fix(security): prevent ReDoS in LLM-output tool/think parsers (#4704)

* fix(security): prevent ReDoS in LLM-output tool/think parsers

The regexes that parse untrusted model output in text_helpers.py and
tool_parsing.py are delimiter-bounded with a lazy [\s\S]*? (or an
ambiguous (\s+[^>]*)?). Applied with re.sub/re.finditer over a whole
response, they degrade to O(n^2) when the closing delimiter is absent:
the engine rescans to end-of-string from every opener. Model output is
untrusted, so a prompt-injected or malicious model can stall the agent
loop with many unclosed openers (measured ~25s on a 60KB <thought flood).

- text_helpers.py: replace ambiguous <thought(\s+[^>]*)?> with
  <thought([^>]*)> (identical capture, no \s+/[^>]* overlap); skip the
  Gemma <|channel>...<channel|> subs when no <channel|> closer is present.
- tool_parsing.py: gate _TOOL_CALL_RE, _XML_TOOL_CALL_RE and _TOOL_CODE_RE
  (in parse_tool_blocks and strip_tool_blocks) on a cheap presence check
  for their closing delimiter. With no closer the regex cannot match, so
  skipping is equivalent; only the wasted O(n^2) rescan is removed.

Resolves CodeQL py/polynomial-redos #230, #231, #232, #233, #235, #236,
#524. The _XML_OPEN_TOOL_CALL_RE alerts (#234, #477) are false positives
(its greedy [\s\S]*\Z is linear) and left untouched.

* fix(security): close ReDoS gaps in tool/think parsers from review

Addresses two review findings on the closer-guard approach:

- Whole-string "closer exists?" checks were bypassable: a stale closer
  before an opener flood, or a closer with no reachable inner `}`, kept
  the guard true while every opener still rescanned to end-of-string
  (O(n^2)). Replace the substring guards with `_iter_delimited`, a
  forward-only scan that pairs each opener with a *later* closer and
  stops once none is reachable (O(n)). `parse_tool_blocks` and
  `strip_tool_blocks` (via `_strip_delimited`) both use it for the
  [TOOL_CALL], <tool_call>/<function_call>, and <tool_code> formats.
  Verified equivalent to the original regexes on well-formed inputs.

- `<thought([^>]*)>` dropped the tag-name boundary and corrupted
  unrelated tags (`<thoughtful>` -> `<thinkful>`). Use `<thought(\s[^>]*)?>`:
  the single fixed `\s` keeps the pattern linear (no `\s+`/`[^>]*`
  overlap) while restoring the boundary; capture is byte-for-byte
  identical for real `<thought ...>` openers.

Adds regressions for stale-closer-before-opener, closer-present-without-
inner-brace, and the <thoughtful>/<thoughts> passthrough.

* fix(security): close Gemma channel ReDoS guard flagged in review

vdmkenny noted the same bypassable whole-string guard remained in
text_helpers.py: `if "<channel|>" in out.lower()` gating the Gemma
thought/response channel subs. A stale `<channel|>` before a
`<|channel>thought` opener flood keeps the guard true while every opener
still rescans to end-of-string (measured ~7.3s at 4k openers).

Replace it with `_sub_delimited`, the same forward-only scan used for the
tool-call parsers: pair each opener with a later closer, stop when none is
reachable (O(n)). Verified output-equivalent to the original capture regexes
on well-formed multi-channel inputs; the stale-closer case now runs in <2ms.
Adds a regression for stale-closer-before-opener on the Gemma path.

* fix(security): harden strip_think() think-tag ReDoS flagged in review

The earlier fixes hardened normalize_thinking_markup and the delimiter
scanners, but the production entrypoint strip_think() still ran
_THINK_CLOSED_RE / _THINK_ATTR_RE / _THINK_OPEN_RE (and the stray-tag
_THINK_TAG_RE) over untrusted model output. Those kept the same ReDoS
shapes: the lazy `<open>[\s\S]*?</close>` rescanned to end-of-string from
every opener, and `(?:\s+[^>]*)?` / `[^>]*` attribute scans ran to
end-of-string from every opener on a "many openers, no closer" flood. On
the prior head, malformed `<think` / `<thinking` / `<thought` floods took
6-14s through strip_think(). The shipped `<thought>` normalization had the
same residual: the single-opener case was linear but an opener flood was
still O(n^2) (~4.4s).

- Replace the lazy multi-pass _THINK_CLOSED_RE loop with the existing
  forward-only _sub_delimited scan (pair each opener with the first
  reachable closer, stop when none is reachable). One pass collapses
  sequential and nested blocks as before.
- Bound every opener/stray-tag attribute scan at `<` (`[^<>]` not `[^>]`)
  so a no-`>` opener flood can't drive a single match attempt to
  end-of-string. Identical capture for well-formed think/thought tags.
- email_helpers._strip_think: compute had_think from the single linear
  _THINK_TAG_RE instead of the lazy closed/open `.search()` calls, which
  had the same O(n^2) on the email reply/summary/extraction paths.

All flood variants now finish in <10ms (were 6-14s). Output verified
byte-for-byte identical to the prior implementation over a 34-case corpus
(nested, mismatched, attr, uppercase, Gemma, prose, prompt-echo). Adds
strip_think() timing regressions for malformed openers, opener floods
(all three tag names), the closed-opener flood, and the malformed-closer
flood.

* docs: trim verbose comments in think-tag ReDoS fix
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2026-06-27 10:12:28 -07:00
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commit c098355778
4 changed files with 345 additions and 43 deletions
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@@ -225,8 +225,9 @@ def _strip_think(text: str) -> str:
"""
if not text:
return ""
from src.text_helpers import strip_think as _central, _THINK_CLOSED_RE, _THINK_OPEN_RE, _THINK_TAG_RE
had_think = bool(_THINK_CLOSED_RE.search(text) or _THINK_OPEN_RE.search(text) or _THINK_TAG_RE.search(text))
from src.text_helpers import strip_think as _central, _THINK_TAG_RE
# Single linear tag check; the old closed/open `.search()` calls could ReDoS.
had_think = bool(_THINK_TAG_RE.search(text))
return _central(text, prose=had_think, prompt_echo=True)
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@@ -17,31 +17,27 @@ import re
_THINK_TAG_NAME = r"(?:think(?:ing)?|thought)"
# Closed reasoning blocks. Multi-pass loop in `strip_think` handles nested
# `<think><think>...</think></think>` patterns some models emit.
_THINK_CLOSED_RE = re.compile(rf"<{_THINK_TAG_NAME}(?:\s+[^>]*)?>[\s\S]*?</{_THINK_TAG_NAME}>\s*", re.IGNORECASE)
# Orphan opening or closing tags that survive after the closed-pass.
_THINK_TAG_RE = re.compile(rf"</?{_THINK_TAG_NAME}[^>]*>\s*", re.IGNORECASE)
# Dangling opener anywhere in the response with no closer — strip everything
# from `<think>` to the end of string.
_THINK_OPEN_RE = re.compile(rf"<{_THINK_TAG_NAME}(?:\s+[^>]*)?>[\s\S]*$", re.IGNORECASE)
# Streaming models occasionally emit `<thinking time="0.42">`-style attributes.
# Normalize to a plain `<think>` so the regexes above catch them.
_THINK_ATTR_RE = re.compile(rf"<{_THINK_TAG_NAME}\s+[^>]*>", re.IGNORECASE)
_THINK_ATTR_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(rf"</{_THINK_TAG_NAME}\s+[^>]*>", re.IGNORECASE)
# Think-tag matchers. `[^<>]` (not `[^>]`) bounds attribute scans at the next
# `<` so an opener flood with no closing `>` can't backtrack to end-of-string
# (ReDoS, CodeQL py/polynomial-redos); capture is identical for well-formed tags.
# Opener/closer are split for the forward-only block strip (_sub_delimited).
_THINK_OPEN_TAG_RE = re.compile(rf"<{_THINK_TAG_NAME}(?:\s[^<>]*)?>", re.IGNORECASE)
_THINK_CLOSE_TAG_RE = re.compile(rf"</{_THINK_TAG_NAME}>\s*", re.IGNORECASE)
# Orphan opening/closing tags left after the block strip.
_THINK_TAG_RE = re.compile(rf"</?{_THINK_TAG_NAME}[^<>]*>\s*", re.IGNORECASE)
# Dangling opener with no closer: strip from `<think>` to end of string.
_THINK_OPEN_RE = re.compile(rf"<{_THINK_TAG_NAME}(?:\s[^<>]*)?>[\s\S]*$", re.IGNORECASE)
# Normalize `<thinking time="0.42">`-style attributes to a plain `<think>`.
_THINK_ATTR_RE = re.compile(rf"<{_THINK_TAG_NAME}\s[^<>]*>", re.IGNORECASE)
_THINK_ATTR_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(rf"</{_THINK_TAG_NAME}\s[^<>]*>", re.IGNORECASE)
_GEMMA_THOUGHT_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"<\|channel>thought\s*\n?[\s\S]*$", re.IGNORECASE)
_GEMMA_RESPONSE_CHANNEL_RE = re.compile(
r"<\|channel>response\s*\n?([\s\S]*?)<channel\|>",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
_GEMMA_RESPONSE_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"<\|channel>response\s*\n?", re.IGNORECASE)
_GEMMA_CHANNEL_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(r"<channel\|>", re.IGNORECASE)
_THOUGHT_TAG_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"<thought(\s+[^>]*)?>", re.IGNORECASE)
_THOUGHT_TAG_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"<thought(\s[^<>]*)?>", re.IGNORECASE)
_THOUGHT_TAG_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(r"</thought>", re.IGNORECASE)
_GEMMA_THOUGHT_CHANNEL_CAPTURE_RE = re.compile(
r"<\|channel>thought\s*\n?([\s\S]*?)<channel\|>\s*",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
# Gemma thought-channel delimiters, split for the forward-only sub (_sub_delimited).
_GEMMA_THOUGHT_CHANNEL_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"<\|channel>thought\s*\n?", re.IGNORECASE)
_GEMMA_CHANNEL_CLOSE_TRIM_RE = re.compile(r"<channel\|>\s*", re.IGNORECASE)
# Qwen and a few other models prefix the response with a "Thinking Process:"
# block before the real answer.
_QWEN_THINKING_RE = re.compile(
@@ -93,6 +89,31 @@ def _strip_reasoning_prose(text: str) -> str:
return "\n\n".join(keep).strip() if keep else text
def _sub_delimited(text, open_re, close_re, repl):
"""Forward-only ``re.sub`` of ``open_re...close_re`` that can't ReDoS.
Pairs each opener with the first closer after it and stops once no closer is
reachable, so it stays O(n) instead of re.sub's rescan-to-end from every
opener (O(n^2) on "many openers, no closer" input). ``repl`` gets the inner
text. A whole-string "closer present?" guard is not enough: a stale closer
before an opener flood keeps it true while every opener still rescans.
"""
out = []
pos = 0
while True:
om = open_re.search(text, pos)
if om is None:
break
cm = close_re.search(text, om.end())
if cm is None:
break
out.append(text[pos:om.start()])
out.append(repl(text[om.end():cm.start()]))
pos = cm.end()
out.append(text[pos:])
return "".join(out)
def normalize_thinking_markup(text: str) -> str:
"""Canonicalize supported thinking wrappers to `<think>` markup.
@@ -106,12 +127,17 @@ def normalize_thinking_markup(text: str) -> str:
out = _THOUGHT_TAG_OPEN_RE.sub(lambda m: "<think" + (m.group(1) or "") + ">", text)
out = _THOUGHT_TAG_CLOSE_RE.sub("</think>", out)
def _replace_gemma_thought(match: re.Match) -> str:
thought = match.group(1).strip()
def _replace_gemma_thought(inner: str) -> str:
thought = inner.strip()
return f"<think>{thought}</think>\n" if thought else ""
out = _GEMMA_THOUGHT_CHANNEL_CAPTURE_RE.sub(_replace_gemma_thought, out)
out = _GEMMA_RESPONSE_CHANNEL_RE.sub(lambda m: m.group(1), out)
# Forward-only so a stale/unreachable `<channel|>` can't drive a ReDoS rescan.
out = _sub_delimited(
out, _GEMMA_THOUGHT_CHANNEL_OPEN_RE, _GEMMA_CHANNEL_CLOSE_TRIM_RE, _replace_gemma_thought
)
out = _sub_delimited(
out, _GEMMA_RESPONSE_OPEN_RE, _GEMMA_CHANNEL_CLOSE_RE, lambda inner: inner
)
out = _GEMMA_RESPONSE_OPEN_RE.sub("", out)
out = _GEMMA_CHANNEL_CLOSE_RE.sub("", out)
return out
@@ -149,12 +175,9 @@ def strip_think(text: str, *, prose: bool = False, prompt_echo: bool = True) ->
# Normalize attributes so the closed/open regexes can catch them.
text = _THINK_ATTR_RE.sub("<think>", text)
text = _THINK_ATTR_CLOSE_RE.sub("</think>", text)
# Multi-pass for nested blocks.
prev = None
out = text
while prev != out:
prev = out
out = _THINK_CLOSED_RE.sub("", out)
# Forward-only block strip (see _sub_delimited): one pass collapses nested
# and sequential blocks without the old lazy re.sub loop's ReDoS rescan.
out = _sub_delimited(text, _THINK_OPEN_TAG_RE, _THINK_CLOSE_TAG_RE, lambda _inner: "")
out = _THINK_OPEN_RE.sub("", out)
out = _THINK_TAG_RE.sub("", out)
if prompt_echo:
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@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ _TOOL_CALL_RE = re.compile(
r"\[TOOL_CALL\]\s*\{([\s\S]*?)\}\s*\[/TOOL_CALL\]",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
# Same delimiters as _TOOL_CALL_RE, split so they can be driven by
# _iter_delimited (a forward-only scan). The closer is `}\s*[/TOOL_CALL]`, so a
# present-but-unmatched `[/TOOL_CALL]` with no inner `}` ahead simply ends the
# scan instead of triggering re.finditer's O(n^2) rescan. See _iter_delimited.
_TOOL_CALL_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"\[TOOL_CALL\]\s*\{", re.IGNORECASE)
_TOOL_CALL_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(r"\}\s*\[/TOOL_CALL\]", re.IGNORECASE)
# Pattern 3: XML-style tool calls (minimax, some other models)
# <minimax:tool_call><invoke name="bash"><parameter name="command">...</parameter></invoke></minimax:tool_call>
@@ -43,6 +49,15 @@ _XML_OPEN_TOOL_CALL_RE = re.compile(
r"<(?:[\w]+:)?(?:tool_call|function_call)>\s*([\s\S]*)\Z",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
# _XML_TOOL_CALL_RE's delimiters, split for _iter_delimited's forward-only scan.
_XML_TOOL_CALL_OPEN_RE = re.compile(
r"<(?:[\w]+:)?(?:tool_call|function_call)>\s*",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
_XML_TOOL_CALL_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(
r"</(?:[\w]+:)?(?:tool_call|function_call)>",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
_XML_INVOKE_RE = re.compile(
r'<invoke\s+name=["\'](\w+)["\']>\s*([\s\S]*?)</invoke>',
re.IGNORECASE,
@@ -73,6 +88,9 @@ _TOOL_CODE_RE = re.compile(
r"<tool_code>\s*\{([\s\S]*?)\}\s*</tool_code>",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
# _TOOL_CODE_RE's delimiters, split for _iter_delimited's forward-only scan.
_TOOL_CODE_OPEN_RE = re.compile(r"<tool_code>\s*\{", re.IGNORECASE)
_TOOL_CODE_CLOSE_RE = re.compile(r"\}\s*</tool_code>", re.IGNORECASE)
# Pattern 5: DeepSeek DSML markup leaking into content. When deepseek
# models can't emit structured tool_calls (e.g. we sent no tool schemas
@@ -736,6 +754,52 @@ def _parse_tool_code_block(raw: str) -> Optional[ToolBlock]:
return None
def _iter_delimited(text, open_re, close_re):
"""Yield ``(match_start, inner_start, inner_end, match_end)`` for each
non-overlapping ``open_re ... close_re`` pair, scanning strictly forward.
For the lazy, non-nesting delimiters here this is equivalent to
``re.finditer`` of ``open_re([\\s\\S]*?)close_re`` (each opener pairs with
the first closer after it; the next scan resumes past that closer), but it
runs in O(n): the moment an opener has no reachable closer, no later opener
can have one either, so we stop. ``re.finditer`` instead retries from every
opener and rescans to end-of-string each time -> O(n^2) on attacker-
controlled "many openers, no closer" model output (CodeQL py/polynomial-redos).
A whole-string "is the closer present?" guard is not enough: a stale closer
placed before an opener flood, or a closer with no matching inner delimiter
(e.g. `[/TOOL_CALL]` but no `}`), keeps the guard true while every opener
still rescans. Pairing each opener only with a closer *after* it closes both
holes.
"""
pos = 0
while True:
om = open_re.search(text, pos)
if om is None:
return
cm = close_re.search(text, om.end())
if cm is None:
return
yield om.start(), om.end(), cm.start(), cm.end()
pos = cm.end()
def _strip_delimited(text: str, open_re, close_re) -> str:
"""Remove every ``open_re ... close_re`` span (forward-only; see
_iter_delimited). Equivalent to ``open_re([\\s\\S]*?)close_re`` ``re.sub('')``
for these delimiters, without the O(n^2) rescan on unclosed openers."""
spans = list(_iter_delimited(text, open_re, close_re))
if not spans:
return text
out = []
last = 0
for match_start, _inner_start, _inner_end, match_end in spans:
out.append(text[last:match_start])
last = match_end
out.append(text[last:])
return "".join(out)
def parse_tool_blocks(text: str, skip_fenced: bool = False) -> List[ToolBlock]:
"""Extract executable tool blocks from LLM response text.
@@ -794,9 +858,14 @@ def parse_tool_blocks(text: str, skip_fenced: bool = False) -> List[ToolBlock]:
blocks.append(ToolBlock(tag, content))
# Pattern 2: [TOOL_CALL] blocks (only if no fenced blocks found)
# _iter_delimited scans the delimiter-bounded formats forward-only so
# untrusted "many openers, no closer" output can't drive the O(n^2)
# finditer rescan (ReDoS); see its docstring.
if not blocks:
for m in _TOOL_CALL_RE.finditer(text):
block = _parse_tool_call_block(m.group(1))
for _ms, inner_start, inner_end, _me in _iter_delimited(
text, _TOOL_CALL_OPEN_RE, _TOOL_CALL_CLOSE_RE
):
block = _parse_tool_call_block(text[inner_start:inner_end])
if block:
blocks.append(block)
@@ -809,13 +878,16 @@ def parse_tool_blocks(text: str, skip_fenced: bool = False) -> List[ToolBlock]:
if blocks:
return blocks
# Try wrapped: <tool_call><invoke ...>...</invoke></tool_call>
for m in _XML_TOOL_CALL_RE.finditer(text):
for inv in _XML_INVOKE_RE.finditer(m.group(1)):
for _ms, inner_start, inner_end, _me in _iter_delimited(
text, _XML_TOOL_CALL_OPEN_RE, _XML_TOOL_CALL_CLOSE_RE
):
body = text[inner_start:inner_end]
for inv in _XML_INVOKE_RE.finditer(body):
block = _parse_xml_invoke(inv)
if block:
blocks.append(block)
if not blocks:
for direct in _XML_DIRECT_TOOL_RE.finditer(m.group(1)):
for direct in _XML_DIRECT_TOOL_RE.finditer(body):
block = _parse_xml_direct_tool(direct)
if block:
blocks.append(block)
@@ -843,8 +915,10 @@ def parse_tool_blocks(text: str, skip_fenced: bool = False) -> List[ToolBlock]:
# Pattern 4: <tool_code> blocks (MiniMax-M2.5 style)
if not blocks:
for m in _TOOL_CODE_RE.finditer(text):
block = _parse_tool_code_block(m.group(1))
for _ms, inner_start, inner_end, _me in _iter_delimited(
text, _TOOL_CODE_OPEN_RE, _TOOL_CODE_CLOSE_RE
):
block = _parse_tool_code_block(text[inner_start:inner_end])
if block:
blocks.append(block)
@@ -874,11 +948,14 @@ def strip_tool_blocks(text: str, skip_fenced: bool = False) -> str:
# / <tool_call> removers below instead of leaking to the user.
text = _normalize_dsml(text)
cleaned = text if skip_fenced else _TOOL_BLOCK_RE.sub('', text)
cleaned = _TOOL_CALL_RE.sub('', cleaned)
# Forward-only removal mirrors parse_tool_blocks: _strip_delimited pairs each
# opener with a later closer and stops when none is reachable, so untrusted
# output can't drive the O(n^2) lazy-rescan (ReDoS); see _iter_delimited.
cleaned = _strip_delimited(cleaned, _TOOL_CALL_OPEN_RE, _TOOL_CALL_CLOSE_RE)
cleaned = _strip_stepfun_tool_markup(cleaned)
cleaned = _XML_TOOL_CALL_RE.sub('', cleaned)
cleaned = _strip_delimited(cleaned, _XML_TOOL_CALL_OPEN_RE, _XML_TOOL_CALL_CLOSE_RE)
cleaned = _XML_OPEN_TOOL_CALL_RE.sub('', cleaned)
cleaned = _TOOL_CODE_RE.sub('', cleaned)
cleaned = _strip_delimited(cleaned, _TOOL_CODE_OPEN_RE, _TOOL_CODE_CLOSE_RE)
if not skip_fenced:
raw_web_json = _parse_raw_web_json_lookup(cleaned)
if raw_web_json:
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@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
"""Regression tests for ReDoS in the regexes that parse untrusted LLM output.
CodeQL flagged several `py/polynomial-redos` sinks in `text_helpers.py` and
`tool_parsing.py`. Each is a delimiter-bounded pattern (`<open>...<close>`)
applied with `re.sub`/`re.finditer` over a whole model response. When the
closing delimiter is missing, the engine rescans to end-of-string from every
opening occurrence -> O(n^2) on attacker-influenced input (prompt injection
via tool output / retrieved content).
These tests pin BOTH halves of the fix:
* correctness is unchanged for legitimate inputs, and
* pathological "many openers, no closer" inputs complete promptly.
The timing bound is deliberately loose (seconds, not ms) so it never flakes on
a slow CI box; the unguarded code took tens of seconds on the same inputs, so
the margin is ~100x.
"""
import time
import pytest
import src.agent_tools # noqa: F401 (break agent_tools<->tool_parsing import cycle)
from src.text_helpers import normalize_thinking_markup, strip_think
from src.tool_parsing import parse_tool_blocks, strip_tool_blocks
# Loose ceiling: guarded paths finish in well under 100ms; the vulnerable
# versions took 8-30s on these same inputs.
_BUDGET_S = 4.0
def _timed(fn, *args):
start = time.perf_counter()
result = fn(*args)
return result, time.perf_counter() - start
# ── correctness is preserved ────────────────────────────────────────────────
def test_thought_attr_normalization_unchanged():
# `<thought time="0.4">` -> `<think time="0.4">` then stripped.
assert strip_think('<thought time="0.4">reasoning</thought>Answer.') == "Answer."
assert normalize_thinking_markup("<thought>x</thought>") == "<think>x</think>"
def test_gemma_channel_unwrap_unchanged():
text = "<|channel>thought\ninternal<channel|><|channel>response\nFinal.<channel|>"
assert strip_think(text) == "Final."
def test_thought_prefix_tags_not_overmatched():
# The `<thought...>` opener must keep a tag-name boundary: tags whose names
# merely start with "thought" are unrelated markup and must pass through
# untouched (no `<thinkful>`/`<thinks>` corruption).
for text in ("<thoughtful>keep</thoughtful>", "<thoughts>keep</thoughts>"):
assert normalize_thinking_markup(text) == text
def test_tool_call_blocks_still_parsed():
blocks = parse_tool_blocks('[TOOL_CALL]{tool: "shell", command: "ls"}[/TOOL_CALL]')
assert blocks, "well-formed [TOOL_CALL] block should still parse"
assert "[TOOL_CALL]" not in strip_tool_blocks('before [TOOL_CALL]{tool: "shell", command: "ls"}[/TOOL_CALL] after')
def test_xml_tool_call_blocks_still_parsed():
xml = '<tool_call><invoke name="bash"><parameter name="command">ls</parameter></invoke></tool_call>'
blocks = parse_tool_blocks(xml)
assert blocks, "well-formed <tool_call> block should still parse"
assert "tool_call" not in strip_tool_blocks(xml)
def test_tool_code_blocks_still_parsed():
assert "<tool_code>" not in strip_tool_blocks('<tool_code>{"tool": "shell"}</tool_code>')
# ── pathological inputs no longer blow up ───────────────────────────────────
def test_thought_open_no_close_is_fast():
evil = "<thought" + " " * 60_000 # no closing '>', ambiguous (\s+[^>]*)? loops
out, dt = _timed(normalize_thinking_markup, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"normalize_thinking_markup took {dt:.2f}s"
assert out == evil # nothing to normalize, returned unchanged
def test_gemma_channel_opener_flood_is_fast():
evil = "<|channel>thought\n" * 4000 # no <channel|> closer
_, dt = _timed(normalize_thinking_markup, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"normalize_thinking_markup took {dt:.2f}s"
def test_gemma_stale_closer_before_opener_flood_is_fast():
# A lone leading <channel|> makes a whole-string "closer present?" check
# true, but no <|channel>thought opener after it has a reachable closer.
evil = "<channel|>" + "<|channel>thought\n" * 4000
_, dt = _timed(normalize_thinking_markup, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"normalize_thinking_markup took {dt:.2f}s"
def test_tool_call_opener_flood_is_fast():
evil = "[TOOL_CALL]{tool: x}" * 6000 # '}' present but no [/TOOL_CALL] closer
blocks, dt = _timed(parse_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"parse_tool_blocks took {dt:.2f}s"
assert blocks == []
_, dt2 = _timed(strip_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt2 < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_tool_blocks took {dt2:.2f}s"
def test_xml_tool_call_opener_flood_is_fast():
# strip_tool_blocks exercises the CodeQL-flagged _XML_TOOL_CALL_RE in
# isolation (the parse path also reaches _XML_DIRECT_TOOL_RE, a separate
# unflagged backreference pattern tracked as a follow-up).
evil = ("<tool_call>" + "a" * 20) * 4000 # no </tool_call> closer
_, dt = _timed(strip_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_tool_blocks took {dt:.2f}s"
def test_tool_code_opener_flood_is_fast():
evil = "<tool_code>{tool: x}" * 6000 # '}' present but no </tool_code> closer
_, dt = _timed(parse_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"parse_tool_blocks took {dt:.2f}s"
_, dt2 = _timed(strip_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt2 < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_tool_blocks took {dt2:.2f}s"
# ── a present closer must not re-enable the O(n^2) rescan ────────────────────
# A whole-string "closer exists?" guard is defeated by a stale closer placed
# before an opener flood, or by a closer whose required inner delimiter is
# missing. The parser must pair each opener only with a *later* closer.
def test_xml_stale_closer_before_opener_flood_is_fast():
# A lone leading </tool_call> makes a whole-string closer check true, but no
# opener after it has a reachable closer. (strip exercises the CodeQL-flagged
# _XML_TOOL_CALL_RE path; parse additionally reaches _XML_DIRECT_TOOL_RE, the
# separate backreference pattern tracked as a follow-up — see
# test_xml_tool_call_opener_flood_is_fast.)
evil = "</tool_call>" + ("<tool_call>" + "a" * 10) * 6000
_, dt = _timed(strip_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_tool_blocks took {dt:.2f}s"
def test_tool_call_closer_present_without_inner_brace_is_fast():
# Leading [/TOOL_CALL] satisfies a substring guard, but the openers carry no
# inner '}', so '}\\s*[/TOOL_CALL]' is never reachable from any opener.
evil = "[/TOOL_CALL]" + "[TOOL_CALL]{tool: x" * 6000
blocks, dt = _timed(parse_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"parse_tool_blocks took {dt:.2f}s"
assert blocks == []
_, dt2 = _timed(strip_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt2 < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_tool_blocks took {dt2:.2f}s"
def test_tool_code_closer_present_without_inner_brace_is_fast():
evil = "</tool_code>" + "<tool_code>{tool: x" * 6000
blocks, dt = _timed(parse_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"parse_tool_blocks took {dt:.2f}s"
assert blocks == []
_, dt2 = _timed(strip_tool_blocks, evil)
assert dt2 < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_tool_blocks took {dt2:.2f}s"
# ── strip_think() is the production entrypoint that callers actually run ─────
# The timing tests above cover normalize_thinking_markup and the scanners;
# these cover strip_think() itself, which applies the think-tag regexes too.
def test_strip_think_nested_and_attr_blocks_unchanged():
# Values pin pre-existing behavior (incl. the nested-block quirk that leaves
# the inter-tag `c`) so the forward-only rewrite stays byte-equal.
assert strip_think("<think>a<think>b</think>c</think>Answer.") == "cAnswer."
assert strip_think('<think time="0.4">reasoning</think>Answer.') == "Answer."
assert strip_think("<thinking>x</thinking>Answer.") == "Answer."
assert strip_think("<think>r</think>Answer.") == "Answer."
assert strip_think("Answer.") == "Answer."
def test_strip_think_malformed_open_no_gt_is_fast():
for opener in ("<think", "<thinking", "<thought"):
evil = opener + " " * 40_000 # no closing '>'
out, dt = _timed(strip_think, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_think({opener!r}) took {dt:.2f}s"
assert out == evil.strip() # nothing is a real tag
def test_strip_think_attr_opener_flood_is_fast():
for opener in ("<think x", "<thinking x", "<thought x"): # no `>`, no closer
evil = opener * 8000
_, dt = _timed(strip_think, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_think({opener!r}) took {dt:.2f}s"
def test_strip_think_closed_opener_flood_is_fast():
evil = "<think>" * 16000 # well-formed openers, no closer
out, dt = _timed(strip_think, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_think took {dt:.2f}s"
assert out == ""
def test_strip_think_malformed_closer_flood_is_fast():
evil = "</think x" * 8000 # closer flood, no `>`
out, dt = _timed(strip_think, evil)
assert dt < _BUDGET_S, f"strip_think took {dt:.2f}s"
assert out == evil.strip()