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Fixes #795.

The bug

SADD s 000000012345 followed by SMEMBERS returned 12345. The original bytes were destroyed, not reformatted — silent data loss for zero-padded IDs, account numbers, phone numbers and zip codes. HSET/HGET and RPUSH/LRANGE were affected identically, so this reached intsets, hash listpacks and list listpacks.

try_encode_as_integer (listpack) and try_parse_i64 (SADD) both used a bare parse::<i64>(), which accepts 000000012345, +5 and -0. Each call site then stored the parsed value, whose rendering differs from the input. Redis takes an integer encoding only when the decimal rendering reproduces the input byte for byte.

Swept for the predicate, not the two reported sites

That turned up two more, one with a different symptom:

  • SetRef::contains parsed the query the same way, so SISMEMBER s 000000012345 answered 1 against a stored 12345. A false positive — and it survives fixing the insert path, because the query never reaches the intset as bytes. This one would have been left behind by a fix aimed at the report.
  • RedisValue::encoding_name / RedisValueRef::encoding_name reported int for "000000012345" where Redis reports embstr.

All five sites now route through storage::numeric::canonical_i64, which accepts a value only when itoa renders it back byte-identically. The length guard is kept: i64::MIN is 20 bytes, so nothing longer can be canonical.

Verification

  • 13/13 against a live redis-server 8.6.1 on the same host: the five cases from the report, the five sites found by the sweep, and three regression guards confirming canonical values still take their compact encodings (OBJECT ENCODING on a pure-integer set is still intset; SADD i 1 2 3 12345 still round-trips).
  • Adds the listpack_roundtrip fuzz target, registered in both matrices in fuzz.yml. Its invariant needs no oracle: whatever bytes go in must come out.
  • Proven to find the bug it guards, not assumed to: temporarily reverting the listpack fix makes it fail in ~1,500 execs on "00" -> "0". Against the fix it ran 600,375 execs clean with no artifacts.

Why this matters beyond the report

Writing an unrelated round-trip test on perf/listpack-zero-alloc-scan (#801) rediscovered this bug independently — b"0123" came back as 123. That test has to carry an explicit workaround until this lands, and #791 is blocked on it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Preserved numeric strings exactly as entered when they contain leading zeros, a leading plus sign, or negative zero.
    • Prevented non-canonical numeric formats from being incorrectly matched in set membership checks.
    • Corrected object encoding labels so non-canonical numeric strings remain classified as strings.
    • Canonical integer values continue to use compact integer storage and matching behavior.

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The change adds canonical i64 recognition based on byte-identical decimal round-tripping. Storage and set encoding paths use this helper to preserve non-canonical numeric strings. New tests and a listpack fuzz target validate exact byte preservation.

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Canonical integer storage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical integer contract
src/storage/numeric.rs, src/storage/mod.rs
Adds and exports canonical_i64, which accepts only decimal bytes reproduced exactly by itoa. Unit tests cover canonical values, rejected representations, boundaries, and round-tripping.
Storage and set encoding integration
src/storage/listpack.rs, src/command/set/set_write.rs, src/storage/db_read.rs, src/storage/compact_value.rs, src/storage/entry.rs
Listpack encoding, intset insertion and lookup, and encoding-name classification now use canonical integer recognition. Regression tests verify preservation and exact matching.
Round-trip fuzz validation
fuzz/fuzz_targets/listpack_roundtrip.rs, fuzz/Cargo.toml, .github/workflows/fuzz.yml, CHANGELOG.md
Adds listpack byte-preservation fuzz checks, registers the target in PR and nightly matrices, and documents the affected storage paths and verification.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 30945

The added round-trip fuzz test checks that lookup succeeds but not that the returned bytes exactly match the input, so a representation-aliasing regression could escape detection. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to strengthen this assertion.

Suggested reviewers: pilotspacex-byte

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing storage from rewriting numeric strings with leading zeros or a leading plus sign.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and directly explains the bug, affected code paths, fix, verification, fuzz coverage, and related issue impact. It omits the repository template headings and checklist, but…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #795. They apply canonical integer validation to listpack and intset insertion, set membership queries, and encoding detection. They preserve non-canonical numeric strings, r…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are within scope for issue #795. The shared numeric predicate, regression tests, fuzz target, changelog entry, and CI registration directly support the requested corruption fix and its ver…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 87.50% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 8 files. (3 skipped: 3 …
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The changes satisfy issue #795. They apply canonical integer validation to listpack and intset insertion, set membership queries, and encoding detection. They preserve non-canonical numeric strings, retain canonical integer encodings, add regression tests, and register the required fuzz target.

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`SADD s 000000012345` followed by `SMEMBERS` returned `12345`. The original
bytes were destroyed, not reformatted -- silent data loss for zero-padded IDs,
account numbers, phone numbers and zip codes. `HSET`/`HGET` and
`RPUSH`/`LRANGE` were affected identically, so this reached intsets, hash
listpacks and list listpacks.

`try_encode_as_integer` (listpack) and `try_parse_i64` (SADD) both used a bare
`parse::<i64>()`. That accepts `000000012345`, `+5` and `-0`, and each call
site then stored the *parsed* value, whose rendering differs from the input.
Redis takes an integer encoding only when the decimal rendering reproduces the
input byte for byte.

Sweeping for the predicate rather than fixing the two sites the report named
found two more, one of them a different symptom:

  - `SetRef::contains` parsed the *query* the same way, so
    `SISMEMBER s 000000012345` answered 1 against a stored `12345`. A false
    positive, and it survives fixing the insert path -- the query never
    reaches the intset as bytes.
  - `RedisValue::encoding_name` and `RedisValueRef::encoding_name` reported
    `int` for `"000000012345"` where Redis reports `embstr`.

All five sites now route through `storage::numeric::canonical_i64`, which
accepts a value only when `itoa` renders it back byte-identically. The length
guard is kept: `i64::MIN` is 20 bytes, so nothing longer can be canonical.

Verified 13/13 against a live `redis-server 8.6.1` on the same host -- the
five cases from the report, the five sites found by the sweep, and three
regression guards confirming canonical values still take their compact
encodings (`OBJECT ENCODING` on a pure-integer set is still `intset`, and
`SADD i 1 2 3 12345` still round-trips).

Adds the `listpack_roundtrip` fuzz target, registered in BOTH matrices in
`fuzz.yml` -- an unlisted target never runs. Its invariant needs no oracle:
whatever bytes go in must come out. Proven to find the bug it guards by
temporarily reverting the listpack fix, where it failed in ~1,500 execs on
`"00"` -> `"0"`; against the fix it ran 600,375 execs clean with no artifacts.

Lib suite 5,140 passed / 0 failed.

This unblocks the SADD listpack work: `SADD z 000000012345 abcdefgh` is
preserved on main only because a mixed set becomes a hashtable. Routing it
into a listpack without this fix converts a latent encoding bug into a new
data-loss path.

Fixes #795

author: Tin Dang
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In `@fuzz/fuzz_targets/listpack_roundtrip.rs`:
- Around line 46-49: Update the roundtrip assertion around Listpack::find to
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Comment on lines +46 to +49
assert!(
lp.find(want).is_some(),
"stored element {i} ({want:?}) not findable by its own bytes"
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Verify the bytes at the index returned by find.

is_some() only proves that Listpack::find returned an index. It does not prove that the index contains want. If lookup aliases a canonical integer with a non-canonical numeric string, this test can pass without detecting it. Capture the returned index and compare its stored bytes with want.

Proposed test fix
-        assert!(
-            lp.find(want).is_some(),
-            "stored element {i} ({want:?}) not findable by its own bytes"
-        );
+        let found = lp
+            .find(want)
+            .expect("stored element must be findable by its own bytes");
+        let found_bytes = lp
+            .get_at(found)
+            .expect("find returned an invalid listpack index")
+            .to_bytes();
+        assert_eq!(
+            found_bytes.as_ref(),
+            *want,
+            "lookup matched different bytes for element {i}: want {want:?} got {:?}",
+            found_bytes.as_ref()
+        );
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assert!(
lp.find(want).is_some(),
"stored element {i} ({want:?}) not findable by its own bytes"
);
let found = lp
.find(want)
.expect("stored element must be findable by its own bytes");
let found_bytes = lp
.get_at(found)
.expect("find returned an invalid listpack index")
.to_bytes();
assert_eq!(
found_bytes.as_ref(),
*want,
"lookup matched different bytes for element {i}: want {want:?} got {:?}",
found_bytes.as_ref()
);
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In `@fuzz/fuzz_targets/listpack_roundtrip.rs` around lines 46 - 49, Update the
roundtrip assertion around Listpack::find to capture the returned index, then
retrieve the bytes at that index and assert they equal want; retain the existing
failure context for missing matches.

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Data corruption: listpack/intset encoding destroys leading zeros and leading '+' in numeric strings

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