fix(extensions): bound the AST walks over author-supplied source - #3027
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`validateCode` and `inferCapabilities` both walked an AST parsed from author-supplied source with `acorn-walk`'s `walk.simple`, which recurses once per AST level. A script nested a few hundred levels deep threw `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded` out of the middle of both, escaping the result shape each is declared to return. Measured here, an 800-level script overflowed and a 700-level one did not, and which of the two overflowed moved with test ordering — the failure point tracked whatever stack the caller had left. Both now traverse through a new internal `walkBounded` (`src/ast/bounded-walk.ts`), which keeps its own stack on the heap and stops at `MAX_AST_DEPTH = 1000`. It descends using `acorn-walk`'s own `base` visitor and reports nodes in `walk.simple`'s post-order, so which child positions count as nodes and the order they arrive in are unchanged; behaviour below the bound is identical. Catching the `RangeError` would have been the smaller change and is the wrong one — it makes the accept/reject boundary depend on the remaining call stack, so the same script passes on one code path and fails on another. The bound is a reported result instead. At the bound `validateCode` adds an `invalid_value` error and returns `ok: false`: a truncated walk has not proven the source clean. `inferCapabilities` returns an empty capability set *and* a `parseErrors` entry, because the capabilities found before the walk stopped are a floor, not the answer — returning them alone fails open in both callers (`migrateSavedScripts` reads an empty set as "grant model.read and migrate anyway", the promote dialog renders it as "no bim.* calls detected"). `parseErrors` is the channel both already use to refuse a script. No public API change; `walkBounded` is not exported from the entry point.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a non-recursive AST walker with a depth limit. Code validation and capability inference now detect truncated traversal and return deterministic errors. Tests cover traversal parity, depth boundaries, stack independence, and migration behavior. ChangesBounded AST validation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change prevents uncaught failures on deeply nested author-supplied source, but two regression tests may themselves be sensitive to the parser’s call-stack usage and could fail with misleading diagnostics on some runtimes. The PR is otherwise mergeable with owner awareness and a follow-up to make those assertions deterministic. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AuthorSource
participant walkBounded
participant validateCode
participant inferCapabilities
AuthorSource->>walkBounded: provide parsed AST
walkBounded->>validateCode: visit nodes or report depthExceeded
walkBounded->>inferCapabilities: visit nodes or report depthExceeded
validateCode-->>AuthorSource: validation result
inferCapabilities-->>AuthorSource: capabilities or parseErrors
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In `@packages/extensions/src/validate/code.test.ts`:
- Around line 173-183: Make both stack-independence tests robust against parser
stack overflow by replacing full error-message-list equality with assertions
that both shallow and deep results report the expected “nested more than … AST
levels” error. Apply this to validateCode in
packages/extensions/src/validate/code.test.ts lines 173-183 and the
corresponding parseErrors comparison in
packages/extensions/src/inference/capability.test.ts lines 210-220;
alternatively, reduce recursion depth while preserving the intended
stack-independence coverage.
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| it('gives the same verdict however much stack the caller has left', () => { | ||
| // The reason we bound rather than catching RangeError: the same | ||
| // source must be judged identically from any call depth. | ||
| const source = nestIf(800, 'const x = 1;'); | ||
| const shallow = validateCode(source); | ||
| const recurse = (n: number): CodeValidationResult => | ||
| n === 0 ? validateCode(source) : recurse(n - 1); | ||
| const deep = recurse(2000); | ||
| expect(deep.ok).toBe(shallow.ok); | ||
| expect(deep.errors.map((e) => e.message)).toEqual(shallow.errors.map((e) => e.message)); | ||
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Both stack-independence tests can fail because of the recursive acorn.parse, not the walker. Each test calls the function under test from ~2000 extra stack frames, and each function parses an 800-level nested source with acorn's recursive parser. If the parser overflows at that depth, the catch block returns a different error message, and the comparison against the shallow result fails.
packages/extensions/src/validate/code.test.ts#L173-L183: lower the recursion depth, or assert only that both results contain thenested more than \d+ AST levelserror instead of comparing full message lists.packages/extensions/src/inference/capability.test.ts#L210-L220: apply the same change to theparseErrorsmessage comparison.
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packages/extensions/src/validate/code.test.ts#L173-L183(this comment)packages/extensions/src/inference/capability.test.ts#L210-L220
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In `@packages/extensions/src/validate/code.test.ts` around lines 173 - 183, Make
both stack-independence tests robust against parser stack overflow by replacing
full error-message-list equality with assertions that both shallow and deep
results report the expected “nested more than … AST levels” error. Apply this to
validateCode in packages/extensions/src/validate/code.test.ts lines 173-183 and
the corresponding parseErrors comparison in
packages/extensions/src/inference/capability.test.ts lines 210-220;
alternatively, reduce recursion depth while preserving the intended
stack-independence coverage.
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The failure is Pulled #3038's shard-1 log on the same base: the identical suite ran there and passed ( So: same base, same suite, one red one green, and no path from this diff to that test. A base refresh or a re-push will clear it. Worth noting the sandbox teardown cascade underneath it looks like a real latent problem rather than pure noise, since a QuickJS runtime aborting while freeing is the kind of thing that will keep producing neighbours like this one. The rest of the review came back clean: the AST bound reports every time it trips rather than truncating silently, both callers propagate it, and the runtime capability check is a second gate behind it. |
…hree others (#3061) `useSandbox.runSupersession.test.tsx` failed on THREE unrelated PRs within an hour (#3025, #3027, #3044), always on `Viewer tests (shard 1)`, always with a gate-timing assertion counting 0 or 2 where it wants 1. None of those diffs can reach that test: two touch only packages/extensions and packages/create. It passes locally 3 of 3 at both concurrency settings, and #3038's shard 1 on the same base ran the identical suite green. This is my change's consequence, so I am undoing the part that caused it rather than asking three authors to re-run. --test-concurrency=4 came from the FIRST attempt at this lane, which I measured and showed did not help CI at all. I carried it forward once sharding worked, on the grounds that a real 2x locally was harmless. It is not harmless: it makes a timing-sensitive test race three neighbours under CI load, and its speedup is now redundant, because the parallelism comes from four concurrent shard JOBS. Measured cost of going back to 1, rather than assumed: 70s versus 19s per shard locally, so roughly 8 minutes versus 2 on CI, against a 25 minute cap. That budget absorbs it without argument. Not claiming proof. I have a mechanism and a correlation, not a reproduction -- it passes locally either way, and I have no clean pre-sharding CI baseline because the lane was broken. What I do have is a variable I introduced whose benefit is now redundant, so removing it costs a well-affordable six minutes and eliminates a candidate. If the flake survives this, it was never concurrency and #3060 is where it goes.
Raised by a reviewer, and it breaks something I built plus a piece of evidence I used. I sharded with `awk 'NR % n == s'` over the sorted file list, so shard membership depends on a file's INDEX. Adding or removing any test file shifts every file after it. Measured on the real tree: adding one file reassigned 534 of 534. Hashing the path instead reassigns 0 of 534. Two consequences, and the second is the one that caught me. A flaky file wanders between shards, so "shard 2 is the slow one" or "the flake lives in shard 1" decays with every added test. And cross-PR comparison is invalid. While chasing the useSandbox.runSupersession flake I argued that #3038's shard 1 passing on the same base showed #3027's shard-1 failure was unrelated. Different PRs, different file counts, different shard composition, so that is not the same set of files and the argument does not carry. The conclusion still stands on the rest of the evidence (neither diff can reach that test, it passes locally 3 of 3, five PRs hit it under concurrency 4), but I stated an invalid argument as proof and it should not have been in the pile. Partition verified exact rather than assumed: 124+147+127+136 = 534 files, 534 distinct paths across the four shards, and with no env set the script still selects all 534, so a local `pnpm test` is unchanged.
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Two recursive
acorn-walktraversals over author-supplied source had no depth bound and threw an uncaughtRangeError. Both are now bounded through one shared iterative walker.The evidence for not catching the RangeError
inferCapabilitiesat increasing nesting depths, before the fix:Non-monotonic. The verdict tracked how much call stack happened to be left, not the script. Converting that
RangeErrorinto a validation error would have made the accept/reject boundary an artefact of the call path — the same script passing or failing depending on what ran before it.validate/code.ts— reachable, andokwould have been a lievalidateCode←authoring/repair.ts:174, over every.js/.mjs/.cjsin an author-supplied bundle; also a public export.At the bound it pushes an
invalid_valueerror and returnsok:false. That is the substantive choice: a truncated walk has not proven the source clean — everything below the cut-off went uninspected, sookwould be a pass on a partial inspection. Pinned bydoes not report ok for a too-deep source with no visible violation.inference/capability.ts— the fail-open is closed, not reportedReachable from
flavor/migrate-scripts.ts:80(saved-script code) andPromoteToolDialog.tsx:66inside auseMemo, where aRangeErrortakes down the React render.Returning a bare empty capability set at the bound would have been a fail-open in both callers:
migrateSavedScriptsreads an empty set as "grantmodel.readand migrate anyway" (migrate-scripts.ts:87-89), and the dialog renders "Nobim.*calls detected". Neither could tell that apart from a genuinely capability-free script.So it also emits a
parseErrorsentry naming the limit — the refusal channel both callers already consume. The migration now lands inskippedand the dialog shows its warning. No new API, and the caller-can't-distinguish problem is closed rather than flagged.One correction, and one thing deliberately re-derived
There are two sites on this base, not three.
host/source-wrap.tsonupstream/mainuses a flatforoverast.body— noacorn-walk, nothing to bound. The recursive walk exists only on the unmerged #3025. Retrofitting it here would duplicate that PR and conflict with it, so it is untouched. When #3025 lands, itscheckBannedConstructsshould switch towalkBoundedand delete its local constant — a one-file follow-up, and the shared module is placed to accept it.The reference fix's traversal was not reusable as written. It enumerates children generically over
Object.keys, which is not behaviour-preserving for these two sites — it would visit non-computed member properties, sofoo.windowwould newly trip the banned-global check.walkBoundedinstead drivesacorn-walk's ownbasevisitor iteratively and reports inwalk.simple's post-order, withskipThroughself-dispatches not consuming a depth level (so oneif(1){}source level costs 2, matching the calibration). Equivalence is pinned by a test comparing node-by-node against a livewalk.simpleover the same AST.packages/extensions/src/ast/bounded-walk.ts—walkBounded(root, visit)+MAX_AST_DEPTH = 1000, iterative over an explicit heap stack, reports{depthExceeded}, never throws for depth. Deliberately not re-exported fromsrc/index.ts.Mutants
Bound removed → 8 kills. ×100 → 8 kills. ÷10 → 4 kills. skipThrough depth-counting → always
+1→ 5 kills. Post-order → pre-order → 1 kill (thewalk.simple-equivalence test).Not claimed as a kill:
bounds by AST depth, not source depthis written relative to the constant, so it survives pure value changes by design — it pins the 2-AST-levels-per-source-level ratio, and the absolute-depth tests kill the value mutants.packages/extensions787 → 805, both measured by checking outupstream/mainin the same worktree.tsc --noEmitclean, typecheck-tests OK (60 files). api-surface matches (4197 exports) — no public export added, sopatch.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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