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Problem

Nested log records can exhaust the output coroutine stack while the Loki output converts MessagePack to JSON. The crash path is pack_record() → flb_msgpack_to_json_str() → repeated msgpack2json() calls. A recursion limit of 512 does not protect a 24 KiB coroutine stack: conversion can corrupt memory before reaching that limit.

Change

Replace recursive map/array traversal with an iterative walk using a bounded heap allocation. Each frame tracks a container and its current entry, so C stack consumption no longer grows with nesting depth. Scalar roots bypass the traversal allocation.

The converter retains a 512-level nesting limit. A non-empty container that would exceed the limit becomes JSON null; the rest of the record remains intact. Empty containers, escaping, and last-value-wins duplicate string keys retain their behavior.

Distinguish insufficient output capacity from terminal conversion errors. A small buffer still returns zero and triggers buffer growth; allocation failures and invalid object shapes return a negative result, and both allocating wrappers stop instead of repeatedly growing a buffer that cannot fix the error. Validate destination sizes and object pointers, reject map keys that cannot be represented as JSON string keys, and avoid dereferencing an invalid later key during duplicate lookup.

Verification

Tested on Linux x86-64 with GCC 11 and Valgrind 3.18.1:

  • All 32 pack tests pass normally and under Valgrind, with zero errors and no leaks.
  • New coroutine tests serialize 200 nested arrays, 200 alternating maps/arrays, and 2,000 alternating containers on a 24 KiB stack. They check exact output and depth-limit truncation.
  • New tests exercise output-buffer boundaries, duplicate keys, empty containers, escaped strings, and terminal errors in both allocating wrappers.
  • Both Loki integration scenarios pass normally and with strict Valgrind validation. The nested case verifies delivery and exact contents of 200 records on a 24 KiB coroutine stack; the existing large Unicode case also passes.
  • Existing Loki runtime suite passes. Pack, record-accessor, and MessagePack append internal suites pass.

Before/after comparison: a separately linked executable using the recursive converter delivers the nested integration records in a normal run but fails strict Valgrind with 1,055 errors, including invalid reads/writes. The iterative executable passes the same scenario with zero errors. Delivery alone is therefore not sufficient to validate this failure mode.

Commands (with FLUENT_BIT_BINARY set to the tested binary):

./build/bin/flb-it-pack
valgrind --error-exitcode=99 --leak-check=full ./build/bin/flb-it-pack

ctest --test-dir build \
  -R '^flb-it-(pack|record_accessor|msgpack_append_message)$' \
  --output-on-failure
ctest --test-dir build -R '^flb-rt-out_loki$' --output-on-failure

python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/out_loki -q
VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 \
  python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/out_loki -q

The actual build directory was /tmp/fluent-bit-investigation-build, and integration tests used a separate Python 3.10 virtual environment with the repository's pinned requirements.

Compatibility and scope

No configuration change is required. Structures beyond the supported nesting limit are intentionally truncated, not preserved at arbitrary depth. The existing zero-for-insufficient-buffer convention is retained; this needs coordination with #12133 if its return-value contract change merges first.

This addresses recursive JSON conversion, not every possible output-worker stall. Validation did not replay the original production record, and no Windows/macOS run or performance benchmark was performed.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented stack overflows when processing deeply nested MessagePack data.
    • Safely truncates structures beyond the supported nesting limit as JSON null.
    • Ensured deeply nested data continues to produce valid JSON.
    • Improved handling of invalid input, malformed values, and insufficient output space.
    • Preserved duplicate-key handling, including empty map keys.
    • Normal MessagePack-to-JSON conversion behavior remains unchanged.

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The msgpack-to-JSON converter now traverses arrays and maps iteratively. It validates inputs, preserves the 512-level limit, distinguishes buffer exhaustion from terminal errors, and adds unit and integration coverage.

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Msgpack JSON conversion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Iterative container conversion
src/flb_pack.c
Array and map conversion uses heap-backed traversal frames. The converter validates payloads and pointers, filters duplicate keys, and emits JSON null beyond 512 levels.
Conversion result handling
src/flb_pack.c
The conversion APIs validate output buffers and distinguish success, buffer exhaustion, and terminal errors. String and raw-conversion wrappers release resources after terminal errors.
Conversion regression coverage
tests/internal/pack.c, tests/integration/scenarios/out_loki/...
Tests cover depth boundaries, constrained coroutine stacks, invalid inputs, duplicate keys, buffer retries, and nested Loki records.

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Exact-size output buffers can unnecessarily fail conversion, but the correction is localized and does not affect normal larger-buffer operation.

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1011-1015: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Emit the depth warning once per conversion.

A wide array or map can enter this branch once for every child beyond the limit. One record can therefore generate many identical flb_warn calls and unnecessary log I/O on output threads.

Pass a per-conversion warning flag through recursive calls and log only on the first truncation.

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In `@src/flb_pack.c` around lines 1011 - 1015, Update the recursive conversion
flow around the depth check in flb_pack.c to carry a per-conversion warning flag
through recursive calls, and emit the maximum-nesting-depth flb_warn only when
the first truncation occurs. Keep truncation behavior unchanged by still
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In `@src/flb_pack.c`:
- Around line 1152-1154: Update the map serialization logic around msgpack2json
so non-empty maps at FLB_PACK_JSON_MAX_DEPTH remain valid JSON: serialize string
keys without consuming value nesting depth, or emit null before writing the map
opening token. Preserve valid output for deeper arrays/maps and add a regression
test covering a non-empty map at the 512-level boundary.

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In `@src/flb_pack.c`:
- Around line 1011-1015: Update the recursive conversion flow around the depth
check in flb_pack.c to carry a per-conversion warning flag through recursive
calls, and emit the maximum-nesting-depth flb_warn only when the first
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In `@src/flb_pack.c`:
- Around line 1135-1137: In msgpack2json(), move the declaration of p to the
function’s initial declarations and retain the assignment to o->via.array.ptr
inside the loop != 0 conditional before calling msgpack2json().

In `@tests/internal/pack.c`:
- Around line 1147-1151: Strengthen the truncation assertion in the test around
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Addressed two follow-up review comments on src/flb_pack.c and tests/internal/pack.c:

  • src/flb_pack.c (MSGPACK_OBJECT_ARRAY case): the msgpack_object *p pointer used while walking array elements was declared inside the loop != 0 block. Moved the declaration up to the function's other local variables (matching this project's "declare at top of function" style); only the assignment (p = o->via.array.ptr;) stays inside the conditional.
  • tests/internal/pack.c (test_json_pack_deep_map_boundary): strengthened the truncation assertion. It previously only checked that the substring "null" appeared anywhere in the output. It now checks the exact output length (TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH * 2 + 4, i.e. the opening brackets + null + closing brackets) and that the null literal begins at the exact byte offset TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH, right after the opening brackets.
    Re-ran the full tests/internal/pack.c suite (flb-it-pack): all 27 tests pass, no regressions. Rebuilt with zero new warnings/errors from either changed file.

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1154-1156: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the assertion variables to the function declarations.

out_len and expected_len are declared in a nested block after executable statements. Declare them with the other local variables at the start of test_json_pack_deep_map_boundary().

As per coding guidelines: “Declare variables at the start of functions, not mid-block.”

Proposed fix
 void test_json_pack_deep_map_boundary()
 {
     int i;
     char *out;
     char *p;
     msgpack_object *chain;
     msgpack_object_kv kv;
+    size_t out_len;
+    size_t expected_len;
 
 ...
-    {
-        size_t out_len = strlen(out);
-        size_t expected_len = (size_t) TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH * 2 + 4;
+    out_len = strlen(out);
+    expected_len = (size_t) TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH * 2 + 4;
 
-        if (!TEST_CHECK(out_len == expected_len)) {
-            TEST_MSG("unexpected output length: expected=%zu got=%zu out=%s",
-                     expected_len, out_len, out);
-        }
+    if (!TEST_CHECK(out_len == expected_len)) {
+        TEST_MSG("unexpected output length: expected=%zu got=%zu out=%s",
+                 expected_len, out_len, out);
+    }
 
-        if (!TEST_CHECK(out_len > (size_t) TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH + 4 &&
-                         strncmp(out + TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH, "null", 4) == 0)) {
-            TEST_MSG("expected a null literal at offset %d: %s",
-                     TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH, out);
-        }
+    if (!TEST_CHECK(out_len > (size_t) TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH + 4 &&
+                     strncmp(out + TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH, "null", 4) == 0)) {
+        TEST_MSG("expected a null literal at offset %d: %s",
+                 TEST_PACK_MAX_DEPTH, out);
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In `@tests/internal/pack.c` around lines 1154 - 1156, In
test_json_pack_deep_map_boundary(), move the out_len and expected_len
declarations from the nested assertion block to the function’s initial
local-variable declarations, while preserving their existing types and assigned
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- Around line 1154-1156: In test_json_pack_deep_map_boundary(), move the out_len
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Addressed one more nitpick and did a developer-guideline compliance pass.

Nitpick fixed — tests/internal/pack.c (test_json_pack_deep_map_boundary): the out_len and expected_len locals were declared inside a nested assertion block instead of with the function's other top-level declarations. Moved them up (same types, same assigned values, only the declaration location changed).

Developer guideline compliance (DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md):

  • Memory management: all new code uses flb_malloc()/flb_free() (never raw malloc/free), consistent with the guide.
  • Message Pack: the new tests build/inspect msgpack_object trees directly, consistent with the guide's msgpack example.
  • Testing: rebuilt with the guide's exact recommended flags (cmake -DFLB_DEV=On -DFLB_TESTS_INTERNAL=On ...) — flb-it-pack builds clean, full 27-test suite passes.
  • Valgrind: per the guide's recommendation to run Valgrind on unit tests covering new code paths, ran valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=definite,indirect ./bin/flb-it-pack json_pack_deep_map_boundary json_pack_deep_map_below_boundary — 0 errors, 0 leaks, all heap blocks freed.

No other guideline gaps identified for this change (concurrency/coroutine, plugin API, and config map sections don't apply — this patch touches only src/flb_pack.c's internal JSON encoder and its own test file).

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@edsiper @cosmo0920 Can you have a look?

msgpack2json() in flb_pack.c recurses once per nesting level while
converting a msgpack object into a JSON string, with no limit on how
deep it will go for MSGPACK_OBJECT_ARRAY and MSGPACK_OBJECT_MAP values.
A msgpack_object tree that is nested deeply enough (for example one
built from a deeply nested JSON log line by a JSON-to-msgpack
conversion elsewhere in the pipeline, which is not bound by the
wire-level unpacker's own MSGPACK_EMBED_STACK_SIZE guard) will recurse
past the available stack and crash the process with SIGSEGV.
This was observed in production: the out_loki output plugin calls
flb_msgpack_to_json_str() -> flb_msgpack_to_json() -> msgpack2json()
from pack_record() while flushing records, and a deeply nested record
reliably crashed the process with a stack overflow inside
msgpack2json(), taking down the whole Fluent Bit instance and losing
the in-flight flush batch.
Add a FLB_PACK_JSON_MAX_DEPTH (512) guard: once msgpack2json() would
recurse past this depth, stop descending and encode the remaining
structure as a JSON null instead, so the conversion still completes
and returns a valid (truncated) JSON string rather than crashing.
512 levels is far beyond any reasonably structured log record while
keeping stack usage negligible.
A non-empty map whose key/value pairs would land exactly one level
past the limit needs special care: a JSON object key must always be a
quoted string, so truncating an individual key to a bare null would
produce invalid JSON such as {null:...}. Both MSGPACK_OBJECT_ARRAY and
MSGPACK_OBJECT_MAP now check depth one level ahead of opening their
bracket/brace, and render the whole container as null instead of
partially opening it when their children would exceed the limit.
The truncation warning is now logged at most once per top-level
conversion (via a warned flag threaded through the recursion) instead
of once per truncated branch, to avoid flooding the log when a single
record has many separate over-depth branches.
The msgpack_object *p pointer used while walking an array's elements
is now declared with the function's other local variables instead of
inside the loop != 0 block, matching this project's coding style of
declaring variables at the top of the function; only the assignment
stays inside the conditional.
Verified locally with a small reproduction harness that builds an
in-memory msgpack_object tree several hundred thousand levels deep and
calls flb_msgpack_to_json_str() directly:
- Before this patch: SIGSEGV (stack overflow), matching the exact
  production crash signature (out_loki's pack_record() call site).
- After this patch: the call returns a valid, truncated JSON string
  and the process does not crash.
Added two regression tests to tests/internal/pack.c:
json_pack_deep_map_boundary builds a non-empty map exactly at the
512-level boundary and checks the exact output shape (length, and the
null literal starting at the exact offset right after the opening
brackets) instead of just checking that a null appears somewhere in
the output; json_pack_deep_map_below_boundary builds the same map
shape comfortably under the limit and checks its real content is
still serialized. Both tests declare their local variables (including
out_len and expected_len) at the top of the function per this
project's coding style. Full tests/internal/pack.c suite (27 tests)
passes, and the two new tests run clean under Valgrind (0 errors,
0 leaks, all blocks freed).

Signed-off-by: Ugur Guenduez <ugur.guenduez@mercedes-benz.com>
Signed-off-by: Ugur Guenduez <ugur.guenduez@mercedes-benz.com>
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Walk maps and arrays with a bounded heap-backed traversal stack.
Preserve depth-limit truncation and duplicate-key behavior.
Separate terminal conversion errors from output-buffer retries.

Signed-off-by: Ugur Guenduez <ugur.guenduez@mercedes-benz.com>
Signed-off-by: Ugur Guenduez <ugur.guenduez@mercedes-benz.com>
Signed-off-by: Ugur Guenduez <ugur.guenduez@mercedes-benz.com>
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ret = msgpack2json(json_str, &off, json_size - 1, obj, escape_unicode);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Pass the full buffer capacity to msgpack2json().

try_to_write() reserves space for the terminator with left <= *off + str_len. For JSON output of length N, a buffer of N + 1 bytes must pass json_size as left. Passing json_size - 1 makes the final write fail at equality and returns zero. Passing json_size leaves index N for flb_msgpack_to_json() to write the NUL terminator.

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-    ret = msgpack2json(json_str, &off, json_size - 1, obj, escape_unicode);
+    ret = msgpack2json(json_str, &off, json_size, obj, escape_unicode);
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In `@src/flb_pack.c` at line 1279, Update the msgpack2json call in the JSON
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Thanks, the exact-fit issue is valid, but passing json_size here is not safe on its own. I checked the suggestion against the current implementation and reproduced both cases:

  • Current code: serializing MessagePack nil (null, four output bytes) into a five-byte buffer returns 0, although the output plus NUL should fit.
  • With only the suggested change: that case succeeds, but serializing the string abcd into a five-byte buffer overwrites a canary at buffer[5] with NUL. This reproduces with both escape_unicode = FLB_FALSE and FLB_TRUE.

The string writer can consume all remaining capacity and advance off to json_size. The closing quote then fails, but flb_msgpack_to_json() still unconditionally writes json_str[off] = '\0', causing the one-byte out-of-bounds write.

We need consistent terminator reservation across the literal and string write paths, rather than changing this argument alone. Regression coverage should require success with exactly N + 1 bytes and verify boundary canaries for undersized buffers, including strings in both Unicode modes. The existing capacity-sweep test permits a zero return at the exact-fit boundary, so it does not currently catch the unnecessary rejection. This capacity mismatch also predates the iterative traversal change.

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Before merging, please reconcile the return-value contract with current master: flb_msgpack_to_json() must return a negative value for insufficient buffer space. This PR restores zero, failing json_pack_truncation and affecting callers such as S3 that check only ret < 0.

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flb_msgpack_to_json() reports a buffer that is too small as a negative
value, and fixed-buffer callers such as out_s3 only check ret < 0.
Restore that public contract.

Keep the distinction between buffer exhaustion and terminal conversion
errors in a static helper used by flb_msgpack_raw_to_json_sds() and
flb_msgpack_to_json_str(), so they still grow the buffer only when it is
too small and stop on terminal errors.

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UgurTheG commented Oct 1, 2026

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Closed as per #12458

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