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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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Validation:
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.
Documentation
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 with excessive nesting now return a recursion-depth error instead of continuing to parse. This applies to deeply nested parentheses, brackets, and function calls, including malformed input.
Normal queries continue to parse, and processing subsequent queries is not affected by an earlier parsing error.
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The parser now tracks active parser calls and throws TOO_DEEP_RECURSION at a depth of 1024. Tests cover nested input and depth restoration. TiDB CI setups also disable log redaction before running tests.
IParserBase defines maxParserDepth as 1024. Tokens stores a shared depth counter, which TokenIterator exposes.
Depth enforcement and tests dbms/src/Parsers/IParserBase.cpp, dbms/src/Parsers/tests/gtest_parser_depth.cpp
IParserBase::parse rejects calls at the depth limit and decrements the counter on scope exit. Tests cover deeply nested input, normal queries, sibling calls, and depth restoration.
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Disable redaction in test environments tests/tidb-ci/run.sh
The script adds a helper to disable TiDB log redaction and calls it in the DeltaTree, collation, force-enable-LM, and lightweight-compression setups.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant Parser as IParserBase::parse
participant Iterator as TokenIterator
Caller->>Parser: parse
Parser->>Iterator: getParserDepth
alt depth is at least maxParserDepth
Parser-->>Caller: throw TOO_DEEP_RECURSION
else depth is below maxParserDepth
Parser->>Iterator: increment shared depth
Parser-->>Caller: parse result
Note over Parser,Iterator: Scope exit decrements shared depth
end
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Possibly related PRs
pingcap/tiflash#11232: The upstream PR adds the same parser recursion limit, tests, and TiDB CI setup.
pingcap/tiflash#11254: This cherry-pick applies the same changes on another release branch.
pingcap/tiflash#11255: This cherry-pick applies the same parser-depth changes on another release branch.
The recursion guard protects against deeply nested SQL, but also rejects moderately nested generated CAST expressions. Merging carries a bounded query-compatibility risk that should be acknowledged or corrected.
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Docstring coverage is 44.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…
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The title "Parsers: bound SQL parser recursion depth (#11232)" matches the main change. The changeset adds a 1024 limit on simultaneously active parser calls in IParserBase::parse, throws TOO_DEEP_REC…
Description check
The description follows the repository template. It includes the problem statement, linked issue #11231, a commit-message block that explains the change, a test checklist with unit and manual tests ma…
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The only directly linked issue, #11231, is closed. Per the assessment rules it supplies historical context only, so no active linked-issue coding requirements apply. For reference, the PR still addres…
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All changed files map to the stated purpose of the PR. The changes are: (1) IParserBase.cpp and IParserBase.h, which add the depth guard and the maxParserDepth constant; (2) TokenIterator.h, which add…
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The title "Parsers: bound SQL parser recursion depth (#11232)" matches the main change. The changeset adds a 1024 limit on simultaneously active parser calls in IParserBase::parse, throws TOO_DEEP_RECURSION when the limit would be exceeded, and stores the counter in the token stream. The title names the component and the bound, and it includes the upstream PR number. It does not mention the cherry-pick or the TiDB CI redaction change, which are secondary.
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The description follows the repository template. It includes the problem statement, linked issue #11231, a commit-message block that explains the change, a test checklist with unit and manual tests marked, side-effect and documentation checkboxes, and a release note. It also gives concrete validation steps and results. Two items are weak. The Integration test box is unchecked, but the author explains that Docker was unavailable and the CI change was not run locally. The 'Problem Summary' and 'What is changed' sections are complete. The description also states that it is an automated cherry-pick, which is accurate context for the reviewer.
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The only directly linked issue, #11231, is closed. Per the assessment rules it supplies historical context only, so no active linked-issue coding requirements apply. For reference, the PR still addresses the reported problem: IParserBase::parse (dbms/src/Parsers/IParserBase.cpp at head) now checks a depth counter against maxParserDepth (1024) and throws TOO_DEEP_RECURSION before recursing further. The counter lives in the token stream through TokenIterator::getParserDepth(), and SCOPE_EXIT restores it. The PR also adds gtest_parser_depth.cpp coverage. This is informational only and does not affect the verdict.
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All changed files map to the stated purpose of the PR. The changes are: (1) IParserBase.cpp and IParserBase.h, which add the depth guard and the maxParserDepth constant; (2) TokenIterator.h, which adds the shared parser depth counter needed so copied positions and backtracking share the active depth; (3) gtest_parser_depth.cpp, which covers the new behavior; and (4) tests/tidb-ci/run.sh. The run.sh diff could not be read, but the file at head shows a disable_tidb_redaction helper that runs SET GLOBAL tidb_redact_log = 'OFF' after wait_env in the five test setups. The PR description explicitly discloses this CI change as preserving error-message assertions with newer TiDB images, and the conflict-resolution commit states that release-8.5 test invocations were kept. The connection is stated and supported by the file content, so no change is demonstrated as unrelated. The breaking-compatibility side effect (queries over 1024 active parser calls now fail) is disclosed and follows directly from the depth limit. Residual uncertainty: TokenIterator.h and the test file were not read directly; their assessment relies on the supplied summary.
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Adapt the global TiDB redaction setup to the release branch's existing
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including fullstack-test-dt, without importing master-only runner setup.
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Review comments at @dbms/src/Parsers/IParserBase.cpp:
- Around line 32-36: Update the parser-depth accounting around
pos.getParserDepth() and maxParserDepth so queries with 37 nested CAST
expressions are accepted, while retaining a limit that protects against stack
exhaustion. Verify the revised accounting or limit against actual recursion
depth rather than simply removing the guard.
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nl -ba dbms/src/Parsers/ParserCreateQuery.cpp | sed -n '35,140p'
nl -ba dbms/src/Parsers/IAST.cpp | sed -n '20,120p'
nl -ba dbms/src/Parsers/IAST.h | sed -n '75,120p'
nl -ba dbms/src/Interpreters/executeQuery.cpp | sed -n '50,75p'
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Allow moderately nested CAST expressions.
A generated query with 37 nested CAST(... AS UInt64) expressions can exceed the 1024-call limit and fail with TOO_DEEP_RECURSION. Rework the accounting or limit to accept such queries while retaining stack protection.
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Review comment at @dbms/src/Parsers/IParserBase.cpp around lines 32 - 36:
Update the parser-depth accounting around pos.getParserDepth() and
maxParserDepth so queries with 37 nested CAST expressions are accepted, while
retaining a limit that protects against stack exhaustion. Verify the revised
accounting or limit against actual recursion depth rather than simply removing
the guard.
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#!/bin/bashset -u
printf'%s\n''=== Repository instructions ==='forfin AGENTS.md dbms/AGENTS.md dbms/src/AGENTS.md dbms/src/Parsers/AGENTS.md;doif [ -f"$f" ];thenprintf'\n--- %s ---\n'"$f"; cat "$f";fidoneprintf'\n%s\n''=== Entry point outlines ==='
ast-grep outline dbms/src/Interpreters/SQLQuerySource.cpp --items all 2>/dev/null ||true
ast-grep outline dbms/src/Flash/FlashService.cpp --items all --match 'GetTiFlashSystemTable|Coprocessor|BatchCoprocessor'2>/dev/null ||trueprintf'\n%s\n''=== Parser and SQL source call sites ==='
rg -n -C 4 'parseQuery\s*\(|SQLQuerySource\s*[{(:]|GetTiFlashSystemTable\s*\(' dbms/src/Interpreters dbms/src/Flash dbms/src/Server dbms/src/Parsers -g '!**/tests/**'| head -300
printf'\n%s\n''=== SQLQuerySource and service implementation ==='
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@windtalker Understood. I’ll set this concern aside for the cherry-pick.
One clarification: FlashService::GetTiFlashSystemTable does call the parser on request SQL in dbms/src/Flash/FlashService.cpp (Line 1211 and Line 1249). I have not verified whether production sends deeply nested CAST expressions through that path.
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This is an automated cherry-pick of #11232
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