Round 2 of the E22 review, on what round 1 changed.
`redact_query` decodes a parameter before the text rules see it, which is what lets `%40` be
recognised as an address — but `_SECRET_PARAM_RE` was written for the raw, encoded form, where a
value holds no space, `&` or quote. On decoded text its value class stops at the first one, so
`?state=a%20b` kept its tail and `?code=%20abc` was not matched at all. The parameter-NAME rule now
decides, on the key, before any text rule runs.
`forget_user` dropped the account's level elevation without recomputing the root level, so a process
whose only elevated account had just deleted itself kept building TRACE records to throw away, until
some later request happened to recompute it. Every other path that drops an elevation recomputes.
The sink's writer took the erasure lock and THEN waited for a pooled connection, while every request
path already holds a connection when it reaches that lock — so under pool pressure the writer held a
process-global lock against the very requests that could hand a connection back. Same order on both
sides now; the lock still spans the check, the insert and the commit.
The storage-budget notice said the rest of the hour was not kept, and then smaller batches kept
landing underneath it: the window slides and a refused batch is not charged to it. Says what it does.
Tests: the route's half of the erasure rule had no test — only the sink's did — and a source-level
contract test now covers the third insert nobody has written yet. `logs._erased` is process-global
with an hour's memory while the DB fixture hands serial ids back out from 1, so it is swept before
each test like the rate limiters are.
Deep-review round 1 of E22.
- A NUL character (`GET /assets/%00` logs the decoded path) made Postgres
refuse the row and with it the sink's whole batch, every user's rows
included. `to_row` replaces NUL in every text column and in attrs.
- An erased account's lines kept arriving after purge_user's DELETE: the
erasing request's own access line, a queued row, a background task.
`logs.forget_user` runs first; later rows are stored without the account,
and the check and the insert share a lock with the erasure.
- An admin setting the whole process to TRACE logged every user's query
string. The query is now logged only under the user's own Teljes consent,
and decoded before redaction, so `%40` no longer hides an address.
- The browser log ingest has an hourly storage budget per account (5 MiB,
one notice when spent) and reads only a JSON Content-Type, so a
same-site text/plain form post cannot write into a user's log.
RateLimiter takes a per-attempt cost for the byte budget.
- The root level is applied under the elevation lock: two concurrent
changes could leave it at the base while an elevation was active.
- Tests for the running sink (level gate, drain on stop) and for the
admin log level applied at runtime and at boot.
The log now has a stored, queryable copy for the diagnostics console:
every WARNING and above plus the request line of every request, kept
for log_retention_days (default 7, no "forever") and pruned hourly by
the new log_gc job.
Rows are built on the logging thread from the same redacted fields as
the stdout line, queued without blocking and written in batches by one
background thread on its own connection. A full queue or a failed write
drops and reports instead of retrying. Flood control keeps 30 of any
one message per minute plus a count of the rest; anonymous request
lines are capped at 60 a minute per client, and the client address is
never stored. Deleting an account deletes its stored events.
Measured on prod first: a YouTube RSS outage wrote 11k warnings in four
hours, one per channel per poll. The poll now writes one warning with
per-reason counts and a few examples, and a failure on our side gets
one traceback per poll instead of one per channel.
peter