perf(redaction): add fast-path byte checks to eliminate regex allocations on clean strings - #945
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ChangesConditional redaction processing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to URL redaction can unintentionally change unrelated encoded path or query text when it matches the replacement marker. This is a bounded correctness risk, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to scope unescaping to the generated password value. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go`:
- Line 148: Update the GitHub bearer-token fixture in the redaction
benchmark/test data to use a suffix of at least 36 characters after “ghp_”, so
it matches textSecretPatterns[2] and exercises token replacement.
In `@internal/redaction/redaction.go`:
- Around line 188-273: The redaction gates in the main redaction flow need
regression coverage rather than benchmark-only validation. Add table-driven
tests covering each conditional pattern gate, including matching and failure
paths, unchanged near-miss inputs, case-insensitive Authorization headers, and
unsupported token prefixes; anchor the tests to the redaction function and
existing patterns such as privateKeyPattern, jsonStringPattern, assignPattern,
headerPattern, queryPattern, and textSecretPatterns.
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go`:
- Around line 174-347: Extend TestRedactStringConditionalGates with matching and
near-miss cases for secretHeader and redactURLPasswords: verify an X-API-Key
value and URL password are redacted, while a non-secret header and URL without a
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I went at this one looking for a bypass, because a fast path in a redactor is exactly where one hides. I did not find one, and the win is bigger than the description claims. Details first, then the one thing I want changed.
The gates are sound. I built a differential harness: the pre-change RedactString copied in verbatim as redactStringUngated, then both run over the same corpus. A structured matrix of every token shape crossed with 24 framings (bare, JSON, header, assignment, URL userinfo, query, protocol-relative, whitespace, brackets), plus 200k randomized strings drawn from an alphabet loaded with the delimiters your gates key on. Zero mismatches.
That result only means something if the harness can fail, so I broke one gate on purpose, changing Contains("sk-ant-") to Contains("sk-ant-NEVER"), and it reported the mismatch immediately with the offending input. Happy to hand the harness over if you want it in the PR; it is about 100 lines and it is the only thing that actually pins the property this change depends on.
I also checked the gates by hand against each regex and they all follow. gh[pousr]_ against the five-prefix disjunction is complete. proxy-authorization contains authorization, so the lowered Contains covers both alternatives of headerPattern. queryPattern requires [?&] as its first group, so the ?-or-& gate is implied.
The fixture change is not hiding anything. Lengthening ghp_abc...123456 to ...1234567890 looked like the sort of edit that papers over a regression, so I put the old value back and ran the two tests it touches. They pass on your code. The 32-character original never matched gh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,} in the first place; it was being caught by the header and sensitive-key rules, and still is. Worth a line in the commit message so the next reader does not have to check.
The win is real, and larger than "eliminate regex allocations on clean strings". Measured on both heads, same benchmarks, -benchtime=200x -count=3:
main this branch
clean, no colon 29402 ns 51 allocs 314 ns 0 allocs
clean, with colon 26244 ns 51 allocs 3731 ns 4 allocs
40-line log block 952359 ns 540 allocs 265981 ns 495 allocs
mixed secrets 68184 ns 86 allocs 32284 ns 54 allocs
Even the paths that cannot skip anything get 2x.
The one change I want: bind each gate to its pattern instead of to its index.
textSecretPatterns[0] through [8] are now addressed positionally, with the prefix that guards each one written out separately in RedactString. That is two lists that have to stay in the same order, with nothing connecting them. The old for _, pattern := range textSecretPatterns could not get this wrong; the new form fails silently in the worst possible direction. Add a tenth pattern and it is simply never applied, and no test fails, and nothing in the code reads as broken. Reorder two entries and each is guarded by the other's prefix.
Make it one list: give each entry a pattern plus the prefixes that gate it, and keep the loop. Then a new secret shape cannot be added without a gate, because there is nowhere to put it that skips one. That also makes the property testable directly, which nothing currently is.
Two notes while you are in there, neither blocking.
strings.ToLower(redacted) copies the whole string every time the input contains a colon, purely to do a case-insensitive Contains. That is where the 4 allocations in the colon benchmark come from, and it is why the realistic log block only gets 3.6x when the clean case gets 90x: agent logs have a colon and an = on nearly every line, so they pay for the copy and take the assignPattern scan anyway. A small case-insensitive substring check would get that back without changing behaviour.
The sk- gate on openaiKeyPattern is correct but subtle, since the filter inside deliberately keeps some sk- matches. Worth a comment saying the gate is about the prefix and not about the filter, so nobody later "simplifies" it into the filter.
Everything else is good work. Restructure that list and I will approve.
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Restructured as asked, so clearing my verdict. One list of secretPatternTrigger, each pattern sitting next to the prefixes that gate it, and the loop is back.
I checked the move did not quietly edit a pattern: the full set of regexp.MustCompile literals is byte-identical between the pre-restructure head and this one, same seventeen, same digest. And the containsCaseInsensitive swap for the authorization gate is pinned, since changing that substring fails the header tests in audit_fixes_test.go and opaque_auth_test.go rather than only the new table test.
Two things I found while checking, neither a reason to hold this.
The restructure narrows the hole rather than closing it. An entry written as {patterns: ...} with prefixes omitted gets the nil zero value, hasPrefix stays false, and that pattern is silently never applied. Same failure as the indexed version, one step harder to reach. Now that the property is expressible, a test over triggeredSecretPatterns asserting every entry has at least one prefix would actually close it, which is what I had in mind when I said the shape makes it testable.
redactURLPasswords has no test. Not yours, but it is one line from what you are editing so it is the cheap moment. I replaced the :// gate with a literal that can never match, so the whole stage stops running, and the package stays green:
ok github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/redaction
The reason is that the one URL fixture also passes super-secret through ExtraSecretValues, so the literal-value pass redacts it either way and the stage underneath is never exercised. A fixture whose URL password is not also an extra secret value would pin it.
Before merge, note CI has never run on this head. 64e60b3e shows action_required for both workflows; the last green CI was 826ca553, one commit back. Someone needs to release the run. I built and tested locally at 64e60b3e in the meantime: gofmt clean, go vet clean, internal/redaction green including -race.
CodeRabbit's own CHANGES_REQUESTED is still open separately, so mine clearing does not unblock this on its own.
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Approving; I had already approved this before it was gated, and the release has now given it a real green run rather than a lone CodeRabbit check.
The fast path is a strict pre-filter, which is the property that matters: I could not construct an input where it says "no secret" and the full matcher would have said yes.
Two things worth tightening, neither blocking.
TestRedactStringConditionalGates has two dead cells. Replacing the URL gate and the query gate with never-matching literals, and deleting the ghu_, ghs_, ghr_ and ASIA prefixes, leaves go test ./internal/redaction/ green while all six shapes leak. So the test names those gates without pinning them.
prefixes and pattern are two representations of one fact with nothing tying them together. The specific typo example I first considered does turn out to be caught by an existing case, so the exposure is narrower than it looks, but the general shape stands: a prefix added to one and not the other fails silently.
One note: containsCaseInsensitive is (?i)-equivalent only for ASCII needles containing no 'k' or 's', because of the Kelvin sign and long-s foldings. Its single call site uses "authorization", so it is correct today. Nothing says the constraint, which is what would make a future second caller unsafe.
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Retracting my approval, on the closing keywords rather than the code. @jatmn is right, and it is worse than a stale reference. I approved this twice without checking what it claims to close, which I should have done the first time.
Fixes #932 points at a merged pull request, not an issue. #932 is "perf: reduce startup and turn overhead", merged on 2026-08-26 as 1fde9418. There is nothing there to close.
Fixes #922 would close a live security issue this PR does not fix. #922 is "security: token-leak bug in canonical redaction package (Z-050)", still open and issue-approved. It is about normalizeKey collapsing camelCase keys so they miss sensitiveKeys. This PR touches neither normalizeKey nor sensitiveKeys, and the leak is unchanged on its head:
head 64e60b3e main
accessToken >>> LEAKED accessToken >>> LEAKED
refreshToken >>> LEAKED refreshToken >>> LEAKED
apiKey REDACTED apiKey REDACTED
access_token REDACTED access_token REDACTED
Identical either side, so this is a pre-existing bug that the PR neither causes nor addresses. accessToken and refreshToken still emit their values in the clear.
The consequence is what makes this blocking rather than cosmetic: merging as written auto-closes #922, so a real token leak drops off the backlog marked done while it is still there. That is a worse outcome than the issue simply staying open.
Please drop both Fixes lines, or change them to Refs #922 if you want the link. Once the body no longer closes anything, I will re-approve.
The code itself is still good and nothing below changes. The fast path is a strict pre-filter, and I could not construct an input where it answers "no secret" and the full matcher would have said yes. The two coverage points from my last review stand as written: TestRedactStringConditionalGates has two dead cells, and prefixes and pattern are two representations of one fact with no contract between them. Neither blocks.
Also worth knowing, since it is my mistake and not yours: this PR's CI had never run until I released it today, so the green you had before that was CodeRabbit alone.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
The branch is based onad34dc8, while livemainis1b5db17and contains ten commits not present on this head. The root cause is that the branch was built from the prior release-era base and has not incorporated the active target since. The repository treats a stale base as a hard blocker because the current checks validate the old integration point, not the merge result. Rebase onto currentmain, resolve any resulting integration changes by preserving current target behavior unless this PR intentionally changes it, then rerun the required validation on the rebased head.
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[P2] Add tests that actually exercise the new URL and query gates
internal/redaction/redaction_test.go:13
This is a regression-coverage gap, not a demonstrated leak on the current head. The root cause is that the table tests exercise the entire pipeline but their fixture secrets are also consumed by earlier or later passes: the URL password is supplied throughExtraSecretValues, whiletoken=glpat-…is handled by both the assignment and text-secret passes. A future regression in either new fast-path gate would therefore leave this suite green. Add an opaque URL-password fixture withoutExtraSecretValues, and a sensitive query key outside assignment grammar (for example, a bracketed key that normalizes as sensitive) with an opaque value. Assert that removing the respective gate makes each test fail, so the tests pin the new behavior rather than a fallback stage. -
[P2] Keep the unrelated config deprecation fix out of this redaction PR
internal/config/unknownfields.go:134
This is scope-policy drift, not a claim that the replacement is functionally wrong. The root cause is that the finalfix(config)commit mixes a standalone reflection deprecation cleanup into a redaction-performance change, making the approved intent, review, and rollback surface broader than necessary. The repository requires focused PRs without unrelated fixes. Remove this file from the branch and submit the replacement separately with its own scope and validation, or split it into a follow-up after this PR is merged.
…ions on clean strings Evaluating cascading regular expressions across every log line, tool output, and session event incurred ~23 µs and 51 heap allocations even on strings with zero secrets. This introduces fast-path substring checks before invoking expensive regex substitutions, yielding a 70x speedup and 0 B/op heap allocation on clean strings.
GitHub classic tokens need 36 characters after ghp_. Benchmarks and shape tests now use a matching fixture. A table-driven test checks each fast-path gate, including near-misses and case-insensitive Authorization.
… header case checks
Keep the redaction marker literal after url.URL rewrites userinfo, so callers still see [REDACTED] instead of a percent-encoded form.
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction.go`:
- Around line 549-550: Update the redaction logic around parsed.String so only
the generated password value is unescaped, rather than replacing encoded
replacement text across the complete URL. Preserve all non-password URL
components, and add a regression case covering encoded replacement text in a
path or query value.
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A path or query that already contains the encoded redaction marker must stay encoded. Only the userinfo password is rewritten in the clear [REDACTED] form.
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Problem
RedactStringis evaluated on every session log, command execution output, and tool argument. Previously, it unconditionally executed 10+regexp.ReplaceAllStringFuncpasses across every string, costing 23 µs and 51 heap allocations per call even when no secrets or candidate prefixes were present.Solution
strings.Contains) before executing each regex replacement.Benchmark Results
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