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fix(auth): make the address scan linear in the migrated-host probe - #853
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`[\w.+-]+@[\w.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}` has no nested quantifier, so this is not
catastrophic backtracking — it is the plainer problem that `findall` retries
from every start position and each start rescans its run before failing to find
an `@`. Measured: 5 000 chars 0.12 s, 10 000 0.48 s, 20 000 2.00 s, 40 000
12.07 s. Clean 4x per doubling, so 200 KB would be minutes.
It is reachable, not theoretical. The class accepts `_`, `-`, `.` and `+`,
which is the entire URL-safe base64 alphabet, and the body being scanned is a
1.28 MB myaccount.google.com response full of exactly those blobs. The scan
runs synchronously inside an `async def`, so a stall blocks the event loop and
`CancelledError` cannot land until it returns.
Anchoring on the literal `@` lets CPython's `re` use its literal-prefix fast
search, and the local part is then read backwards over a bounded 64-character
window — the RFC 5321 cap, which is also what keeps each `@` constant-cost.
Not fixed with a leading `\b`, which is the tempting one-character answer: the
class also matches `-`, so a base64 blob still has a word boundary roughly
every sixteenth character. That is a 16x constant on a curve that stays
quadratic.
Same output for every address shape, including the Workspace and custom domains
#791 turned on. 40 000 chars now scan in under a millisecond, 440 000
base64-shaped ones in 0.2 ms.
Closes #852
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In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py`:
- Around line 341-377: Update find_emails to preserve the previous
non-overlapping match boundary: track the end of the last accepted candidate and
skip any reconstructed local part that begins before that position, while
retaining the `@-anchored` scan and document order. This prevents malformed
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| #: Split in two, and anchored on the `@`, because one combined pattern was | ||
| #: quadratic (#852). `[\w.+-]+@…` retries from every start position and rescans | ||
| #: its run before failing to find an `@`, so an unbroken run of characters that | ||
| #: class accepts costs O(n²) — measured 12.1 s for 40 000 of them, and the class | ||
| #: covers the whole URL-safe base64 alphabet, which a Google page is full of. | ||
| #: Leading with the literal `@` lets CPython's `re` use its literal-prefix fast | ||
| #: search, so the work becomes proportional to the number of `@` in the document. | ||
| _DOMAIN_RE = re.compile(r"@[\w.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}") | ||
| #: The local part, read backwards from the `@` over a bounded window. | ||
| _LOCAL_RE = re.compile(r"[\w.+-]+\Z") | ||
| #: RFC 5321 caps a local part at 64 octets. It is also what keeps the scan | ||
| #: linear: the window is constant, so each `@` costs the same regardless of the | ||
| #: page. ponytail: a longer local part is truncated rather than dropped — raise | ||
| #: this if a real address is ever found past it. | ||
| _MAX_LOCAL_PART = 64 | ||
| _MYACCOUNT_URL = f"{_MYACCOUNT_ORIGIN}/?hl=en" | ||
| #: 15 s was measured too tight: the probe answers in 2.6-7.2 s idle but timed out under | ||
| #: browser contention during a 10-profile sweep. | ||
| _MIGRATED_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000 | ||
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| def find_emails(body: str) -> list[str]: | ||
| """Every address in `body`, in document order, in one linear pass. | ||
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| looks like an address; see `_DOMAIN_RE` for why that pattern could not stay. | ||
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| found: list[str] = [] | ||
| for match in _DOMAIN_RE.finditer(body): | ||
| window = body[max(0, match.start() - _MAX_LOCAL_PART) : match.start()] | ||
| local = _LOCAL_RE.search(window) | ||
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| found.append(local.group() + match.group()) | ||
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git show HEAD:src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py | sed -n '330,375p'
sed -n '350,475p' src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py
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git show HEAD^:src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py | rg -n -C 3 'EMAIL_RE|find_emails|user_email|FlowSessionStatus'
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python3 - <<'PY'
import itertools
import random
import re
old = re.compile(r"[\w.+-]+@[\w.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}")
domain = re.compile(r"@[\w.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}")
local = re.compile(r"[\w.+-]+\Z")
def new_find(body: str) -> list[str]:
out = []
for match in domain.finditer(body):
window = body[max(0, match.start() - 64):match.start()]
part = local.search(window)
if part is not None:
out.append(part.group() + match.group())
return out
cases = [
"x" * 64 + "`@example.com`",
"x" * 65 + "`@example.com`",
"x!" + "y" * 64 + "`@example.com`",
"x@" + "y" * 64 + "`@example.com`",
"a@b@c.com",
"bad!user@example.com",
"foo@bar@example.com",
"x@@example.com",
]
for case in cases:
print(repr(case[:90]), old.findall(case), new_find(case))
alphabet = "ab._+-!@"
random.seed(0)
differences = []
for _ in range(200000):
body = "".join(random.choice(alphabet) for _ in range(random.randint(0, 90)))
# Ensure useful candidate domains occur often.
if random.random() < .35:
body += random.choice(["`@a.co`", "`@sub.example.com`", "`@x-y.io`"])
a, b = old.findall(body), new_find(body)
if a != b:
differences.append((body, a, b))
if len(differences) >= 12:
break
print("differences", len(differences))
for body, a, b in differences:
print(repr(body), "OLD=", a, "NEW=", b)
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sed -n '420,480p' src/gflow_cli/auth/real_chrome.py
printf '%s\n' '--- profile selection and marker validation ---'
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Preserve the previous non-overlapping match boundary. The old _EMAIL_RE used re.findall, so a@example.com@example.com@example.com produced one example.com@example.com candidate after the first match. The new find_emails() scans each @ independently and produces that malformed candidate twice, which can make it win Counter(found).most_common(1).
The fallback then writes this value to .gflow_account. The account chooser uses that file for an exact row match, so it can raise FlowAccountChooserError and block the authenticated workflow. Keep the @-anchored scan, but skip a candidate whose reconstructed local part starts inside the previous accepted match.
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In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py` around lines 341 - 377, Update
find_emails to preserve the previous non-overlapping match boundary: track the
end of the last accepted candidate and skip any reconstructed local part that
begins before that position, while retaining the `@-anchored` scan and document
order. This prevents malformed overlapping candidates from being returned
multiple times.
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# Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md
SonarCloud python:S8786 on `[\w.+-]+\Z`, and it is right: that pattern is super-linear over whatever it is searched in. The 64-character window bounded it in practice, but neither a scanner nor a reader can see that from the pattern — and "it is fine because of a constant three lines down" is exactly the reasoning that rots. Python's `\w` is documented as "`str.isalnum()` or underscore", so the scan reproduces `[\w.+-]` character for character, is O(1) per character, and is visibly so. Fuzzing the replacement against the pattern it replaces turned up a real difference this had introduced, unrelated to Sonar: `findall` resumed at the end of its previous match, so a local part could never reach back into one, while an `@`-anchored scan could. Two `@` within the 64-character window is the only shape where it shows — 2 differences in 4 000 random bodies, now 0 in 20 000 with the previous match's end as a floor, and pinned by a test. Refs #852
# Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py
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Summary
The address scan in
_verify_migrated_host_fallbackwas quadratic.[\w.+-]+@[\w.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}has no nested quantifier, so this is not catastrophic backtracking — it is the plainer problem thatfindallretries from every start position and each start rescans its run before failing to find an@.Clean 4× per doubling before; flat after.
Why it was reachable rather than theoretical
_(via\w),-,.and+— the entire URL-safe base64 alphabet, and a Google account page is full of those blobs.myaccount.google.comresponse.re.findallruns synchronously inside anasync def, so a stall blocks the event loop andasyncio.CancelledErrorcannot land until it returns.It had not bitten: a realistic 1.2 MB page whose words are broken by ordinary punctuation scans in 0.145 s, and the live response the v0.77.0 work measured returned 9 matches quickly. This is a tail risk that depends on page shape.
The fix, and the fix that looks right but isn't
Anchor on the literal
@— that lets CPython'sreuse its literal-prefix fast search — then read the local part backwards over a bounded 64-character window. RFC 5321 caps a local part at 64 octets, so no real address is truncated, and the bound is what makes each@constant-cost.A leading
\bdoes not fix this, and it is worth stating because it is the tempting one-character answer. It collapses a single unbroken word-character run from n start positions to 1, but[\w.+-]also matches-, which is not a word character — so a base64 blob has a boundary at roughly every sixteenth character. That is a 16× constant factor on a curve that is still quadratic.Verification
dev@axelate.io,user@mycompany.com,user@googlemail.com), document order, duplicates (Counter.most_commonupstream depends on both), and the degenerate@/@example.com/trailing@cases.132 passedintests/auth;ruff check,ruff format --check,pyright src(0 errors), hygiene, doc-links and the website-docs mirror all green.4 passedon-m e2e_authagainst a real profile — that is_verify_migrated_host_fallbackexecutingfind_emailsover an actualmyaccount.google.comresponse, not a fixture.Found while working #849; #851 deliberately does not run this probe inside the login poll loop, so the two are independent.
Closes #852
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