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in_elasticsearch: respond to malformed bulk payloads - #12445

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Malformed Elasticsearch Bulk API payloads now receive a prompt HTTP 400 instead of waiting for the connection I/O timeout. Internal ingestion or encoding failures receive HTTP 500 so clients can retry valid records; worker ingress queue saturation retains HTTP 503. Ingestion failures are preserved before checking for an incomplete bulk item. The entire request is checked for unconsumed non-whitespace data before ingestion, so a complete bulk prefix followed by truncated data is rejected with HTTP 400 without ingesting the prefix. Whitespace-only suffixes remain accepted. Valid bulk responses and item-level operation errors retain their existing behavior.

The regression scenario uses the suite's shared FluentBitManager, including Valgrind and macOS Leaks launch and strict result validation. Tests cover malformed and nested payload recovery, worker queue saturation, and an append failure while the HTTP listener remains active.

Validation on this branch's Linux build:

  • CMake build with runtime and internal tests enabled: passed.
  • ctest --test-dir build -R '^flb-rt-in_elasticsearch$' --output-on-failure: passed.
  • Existing valid-bulk and error integration selection: 10 passed normally and 10 passed under strict Valgrind.
  • Latest invalid-bulk scenario, including trailing-data rejection and whitespace acceptance: 14 passed normally and 14 passed under strict Valgrind.
  • Append-failure runtime test under Valgrind: zero errors, all heap blocks freed.
  • Full PR-range commit-prefix lint against fetched master and whitespace checks: passed. New commits have DCO sign-offs and separate plugin, runtime-test, and integration-test changes.
  • macOS Leaks execution was not run because the validation host is Linux.

Exact focused integration commands:

FLUENT_BIT_BINARY=$PWD/build/bin/fluent-bit tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/elasticsearch_invalid_bulk tests/integration/scenarios/in_elasticsearch -k 'nested_json_recovery or malformed_bulk_recovery or retryable or create_multiple_documents or rejects_unknown_bulk_operation' -q
VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 FLUENT_BIT_BINARY=$PWD/build/bin/fluent-bit tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/elasticsearch_invalid_bulk tests/integration/scenarios/in_elasticsearch -k 'nested_json_recovery or malformed_bulk_recovery or retryable or create_multiple_documents or rejects_unknown_bulk_operation' -q

Trailing-data fix validation commands:

FLUENT_BIT_BINARY=$PWD/build/bin/fluent-bit tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/elasticsearch_invalid_bulk -q
VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 FLUENT_BIT_BINARY=$PWD/build/bin/fluent-bit tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/elasticsearch_invalid_bulk -q

Append-failure memory check:

valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --errors-for-leak-kinds=all --error-exitcode=99 build/bin/flb-rt-in_elasticsearch ingestion_failure

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid or incomplete Elasticsearch bulk payloads, including payloads with non-whitespace trailing data, now receive an HTTP 400 response. Empty or whitespace-only trailing data remains accepted.
    • Ingestion failures now receive an HTTP 500 response, while busy-ingress requests continue to receive an HTTP 503 response.
    • Fluent Bit continues processing valid messages after rejecting malformed or excessively nested JSON.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <eduardo@chronosphere.io>
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The Elasticsearch bulk input now distinguishes invalid payloads from ingestion failures and maps them to HTTP responses. Parser handling and integration tests cover malformed data, trailing bytes, busy ingress, and recovery. A runtime test checks the HTTP response when ingestion fails.

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Elasticsearch bulk error handling

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Bulk payload parsing
plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c
MessagePack ingestion failures are recorded, and write operations are destroyed on failure. Invalid record types, incomplete bulk pairs, and invalid or incomplete JSON return FLB_ERR_JSON_INVAL. The parser checks pack-state initialization and rejects non-whitespace trailing bytes.
HTTP response mapping
plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c
process_payload_ng responds with HTTP 400 for invalid payloads and HTTP 500 for other nonzero results except FLB_INPUT_INGRESS_BUSY.
Response and recovery tests
tests/integration/scenarios/elasticsearch_invalid_bulk/tests/test_elasticsearch_invalid_bulk.py, tests/runtime/in_elasticsearch.c
Integration tests cover malformed and deeply nested payload rejection, trailing data, busy-ingress responses, and later recovery. A runtime test checks for HTTP 500 when the input is paused.

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if (ret != 0 && ret != FLB_INPUT_INGRESS_BUSY) {
send_response_ng(response, 400, NULL, "error: invalid bulk payload\n");

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P2 Badge Keep ingestion failures retryable

When a valid bulk item reaches in_elasticsearch_ingest_logs(), either the worker-queue allocation path or flb_input_log_append() can return -1; process_ndpack() propagates that value through parse_payload_ndjson(), so this blanket branch commits HTTP 400 for transient allocation, processor, or storage failures. Clients commonly treat 4xx responses as permanent and may discard valid records, whereas these internal failures should be distinguished from malformed JSON and receive a retryable 5xx response.

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In `@plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c`:
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