Harden ReadSlice and ReadShortData against oversized inputs

[zhangchiqing]

This change fixes malformed input handling in the ledger byte-slicing helpers used by trie/proof decoding.

Changes:

• Change utils.ReadSlice to accept a uint64 size and compare against uint64(len(input)), eliminating the possibility of a negative size bypassing the bounds check on 64-bit platforms.
• Update all call sites in ledger/trie_encoder.go to pass the raw uint values instead of casting to int first.
• Harden utils.ReadShortData to use ReadSlice so truncated input is rejected with an error instead of panicking.
• Add unit tests in ledger/trie_encoder_test.go verifying that DecodeTrieBatchProof returns an error for oversized proof lengths.

This prevents malformed batch proofs (e.g. a proof length field >= 2^63) from causing unexpected panics during decoding.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of oversized encoded data lengths, including values exceeding platform integer limits.
  • Prevented malformed trie batch proofs from causing panics; invalid inputs now return errors.
  • Updated short-data validation to consistently report input-length errors.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for extremely large and invalid proof-length values during trie batch proof decoding.

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Walkthrough

ReadSlice now validates uint64 lengths before slicing. ReadShortData uses this validation. Trie decoding passes encoded lengths directly, and batch proof tests verify that oversized lengths return errors instead of causing panics.

Changes

Safe length decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Length validation contract ledger/common/utils/utils.go	ReadSlice accepts uint64 sizes and validates them against the input length. ReadShortData delegates slicing to ReadSlice and wraps failures.
Trie decoding integration ledger/trie_encoder.go, ledger/trie_encoder_test.go	Trie decoding passes encoded lengths directly to ReadSlice. Batch proof tests verify that oversized proof lengths return errors instead of panicking.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 15cb6

Malformed oversized trie proof lengths now return errors rather than panicking. The remaining low-risk concern is that the regression test should use the standard batch-proof fixture to keep test inputs consistent.

Suggested reviewers: tim-barry

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the two hardened helpers and the oversized-input handling that defines the main change.
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❌ Patch coverage is 64.70588% with 6 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

ledger/trie_encoder_test.go (1)

892-896: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use a /utils/unittest/ fixture for the batch-proof envelope.

Create a valid batch-proof fixture, then modify only its proof-length field in each subtest. This isolates the oversized-length case from manually reproduced encoding bytes.

As per coding guidelines: "Use fixtures from /utils/unittest/ for realistic test data in unit tests."

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In `@ledger/trie_encoder_test.go` around lines 892 - 896, Replace the manually
constructed encodedBatchProofHead bytes in the batch-proof tests with a valid
batch-proof envelope fixture from /utils/unittest/. In each subtest, modify only
the fixture’s proof-length field to exercise oversized lengths while preserving
the rest of the valid encoding.

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In `@ledger/trie_encoder_test.go`:
- Around line 892-896: Replace the manually constructed encodedBatchProofHead
bytes in the batch-proof tests with a valid batch-proof envelope fixture from
/utils/unittest/. In each subtest, modify only the fixture’s proof-length field
to exercise oversized lengths while preserving the rest of the valid encoding.

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