fix(issues): the preview must not ask the tracker for a repository context
The composer's preview did not fail a call — it killed the Gitea process, and
with it the git server and the container registry. `POST /api/v1/markdown` with
`{"Mode": "gfm", "Context": "<repo>"}` makes Gitea resolve every hex-shaped word
as a commit link, and on the API's render path the commit checker it asks is nil:
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
renderhelper.(*commitChecker).IsCommitIDExisting(0x0)
<- markup.hashCurrentPatternProcessor (html_commit.go:217)
Every report carries hex — a tab id, a request id — so this was not an edge case
but the only case: the preview answered "the tracker isn't answering" every time,
because the tracker had just died.
Measured on throwaway instances, not argued. Same body, same call:
gfm + Context + "5645b1c0ae01" -> 1.26.4 CRASH, 1.27.1 CRASH, 1.27.3 200
gfm + Context, no hex -> 200
gfm, no Context -> 200, and the HTML keeps its tables, task
lists and chroma-highlighted code blocks
Upstream fixed it in 1.27.2 ("fix: avoid markup render panic", #38698), but a
self-hoster runs whatever version they run, so the payload is what gets fixed.
Sending was never affected: the created issue's own page renders the same body
fine (measured) — a real repo context has a real commit checker. The only loss is
that a hash or a `#123` is not yet a link in the preview; the issue page links it.
The test pins the payload dict, because the defect is in what we send.
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ before a line of this was written (plans/e16-debug-issue.md, S0).
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Configured by an admin (sysconfig `issues_gitea_url` / `_repo` / `_token`, the token encrypted at
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rest). The repository must be PRIVATE: an issue carries its reporter's log — page titles, filter
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values, at Teljes what they typed into search — and a public repository would publish it. That is
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values, at Teljes (TRACE) what they typed into search — and a public repository would publish it. That is
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checked on every send, not only in the admin's "test connection", because a repository can be made
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public after the fact.
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@@ -154,9 +154,22 @@ def check(db: Session) -> dict:
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def preview(db: Session, text: str) -> str:
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"""The body as Gitea itself will render it (its markdown flavour, its sanitiser)."""
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with _client(_settings(db)) as (client, repo):
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r = _call(client, "POST", "/markdown", json={"Text": text, "Mode": "gfm", "Context": repo})
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"""The body as Gitea itself will render it (its markdown flavour, its sanitiser).
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**No `Context`, deliberately — a repository context here does not fail the call, it kills the
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tracker.** With one, Gitea's post-processor turns every hex-shaped word into a commit link, and
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on the API's render path the commit checker it asks is nil: the whole Gitea process segfaults
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and restarts, taking the git server (and, here, the container registry) down with it. Every
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report carries hex — a tab id, a request id — so this was not an edge case but the only case.
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Measured on throwaway instances (2026-09-20): `{"Mode": "gfm", "Context": "<repo>"}` with
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`5645b1c0ae01` in the text crashes 1.26.4 and 1.27.1 and is fixed in 1.27.3 — but a self-hoster
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runs whatever version they run, so the payload stays safe here rather than relying on theirs.
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Dropping `Context` is not a downgrade of the preview: measured against the same body, the HTML
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keeps its tables, its task lists and its highlighted code blocks. It only stops resolving
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repo-relative links (a hash, a `#123`), which the issue page itself still resolves.
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"""
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with _client(_settings(db)) as (client, _repo):
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r = _call(client, "POST", "/markdown", json={"Text": text, "Mode": "gfm"})
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return r.text
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