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Summary

  • price _write and _forward_output at 25 gas per 32-byte output word through the existing rWasm compiler fuel policy
  • leave the runtime syscall handlers unchanged, so existing compiled rWasm, historical execution, and zkVM host semantics are not retroactively repriced
  • add engine and Wasmtime regressions proving repeated output growth exhausts fuel, while legacy direct rWasm keeps its previous gas result

Rationale

The aggregate output buffer is the transaction return data, but its final size is not known before execution. The reliable quantity is the length passed to every _write or _forward_output call. Charging each append makes the total charge linear in aggregate output size even when a contract repeatedly reuses the same guest-memory range.

This change is implemented only in calculate_syscall_fuel, which the compiler uses to inject ordinary fuel instructions around imported calls. It does not add charging to the host syscall handlers and does not add a hard byte cap.

The output word price is 25 gas (500 fuel) per 32 bytes. This is the highest whole-gas value that remains within the existing signed 32-bit linear-fuel calculation for the supported 128 MiB argument limit:

400 base fuel + ceil(128 MiB / 32) * 500 fuel = 2,097,152,400 fuel

That is below i32::MAX. A 26-gas word price would overflow the current compiler formula at the same input limit. With the current 100M block gas budget, the per-word charge alone permits at most 128,000,000 output bytes (about 122 MiB); fixed costs and all other execution reduce the effective maximum.

Activation and compatibility

  • newly compiled deployments receive the new output price
  • already deployed targets can be activated through the runtime-upgrade contract's recompile(address) path, which recompiles the stored Wasm and installs the resulting rWasm
  • historical blocks retain the rWasm stored in their historical state, so replay does not acquire a new host-side charge
  • direct/precompiled legacy rWasm is not dynamically repriced; the compatibility regression retains the existing 26,213 gas result

This makes activation an explicit runtime-upgrade/recompilation decision instead of an unconditional host/STF behavior change.

Testing

  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test -p fluentbase-types block_fuel --lib
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo test -p fluentbase-e2e --no-default-features --features std ddos_recompiled_write_exhausts_fuel_before_aggregate_output_growth -- --nocapture
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo test -p fluentbase-e2e --no-default-features --features std,wasmtime ddos_recompiled_write_exhausts_fuel_before_aggregate_output_growth -- --nocapture
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo test -p fluentbase-e2e --no-default-features --features std test_write_builtin -- --nocapture
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo test -p fluentbase-e2e --no-default-features --features std,wasmtime test_write_builtin -- --nocapture
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo test -p fluentbase-e2e --no-default-features --features std test_simple_nested_call -- --nocapture
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo test -p fluentbase-e2e --no-default-features --features std,wasmtime test_simple_nested_call -- --nocapture
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= FLUENTBASE_CONTRACTS_DOCKER=false FLUENTBASE_SKIP_PERMISSIVE_EVM_ARTIFACT=true cargo clippy -p fluentbase-types -p fluentbase-runtime -p fluentbase-e2e --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo fmt --check --package fluentbase-types --package fluentbase-runtime --package fluentbase-e2e
  • git diff --check origin/devel...HEAD

Linear: https://linear.app/fluentlabs-xyz/issue/FLU-1301/high-unbounded-aggregate-rwasm-output-flu-1046-fixed-but-no-cap-exists

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  • Updates

    • Output-writing and forwarding operations now use dedicated fuel accounting based on output size.
    • Fuel usage remains within defined safety bounds, improving consistency for large outputs.
    • Oversized output requests now exhaust available fuel before memory allocation, helping prevent excessive resource usage.
    • Calls that exceed the available fuel halt cleanly rather than continuing beyond the block limit.
  • Documentation

    • Updated fuel-limit documentation to reflect the resource requirements and theoretical limits of output operations.

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The change adds a dedicated fuel cost for output words. WRITE_OUTPUT and FORWARD_OUTPUT use this cost. Unit and end-to-end tests verify output limits, exact calldata accounting, and out-of-fuel behavior.

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Output fuel accounting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fuel pricing contract and syscall accounting
crates/types/src/block_fuel.rs, crates/types/src/lib.rs
Adds OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST at 25 fuel units per 32-byte word. Updates both output syscalls, the FUEL_MAX_LINEAR_X documentation, and unit tests for pricing bounds and syscall mappings.
End-to-end output fuel validation
e2e/src/builtins.rs, e2e/src/ddos.rs, e2e/src/oom.rs
Updates expected write costs. The repeated-write test validates 12 affordable writes and 13 writes that halt with RwasmHaltReason::OutOfFuel. The large-output test expects fuel exhaustion before allocation.
Calldata cost validation
e2e/src/exec_input.rs
Checks the exact gas increment for additional calldata with TOTAL_COST_FLOOR_PER_TOKEN.

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Newly compiled contracts would charge 25 gas per output word, but the outstanding pricing concern indicates this may permit four times the intended aggregate output volume. Resolve or explicitly accept the schedule mismatch before merge.

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@dmitry123 dmitry123 changed the title fix(runtime): meter aggregate output fix(runtime): meter output during compilation Sep 3, 2026

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- Line 53: Update OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST to use the intended 100-gas-per-word
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/// 100M block gas limit, without introducing a byte cap or changing runtime syscall semantics.
/// This is also the highest whole-gas price that keeps the injected linear-fuel calculation within
/// `i32::MAX` for [`crate::FUEL_MAX_LINEAR_X`].
pub const OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST: u32 = 25 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE as u32;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Set the intended 100-gas output price.

25 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE is 500 fuel, which is 25 gas per word. This permits 128,000,000 bytes at a 100M gas budget. The PR objective requires 100 gas per word and a 32,000,000-byte bound. It also requires the 29 MiB/30 MiB regression boundary.

Update this constant to 100 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE as u32, then update the derived documentation and tests.

Proposed fix
-pub const OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST: u32 = 25 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE as u32;
+pub const OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST: u32 = 100 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE as u32;
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pub const OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST: u32 = 25 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE as u32;
pub const OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST: u32 = 100 * FUEL_DENOM_RATE as u32;
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In `@crates/types/src/block_fuel.rs` at line 53, Update OUTPUT_WORD_FUEL_COST to
use the intended 100-gas-per-word rate, then revise the associated derived
documentation and tests to reflect the 32,000,000-byte bound, including
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