fix(uploads): read the body after authenticating, not before it

`POST /api/downloads/upload` declared `file: UploadFile = File(...)`, and
FastAPI parses and spools a declared body before the first dependency runs --
`require_human` included. An unauthenticated caller could therefore make the
process write the whole per-file allowance (500 MiB by default) to temp, once
per request. SEC-20's ceiling bounded that number but could not stop the
writing, which is why E27 parked it rather than closing it.

The route now takes no body parameter. `spool_upload` names `require_human`
first and only then streams `request.stream()` to the staging temp file, so a
stranger is refused before a byte moves -- the shape the screenshot route has
used since E16. Filename and display name travel as percent-encoded headers
(latin-1 on the wire, so a Hungarian filename needs the encoding) instead of
multipart parts.

`capped_stream_to` joins `capped_body` in routes/_common.py: the same counting
rule, written to a file descriptor rather than accumulated, because holding
500 MiB would trade a disk problem for a memory one. Its refusal is the
caller's, so the upload route keeps answering 422 `upload_too_large` with the
admin knob's own number.

With no envelope to allow for, the edge is now exactly that knob, and
MULTIPART_ENVELOPE_ALLOWANCE is gone.

The invariant stops being prose: test_body_limit.py asks FastAPI itself
(`route.dependant.body_params`) and fails the gate if any route with a raised
ceiling declares a body. A comment could not have prevented the defect it
described; that test would have.

Both new tests were seen red for the right reason -- before the fix the
anonymous probe got its 401 only after the server had read 4236 bytes of a
multipart body, and re-declaring the File parameter turns the invariant test
red naming the route and the parameter.
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parent b82c22b888
commit f5018bdcbc
10 changed files with 396 additions and 109 deletions
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@@ -53,31 +53,32 @@ DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES = 1024 * 1024
#
# These are RAISED CEILINGS, NOT EXEMPTIONS, and the difference is the whole point. An exemption
# would mean "this route is counted by something else" — which is only true when the route's own
# limit applies to the bytes as they ARRIVE. That holds for the screenshot route (no declared body
# parameter: `capped_body` streams it, and the owner check resolves first) and it does NOT hold for
# the upload route: `file: UploadFile = File(...)` is a declared body, so FastAPI parses and spools
# the whole multipart part to a temp file BEFORE the first dependency runs — `require_human`
# included. Its in-handler cap therefore measures bytes that have already landed. Left uncounted,
# an anonymous caller could stream without bound into the container's tmpfs; counted here, the
# process refuses at the same number the route itself enforces, before any of it is stored.
# limit applies to the bytes as they ARRIVE. That, in turn, is only true of a route with NO DECLARED
# BODY PARAMETER: FastAPI parses and spools a declared body BEFORE the first dependency runs, so a
# route that declares one has already stored the bytes by the time its own cap — or its auth — gets
# a say.
#
# Both listed routes now satisfy that. The screenshot route always did (`capped_body` streams it,
# and the owner check resolves first). The upload route did NOT until P1: it declared
# `file: UploadFile = File(...)`, so an anonymous caller could make the process write the whole
# per-file allowance to temp before `require_human` refused them — this middleware bounded that
# number but could not stop the writing. It now reads its own body from a dependency declared after
# the auth one, so its in-handler cap measures bytes as they arrive, like everything else here.
#
# That rule is no longer only written here: `test_body_limit.py` parses the routes and fails the
# gate if any route in this dict declares a body parameter. A comment could not have stopped the
# defect it describes; the test can.
#
# A route belongs here ONLY IF ITS OWN CAP IS LARGER THAN THE DEFAULT. That is why
# `POST /api/diagnostics/events` is absent: its `capped_body` limit is 512 KiB, already below the
# default, so listing it could only widen what it accepts.
# What a multipart envelope costs on top of the file itself: the boundary lines, the part headers
# and the sibling `display_name` field. The edge counts RAW BODY bytes while the upload route counts
# the DECODED file, so without this allowance a file of exactly the configured maximum — the number
# the admin page advertises, and the first thing anyone testing the limit reaches for — is refused
# one layer before the route that would have accepted it. Generous on purpose: its job is to keep
# the two layers from disagreeing at the boundary, not to be a second limit.
MULTIPART_ENVELOPE_ALLOWANCE = 64 * 1024
ROUTE_MAX_BODY_BYTES: dict[tuple[str, str], int] = {
# Ingesting a local video file. `sysconfig`'s `download_upload_max_bytes` is bounded so it can
# never exceed this (see sysconfig.SPECS), which is what stops an admin from raising the route's
# own cap past the edge and collecting 413s from a layer the admin page never mentions.
("POST", "/api/downloads/upload"): settings.download_upload_max_bytes
+ MULTIPART_ENVELOPE_ALLOWANCE,
# Ingesting a local file. The body IS the file since P1 — no multipart envelope to allow for —
# so this is exactly the number the route enforces. `sysconfig`'s `download_upload_max_bytes` is
# bounded so it can never exceed it (see sysconfig.SPECS), which is what stops an admin from
# raising the route's own cap past the edge and collecting 413s from a layer the admin page
# never mentions.
("POST", "/api/downloads/upload"): settings.download_upload_max_bytes,
("POST", "/api/debug-sessions/{sid}/screenshots"): debugsession.SCREENSHOT_MAX_BYTES,
}
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ and "fetch a row this user owns or 404" idioms have one definition, one status c
one existence-leak policy.
"""
from typing import Any, TypeVar
from typing import IO, Any, TypeVar
from fastapi import HTTPException, Request
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
@@ -79,6 +79,30 @@ async def capped_body(request: Request, limit: int) -> bytes:
return bytes(body)
async def capped_stream_to(
request: Request, out: IO[bytes], limit: int, refusal: HTTPException
) -> int:
"""`capped_body`'s sibling for a body too large to hold: the same counting rule, written
straight to `out` instead of accumulated, returning the size.
Two deliberate differences from `capped_body`. It never builds a `bytearray` — the upload route
admits 500 MiB by default, so holding the body would trade a disk problem for a memory one. And
the refusal is the CALLER'S, passed in rather than assumed: `capped_body`'s flat 413 is right
for a screenshot, while the upload route answers 422 `upload_too_large` carrying the admin
knob's own number, which is what its dialog shows the user. One counting rule, two answers,
neither of them a second copy of the loop.
The caller owns `out` and owns cleaning it up: a body refused half-way has already written what
arrived before the limit was passed."""
size = 0
async for chunk in request.stream():
size += len(chunk)
if size > limit:
raise refusal
out.write(chunk)
return size
def issue_refused(exc: gitea.GiteaError) -> HTTPException:
"""The refusal an issue-tracker failure (E16) answers as — the send, the preview and the
admin's connection test alike. Literal reasons, one per case: the frontend's contract test reads
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@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ serves finished files (range-aware, with the user's custom display name), and sh
import os
import re
import tempfile
from collections.abc import AsyncIterator
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlparse
from urllib.parse import parse_qs, unquote, urlparse
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, File, Form, HTTPException, Request, UploadFile
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, Request
from fastapi.responses import FileResponse
from pydantic import BaseModel
from sqlalchemy import func, select
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ from app.models import (
MediaAsset,
User,
)
from app.routes._common import get_or_404, not_found, owned_or_404
from app.routes._common import capped_stream_to, get_or_404, not_found, owned_or_404
from app.security import hash_password
from app.userscope import is_messageable_user, messageable_clauses
from app.utils import iso
@@ -406,61 +408,113 @@ def enqueue_download(
return _serialize_job(db, job)
# Read the upload in 1 MiB chunks so a large file never sits fully in memory, and the size cap is
# enforced on the ACTUAL bytes read (a client-set Content-Length can't be trusted to gate it).
_UPLOAD_CHUNK = 1024 * 1024
# The upload's filename and display name travel as HEADERS, not as multipart parts. That is not a
# style choice: a DECLARED body parameter (`file: UploadFile = File(...)`) is read and spooled by
# FastAPI *before the first dependency runs*, so `require_human` could not gate it and an anonymous
# caller could make the process write the whole per-file allowance to temp, per request (P1; SEC-20
# bounded the number but could not stop the writing). Reading the body ourselves, from a dependency
# declared AFTER the auth one, is the only shape that closes it — the same one
# `POST /api/debug-sessions/{sid}/screenshots` uses, and `test_body_limit.py` now enforces it for
# every route with a raised ceiling rather than leaving it to a comment like this one.
#
# Headers are latin-1 on the wire, so both are percent-encoded by the client and unquoted here; a
# Hungarian filename would otherwise be unsendable.
UPLOAD_FILENAME_HEADER = "x-upload-filename"
UPLOAD_DISPLAY_NAME_HEADER = "x-upload-display-name"
@router.post("/upload")
def upload_download(
file: UploadFile = File(...),
display_name: str | None = Form(None),
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class SpooledUpload:
"""What the body dependency hands the handler: the bytes already on disk, plus the two names
that came alongside them."""
path: Path
size: int
user_id: int
filename: str
display_name: str | None
def _header_text(request: Request, name: str) -> str:
"""One percent-encoded header, decoded. A header that is not valid UTF-8 once unquoted is the
caller's doing, not a server fault — it degrades to empty rather than 500ing, and the route's
own fallback names the file."""
raw = request.headers.get(name, "")
try:
return unquote(raw, errors="strict").strip()
except (UnicodeDecodeError, ValueError):
# silent-ok: a mis-encoded header is the caller's own malformed request, and this one is
# cosmetic — it names the file. Refusing the upload over it would fail a 500 MiB transfer on
# a label; logging it would hand any client a free log line per request.
return ""
async def spool_upload(
request: Request,
user: User = Depends(require_human),
db: Session = Depends(get_db),
) -> dict:
"""Ingest a local file into the caller's library (E7 S5). Any file type is accepted; media
(video/audio) gets the full function set, a generic file is download-only. The file is streamed
to a temp path under the download volume (enforcing the per-file cap as it goes), then handed to
the non-yt-dlp ingest which probes + places it and returns an already-`done` job.
) -> AsyncIterator[SpooledUpload]:
"""Stream the request body to a staging temp file, enforcing the per-file cap as it arrives.
A sync (threadpool) handler on purpose: the ingest does blocking work — an ffprobe of up to 30s
plus sync DB writes — so it must NOT run on the event loop. `file.file` is the sync file object
Starlette spools the multipart body into."""
`user` is taken but unused: it is the whole point. Dependencies resolve in declaration order, so
naming `require_human` here makes the auth check a precondition of reading the body at all — a
stranger is refused before a byte moves. The `yield` shape owns the temp file's life: ingest
MOVES it into place on success (the unlink is then a no-op), and on any other exit — cap hit,
empty, quota, probe or move error, a client that vanished mid-upload — it is removed."""
cap = sysconfig.get_int(db, "download_upload_max_bytes")
staging = Path(settings.download_root) / ".staging" / "uploads"
staging.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
fd, tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=str(staging))
tmp_path = Path(tmp)
try:
size = 0
with os.fdopen(fd, "wb") as out:
while chunk := file.file.read(_UPLOAD_CHUNK):
size += len(chunk)
if cap and size > cap:
raise HTTPException(
status_code=422, detail={"code": "upload_too_large", "limit": cap}
)
out.write(chunk)
if size == 0:
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail={"code": "upload_empty"})
try:
job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(
db,
user.id,
filename=file.filename or "upload",
src_path=tmp_path,
size=size,
display_name=(display_name or "").strip() or None,
size = await capped_stream_to(
request,
out,
cap,
HTTPException(status_code=422, detail={"code": "upload_too_large", "limit": cap}),
)
except quota.QuotaExceeded as e:
raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=_quota_detail(e))
return _serialize_job(db, job)
yield SpooledUpload(
path=tmp_path,
size=size,
user_id=user.id,
filename=_header_text(request, UPLOAD_FILENAME_HEADER) or "upload",
display_name=_header_text(request, UPLOAD_DISPLAY_NAME_HEADER) or None,
)
finally:
# Ingest MOVES the temp file into place on success (unlink is then a no-op); on any early exit
# — cap hit, empty, quota, probe/move error — this removes the abandoned staging file.
tmp_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
@router.post("/upload")
def upload_download(
upload: SpooledUpload = Depends(spool_upload),
db: Session = Depends(get_db),
) -> dict:
"""Ingest a local file into the caller's library (E7 S5). Any file type is accepted; media
(video/audio) gets the full function set, a generic file is download-only. The body IS the file
(see the header note above); `spool_upload` has already authenticated the caller and streamed it
to a temp path under the download volume, so what is left here is the non-yt-dlp ingest which
probes + places it and returns an already-`done` job.
A sync (threadpool) handler on purpose: the ingest does blocking work — an ffprobe of up to 30s
plus sync DB writes — so it must NOT run on the event loop. The streaming half is async because
reading the body is; keeping them in separate callables is what lets each run where it belongs."""
if upload.size == 0:
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail={"code": "upload_empty"})
try:
job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(
db,
upload.user_id,
filename=upload.filename,
src_path=upload.path,
size=upload.size,
display_name=upload.display_name,
)
except quota.QuotaExceeded as e:
raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=_quota_detail(e))
return _serialize_job(db, job)
class EnqueueEditIn(BaseModel):
source_job_id: int = 0
edit_spec: dict