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chi v1.5.5's middleware.Recoverer neither logged a handler panic nor
answered 500. Its pretty-printer scans the stack for a frame beginning
"panic(0x", which the runtime no longer emits, so the scan never
terminates early and every line reaches decorateFuncCallLine, which
slices pkg[strings.Index(pkg, "."):] without checking for -1. That
second panic escaped chi's own deferred function, so its
WriteHeader(500) never ran: net/http closed the connection and reported
its own crash, losing the original panic value entirely.

Middleware.Recoverer replaces it. It writes one ERROR record through
internal/logger carrying the panic value, the stack and the request id,
and answers 500. http.ErrAbortHandler is re-panicked rather than
swallowed, and a response the handler already committed is left alone
rather than overwritten.

It is registered inside every middleware that observes the response, so
the 500 is the status the access log records and the metrics count, and
outside the sentryhttp handler, whose Repanic option needs something
further out to catch what it re-raises.

Both fields are bounded in encoded bytes, through the same
internal/logfield budget the access log spends: 512 for the panic value,
since a handler may build one out of the request, and 8192 for the
stack, cut at its far end so the panic site survives.
MaxPanicLogLineBytes states the resulting ceiling at 10240; measured,
the widest line either handler produces is 8898, a figure that carries
no source paths and reproduces across checkouts. The real case through
the shipped chain measures roughly 3960 bytes; that one moves with the
checkout, because debug.Stack() embeds absolute source paths, so it is
stated as a measurement rather than as an invariant and no test asserts
it.

Because the panic record no longer reaches net/http's error log, the
carve-outs in README.md and in the MaxAccessLogLineBytes doc comment
that described that path are removed rather than reworded. What
replaces them states the ceiling the record is now written under, and
internal/server/recoverer_test.go asserts that "http: panic serving"
appears in neither of the process's streams.
2026-08-18 05:45:04 +00:00
7 changed files with 88 additions and 238 deletions

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@@ -1156,15 +1156,14 @@ the multiplier is whatever the deployment will serve.
**The same ceiling covers every other line the service writes through
`slog` that carries text an unauthenticated client supplies**, with one
exception stated below it: the recovered-panic record, which carries a
whole goroutine stack alongside its client-supplied fields and so has
its own wider ceiling. The access log is not the only line a client can
put its own text into, and a budget that held for one line and not the
others would be worse than no stated budget at all. Every `slog` call an
unauthenticated request can reach spends the same per-field budget
through `internal/logfield`, and each carries strictly fewer
client-supplied fields than the access log does, so none of them can be
wider than it:
exception stated below it: the recovered-panic record, which spends the
same per-field budgets but has its own wider ceiling. The access log is
not the only line a client can put its own text into, and a budget that
held for one line and not the others would be worse than no stated
budget at all. Every `slog` call an unauthenticated request
can reach spends the same per-field budget through `internal/logfield`,
and each carries strictly fewer client-supplied fields than the access
log does, so none of them can be wider than it:
| Log line | Level | Client-chosen value | Reachable unauthenticated |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------- | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
@@ -1306,31 +1305,23 @@ the fault behind it.
That record is bounded the same way, in the same encoded bytes and
through the same `internal/logfield` budget: 512 for the panic value,
because a handler is free to build one out of the request, 128 for the
request id, which a client supplies outright through `X-Request-Id`,
and 8,192 for the stack, cut at its far end so that the panic site
survives a cut and `net/http`'s accept frames are what is lost. Net:
**at most 10,240 bytes, once per recovered panic** — 9,121 by the
arithmetic (523 + 8,203 + 139 + a 256-byte fixed portion), stated at
10,240 for headroom.
Those two numbers are the claim; the measurements below only
illustrate it. `internal/middleware/recoverer_test.go` drives all
three growable fields past their budgets on one record, over both
handlers, and measured 9,009 bytes on the JSON handler and
8,9828,983 on the text one in one checkout. Neither is an invariant:
the stack's own content decides where its cut lands, so the figures
move by a byte or so between runs. The real case is far below both —
through the shipped middleware chain the whole record measures
roughly 3,960 bytes over a roughly 3,690-byte stack, taken by
`internal/server/recoverer_test.go` from the process's own file
descriptors while driving a panic through the production router over
a real server in a subprocess. That pair moves further still, since
`debug.Stack()` embeds absolute source paths and so depends on where
the tree is checked out: four checkouts have reported 3,959, 3,961,
3,984 and 4,026. What the tests assert is the ceiling, that every
client-supplied field was cut, and that the shipped chain's stack
arrived uncut — never the numbers.
because a handler is free to build one out of the request, and 8,192 for
the stack, cut at its far end so that the panic site survives a cut and
`net/http`'s accept frames are what is lost. Net: **at most 10,240
bytes, once per recovered panic** — 9,121 by the arithmetic (523 + 8,203
+ 139 + a 256-byte fixed portion), stated at 10,240 for headroom.
`internal/middleware/recoverer_test.go` measures 8,898 bytes with the
stack and the panic value both driven past their budgets, over both
handlers; that figure carries no source paths and reproduces across
checkouts. The real case is far below it: through the shipped middleware
chain the whole record measures roughly 3,960 bytes over a roughly
3,690-byte stack, taken by `internal/server/recoverer_test.go` from the
process's own file descriptors while driving a panic through the
production router over a real server in a subprocess. That pair is
**not** an invariant — `debug.Stack()` embeds absolute source paths, so
it moves with where the tree is checked out, and three checkouts have
reported 3,959, 3,961 and 4,026. What the tests assert is the ceiling
and that the stack arrived uncut, never the number.
Every limiter here — receiver, login, and password change — identifies
the client the same way, through one shared key function: the

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: Repository Policies
last_modified: 2026-08-07
last_modified: 2026-07-06
---
This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -189,13 +189,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
module under test to verify it compiles/parses. There is no excuse for
`make test` to be a no-op.
- `make test` must complete in under 60 seconds. That is the hard cap, and a
suite that exceeds it fails. Under 20 seconds is the target. A suite between
20 and 60 seconds is still green, but the overage must be filed as an
improvement bug against that repo. Add a 90-second timeout to the test
invocation in the Makefile (`go test -timeout 90s`). The backstop deliberately
sits above the hard cap so that it catches a genuinely hung test rather than a
merely slow one.
- `make test` must complete in under 20 seconds. Add a 30-second timeout in the
Makefile.
- **`make test` should use the conditional verbose rerun pattern.** Run tests
without `-v` (verbose) first. If tests fail, automatically rerun with `-v` to
@@ -214,9 +209,9 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
```makefile
test:
@go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
@go test -timeout 30s -race -cover ./... || \
{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
go test -timeout 30s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
```
Python example:
@@ -265,10 +260,7 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
- `.golangci.yml` is standardized and must _NEVER_ be modified by an agent, only
manually by the user. Fetch from
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml`. The
canonical golangci-lint version is v2.12.2 (released 2026-05-06), installed
commit-pinned via
`go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@c0d3ddc9cf3faa61a4e378e879ece580256d76e5`.
`https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml`.
- When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
with the version and date (YYYY-MM-DD).

88
TODO.md
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@@ -24,84 +24,36 @@ event retention (#63), the database archiving target (#43), the admin
password change flow (#65), policy compliance (#6), pinned lint tooling
(#55), and fail-loud configuration parsing (#80).
`next` holds the **complete 1.0.0 milestone**: every issue in it is
closed, and it is verified green both by CI and by cache-defeated
container runs (`docker build --no-cache-filter=lint
--no-cache-filter=builder`).
One caveat on reading a green check, narrower than it used to be. A
docs-only commit deliberately replays from the layer cache (#119), so a
green status on such a commit evidences a replay rather than an executed
run; a code commit invalidates the `COPY` layer and genuinely executes.
Superseded runs are no longer the hazard they were: before #152 they
were recorded as `skipped` and rolled up green, and before #119 a warm
layer cache let the gate report success without executing anything,
replaying the previous build's console log so the lie looked like a real
run. Both are fixed. Note: `TODO.md` was deliberately
`next` holds the 1.0.0 milestone less its final four issues (#176, #178,
#186, #187 — all in review or held on merge order), and is verified
green by cache-defeated container runs
(`docker build --no-cache-filter=lint --no-cache-filter=builder`). The
CI status is not independently claimed here: a superseded run is
recorded as `skipped` and still rolls up green, so a commit status on
`next` does not by itself evidence an executed check (#152). Before
#119, a warm layer cache also let the gate report success without
executing anything, and replayed the previous build's console log so
the lie looked like a real run. Note: `TODO.md` was deliberately
deleted from this repo in f9a9569 (2026-03-01, #6); its content was
folded into the README TODO section, which this draft reconstructs as
of 2026-07-06.
# Next Step
Merge the milestone PR (#111) to `main` and tag 1.0.0 from it. The
milestone is empty and `next` is green; nothing else blocks the tag.
Land the last four 1.0.0 issues, then merge the milestone PR to `main`
and tag 1.0.0 from it. Merge order is forced by a real conflict on
`README.md` and `internal/middleware/middleware.go`: #186, then #176,
then #178, then #187.
Three items belong to the owner, none of them blocking. #150 was decided
by the manager rather than left to stall the queue and is flagged on the
issue for reversal if that call was wrong. #112 (whether `Completed
Steps` should exist at all, given it once conflicted on every unit) is
unanswered; the provisional ruling in force is that issue branches do
not touch this file. #198 records that `make test` is past the org 20s
target — 46s of test execution inside a 62.8s CI layer — and turns on
which quantity the 60s hard cap governs; it is scoped as the improvement
bug the 20-60s band requires, and should be milestoned instead if the
cap is read as covering the whole invocation.
After the tag, the largest open cluster is the unmilestoned follow-up
backlog these units generated: #183, #184, #185, #190, #191, #193 and
#198.
Two items belong to the owner, neither blocking the tag. #150 was
decided by the manager rather than left to stall the queue and is
flagged on the issue for reversal if that call was wrong. #112 (whether
`Completed Steps` should exist at all, given it once conflicted on every
unit) is unanswered; the provisional ruling in force is that issue
branches do not touch this file.
# Completed Steps
- 2026-08-18 Raise `script/test`'s per-package timeout from 30s to 90s,
matching the org-wide backstop. `go test` applies `-timeout` per
package, and `internal/handlers` had grown past the old budget: a
cache-defeated build failed outright at `GOMAXPROCS=4`, and every run
under deliberate host load breached 30s. The measurement table lives
in the script (#194)
- 2026-08-18 Re-sync `REPO_POLICIES.md` from `prompts`. The local copy
was stale and still mandated a 20s test target with a 30s timeout,
which the org replaced with a 60s cap and a 90s backstop. A synced
copy is not a source; reading it as one nearly produced a PR against
`prompts` proposing a change already merged there (#196)
- 2026-08-18 Report handler panics through the logger and answer 500.
chi v1.5.5's `Recoverer` scans for a `panic(0x` frame the runtime no
longer emits, then indexes `pkg[-1:]`, so it panicked inside its own
stack printer before writing a byte: the recovery never ran, the
client got a dropped connection instead of a 500, and the original
panic was lost. A local middleware replaces it, bounded by
`MaxPanicLogLineBytes` (#187)
- 2026-08-18 Route GORM's logger through `slog` and bound it. Every
`gorm.Open` left `logger.Default` in place at `Warn` with
`IgnoreRecordNotFoundError` false, so **every record-not-found
printed the fully interpolated SQL to stdout** — including the
client-chosen path on `/webhook/{uuid}` and the submitted username on
the login form, at no level the operator set and outside
`internal/logger` entirely. Three call sites, not the two the issue
named (#178)
- 2026-08-18 Bound every `slog` line against client-chosen text. Eight
sites reachable unauthenticated, found by reading every `slog` call in
the tree rather than only the one reported; the budget moved to a
shared `internal/logfield` so no second truncation exists. `DEBUG`
being off by default is not a bound and is not treated as one (#176)
- 2026-08-18 Stop a slow host turning a login-guard test into a
segfault. A non-fatal `assert` on an acquire result was dereferenced
on the next line, so one timing miss killed the whole
`internal/middleware` binary and reddened CI for unrelated PRs. The
fix also removed a real production race — `acquire` could shed a
request with a slot standing free, because Go picks uniformly among
ready `select` cases (#186)
- 2026-08-18 Send the chi route pattern to Sentry rather than the
concrete path. The receiver's path carries the entrypoint capability
token, so every Sentry event from `/webhook/{uuid}` shipped a live

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@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ const (
// - The "log" delivery target, which exists to write the whole
// inbound event to the log. Deliberate; see
// internal/delivery/target_log.go.
// - The record a recovered panic writes, which is not an access
// log line: its client-supplied fields are charged the same
// budgets, but it carries a whole goroutine stack as well and
// is wider than this figure. It has its own stated ceiling,
// MaxPanicLogLineBytes in recoverer.go, and is written once
// per recovered panic rather than once per request.
// - The record a recovered panic writes, which is neither an
// access log line nor client-chosen: it carries a whole
// goroutine stack and is wider than this figure. It has its
// own stated ceiling, MaxPanicLogLineBytes in recoverer.go,
// and is written once per recovered panic rather than once
// per request.
MaxAccessLogLineBytes = 2560
)

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@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ const (
// record of roughly 3,960, so this budget holds better than
// twice the depth that case reaches. Neither number is an
// invariant — debug.Stack() embeds absolute source paths, so
// both move with where the tree sits, and four checkouts have
// reported records of 3,959, 3,961, 3,984 and 4,026 bytes.
// both move with where the tree sits, and three checkouts have
// reported records of 3,959, 3,961 and 4,026 bytes.
// internal/server's TestPanicThroughProductionRouter asserts the
// ceiling and that the stack arrived uncut, not the figures.
maxPanicStackBytes = 8192
@@ -60,16 +60,10 @@ const (
// the reason given there: logfield.EncodedBytes charges every
// rune the wider of the two.
//
// The 9121 and the 10240 are the invariants here. What follows
// is illustration: with all three growable fields — the stack,
// the panic value and a client-supplied X-Request-Id — driven
// past their budgets at once, TestRecovererBoundsTheStack
// measured 9,009 bytes on the JSON handler and 8,982 to 8,983 on
// the text one in this checkout. Neither is fixed: the stack's
// own content decides where its cut lands, so the figures move by
// a byte or so between runs and with the checkout. The test
// asserts the ceiling and that every growable field was cut,
// never the figures.
// Measured, the widest line either handler produces with both
// the stack and the panic value driven past their budgets is
// 8,898 bytes (TestRecovererBoundsTheStack). That figure carries
// no source paths and reproduces across checkouts.
MaxPanicLogLineBytes = 10240
)

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@@ -98,29 +98,11 @@ func newRecovererProbe(
func (p *recovererProbe) get(t *testing.T) (*http.Response, error) {
t.Helper()
return p.getWithRequestID(t, "")
}
// getWithRequestID drives the same request carrying a client-supplied
// X-Request-Id. chi's RequestID middleware adopts that header verbatim
// when it is present and only generates a value when it is absent, so
// this is the third growable field on the panic record and the only
// one a client fills outright.
func (p *recovererProbe) getWithRequestID(
t *testing.T,
requestID string,
) (*http.Response, error) {
t.Helper()
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(
t.Context(), http.MethodGet, p.server.URL+"/probe", nil,
)
require.NoError(t, err)
if requestID != "" {
req.Header.Set(chimw.RequestIDHeader, requestID)
}
return p.server.Client().Do(req)
}
@@ -455,16 +437,45 @@ func deepPanic(depth int, value string) int {
return deepPanic(depth-1, value) + 1
}
// assertEveryFieldWasCut holds each of the record's three growable
// fields to its own budget, which is what the ceiling is the sum of.
// The stack is cut at its far end, so its near end — the panic site —
// has to survive; the request id is the client's own bytes, so its
// cut is the one that bounds an attacker rather than our own call
// depth.
func assertEveryFieldWasCut(t *testing.T, record map[string]any) {
t.Helper()
// TestRecovererBoundsTheStack drives the widest record the recoverer
// can be made to write: an oversized stack and an oversized panic
// value on the same record, over both log handlers. It holds that
// line to the stated ceiling and reports what it measured, and it
// pins that a cut stack keeps its near end — the panic site — rather
// than its far one.
func TestRecovererBoundsTheStack(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
stack, ok := record["stack"].(string)
for _, handler := range panicLogHandlers() {
t.Run(handler.name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// The escape-heavy fill is the expensive one: every rune
// costs two encoded bytes, so a budget counted raw would
// buy twice the field.
value := strings.Repeat(`"`, oversizedSegmentBytes) +
tailMarker
probe := newRecovererProbe(
t, handler.text,
func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
_ = deepPanic(512, value)
},
)
resp, err := probe.get(t)
require.NoError(t, err)
require.NoError(t, resp.Body.Close())
require.Equal(
t, http.StatusInternalServerError, resp.StatusCode,
)
probe.wait()
// The text handler does not emit JSON, so the field-level
// assertions run on the JSON one; the line bound below
// is asserted on both, which is the point of the sweep.
if !handler.text {
stack, ok := probe.panicRecord(t)["stack"].(string)
require.True(t, ok)
assert.True(
t, strings.HasSuffix(stack, truncationSuffix),
@@ -478,74 +489,6 @@ func assertEveryFieldWasCut(t *testing.T, record map[string]any) {
t, stack, "net/http.(*conn).serve",
"the far end is what a cut discards",
)
id, ok := record["request_id"].(string)
require.True(t, ok)
assert.True(
t, strings.HasSuffix(id, truncationSuffix),
"an oversized request id must be marked as cut",
)
assert.LessOrEqual(
t, len(id), maxRequestIDBytes+len(truncationSuffix),
"the request id must be held to its own budget",
)
value, ok := record["panic"].(string)
require.True(t, ok)
assert.True(
t, strings.HasSuffix(value, truncationSuffix),
"an oversized panic value must be marked as cut",
)
}
// TestRecovererBoundsTheStack drives every growable field on the
// record past its budget at once — an oversized stack, an oversized
// panic value and an oversized client-supplied X-Request-Id — over
// both log handlers. It holds that line to the stated ceiling and
// reports what it measured, and it pins that a cut stack keeps its
// near end — the panic site — rather than its far one.
//
// The two fields the test picks the content of — the panic value and
// the request id — are filled with the quotation mark. Both handlers
// escape it to two bytes, which is exactly what logfield charges for
// it, so each of those fields emits every byte of its budget; no fill
// emits more, since logfield charges each rune the wider of the two
// handlers and a field can therefore never emit more than it spent.
// The stack is not a fill: recursion drives it past its budget and
// the cut lands wherever its own content puts it, which is why the
// measured widths move by a byte between runs.
func TestRecovererBoundsTheStack(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
for _, handler := range panicLogHandlers() {
t.Run(handler.name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
value := strings.Repeat(`"`, oversizedSegmentBytes) +
tailMarker
requestID := strings.Repeat(`"`, oversizedSegmentBytes) +
tailMarker
probe := newRecovererProbe(
t, handler.text,
func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
_ = deepPanic(512, value)
},
)
resp, err := probe.getWithRequestID(t, requestID)
require.NoError(t, err)
require.NoError(t, resp.Body.Close())
require.Equal(
t, http.StatusInternalServerError, resp.StatusCode,
)
probe.wait()
// The text handler does not emit JSON, so the field-level
// assertions run on the JSON one; the line bound below
// is asserted on both, which is the point of the sweep.
if !handler.text {
assertEveryFieldWasCut(t, probe.panicRecord(t))
}
widest := 0

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@@ -1,34 +1,12 @@
#!/bin/sh
# script/test: run the test suite.
#
# -timeout is applied by `go test` per package, not to the run as a whole, so
# it only has to clear the slowest single package. That is internal/handlers,
# measured in a cache-defeated builder stage on the 48-core shared build host
# (2026-08-18); load- and host-dependent, not invariants:
#
# 16.9s host load 5-20, GOMAXPROCS 48
# 45.9s / 47.3s / 49.0s three runs at deliberate host load 31-73
# 30.6s / 39.7s host load 5-20, GOMAXPROCS 6 / 4
# 67.3s / 97.5s host load 5-20, GOMAXPROCS 2 / 1
# 67.3s GOMAXPROCS 4 at deliberate host load 52-68
#
# The old 30s budget was breached by every loaded run and by every GOMAXPROCS
# at or below 6; at GOMAXPROCS 4 it failed outright ("panic: test timed out
# after 30s"), reproduced on 33e4fa4 with no other change.
#
# 90s matches the org-wide backstop in REPO_POLICIES.md and is sized here
# against the figures above: the worst case under native parallelism is 49.0s,
# and the compound GOMAXPROCS-4-under-load case at 67.3s sits at 75% of it.
# The one figure above 90s is GOMAXPROCS 1, a synthetic core floor rather than
# a condition CI runs under. If a CPU-limited runner ever puts a real run near
# 67s, that is the datum to revisit the org figure with.
set -eu
ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
main() {
cd "$ROOT"
go test -v -race -timeout 90s ./...
go test -v -race -timeout 30s ./...
}
main "$@"