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Send an HTTP 400 response when Bulk API payload parsing fails. Previously these requests could wait until the connection I/O timeout without receiving a response. Preserve the existing busy-queue handling and responses for valid bulk items.

Validation: The baseline recovery test stalled while awaiting the rejected request's response. Array, map and mixed-nesting cases now assert HTTP 400 and continued ingestion, and passed normally and under strict Valgrind. Existing multiple-document and unknown-operation scenarios also passed both ways.

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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

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Compatibility: Malformed bulk payloads receive a prompt HTTP 400. Valid bulk responses, item-level errors and ingress-queue backpressure behavior are unchanged.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid Elasticsearch bulk payloads now receive a clear HTTP 400 response.
    • Fluent Bit continues processing valid messages after rejecting malformed or excessively nested JSON.
    • Improved resilience prevents invalid payloads from causing crashes or appearing in logs.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <eduardo@chronosphere.io>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <eduardo@chronosphere.io>
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process_payload_ng now sends HTTP 400 for invalid non-busy bulk payloads while preserving return handling. A new integration test verifies rejection and recovery after deeply nested JSON input.

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Elasticsearch bulk validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bulk error response handling
plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c
process_payload_ng stores the parser result, sends error: invalid bulk payload with HTTP 400 for non-busy errors, and returns the stored result.
Nested payload recovery coverage
tests/integration/scenarios/elasticsearch_invalid_bulk/tests/test_elasticsearch_invalid_bulk.py
The integration test submits 65-level nested JSON, checks HTTP 400 rejection, verifies later valid messages, and checks process stability and logs.

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

Change: Bug fix

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Valid bulk requests can be reported as malformed when server-side ingestion fails, which gives clients an incorrect non-retryable response. Separate parser and ingestion errors before merging.

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Comment on lines +634 to +635
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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command += ["-o", "stdout", "-m", "*", "-p", "format=json_lines"]
log = tmp_path / "fluent-bit.log"
memlog = tmp_path / "valgrind.log"
memory = os.environ.get("VALGRIND") == "1"

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P2 Badge Honor the configured macOS memory checker

When this scenario is run on macOS with LEAKS=1 LEAKS_STRICT=1, the harness checks only VALGRIND, launches Fluent Bit directly, and performs no Leaks validation, so the required memory-safety pass can report success without running a checker. Use the suite's shared memory-check-aware manager or add equivalent LEAKS handling and result validation.

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In `@plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c`:
- Around line 634-635: Update the response handling around process_ndpack and
send_response_ng so parser failures retain HTTP 400, while ingestion or
downstream input/processor failures return an appropriate 5xx status; continue
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Comment on lines +634 to +635
if (ret != 0 && ret != FLB_INPUT_INGRESS_BUSY) {
send_response_ng(response, 400, NULL, "error: invalid bulk payload\n");

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Inspect the declaration, implementation, and return values of the ingestion helper.
rg -n -C 12 '\bin_elasticsearch_ingest_logs\s*\(' plugins

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 6592


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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- bound input API definitions and return paths ---'
rg -n -C 18 '\b(flb_input_ingress_queue_log|flb_input_log_append)\s*\(' .

printf '%s\n' '--- bulk processing and response flow ---'
sed -n '250,385p' plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c
sed -n '560,665p' plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 50374


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- ingress queue implementation ---'
sed -n '527,625p' src/flb_input_ingest.c

printf '%s\n' '--- exact input log append definitions ---'
rg -n '^(static )?int input_log_append|^int flb_input_log_append' src/flb_input_log.c
sed -n '1450,1610p' src/flb_input_log.c

printf '%s\n' '--- bulk parser and response branches ---'
sed -n '280,375p' plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c
sed -n '600,650p' plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 15165


Classify ingestion failures separately from parser failures.

in_elasticsearch_ingest_logs can return -1 when event or buffer allocation fails, and flb_input_log_append can propagate input or processor failures. process_ndpack returns these errors after parsing succeeds. The response branch maps every non-busy error to HTTP 400, so valid payloads can receive a client-error response for server-side ingestion failures. Distinguish parser errors from ingestion errors and return an appropriate server-side status for ingestion failures.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@plugins/in_elasticsearch/in_elasticsearch_bulk_prot.c` around lines 634 -
635, Update the response handling around process_ndpack and send_response_ng so
parser failures retain HTTP 400, while ingestion or downstream input/processor
failures return an appropriate 5xx status; continue treating
FLB_INPUT_INGRESS_BUSY separately.

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