From 5811e65e67591b06238de66470c03744e0d83e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lain <lain@soykaf.club>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:39:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add some hard limits on inserted activities.

---
 config/config.exs                            |  3 ++-
 docs/config.md                               |  1 +
 lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex |  8 ++++++++
 test/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs  | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index 4b8762761..82e7d8121 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
   name: "Pleroma",
   email: "example@example.com",
   description: "A Pleroma instance, an alternative fediverse server",
-  limit: 5000,
+  limit: 5_000,
+  remote_limit: 10_000,
   upload_limit: 16_000_000,
   avatar_upload_limit: 2_000_000,
   background_upload_limit: 4_000_000,
diff --git a/docs/config.md b/docs/config.md
index 728916f82..0aeaf934e 100644
--- a/docs/config.md
+++ b/docs/config.md
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ config :pleroma, Pleroma.Mailer,
 * `email`: Email used to reach an Administrator/Moderator of the instance
 * `description`: The instance’s description, can be seen in nodeinfo and ``/api/v1/instance``
 * `limit`: Posts character limit (CW/Subject included in the counter)
+* `remote_limit`: Hard character limit beyond which remote posts will be dropped.
 * `upload_limit`: File size limit of uploads (except for avatar, background, banner)
 * `avatar_upload_limit`: File size limit of user’s profile avatars
 * `background_upload_limit`: File size limit of user’s profile backgrounds
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex
index 188060780..8b2f764e4 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex
@@ -56,10 +56,18 @@ defp check_actor_is_active(actor) do
     end
   end
 
+  defp check_remote_limit(%{"object" => %{"content" => content}}) do
+    limit = Pleroma.Config.get([:instance, :remote_limit])
+    String.length(content) <= limit
+  end
+
+  defp check_remote_limit(_), do: true
+
   def insert(map, local \\ true) when is_map(map) do
     with nil <- Activity.normalize(map),
          map <- lazy_put_activity_defaults(map),
          :ok <- check_actor_is_active(map["actor"]),
+         {_, true} <- {:remote_limit_error, check_remote_limit(map)},
          {:ok, map} <- MRF.filter(map),
          :ok <- insert_full_object(map) do
       {recipients, _, _} = get_recipients(map)
diff --git a/test/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs b/test/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs
index 4f6b7f058..f7c7c6242 100644
--- a/test/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs
+++ b/test/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs
@@ -31,6 +31,24 @@ test "it returns a user" do
   end
 
   describe "insertion" do
+    test "drops activities beyond a certain limit" do
+      limit = Pleroma.Config.get([:instance, :remote_limit])
+
+      random_text =
+        :crypto.strong_rand_bytes(limit + 1)
+        |> Base.encode64()
+        |> binary_part(0, limit + 1)
+
+      data = %{
+        "ok" => true,
+        "object" => %{
+          "content" => random_text
+        }
+      }
+
+      assert {:error, {:remote_limit_error, _}} = ActivityPub.insert(data)
+    end
+
     test "returns the activity if one with the same id is already in" do
       activity = insert(:note_activity)
       {:ok, new_activity} = ActivityPub.insert(activity.data)

From 9c782e59ddac5fa01cd5b2517f282b283f01bc1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lambda <pleromagit@rogerbraun.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:57:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Raise remote limit

---
 config/config.exs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index 82e7d8121..d59aa278e 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
   email: "example@example.com",
   description: "A Pleroma instance, an alternative fediverse server",
   limit: 5_000,
-  remote_limit: 10_000,
+  remote_limit: 100_000,
   upload_limit: 16_000_000,
   avatar_upload_limit: 2_000_000,
   background_upload_limit: 4_000_000,