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fix(node): fail pin_git_object when the add response carries no Hash - #453

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A 200 from /api/v0/add with no parseable Hash no longer counts as a successful pin. The old fallback returned the locally computed raw CID, an address the backend never confirmed stored; above the chunk threshold that CID is not even a stored block, so every later cat on it failed permanently.

Motivation & context

pin_git_object took the last NDJSON line carrying a Hash and fell back to Cid::from_git_object_bytes(data) when none did. The add goes out with raw-leaves=true, so on Kubo a payload over 262144 bytes lands chunked under a dag-pb root and the whole-object raw CID is never a stored block. The fabricated CID landed in encrypted_blobs.cid, so get_encrypted_blob failed on every fetch of an affected envelope and mirrors retried it on each sync.

Closes #452

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  • Security fix
  • Docs
  • Tests / CI
  • Refactor (no behavior change)
  • Breaking or protocol change (issue required first)

What changed

  • pin_git_object (gitlawb-node) errors on a 200 add response without a usable Hash, carrying a truncated body excerpt. The returned Hash stays authoritative and is not compared against the locally computed raw CID, since above-threshold adds legitimately return the dag-pb root.
  • The delaying_endpoint test fixture now returns a conformant NDJSON add response. It had been relying on the fallback by answering 200 with an empty body, so six budget/timing tests were unknowingly passing through the bug.
  • New regression test pin_git_object_rejects_a_200_without_a_hash.

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DATABASE_URL=postgresql://gitlawb:changeme@localhost:5432/gitlawb \
  cargo test -p gitlawb-node --bin gitlawb-node ipfs_pin

The new test fails on main: pin_git_object returns Ok(<fabricated CID>) for a 200 carrying {"Name":"object","Size":"19"}. Against live Kubo v0.43.0, a 262145-byte add returns the dag-pb root as Hash while the whole-object raw CID 500s on cat, which is the failure mode the fallback hid.

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  • Scope is one logical change; no unrelated churn
  • cargo test -p gitlawb-node passes locally (the workspace suite runs in CI via pr-checks.yml)
  • New behavior is covered by tests (required for fixes)
  • cargo fmt --all and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean
  • Commit titles use Conventional Commits (feat(...), fix(...), docs(...))
  • Docs / .env.example updated if behavior or config changed (or N/A)
  • Checked existing PRs so this isn't a duplicate

Notes for reviewers

Open PRs touching ipfs_pin.rs (#382, #407, #408) all modify the pin-set selection and read-bounding paths, not the add-response parser, so no semantic overlap. If #452's direction is wrong and a Hash-less 200 is meant to be a supported shape, this should instead pin down what the parser is allowed to accept.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved validation of successful pinning responses.
    • Pinning now reports an error when the service returns a missing, unusable, or malformed content identifier.
    • Invalid identifiers returned by the pinning service are no longer replaced with a caller-computed identifier.
    • Error handling now more reliably distinguishes invalid pinning responses from successful operations, preventing malformed content identifiers from being accepted as successful pins.

A 200 from /api/v0/add without a parseable Hash fell back to the
caller-computed raw CID, recording an address the backend never
confirmed stored. For payloads above the backend's chunk threshold
(262144 bytes on Kubo) that raw CID is not even a stored block, so
every later /api/v0/cat on it fails permanently: get_encrypted_blob
errors on every fetch and mirrors retry the envelope on every sync.

A Hash-less 200 is now an add error carrying a truncated body excerpt.
The delaying_endpoint test fixture, which relied on the fallback by
returning an empty 200 body, now answers with a conformant NDJSON line.
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pin_git_object now rejects successful IPFS add responses without a usable CID. It validates the returned Hash, removes the locally computed fallback, updates test responses, and adds regression coverage for missing and malformed hashes.

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IPFS CID validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Require an authoritative response CID
crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs
pin_git_object no longer computes a fallback CID. A successful response must contain a usable Hash that parses as a CID.
Align test endpoints, mocks, and regression coverage
crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/repos.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs
The delayed endpoint and related mocks now return valid CID-bearing responses. Regression tests reject missing and malformed Hash values.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The change rejects unconfirmed IPFS pins while preserving valid backend CIDs, with no concrete merge-blocking regression established.

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This PR makes IPFS add responses fail when no string-valued Hash is present and updates the timing fixture and regression coverage accordingly.

  • Removes the locally computed CID fallback for hashless successful responses.
  • Includes a bounded response-body excerpt in the resulting error.
  • Updates delayed endpoint tests to return conformant NDJSON.
  • Adds regression coverage for a response with no Hash.
  • The validation remains incomplete because malformed string-valued hashes are still accepted.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR should not merge until string-valued add-response hashes are validated as CIDs, preventing malformed backend responses from creating permanently unreadable encrypted-blob records.

The hashless-response fallback is correctly removed, but malformed non-empty Hash values still pass through as successful pins and can be persisted without validation.

Files Needing Attention: crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs

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Filename Overview
crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs Tightens /api/v0/add response handling and updates tests, but does not validate that the returned Hash is actually a usable CID.

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs`:
- Line 1543: Update the Hash extraction in the pin_git_object response parsing
to trim the string and reject empty results instead of returning Some("").
Ensure {"Hash":""} propagates the existing error path rather than being treated
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@beardthelion beardthelion added crate:node gitlawb-node — the serving node and REST API kind:bug Defect fix — wrong or unsafe behavior subsystem:storage Blob/object store, Arweave, IPFS, archives labels Sep 14, 2026
Address PR review feedback (Gitlawb#453): a string-valued Hash that does not
parse as a CID would be recorded into encrypted_blobs.cid and fail on
every later cat, the same failure class as a missing Hash. Validate the
returned Hash before accepting it and cover the malformed case with a
regression test.
The pin_git_object CID validation rejects non-CID Hash strings, and a
dozen test_support fixtures answered 200 with placeholder values like
"bafyprovider" or "x". Replace them with a valid CID so the fixtures
model a healthy backend; no test asserts on the literal value.
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