Limit the number of operations in a single json patch to be 10,000

staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/handlers/patch.go

@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ import (
 	utiltrace "k8s.io/utils/trace"
 )
 
+const (
+	// maximum number of operations a single json patch may contain.
+	maxJSONPatchOperations = 10000
+)
+
 // PatchResource returns a function that will handle a resource patch.
 func PatchResource(r rest.Patcher, scope RequestScope, admit admission.Interface, patchTypes []string) http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
@@ -331,6 +336,11 @@ func (p *jsonPatcher) applyJSPatch(versionedJS []byte) (patchedJS []byte, retErr
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.NewBadRequest(err.Error())
 		}
+		if len(patchObj) > maxJSONPatchOperations {
+			return nil, errors.NewRequestEntityTooLargeError(
+				fmt.Sprintf("The allowed maximum operations in a JSON patch is %d, got %d",
+					maxJSONPatchOperations, len(patchObj)))
+		}
 		patchedJS, err := patchObj.Apply(versionedJS)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.NewGenericServerResponse(http.StatusUnprocessableEntity, "", schema.GroupResource{}, "", err.Error(), 0, false)

test/integration/apiserver/BUILD

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ go_test(
     srcs = [
         "apiserver_test.go",
         "main_test.go",
+        "max_json_patch_operations_test.go",
         "max_request_body_bytes_test.go",
         "patch_test.go",
         "print_test.go",

test/integration/apiserver/max_json_patch_operations_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package apiserver
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
+	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/options"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/integration/framework"
+)
+
+// Tests that the apiserver limits the number of operations in a json patch.
+func TestMaxJSONPatchOperations(t *testing.T) {
+	stopCh := make(chan struct{})
+	defer close(stopCh)
+	clientSet, _ := framework.StartTestServer(t, stopCh, framework.TestServerSetup{
+		ModifyServerRunOptions: func(opts *options.ServerRunOptions) {
+			opts.GenericServerRunOptions.MaxRequestBodyBytes = 1024 * 1024
+		},
+	})
+
+	p := `{"op":"add","path":"/x","value":"y"}`
+	// maxJSONPatchOperations = 10000
+	hugePatch := []byte("[" + strings.Repeat(p+",", 10000) + p + "]")
+
+	c := clientSet.CoreV1().RESTClient()
+	// Create a secret so we can patch it.
+	secret := &v1.Secret{
+		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+			Name: "test",
+		},
+	}
+	_, err := clientSet.CoreV1().Secrets("default").Create(secret)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	err = c.Patch(types.JSONPatchType).AbsPath(fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/namespaces/default/secrets/test")).
+		Body(hugePatch).Do().Error()
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected no error")
+	}
+	if !errors.IsRequestEntityTooLargeError(err) {
+		t.Errorf("expected requested entity too large err, got %v", err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "The allowed maximum operations in a JSON patch is") {
+		t.Errorf("expected the error message to be about maximum operations, got %v", err)
+	}
+}