server: §3.4 asymmetric grants + downtrain and big_send actions
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The grant is the keystone that makes server->client sends safe: created
only by an authenticated control-plane action, bound at creation to the
session's OBSERVED data-plane source (so it can never be aimed at a third
party), and bounded by bytes, average rate and expiry. Sends stop the
moment the budget runs out, so a buggy action cannot become a flood.

Two granted actions on top of it:
- downtrain: N packets at a given size/interval toward the client, with
  seq + send-timestamp in the payload — downstream loss/reorder/jitter,
  which an upstream-only train cannot measure.
- big_send: one datagram per requested size, echoing the intended size in
  the payload — downstream MTU / black-hole evidence the client cannot
  produce for itself (only the far end can emit a large packet toward it).

Tests cover the security properties: no grant without a verified
destination, client requests clamped to server limits, byte budget stops
sending exactly, expiry refuses, and the rate ceiling throttles a burst.
Capabilities gain downtrain + big-send.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Echolot contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
package session
import (
"sync"
"time"
)
// Grant is the spec §3.4 "asymmetric grant": the ONLY thing that lets the server send more than
// it receives. Without one, every response is capped at the request size, which is what keeps an
// unauthenticated observer from using this server as a reflector/amplifier.
//
// A grant is created by an authenticated control-plane action (§5) for one session, and is bounded
// three ways: total bytes, send rate, and wall-clock expiry. It is consumed as the data plane
// sends; when the budget runs out the send stops, so a bug in an action cannot turn into an
// unbounded flood.
type Grant struct {
ActionID string
// Destination is fixed at creation to the session's observed data-plane source — a grant can
// never be pointed somewhere else, so it cannot be used to attack a third party.
Dest string
MaxBytes int64
MaxKbps int
ExpiresAt time.Time
mu sync.Mutex
sentBytes int64
started time.Time
}
// GrantLimits are the server-side ceilings an action may not exceed, independent of what the
// client asks for.
type GrantLimits struct {
MaxBytes int64
MaxKbps int
MaxHold time.Duration
}
var DefaultGrantLimits = GrantLimits{
MaxBytes: 8 << 20, // 8 MiB per action
MaxKbps: 50_000, // matches the profile's advertised max_kbps
MaxHold: 30 * time.Second, // an action must finish inside this window
}
// NewGrant clamps the request to the server's limits and binds it to the session's observed
// data-plane source. Returns nil when the session has no observed source yet — refusing to send
// anywhere we have not verifiably received from is the whole point.
func (s *Session) NewGrant(actionID string, wantBytes int64, wantKbps int, lim GrantLimits) *Grant {
dest := s.DataSource()
if !dest.IsValid() {
return nil
}
if wantBytes <= 0 || wantBytes > lim.MaxBytes {
wantBytes = lim.MaxBytes
}
if wantKbps <= 0 || wantKbps > lim.MaxKbps {
wantKbps = lim.MaxKbps
}
g := &Grant{
ActionID: actionID, Dest: dest.String(),
MaxBytes: wantBytes, MaxKbps: wantKbps,
ExpiresAt: time.Now().Add(lim.MaxHold),
started: time.Now(),
}
s.mu.Lock()
s.grants = append(s.grants, g)
s.mu.Unlock()
return g
}
// Allow reports whether n more bytes may be sent now, consuming the budget when they may. It
// enforces the byte ceiling, the expiry, and the average rate (by refusing early sends rather
// than sleeping, so callers stay in control of pacing).
func (g *Grant) Allow(n int) bool {
g.mu.Lock()
defer g.mu.Unlock()
if time.Now().After(g.ExpiresAt) {
return false
}
if g.sentBytes+int64(n) > g.MaxBytes {
return false
}
// Average-rate check: bytes allowed so far = kbps/8 * elapsed_seconds.
elapsed := time.Since(g.started).Seconds()
allowed := float64(g.MaxKbps) * 125 * elapsed // kbps -> bytes/s is kbps*1000/8 = kbps*125
if elapsed > 0.05 && float64(g.sentBytes+int64(n)) > allowed {
return false
}
g.sentBytes += int64(n)
return true
}
// Sent returns how many bytes this grant has consumed.
func (g *Grant) Sent() int64 {
g.mu.Lock()
defer g.mu.Unlock()
return g.sentBytes
}