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With log redaction enabled, RPCContext.String() still prints raw region start/end keys in logs, request errors, and backoff warnings. Related region-error and read timestamp validation logs can also expose keys or request values.

Add log-only redaction helpers for region metadata and errors, and redact full request bodies in read timestamp validation logs. The helpers preserve diagnostic region/store metadata and leave the original protobuf values intact. Regression tests cover enabled and marker modes, redaction-disabled behavior, and the region epoch warning path.

Compatibility: this changes logging behavior for TiKV and CSE callers without changing request routing, wire payloads, or existing client APIs used by TiDB, TiCDC, and BR.

Validation with Go 1.25.14:

  • go test -race --tags=intest ./util/redact ./internal/locate — passed, including the full locate suite.
  • gofmt -l on all five touched Go files — clean.
  • git diff --check upstream/master...HEAD — clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security
    • Sensitive region keys and metadata are masked in logs and formatted error details when redaction is enabled, including region-epoch mismatches, read-TS validation, and region failures.
    • Region metadata and lists are also masked in RPC-context formatting. Non-key details remain visible.
    • Redaction preserves original metadata and error values; empty keys and nil metadata remain unchanged.

RPCContext.String() prints the raw metapb.Region (start_key/end_key)
regardless of the redact-log setting. It is used by every
zap.Stringer("ctx"/"current", ctx) in the region cache and request sender
and by the "..., ctx: %v" errors that the Backoffer aggregates into its
"backoffer.maxSleep ... is exceeded" WARN message, so user keys leak
even with redaction enabled. Several sibling sites have the same problem.

Add log-only helpers to util/redact that return the value unchanged when
redaction is off and a redacted shallow copy when it is on:
RegionMeta, RegionMetas, EpochNotMatch, RegionError and Stringer. Use them
in:

- RPCContext.String() (meta)
- OnRegionEpochNotMatch "region epoch is ahead of tikv" (currentRegions)
- newRegion "no available peers" error (region meta)
- onRegionError "tikv reports `EpochNotMatch`" and "tikv reports region
  failed" (nested current_regions / KeyNotInRegion / BucketVersionNotMatch keys)
- "validate read ts failed for request" (full kvrpcpb request body)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: artem_danilov <artem.danilov@airbnb.com>
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The change adds helpers that redact region keys in formatted values and error data. Region cache output and request logs use these helpers. Tests cover redaction modes, preserved metadata, and source immutability.

Changes: Region redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redaction helpers and tests
util/redact/redact.go, util/redact/redact_test.go
New helpers redact formatted strings, region metadata, epoch-mismatch data, and region errors when redaction is enabled. Tests check key masking, preserved fields, nil and empty values, and source immutability.
Region output and log integration
internal/locate/region_cache.go, internal/locate/region_cache_test.go, internal/locate/region_request.go
Region cache output and request logs pass region metadata, requests, and errors through the redaction helpers. Tests check formatted output and captured log contents across redaction modes.

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util/redact/redact_test.go (1)

88-89: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the empty-key and nil assertions out of the mode loop.

Line 88 and Line 89 do not depend on region or redacted. They run once for each mode and add no coverage per iteration. Move them after the loop, or add a separate subtest.

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Review comment at @util/redact/redact_test.go around lines 88 - 89:
Move the mode-independent StartKey and nil assertions for RegionMeta outside the
mode loop in the relevant test, or into a separate subtest; keep only assertions
that depend on region or redacted within each iteration.
internal/locate/region_cache_test.go (1)

1340-1378: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Restore the redaction mode with defer or t.Cleanup.

The loop restores RedactLogEnabled only after OnRegionEpochNotMatch returns. A require or s.* failure before that point can leave the global mode changed. The s.True and s.Nil assertions run after the restore, so they are safe. A panic in the call itself would still leak the mode. Use s.T().Cleanup for robustness.

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Review comment at @internal/locate/region_cache_test.go around lines 1340 -
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Update TestRegionEpochAheadOfTiKVRedact to register restoration of the original
RedactLogEnabled value with s.T().Cleanup before changing it, so the global mode
is restored even if OnRegionEpochNotMatch panics or an assertion fails. Remove
the loop’s manual restoration if the cleanup handles it.

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Review comments at @util/redact/redact_test.go:
- Line 83: Update the requireNoSecret call in the test to pass redacted.String()
instead of formatting redacted with fmt.Sprintf, preserving the same output
while satisfying staticcheck S1025.

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Review comments at @internal/locate/region_cache_test.go:
- Around line 1340-1378: Update TestRegionEpochAheadOfTiKVRedact to register
restoration of the original RedactLogEnabled value with s.T().Cleanup before
changing it, so the global mode is restored even if OnRegionEpochNotMatch panics
or an assertion fails. Remove the loop’s manual restoration if the cleanup
handles it.

Review comments at @util/redact/redact_test.go:
- Around line 88-89: Move the mode-independent StartKey and nil assertions for
RegionMeta outside the mode loop in the relevant test, or into a separate
subtest; keep only assertions that depend on region or redacted within each
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The S1025 finding is already fixed in 4d6e291. The follow-up registers test cleanup before changing the global redaction mode, ensuring the original value is restored when the test exits early.

I kept the empty-key and nil assertions inside the loop because they verify those cases with both enabled and marker redaction.

All five newly exported redaction helpers have Go doc comments. The aggregate docstring warning also counts test functions and private helpers; I have left those unchanged.

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The automated cherry-pick of tikv#2106 did not compile on this branch:

- internal/locate/region_request.go calls redact.Stringer,
  redact.EpochNotMatch and redact.RegionError but never imported
  github.com/tikv/client-go/v2/util/redact, so the whole package failed to
  build with "undefined: redact".
- util/redact/redact_test.go brought over
  TestRedactKeyErrSharedLockLostAndLockUpgradeConflict, which was actually
  added by tikv#2014 (txnkv: support shared lock upgrades) and is unrelated to
  tikv#2106. That PR is not backported to tidb-8.5 and the kvproto pinned here
  has no SharedLockLost / LockUpgradeConflict types, and
  RedactKeyErrIfNecessary does not redact those fields on this branch, so
  the test could not type-check.

Add the missing import and drop the unrelated test. The remaining diff now
matches upstream 56e5933 exactly.

Validated with Go 1.25.14:
- go build ./...
- go test --tags=intest ./util/redact/ ./internal/locate/
- go test -race --tags=intest ./util/redact/
- golangci-lint v2.6 run ./... -> 0 issues

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