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Answer refused requests and rate-limited phone sends with a NAK - #12225
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A remote admin write asks for an ACK but no response. When AdminModule refuses it (ADMIN_PUBLIC_KEY_UNAUTHORIZED, NOT_AUTHORIZED, ADMIN_BAD_SESSION_KEY), callModules discarded the error reply and ReliableRouter sent a plain ACK, so clients reported the write as applied. A routing reply a module leaves for a unicast want_ack request now goes out in place of that ACK. Position, telemetry and traceroute requests the phone sends inside the rate limit were dropped with only a QueueStatus. They now get the same RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED NAK as text, addressed with getFrom so a client that leaves from at 0 is answered locally.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title states the main change: refused requests and rate-limited phone sends now get a NAK instead of silence or an ACK. It matches the changeset in MeshModule.cpp, PhoneAPI.cpp, and MeshService.cp… Description check The description follows the template sections. It has the Attestations section with the device checklist. It explains the changes, the reasoning, the Android impact, and the test results. The author c… Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Full details: Title check
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The title states the main change: refused requests and rate-limited phone sends now get a NAK instead of silence or an ACK. It matches the changeset in MeshModule.cpp, PhoneAPI.cpp, and MeshService.cpp. It is specific and under 70 characters.
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- Line 1878: Normalize p.from to zero before the rate-limit checks in the phone
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PhoneAPI rate-limits a phone packet before MeshService clears the from the client supplied, so a forged from sent the RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED NAK over the air to that node. sendRoutingErrorResponse only answers phone packets, so it now addresses our own node.
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🟡 Minor · Normalize zero request IDs before rate-limit rejection. · PhoneAPI.cpp:1872-1904
src/mesh/PhoneAPI.cpp:1872-1904
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winNormalize zero request IDs before rate-limit rejection.
id == 0is valid phone input. The normal path replaces it withgeneratePacketId(). The rate-limit branches return first, so their NAK carriesrequest_id == 0. Repository consumers treat zero as no correlation token. The phone cannot reliably match theRATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDNAK to the rejected request.Suggested fix
+ if (p.id == 0) + p.id = generatePacketId(); + if (p.decoded.portnum == meshtastic_PortNum_TRACEROUTE_APP && lastPortNumToRadio[p.decoded.portnum] &&🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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A remote admin write asks for an ACK but no response. When
AdminModulerefuses it (ADMIN_PUBLIC_KEY_UNAUTHORIZED,NOT_AUTHORIZED,ADMIN_BAD_SESSION_KEY),callModulesdiscards the error reply andReliableRoutersends a plain ACK, so clients report the write as applied. Phone requests caught by the position, telemetry and traceroute rate limits are dropped with only a QueueStatus, so clients wait for an answer that never comes.MeshModule::callModules: a routing reply a module leaves for a unicastwant_ackrequest that did not ask for a response is sent in place of the ACK.RoutingModuleruns last, soReliableRoutersees the reply and skips its ACK; the sender gets one answer. Withoutwant_ackthe reply is still discarded.PhoneAPI: rate-limited position, telemetry and traceroute sends get theRATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDNAK text already gets.MeshService::sendRoutingErrorResponseaddresses the NAK to our own node. It runs beforefromis cleared, so addressing the client-suppliedfromlet a forged value send the NAK over the air.Clients that saw an ACK for a refused write now see a NAK. Android treats that as failure (meshtastic/Meshtastic-Android#7749); Apple, Python and web behavior on the NAK is not checked.
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test_mesh_moduleadds three cases; 257 of 257 pass across the mesh module, ACK matrix, admin, PKI admin, phone API, routing and phone queue suites.Bench, Heltec V3 sending to a RAK4631 over LoRa, PKI admin
set_ownerwithwant_ackand nowant_response:2.8.2.d2cc7f0(before)2.8.2.8deb0ce(this PR)admin_keyNONEACK from the target, owner unchangedADMIN_PUBLIC_KEY_UNAUTHORIZEDfrom the target, no ACK, owner unchangedRATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDfrom the local nodeADMIN_BAD_SESSION_KEYNONEACK, owner appliedRegression coverage on hardware is limited to the admin and rate-limit paths above.
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