http: configurable and default request header size limit

This addresses the biggest DoS in issue 2093

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4841050

src/pkg/http/serve_test.go

@@ -873,6 +873,28 @@ func TestStripPrefix(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestRequestLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(HandlerFunc(func(w ResponseWriter, r *Request) {
+		t.Fatalf("didn't expect to get request in Handler")
+	}))
+	defer ts.Close()
+	req, _ := NewRequest("GET", ts.URL, nil)
+	var bytesPerHeader = len("header12345: val12345\r\n")
+	for i := 0; i < ((DefaultMaxHeaderBytes+4096)/bytesPerHeader)+1; i++ {
+		req.Header.Set(fmt.Sprintf("header%05d", i), fmt.Sprintf("val%05d", i))
+	}
+	res, err := DefaultClient.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		// Some HTTP clients may fail on this undefined behavior (server replying and
+		// closing the connection while the request is still being written), but
+		// we do support it (at least currently), so we expect a response below.
+		t.Fatalf("Do: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.StatusCode != 400 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 400 response status; got: %d %s", res.StatusCode, res.Status)
+	}
+}
+
 type errorListener struct {
 	errs []os.Error
 }

src/pkg/http/server.go

@@ -94,9 +94,10 @@ type Hijacker interface {
 // A conn represents the server side of an HTTP connection.
 type conn struct {
 	remoteAddr string               // network address of remote side
-	handler    Handler              // request handler
+	server     *Server              // the Server on which the connection arrived
 	rwc        net.Conn             // i/o connection
-	buf        *bufio.ReadWriter    // buffered rwc
+	lr         *io.LimitedReader    // io.LimitReader(rwc)
+	buf        *bufio.ReadWriter    // buffered(lr,rwc), reading from bufio->limitReader->rwc
 	hijacked   bool                 // connection has been hijacked by handler
 	tlsState   *tls.ConnectionState // or nil when not using TLS
 	body       []byte
@@ -143,14 +144,18 @@ func (r *response) ReadFrom(src io.Reader) (n int64, err os.Error) {
 	return io.Copy(writerOnly{r}, src)
 }
 
+// noLimit is an effective infinite upper bound for io.LimitedReader
+const noLimit int64 = (1 << 63) - 1
+
 // Create new connection from rwc.
-func newConn(rwc net.Conn, handler Handler) (c *conn, err os.Error) {
+func (srv *Server) newConn(rwc net.Conn) (c *conn, err os.Error) {
 	c = new(conn)
 	c.remoteAddr = rwc.RemoteAddr().String()
-	c.handler = handler
+	c.server = srv
 	c.rwc = rwc
 	c.body = make([]byte, sniffLen)
-	br := bufio.NewReader(rwc)
+	c.lr = io.LimitReader(rwc, noLimit).(*io.LimitedReader)
+	br := bufio.NewReader(c.lr)
 	bw := bufio.NewWriter(rwc)
 	c.buf = bufio.NewReadWriter(br, bw)
 
@@ -163,6 +168,18 @@ func newConn(rwc net.Conn, handler Handler) (c *conn, err os.Error) {
 	return c, nil
 }
 
+// DefaultMaxHeaderBytes is the maximum permitted size of the headers
+// in an HTTP request.
+// This can be overridden by setting Server.MaxHeaderBytes.
+const DefaultMaxHeaderBytes = 1 << 20 // 1 MB
+
+func (srv *Server) maxHeaderBytes() int {
+	if srv.MaxHeaderBytes > 0 {
+		return srv.MaxHeaderBytes
+	}
+	return DefaultMaxHeaderBytes
+}
+
 // wrapper around io.ReaderCloser which on first read, sends an
 // HTTP/1.1 100 Continue header
 type expectContinueReader struct {
@@ -194,15 +211,22 @@ func (ecr *expectContinueReader) Close() os.Error {
 // It is like time.RFC1123 but hard codes GMT as the time zone.
 const TimeFormat = "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 GMT"
 
+var errTooLarge = os.NewError("http: request too large")
+
 // Read next request from connection.
 func (c *conn) readRequest() (w *response, err os.Error) {
 	if c.hijacked {
 		return nil, ErrHijacked
 	}
+	c.lr.N = int64(c.server.maxHeaderBytes()) + 4096 /* bufio slop */
 	var req *Request
 	if req, err = ReadRequest(c.buf.Reader); err != nil {
+		if c.lr.N == 0 {
+			return nil, errTooLarge
+		}
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	c.lr.N = noLimit
 
 	req.RemoteAddr = c.remoteAddr
 	req.TLS = c.tlsState
@@ -567,6 +591,14 @@ func (c *conn) serve() {
 	for {
 		w, err := c.readRequest()
 		if err != nil {
+			if err == errTooLarge {
+				// Their HTTP client may or may not be
+				// able to read this if we're
+				// responding to them and hanging up
+				// while they're still writing their
+				// request.  Undefined behavior.
+				fmt.Fprintf(c.rwc, "HTTP/1.1 400 Request Too Large\r\n\r\n")
+			}
 			break
 		}
 
@@ -603,12 +635,17 @@ func (c *conn) serve() {
 			break
 		}
 
+		handler := c.server.Handler
+		if handler == nil {
+			handler = DefaultServeMux
+		}
+
 		// HTTP cannot have multiple simultaneous active requests.[*]
 		// Until the server replies to this request, it can't read another,
 		// so we might as well run the handler in this goroutine.
 		// [*] Not strictly true: HTTP pipelining.  We could let them all process
 		// in parallel even if their responses need to be serialized.
-		c.handler.ServeHTTP(w, w.req)
+		handler.ServeHTTP(w, w.req)
 		if c.hijacked {
 			return
 		}
@@ -906,10 +943,11 @@ func Serve(l net.Listener, handler Handler) os.Error {
 
 // A Server defines parameters for running an HTTP server.
 type Server struct {
-	Addr         string  // TCP address to listen on, ":http" if empty
-	Handler      Handler // handler to invoke, http.DefaultServeMux if nil
-	ReadTimeout  int64   // the net.Conn.SetReadTimeout value for new connections
-	WriteTimeout int64   // the net.Conn.SetWriteTimeout value for new connections
+	Addr           string  // TCP address to listen on, ":http" if empty
+	Handler        Handler // handler to invoke, http.DefaultServeMux if nil
+	ReadTimeout    int64   // the net.Conn.SetReadTimeout value for new connections
+	WriteTimeout   int64   // the net.Conn.SetWriteTimeout value for new connections
+	MaxHeaderBytes int     // maximum size of request headers, DefaultMaxHeaderBytes if 0
 }
 
 // ListenAndServe listens on the TCP network address srv.Addr and then
@@ -932,10 +970,6 @@ func (srv *Server) ListenAndServe() os.Error {
 // then call srv.Handler to reply to them.
 func (srv *Server) Serve(l net.Listener) os.Error {
 	defer l.Close()
-	handler := srv.Handler
-	if handler == nil {
-		handler = DefaultServeMux
-	}
 	for {
 		rw, e := l.Accept()
 		if e != nil {
@@ -951,7 +985,7 @@ func (srv *Server) Serve(l net.Listener) os.Error {
 		if srv.WriteTimeout != 0 {
 			rw.SetWriteTimeout(srv.WriteTimeout)
 		}
-		c, err := newConn(rw, handler)
+		c, err := srv.newConn(rw)
 		if err != nil {
 			continue
 		}