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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe module adds the ChangesRequest body inspection control
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant ngx_http_modsecurity_access_handler
participant ModSecurity
participant nginx_content_handler
Client->>ngx_http_modsecurity_access_handler: Send request
ngx_http_modsecurity_access_handler->>ModSecurity: msc_process_request_body
ModSecurity-->>ngx_http_modsecurity_access_handler: Return intervention result
ngx_http_modsecurity_access_handler->>nginx_content_handler: Return NGX_DECLINED without buffering
nginx_content_handler->>Client: Continue request handling
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In `@tests/modsecurity-request-body-directive.t`:
- Line 137: Update the test daemon’s request-body read logic around the existing
read($client, $body, $len) call to accumulate data until $len bytes are received
or EOF/read failure occurs, then preserve the resulting body length for the LEN
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Read the complete request body in the test daemon.
The blocking Perl read call on the IO::Socket::INET client can return fewer than $len bytes without reaching EOF. The daemon ignores the returned count, reports length($body) as LEN, and can therefore make the /skip and /nobuffer assertions fail. Loop until the daemon reads $len bytes or reaches EOF.
Proposed fix
my $body = '';
if ($len > 0) {
- read($client, $body, $len);
+ while (length($body) < $len) {
+ my $chunk;
+ my $read = read($client, $chunk, $len - length($body));
+ last if !defined($read) || $read == 0;
+ $body .= $chunk;
+ }
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In `@tests/modsecurity-request-body-directive.t` at line 137, Update the test
daemon’s request-body read logic around the existing read($client, $body, $len)
call to accumulate data until $len bytes are received or EOF/read failure
occurs, then preserve the resulting body length for the LEN assertions.
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@tomsommer: thanks for the PR. I see so many advantages here against to use library's
and I see only one disadvantage: the admin can be confused with the library's directive. Anyway, I think this is a good direction and want to merge this (wait for @thekief and @HanadaLee's opinion here). Also we have to investigate why the Windows tests are failed... (And probably some previous PR's will be merged, so I ask for your patience. Thank you again. |
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The streaming test checks only final body length and cannot detect continued access-phase buffering.
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What changed in this PR
Adds modsecurity_request_body on|off to avoid connector-side request-body buffering while retaining non-body ModSecurity phases.
Changes:
- Registers and inherits the new directive.
- Skips body reading and buffering when disabled.
- Adds documentation and integration tests.
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tests/modsecurity-request-body-directive.t |
Tests directive behavior and inheritance |
src/ngx_http_modsecurity_module.c |
Registers and merges configuration |
src/ngx_http_modsecurity_common.h |
Adds configuration storage |
src/ngx_http_modsecurity_access.c |
Implements body-buffering bypass |
README.md |
Documents the directive |
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| like(http_post('/skip', 'VERY BAD BODY'), qr/LEN=13/, 'off: body not inspected, upstream gets it'); | ||
| like(http_post('/skip?what=badarg', 'GOOD BODY'), qr/^HTTP.*403/, 'off: phase 2 still runs on ARGS'); | ||
| like(http_get('/skip'), qr/LEN=0/, 'off: GET without body works'); | ||
| like(http_post('/nobuffer', 'VERY BAD BODY'), qr/LEN=13/, 'off + proxy_request_buffering off: full body reaches upstream'); |
When set to off the connector no longer reads and buffers the whole request body in the ACCESS phase and no longer feeds it to libmodsecurity. The REQUEST_BODY phase still runs, so rules on ARGS and REQUEST_HEADERS keep working, and the content handler reads the body with nginx's own settings (proxy_request_buffering off works again). libmodsecurity copies the body on msc_append_request_body regardless of SecRequestBodyAccess, so this is the only way to avoid that cost.
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Thanks for looking at it so quickly. On the naming. That is a fair concern. The way I would describe the split is: On the test. Copilot made a good point that the original assertion only checked the final byte count, which a still-buffering implementation would also satisfy. I have pushed a real streaming regression test: the client sends 6 of 13 body bytes and stops, and the upstream answers with what it has already received. With the directive off and On the Windows jobs. They are not caused by these PRs. The three The failure is in dependency provisioning, before anything of ours is compiled: Everything after that is fallout ( Two things changed on the runner side and together they produce this:
So the fix belongs in the workflow, not in the PRs. The options I can see are pinning the CMake that Conan uses for the dependency build (a No rush at all on merging, and it makes sense to land the earlier PRs first. If you would like any of these rebased once those go in, just say the word. |
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In `@tests/modsecurity-request-body-directive.t`:
- Line 219: Update both URI checks in the test daemon to match the /early path
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Match /early exactly in the test daemon.
^/early also matches /earlybuf. The daemon then sends EARLY LEN=6 before the complete body arrives. The assertion at line 117 expects no response, so this test fails. Use an exact path match in both conditions, such as m!^/early(?:\?|$)!.
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- my $timeout = ($uri =~ m!^/early!) ? 1 : 5;
+ my $timeout = ($uri =~ m!^/early(?:\?|$)!) ? 1 : 5;
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- if ($uri =~ m!^/early!) {
+ if ($uri =~ m!^/early(?:\?|$)!) {Also applies to: 230-230
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In `@tests/modsecurity-request-body-directive.t` at line 219, Update both URI
checks in the test daemon to match the /early path exactly, allowing only a
query string or end-of-string after it; apply this consistently to the timeout
selection and the conditional response branch.
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modsecurity_request_body on | off(http, server, location; defaulton, inherited per location).offthe connector no longer callsngx_http_read_client_request_body()in the ACCESS phase, no longer sets therequest_body_in_*buffering flags, and feeds no body to libmodsecurity. The REQUEST_BODY phase (msc_process_request_body) still runs and its intervention is still honoured, so phase 2 rules onARGS,REQUEST_HEADERS, etc. keep working;REQUEST_BODY,ARGS_POSTandFILESare simply empty.tests/modsecurity-request-body-directive.t(9 assertions): default still blocks a bad body,offlets it through whileARGSrules still block,off+proxy_request_buffering offdelivers the full body to the upstream, andonin a nested location overrides an inheritedoff.why
proxy_request_buffering offis ineffective in every location wheremodsecurityis on, and large uploads are held in memory or spooled to a temp file before being proxied.Transaction::appendRequestBody()regardless ofSecRequestBodyAccess(onlyprocessRequestBody()checks it), so turning body access off in the rules does not avoid the buffering cost. The connector cannot query that setting through the C API, hence an nginx-level directive.SecRequestBodyAccess Off.references
offdisabled the whole WAF for the location rather than only the body, and its new conf fields were never merged, so the setting did not inherit (both points raised in its review). This PR keeps the transaction, still runs phase 2, merges the flag withngx_conf_merge_value, and ships the tests the reviewers asked for.Origin: this change comes from a performance review of the connector done with Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic). The patch and its test were verified by building the module against nginx master with libmodsecurity 3.0.14 (PCRE2) and, with upstream CI's flags (
--without-pcre2 --with-http_v2_module --with-http_auth_request_module), against libmodsecurity 3.0.9 (PCRE1), then running the fulltests/modsecurity*.tsuite in both builds (16 files, 260 tests, all passing).Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
modsecurity_request_bodydirective to control request-body inspection at the main, server, or location level.Tests