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nats-0001 — jetstream_cluster: O(n²) slices.Contains in peer-set dedup loop

Target: nats-io/nats-server File: server/jetstream_cluster.go Function: stream update/move handler (jsStreamUpdateRequest path) Severity: MEDIUM CWE: CWE-407 (Algorithmic Complexity — Quadratic Membership Test) Status: PATCHED

Defect

During a JetStream stream move operation, existing peers are deduplicated against a new peer group using a nested scan:

// filter peers present in both sets
for _, peer := range rg.Peers {
    if !slices.Contains(nrg.Peers, peer) {
        peerSet = append(peerSet, peer)
    }
}
peerSet = append(peerSet, nrg.Peers...)

rg.Peers and nrg.Peers are []string slices. slices.Contains is O(|nrg.Peers|). The outer loop runs O(|rg.Peers|) times. Total: O(|rg.Peers| × |nrg.Peers|).

In a large JetStream cluster (hundreds of streams, many replicas), this is called once per stream move/scale operation and degrades quadratically with replica count and peer count.

Fix

Build a set from nrg.Peers before the loop:

// filter peers present in both sets
nrgPeerSet := make(map[string]struct{}, len(nrg.Peers))
for _, p := range nrg.Peers {
    nrgPeerSet[p] = struct{}{}
}
for _, peer := range rg.Peers {
    if _, ok := nrgPeerSet[peer]; !ok {
        peerSet = append(peerSet, peer)
    }
}
peerSet = append(peerSet, nrg.Peers...)

Patch

defects/nats-server/patch/nats-0001-peer-dedup-map.patch

Unit Test

defects/nats-server/unit/NatsPeerDedupTest.java