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Deeply nested SQL can exhaust the process stack during parsing because IParserBase::parse has no recursion limit. AST depth validation runs after parsing, and redundant parentheses do not increase the resulting AST depth.
What is changed and how it works?
Parsers: bound SQL parser recursion depth
Limit SQL parsing to 1024 simultaneously active parser calls and throw
TOO_DEEP_RECURSION when the limit would be exceeded.
Keep the counter in the token stream so copied positions and parser
backtracking share the same active depth. Restore the counter with a
scope guard on success, failure, and exceptions.
Add regression coverage for deep parentheses, incomplete expressions, subqueries, arrays, and functions; normal queries; sibling calls; and exact limit boundaries with counter recovery.
The TiDB CI runner also sets GLOBAL tidb_redact_log = 'OFF' after each cluster becomes ready, preserving existing error-message assertions with newer TiDB images.
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Built tiflash_parsers in Debug mode.
Compiled and linked gtest_parser_depth.cpp into a focused Google Test executable against the rebuilt parser library; all 4 ParserDepthTest.* tests passed. The full gtests_dbms suite was not run.
Re-ran the original isolated reproducer with an 8 MiB stack: 1000 and 10000 parenthesis levels now return TOO_DEEP_RECURSION (306), including incomplete input. For SELECT around a literal, 31 parenthesis levels succeed and 32 return the depth error.
clang-format 17.0.6 validation and git diff --check passed.
bash -n tests/tidb-ci/run.sh and git diff --check passed for the CI redaction setup. Docker integration tests were not run locally because Docker is unavailable.
Side effects
Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
Breaking backward compatibility
Queries exceeding 1024 active parser calls now fail with a controlled exception. This counts grammar helper calls as well as SQL nesting.
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Affects user behaviors
Contains syntax changes
Contains variable changes
Contains experimental features
Changes MySQL compatibility
Release note
Fix a potential TiFlash crash when parsing deeply nested SQL by limiting recursive parser calls to 1024.
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Bug Fixes
Queries exceeding the parser’s maximum nesting depth now fail with a specific recursion error instead of continuing to parse.
Normal queries and queries with many sibling expressions remain supported. Parser state is correctly restored after successful parsing, parse failures, and depth-limit errors.
The parser now limits active recursive calls to 1024 per token stream and throws TOO_DEEP_RECURSION at the limit. Tests cover deeply nested input, representative queries, and depth restoration. The TiDB CI script disables log redaction in five environments after startup.
Changes: Parser depth limit
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Summary
Depth limit and token-stream state dbms/src/Parsers/IParserBase.h, dbms/src/Parsers/TokenIterator.h
IParserBase defines a maximum parser depth of 1024. Iterators over the same token stream share a parser-depth counter.
Depth enforcement and tests dbms/src/Parsers/IParserBase.cpp, dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp
IParserBase::parse checks and tracks active parser calls, then restores the depth on scope exit. Tests cover deeply nested input, normal parsing, sibling expressions, and depth restoration.
TiDB CI log redaction
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Disable redaction in CI environments tests/tidb-ci/run.sh
The script runs SET GLOBAL tidb_redact_log = 'OFF' after five TiDB CI environments are ready.
The parser limit improves protection, but the new failure test does not verify position rollback. This bounded coverage gap can be addressed as a follow-up.
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[#11231] The parser guard and its tests address stack exhaustion. The change to tests/tidb-ci/run.sh disables TiDB redaction across five CI configurations to preserve existing error-message assertio…
Remove the TiDB redaction setup from this PR or move it to a separate PR.
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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The title clearly describes the main change: limiting SQL parser recursion depth.
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[#11231] IParserBase::parse limits active parser calls to 1024 and throws TOO_DEEP_RECURSION. The shared token-stream counter is restored on exit. Automated tests cover deep and incomplete express…
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[#11231] IParserBase::parse limits active parser calls to 1024 and throws TOO_DEEP_RECURSION. The shared token-stream counter is restored on exit. Automated tests cover deep and incomplete expressions, other nesting forms, normal queries, sibling calls, and limit recovery.
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[#11231] The parser guard and its tests address stack exhaustion. The change to tests/tidb-ci/run.sh disables TiDB redaction across five CI configurations to preserve existing error-message assertions with newer TiDB images. The added parser-depth tests are unit tests and do not use this CI setup. The redaction change addresses a separate compatibility issue.
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Remove the TiDB redaction setup from this PR or move it to a separate PR.
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A rabbit checks the parser’s bounds, Then hops through nested query grounds. The stack stays clear, the depth steps back, TiDB logs reveal their track. Five clusters start; the redaction’s gone, The rabbit’s parsing carries on.
Make the failure-path parser advance the caller's pos before it returns false.
RestoresDepthAfterSuccessFailureAndException asserts pos == begin after a failed parse. RecursiveParser::parseImpl never changes the caller's pos, because it only moves the copied nested_pos. The assertion therefore passes even if IParserBase::parse stops restoring pos on failure (IParserBase.cpp:48).
To make the assertion depend on the rollback, the top-level failing parser must move the caller's pos before it returns false. A change only in the nested branch does not work, because the caller never reads nested_pos. Advance the position once, at the top level, with a flag. The nested parsers keep the default and do not advance.
With this change, the input "1" moves pos onto the end token once. The end token is valid to hold, and the iterator does not move past it. With the rollback in place, pos returns to begin and the assertion passes. With the rollback removed, pos stays advanced and the assertion at line 136 fails.
The gap adds regression coverage for a rollback that currently works. It does not cause a failing test workflow or a changed assertion that accepts a wrong result. The refactor priority is recommended, and the edit is small and local to the test file.
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Review comment at @dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp around lines 65
- 69:
Update RecursiveParser to support an optional position advance in parseImpl, and
enable it only for the top-level failing parser in
RestoresDepthAfterSuccessFailureAndException. Keep the nested parsers’ default
behavior unchanged so the failure-path assertion verifies that
IParserBase::parse restores the caller’s position.
Add an accepted nested query near the depth limit to ParsesNormalQueries.
ParsesNormalQueries covers at most three parenthesis levels and two subquery levels. The rejection tests use 10000 levels. No accepted case in this file exercises nesting near the 1024 active-call limit. A change that rejects valid nested SQL at that depth would not fail these tests. The PR description reports 31 parenthesis levels as accepted. That case can serve as the near-limit fixture.
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Review comment at @dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp around lines 95
- 110:
Update the `ParsesNormalQueries` accepted-query fixtures to include a valid
expression nested in 31 pairs of parentheses, matching the reported accepted
depth. Keep it in the existing `queries` vector so the test verifies `parseSQL`
accepts it.
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Review comments at @dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp:
- Around line 65-69: Update RecursiveParser to support an optional position
advance in parseImpl, and enable it only for the top-level failing parser in
RestoresDepthAfterSuccessFailureAndException. Keep the nested parsers’ default
behavior unchanged so the failure-path assertion verifies that
IParserBase::parse restores the caller’s position.
- Around line 95-110: Update the `ParsesNormalQueries` accepted-query fixtures
to include a valid expression nested in 31 pairs of parentheses, matching the
reported accepted depth. Keep it in the existing `queries` vector so the test
verifies `parseSQL` accepts it.
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The parenthesized SELECT test exercises ParserSubquery, but not repeated ParserSelectQuery and table-expression calls. Add a deep SELECT * FROM (SELECT ... ) case that asserts TOO_DEEP_RECURSION. This can catch regressions specific to that recursive path.
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Review comment at @dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp around lines 76
- 93:
Extend the RejectsDeepQueries test with a deeply nested SELECT * FROM subquery
case that exercises repeated ParserSelectQuery and table-expression parsing, and
assert it is rejected with TOO_DEEP_RECURSION using the existing expectTooDeep
helper.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp:
- Around line 76-93: Extend the RejectsDeepQueries test with a deeply nested
SELECT * FROM subquery case that exercises repeated ParserSelectQuery and
table-expression parsing, and assert it is rejected with TOO_DEEP_RECURSION
using the existing expectTooDeep helper.
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Adapt the global TiDB redaction setup to the release branch's existing
docker-compose commands. Preserve all release-8.5 test invocations,
including fullstack-test-dt, without importing master-only runner setup.
Keep the parser recursion limit and its regression tests unchanged.
close#11231\n\nParsers: bound SQL parser recursion depth
Limit SQL parsing to 1024 simultaneously active parser calls and throw
TOO_DEEP_RECURSION when the limit would be exceeded.
Keep the counter in the token stream so copied positions and parser
backtracking share the same active depth. Restore the counter with a
scope guard on success, failure, and exceptions.\n\nSigned-off-by: ti-chi-bot <ci@pingcap.com>\n\nCo-authored-by: xufei <xufeixw@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
close#11231\n\nParsers: bound SQL parser recursion depth
Limit SQL parsing to 1024 simultaneously active parser calls and throw
TOO_DEEP_RECURSION when the limit would be exceeded.
Keep the counter in the token stream so copied positions and parser
backtracking share the same active depth. Restore the counter with a
scope guard on success, failure, and exceptions.\n\nCo-authored-by: xufei <xufeixw@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
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What problem does this PR solve?
Issue Number: close #11231
Problem Summary:
Deeply nested SQL can exhaust the process stack during parsing because
IParserBase::parsehas no recursion limit. AST depth validation runs after parsing, and redundant parentheses do not increase the resulting AST depth.What is changed and how it works?
Add regression coverage for deep parentheses, incomplete expressions, subqueries, arrays, and functions; normal queries; sibling calls; and exact limit boundaries with counter recovery.
The TiDB CI runner also sets
GLOBAL tidb_redact_log = 'OFF'after each cluster becomes ready, preserving existing error-message assertions with newer TiDB images.Check List
Tests
Validation:
Built
tiflash_parsersin Debug mode.Compiled and linked
gtest_parser_depth.cppinto a focused Google Test executable against the rebuilt parser library; all 4ParserDepthTest.*tests passed. The fullgtests_dbmssuite was not run.Re-ran the original isolated reproducer with an 8 MiB stack: 1000 and 10000 parenthesis levels now return
TOO_DEEP_RECURSION(306), including incomplete input. ForSELECTaround a literal, 31 parenthesis levels succeed and 32 return the depth error.clang-format17.0.6 validation andgit diff --checkpassed.bash -n tests/tidb-ci/run.shandgit diff --checkpassed for the CI redaction setup. Docker integration tests were not run locally because Docker is unavailable.Side effects
Queries exceeding 1024 active parser calls now fail with a controlled exception. This counts grammar helper calls as well as SQL nesting.
Documentation
Release note
Summary by CodeRabbit