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Fix iteration over corrupt and unusual search trees - #469
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reader_iter_next checked for a closed reader before it checked whether the iterator had ended. After close(), an exhausted iterator raised ValueError instead of StopIteration, which breaks the iterator protocol. The pure Python iterator, a generator, stops as expected. Mark the iterator as done when next() raises StopIteration, and check that flag first. It needs no lock, because the flag belongs to the iterator. The list of pending records cannot replace the flag: it is already empty when the last record is returned, and the next call must still report a closed or reopened reader, as the pure Python iterator does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Neither reader limited the depth of the tree walk during iteration. A corrupt tree, such as one where a node points back to itself, made the C extension set bits past the end of the 16-byte ip_packed array, and then past its heap allocation. The process aborted with heap corruption. The pure Python reader recursed until it raised RecursionError, which a caller that catches InvalidDatabaseError does not catch. A node at the full address depth has no valid children, so both readers now raise InvalidDatabaseError when they reach one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After an error, such as a corrupt search tree, the C iterator kept its pending records, and the next call continued from them. With a cycle in the tree, a caller that skipped bad records could get many errors before StopIteration. The pure Python iterator is a generator, so it stops after its first error. Free the pending records and mark the iterator done when next() fails, so the C iterator stops too. Reuse the loop from ReaderIter_dealloc as free_records. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both iterators turned any network whose first 96 bits were zero into an IPv4 network and subtracted 96 from its prefix length. For a network shorter than /96, such as ::/1, the prefix length became negative, and iteration raised ValueError. An IPv4 network in an IPv6 tree is at least /96, so convert only those. The pure Python iterator had two more bugs here. It compared the address with 2**32 using <=, so ::1:0:0/96 got a prefix length of 0 and raised ValueError. It also skipped every data record equal to the IPv4 start node, although only a search node can be the IPv4 subtree. Use <, and skip only a search node, as the C iterator does. Build the network with IPv4Network or IPv6Network, because ip_network() picks IPv4 for any small integer. Its alias rule also differed from the C iterator. It skipped the IPv4 start node in an IPv4 tree, where a record that points back to the root is a cycle, and inside the IPv4 subtree of an IPv6 tree. Both hid a corrupt tree behind partial results. Skip the subtree only when an address with a set bit in its first 96 bits leads to it, as the C iterator does, and raise InvalidDatabaseError for a record that points to the root, which libmaxminddb treats as invalid. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_resolve_data_pointer checked only that a data pointer was inside the
buffer. A search tree record that pointed into the 16-byte separator
between the search tree and the data section decoded the zero bytes
there, so get() returned {} and iteration yielded the network with {}.
libmaxminddb rejects such a record as a corrupt search tree.
Reject a pointer before the start of the data section too. A lookup
benchmark showed no measurable cost.
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| # A node at the full address depth has no valid children, and no | ||
| # record can point to the root. Only a corrupt tree, such as one | ||
| # with a cycle, has either. | ||
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This follows up the cycle comment on #466 (#466 (comment)). The depth limit that the comment suggested stops the heap corruption. But it catches a cycle early only if the cycle goes through the root. For other cycles, both readers yield networks that are not in the tree before they raise InvalidDatabaseError. The C check at extension/maxminddb.c:995 has the same limit.
Example: the IPv4 tree (1, 18, 18, 1), where the right record of node 1 points back to node 1. Both readers yield 0.0.0.0/2, 64.0.0.0/3, 96.0.0.0/4, and so on down to /32, then raise at depth 32. That is 31 networks, and 30 of them are not in the tree. In a large database, a cycle near the top walks the left subtree again at each level. The caller can get up to (bits - depth) × subtree size bad records before the error.
The root test asserts that the reader yields no more networks than the tree has, but this is not true for other cycles.
Possible fix: keep the node numbers on the current DFS path, and raise when a record points to one of them.
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Not fixed, by decision. We keep the code simple and don't try to detect a corrupt tree early. The depth limit stops the memory corruption, and both readers raise InvalidDatabaseError for every cycle. A walk that ends with an error is incomplete, so the caller should discard its networks. libmaxminddb also checks only for a record that points to the root (see the comment in record_type).
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The two readers give different networks for the same corrupt file. The pure Python walk checks a record only when it visits that record. The C extension, with the bundled libmaxminddb 1.14, fails in MMDB_read_node when either record of a node is invalid, before it yields a child.
Example: _database((17, 2), ip_version=4). The left record is data and the right record points into the separator. The C iterator raises Error reading node: ... and yields nothing. The pure Python iterator yields (0.0.0.0/1, 'net'), then raises.
Possible fix: read and check both records of a node before going down into it, as MMDB_read_node does.
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Not fixed, by decision, for the same reason: we don't try to detect a corrupt tree early. Both readers raise on this file. Only the networks before the error differ. The C result already depends on the libmaxminddb version: a system libmaxminddb before 1.14 checks each record when the iterator visits it, as pure Python does.
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On #466, the author decided that the C iterator stops after an error, as a generator does (#466 (comment)). That is correct for the closed, reopened and corrupt-tree errors, because the iterator cannot continue after them. A failure to get the read lock is different:
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reader_iter_nextremoves a record from the list.
ReaderIter_next frees the pending records and sets done after any NULL result, so it also does this after a lock failure.
Example: pthread_rwlock_rdlock returns EAGAIN, so next() raises RuntimeError('Failed to acquire read lock: ...'). The pending list did not change, but it is now freed and done is true. If a caller catches the error and calls next() again, it gets StopIteration. It loses the rest of the database with no error.
Possible fix: free the list and set done only on the paths that end the iteration, not after a lock failure.
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Fixed in e63c8a8. ReaderIter_next now checks done and gets the read lock itself. It frees the records and sets done only after an error from reader_iter_next, which runs with the lock held. A lock failure raises RuntimeError and leaves the pending records, so the next next() continues. HISTORY says this. There is no test, because Python cannot make pthread_rwlock_rdlock fail.
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_generate_children now calculates bits from self._metadata.ip_version on every call. That is about 2 × node_count calls in a full iteration. Before this change, it did this only for data records.
Possible fix: calculate it one time in _load (for example, self._ip_bits), or pass it down from _iterate, as node_count could be.
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Fixed in ba551ef. _load sets _node_count and _address_bits, and _generate_children reads them. With data decoding stubbed out, the walk of GeoLite City got faster (ABBA, 10 pairs, against c81339a):
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| 3.14 | -1.27% |
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With data decoding, the difference is within noise, because decoding takes almost all of the time.
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| resolved = pointer - self._metadata.node_count + self._metadata.search_tree_size | ||
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_resolve_data_pointer still reads self._metadata.node_count on every call, so the cached _search_tree_size saves only part of the work. _search_tree_size and _data_start also hold related values (_data_start is _search_tree_size + 16).
Possible fix: store one offset, _pointer_base = search_tree_size - node_count. Then resolved = pointer + self._pointer_base, and the bounds check stays the same.
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Fixed in c81339a. _pointer_base (search_tree_size - node_count) replaces _search_tree_size, and _resolve_data_pointer adds it to the pointer. The bounds check is the same. Lookups did not change (ABBA, 10 pairs, against 2989384):
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| // libmaxminddb before 1.14 returns this type for a record | ||
| // that points to the root or past the data section. Later | ||
| // versions fail in MMDB_read_node instead. | ||
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The same corrupt tree can give different error messages. This MMDB_RECORD_TYPE_INVALID path and the new depth check use the bare MMDB_strerror text. The MMDB_read_node failure path at line 1010 adds the prefix Error reading node: .
Example: a record that points to the root raises The MaxMind DB file's search tree is corrupt with a system libmaxminddb before 1.14. With the bundled 1.14, it raises Error reading node: The MaxMind DB file's search tree is corrupt. Code that compares the message exactly gets a different result for each libmaxminddb version.
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Not fixed. The tests match the substring search tree is corrupt, which both messages contain, so they pass with every libmaxminddb version. The message is not an API, so we accept the difference.
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| // gives a network longer than /32, and a cycle in either tree | ||
| // writes past the end of ip_packed at depth 128. | ||
| if (cur->depth >= ri->reader->mmdb->depth) { |
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Nit: this block repeats the MMDB_RECORD_TYPE_INVALID error block at line 978 line for line (release the lock, set the corrupt-tree error, free cur, return NULL). A shared exit path, such as a goto label or a small helper, would keep the two in sync if the message changes.
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Nit: free_records is defined above its caller ReaderIter_dealloc. I prefer callers above the functions they call. The forward declaration at line 144 already lets you move it below ReaderIter_dealloc.
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Nit: _database is defined above the tests that call it. I prefer callers above the functions they call. This file keeps its helpers above BaseTestReader, so it is fine to keep it here for consistency.
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Thanks. I kept it with the other helpers above BaseTestReader.
The iterator freed its pending records and stopped after any error, including a failure to get the read lock. That failure is temporary and happens before the iterator removes a record, so a caller that caught the RuntimeError and called next() again got StopIteration and lost the rest of the database. Get the lock in ReaderIter_next, and stop only after an error from reader_iter_next, which now runs with the lock held. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MMDB_RECORD_TYPE_INVALID case and the depth check repeated the same error block. Move it into corrupt_tree_error, so that the two cannot drift apart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Put the helper after its callers. This commit only moves code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_resolve_data_pointer subtracted node_count and added the search tree size on every lookup. Store the difference once, in _pointer_base, in place of _search_tree_size. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_generate_children read node_count and computed the address size from the metadata on every call, which is about twice per node in the tree. Both are constant for a reader, so set them in _load, as _ipv4_start is. With data decoding stubbed out, this made a walk of GeoLite City about 1% faster. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| // gives a network longer than /32, and a cycle in either tree | ||
| // writes past the end of ip_packed at depth 128. | ||
| if (cur->depth >= ri->reader->mmdb->depth) { | ||
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Reject full-depth nodes before skipping IPv4 aliases.
If a malformed IPv6 path reaches ipv4_start_node.node_value at depth 128 with a nonzero high prefix, the alias check at Line 981 skips the node before this depth check runs. Iteration can return partial results instead of raising InvalidDatabaseError. Move the depth check before the alias check. Keep the skip for valid aliases at shallower depths. libmaxminddb classifies references to valid nonzero node numbers as search nodes. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Move the depth-128 validation in the iterator ahead of the IPv4 alias check
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Not fixed, by decision. We keep the code simple and don't try to detect every corrupt tree. Both readers skip any record that points to the IPv4 start node under a non-IPv4 prefix, at any depth. Moving the depth check first would catch only depth 128. An alias at depths 97 to 127 is just as invalid and would still be skipped. The skip yields no network that is not in the tree, and it writes nothing to ip_packed, so the depth check isn't needed for safety here.
Fixes iteration over corrupt and unusual search trees in both readers.
RecursionError, or returned part of the networks. Both now raiseInvalidDatabaseErrorat a node at the full address depth or a record that points to the root.::/1got a negative prefix length and raisedValueError. Only a /96 or longer network converts now. The pure Python reader also skipped data records equal to the IPv4 start node, mis-compared::1:0:0/96, and treated a cycle inside the IPv4 subtree as an alias. It now follows the C iterator.ValueErrorinstead ofStopIterationwhen it was exhausted and its reader closed, and it continued after an error. It now stops after any error, including an error in one record's data, as the pure Python generator does. It does not stop after a failure to get the read lock, because that failure is temporary.{}for a record that points into the 16-byte separator before the data section. It now raisesInvalidDatabaseError.The C and pure Python iterators give the same networks on every test database. A pure Python lookup benchmark showed no measurable change.
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InvalidDatabaseErrorin applicable cases instead of returning incomplete results, causing recursion errors, or risking memory corruption.