[NancyKwongPerplexity]

Summary

Adds files:write and files:write_batch to the data plane's Native files routes. This completes the 11 operations behind SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_FILES=serve. Native writes are JSON with base64 data, which space-api holds in memory whole, so this is the traffic the data plane is meant to take off space-api.

As on space-api:

• Body limits: the routes keep space-api's limits: a write's 22 MiB body for 16 MiB of data, and the batch limit for write_batch.
• Handler steps:
  • the Idempotency-Key check right after the body;
  • field checks and chunked base64 decoding;
  • the shared fingerprint, bound through PrepareNativeFileCall;
  • the guest key from the grant.
• parents writes: directories are created only once the guest reports the path missing, and the write is sent again under the derived :parents key.
• Reconnects: a batch reconnects once when the node-api drains. A write stream never does, as on space-api, because its body may already be partly sent.

Before the body is read, after authorization:

• Over the limit: a body declared larger than the route's limit gets space-api's 413 without being read.
• Admission, off by default: with SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION on, a write takes a slot and reserves its declared Content-Length (or the whole limit when it declares none). A refused write gets the Native rate_limited envelope (429, retryable) with a jittered Retry-After of 1 to 5 seconds. space-api's files routes already answer rate_limited when a sandbox refuses a write, so the response shape is not new to clients.

Native admission is separate from ECW's (native_files/admission.rs). It has its own switch and its own settings, and ECW's SPACE_DATA_PLANE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION no longer affects Native writes. The defaults are sized for writes of at most 22 MiB, not ECW's 256 MiB spooled uploads:

	slots	bytes
per sandbox	8, the guest's MAX_CONCURRENT_FILE_OPERATIONS	256 MiB, room for 8 full-size writes or batches (checked at compile time)
per org	64	256 MiB
per replica	256	1 GiB

A write waits up to 2 s for its slots, as long as the guest queues a file operation that finds its slots busy: over HTTP/1.x always, and over HTTP/2 when it declares a Content-Length of at most 64 KiB. ECW uploads never wait over HTTP/2, and that is why ECW's 429s come at once there. The reason is the connection: an unread HTTP/2 stream holds back the connection's other streams by as much of hyper's 1 MiB connection receive window as its client has sent. A small write can hold at most 64 KiB of it, so a burst of small writes past a sandbox's 8 slots waits for them, as it would over HTTP/1.x. A larger HTTP/2 write, or one that declares no length, takes what is free at once, as ECW's do. On Kind, letting large ones wait too made things worse: 12 writes of 4 MiB on one connection took 2.3 s, because the waiters' bodies filled the window and held back the admitted writes whose slots they waited for, and 3 were still refused. Refused at once, the same 3 are refused and the rest land in 0.27 s. SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION_WAIT_MS=0 refuses at once over either protocol.

ECW's transfer limits do not apply to Native writes: the org byte-rate bucket, the minimum body rate and the HTTP/2 duration limit. So no 408, and no byte-rate 429, is new to Native clients.

docs/configuration.md says that the ECW admission rows are ECW's alone. It adds rows for the Native switch, its wait and its three budgets, with a sizing note: a write's peak memory is about twice its reservation, so the 1 GiB default can hold about 2 GiB, on top of ECW's.

Two supporting changes:

• FileRequest now keeps the route's request extensions, so the Json extractor sees the route's body limit.
• A prepared sandbox call takes &self, so a parents write can share it between its writes and its mkdirs.

Validation

At this head (b3ec8f76), on main (45e963a4, #1373's squash). Next to the rebase, which moved crate paths only (git range-diff against 81239615: the three files this PR adds land at crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/{admission.rs,write.rs,tests/write.rs}, the svc changes at crates/l50_app/data/plane/svc/), this revision splits a_write_takes_up_to_the_apis_limits for main's new test-duration budget (ci/test-duration-budget.toml: 2 s, failing over 4 s), which it broke at 4.5 s in CI. Each limit now has its own test, and the 22 MiB bodies are serialized by hand: building them through serde_json took more time than the route took to answer them. Locally the slowest of the four takes 0.49 s, down from 1.7 s for the one test; ci/scripts/check-test-durations.py reports no test of the data-plane crates over 2 s. cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked, fmt, clippy -D warnings on the data-plane crates and their suites (pplx-space-data-plane-server 415, pplx-space-data-plane-svc 9 passed) pass at this head. The rest ran on the same product code before the split:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check, the shim env-contract check (scripts/generate-env-contract.sh --check), scripts/check-rust-error-policy.sh and the three scripts/source_guards/*.py guards (the env test-hook boundary among them) pass.
• cargo clippy --locked --all-targets --all-features -p pplx-space-data-plane-server -p pplx-space-data-plane-svc -- -D warnings passes.
• cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked passes.
• ci/scripts/run-archcheck.sh against data-plane: serve the Native file mutations other than writes #1373's head: no findings (1611 production Rust files checked).
• cargo nextest run --locked --all-features, with Postgres and Redis required (SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1):
  • pplx-space-data-plane-server: 412 passed;
  • pplx-space-data-plane-svc: 9 passed;
  • pplx-space-api with --config 'profile.test.package.pplx-space-api.opt-level=0': 2522 passed, 1 skipped.
• ci/scripts/run-python-tests.sh, which includes space_smoke and the chart tests: 1966 passed, 1 skipped (needs e2fsprogs).

Each new test was mutation-checked: I applied the change, rebuilt, saw the test fail, and reverted.

Test	What it proves	Mutation that makes it fail
writes_answer_through_the_granted_route_in_the_apis_shapes	write and write_batch answer in space-api's shapes and are prepared with the shared fingerprints. The sandbox gets the open message, the data and the entries under the guest keys derived from the bound keys	fingerprint over another request; send the client's key instead of the grant's
a_parents_write_creates_its_directories_once_the_guest_misses_them	write, then mkdir (parents, exist_ok) of the deepest directories, then a write under <guest key>:parents, for both routes	retry under the first key
a_write_is_refused_before_its_body_is_read	These are refused with their bodies unread: a request refused by authorization; a declared length over the limit (space-api's 413); a write to a sandbox whose only slot is taken (429 rate_limited, retryable, Retry-After 1 to 5, never prepared). The held write finishes and frees its slot	admit after reading the body; skip the declared-length check; answer the refusal as a 503; never build Native admission (re-checked)
a_sandbox_takes_eight_writes_at_once_and_a_ninth_waits (new)	At the default Native limits, 8 small writes held open to one sandbox are all admitted, over HTTP/2 and over HTTP/1.1. A 9th over HTTP/2 is neither refused nor admitted while they hold their slots, and is admitted once one finishes	default of 4 per sandbox; HTTP/2 writes take what is free at once (zero wait); never build Native admission
over_http2_only_a_small_write_waits_for_a_slot (new)	With a sandbox's only slot held and a 60 s wait, an HTTP/2 write declaring 64 KiB + 1 and one declaring no length are refused with 429 within 10 s. A small one waits and is admitted when the slot frees	every HTTP/2 write waits; an undeclared HTTP/2 write waits; no HTTP/2 write waits
ecw_upload_admission_alone_leaves_native_writes_unadmitted (new, svc)	SPACE_DATA_PLANE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION=true, and --upload-admission, turn ECW admission on and leave Native admission off	the Native switch reads SPACE_DATA_PLANE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION; ECW's flag also turns Native admission on
native_upload_admission_is_its_own_switch (new, svc)	SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION=true turns Native admission on, at 8 per sandbox and a 2 s wait, without ECW's. The flag overrides the environment	the Native switch reads SPACE_DATA_PLANE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION
a_write_of_the_apis_largest_payload_lands_whole	16 MiB of data in a ~22 MiB body is accepted and reaches the sandbox whole	keep the 2 MiB default limit on the write route
a_write_one_byte_over_the_apis_payload_is_refused_as_the_api_refuses_it	One byte more is the 400 "file write payload is too large", and the sandbox is never called	keep the 2 MiB default limit on the write route (the 400 becomes a 413)
an_undeclared_body_past_the_routes_limit_is_a_413	A body past the route's limit that declares no length is a 413	a 64 MiB write route limit (also fails a_write_is_refused_before_its_body_is_read)
a_batch_past_the_apis_checks_is_refused_with_its_messages	The batch's size cap and parents with append are refused with space-api's messages	keep the 2 MiB default limit on the batch route
a_batch_reconnects_when_the_node_api_drains_and_a_write_stream_does_not	The batch is prepared twice with the same fingerprint and succeeds. The drained write stream answers 503 without being sent again	the batch never reconnects; the write stream reconnects

The earlier a_write_is_held_to_no_transfer_rate is gone. Native admission's configuration has no transfer-rate, body-rate or HTTP/2 duration fields, so the type now guarantees what it tested.

Kind, the full stack: at #1378's earlier heads, with this PR's product code as it is here (the split touches only tests): bash infra/space/kind/scripts/up.sh at 74230f62 and again at 3b5f3999, every SPACE container on the latest build of its image (image provenance check). The five data-plane scenarios each pass by name (file_operations_match_on_the_data_plane 4 s, file_idempotency_across_origins 4 s, file_op_wakes_idle_suspended_sandbox 72 s, file_write_size_boundary_on_the_data_plane 5 s, file_upload_admission_429 84 s). scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh native with SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILE set: SUITE: 47 passed, 0 warned, 0 failed, 0 inconclusive or infrastructure errors, 11 ignored by design (the Windows and dedicated-node scenarios main now carries among them), in both runs; the second ran with Native upload admission on (#1377).

Kind, HTTP/2 bursts, from the previous revision (#1378's head 81e3a00b; the rebase changed none of this code): each burst of files:write was multiplexed on one h2c connection (curl --parallel --http2-prior-knowledge) to one running sandbox through the data plane's origin. It was repeated 3 times, with the data-plane Deployment's env set per row and then put back exactly. The counts are 200 / 429 in each run.

data-plane env	8 × 16 KiB	8 × 64 KiB	8 × 4 MiB	12 × 16 KiB	12 × 64 KiB	12 × 4 MiB
none (as on main)	8/0	8/0	8/0	12/0	12/0	12/0
SPACE_DATA_PLANE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION=true (ECW's only)	8/0	8/0	8/0	12/0	12/0	12/0
SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION=true (defaults)	8/0	8/0	8/0	12/0	9/3	9/3
Native on at ECW's old numbers (4 per sandbox, no wait), the behaviour this PR had	5/3	5/3	5/3	5/7	5/7	5/7

• Every 429 was the data plane's admission refusal ("Too many in-flight uploads"). 64 KiB of data is an ~87 KiB JSON body, over the 64 KiB a waiting HTTP/2 write may declare.
• Writes of 16 and 40 KiB of data (22 and 55 KiB bodies) wait: 24 at once at the defaults landed 24/0 in each of 3 runs.
• In an earlier build where every HTTP/2 write waited, 12 × 4 MiB answered 9/3 after 2.3 s instead of 0.27 s.
• Without any admission, a 12 × 4 MiB burst now and then had 2 or 3 writes refused after 2 s with payload request capacity exhausted from behind the data plane. The guest's own queue refuses the same way through either origin.

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply (new, off by default).

Risk:

• With serve off, or Native admission off: writes are admitted without limit, as on space-api today. Turning ECW's admission on changes nothing for Native clients.
• With Native admission on: a replica holds up to its Native byte budget of write bodies, about twice that at peak, apart from ECW's. A sandbox's 9th concurrent write on one replica waits up to 2 s and then gets 429; over HTTP/2 a write declaring more than 64 KiB gets the 429 at once.
• Rollback: turn Native admission or serve off, or revert this PR.

Rollout

• Turn on: serve first, then SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION=true once the replica's memory limit is sized for the Native byte budget.
• Tuning: the per-replica, per-org and per-sandbox Native settings are independent of ECW's.

Stack

This is PR 8 of 12 and is based on data-plane-native-files-mutations (#1373). Merge order:

1. native-files: share the file-request fingerprints and guest key #1362
2. native-files: share Native file request handling #1363
3. public-api-http: make Native error rendering usable outside space-api #1364
4. api: serve native file access RPCs on the activation listener #1365
5. auth: let the data-plane identity call the native file access RPCs #1371
6. data-plane: serve Native files:stat, files:list and files:read #1372
7. data-plane: serve the Native file mutations other than writes #1373
8. this PR
9. data-plane-native-files-drain (data-plane: refuse Native files requests while draining #1375)
10. kind-native-files-data-plane (kind: serve Native files from the data plane #1377)
11. smoke-native-files-data-plane (smoke: cover Native files served by the data plane #1378)
12. docs-native-files-data-plane (docs: describe Native files served by the data plane #1379)

Not covered

• Drain: a draining replica still accepts new files requests until the next PR.
• Metrics: Native admission refusals count in data_plane.upload_rejected together with ECW's.
• Many small HTTP/2 waiters on one connection: sixteen small writes waiting on one connection could still fill its window, for up to the wait. The unit tests drive requests in process; only the Kind probe below used a real HTTP/2 connection.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, and this description; the author reviewed them.

[nikhilbirmiwal-pplx]

I checked the write and write_batch handlers against space-api: step order, the 413 shape, the fingerprints and guest keys, how parents writes retry, and reconnects (write_batch reconnects on drain, write never does). They match. Permits are released on every path, including errors and cancellation. One issue with the limits:

Native writes get ECW's upload limits, which are tighter than what space-api serves today (crates/libs/data/plane/server/src/native_files.rs:79, native_files/write.rs:233)

Admission for Native writes turns on with the same SPACE_DATA_PLANE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION flag as ECW, and it copies ECW's slot counts. The default is 4 concurrent uploads per sandbox per replica, and over HTTP/2 the wait is zero. ECW picked those numbers for 256 MiB uploads that spool to disk. A Native write is at most 22 MiB, and the guest already allows MAX_CONCURRENT_FILE_OPERATIONS = 8 per sandbox (spaced/guest/execution/src/filesystem.rs:65).

So once someone turns admission on for ECW, an SDK or agent writing 5 to 8 small files in parallel to one sandbox starts getting 429 rate_limited. Over HTTP/2 those 429s come at once. space-api serves that load today. The response shape is not new, but these 429s are, and the flag doesn't say it affects Native: docs/configuration.md:179 still describes it as ECW POST /files only.

Suggested fix:

• Give Native admission its own on/off switch, or at least its own per-sandbox and per-org slot counts, with defaults no tighter than the guest's limit of 8.
• Update docs/configuration.md to say the flag and budgets also apply to Native writes.

Non-blocking memory note: a write reserves its declared body size, but its peak memory is about 2x that. The buffered body and the parsed base64 string are both alive briefly, and so are the base64 string and the decoded chunks. Native's budget is also separate from ECW's 1 GiB. Together that is roughly 3 GiB of possible RAM per replica at the defaults. Worth sizing on purpose, but not a blocker since space-api holds the same memory today.

[NancyKwongPerplexity]

@nikhilbirmiwal-pplx Fixed: Native writes now have their own switch, SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION, off by default, with their own budgets (8/64/256 slots per sandbox/org/replica), so ECW's flag no longer touches them. Over HTTP/2 a write waits up to 2 s if it declares ≤ 64 KiB. Larger ones are refused at once: on Kind, letting 4 MiB writes wait filled the connection window and stalled the burst for 2.3 s. The config docs now cover the Native rows and the ~2x memory note.

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Why: Bound how long an admitted write can hold capacity before merging. The new endpoints also warrant careful rollout, and the large-payload tests should be kept within the CI duration budget.

Commit: b3ec8f76e13a.

Walkthrough

The data plane now supports Native files:write and files:write_batch routes. Native upload admission can be configured separately from ECW upload admission, with replica, organization, and sandbox budgets. Write handlers reserve capacity before reading request bodies and support parent-directory creation. The changes also update sandbox call handling, preserve request metadata during body extraction, and add configuration and write-path tests.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1375: Changes Native request authorization during replica drain, which also applies to the write handlers using that authorization path.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1373: Adds other Native file mutation handlers and shared request and sandbox-call behavior continued by these write routes.

Unblocks: 4 PRs

Merge Risk: High · up to b3ec8

Bound how long an admitted write can hold capacity before merging. The new endpoints also warrant careful rollout, and the large-payload tests should be kept within the CI duration budget.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to b3ec8

The new routes preserve the existing authorization and mutation-identity controls. However, when Native admission is enabled, an authorized caller can occupy write capacity by leaving request bodies unfinished without a server-enforced body deadline. Tenant quotas limit the immediate impact, but legitimate writes sharing those quotas can be refused.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: With Native serving and admission enabled, an authorized caller can acquire sandbox, organization, and replica reservations, then leave the JSON body unfinished. The admission wait limits acquisition only; it does not limit ownership after admission. At default settings, eight stalled requests can occupy a sandbox's write slots, and requests spread across authorized sandboxes can occupy the organization's 64 slots, causing legitimate Native writes sharing those budgets to receive 429 responses. Cancellation releases permits, and tenant quotas constrain the blast radius, but neither bounds a connected upload's lifetime. This permit-pinning path is introduced by the new Native handlers; an upstream body deadline or full-body buffering could constrain its deployed exposure, but neither was established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The directly supported permit-pinning scope is Native write availability for authorized sandboxes and their organization on each reached replica. Default per-org limits prevent one organization from acquiring the entire replica budget. Multiple authorized organizations, or looser configured shares, can affect replica-wide Native capacity. ECW admission budgets are separate.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An authenticated, authorized client can send valid write headers, obtain admission, and withhold the remaining body while keeping the connection alive. Subsequent writes sharing exhausted quotas are refused. Route byte limits and TCP dead-peer detection do not bound this body-wait interval; production ingress behavior could constrain the attack and remains unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new entrypoints retain the API-to-sandbox trust boundary: caller credentials and ownership are checked before body processing, preparation binds mutation identity, and worker calls consume the granted sandbox identity and route token. The inspected write tests are test-only, not additional production entrypoints.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Mutation recovery preserves existing replay protections: single streams are not automatically resent, reconnecting batches retain request identity, parent retries use a separate derived key, and guest ledgers retain partial or unknown outcomes rather than redispatching them. Batch execution remains non-atomic; these protections prevent retry from being treated as a fresh mutation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bound the body-read phase after Native admission with a Native-specific deadline or progress policy that releases reservations on expiry without replaying a possibly executed mutation. Validate cancellation and permit recovery for stalled HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 bodies, and document any ingress deadline relied upon for protection.

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[johnlouie-pplx]

Could we make a_write_takes_up_to_the_apis_limits less timing-sensitive? It passed its assertions in both downstream runs but exceeded the four-second duration ceiling. Ideally we keep the exact-limit and over-limit coverage while reducing the fixture cost, rather than just raising the timeout.

[the-gigi-pplx]

Review — 8 findings

High

1. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/tests/write.rs:408: a_write_takes_up_to_the_apis_limits runs past the duration budget and fails the required space-pull-ci check.
   The test base64-encodes and sends a 16 MiB payload, then a 16 MiB + 1 payload, in a debug build. Across four CI runs in this stack it took 3.0 s, 3.2 s (this PR), 4.4 s and 4.6 s. All four are over the 2 s limit, and the last two are over the 4 s failure bound. On those two runs that was the only reason common / Rust tests and space-pull-ci went red: all 12,267 tests passed. Once this merges, any run that lands above 4 s fails the required check on this test alone (two of these four did), and the budget file says a new slow test doesn't get an exception.
   The boundary can be proved without 16 MiB bodies. For example, assert that the route's DefaultBodyLimit and the 400 come from the same MAX_FILE_WRITE_BYTES with a small configured cap, or check the at-cap case through the body_limit arithmetic, and keep one large-body case only where the size itself is the subject.

Medium

2. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/write.rs:237: the HTTP/2 rule limits how much of the connection window each waiting write can hold, but not how many writes on one connection may wait.
   The module doc sizes a waiting write at no more than a sixteenth of hyper's 1 MiB connection window (admission.rs:16-28). By that arithmetic, the window-filling case the rule is meant to rule out comes back once enough small writes are waiting on the same connection. I traced this from the code and the doc's numbers and didn't reproduce it.
   Capping waiters per connection (window ÷ HTTP2_WAITING_WRITE_MAX_BYTES) would make the doc's guarantee hold. The other extreme, never letting an HTTP/2 write wait, refuses bursts of small writes that the guest's queue would have absorbed.

3. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/admission.rs:125: nothing bounds how long an admitted write holds its permit.
   min_body_rate and http2_upload_max_duration are None, and json_body (native_files.rs:211) reads the body with no timeout, so a permit and its byte reservation last as long as the body takes to arrive. The module doc gives the benefit of dropping ECW's floor ("no 408 is new to Native clients") but not the cost: a slow body keeps its sandbox's and org's shares for as long as it's open.
   One middle ground is a generous whole-body deadline that applies only to writes holding a permit. Adding ECW's per-byte floor brings 408s to slow Native clients, which is the cost the PR chose to avoid.

4. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/write.rs:248: Native admission refusals get the wrong reason tag on the 429 metric and are counted as ECW upload refusals.
   upload_rejected (upload_admission.rs:590) attaches a TooManyRequestsReason to the EcwProxyError. rate_limited then rebuilds the answer as a PublicApiError from the message and Retry-After alone, so the reason is dropped. Nothing under native_files/ sets the extension, so observe_http_traffic (http_traffic.rs:82-87) records every Native admission 429 as Unclassified. Separately, admit_permits calls upload_rejected, which increments data_plane.upload.rejected with only scope and reason tags (libs/metrics/src/data_plane.rs:328). A Native refusal is therefore indistinguishable from an ECW POST /files refusal, even though the PR keeps the two admissions separate everywhere else.
   Carry the reason through to the Native response, and tag or separate the counter by surface.

Low

5. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/write.rs:226: the data plane answers 413 for an oversized write before it checks Content-Type, but space-api checks Content-Type first.
   space-api's write_file takes Json<FileWriteRequest> (api/src/routes/public/files.rs:167), and axum's Json refuses a missing or wrong content type with 415 before it reads the body. The data plane checks the declared length (413) and runs admission (possibly a 2 s wait and a 429) before json_body checks the content type. The same wrong-content-type request therefore gets 415 from the API and 413 or 429 from the data plane.

6. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files.rs:186: with_body was inserted between prepare's doc comment and prepare.
   prepare's three lines now document with_body, followed by with_body's own line, and prepare has no doc comment.

7. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/admission.rs:34: the "about twice its reservation" memory sizing misses two copies the call path makes.
   SandboxCall::call clones the message for a possible reconnect (call.rs:195), and a parents batch also clones its entries (write.rs:156). Together with tonic's encode buffer, a batch's peak is closer to three or four times its decoded size than twice. Operators sizing replica memory from this paragraph would under-provision.

8. crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files.rs:87: body_limit hard-codes axum's 2 MiB default for the nine routes that don't need a different limit, and layers it on them anyway.
   space-api mounts only the two write routes with a body limit (mount_with_body_limit). Layering only Write and WriteBatch would drop the copied constant and keep the other routes on whatever the framework default is, as they are on the API.

Verified against 497b04d3b307c646cd15d2017651ca68bf5d2ac0.

• Run or measured: the duration figures in finding 1 come from four CI Rust tests logs in this stack.
• Traced in a checkout of the head: findings 2–8, each from the file:line cited. I didn't build or run the data-plane tests locally, and I didn't reproduce the HTTP/2 window stall in finding 2.

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Major · Bound body collection after Native admission. · write.rs:205-244

crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/write.rs:205-244
Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Bound body collection after Native admission.

Both Native write handlers hold UploadPermit while json_body waits for the complete body. admit_ungoverned applies no body deadline, and TCP keepalive does not close a connected peer that continues to answer. An authenticated caller can therefore drip bytes or stop sending and retain replica, organization, and sandbox capacity indefinitely, causing later writes to be refused.

Add a bounded whole-body deadline around json_body. The timeout must cancel body collection so dropping the handler releases UploadPermit.

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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/write.rs
around lines 205 - 244:
Add a bounded deadline around whole-body collection in both Native write
handlers’ `json_body` calls after `admit` returns its `UploadPermit`. On
timeout, cancel body collection and follow the existing refusal/error path so
dropping the handler releases the permit; preserve current behavior when
collection completes within the deadline.

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@crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/tests/write.rs:
- Around line 418-455: Update a_write_of_the_apis_largest_payload_lands_whole
and a_write_one_byte_over_the_apis_payload_is_refused_as_the_api_refuses_it to
use small representative payloads for route-level coverage. Move exact-limit and
one-byte-over boundary checks to focused tests of the existing payload decoder,
verifying acceptance and rejection without constructing large encoded requests;
do not add a duration exception.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/write.rs:
- Around line 205-244: Add a bounded deadline around whole-body collection in
both Native write handlers’ `json_body` calls after `admit` returns its
`UploadPermit`. On timeout, cancel body collection and follow the existing
refusal/error path so dropping the handler releases the permit; preserve current
behavior when collection completes within the deadline.

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[the-gigi-pplx]

Follow-up review: b3ec8f76

The High from my earlier review is fixed. a_write_takes_up_to_the_apis_limits is now four tests, and the 16 MiB body is built by hand rather than through serde_json. On this head's CI run they took 0.62 s, 0.48 s, 0.27 s and 0.04 s, down from the 3.0–4.6 s the single test took before, well under the 2 s limit. The new worker.calls().is_empty() assertions each sit on a refusal path that would have called the worker if the refusal regressed, so they can fail.

This push changed only native_files/tests.rs and native_files/tests/write.rs. My earlier findings 2–8 were about non-test code, so they stand as written. None of them blocks the merge.

Verified against b3ec8f76e13a91a3302b3e9a43056cdb5954e4e9 by diffing it against 497b04d3 and reading this head's CI Rust tests log for the durations. I didn't run the tests locally.

[the-gigi-pplx]

Approved. The High from my earlier review is fixed; the remaining findings there are non-blocking.

[NancyKwongPerplexity]

@johnlouie-pplx done: most of that test's time was building two ~22 MiB JSON bodies through serde_json, not the route. It's now four tests, one per limit, building those bodies directly, and they keep both the exact-limit and over-limit coverage: a_write_of_the_apis_largest_payload_lands_whole, a_write_one_byte_over_the_apis_payload_is_refused_as_the_api_refuses_it, an_undeclared_body_past_the_routes_limit_is_a_413, a_batch_past_the_apis_checks_is_refused_with_its_messages. The slowest is now 0.49 s (was 1.7 s locally, 4.5 s in CI), and no test this stack adds is over 2 s. No timeout was raised.

The concern is addressed at this head: the boundary tests run in 0.04–0.62 s in CI (reply on the thread).