panics in timeout middleware are not recovered and cause application to crash

middleware/timeout.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package middleware
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -62,6 +63,17 @@ func TimeoutWithConfig(config TimeoutConfig) echo.MiddlewareFunc {
 
 			done := make(chan error, 1)
 			go func() {
+				defer func() {
+					if r := recover(); r != nil {
+						err, ok := r.(error)
+						if !ok {
+							err = fmt.Errorf("panic recovered in timeout middleware: %v", r)
+						}
+						c.Logger().Error(err)
+						done <- err
+					}
+				}()
+
 				// This goroutine will keep running even if this middleware times out and
 				// will be stopped when ctx.Done() is called down the next(c) call chain
 				done <- next(c)

middleware/timeout_test.go

@@ -175,3 +175,22 @@ func TestTimeoutTestRequestClone(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 
 }
+
+func TestTimeoutRecoversPanic(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	m := TimeoutWithConfig(TimeoutConfig{
+		Timeout: 25 * time.Millisecond,
+	})
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	e := echo.New()
+	c := e.NewContext(req, rec)
+
+	err := m(func(c echo.Context) error {
+		panic("panic in handler")
+	})(c)
+
+	assert.Error(t, err, "panic recovered in timeout middleware: panic in handler")
+}