notify: fix panic when truncating multi-byte messages - #5544
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TruncateInBytes indexed the rune slice with a byte count. In notify/util.go it built the starting slice as r[:truncationTarget], where r is []rune(s) and truncationTarget is n-3, a number of bytes. A string holding multi-byte characters has fewer runes than bytes, so whenever the input was longer than n bytes but held fewer than n-3 runes the index ran past the end of the rune slice and panicked with "slice bounds out of range". The Webex notifier is the only caller. It truncates the rendered message to maxMessageSize (7439 bytes) in notify/webex/webex.go:89, so a notification whose markdown was 7440 bytes or more of non-ASCII text crashed Alertmanager: 3720 Cyrillic characters, 2480 CJK characters or 1860 emoji are enough. The notification pipeline runs in a goroutine started by the dispatcher and nothing recovers, so the process exits. Clamp the starting index to the number of runes available. The loop that follows already trims the slice down until it fits the byte budget, so the result is unchanged for every input that did not panic. Add a case to TestTruncate covering a short string whose byte budget exceeds its rune count, TestTruncateInBytesFewerRunesThanBytes covering two-, three- and four-byte runes at the Webex limit, and TestWebexTruncatesMultiByteMessage covering the notifier end to end. Signed-off-by: Max Freedom Pollard <272618364+MaxFreedomPollard@users.noreply.github.com>
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🟡 Minor · Reject unrepresentable retry delays. · util.go:257
notify/util.go:257
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject unrepresentable retry delays.
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strconv.Atoiaccepts values such asRetry-After: 18446744074. Thetime.Duration(secs) * time.Secondconversion overflows beforemax(0, ...)runs. The wrapped value remains positive, so Slack and Webex can wait for a much shorter delay than requested.Check the maximum representable seconds before multiplication. Return zero when
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In `@notify/webex/webex_test.go`:
- Line 316: Update the test handler around io.ReadAll and the Notify call so the
handler sends its read error through a channel instead of calling
require.NoError directly in the server goroutine; after Notify returns, receive
that error and assert it in the test goroutine.
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In `@notify/util.go`:
- Line 257: Update the retry-delay conversion in the surrounding parser to check
whether secs exceeds the maximum representable time.Duration value in seconds
before multiplying by time.Second; return zero for unrepresentable values, while
preserving the existing nonnegative handling for valid delays.
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TruncateInBytesinnotify/util.goindexes the rune slice with a byte count. Onmain, line 139 builds the starting slice asr[:truncationTarget], whereris[]rune(s)andtruncationTargetisn-3, a number of bytes. A string holding multi-byte characters has fewer runes than bytes, so whenever the input is longer thannbytes while holding fewer thann-3runes, the index runs past the end of the rune slice and panics.The Webex notifier is the only caller in this repository.
notify/webex/webex.go:89truncates the rendered markdown tomaxMessageSize, which is 7439 bytes, so a notification whose message reaches 7440 bytes of non-ASCII text crashes Alertmanager. 3720 Cyrillic characters, 2480 CJK characters or 1860 emoji are enough. The notification pipeline runs in a goroutine started by the dispatcher atdispatch/dispatch.go:578, and neithernotifynordispatchrecovers, so the process exits.The line arrived in f51f51e, "Use the new truncation in bytes functions to ensure strings are not butchered", part of #3132, which replaced the byte slicing that #3135 had introduced a day earlier.
TruncateInRunesis not affected: it returns early whenlen(r) <= n, so its ownr[:n-1]is always in range.What changed
truncatedRunesnow starts atr[:min(truncationTarget, len(r))]. The loop that follows already trims the slice down until it fits, andtruncationTargetis still the byte budget it trims to, so the returned string is unchanged for every input that did not panic. The existingTestTruncatetable passes untouched.How tested
Two new tests fail on unmodified
mainand pass with the fix.TestTruncateInBytesFewerRunesThanBytesinnotify/util_test.gocovers two-byte, three-byte and four-byte runes at the Webex limit. It asserts the result stays within the limit, ends with the truncation marker, is a prefix of the input, and keeps as many whole runes as the byte budget allows.TestWebexTruncatesMultiByteMessageinnotify/webex/webex_test.godrivesNotifyend to end with a 3720 character Cyrillic annotation against anhttptestserver, and asserts the posted markdown fitsmaxMessageSize.On unmodified
main, with only the two test files applied:The third test change is one more case in the existing
TestTruncatetable,TruncateInBytes("😀😀", 7). Two runes, eight bytes: the byte budget left for the text is larger than the number of runes to pick it from. That case passes onmainas well, because the rune slice happens to have enough spare capacity for the out of length index to be legal, and the loop then trims the zero runes it picked up back off. It is here to pin the small end of the same mistake.With the fix applied, on Go 1.26.4 and golangci-lint v2.13.1, the version pinned in
Makefile.common:I also ran
go testacross the 76 Go packages that build without the generated UI assets. They all pass exceptTestDefaultConfigFilesOthersWithXDGConfigHomeincli, which fails identically on unmodifiedmainon macOS, becauseos.UserConfigDirreturns~/Library/Application Supportthere and ignoresXDG_CONFIG_HOME.go build ./...needsui/app/dist, which a fresh clone does not have, so I built and tested by package list instead.Pull Request Checklist
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