chore(rest-api): Limit Instance/OS user data length to 32KB - #5633
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| validation.Field(&icr.UserData, | ||
| validation.When(icr.UserData != nil, | ||
| validation.Length(0, util.MaxUserDataBytes).Error(validationErrorUserDataLength)), |
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When an Instance request enables phone-home or inherits data from an Operating System, Validate() runs before buildInstanceCreateRequestOsConfig calls ValidateAndSetOperatingSystemData, which can copy os.UserData or enlarge the submitted YAML while inserting phone-home settings; the resulting value is then sent to Temporal without another length check. Consequently, a 32768-byte YAML document with phoneHomeEnabled: true, or omitted data inherited from a legacy oversized OS, bypasses the new cap. Recheck the normalized value on the create, batch-create, and update paths before conversion or side effects.
AGENTS.md reference: rest-api/AGENTS.md:L362-L365
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| description: Can only be specified if allowOverride is set to true in Operating System | ||
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OpenAPI 3.1 maxLength measures Unicode characters, whereas the model's validation.Length limit measures the byte length of the Go string. For example, 20,000 four-byte characters satisfy maxLength: 32768 but are rejected by the API as roughly 80 KiB, so schema validators and generated clients advertise requests that the server refuses. Since the documented contract is explicitly byte-based, avoid representing it with a contradictory character-count keyword or make the implementation use the same units.
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WalkthroughThe API adds Spectrum X attachment support to instance create, batch-create, and update requests. It validates attachment limits and uniqueness. Instance and operating system flows enforce a shared 32 KiB effective ChangesRequest validation and API contracts
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds a 32 KiB effective userData limit, but existing oversized values may bypass validation during unrelated updates, while the API descriptions do not explain that the limit is applied after inheritance and normalization. This can cause inconsistent enforcement and confusing 400 responses, so merge should wait for correction or explicit owner acceptance. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go`:
- Around line 294-297: Update both validation sites in
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go at lines 294-297 and 555-558 so
create and update flows validate the transformed UserData produced by
ValidateAndSetUserData, not the pre-transformation value; alternatively reserve
sufficient space for the appended phone_home content before insertion while
preserving the MaxUserDataBytes limit.
In `@rest-api/openapi/spec.yaml`:
- Around line 20845-20846: Remove the maxLength: 32768 constraint from each
userData schema entry in rest-api/openapi/spec.yaml at the anchor and all
sibling line ranges, and leave the 32 KiB byte limit wording in each description
unchanged; update the userData schema definitions only, so OpenAPI no longer
enforces a character-count limit that conflicts with the Go validation.Length
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What changedThis change limits Instance and Operating System I also searched the Core, REST, CLI, and SDK trees for an existing reusable limit. There was no other 32 KiB user-data constant. The new shared Scenario and setupI built and deployed exact commit All application pods were Ready before the behavior matrix. The sanitized commands below use: API="<REST API base URL>/v2/org/test-org/nico"
TOKEN="<OAuth bearer token>"
CONFIG="<isolated nicocli config>"
AUTH=(-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json")VerificationStep 1: Operating System create and update enforce the raw and effective byte boundariesWhy this step exists: These endpoints accept Runnable command: MAX="$(python3 -c 'print("x" * 32768, end="")')"
OVER="${MAX}x"
jq -n --arg name verify-os-max --arg ud "$MAX" \
'{name:$name,ipxeScript:"#!ipxe\nexit",allowOverride:true,phoneHomeEnabled:false,userData:$ud}' |
curl -sS -X POST "${AUTH[@]}" --data-binary @- "$API/operating-system"
jq -n --arg name verify-os-over --arg ud "$OVER" \
'{name:$name,ipxeScript:"#!ipxe\nexit",allowOverride:true,phoneHomeEnabled:false,userData:$ud}' |
curl -sS -X POST "${AUTH[@]}" --data-binary @- "$API/operating-system"
# The same 32768/32769-byte pair was sent with PATCH. Phone-home YAML inputs
# were calibrated so their normalized values were exactly 32768 and 32769 bytes.
curl -sS -X PATCH "${AUTH[@]}" --data-binary @os-update.json \
"$API/operating-system/<run-owned-os-id>"Observed result: Why this proves the behavior: The limit is inclusive at exactly 32768 bytes and is checked again after server-side transformation, with no rejected write retained. Step 2: Instance create, batch create, and update enforce raw, expanded, and inherited limitsWhy this step exists: All three Instance flows can receive direct data, expand it for phone-home, or inherit it from an Operating System. Runnable command: curl -sS -X POST "${AUTH[@]}" --data-binary @instance-create-32769.json \
"$API/instance"
curl -sS -X POST "${AUTH[@]}" --data-binary @instance-batch-32769.json \
"$API/instance/batch"
curl -sS -X PATCH "${AUTH[@]}" --data-binary @instance-update-32769.json \
"$API/instance/<run-owned-instance-id>"
# The same three operations were repeated with:
# 1. exactly 32768 raw bytes,
# 2. raw-valid YAML that expands above 32768 bytes with phone-home, and
# 3. omitted userData inherited from a run-owned 32769-byte Operating System.Observed result: Why this proves the behavior: Every changed Instance path applies the raw and post-normalization checks, including inheritance, and rolls back rejected state. Step 3: nicocli, the generated Go SDK, and the specialized TUI expose the same server contractWhy this step exists: The changed REST behavior is reached through all three client interfaces. Runnable command or TUI navigation: Observed result: Why this proves the behavior: Direct CLI, generated SDK, and guided TUI requests all reach the exact-head server and preserve its structured validation response. Step 4: Generated contracts, local gates, CI, and runtime logs agreeWhy this step exists: The OpenAPI/SDK contract and repository gates must match the deployed behavior. Runnable command: make fmt-go
CI=false DB_NAME=nicotest DB_USER=postgres DB_PASSWORD=postgres \
DB_HOST=localhost DB_PORT=30432 CGO_ENABLED=1 make test-api
make lint-go
make lint-openapi
make generate-sdk
make publish-openapi
gh pr checks 5633 --repo NVIDIA/infra-controllerObserved result: Why this proves the behavior: The exact-head generated artifacts, focused tests, CI gates, and deployed runtime are consistent with the byte-based validation contract. Overall verification status for GitHub currently reports this PR as conflicting with its base branch. Resolving that conflict will produce a new head that needs re-verification. |
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Verified at exact head b73d15c. REST, nicocli, generated SDK, specialized TUI, local gates, generated contracts, and required CI checks pass. Detailed evidence: #5633 (comment). Reverify after resolving the current base conflict because that will change the head.
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- Line 20838: Update the userData descriptions in the five schemas, including
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Document the effective-value semantics of the userData byte limit and contrast it with ipxeScript.
The new "Limited to 32768 bytes (32 KiB)" wording states the number but does not explain that the check runs against the effective value after inheritance, YAML normalization, and phone-home insertion, not just the raw request payload. A caller can submit userData just under 32 KiB and still receive a 400 response once inherited or phone-home content is merged in, with no documented reason for the mismatch. The description also does not contrast userData with ipxeScript, which stays unbounded.
The same gap exists at the four sibling locations: OperatingSystemUpdateRequest.userData (line 20951), InstanceCreateRequest.userData (line 21870), BatchInstanceCreateRequest.userData (line 22033), and InstanceUpdateRequest.userData (line 22232). While updating these, also align line 20951's wording ("Limited to 32768 bytes (32 KiB).") with the other four, which include "of raw/plain text."
As per path instructions, the referenced documentation for rest-api/openapi/spec.yaml states: "Ensure descriptions distinguish userData from the still-unbounded ipxeScript and explain that the limit applies to the effective value after inheritance, YAML normalization, and phone-home insertion."
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In `@rest-api/openapi/spec.yaml` at line 20838, Update the userData descriptions
in the five schemas, including OperatingSystemUpdateRequest, to explain that the
32768-byte limit applies to the effective value after inheritance, YAML
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lgtm. One note about the comment used to describe the reasoning behind 32KiB
| // MaxUserDataBytes caps `userData` on Instance and Operating System | ||
| // create/update requests, measured in bytes of the raw string as | ||
| // submitted. Instance creation, update and inventory operations | ||
| // move in Temporal payloads that are subject to a 2 MiB per-payload limit, | ||
| // so oversized blobs must be rejected at the API boundary. | ||
| // 32 KiB matches the middle of the range enforced by common infra providers | ||
| // (AWS 16 KB, Hetzner/Alibaba 32 KiB, Azure/OpenStack ~48 KiB, DO/IBM 64 KiB). | ||
| MaxUserDataBytes = 32 * 1024 |
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But what's the actual technical limitation? Did you say it was gRPC? It would be nice to note the actual technical limitation here so that future engineers understand the "why" and "what" behind these magic numbers. "Temporal payloads that are subject to a 2 MiB per-payload limit" Doesn't really explain the 32KiB to me? Maybe I'm just lacking the additional context.
I was thinking a bitwise operation might be more efficient compared to integer multiplication here. ie 32 << 10. But since it's a const it will be evaluated at compile time. So your current implementation is probably better because it's easier to read. Just noting it as something I thought about when reading this.
I think the main benefit would just be in outlining the technical reason for why this number was chosen - beyond just "everyone else kinda does this.".
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The calculation is explained in a bit more detail in this comment: #5633 (comment)
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I'll update the code comment to reflect that as well.
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Ah, thanks. I should have read all of the existing comments. I was more focused on the code. But yeah, I think it would be beneficial to have the rationale in the comment too.
Inserting the phone-home block rebuilds the cloud-init document as a `yaml.Node` tree and re-serializes it with `yaml.Marshal`, whose fixed 4-space indent re-indents every nested line of what the caller submitted. The phone_home block itself is only `86` bytes, but the re-indentation grew realistic cloud-config documents by `9%` to `31%`, so a request comfortably under `MaxUserDataBytes` could still be rejected for exceeding it. The merge that assigns `PhoneHomeEnabled` from the selected Operating System puts every Instance create that picks an OS on this path, not just requests that ask for phone-home. This PR renders user data through `util.MarshalUserData`, which encodes at the 2-space indent cloud-config is conventionally written with. Block-scalar and indented-sequence documents now round-trip within `0.3%` instead of `9.0%` and `11.5%`, and the raw budget for the worst remaining case rises from `~25 KiB` to `~27.8 KiB`. A sequence written flush against its parent key still grows, because the encoder always indents a sequence under the key that owns it, so the five `userData` descriptions now state that the limit measures the effective value rather than the submitted text. `TestCommonCloudInit` was a fixed point of the 4-space encoder and is regenerated as one for the 2-space encoder, which is why it shrinks by `216` bytes without changing meaning. Signed-off-by: Tareque Hossain <thossain@nvidia.com>
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- Line 1673: Validate retained oversized userData before unrelated updates: in
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go lines 1673-1673, ensure
ValidateEffectiveUserData is applied when iur.UserData remains nil; in
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go lines 783-785, validate
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Validate retained oversized userData before unrelated updates.
When an update omits userData, these paths can accept an existing value larger than 32 KiB. This conflicts with the stated requirement that oversized records require cleanup before updates.
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go#L1673-L1673: validate the effective inherited value wheniur.UserDataremains nil. Add coverage for an instance with an existing OS and oversized storeduserData.rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go#L783-L785: validatemergedUserDatabefore this early return. Add coverage for an oversized stored value withPhoneHomeEnabledfalse.
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go` at line 1673, Validate retained
oversized userData before unrelated updates: in
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go lines 1673-1673, ensure
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The comment named the 2 MiB Temporal payload limit and the range other providers enforce, but not how those produce 32 KiB, so the number read as a preference rather than a budget. It now cites the two constants the cap is actually sized against, `InventoryCloudPageSize` and `maxPublishPayloadBytes`, and drops the claim that the limit measures the raw submitted string, which stopped being true once the effective value became the thing validated. Signed-off-by: Tareque Hossain <thossain@nvidia.com>
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userDataon Instance and Operating System create/update requests acceptsany size. We've seen a single Instance carry
741 KiB, nearly all of it a Kubernetesoperator manifest that could have been fetched at boot. A Site publishes Instance
inventory in pages of 25, each budgeted at
1945 KiBto stay under the2 MiBblobTemporal rejects, and the ladder that shrinks an oversized page floors at one item. So
one Instance like this stalls inventory for every Instance at that Site, which is how
ours ended up stuck in
Rebooting. This PR capsuserDataat32 KiB, measured onthe effective value after Operating System defaults are inherited and the phone-home
block is inserted.
Also, inserting phone-home re-serializes the document through
yaml.Marshal, whosefixed 4-space indent grew realistic cloud-config documents by
9%to31%, so arequest comfortably under the cap could still be rejected for exceeding it. User data
now renders at the 2-space indent cloud-config is conventionally written with, which
holds block-scalar and indented-sequence documents to
0.3%.Related issues
Internal: Instances stuck in
RebootingType of Change
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Existing Instance and Operating System records above
32 KiBkeep working until one isupdated, and that update then requires the user to shrink
userDatafirst.Testing
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TestCommonCloudInitshrinks because it was written as a fixed point of the 4-spaceencoder and is regenerated as one for the 2-space encoder. It was produced by running
the production path rather than hand-edited, and it re-marshals idempotently.
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stalling inventory, so any Instances holding user data greater than 1.9MB will need to
have the user data optimized and updated
System records
re-serialization, because the encoder always indents a sequence under the key that
owns it. The five
userDatadescriptions now say the limit measures the effectivevalue rather than the submitted text