Merge TASK-056: hash-DoS hardening + prefix/exact terminus collision guard

Two security findings deferred during TASK-027 cleanup are now closed:
- Switched the radix tree's per-segment child container from
  std::unordered_map to std::map (CWE-407 algorithmic-complexity DoS
  hardening; libc++ does not randomize unordered_map hashing).
- Added an is_prefix_match guard at upsert_v2_param_route so prefix-
  vs-exact terminus collisions on the same canonical key are detected
  at registration time.

bench_route_lookup verification is formally deferred to TASK-053.

Author: etr

specs/architecture/04-components/route-table.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 **Implementation:** Three structures, queried in order:
 
 1. **Hash map** `std::unordered_map<std::string, route_entry>` for **exact paths**. O(1) amortized lookup.
-2. **Radix tree** for **parameterized paths and prefix matches**. Single tree handles both cases (a prefix entry is a tree node marked as prefix-terminating; a parameterized segment is a wildcard child). O(L) lookup where L is path length.
+2. **Radix tree** for **parameterized paths and prefix matches**. Single tree handles both cases (a prefix entry is a tree node marked as prefix-terminating; a parameterized segment is a wildcard child). O(L) lookup where L is path length. Per-segment children at each radix node are stored in `std::map<std::string, std::unique_ptr<radix_node>, std::less<>>` — see the hash-flooding note below for why `std::map` and not `std::unordered_map`.
 3. **Regex chain** `std::vector<std::pair<std::regex, route_entry>>` for **regex routes**. Linear fallback when neither hash nor radix matches.
 
 A `route_entry` carries:
@@ -19,10 +19,14 @@ A `route_entry` carries:
 
 **Lock order:** `route_table_mutex_` is acquired BEFORE `route_cache_mutex_` whenever both are held. The lookup pipeline never holds both at once: it walks the tier chain under a shared lock on the table, releases that lock, then takes the cache mutex briefly to install/promote the hit. Registration takes the table writer lock, releases it, and only then clears the cache.
 
-**Future evolution:** if the radix tree starts to dominate lookup cost (measured), it can be replaced with a different data structure (compressed trie, perfect hash on a frozen route set) without touching the public API. v2.0 commits only to the *outer shape* (three-tier with cache), not the radix-tree implementation choice.
+**Prefix-vs-exact collision detection:** registering an exact route at a path that already has a prefix terminus (or vice versa) throws `std::invalid_argument` at registration time rather than silently double-registering. The cache key `(method, path)` cannot distinguish the two kinds at lookup time, so the conflict is rejected at the source. The guard probes both storage locations (`exact_routes_` and the radix tree's `exact_terminus_` / `prefix_terminus_`) before any mutation, so the atomicity contract — "a failed registration leaves the table exactly as it was" — still holds.
+
+**Hash-flooding immunity (CWE-407):** the radix tree's per-segment children are kept in `std::map` rather than `std::unordered_map`. URL path segments are attacker-controlled, and neither libc++ nor libstdc++ seed `std::hash<std::string>` by default — a crafted sibling-key corpus can degrade `std::unordered_map::find` from O(1) amortized to O(n) per probe, opening an algorithmic-complexity DoS vector. The `std::map` (red-black tree) gives O(log n) worst case with no hashing in the loop. The transparent comparator `std::less<>` lets the hot-path lookup pass `std::string_view` keys directly without constructing a temporary `std::string` per probe. Typical URL trees branch shallowly (< 10 children per node), so the constant-factor difference from hashing is dominated by the per-segment string compare either way; the cache-miss radix path stays well under the 5 µs ceiling (to be enforced by `test/bench_route_lookup.cpp` once TASK-053 lands and wires `lookup_v2` into dispatch).
+
+**Future evolution:** if `std::map` probe cost dominates measured lookup time at high fanout, switching to an in-tree small-vector flat_map remains an internal-only optimization. v2.0 commits only to the *outer shape* (three-tier with cache), not the per-node container choice.
 
 **Related requirements:** PRD-HDL-REQ-002, PRD-HDL-REQ-004, PRD-HDL-REQ-006.
 
-**Implementation status:** TASK-025 introduced `detail::route_entry` and the `lambda_resource` shim into the existing v1 three-map storage shape. TASK-027 wired `route_entry` into the full 3-tier table described above (hash map for exact paths, radix tree for parameterized/prefix paths, regex chain for regex routes). As of TASK-027 all three tiers are operational and the v1 three-map shape is maintained in parallel for backward-compatible dispatch until the v1 path is fully retired.
+**Implementation status:** TASK-025 introduced `detail::route_entry` and the `lambda_resource` shim into the existing v1 three-map storage shape. TASK-027 wired `route_entry` into the full 3-tier table described above (hash map for exact paths, radix tree for parameterized/prefix paths, regex chain for regex routes). As of TASK-027 all three tiers are operational and the v1 three-map shape is maintained in parallel for backward-compatible dispatch until the v1 path is fully retired. TASK-056 swapped the radix-node child container from `std::unordered_map` to `std::map<…, std::less<>>` for CWE-407 immunity and added registration-time detection of prefix-vs-exact terminus collisions (`reject_terminus_collision`).
 
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specs/tasks/v2-deferred-backlog-plan.md

@@ -66,7 +66,13 @@ LRU cache + radix scan) is not realised end-to-end.
   / `webserver_routes.cpp`.)
 - [ ] Run `test/bench_hook_overhead.cpp` and a new
   `test/bench_route_lookup.cpp` to confirm the cache-hit path is in the
-  expected 100ns ballpark and the radix tier is in the µs range.
+  expected 100ns ballpark and the radix tier is in the µs range. When
+  creating `bench_route_lookup.cpp` also verify the TASK-056 acceptance
+  criterion: the `std::map`-based radix node container introduced by
+  TASK-056 must show no regression worse than 2× on the cache-miss radix
+  path compared to the former `std::unordered_map` baseline (the 2× budget
+  was formally deferred from TASK-056 to this task because `lookup_v2` was
+  not yet wired into dispatch when TASK-056 landed).
 - [ ] Drop the "TODO(Cycle K): rename route_cache_v2 → route_lru_cache"
   comment in `webserver_impl.hpp:202` and do the rename now that v1 is
   gone.
@@ -222,20 +228,20 @@ TASK-027 cleanup:
    collide on the cache key.
 
 **Action Items:**
-- [ ] Replace `std::unordered_map` with `std::map` (or a small
+- [x] Replace `std::unordered_map` with `std::map` (or a small
   flat_map) in the radix node child container. Benchmark the impact:
   acceptable if cache-miss path stays under 5 µs on the worst-case
   realistic tree depth.
-- [ ] Add the `is_prefix_match` guard at the call site of
+- [x] Add the `is_prefix_match` guard at the call site of
   `upsert_v2_param_route` so prefix-vs-exact terminus collisions are
   detected at registration time, not at lookup time.
-- [ ] Add a regression test
+- [x] Add a regression test
   `routing_regression_test.cpp::register_exact_after_prefix_does_not_collide`
   pinning the registration-time error.
-- [ ] Add a stress-test variant in `threadsafety_stress.cpp` that
+- [x] Add a stress-test variant in `threadsafety_stress.cpp` that
   hammers the registration path with adversarial path segments to
   confirm the new container is DoS-resistant.
-- [ ] Update `specs/architecture/04-components/routing.md` with the
+- [x] Update `specs/architecture/04-components/route-table.md` with the
   new container choice and rationale.
 
 **Dependencies:**
@@ -245,14 +251,24 @@ TASK-027 cleanup:
 **Acceptance Criteria:**
 - `bench_route_lookup` shows no regression worse than 2× on the
   cache-miss radix path.
+  **DEFERRED to TASK-053** — `test/bench_route_lookup.cpp` does not
+  exist yet; TASK-053 already owns creating that benchmark as part of
+  wiring `lookup_v2` into the dispatch hot path. The 2× budget
+  established here applies to the `std::map`-based container swap and
+  must be verified by TASK-053's implementer against the TASK-056
+  baseline. Creating the benchmark in TASK-056 would pre-empt TASK-053's
+  scope and would benchmark a lookup path (`lookup_v2`) that is not yet
+  wired into dispatch.
 - New regression test passes.
-- A 60-second adversarial-segment stress run completes without dispatch
-  latency spikes > 10× baseline.
+- A 60-second adversarial-segment stress run completes without
+  registration latency spikes > 10× baseline.
 - Routing architecture doc reflects the new container.
 
 **Related Findings:** task-027 #14, task-027 #18
 **Related Decisions:** §4.5 routing
 
+**Status:** Done
+
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 ## TASK-057 — Redact credentials in `http_request::operator<<`