fix: apply message size limit before decoding message

If we apply the message size limit after decoding the message it's
too late as we've already processed the bad message.

Instead, if the buffer full of unprocessed messages grows to be
large than the max message size (e.g. we have not recieved a complete
message under the size limit), throw an error which will cause the
stream to be reset.

Author: achingbrain

src/decode.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import { Uint8ArrayList } from 'uint8arraylist'
 import type { Source } from 'it-stream-types'
 import type { Message } from './message-types.js'
 
+export const MAX_MSG_SIZE = Math.pow(2, 20)
+
 interface MessageHeader {
   id: number
   type: keyof typeof MessageTypeNames
@@ -13,10 +15,12 @@ interface MessageHeader {
 class Decoder {
   private readonly _buffer: Uint8ArrayList
   private _headerInfo: MessageHeader | null
+  private readonly _maxMessageSize: number
 
-  constructor () {
+  constructor (maxMessageSize: number) {
     this._buffer = new Uint8ArrayList()
     this._headerInfo = null
+    this._maxMessageSize = maxMessageSize
   }
 
   write (chunk: Uint8Array) {
@@ -25,6 +29,11 @@ class Decoder {
     }
 
     this._buffer.append(chunk)
+
+    if (this._buffer.byteLength > this._maxMessageSize) {
+      throw Object.assign(new Error('message size too large!'), { code: 'ERR_MSG_TOO_BIG' })
+    }
+
     const msgs: Message[] = []
 
     while (this._buffer.length !== 0) {
@@ -117,16 +126,14 @@ function readVarInt (buf: Uint8ArrayList, offset: number = 0) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Decode a chunk and yield an _array_ of decoded messages
+ * Decode a chunk and yield decoded messages
  */
-export async function * decode (source: Source<Uint8Array>) {
-  const decoder = new Decoder()
-
-  for await (const chunk of source) {
-    const msgs = decoder.write(chunk)
+export function decode (maxMessageSize: number = MAX_MSG_SIZE) {
+  return async function * decodeMessages (source: Source<Uint8Array>) {
+    const decoder = new Decoder(maxMessageSize)
 
-    if (msgs.length > 0) {
-      yield msgs
+    for await (const chunk of source) {
+      yield * decoder.write(chunk)
     }
   }
 }

src/mplex.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { pushableV } from 'it-pushable'
 import { abortableSource } from 'abortable-iterator'
 import { encode } from './encode.js'
 import { decode } from './decode.js'
-import { restrictSize } from './restrict-size.js'
 import { MessageTypes, MessageTypeNames, Message } from './message-types.js'
 import { createStream } from './stream.js'
 import { toString as uint8ArrayToString } from 'uint8arrays'
@@ -204,8 +203,7 @@ export class MplexStreamMuxer implements StreamMuxer {
       try {
         await pipe(
           source,
-          decode,
-          restrictSize(this._init.maxMsgSize),
+          decode(this._init.maxMsgSize),
           async source => {
             for await (const msg of source) {
               await this._handleIncoming(msg)

src/restrict-size.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { abortableSource } from 'abortable-iterator'
 import { pushable } from 'it-pushable'
 import errCode from 'err-code'
-import { MAX_MSG_SIZE } from './restrict-size.js'
+import { MAX_MSG_SIZE } from './decode.js'
 import { anySignal } from 'any-signal'
 import { InitiatorMessageTypes, ReceiverMessageTypes } from './message-types.js'
 import { fromString as uint8ArrayFromString } from 'uint8arrays/from-string'

src/stream.ts

@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ describe('coder', () => {
 
   it('should decode header', async () => {
     const source = [uint8ArrayFromString('8801023137', 'base16')]
-    for await (const msgs of decode(source)) {
-      expect(msgs.length).to.equal(1)
-
-      expect(messageWithBytes(msgs[0])).to.be.deep.equal({ id: 17, type: 0, data: uint8ArrayFromString('17') })
+    for await (const msg of decode()(source)) {
+      expect(messageWithBytes(msg)).to.be.deep.equal({ id: 17, type: 0, data: uint8ArrayFromString('17') })
     }
   })
 
@@ -67,8 +65,8 @@ describe('coder', () => {
     const source = [uint8ArrayFromString('88010231379801023139a801023231', 'base16')]
 
     const res = []
-    for await (const msgs of decode(source)) {
-      res.push(...msgs)
+    for await (const msg of decode()(source)) {
+      res.push(msg)
     }
 
     expect(res.map(messageWithBytes)).to.deep.equal([
@@ -89,9 +87,8 @@ describe('coder', () => {
   it('should decode zero length body msg', async () => {
     const source = [uint8ArrayFromString('880100', 'base16')]
 
-    for await (const msgs of decode(source)) {
-      expect(msgs.length).to.equal(1)
-      expect(messageWithBytes(msgs[0])).to.be.eql({ id: 17, type: 0, data: new Uint8Array(0) })
+    for await (const msg of decode()(source)) {
+      expect(messageWithBytes(msg)).to.be.eql({ id: 17, type: 0, data: new Uint8Array(0) })
     }
   })
 })

test/coder.spec.ts

@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ describe('mplex', () => {
 
     await muxer.sink(stream)
 
-    const messages = await all(decode(bufs))
+    const messages = await all(decode()(bufs))
 
-    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0][0].id', 11, 'Did not specify the correct stream id')
-    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0][0].type', MessageTypes.RESET_RECEIVER, 'Did not reset the stream that tipped us over the inbound stream limit')
+    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0].id', 11, 'Did not specify the correct stream id')
+    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0].type', MessageTypes.RESET_RECEIVER, 'Did not reset the stream that tipped us over the inbound stream limit')
   })
 
   it('should reset a stream that fills the message buffer', async () => {
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ describe('mplex', () => {
         const dataMessage: MessageInitiatorMessage = {
           id,
           type: MessageTypes.MESSAGE_INITIATOR,
-          data: new Uint8ArrayList(new Uint8Array(1024 * 1024))
+          data: new Uint8ArrayList(new Uint8Array(1024 * 1000))
         }
         yield dataMessage
 
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ describe('mplex', () => {
 
     // collect outgoing mplex messages
     const muxerFinished = pDefer()
-    let messages: Message[][] = []
+    let messages: Message[] = []
     void Promise.resolve().then(async () => {
-      messages = await all(decode(muxer.source))
+      messages = await all(decode()(muxer.source))
       muxerFinished.resolve()
     })
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ describe('mplex', () => {
 
     // should have sent reset message to peer for this stream
     await muxerFinished.promise
-    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0][0].id', id)
-    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0][0].type', MessageTypes.RESET_RECEIVER)
+    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0].id', id)
+    expect(messages).to.have.nested.property('[0].type', MessageTypes.RESET_RECEIVER)
   })
 })

test/mplex.spec.ts

@@ -7,28 +7,30 @@ import all from 'it-all'
 import drain from 'it-drain'
 import each from 'it-foreach'
 import { Message, MessageTypes } from '../src/message-types.js'
-import { restrictSize } from '../src/restrict-size.js'
 import { Uint8ArrayList } from 'uint8arraylist'
+import { decode } from '../src/decode.js'
+import { encode } from '../src/encode.js'
 
-describe('restrict-size', () => {
+describe('restrict size', () => {
   it('should throw when size is too big', async () => {
     const maxSize = 32
 
     const input: Message[] = [
       { id: 0, type: 1, data: new Uint8ArrayList(randomBytes(8)) },
+      { id: 0, type: 1, data: new Uint8ArrayList(randomBytes(16)) },
       { id: 0, type: 1, data: new Uint8ArrayList(randomBytes(maxSize)) },
-      { id: 0, type: 1, data: new Uint8ArrayList(randomBytes(64)) },
-      { id: 0, type: 1, data: new Uint8ArrayList(randomBytes(16)) }
+      { id: 0, type: 1, data: new Uint8ArrayList(randomBytes(10)) }
     ]
 
     const output: Message[] = []
 
     try {
       await pipe(
         input,
-        restrictSize(maxSize),
-        (source) => each(source, chunk => {
-          output.push(chunk)
+        encode,
+        decode(maxSize),
+        (source) => each(source, msg => {
+          output.push(msg)
         }),
         async (source) => await drain(source)
       )
@@ -51,7 +53,8 @@ describe('restrict-size', () => {
 
     const output = await pipe(
       input,
-      restrictSize(32),
+      encode,
+      decode(32),
       async (source) => await all(source)
     )
     expect(output).to.deep.equal(input)