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The metadata cache could serve documents that disagree with each other or with their own headers. Found in a bug sweep of main.

• Validators came from the row, not the body. proxyCachedWithEncoding re-read ETag, Last-Modified and the stale flag from the cache row instead of describing the document sent. A refetch whose storage write failed went out with the old ETag and a stale Warning, and a client holding the old document then got 304 and kept it. With metadata_ttl: 0 the stale fallback during an upstream outage had no Warning at all, although the docs promise one. metadataResult now carries the validators and the stale flag from the fetch, or from the row the body was read from, and the response is written from them (ProxyCached, vulndb, sumdb, conda shard index, immutable documents and Maven).
• 304 trusted whatever was stored. On a 304 the bytes at the row's storage path were read without checking them against its digest. With two instances sharing a store, another instance may already have stored a newer document there, which was then served and re-stored under the old ETag. The bytes are now checked against the row's sha256, and a mismatch or a failed refresh is handled as errStale304, so the document is fetched again without validators.
• APT/RPM release files and their indexes expired independently. InRelease/Release and repomd.xml had their own TTL apart from the index files they list, so within a TTL a client could get a cached release file and a freshly fetched Packages, or the reverse, and apt failed with "Hash Sum mismatch" on repositories without by-hash. An index the cached release file lists is now served by that listing: the cached copy when its sha256 matches, whatever its age, otherwise a copy from upstream; if upstream's copy doesn't match either, upstream has moved on, so it is served and the release file is expired for the next update. One update can still fail when an index was never cached for the release file's generation and upstream changed in between. Release files, unlisted files (including by-hash) and checksum-named RPM files behave as before. This costs a read of the cached release file per index request.
• Maven metadata checksums. Without cooldown, maven-metadata.xml and its .sha1/.md5/.sha256/.sha512 were cached under separate keys and TTLs and could disagree, failing strict-checksum builds. The checksums are now computed from the cached metadata, as the cooldown path already did.
• Non-timestamped Maven SNAPSHOTs. lib-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar was treated as an immutable artifact and cached forever, so a snapshot repository (or JitPack main-SNAPSHOT) kept serving the first build. Such files are now passed through uncached; timestamped snapshot files stay cached.

docs/configuration.md is updated (metadata TTL and Warning, APT/RPM index files, Maven repositories).

Tests: TestFetchedMetadataValidatorsDescribeBody, TestStaleMetadataMarkedWithoutTTL, TestNotModifiedChecksStoredBytes, TestNotModifiedAfterRowReplaced, TestIndexFollowsCachedRelease, TestIndexMismatchExpiresRelease, TestMavenMetadataChecksumMatchesServedMetadata and TestMavenNonUniqueSnapshotNotKept each fail on main and pass here; go test -race ./internal/handler passes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Maven checksum files now match the metadata version served. Non-timestamped SNAPSHOT files refresh on GET, while HEAD requests use the cache; cached copies remain available during upstream failures.
  • APT and RPM index files now match checksums in the release metadata served.
  • Metadata responses use validators aligned with the content served. Cached metadata returned after upstream failures is marked stale, and mismatched cached content is not served as valid.
• Documentation
  • Clarified metadata caching, checksum, stale-response, and TTL behavior, including Maven cooldowns and immutable Go and RPM metadata.

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Walkthrough

The change updates shared metadata response handling, coordinates APT and RPM indexes with checksums in cached release metadata, and changes Maven metadata checksum and SNAPSHOT behavior. Regression tests and configuration documentation cover these changes.

Changes: Metadata Cache Behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metadata result consistency internal/handler/handler.go, internal/handler/metadata_consistency_test.go, internal/handler/arch.go, internal/handler/arch_test.go	Metadata results retain validators associated with their bodies. Conditional refresh and stale fallback check cached bytes against recorded digests. Tests cover replaced cache rows and blobs, rejected bodies, and stale responses when TTL is zero.
Metadata result adoption across handlers internal/handler/conda_shards.go, internal/handler/go_sumdb.go, internal/handler/go_sumdb_test.go, internal/handler/go_vulndb.go, internal/handler/metadata_immutable.go, internal/handler/metadata_stream.go, internal/handler/maven_cooldown.go, internal/handler/npm.go, internal/handler/nuget_cooldown.go	Metadata handlers write result objects or use updated metadata-fetch return values. The Go sum database test checks the stale warning on an offline cached response.
Release-listed APT and RPM indexes internal/handler/release_index.go, internal/handler/debian.go, internal/handler/rpm.go, internal/handler/release_index_test.go, docs/configuration.md	Debian release files and RPM repomd.xml provide SHA-256 listings for indexes. Handlers compare cached or fetched indexes with those listings. Tests cover release refresh and cache integrity; documentation describes related TTL behavior.
Maven metadata and SNAPSHOT handling internal/handler/maven.go, internal/handler/maven_consistency_test.go, internal/handler/download_test.go, docs/configuration.md	Maven checksum responses are computed from the metadata body being served. Non-timestamped SNAPSHOT files use a refetch path for non-HEAD requests. Tests cover checksums, fallback, denylist, and upstream failures; documentation describes caching behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• Stream upstream metadata into storage instead of buffering it #526 — The change checks cached bytes against the row digest on the upstream 304 path. It does not add the streaming storage described by the issue.

Possibly related PRs

• git-pkgs/proxy#681 — Both changes affect stale metadata results and consistency between served bodies and response validators.
• git-pkgs/proxy#678 — Maven coordinate parsing determines which paths receive the mutable SNAPSHOT fetch behavior.

Suggested reviewers: andrew, pinguinfuss

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b7190

This change keeps metadata validators, stale status and index listings consistent with the bytes served. The earlier concerns about Maven SNAPSHOT policy checks, a verified 304 forcing a re-download, and Arch validators are addressed in the current code. No remaining merge-blocking risk was identified.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to b7190

The inspected changes strengthen consistency without demonstrating a new security bypass. Existing shared-state limitations and incomplete coverage prevent a minimal-risk assessment.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant exposure is downstream clients consuming shared metadata and mutable artifacts from configured repositories. Cache-row or stored-byte inconsistency can affect multiple consumers of the same entry; the reviewed changes address that shared response identity rather than introduce a new identity or privilege parameter.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Upstream validation still precedes cache publication. Digest checks in the changed 304 and stale paths bind stored bytes to the observed cache row when a sha256 digest exists. Release-listed cached indexes additionally require the listing digest and use the existing streaming integrity check; these are consistency controls, not proof that upstream content is authentic.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Full row/blob ownership is not established for every read mode: fresh buffered TTL hits still return bytes without digest verification, and matchesEntryDigest accepts rows lacking a sha256 digest. These are residual, pre-existing limitations, not demonstrated PR-introduced vulnerabilities.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — As follow-up hardening, apply digest-based ownership checks consistently to buffered fresh reads and define how legacy rows obtain verifiable digests. This would narrow the remaining gap between the strengthened revalidation paths and ordinary cache hits.

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2324-2329: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Migrate the remaining caller of writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding.

The comment tells readers to prefer writeMetadataResult. This wrapper still takes validators and staleness from lookupCachedMeta, which reads the current cache row. That is the inconsistency this PR fixes elsewhere.

internal/handler/arch.go:484-495 still calls it with res.body, res.contentType and res.contentEncoding. If the cache write fails, the arch handler sends the fetched body with the older row's ETag and Last-Modified. A client holding the old ETag can then receive a wrong 304.

res appears to be a metadataResult, based on the fields the snippet reads. If so, call writeMetadataResult(w, r, res) in arch.go. Then remove this wrapper and lookupCachedMeta, if nothing else uses them.

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Review comment at @internal/handler/handler.go around lines 2324 - 2329:
Update the remaining caller of writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding in the
arch handler to use writeMetadataResult with res if res is a metadataResult,
preserving the validators and staleness from that result. Remove
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Do not discard a verified 304 body when the RefreshMetadataCache write fails.

matchesEntryDigest has already confirmed that the stored bytes match the row's digest. The bytes and the row's validators therefore describe the same document. A RefreshMetadataCache database error only means fetched_at was not advanced. That write is a best-effort cache update.

The current code returns errStale304 on a database error. fetchMetadataFromUpstream then re-downloads the whole document without validators. During a transient database fault, every revalidation becomes a full download. If that second fetch fails, the request falls back to a stale response, although upstream just confirmed the cached copy.

Only the !refreshed case (row replaced) needs the refetch. On a database error, log the error and return the digest so the verified body is served.

Proposed change

 	refreshed, err := p.DB.RefreshMetadataCache(ecosystem, cacheKey, entry.ContentDigest.String, time.Now())
 	if err != nil {
 		p.Logger.Warn("failed to refresh cached metadata", "ecosystem", ecosystem, "key", cacheKey, "error", err)
-		return "", errStale304
+		return entry.ContentDigest.String, nil
 	}

Update the refreshMetadataBlob doc comment and the matching test expectations if you accept this change.

Based on learnings: when a live fetch succeeds and an optional cache write fails, log or swallow the write error and return the fresh result instead of falling back.

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Review comment at @internal/handler/handler.go at line 2145:
In the verified-304 path after matchesEntryDigest, treat a RefreshMetadataCache
database error as a best-effort write failure: keep the warning log and return
the verified entry.ContentDigest.String successfully instead of returning
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Review comments at @internal/handler/maven.go:
- Around line 140-144: Update the mutable SNAPSHOT handling in the Maven request
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- Around line 140-145: Update the mutable SNAPSHOT handling in the
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Review comments at @internal/handler/handler.go:
- Around line 2324-2329: Update the remaining caller of
writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding in the arch handler to use
writeMetadataResult with res if res is a metadataResult, preserving the
validators and staleness from that result. Remove
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- Line 2145: In the verified-304 path after matchesEntryDigest, treat a
RefreshMetadataCache database error as a best-effort write failure: keep the
warning log and return the verified entry.ContentDigest.String successfully
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Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-693

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Keep policy checks for mutable SNAPSHOT files.

This branch bypasses the denylist and, when artifact caching is enabled, the configured scanner gate. It can serve a denied version or an artifact that a scanner would block.

Keep those checks before serving SNAPSHOT files, while avoiding reuse of cached upstream artifacts.

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Update the mutable SNAPSHOT handling in the Maven request handler to run the
existing denylist and configured scanner checks before serving the file.
Preserve the branch’s behavior of bypassing cached upstream artifacts when
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Preserve fallback for mutable SNAPSHOT files.

If the primary returns 404 for a non-timestamped SNAPSHOT file, this branch returns that 404 without trying the configured fallback. A dependency available only from the fallback can no longer resolve. Retry the fallback on 404 while keeping these files uncached.

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From CodeRabbit's review, in 1d9b9d4:

• Non-timestamped SNAPSHOT files no longer bypass the denylist, cooldown, scanning and the Plugin Portal fallback. They take the normal download path, with the cached copy dropped first so each request still gets the current build (TestMavenMutableSnapshotKeepsPolicyAndFallback).
• A database error while refreshing a verified 304 now serves the confirmed bytes instead of refetching the whole document.
• Arch still uses writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding for now: its results (storedSignature, readDatabase) don't carry validators yet, so switching it would drop its ETags. That needs its own change.

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Minor · Check stale bytes against their cache row · handler.go:1863-1893

internal/handler/handler.go:1863-1893
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Check stale bytes against their cache row

With metadata_ttl set to zero, another instance can replace the blob after staleMetadata reads the old row but before it reads the blob. The result then carries the old validators with the new bytes, and a conditional request can receive an incorrect 304.

Check the buffered bytes against the row’s digest before serving them or applying its validators.

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Review comment at @internal/handler/handler.go around lines 1863 - 1893:
Update the staleMetadata flow before it uses describedBy to attach cache-row
validators: verify the buffered body matches the row’s ContentDigest before
serving it or applying those validators. If the digest does not match, do not
combine the bytes with that row’s validators; follow the existing safe
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- Around line 1863-1893: Update the staleMetadata flow before it uses
describedBy to attach cache-row validators: verify the buffered body matches the
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From a review pass, in 8c04642..5c42a6d:

• Mutable SNAPSHOT files: the cached copy is no longer dropped before the fetch. A GET fetches through the normal coalesced path and the new copy replaces the old one only once stored; while upstream is down the cached build is served. HEAD is answered from cache.
• On a 304 the stored copy is validated before its row is marked fresh, as before this PR.
• APT: an index follows the release file that actually lists it. InRelease and Release are both considered, a file that lists nothing for the path is skipped, and when both list it the one fetched last decides.
• A stale copy whose blob was replaced after its row was read is served without that row's validators.
• The offline sumdb shortcut marks its copy stale, also with metadata_ttl: 0.

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From CodeRabbit's latest review, in a5f014d: the release listing now checks the cached release file's bytes against its row's digest before using them (TestCachedReleaseChecksStoredBytes). A file another instance replaced since is ignored, and the index falls back to its own cache entry.

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- Around line 1839-1844: When matchesEntryDigest detects a mismatch, do not
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[simonchrz]

Fixed the stale fallback CodeRabbit flagged in 79a0ae2: bytes that don't match the row now get the row read once more and are served under the row that describes them (TestStaleMetadataRereadsReplacedRow, gzip replacing identity). If no row matches yet, the copy is treated as unusable, so TestStaleMetadataChecksStoredBytes now expects an error instead of v2's bytes under v1's encoding.

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[andrew]

Thanks, this is a good set of fixes. Carrying the validators on metadataResult instead of re-reading the row is the right shape, and the 304 digest check closes the shared-store case cleanly.

One thing before merging: Arch still writes responses with the cache row's validators. internal/handler/arch.go:494 calls writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding, so a db fetched after a failed store write goes out with the old row's ETag and Last-Modified, and a client holding the old db can get a 304 for it. Swapping in writeMetadataResult isn't enough on its own, because Arch builds its results by hand without validators (arch.go:348, :356, :386, :436). Those need fetchedResult(meta, ...) or .describedBy(row), with stale: true on the fallback at :386. After that writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding and lookupCachedMeta have no callers and can go. A test along the lines of TestFetchedMetadataValidatorsDescribeBody for the Arch db would cover it.

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Done, after merging main:

• Arch builds its results with validators: fetchedResult(meta, ...) for a fetched database, .describedBy(row) for a stored database or signature, and stale: true with the upstream error on the fallback. writeMetadata uses writeMetadataResult, and writeMetadataCachedResponseWithEncoding and lookupCachedMeta are gone.
• TestArchHandler_DatabaseValidatorsDescribeBody rewrites the row's Last-Modified while the signature is fetched and checks the database still goes out with its own. TestArchHandler_StaleDatabaseMarkedWithoutTTL checks the fallback is marked with metadata_ttl: 0, which it wasn't before.

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