RemoteAddr and so shares one bucket, which is the
+		// fail-closed direction.
 		return r.RemoteAddr
 	}