🐛 bug: address PR review comments for Unix-socket proxy trust by Copilot · Pull Request #4089 · gofiber/fiber

Copilot · 2026-02-16T14:16:33Z

Description

Addresses review feedback from PR #4088 by adding comprehensive nil protection for RemoteIP() calls, refining type handling in proxy trust logic, improving test reliability, and introducing explicit Unix socket configuration semantics.

Changes introduced

Nil safety: Added nil guards to all RemoteIP() invocations in IP(), extractIPFromHeader(), and IsFromLocal() to prevent panics with Unix sockets and other edge cases
Type switch hardening: Added default case in IsProxyTrusted() type switch to explicitly reject unknown address types
Dedicated Unix socket config: Introduced TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket field to replace semantic overloading of Loopback setting
Test improvements: Increased Unix socket test sleep to 1000ms (matching similar tests) and fixed race condition by ensuring result channel always receives a value
Documentation Update: Added UnixSocket field documentation in docs/api/ctx.md and docs/whats_new.md
Code consistency: All 2720 tests pass, linter clean, no security vulnerabilities

app := fiber.New(fiber.Config{
  TrustProxy: true,
  TrustProxyConfig: fiber.TrustProxyConfig{
    Proxies: []string{"0.8.0.0"},
    Loopback: true,   // Trust loopback IPs (127.0.0.0/8, ::1/128)
    UnixSocket: true, // Trust Unix domain socket connections (new)
  },
})

Type of change

Enhancement (improvement to existing features and functionality)
Code consistency (non-breaking change which improves code reliability and robustness)

Checklist

Conducted a self-review of the code and provided comments for complex or critical parts.
Updated the documentation in the /docs/ directory for Fiber's documentation.
Added or updated unit tests to validate the effectiveness of the changes or new features.
Ensured that new and existing unit tests pass locally with the changes.
Verified that any new dependencies are essential and have been agreed upon by the maintainers/community.
Aimed for optimal performance with minimal allocations in the new code.

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❌ Patch coverage is 58.33333% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 90.97%. Comparing base (5aae9a0) to head (a7abc30).
⚠️ Report is 4 commits behind head on update-proxy-trust-logic-in-req.go.

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Copilot · 2026-02-16T14:27:33Z

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Pull request overview

This PR refines Fiber’s trusted-proxy behavior around Unix domain sockets and hardens request IP handling by preventing RemoteIP()-related panics, while updating config/docs/tests to support an explicit Unix-socket trust toggle.

Changes:

Added nil-guards around fasthttp.RemoteIP() usage in request IP/local checks.
Introduced TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket and updated proxy-trust logic to use it for Unix socket connections.
Updated docs and Unix-socket proxy-trust tests to reflect the new configuration semantics.

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Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

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File	Description
`req.go`	Adds nil-safety for `RemoteIP()` and updates `IsProxyTrusted()` Unix-socket/type handling.
`app.go`	Extends `TrustProxyConfig` with a new `UnixSocket` option.
`ctx_test.go`	Updates Unix-socket proxy-trust tests for the new config flag and improves reliability.
`docs/whats_new.md`	Documents the new `UnixSocket` config option in the trusted proxy example.
`docs/api/ctx.md`	Documents `UnixSocket` under `IsProxyTrusted` configuration example.

Copilot · 2026-02-16T17:34:52Z

app.go

+	// UnixSocket enables trusting Unix domain socket connections.
+	// When enabled, requests from Unix sockets are treated as trusted proxies.
+	//
+	// Default: false
+	UnixSocket bool `json:"unix_socket"`


Adding a new exported field to TrustProxyConfig is a source-breaking change for downstream users who may be using unkeyed composite literals (fiber.TrustProxyConfig{...}). Consider calling this out as a breaking change in release notes, or ensure docs/examples consistently use keyed fields to avoid this footgun.

Copilot · 2026-02-16T17:34:53Z

req.go

 		// Keep existing RemoteIP/IP-map/CIDR checks for TCP/UDP paths as-is.
+	default:
+		// Unknown address type: do not trust by default.
+		return false


The new default branch returns false for any RemoteAddr() type other than *net.UnixAddr, *net.TCPAddr, or *net.UDPAddr. Since fasthttp.RequestCtx.SetRemoteAddr can set arbitrary net.Addr implementations, this changes prior behavior by rejecting proxy trust even when RemoteIP() returns a valid IP that matches TrustProxyConfig. Consider falling back to the existing IP-based checks for unknown non-Unix address types (fail closed only when RemoteIP() is nil).

Copilot · 2026-02-16T17:34:53Z

docs/api/ctx.md

    Proxies: []string{"0.8.0.0", "1.1.1.1/30"}, // IP address or IP address range
+    Loopback: true,   // Trust loopback addresses (127.0.0.0/8, ::1/128)
+    UnixSocket: true, // Trust Unix domain socket connections


The IsProxyTrusted docs in this section say that when TrustProxy is false it returns true, but the implementation returns false. Please correct the documentation text to match the actual behavior.

Copilot · 2026-02-16T17:34:53Z

docs/whats_new.md

        Loopback: true,
+        // Trust Unix domain socket connections
+        UnixSocket: true,
    }


This Go example won’t compile as written because the TrustProxyConfig: fiber.TrustProxyConfig{ ... } element in the outer fiber.Config{ ... } literal is missing a trailing comma after the closing }. Add the comma to keep the snippet valid.

Suggested change

}

},

Copilot · 2026-02-16T17:34:54Z

req.go

 	switch remoteAddr.(type) {
 	case *net.UnixAddr:
-		return config.TrustProxyConfig.Loopback
+		return config.TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket


Switching Unix-socket trust from being controlled by TrustProxyConfig.Loopback to the new TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket changes behavior for existing configs (Unix-socket requests will no longer be trusted when only Loopback is enabled). If this behavior change is intentional, it should be called out clearly in release notes/migration docs, or consider a compatibility fallback for one release cycle.

Suggested change

return config.TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket

// For backward compatibility, also honor Loopback for Unix sockets.

// Existing configs that only enabled Loopback will continue to trust

// Unix-socket requests, while new configs can explicitly control this

// via TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket.

return config.TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket || config.TrustProxyConfig.Loopback

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🐛 bug: fix Unix-socket support in IsProxyTrusted #4088

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Add nil checks for RemoteIP(), default case to type switch, and fix t…

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Add dedicated UnixSocket field to TrustProxyConfig

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Copilot AI changed the title ~~[WIP] Fix Unix-socket support in IsProxyTrusted~~ 🐛 bug: address PR review comments for Unix-socket proxy trust Feb 16, 2026

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-		return config.TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket
+		// For backward compatibility, also honor Loopback for Unix sockets.
+		// Existing configs that only enabled Loopback will continue to trust
+		// Unix-socket requests, while new configs can explicitly control this
+		// via TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket.
+		return config.TrustProxyConfig.UnixSocket || config.TrustProxyConfig.Loopback

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