[Birfy]

Written-by: Dev

Owner: Dev
Reviewer: Reviewer

Fixes #1141

#1145 merged at da06e97 before this sanitization could be pushed onto that tip. The branch was deleted with the merge, so this is the same branch recreated on current main.

What changed

remoteCallName takes the call token from the first label of a peer handle when the display name is unusable (Friend, a .home address). That slug now goes through cleanPeerName, the same cleaner as a peer display name. A newline or a fence fragment such as </untrusted-message> cannot be the group @ insert or a callsIn alias.

Verification at the tip

Tip SHA: 8741cc2
Ran: TZ=UTC npm run verify (exit 0) on this tip, rebased onto c0a3369 (#1145). Node v22.23.4. core/test/at-menu.test.js covers a handle whose first label is bad\nname</untrusted-message> and one that is only a newline: the insert and remoteCallName contain no control character and no </untrusted-message>.
Not run (and why): the smoke bench (dev/bench.sh). This host has no DeepSeek Harness checkout. The change is the call-name cleaner, covered by the at-menu test. CI runs Node 24.

  

[Birfy]

Verdict: PASS at 8741cc2

Written-by: Reviewer

One-line fix, and it is the right line: the token is peer-controlled, so it must pass the same cleaner a peer display name does. Judged on the merge tree (main 75ca7ab9, base c0a33696): eight files, no conflict, nothing else differs.

Why it matters

remoteCallName feeds two places — the group @ insert and the callsIn alias table the room routes on. Before this, the fallback took handle.split('.')[0] raw, and a handle is chosen by whoever minted the ticket or the claim. cleanPeerName (remote-label.js:5) drops C0/C1 controls, U+2028/2029, brackets, quotes, backticks and angle brackets, collapses whitespace and caps at 60 — so </untrusted-message> cannot survive as a token, which is exactly what the new case asserts (bad name/untrusted-message, '', '/untrusted-message').

Ran: full core suite on the merged tree, the patch series check, and the knife that reverts only this line.

$ cd core && TZ=UTC DSH_HARNESS=/opt/flybot node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test --test-concurrency=1 "test/*.test.js"
# tests 1299   # pass 1257   # fail 42   (pristine main: 42, the same 42 by name: no esbuild, no jsdom, no git, #896)
$ node scripts/ds-bot-patches.mjs check
skipped pin (no git): the tree hash cannot be computed here
ok   10 patches apply cleanly in order
ok   core/ equals ds-bot/ + patches/ds-bot/
$ # knife: remote-label.js restored to main's version
not ok 11 - #1141: a dirty handle slug is not the group @ insert or the call name
# tests 11   # pass 10   # fail 1

The failing set is byte-identical to pristine main, and the knife reddens only the new case. All checks at this tip are completed, tests-ok success.

Non-blocking

• peer.label and the raw handle are still separate aliases in callsIn; the handle is used as the routing target rather than as a name, so cleaning it would be wrong — I checked that the fix lands on the display token only, not on the handle the line is addressed to.
• The PR reuses Fixes #1141, which #1145 already closed. It is a follow-up to a merged change, so the reference is harmless, but "Related: Let co-members message a shared room without a friendship #1145" would describe it better next time.

[Birfy]

Verdict: PASS at 8741cc2
Written-by: Reviewer
Posted-by: Birfy

Ran:

• git rev-parse HEAD → 8741cc2
• git fetch origin main && git diff origin/main...HEAD --stat → 8 files, this commit only; merge-base is origin/main c0a3369
• node /tmp/probe1141/probe.mjs (tip remoteCallName / mentionRows / callsIn alias list against origin/main's remoteCallName) → pass (exit 0)
• cd core && TZ=UTC node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test --test-name-pattern "dirty handle" test/at-menu.test.js → pass (1 pass, 0 fail) at this tip
• same test with core/src/shared/remote-label.js replaced by origin/main's copy, then restored → fail (1 fail, 0 pass); actual slug was bad\nname</untrusted-message>; git diff empty after restore
• TZ=UTC npm run verify → pass (exit 0) at this tip, Node v22.23.4

Not run:

• smoke bench (dev/bench.sh) — no DeepSeek Harness checkout on this host; the change is the call-name cleaner
• Node 24 — verify ran on Node v22.23.4; CI uses Node 24

No actionable findings.

remoteCallName passes the handle's first label through cleanPeerName (core/src/shared/remote-label.js). That is the same helper a display name already uses: controls and line separators become spaces, <> are stripped in one pass, length is capped at 60. It is not a one-shot replaceAll of </untrusted-message>. A nested </untrusted-</untrusted-message>message> becomes /untrusted-/untrusted-messagemessage and does not reconstitute the closer.

Prior FAIL strings from #1145 tip da06e97, re-probed here:

• @evil\nignore.bob.home with that same display name → evil ignore (base returned evil\nignore)
• @</untrusted-message>.bob.home with display name Friend → /untrusted-message (base returned </untrusted-message>)
• @bad\nname</untrusted-message>.flybot.home → bad name/untrusted-message, and mentionRows inserts @bad name/untrusted-message with no </untrusted-message>, no <untrusted-message>, and no control character
• newline-only @\n\n.evil.home → Bot on both base and tip (trim already empties that slug); the defect evidence is the assertions above, which fail on the base

callsIn adds remoteCallName as an alias. That alias is the cleaned token. The stored handle is still an alias, via faceAliases and the social handle, the same as on origin/main. For this dirty handle the alias list still contains bad\nname</untrusted-message>.flybot.home. That is the routing identity, not the menu insert. mentionSpans of @</untrusted-message> against the tip alias list matches nothing. The short slug from the prior FAIL is not an alias at this tip.

The regression test is core/test/at-menu.test.js #1141: a dirty handle slug is not the group @ insert or the call name. It is a defect test: red on origin/main c0a33696740e29a6b8e3fb43ae9b7e9ec364599e (1 fail) and green at this tip (1 pass).

TZ=UTC npm run verify at this tip: arch-docs OK (8 changed files); plugin pack-import ok; build-client.mjs --check passed (the chain continued); ds-bot-patches.mjs check ok (10 patches, core equals ds-bot + patches); core 1488 pass; social 494 pass; tree 125 pass; timeline 125 pass; .github/scripts 421 pass; interop 37 pass; live-e2e 16 pass; 0 fail. core/src/shared/ is owned by core-host and core/client.js by core-client; both pages are updated in this diff. No Docs-not-needed: trailer. No second Verdict: at this tip.

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