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Fixes #923 (Z-017)

Summary

In internal/acp/jsonrpc.go, handleLine spawned an unbounded goroutine for each inbound request without backpressure, exposing the process to potential thread/memory exhaustion from high-cadence streams.

Changes

  • Added maxFrameBytes = 64 * 1024 * 1024 limit constant.
  • Added a semaphore channel sem chan struct{} in Conn with a maxConcurrentRequests = 128 limit.
  • handleLine acquires from the semaphore before launching dispatch goroutines, providing natural backpressure to the input stream.

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go test -race ./internal/acp/... passes cleanly.

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  • New Features

    • Added protection against oversized newline-delimited messages, with a configurable 64 MiB default limit.
    • Added request concurrency limits to help maintain responsiveness under heavy load.
    • Added cancellation support for writes waiting on connection access.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Connections now detect overload conditions, fail pending requests, and stop processing safely.
    • Improved handling of saturated request and response queues.

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The ACP JSON-RPC connection now bounds NDJSON frames, limits concurrent request handlers, preserves notification delivery, manages busy-reply overload, and supports context cancellation while waiting for writes.

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ACP resource limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded NDJSON frame processing
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go, internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go
Serve uses a configurable 64 MiB frame limit and readNDJSONFrame. Oversized terminated and unterminated frames return errors without dispatch.
Inbound handler throttling
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go, internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go
Request handlers use a 128-slot semaphore. Busy requests queue one reply, while notifications remain ungated. Tests cover saturation and cancellation notification delivery.
Busy-reply overload handling
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go, internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go
Busy replies use a single-slot queue. Queue overflow fails pending requests, cancels Serve, and rejects later writes. Context-aware writes can stop while waiting for the mutex. Tests cover stalled writes, queue overflow, goroutine bounds, and cancellation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c97ce

The PR adds frame-size and request-concurrency limits, but shutdown handling can still drop responses for requests finishing at EOF, and blocked notifications can continue accumulating goroutines. These concrete correctness and availability risks should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ACPStream
  participant ConnServe
  participant RequestHandler
  participant BusyReplyQueue
  participant WriteLock
  ACPStream->>ConnServe: send NDJSON request
  ConnServe->>RequestHandler: acquire semaphore or queue busy ID
  RequestHandler->>BusyReplyQueue: enqueue codeServerBusy response
  BusyReplyQueue->>WriteLock: write response with context
  WriteLock-->>RequestHandler: complete or return cancellation
  BusyReplyQueue-->>ConnServe: queue overflow
  ConnServe->>ConnServe: fail pending requests and cancel Serve
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR implements a 64 MiB frame-size limit and a 128-request concurrency limit. Issue #923 also requires a maxFramesPerRequest budget and connection termination with a protocol error when that budget… Add and enforce maxFramesPerRequest for each ACP request. Terminate the connection with the required protocol error when the limit is exceeded. Add tests for the frame-count boundary and protocol-error behavior.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the security change: frame-size bounding and concurrent request throttling.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The frame-size limit, request semaphore, overload handling, cancellation, and related tests directly support the resource-exhaustion objectives in issue #923. No unrelated changes are identified.
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The PR implements a 64 MiB frame-size limit and a 128-request concurrency limit. Issue #923 also requires a maxFramesPerRequest budget and connection termination with a protocol error when that budget is exceeded. The provided summary does not show implementation of that frame-count limit.

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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 79-80: Update Serve’s JSON-RPC reader to enforce maxFrameBytes
while accumulating newline-delimited frames: read bounded fragments, reject and
terminate the connection when an unterminated frame exceeds the limit, and
preserve normal frame handling for valid input. Add a regression test covering
an oversized unterminated frame.
- Around line 307-318: Update handleLine and semaphore admission so response
frames are dispatched without waiting for maxConcurrentRequests capacity, while
new requests and notifications use bounded admission by queueing or rejecting
when saturated. Change acquireSem to report whether it acquired a slot, and only
launch the handler goroutine and call releaseSem when admission succeeds;
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canceled admission.

Apply the same fix in `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go` around lines 307 - 318.
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go`:
- Around line 492-524: Add a regression test for readNDJSONFrame using a
newline-terminated input whose total frame length is limit + 1, ensuring the
final byte is '\n'; assert it returns a frame-limit error. Cover the
delimiter-handling failure path alongside
TestReadNDJSONFrameRejectsOversizedUnterminatedFrame.
- Around line 526-593: Extend
TestConnRejectsSaturatedRequestsWithoutBlockingResponses to send a notification
while b.sem is full, then assert the notification handler is not invoked. Keep
the existing saturated request assertion and release/cleanup flow unchanged,
using a synchronization signal or equivalent bounded wait to verify the notifier
does not run.

In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 389-393: Update readNDJSONFrame to reuse a scratch byte buffer
instead of allocating a new got slice for each read, while preserving the
existing frame limit and error behavior. Add a regression test using an
io.Reader that returns one byte per read and assert allocations remain within a
reasonable bound.
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Both problems are real and the frame reader is the better half of this: handling the unterminated case is exactly what ReadBytes could not do, and returning the partial line alongside the error keeps Serve's existing shape intact. No complaints there.

The throttle is the problem, and specifically what it does to notifications.

The semaphore drops session/cancel, which is the only notifier this repo registers. agent.go:89 is the single HandleNotify call in the tree, and handleCancel reaches sess.invokeCancel(). So the one message that frees occupied slots is now discarded exactly when every slot is occupied. Fill 128 handlers, send a cancel, nothing happens, and the connection stays saturated until those handlers finish on their own. The throttle makes its own trigger condition unrecoverable.

Measured on both heads with the same fixture, 128 blocking work handlers and then one cancel frame:

this branch:  PROBE handlers started = 128 of 128
              PROBE cancel notifications delivered = 0

main:         PROBE handlers started = 128 of 128
              PROBE cancel notifications delivered = 1

Notifications should not share a budget with the requests they are meant to interrupt. The simplest correct thing is to leave the notify path alone: it is bounded in practice by the handlers actually registered, and there is exactly one. If you would rather bound it too, give it its own small allowance, or run cancel inline on the read loop since handleCancel only unmarshals and flips a flag.

Two things I looked at and decided are not blocking, noted so nobody re-derives them.

Writing the busy reply from the read loop means an undrained peer blocks reading. That is not new: handleLine already calls writeError on that goroutine for parse errors and bad versions, so the class predates this PR. It does become reachable with well-formed input rather than only malformed input, which is worth knowing, but I would not hold the PR for it.

The limit is off by one against the constant. buf includes the newline, so a frame whose payload is exactly limit bytes is rejected and the real maximum payload is limit - 1. Your own TestReadNDJSONFrameRejectsOversizedTerminatedFrame pins that, so it is deliberate; it just means maxFrameBytes is not quite the number it reads as. Fine either way, only worth a word in the comment.

Also frameLimit has no setter and NewConn never sets it, so in production it is always the constant and the field exists for tests. That is fine, but say so on the field or someone will go looking for the configuration that sets it.

Fix the cancel path and I will approve.

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- Around line 211-214: Prevent oversized frames from reaching request dispatch:
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The cancel fix is right, and I re-ran the same fixture rather than reading the commit message. 128 handlers saturated, then one session/cancel:

handlers started = 128 of 128
cancel notifications delivered = 1

It was 0 before. Unthrottling the notify path entirely was the right call over giving it its own allowance, since there is exactly one notifier registered and it only unmarshals and flips a flag.

Moving acquireSem inside the goroutine is also the right instinct, and I want to say why explicitly, because the obvious alternative is wrong: acquiring before the go would block the read loop while the semaphore is full, and session/cancel arrives on that same stream, so cancel would stop being READ rather than stop being dispatched. That is the same bug one layer down. Spawning first keeps the stream drainable.

The cost is the thing the PR opens by naming. Measured on this head:

handlers executing = 128 (cap 128)
goroutines: base=4 now=4005 delta=4001 for 4000 queued requests

One goroutine per inbound request, unbounded, which is the sentence at the top of the description. What is bounded now is handler EXECUTION, and that is the expensive half, so this is already better than main on two of three axes. But a peer that streams requests still grows the process without limit, just more cheaply than before.

The missing piece is a bound on the QUEUE, not on execution, and you had the mechanism and removed it: codeServerBusy. Cap the requests waiting for a slot, and reply -32000 past the cap rather than spawning. Cancel stays unthrottled, the stream stays drainable, and the count stops being a function of what the peer sends.

To be clear about weight, since this is the second round: I am asking for it because the unbounded goroutine is the problem this PR exists to fix, not because what is here is worse than what it replaces. If you would rather land the two axes that are fixed and do the queue bound as a follow-up, say so and I will approve this as it stands.

Two smaller things on the rewrite.

readNDJSONFrame is cleaner than the previous version and the ErrBufferFull loop is the right shape. It accumulates up to limit before rejecting, so a hostile peer can still make the process hold 64 MiB per connection, which the old ReadBytes also did without a ceiling; worth a word in the comment that the bound is on retention rather than on nothing.

The comment on the limit now states the off-by-one plainly, which answers my last note.

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You did the harder of the two options I offered, so clearing my verdict.

The acquire is non-blocking now: select on the semaphore with a default that replies -32000 instead of spawning. That bounds the goroutine count by the cap rather than by what the peer sends, which was the thing this PR exists to fix, and it does it without reintroducing the bug I warned about, because the read loop never blocks on the semaphore and cancel stays on the unthrottled notify path.

Falsified rather than read. Making the acquire blocking again, which is the obvious-looking alternative, hangs TestConnSaturatedRequestsReturnsServerBusy until the test binary times out:

panic: test timed out after 1m0s

That is the read-loop stall itself, and it is worth noticing that your test catches it rather than just catching the busy reply. Green with it restored, including -race -count=2.

One thing still open, and it is the one I marked non-blocking: the readNDJSONFrame doc says the frame is bounded by limit and states the off-by-one, but not that the bound is on retention rather than on nothing, so a hostile peer can still hold 64 MiB per connection before the reject. Worth a clause whenever you are next in the file.

Also worth knowing: your CI had never run on any of your PRs. They were all parked at action_required, GitHub's approval gate for outside contributors, so CodeRabbit was the only check you were seeing. I released all eleven. This one is green. Three came back red and I have posted diagnoses on #941, #952 and #954, all Windows only, and #952 is the one worth reading first because it is a problem with the approach rather than the code.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

  • [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:189
    This head is based on ad34dc8d81daa6e2c171df4c237b14aff8561ff9, while live main is 1b5db1765672820caac1684b168c9898b5ba3593 and changes both ACP files. The repository requires a fresh base; please rebase and have the resolved ACP diff reviewed again.

Findings

  • [P1] Reject an oversized frame before dispatching it
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:192
    readNDJSONFrame returns the over-limit buffer alongside its error, but Serve calls handleLine for any nonblank buffer before checking that error. A valid request padded past the limit (including with JSON whitespace) can therefore run its handler and side effects before the connection is rejected. Ensure a frame-limit failure is never passed to dispatch, and cover it with a handler-invocation regression test.

  • [P1] Keep saturated-request replies from stalling cancellation intake
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:349
    When all request slots are full, this writes the -32000 response synchronously on the only input-reader goroutine. If the client is backpressuring stdout, that write blocks before a following session/cancel notification can be read, so the full request pool cannot be cancelled. Preserve busy responses, but ensure their output backpressure cannot stop the read loop from receiving cancellation.

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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 355-363: Bound server-busy response handling in the
request-serving flow around c.sem and c.writeError by using a fixed writer
worker or bounded error-response queue; when saturated, terminate the session
rather than creating additional goroutines or retaining rejected requests.
Preserve the server-busy response for capacity-available queue entries, and add
a saturation test that stalls output, sends many excess requests, and verifies
bounded goroutine or queue growth.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

  • [P1] Bound rejected-request response work when stdout is blocked
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:354
    The semaphore bounds handlers that are admitted, but its full-capacity branch does not bound rejected work: every excess request copies its ID, increments wg, and starts a goroutine for writeError. All replies serialize through writeMu (internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:518), so an ACP client that stops reading stdout leaves the first busy reply blocked in w.Write and every later rejected request leaves another goroutine blocked behind that mutex. Serve also waits for these goroutines in its deferred wg.Wait (internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:161), so a stalled peer can grow memory/goroutines without bound and prevent a clean session shutdown. The current stalled-writer regression demonstrates that cancellation can still be read behind one busy reply, but it does not exercise many rejected requests or verify bounded growth.

    Please address the root cause: overload admission and overload response delivery need a shared bounded failure policy. Do not create one detached response writer per rejected request. Instead, ensure that an output-stalled session has a fixed bound on queued/waiting busy replies and then stops accepting work or terminates the session. Preserve the current nonblocking request admission and the unthrottled session/cancel intake; do not move semaphore acquisition onto the read loop. Add a regression test that fills the request slots, stalls stdout, streams substantially more requests than the limit, and proves bounded queued/goroutine work plus eventual shutdown.

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- Around line 563-574: Update the write path around writeMu in write so
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

  • [P2] Keep the unrelated config cleanup out of this security fix
    internal/config/unknownfields.go:134
    This reflect.Ptrreflect.Pointer update is behaviorally unrelated to the approved ACP resource-limit issue and is not explained by the PR. Please remove it from this change or give it its own approved, tested PR so the security fix remains reviewable and scoped.

Findings

  • [P1] Let overload cancel handlers waiting for the serialized writer
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:571
    The fixed-size busy queue limits only rejected work; it does not make the session's output path cancellable. A stalled peer can leave writeBusyLoop in w.Write while it owns writeMu. If an already admitted handler completes during that stall, it can pass write's first overloaded check and then block at writeMu.Lock. A subsequent rejected request fills the busy queue and another calls tripOverload; this cancels the serve context, but neither the mutex wait nor the blocked write observes that cancellation. Because the admitted handler remains counted in wg, Serve then blocks in its deferred wg.Wait rather than terminating the overloaded session.

    Address the root cause by giving tracked writers a bounded, cancellation-aware admission/drain policy, instead of relying on an unconditional mutex wait after overload. The policy must preserve normal serialized output, keep the input loop able to receive cancellation, and ensure that a peer which stops reading cannot retain a tracked handler indefinitely. Add a regression that stalls output, places an admitted handler behind the writer, then overflows the busy queue and proves Serve exits without releasing the stalled writer.

  • [P1] Bound notification dispatch as well as request dispatch
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:382
    The semaphore covers only request frames. Every registered notification still increments wg and starts a goroutine without admission control; production registers session/cancel through this path, where each invocation JSON-decodes input and serializes through the agent/session locks. A client can therefore stream valid cancel notifications faster than that work drains and continue accumulating goroutines and memory—the session-wide resource-exhaustion path that #923 says to close.

    Address the root cause with a bounded notification policy, such as coalescing repeated cancellation for a session or a small dedicated bounded work path. Do not put cancellation behind the request semaphore or block the read loop: cancellation must remain promptly consumable while request capacity is full. Add a flood regression that proves notification work stays bounded while a saturated request can still be cancelled.

  • [P2] Do not discard a busy reply that was already admitted to the queue
    internal/acp/jsonrpc.go:528
    The queue accepts the first saturated request's ID, but its delivery is not part of the overload state machine. If a later request finds the one-slot queue full, tripOverload sets overloaded and cancels the busy worker. The worker either exits before reading that accepted ID or calls writeError, whose new early and post-lock overload checks reject the response. A readable client that sends a burst can therefore receive neither the promised -32000 for the request already accepted into busyCh nor a reply for the request that overflowed it.

    Address the root cause by defining one bounded overload-response lifecycle: either flush IDs that were successfully admitted before terminating the session, or do not admit an ID once the policy can no longer guarantee its response. Keep the queue and worker bounds, and add a burst-overload regression that verifies response behavior for both the queued and overflow-causing requests.

Guidance for the next revision

The remaining findings are variations of one underlying problem: the PR bounds only selected admission points, but ACP work continues across several independent lifecycles—input acceptance, notification dispatch, queued rejection replies, serialized output, cancellation, and Serve shutdown. A local nonblocking select or a single-worker queue is not enough by itself when work admitted before the limit can wait indefinitely at a later boundary, or when cancellation makes an already admitted response impossible to deliver.

Please approach the next revision as one session-wide resource and shutdown design, rather than addressing these locations independently:

  1. Define the ACP session states and transitions explicitly: accepting work, overloaded, draining, and terminated. For each state, specify whether requests, notifications, outbound calls, normal handler replies, and busy replies are admitted, queued, dropped, or failed.
  2. Put a fixed bound on every attacker-controlled unit of concurrent or retained work. That includes not only request handlers, but also registered notifications, IDs awaiting busy replies, handlers waiting for output serialization, and any goroutine retained to make the session terminate cleanly. Cancellation may need a special coalescing/control path, but it must not become an unbounded bypass.
  3. Make output ownership part of shutdown. A blocked io.Writer cannot be force-cancelled by a context or a mutex, so tracked handlers must not be able to wait forever behind it. Pick a bounded policy for waiting writers and make Serve's drain behavior consistent with it.
  4. Keep overload decisions and response delivery in one coherent policy. If an ID is accepted as eligible for a -32000 reply, later overload must not silently invalidate that decision unless the protocol/session is deliberately closed under a documented, testable rule.
  5. Test the transitions rather than only individual happy paths. Use a controllable stalled writer and a small semaphore/queue to cover: a normal handler already waiting for output when overload begins; a flood of cancellation notifications while requests are saturated; multiple rejected requests crossing the busy-queue boundary; and eventual Serve return without unbounded goroutines or releasing the stalled writer. Run these under -race.

This keeps the intended design—nonblocking input, prompt cancellation, serialized JSON-RPC output, bounded resource use, and deterministic shutdown—without requiring a broad rewrite or weakening ACP behavior under normal load.

cl-ment and others added 7 commits August 29, 2026 01:17
…ers (fixes Gitlawb#923)

Inbound ACP requests and notifications previously spawned unbound goroutines
without rate limiting or concurrency backpressure.

This adds maxFrameBytes (64MB) and bounds concurrent in-flight dispatch goroutines
via a buffered semaphore (maxConcurrentRequests = 128) in Conn.
A frame-limit error no longer reaches handleLine, so a padded valid
request cannot run its handler. Saturated -32000 replies are written
asynchronously so stdout backpressure cannot stall session/cancel.
…n on overflow

Rejected requests share one buffered busy queue and one writer goroutine.
When that queue is full the session is cancelled instead of spawning another
writer. Admitted handlers skip further writes once overloaded so Serve can
exit while stdout is stalled.
A stalled peer can hold the serialized writer. The second Call now
returns context.Canceled instead of blocking behind that lock.
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internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go (2)

457-460: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the wait for semaphore saturation.

This loop has no deadline. If a slot is never occupied, the test hangs until the package timeout panics, instead of reporting a clear failure. The other new tests in this file use bounded select waits with t.Fatal.

🔧 Proposed fix
-	// Wait until both slots are occupied
-	for len(conn.sem) < 2 {
-		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
+	// Wait until both slots are occupied
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
+	for len(conn.sem) < 2 {
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatalf("timed out waiting for semaphore saturation, len = %d", len(conn.sem))
+		}
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go` around lines 457 - 460, Replace the unbounded
polling loop that waits for len(conn.sem) to reach 2 with a bounded select-based
wait, using a timeout and t.Fatal on expiration. Preserve the success condition
while ensuring the test reports a clear failure instead of hanging.

746-763: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the goroutine bound assertion retry instead of sampling once.

runtime.NumGoroutine() is sampled immediately after Serve returns. At that moment the flood goroutine can still be writing, and each canceled write in acquireWrite leaves one helper goroutine blocked on writeMu. writeMu stays held until the deferred close(gate) runs, which is after this assertion. The fixed slack of 8 is therefore timing-dependent and can flake under load.

Poll until the count settles inside a deadline.

🔧 Proposed fix
 	after := runtime.NumGoroutine()
-	if delta := after - before; delta > 8 {
-		t.Fatalf("goroutine growth = %d after %d rejected requests, want bounded", delta, extra)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
+	delta := after - before
+	for delta > 8 && time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+		delta = runtime.NumGoroutine() - before
+	}
+	if delta > 8 {
+		t.Fatalf("goroutine growth = %d after %d rejected requests, want bounded", delta, extra)
 	}
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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go` around lines 746 - 763, Replace the immediate
goroutine-count assertion after Serve returns with polling until the goroutine
count is within the allowed bound, using a bounded deadline and short retry
interval. Keep the existing timeout failure behavior and verify the settled
count remains bounded after the rejected requests, allowing the flood writer and
deferred gate cleanup to finish.
internal/acp/jsonrpc.go (1)

356-381: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound notification dispatch concurrency

internal/acp/jsonrpc.go starts one goroutine per notification without a limit. A slow or blocked NotifyFunc can therefore accumulate goroutines while request handlers remain saturated. Use a separate notification semaphore or fixed notifier pool, and preserve the separate path for session/cancel.

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In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go` around lines 356 - 381, Bound notification dispatch
concurrency in the request/notification handling flow by adding a separate
notification semaphore or fixed notifier pool, rather than spawning unlimited
goroutines for notifications. Keep notification execution independent from the
request semaphore, and preserve the existing special handling path for
session/cancel.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 408-424: Update Conn.dispatchRequest so writeError and writeResult
use a response context independent of Serve’s cancellation, allowing in-flight
handler responses to be written during normal shutdown while preserving the
existing c.overloaded check. Add a regression test covering a request whose
handler finishes as Serve reaches shutdown and verify its response is still
emitted.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc_test.go`:
- Around line 457-460: Replace the unbounded polling loop that waits for
len(conn.sem) to reach 2 with a bounded select-based wait, using a timeout and
t.Fatal on expiration. Preserve the success condition while ensuring the test
reports a clear failure instead of hanging.
- Around line 746-763: Replace the immediate goroutine-count assertion after
Serve returns with polling until the goroutine count is within the allowed
bound, using a bounded deadline and short retry interval. Keep the existing
timeout failure behavior and verify the settled count remains bounded after the
rejected requests, allowing the flood writer and deferred gate cleanup to
finish.

In `@internal/acp/jsonrpc.go`:
- Around line 356-381: Bound notification dispatch concurrency in the
request/notification handling flow by adding a separate notification semaphore
or fixed notifier pool, rather than spawning unlimited goroutines for
notifications. Keep notification execution independent from the request
semaphore, and preserve the existing special handling path for session/cancel.
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Handler work still sees the cancelled Serve context. The response write
uses an independent context so a request that finishes during shutdown
is not dropped. write still honors the overload trip.
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security: unbounded ACP frames and per-request goroutines (Z-017)

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