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Niels Lohmann 89994acc2c Read BSON documents without recursing per nesting level
An embedded document (record type 0x03) or array (0x04) was read by calling
back into the document reader, which read its element list, which called the
element reader again for the next embedded one. The native call stack
therefore grew with the nesting depth of the input, and about seven bytes buy
a level, so a document of a few hundred kilobytes crashes the process
(#5104). This is the last of the four binary formats to still do that.

Apply the same shape as the other three: open_bson_document() reads the size
prefix and opens the document, parse_bson_element_internal() calls it for both
record types instead of recursing, and parse_bson_internal() loops over the
element list of whichever document is innermost, closing it when its
terminator is reached and resuming the one below.

check_bson_document_size() is unchanged, and so is when it runs: a document is
still measured from the byte before its size prefix to the byte after its
terminator, and still reported before the end event. The frame carries those
two values, which is what a per-document check needs once the reads are
interleaved rather than nested. Nothing else about the element reader changes.

unit-bson passes unchanged. Round trips through to_bson of nested objects,
arrays, arrays of objects and mixed nesting are identical to the previous
commit, as are the errors for a truncated document, an unsupported record
type, a negative size and a size that does not match, including their byte
offsets. A 30,000-level document built by to_bson is now read to completion
where it used to crash.

Note for sequencing: #5185 changes parse_bson_internal(), the element list and
the array reader, which are the functions this commit restructures. It should
land first; this commit then keeps its checks and moves them onto the loop.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-06 18:34:00 +02:00
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