Fail closed on corrupt peer records before content authentication

2026-10-06 06:40:59 -04:00
parent b8e512fed6
commit 1971aeb3e3
2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ async fn load_nodes_inner(data_dir: &Path) -> Result<Vec<FederatedNode>> {
    let content = fs::read_to_string(&path)
        .await
        .context("Failed to read federation nodes")?;
-    let file: NodesFile = serde_json::from_str(&content).unwrap_or_default();
+    let file: NodesFile = serde_json::from_str(&content)
+        .context("Invalid federation nodes; existing peer records were preserved")?;
    Ok(dedup_nodes_by_onion(file.nodes))
 }