delivery-log-storage: findings of the technical and security reviews
test / test (push) Canceled after 0s

Neither review (read-only agents, Opus and Fable, over ae06d8b..815236a) has
a Critical or High finding. What they found and what was done:

- A stranger on port 25 could grow the table: every queue-id line of inbound
  mail was stored and pruned an hour or more later, his own message-id among
  them. The tailer now leaves out the lines of a queue id that
  postfix/inbound/smtpd opened, until qmgr removes the message or another
  listener opens one under the id; 4096 such ids are remembered.
- A commit, so a disk sync, per stored line on the connection the journal
  milter shares, and a backlog written line by line. Lines are now written in
  one transaction per pass over the log, 500 at most, before the read offset
  is saved (InsertSendLogLines; follow() calls the keeper's flush).
- The prune asked the send log once per line and ran hourly. It asks once per
  queue id and runs at start and with the six-hourly sweep; with port-25 mail
  left out there is little without a row to wait for.
- The 4096-byte cut could split a character; it keeps characters whole.
- security.md did not say that a backup now carries these lines, and the plan
  said the time window excludes a reused queue id where it only limits the
  chance to the row's queue lifetime. Both are corrected; the collision is
  recorded as an accepted risk with its trigger.
- Tests that did not prove their comments: the prune is now tested with the
  sweep, a rejected row next to the prune, batching and the change from
  catching up to following, port-25 mail left out and its id reused.

Left as found and written down in the plan: lines the tailer never reads
(a file rotated away while the panel was down), and a message in the queue
across the upgrade, which shows only its later lines.

On the test server, for this tree: go vet clean, go test ./... 22 packages
ok, make e2e ok.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -27,44 +27,122 @@ import (
// "warning:" stand there too. A queue id is hexadecimal in capitals, or, with
// enable_long_queue_ids, digits and letters without vowels; neither word is
// either.
var queueLineRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^\S+ [^\s\[]+\[\d+\]: ([0-9A-F]{6,24}|[0-9B-DF-HJ-NP-TV-Zb-df-hj-np-tv-z]{10,24}): `)
var queueLineRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^\S+ ([^\s\[]+)\[\d+\]: ([0-9A-F]{6,24}|[0-9B-DF-HJ-NP-TV-Zb-df-hj-np-tv-z]{10,24}): (.*)`)
// lineGrace is how old a line must be before the prune asks whether a send-log
// row carries its queue id. The first lines of a message are logged when it
// arrives and its row is written at end-of-message; an hour is a message body
// sent slowly.
const lineGrace = time.Hour
// smtpdProgramRe tells an smtpd from the other programs, whatever listener it
// serves: "postfix/smtpd", "postfix/submission/smtpd", "postfix/inbound/smtpd".
var smtpdProgramRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^postfix/(?:[a-z0-9-]+/)?smtpd$`)
// linePruneInterval is how often lines without a row are removed between two
// send-log sweeps. With the inbound relay on, most of what Postfix logs under
// a queue id is mail that never gets a send-log row; it is not left to pile up
// for six hours. A var so tests can shorten it.
var linePruneInterval = time.Hour
// port25Program is the smtpd of the inbound relay's listener, which
// build/postfix-config.sh names so that its lines are told from those of the
// submission ports.
const port25Program = "postfix/inbound/smtpd"
// storeLine keeps line if it is headed by a queue id. It does not ask whether
// a send-log row exists for the id: for a message's first lines none does yet,
// and the lines of messages that never get one are removed by pruneLines.
const (
// lineGrace is how old a line must be before the prune asks whether a
// send-log row carries its queue id. The first lines of a message are
// logged when it arrives and its row is written at end-of-message; an hour
// is a message body sent slowly.
lineGrace = time.Hour
// lineBatch is how many lines are held before they are written without
// waiting for the end of the pass over the log. A pass is a second's worth
// of lines while following, and the whole backlog when the tailer starts.
lineBatch = 500
// port25IDs is how many queue ids opened on port 25 are remembered so that
// their lines are not kept. Beyond it the oldest knowledge is given up, and
// those messages' lines are kept until the prune finds them without a row.
port25IDs = 4096
)
// lineKeeper collects the lines headed by a queue id and writes them in
// batches. It is used from the follow loop only, so it needs no locking.
type lineKeeper struct {
st StatusStore
// buf holds the lines not yet written; once says they were read while
// catching up and may have been read before the last stop.
buf []store.SendLogLine
once bool
// port25 holds the queue ids the port-25 smtpd opened: mail offered by
// strangers, which never gets a send-log row. Its lines are not kept - what
// a stranger can make Postfix log is not something to store on his say-so
// and prune later. An id leaves when qmgr removes the message or when
// another listener opens a message under it (Postfix reuses ids).
port25 map[string]struct{}
}
func newLineKeeper(st StatusStore) *lineKeeper {
return &lineKeeper{st: st, port25: make(map[string]struct{})}
}
// add takes one mail.log line and keeps it if it is headed by the queue id of
// a message that did not come in on port 25. It does not ask whether a
// send-log row exists for the id: for a message's first lines none does yet,
// and the lines of messages that never get one - the bounces Postfix
// generates, port-25 mail met in mid-flight after a restart - are removed by
// pruneLines.
//
// catchingUp is as in inboundJournal.handle: the line may have been read
// before the last stop, and is then written only if it is not there already.
// The line is dated by its own stamp - after the panel was down, that and now
// are hours apart, and a line is matched to its row by time.
func storeLine(st StatusStore, line string, now time.Time, catchingUp bool) {
func (k *lineKeeper) add(line string, now time.Time, catchingUp bool) {
at, rest := lineTime(line, now)
m := queueLineRe.FindStringSubmatch(rest)
if m == nil {
return
}
l := store.SendLogLine{QueueID: m[1], At: at, Line: line}
var err error
if catchingUp {
_, err = st.InsertSendLogLineOnce(l)
} else {
err = st.InsertSendLogLine(l)
program, queueID, text := m[1], m[2], m[3]
if smtpdProgramRe.MatchString(program) && len(text) >= 7 && text[:7] == "client=" {
if program == port25Program {
k.rememberPort25(queueID)
} else {
delete(k.port25, queueID)
}
}
if err != nil {
log.Printf("log-tailer: keep line of %s: %v", m[1], err)
if _, inbound := k.port25[queueID]; inbound {
if program == "postfix/qmgr" && text == "removed" {
delete(k.port25, queueID)
}
return
}
if catchingUp != k.once {
k.flush()
k.once = catchingUp
}
k.buf = append(k.buf, store.SendLogLine{QueueID: queueID, At: at, Line: line})
if len(k.buf) >= lineBatch {
k.flush()
}
}
func (k *lineKeeper) rememberPort25(queueID string) {
if len(k.port25) >= port25IDs {
// Which one goes does not matter: the cost of forgetting an id is its
// remaining lines kept until the prune.
for id := range k.port25 {
delete(k.port25, id)
break
}
}
k.port25[queueID] = struct{}{}
}
// flush writes the lines held. The follow loop calls it after every pass over
// the log and before it saves its place, so the place saved is never ahead of
// what was written. Lines that cannot be written are dropped and said so: the
// tailer goes on, and a page without them falls back to the log file.
func (k *lineKeeper) flush() {
if len(k.buf) == 0 {
return
}
if _, err := k.st.InsertSendLogLines(k.buf, k.once); err != nil {
log.Printf("log-tailer: keep %d log lines: %v", len(k.buf), err)
}
k.buf = k.buf[:0]
}
// pruneLines removes the stored lines no send-log row carries the queue id of: