fix(core): extract tar archives whose paths exceed the 100-byte header field - #3
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Installing zig failed with `archive extraction: unsupported tar entry type 'L': @LongLink`. GNU tar stores a path that does not fit the 100-byte header name field in a preceding pseudo-entry with typeflag 'L' whose payload is the real name. The tar reader knew only '0', '5' and the link types, so the first such header aborted the entire extraction. This is not an edge case in zig's artifact: zig-x86_64-linux-0.15.2.tar.xz carries 51 of them, for paths 102-113 characters long such as lib/libc/include/generic-freebsd/netgraph/bluetooth/include/ng_btsocket_hci_raw.h. Every one of those would have fit the ustar name/prefix split the reader already handles, but GNU tar does not use that split by default, so the existing prefix support never applied. No archive packaged by GNU tar with a deep path could install. readTarEntries now inspects the typeflag before treating a block as a member. 'L' stashes its payload and applies it to the next member header in place of name/prefix; 'K' (a long link *target*) has its payload consumed and dropped so the link entry that follows is still rejected as a link rather than parsed from stray bytes. Everything else flows through the previous path unchanged. Two bounds come with it. The long-name payload is read whole, ahead of any byte budget, so it carries its own 8 KiB cap. And beginEntry() moves out of the member handler into the header loop: metadata headers never reach a member, so an archive of nothing but 'L' blocks would previously have spun forever without charging the entry count or the time budget. The new fixtures write the real header name truncated to 100 bytes exactly as GNU tar does, so a reader that ignored the pseudo-entry would see the wrong member and fail rather than pass by accident. Validation: formatting, compilation with warnings as errors, and the full test suite pass. The real zig-x86_64-linux-0.15.2.tar.xz extracts in 4.3s (359 MB, 19363 entries) with the 172 MB zig binary and its long-named members present. Fixes #2 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SCWFLvECupBztauVkYpM3s
GNU tar is not the only packager that puts a long path somewhere other than the member header. bsdtar and Go's archive/tar write a PAX extended header instead (typeflag 'x', or 'g' for one describing the whole archive), carrying the path as a "path" attribute. Having just taught the reader the GNU 'L' form, it would still have rejected the PAX form with the same "unsupported tar entry type" message the moment a tool packaged that way appeared in a manifest. 'x' records are parsed and its "path" applied to the member that follows, the same slot the GNU long name fills. Its "size" is applied too: a member too large for the 12-byte octal size field understates itself in the header and declares its real length in PAX, so ignoring that attribute would not merely lose a size, it would resume reading the next header from the middle of the payload. The declared size goes through the same inflated-byte ceiling as an octal one. 'g' is consumed and dropped. A global header describes the archive rather than the member after it -- git archive writes one holding only a commit comment -- and honouring its records for the following member is not what it means. Records are walked as bytes rather than over a decoded string: a record's length prefix counts bytes and includes its own digits, so measuring characters would mismeasure every record holding a non-ASCII path. A length that does not agree with the bytes it claims is refused rather than salvaged, since a parser that guesses at a record boundary is a parser reading attacker-chosen offsets. The metadata cap and the header-counting from the GNU fix cover both forms. Validation: formatting, compilation with warnings as errors, and the full suite pass. Archives generated by python tarfile in both PAX_FORMAT and GNU_FORMAT with a 121-character member path extract to the right target. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SCWFLvECupBztauVkYpM3s
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This repository does not receive automatic reviews because it has fewer than 10 stars. ⚙️ Run configurationConfiguration used: defaults Review profile: CHILL Plan: Team Run ID: 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTar extraction now processes GNU long-name and long-link headers, PAX per-member and global headers, and overridden sizes. Metadata payloads have an 8192-byte cap. Tests cover extraction, malformed metadata, unsafe links, entry budgets, and compressed archives. ChangesTar metadata extraction
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streamTarEntries->>readTarEntries: pass beginEntry callback
readTarEntries->>readMetadata: read metadata payload
readMetadata-->>readTarEntries: return validated metadata
readTarEntries->>tarEntry: pass declared size and optional long name
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Apply supported PAX global attributes.
Line 294 discards every g record. PAX global attributes apply to subsequent members. A global path therefore uses the truncated header name, and a global size can make the reader consume the next header from member payload bytes.
Retain supported global path and size values. Merge them with per-member x values, with x taking precedence. Add coverage for global path and size headers.
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In `@core/src/binstaller/core/ArchiveExtractor.scala` at line 294, Update the
ArchiveExtractor metadata flow around readMetadata so supported global path and
size attributes are retained and applied to subsequent members instead of
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PR #3's quality gate fails on one condition: 26.2% duplication on new code against a 3% limit. All 119 duplicated lines are in ArchiveExtractionTest, in the nine tests this branch adds. Three helpers in CoreTestSupport absorb the repetition: installArchive the DirectBinaryInstaller/FakeBinaryDownloadClient/ archiveTool construction, as one call assertArchiveExtractionFailed the four-line `result.left.exists` block, which previously failed with a bare `false` and no diagnostic; it now names the expected fragment and the actual error gzippedTar the ByteArrayOutputStream/GZIPOutputStream/zero-block prologue gzippedTar takes an OutputStream writer rather than returning a buffer. maxEntries is 65536, so the entry-budget fixture pushes ~67 MB through it; staging that uncompressed in a forked test JVM with no -Xmx is not free. What deliberately did not change: - The pre-existing tests. Those lines are unchanged by this branch and so contribute nothing to the duplication numerator; rewriting them would move 44+ currently-free duplicated lines into it. - The malformed stimuli. The lying PAX record length, the 1 GiB metadata declaration with no payload, and the hand-mutated base-256 header stay written by hand. Routing them through a well-formed builder would make those tests pass vacuously. - FakeArchiveCommandExecutor stays in the tar.xz test bodies, so `assert(commandExecutor.commands.isEmpty)` remains visible at the call site. Verified by mutation: with ArchiveExtractor reverted to main, all nine long-name and PAX tests go red. None survives the extractor being removed, so no helper has swallowed an assertion. scalafmt, compile under -Werror, and the full suite pass: 514 tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AaPvsFt1xYoXErXaZ4Kk8A
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Fixes #2.
The bug
Installing zig failed outright:
A tar header has 100 bytes for a name. When a path does not fit, no packager puts it there — each one stores it in a preceding header instead, and the reader in
ArchiveExtractorknew only'0','5'and the link types, so the first such header aborted the whole extraction.This is not an edge case in zig's artifact.
zig-x86_64-linux-0.15.2.tar.xzcarries 51 GNU@LongLinkheaders, for paths 102–113 characters long such as:Every one of those would have fit the ustar
name/prefixsplit the reader already handles — GNU tar just doesn't use that split by default, so the existing prefix support never applied.The fix
readTarEntriesnow inspects the typeflag before treating a block as a member, and handles both conventions for carrying a long path:'L''K''x'archive/tarpathbecomes the next member's name,sizeoverrides the header's'g'Everything else flows through the previous path unchanged.
PAX
sizeis honoured rather than ignored because a member too large for the 12-byte octal size field understates itself in the header. Dropping the attribute would not merely lose a size — it would resume reading the next header from the middle of the payload. It goes through the same inflated-byte ceiling as an octal size.PAX records are walked as bytes, not over a decoded string: a record's length prefix counts bytes and includes its own digits, so measuring characters would mismeasure every record holding a non-ASCII path. A length that disagrees with the bytes it claims is refused rather than salvaged.
Two bounds that come with it
PATH_MAXis 4096, so the cap is far above anything real.beginEntry()moved out of the member handler into the header loop. Metadata headers never reach a member, so an archive of nothing but'L'blocks would previously have spun forever without ever charging the entry count or the time budget.Tests
Nine new cases in
ArchiveExtractionTest(25 in the suite, was 16): GNU long name via file mapping and via atar.xzdirectory mapping (the zig shape), PAXpath, PAX global header, PAXsizeoverride, an oversized metadata payload, a lying PAX record length, a long-name-only stream against the entry budget, and'K'still reporting the link it names.The fixtures write the real header name truncated to 100 bytes exactly as GNU tar and bsdtar do, so a reader that ignored the pseudo-entry would see the wrong member and fail rather than pass by accident.
Validation
Formatting, compilation with warnings as errors, and the full suite pass — 228 tests, zero failures.
Beyond the unit tests, checked against real artifacts:
zig-x86_64-linux-0.15.2.tar.xzfrom the issue extracts in 4.3s — 359 MB, 19,363 entries — with the 172 MBzigbinary and its long-named members all present.python tarfilein bothPAX_FORMATandGNU_FORMAT, with a 121-character member path, extract to the right target.Both checks ran through throwaway tests that are not part of this diff; only fixture-built archives are committed.
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Typeflags
'3','4','6'and'7'(devices, FIFOs, contiguous files) still reject. No release artifact inconfig.example.yamlcontains them, and devices and FIFOs should not be written into an install tree anyway.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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