[robobun]

Problem

• On Linux, bun install and Bun.Archive.extract() pass a tar header's size to fallocate. A 159-byte tarball allocates 8 GiB before error: Fail extracting tarball.
• A sparse entry that ends in a hole loses its tail: the loops drop the length libarchive returns with ARCHIVE_EOF (src/libarchive/lib.rs:261).
• A write the file system refuses (full disk, size limit) puts a file's end over its start, and extract() resolves.

Fix

• lib::EntryWriter writes every entry: each block with pwrite or a seek, the length from the ARCHIVE_EOF offset. On Windows it marks the file sparse first (FSCTL_SET_SPARSE).
• A block it cannot place or write fails the entry.
• No disk write or allocation is sized from the header. Verified: 12 tests, red on main (one only on ext4), in bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts, archive.test.ts, bun-create.test.ts.
• Self-reviewed: 4 concerns raised, 3 addressed. Kept TempExtractionDir, which install: don't leak package extraction temp directories into $TMPDIR #33979 has as a closure.

Background

• A sparse tar member stores data chunks and a map of offsets. Its size counts the holes.
• TempExtractionDir deletes the temporary directory of a failed buffered extraction.
• Considered capping the preallocation: it truncated sparse members. Tighten ffi pointer bounds, sparse archive extraction, and the Windows default trust store #31581 still preallocates a false dense size.

Downsides

• Entries over 1 MB lose the fallocate that 990f53f tuned. Measured: no gain (65 MB file: 60.8 ms without, 69.1 ms with).
• A hole still becomes real bytes in memory (Bun.Archive.files(), bun create) and on disk (--backend=copyfile, no sparse files).
• An entry that cannot be placed or sized now fails (before: a short file, exit 0). With a glob, an archive cut in a member's padding loses it.

Notes

Reproduce (Linux, GNU tar)

# 1. A header that declares more than the archive holds.
bun -e '
const { gzipSync } = require("zlib");
const oct = (n, w) => n.toString(8).padStart(w - 1, "0") + "\0";
function header(name, size) {
  const b = Buffer.alloc(512, 0);
  b.write(name, 0, 100); b.write(oct(0o644, 8), 100); b.write(oct(0, 8), 108); b.write(oct(0, 8), 116);
  b.write(oct(size, 12), 124); b.write(oct(0, 12), 136); b.fill(" ", 148, 156); b.write("0", 156);
  b.write("ustar\0", 257); b.write("00", 263);
  let s = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 512; i++) s += b[i]; b.write(oct(s, 8), 148);
  return b;
}
const pj = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ name: "pkg", version: "1.0.0" }));
require("fs").writeFileSync("pkg.tgz", gzipSync(Buffer.concat([
  header("package/package.json", pj.length), pj, Buffer.alloc(512 - pj.length),
  header("package/big.bin", 8 * 1024 ** 3 - 1), Buffer.alloc(100, 120), Buffer.alloc(412), Buffer.alloc(1024),
])));'
printf '{"name":"root","dependencies":{"pkg":"file:./pkg.tgz"}}' > package.json
mkdir -p tmp && TMPDIR=$PWD/tmp bun install; du -sh tmp   # main: 8.1G

# 2. Sparse members.
mkdir -p src/package && cd src
printf '{"name":"pkg","version":"1.0.0"}' > package/package.json
printf hello > package/small-tail.bin && truncate -s 512K package/small-tail.bin
printf hello > package/big-tail.bin && truncate -s 64M package/big-tail.bin
tar --sparse -czf ../pkg.tgz package && cd ..
bun install && stat -c '%n %s bytes %b blocks' node_modules/pkg/*.bin

Do not run a build without this change on a sparse member with a large size or offset unless a file size limit is set (ulimit -f). The fallocate call does not stop for a signal. The test for the 17 TiB offset sets such a limit.

Measurements

One archive of 20 sparse members: the old GNU format and PAX 1.0, five layouts (data then hole, hole then data, data-hole-data-hole, data-hole-data, hole only), 300000 and 3000000 bytes. The .tgz is 1086 bytes, the members are 33,000,000 bytes long, and they hold about 100 KB of data. Each cell is wrong members / allocated bytes. The last commit does not change these paths.

path	main (367d939)	first revision (6008648)	this PR	GNU tar 1.35
bun install, file: (buffered)	6 / 30,085,120	12 / 106,496	0 / 106,496	0 / 106,496
bun install, registry (streaming)	6 / 30,076,928	6 / 30,072,832	0 / 98,304
Bun.Archive.extract()	6 / 30,081,024	12 / 106,496	0 / 106,496
Bun.Archive.extract() with a glob	0 / 33,062,912	0 / 33,062,912	0 / 106,496

• Two 70 MiB sparse members in a 338-byte .tgz, streaming extractor: main 0 wrong and 146,808,832 bytes allocated. The first revision 2 wrong, each 67,108,864 bytes long. This PR 0 wrong and 8,192 bytes allocated.
• The header that declares 8 GiB - 1 for a 100-byte body: bun install exits 1 and the temporary directory is empty. Bun.Archive.extract() rejects and leaves a 1536-byte file, the bytes that the archive holds after the header.
• The wrong members on main are the three layouts that end in a hole, at the size below 1 MB. The fallocate for an entry over 1 MB also set the file length, and that hid the bug on Linux. By a read of the code, main loses the tail at every size on macOS and Windows, where nothing preallocates.
• One PAX 1.0 sparse member with a 512-byte chunk at offset 4 GiB (a 3,584-byte tar), Bun.Archive.extract(): the merge base allocates 4,295,036,928 bytes in 594 ms, and 4,294,975,488 bytes in 2363 ms with a glob (it writes the zeros). This PR allocates 4,096 bytes in 2 ms on both paths.
• The same member at offset 1 TiB on the merge base: fallocate ran for 19 minutes, took all 273 GiB that were free, did not stop for SIGKILL, and blocked rm of the file until the disk was full.
• The same member at offset 17 TiB, above the ext4 file size limit, under ulimit -f: main and the earlier head of this PR wrote zeros up to the limit (33,554,432 bytes at a 32 MiB limit). This PR rejects in 5 ms and writes nothing.
• A healthy 6,000,000-byte member in a gzip archive, where no file can grow past 4 MiB (ulimit -f). main: extract() resolves, the file has 4,194,304 bytes, and the bytes at offset 0 are those of offset 4,193,792. A streamed registry install prints Resolved, downloaded and extracted [3] and exits 0. This PR: extract() rejects with ReadError, and the 4,194,304 bytes that stay are the start of the member. The install exits 1 with EFBIG extracting tarball for "pk", and the next install from the same cache gives the whole file.
• A map with chunks out of order, overlapping, or past the real size (old GNU and PAX 1.0, 300000 bytes): both extract() paths now give the same file, each block at its offset. On main the glob path writes an out-of-order map in stored order (wrong content) and drops a member whose map overlaps.

The preallocation, end to end

Two release builds of this branch. B adds back if size > 1_000_000 { fallocate(fd, 0, 0, size) } in the buffered extractor. A2 is the same binary as A, to show the noise. Runs alternate A, A2, B. Medians. The machine has ext4 under overlayfs, 93% full, under load.

workload	measure	A (this PR)	A2 (same binary)	B (with fallocate)
Bun.Archive.extract(), one 65 MB member, 31 runs	extract ms	60.8	61.5	69.1
	extract and fsync ms	115.1	120.4	116.3
	CPU ms	124.5	119.2	127.9
	extents in the file	74	71	107
Bun.Archive.extract(), ten 6.5 MB members, 31 runs	extract ms	59.0	59.9	65.9
	extract and fsync ms	217.3	204.3	205.2
	extents for each file	2.0	2.0	3.7
bun install of a file: tarball, one 65 MB member, 21 runs	wall ms	341.0	328.2	345.5
	system CPU ms	84.6	83.2	92.2
	extents in the file	48	43	109
bun install of a file: tarball, ten 6.5 MB members, 21 runs	wall ms	364.9	332.6	339.4
	extents for each file	7.0	7.3	6.5

• With fallocate the extract call is 7 to 8 ms slower, and bun install of the 65 MB member uses about 8 ms more system CPU. The difference between A and A2 there is about 1 ms.
• The wall time of bun install and the times with fsync differ by less than A and A2 do.
• The file does not get fewer extents with fallocate on this disk.
• 990f53f raised the threshold from 4096 bytes to 1 MB. The benchmark linked beside preallocate_file writes one buffer with one call, on ext4 on NVMe. Extraction writes blocks of up to 64 KB. I have no such machine. A maintainer decides if the call comes back, and EntryWriter is the one place for it.

Cause in detail

• libarchive's tar reader returns ARCHIVE_EOF from archive_read_data_block with the offset set to the logical size of the entry (archive_read_support_format_tar.c:734). For every tar variant this equals archive_entry_size(). Every reader in bun enables only tar and gzip.
• libarchive's archive_read_data_into_fd calls pad_to with that offset. On a file that is only an lseek. Its disk writer sets the length: _archive_write_disk_finish_entry calls ftruncate(a->fd, a->filesize) and has no fallocate. Its Windows disk writer sends FSCTL_SET_SPARSE when the map has a hole of 4096 bytes or more (archive_write_disk_windows.c:1015).
• fallocate(fd, 0, 0, size) allocates blocks and sets the length. ftruncate sets only the length, and the range reads as zeros.
• The port tracked final_offset as the end of the last block that was yielded. On the pwrite path the tail ftruncate could not run, because the two offsets it compared were the same value.
• fallocate(fd, 0, 0, size) entered in 8fca3f2 (2022). Its result was discarded, so it never reported a full disk.
• The loops kept one value for two things: the end of the last pwrite, and the file position. After a failed pwrite the fallback compared the offset of the block with that value, found them equal, and called write() with no seek. The file position was still 0. So the rest of the member went over its start. EntryWriter keeps end and cursor apart, seeks, and the refused write fails the entry. docs/runtime/archive.mdx says that extract() throws when the disk is full.
• The zero fill came with the port of archive_read_data_into_fd, which also writes to pipes. bun opens each output file itself. A seek on such a file fails only for an offset that the file system cannot hold.

What this change adds for a caller that never hits the bug

• For each dense entry: the same pwrite calls, one fallocate fewer when the entry is over 1 MB, and no ftruncate (the ARCHIVE_EOF offset equals the last byte written). No allocation is added. EntryWriter is three words on the stack or in TarballStream, and one more byte on Windows.
• Windows: a dense entry sends no FSCTL_SET_SPARSE. The call is made once for a file, before its first hole.
• Bun.Archive.extract() with a glob now writes each block straight from libarchive's buffer. Before, it copied through a 64 KB stack buffer.
• bun create: package.json is read into the buffer that Plucker already has. A file up to 64 KB takes one archive_read_data call, as before.
• Five real packages (typescript@5.6.3, @esbuild/linux-x64@0.24.0, @swc/core-linux-x64-gnu@1.7.40, lodash@4.17.21, react@18.3.1) with release builds of the merge base and of this branch before the last commit: 1214 files, and each has the same path and sha256 in both. Three of the tarballs take the streaming extractor.
• Peak memory of bun install for one 256 MiB dense member, 8 interleaved runs for each binary: 246 to 248 MiB with this change, 244 to 250 MiB without.
• Binary size on Linux x64, release, size: text 80,675,787 bytes with this branch and 80,676,555 bytes with the merge base (bf42a52), 768 bytes less. data 110,424 and bss 1,822,992 in both.
• Binary size on Windows: one more import (DeviceIoControl) and one small function. Not measured, because I cannot build for Windows here.
• Not available in this environment: strace, perf, valgrind, bloaty, hyperfine. The syscall counts above come from the code.

Tests

• test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts: buffered extract: failed extraction (2 tests, the temporary directory) and sparse tar members (buffered, streaming up to 3 MB, streaming 65 MiB), and one test for a refused write: a streamed registry install under a 4 MiB file size limit must exit 1, and the next install from the same cache must give the whole file. The streaming tests send the body in two pieces and assert Streamed in the output. The first piece ends inside the data of package.json. The gzip stream starts with a stored block for that, so the place does not depend on the compressor.
• test/js/bun/archive.test.ts: sparse members (without a glob, with a glob, a header that declares 16 MiB for 100 bytes, and a chunk at 17 TiB). The last test runs the child with a 32 MiB file size limit, so a build that writes zeros stops there. It is skipped on Windows. One more test extracts a gzip archive with a 6,000,000-byte member under a 4 MiB limit: extract() must reject, and what stays of the file must be its start.
• test/cli/install/bun-create.test.ts: a template whose package.json header declares 2 GiB. The test compares the peak memory of bun create with that of a child that does nothing.
• The tests build the sparse members by hand, so they need no tar binary. GNU tar lists and extracts the same bytes correctly.
• They compare the content of each file with its map on every platform. They compare allocated blocks on Linux and on Windows. The limit is 64 KiB for each chunk and 1 MiB more, because NTFS rounds a chunk up to 64 KiB. Both checks pass on Windows x64 and Windows aarch64. The three test files pass on Linux (glibc, musl, ASAN) and macOS too.
• On main all 12 fail on Linux on ext4. The 17 TiB test needs a file system that cannot seek to that offset: on tmpfs main passes it. The tests with a file size limit are skipped on Windows.
• The six fixtures in test/js/bun/fixtures/sparse-tars/ are not sparse members. Each is typeflag 0 with the whole file stored. That is why the tail bug was not seen. The comment there now says so.

Self-review

The review ran on the head before the last commit. It said to keep the writer and raised four points.

• Windows: finish() extended a file that nothing marked sparse, so NTFS would allocate the declared size. Tighten ffi pointer bounds, sparse archive extraction, and the Windows default trust store #31581 compiled that call out on Windows and named the mark as a follow-up. Done here: FSCTL_SET_SPARSE before the first hole. I cannot run Windows here. The allocation check in the tests now runs there, and it passes on Windows x64 and Windows aarch64.
• The removal of the preallocation had no timing of bun itself. Done: the table above. It still needs a maintainer's yes.
• The body said that nothing is sized from the header. That was wrong for memory and for a copy. Done: see Downsides and the next section.
• TempExtractionDir repeats a guard that install: don't leak package extraction temp directories into $TMPDIR #33979 has as a closure, together with the leak on the success path. Not done: the type stays here. Whichever PR merges second drops its copy.

I found the zero fill after that review. The last source commit has no review of that kind. CI checks it on every platform, and I checked the malformed maps above by hand on a debug build with ASAN. The commit after it changes tests only.

What a program can see besides the fixes

• An entry that cannot be placed, written or sized fails the extraction. main gave a short file and exit 0.
• extract() with a glob, for an archive that is cut inside the zero padding after the data of a member: main keeps that member, because its loop stops after the declared bytes. This PR drops it and resolves with one less, because the shared writer reads the entry to its end. Without a glob both reject.
• A sparse map without the closing entry that GNU tar writes: the file gets the real size that the header declares. On main it ended at its last data block.

Not in this PR

• Memory. archive_read_data returns a hole as zeros, so a reader that holds a member in memory holds its holes. Bun.Archive.files() on a 1,536-byte tar with a 256 MiB hole: 540 MiB peak memory, 548 MiB on main. bun create reads a template's package.json with the same call. bun install reads the extracted package.json of a tarball dependency whole: a 512 MiB hole gives 1,545 MiB peak memory. At 32 MiB the merge base and this PR both peak at about 105 MiB.
• A copy. A 172-byte tarball with an 8 MiB hole, bun install: with the default hardlink the file in node_modules takes 0 blocks (16,384 on main). With --backend=copyfile it takes 16,384 blocks, because the copy writes the zeros. The copy in the cache takes 0.
• A file system without sparse files (FAT, exFAT, HFS+): ftruncate and a write past the end allocate there. Not measured, no such file system here.
• The streaming extractor fails the install when a piece of the body ends inside a sparse map. The libarchive patch that lets a read resume does not cover the map reads. main does the same. The tests send the sparse members in one piece.
• A plain member whose pax header gives a real size below the stored bytes: the streaming extractor keeps the stored bytes, and the buffered one writes nothing when the real size is 0. main does the same.
• Bun.Archive.extract() with a glob deletes a file whose write failed and resolves with a smaller count. Without a glob it rejects. main does the same. Bun.Archive: reject when a header read fails, with one in-memory tar reader and a named policy #43242 is the open PR for the error policy of that path.
• A successful install can leave a directory in the temporary directory when the cache entry already exists and the rename uses RENAME_EXCHANGE. install: don't leak package extraction temp directories into $TMPDIR #33979 covers that.
• The streaming extractor still removes its temporary directory by hand in TarballStream::finish. TempExtractionDir ignores a delete_tree error, as that code does.

Found on the way

buffered extract does not hold the decompressed local tarball in memory (from #36541) can fail for a reason outside the code under test. On Linux the peak memory that is reported for a child is never below the peak of the process that spawned it. /bin/true reports 27 MiB from a small parent and 727 MiB after the parent allocated 700 MiB. The test failed once in 17 runs of the file here, and it passed in the 16 others and alone.

The first revision of this PR

The first revision capped the preallocation at the input length in the buffered extractor and at 64 MiB in the streaming extractor. That removed the only thing that set the length of a large entry that ends in a hole, so such an entry lost its tail at every size. Its two tests observed only the temporary directory.

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Changes

Archive extraction now uses a shared writer for offset-based writes and sparse files. Archive reads into vectors use bounded incremental reservations. Temporary extraction directories are removed when extraction or cache migration fails. Tests cover sparse members, truncated archives, and failed installs.

Changes

Archive extraction and sparse-file handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Archive writing and bounded reads src/libarchive/lib.rs, src/sys/lib.rs, src/sys/windows/mod.rs, src/bun_core/string/MutableString.rs	Libarchive adds offset-aware file writing and bounded reads. Windows adds sparse-file support. The public MutableString::inflate method is removed.
Extraction consumer integration src/install/TarballStream.rs, src/runtime/api/Archive.rs	TarballStream and filtered disk extraction delegate archive writes to libarchive helpers.
Temporary extraction cleanup src/install/extract_tarball.rs	A temporary-directory guard removes the directory unless the cache move succeeds.
Archive extraction regression coverage test/cli/install/bun-create.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts, test/js/bun/archive.test.ts	Tests cover sparse GNU and PAX members, truncated archives, allocation bounds, and temporary-directory cleanup after failed installs.

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Priority: ➖ Normal

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[claude]

I didn't find any bugs. Deferring to human review because this touches security-sensitive tarball extraction (untrusted-registry DoS mitigation) and overlaps with #33979 on temp-dir cleanup design — worth a maintainer sign-off on the 64 MiB streaming cap and on which PR's cleanup approach lands.

What was reviewed:

• TempExtractionDir drop ordering: extract_destination (inner block) drops before the guard on early return, so the fd is closed before delete_tree on Windows.
• Guard armed before make_open_path (per RAII guidance); delete_tree on a not-yet-created or already-renamed dir is benign (let _).
• file_buffer.len() bound in extract_to_dir is sound — entry body is inline in the decompressed buffer; i64::try_from can't overflow under the existing 2 GiB decompress cap.
• The boringssl is_safe_alt_name restoration matches the call site and is a straight build fix.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Five files: src/libarchive/lib.rs and src/install/TarballStream.rs cap Linux fallocate preallocation (to file_buffer.len() and 64 MiB respectively) so an attacker-controlled ustar size field can't allocate gigabytes of real disk before the truncated body is detected. src/install/extract_tarball.rs adds a TempExtractionDir RAII guard so every buffered-extract error path removes the temp directory instead of leaking it per attempt. src/boringssl/lib.rs restores a helper removed by #36252 that #36165 still calls (unrelated build fix). Two new tests exercise both the size-lie and bad-gzip failure paths with an isolated $TMPDIR and assert no leaked directories and bounded disk usage.

Security risks

This is itself a security hardening (disk-fill DoS via malicious registry tarball). I checked that the guard's delete_tree cannot escape the temp root: it deletes parent/tmpname where tmpname is generated by FileSystem::tmpname from a validated basename, not attacker input. The preallocation cap only reduces the argument to fallocate, so it cannot introduce a new correctness issue (writes past the preallocated size just extend the file normally). No new user-facing surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Package extraction from untrusted registries is security-sensitive, and the RAII guard changes control flow on every error path in the buffered extractor. The 64 MiB streaming ceiling is a policy constant a maintainer should confirm. The PR description explicitly flags overlap with #33979 on temp-dir cleanup — that coordination is a human decision.

Other factors

• Drop ordering checked: on early return Err inside the extraction block, extract_destination (inner scope) drops before tmpdir_guard (outer scope), so the Windows open-handle-blocks-delete concern is handled.
• The guard mirrors the existing cleanup in TarballStream::finish (Dir::borrow(&temp_dir).delete_tree(tmpname)), so it's not a novel pattern.
• commit() uses mem::forget; the guard owns only a copied Fd (which is Copy, non-owning per the field docs) and a &ZStr, so nothing leaks.
• If move_to_cache_directory fails after the rename succeeded (e.g., open_at/get_fd_path_z failure), the guard's delete_tree targets the now-absent temp path and no-ops — the cache copy is not touched.
• Tests look sound: they isolate $TMPDIR/cache per run, assert exact leaked: [], and bound total tree size well below the 16 MiB declared header. The file: dep forces the buffered path so the guard is what's tested.

[claude]

Beyond the inline nit, I also checked: the TempExtractionDir guard's mem::forget in commit() leaks nothing (struct holds only a copied non-owning Fd and a borrowed &ZStr); delete_tree on an already-renamed/non-existent tmpname is a silent no-op (delete_tree_open_initial_subpath returns Ok(None) on ENOENT), so post-rename error paths in move_to_cache_directory don't misbehave; and both preallocation caps are strictly tighter than before, so legitimate large entries just under-preallocate rather than fail. Deferring to a human given this is security-sensitive extraction of untrusted registry content and the noted overlap with #33979.

Extended reasoning...

This PR touches the package manager's tarball extraction path (attacker-controlled input from registries), which is security-sensitive per the review guidelines. The changes look correct and well-scoped — the RAII guard is armed before any fallible work and disarmed only after the rename succeeds, and the fallocate caps can only reduce disk usage vs. the previous unbounded behavior — but a maintainer should sign off on the interaction with #33979 and the security-relevant behavior change.

[claude]

Thanks for the comment fix in e5ed01c — the reworded invariant now accurately covers both the pre-decompressed and compressed-input callers. I didn't find further issues, but deferring to a maintainer given this is security-sensitive package-extraction code and the PR description notes overlap with #33979's temp-dir handling that whoever merges should be aware of.

What was reviewed:

• TempExtractionDir guard arm/commit ordering vs. all early-return paths in extract(); drop order relative to extract_destination (fd closes before delete_tree on Windows).
• move_to_cache_directory failure-after-rename: guard's delete_tree on the now-absent tmpname is a discarded ENOENT, no double-free of the renamed cache folder.
• Preallocation caps are strictly tightening (can only reduce fallocate); the Bun.Archive under-preallocation is best-effort only.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR hardens bun install tarball extraction against two related issues: (1) an attacker-controlled ustar header size field being passed unbounded to Linux fallocate, allowing a tiny .tgz to allocate gigabytes of real disk before the truncated body is detected; and (2) the buffered ExtractTarball::extract path leaking its temp extraction directory on every error return. It touches src/libarchive/lib.rs and src/install/TarballStream.rs (preallocation caps), src/install/extract_tarball.rs (RAII TempExtractionDir guard), src/boringssl/lib.rs (unrelated build-fix restoring is_safe_alt_name), and adds two regression tests.

Security risks

The changed code handles untrusted registry/file: tarballs. The preallocation changes are strictly monotonic tightening — size.min(bound) can only reduce the fallocate argument, never increase it — so no new attack surface is introduced there. The RAII guard adds a delete_tree(temp_dir, tmpname) on error paths; tmpname is a fresh random name generated by FileSystem::tmpname immediately before the guard is armed and is never derived from tarball contents, so there's no risk of deleting an attacker-controlled path. I traced the failure-after-rename case in move_to_cache_directory: once the rename succeeds, tmpname no longer exists under temp_dir, so a subsequent error triggers a harmless ENOENT from delete_tree (discarded via let _ =) rather than deleting the cache folder.

Level of scrutiny

High — this is the package installer's untrusted-input handling path. The individual changes are small and mechanically sound, but the surrounding control flow (move_to_cache_directory with its Windows retry loop, POSIX renameat_concurrently_a, multiple error exits) is intricate enough that a maintainer familiar with the install subsystem should confirm the guard's placement, particularly given the PR itself flags overlap with #33979.

Other factors

• My prior inline comment (misleading invariant in the file_buffer.len() bound comment) was addressed in e5ed01c with an accurate reword; the thread is resolved.
• Drop ordering on error inside the extraction block is correct: extract_destination (declared after the guard) drops first, closing the dir fd before the guard's delete_tree runs — necessary on Windows.
• commit() uses core::mem::forget; the guard holds only a borrowed Fd and a &ZStr, so nothing leaks.
• The boringssl change is a mechanical restore of a helper removed by #36252 while a caller from #36165 still exists; unrelated to the main fix but necessary for the branch to build.
• Tests are hermetic (isolated TMPDIR/cache), drain pipes concurrently, and were shown to fail on main / pass with the fix in the PR evidence.

[robobun]

Status: ready for review at 79e7e5d. That is 7ca8779 plus one commit that changes tests only. What changed is in #36542 (comment).

CI on the last source commit, 7ca8779 (build 122628): 181 of 182 jobs pass. The one red job is a shard of debian 13 x64-asan, where test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts fails. That test fails on main too, and this change does not touch it. The three test files of this PR pass on Linux (glibc, musl, ASAN), macOS (x64, aarch64) and Windows (x64, aarch64). On Windows that includes the check that a hole takes no disk.

Two decisions are for a maintainer (the PR body has the numbers):

• The fallocate for entries over 1 MB (threshold from 990f53f) is removed. Interleaved runs of the same binary with and without it show no gain from it.
• TempExtractionDir repeats a guard that install: don't leak package extraction temp directories into $TMPDIR #33979 has as a closure. The second of the two PRs to merge must drop one copy.

How this was reproduced (Linux x64, release build of main 367d939):

• The reported disk-fill. A 159-byte file: tarball has a tar header that declares 8 GiB - 1 for a 100-byte body. bun install fails with error: Fail extracting tarball from pkg and leaves 8.1G in the temporary directory. Bun.Archive.extract() on the same bytes rejects with ReadError and leaves the file in the destination directory.
• Sparse members. tar --sparse members that end in a hole lose their tail when they are 1 MB or less. Larger ones keep their length, and each hole becomes real blocks: a 377-byte tarball installs with 536,940,544 bytes allocated.
• A chunk that the file system cannot seek to. A 3,584-byte tar has one sparse chunk at 17 TiB, above the ext4 file size limit. With a 32 MiB file size limit on the process, Bun.Archive.extract() writes 33,554,432 bytes of zeros and then rejects. The limit is what stops it.
• A write that the file system refuses. A gzip archive has one healthy member of 6,000,000 bytes. Where no file can grow past 4 MiB, Bun.Archive.extract() resolves with a 4,194,304-byte file whose bytes at offset 0 are those of offset 4,193,792. A streamed registry install of the same member prints Resolved, downloaded and extracted [3] and exits 0.

The commands are in the PR body, under Notes.

[Jarred-Sumner]

@robobun fix conflicts

[robobun]

Rebased onto b7fef25 and dropped the boringssl commit (already fixed on main by #36540). Conflicts resolved; diff is now just the tarball extraction changes and tests.

[Jarred-Sumner]

@robobun fix clippy

[robobun]

Clippy fixed in 9ccb361: TempExtractionDir::commit now disarms via Option::take instead of mem::forget, and the streaming preallocation bound uses .clamp(). cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings is clean locally.

[robobun]

^{Updated 3:23 AM PT - Oct 3rd, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 79e7e5d has 2 failures in Build #123253 (All Failures):

• test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts - code 1 on 🍎 any aarch64
• test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts - code 1 on 🍎 any x64
• test/js/bun/archive.test.ts - code 1 on 🍎 any aarch64
• test/js/bun/archive.test.ts - code 1 on 🍎 any x64

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🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 36542

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-36542 executable, so you can run:

bun-36542 --bun

[claude]

LGTM — the reworded file_buffer.len() comment addresses my earlier note, and the post-rebase/clippy changes are mechanical.

What was reviewed:

• TempExtractionDir drop ordering on error paths: extract_destination lives in the inner block so it closes before the guard's delete_tree runs (matters on Windows); delete_tree is fd-relative to temp_dir with a randomized tmpname, so it can only remove the directory this extraction created.
• commit() disarm via self.name = None correctly no-ops the Drop; guard is armed after tmpname is generated and a post-rename failure in move_to_cache_directory just delete_trees a now-nonexistent path.
• Preallocation caps are strictly tighter than before (.clamp(0, 64 MiB) / .min(file_buffer.len())), so no regression for legitimate entries beyond the documented best-effort under-preallocation for Bun.Archive on compressed input.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Bounds attacker-controlled fallocate in both tarball extraction paths (Archiver::extract_to_dir caps at file_buffer.len(), TarballStream::begin_entry caps at 64 MiB) and adds a TempExtractionDir RAII guard around the buffered extractor's temp directory so failed extractions no longer leak per-attempt directories in $TMPDIR. Two new tests exercise the size-lie and bad-gzip failure paths with an isolated $TMPDIR/cache and assert no leaked directories and bounded disk usage.

Security risks

This is security-sensitive code (untrusted tarball extraction), but the change is purely defensive: the preallocation bound is only ever tighter than before, and the new cleanup path is scoped to Dir::borrow(&temp_dir).delete_tree(tmpname) where tmpname is the randomized .{hex}-{n}.{suffix} name this extraction generated — it cannot resolve to .., empty, or an absolute path, and delete_tree is fd-relative. No new attack surface; strictly reduces the disk-fill vector described in the PR.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high — package-manager extraction of untrusted input. I traced the guard's lifetime against every early-return in extract(): the invalid-name return happens before the guard is armed; make_open_path failure runs delete_tree on a possibly-nonexistent path (harmless); extract_destination is declared inside the inner block so it drops (closes) before tmpdir_guard on any ? unwind, which matters for Windows directory removal; a post-rename failure inside move_to_cache_directory leaves the guard armed but tmpname no longer exists under temp_dir, so delete_tree is a no-op.

Other factors

My earlier inline note on the file_buffer.len() invariant comment was addressed in d65e6cc (comment now distinguishes pre-decompressed vs compressed-input callers). Changes since then are mechanical: rebase dropping the boringssl build-fix commit, and clippy fixes (Option-based disarm instead of mem::forget, .clamp() instead of chained .max().min()). The maintainer is actively engaged. Tests are verified fail-on-main / pass-on-PR under ASAN in the PR evidence block. The PR notes overlap with #33979 for the broader concurrent-publish race, but this RAII guard is self-contained and composes with either landing order.

[Jarred-Sumner]

@robobun fix conflicts

[robobun]

Rebased onto b4aa3a0 (#36541). Only conflict was the node:fs import line in the test file. Since #36541 now hands compressed bytes to Archiver::extract_to_dir for tarballs over 64 MB, I also updated the file_buffer.len() bound comment to describe the invariant without naming specific callers, and refreshed two test comments that referenced the removed zlib pre-decompress step.

Both new tests pass after the rebase. The buffered extract does not hold the decompressed local tarball in memory test from #36541 fails locally here (maxRSS assertion off by a 1024x unit factor), but that reproduces on b4aa3a0 without this PR's changes applied.

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In `@src/install/TarballStream.rs`:
- Around line 896-904: Add coverage for the streaming extraction path using a
streamed tarball containing an entry whose declared size exceeds
PREALLOCATE_CEILING. Assert that extraction bounds disk preallocation to the
configured ceiling, and ensure the test does not use a local file: dependency or
only exercise buffered extraction.

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[claude]

No issues found — my earlier comment on the file_buffer.len() invariant was addressed in the reworded comment, and the post-#36541 rebase version is accurate for both pre-decompressed and compressed-input callers. Deferring to human review since this is security-sensitive install-path code (untrusted tarball input → disk allocation) and a maintainer is already engaged.

What was reviewed:

• TempExtractionDir drop ordering vs. extract_destination — the inner-block fd closes before the guard's delete_tree, so Windows can remove the dir on the ?-propagation path.
• commit() timing vs. move_to_cache_directory post-rename failures — after a successful rename tmpname is gone, so a later error's delete_tree(tmpname) is a harmless ENOENT; the Windows retry path uses tmpname+"tmp" and doesn't collide.
• Preallocation caps only tighten the previous unbounded entry.size(); no correctness impact since preallocate_file is advisory.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Three focused changes across four files: (1) Archiver::extract_to_dir caps Linux fallocate at file_buffer.len() instead of the attacker-controlled ustar header size; (2) TarballStream::begin_entry caps the same at a fixed 64 MiB since the stream length is unknown at header time; (3) ExtractTarball::extract wraps its temp extraction directory in a TempExtractionDir RAII guard so every error return (? on decompression, extraction, or rename-into-cache) removes the partially-extracted tree instead of leaking it in $TMPDIR. Two new tests exercise a header-size-lie tarball and a non-gzip tarball via the buffered file: path with an isolated tmp/cache.

Security risks

This is a DoS mitigation in the package installer's untrusted-input path. The changes are strictly defensive: the preallocation bounds only ever reduce the value passed to fallocate (best-effort, so under-preallocation is harmless), and the drop guard only fires on error paths where the temp directory would previously have leaked. I traced the guard's delete_tree scope — it is confined to temp_dir/tmpname where tmpname is the freshly-generated random name from FileSystem::tmpname, so it cannot reach outside the extraction it created. On the success path commit() disarms before Drop; on post-rename failures inside move_to_cache_directory the directory has already been renamed away and delete_tree is a no-op ENOENT.

Level of scrutiny

High — this is production install-path code handling untrusted registry/file: tarballs, with Windows-specific rename/delete semantics in play. The individual changes are small and mechanical, but the interaction between the new drop guard, the existing extract_destination handle lifetime, and the Windows move_opened_file_at retry loop needed tracing. I verified Rust drop order closes extract_destination before the guard runs delete_tree, and that the Windows retry's tempdest (= tmpname + "tmp") is disjoint from the guard's tmpname.

Other factors

My earlier 🟡 inline comment (the file_buffer.len() bound comment overstated its invariant for compressed-input callers) was addressed twice — once in e5ed01c and again after the #36541 rebase changed which callers pre-decompress. The current wording is accurate. The new tests follow harness conventions (tempDir, bunEnv, concurrent pipe drain, isolated $TMPDIR/cache) and assert on both the failure exit and the absence of leaked directories/disk. The PR notes overlap with #33979; the RAII approach here is compatible with either landing order. A maintainer is actively engaged on the thread, so deferring rather than approving.

[robobun]

Rebased onto main bf42a52 (was 209c6d7, now 6008648).

• The conflict was in test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts only. Main appended a test at the end of the file, where this pull request appends its describe block. The resolution keeps both.
• No source line of this pull request changed. The three src/ hunks are identical before and after the rebase.
• Checked on a debug build of the rebased branch: all 27 tests of that file pass. The 2 tests of buffered extract: malformed tarball cleanup fail on a debug build of main bf42a52.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟣 src/libarchive/lib.rs — pre-existing: a bun create <user>/<repo> template tarball whose package.json header claims a huge size (e.g. 8 GiB) still makes bun allocate and zero-fill that many bytes of RAM, crashing the process. The plucker branch at src/libarchive/lib.rs:1784 calls plucker_.contents.inflate(size) with the raw header size; MutableString::inflate is Vec::resize(amount, 0), which aborts on allocation failure and memsets on success. This is the same attacker-controlled-size class the PR bounds for fallocate two lines below. Fix: bound the plucker allocation too, e.g. cap size at file_buffer.len() (or a fixed ceiling) before inflate, and grow from actual read_data results.

  Why this was flagged

  A GitHub template tarball for bun create (src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs:483 builds pluckers for package.json) contains a package.json entry whose ustar size field is 77777777777 octal with a short body. In Archiver::extract_to_dir, size at src/libarchive/lib.rs:1770 is that header value; the plucker hash matches and plucker_.contents.inflate(size)? runs at lib.rs:1784, then resize(cap, 0) at 1786. MutableString::inflate (src/bun_core/string/MutableString.rs:267) is self.list.resize(amount, 0), an infallible allocation plus an 8 GiB memset, so the process is OOM-killed or aborts instead of reporting a truncated archive. The new prealloc = size.min(file_buffer.len()) at lib.rs:1839 only bounds the fallocate below this branch; the plucker path still uses the unbounded size. The base branch behaves the same, so this is pre-existing, but it is the same attacker-controlled header-size class the PR sets out to close in this function.

  Verification: bun create <user>/<repo> fetches a template tarball whose package.json header declares a huge size with a short body. In src/libarchive/lib.rs, size at 1770-1772 is the raw header value, and line 1784 plucker_.contents.inflate(size)?; runs before the new cap; MutableString::inflate is self.list.resize(amount, 0), so the process aborts or memsets 8 GiB before read_data at 1789. The PR's bound at 1839 does not cover 1784.

[robobun]

Do not merge this as it is. With the preallocation cap, a member of a tar --sparse tarball that ends in a hole loses its tail, and the command exits 0.

Repro (Linux x64, GNU tar 1.35):

mkdir -p t/src/package t/p && cd t
echo '{"name":"pk","version":"1.0.0"}' > src/package/package.json
truncate -s 300000 src/package/small.bin; truncate -s 3000000 src/package/big.bin
printf DATA | dd of=src/package/small.bin conv=notrunc status=none
printf DATA | dd of=src/package/big.bin conv=notrunc status=none
tar --sparse -czf pk.tgz -C src package
echo '{"name":"proj","dependencies":{"pk":"file:../pk.tgz"}}' > p/package.json
(cd p && bun install >/dev/null 2>&1; echo "bun install: exit $?"; stat -c '%n %s' node_modules/pk/*.bin)
bun -e 'await new Bun.Archive(await Bun.file("pk.tgz").bytes()).extract("ex")'; stat -c '%n %s' ex/package/*.bin

Sizes after bun install and after Bun.Archive#extract() (the two give the same numbers):

build	big.bin (3,000,000)	small.bin (300,000)
main 5a183c1 (debug) and 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9	3000000	4096
this pull request at 6008648 (debug)	4096	4096
GNU tar	3000000	300000

Cause: read_data_into_fd (src/libarchive/lib.rs) extends the file only to the end of the last data block. libarchive reports the real size of a sparse entry through the offset that archive_read_data_block returns at EOF, and its own archive_read_data_into_fd pads the file to that offset after the loop (vendor/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_data_into_fd.c). On main, a member over 1,000,000 bytes gets its length from the fallocate of the declared size, on Linux only. This pull request caps that preallocation at the input length, so the length is lost. Smaller members lose their tail on main too.

The fix belongs in this pull request, with a test for a sparse member that ends in a hole (buffered install, streamed install and Bun.Archive#extract()).

[robobun]

Do not merge this revision. It loses data. I converted the PR to a draft.

The preallocation cap in this PR truncates a tar entry that ends in a hole (a GNU sparse entry, tar --sparse). One tarball, three extractors. Each cell is apparent bytes / allocated 512-byte blocks.

entry	GNU tar 1.35	main (release build of 367d939)	this PR (6008648)
small-tail.bin: 5 bytes, then a hole to 512 KiB	524288 / 8	4096 / 8	4096 / 8
big-tail.bin: 5 bytes, then a hole to 64 MiB	67108864 / 8	67108864 / 131080	4096 / 8
mid.bin: 8 MiB, one byte at 0 and one at 8000000	8388608 / 16	8388608 / 16392	8003584 / 16
lead.bin: a hole, then 5 bytes at the end of 4 MiB	4194304 / 8	4194304 / 8192	4194304 / 8

Bold marks a value that differs from GNU tar. Each file with a wrong length also has an md5 that differs from the GNU tar output. bun install exits 0 in every case. Bun.Archive.extract() gives the same lengths.

Cause

• libarchive returns the logical end of an entry together with ARCHIVE_EOF (archive_read_support_format_tar.c:734). Upstream archive_read_data_into_fd pads the file to that offset (archive_read_data_into_fd.c:169). The port ignores it. Archive::read_data_into_fd in src/libarchive/lib.rs and TarballStream::close_output_file leave the file at the end of the last block that carried data.
• On Linux, the fallocate(fd, 0, 0, size) for an entry over 1 MB hides this. Mode 0 allocates the blocks and also sets the file length to the header size. That call is the disk-fill in the report too: it turns each hole into real blocks, and it allocates the declared size before a short body is detected.
• This PR caps the fallocate and does not repair the tail. The truncation that main has for an entry of 1 MB or less then applies to each size.

Reproduce

On Linux:

mkdir -p src/package && cd src
printf '{"name":"pkg","version":"1.0.0"}' > package/package.json
printf hello > package/small-tail.bin && truncate -s 512K package/small-tail.bin
printf hello > package/big-tail.bin && truncate -s 64M package/big-tail.bin
tar --sparse -czf ../pkg.tgz package && cd ..
printf '{"name":"root","dependencies":{"pkg":"file:./pkg.tgz"}}' > package.json
bun install
stat -c '%n %s bytes %b blocks' node_modules/pkg/*.bin

main prints:

node_modules/pkg/big-tail.bin 67108864 bytes 131080 blocks
node_modules/pkg/small-tail.bin 4096 bytes 8 blocks

tar -xzf pkg.tgz gives 67108864 bytes / 8 blocks and 524288 bytes / 8 blocks.

Next

The rework repairs the tail first, so that the file length comes from libarchive and not from the preallocation. Then it removes the dependency on the header size. The two tests in this revision observe only the temporary directory. The rework adds tests that compare the length and the allocated blocks with the table above. I will post here when it is ready for review.

[robobun]

The head moved from 6008648 to 21138f9. The PR stays a draft until the self-review is done.

What changed

• 004800c: one lib::EntryWriter writes each entry for the buffered extractor, the streaming extractor and Bun.Archive.extract() with a glob. It takes the file length from the offset libarchive returns with ARCHIVE_EOF. The fallocate is removed from both extractors, and the caps from the first revision go with it. bun create reads package.json from a template tarball in steps. TempExtractionDir is unchanged.
• 99ef8d2: formatting, by autofix.
• 21138f9: removes MutableString::inflate, which lost its last caller.

The title and the body describe the PR as it is now.

What I verified

On Linux x64 with a debug build of 21138f9. The repro is the one from the comment above (truncate -s 300000 small.bin, truncate -s 3000000 big.bin, tar --sparse -czf).

path	big.bin	small.bin
bun install, file: tarball (buffered extractor)	3000000 bytes, 8 blocks	300000 bytes, 8 blocks
bun install, registry tarball (streaming extractor)	3000000	300000
bun install, registry tarball with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STREAMING_INSTALL=1	3000000	300000
Bun.Archive.extract()	3000000 bytes, 8 blocks	300000 bytes, 8 blocks
Bun.Archive.extract() with { glob: "**" }	3000000 bytes, 8 blocks	300000 bytes, 8 blocks

• In each row both files are byte-identical to the source files (cmp).
• 20 sparse members (the old GNU format and PAX 1.0, five layouts, 300000 and 3000000 bytes): 0 wrong on each of those paths. They take 106,496 bytes on disk for 33,000,000 bytes of length, the same as GNU tar 1.35. main has 6 wrong and 30,085,120 bytes. The first revision has 12 wrong.
• Two 70 MiB sparse members through the streaming extractor: 0 wrong, 8,192 bytes on disk. The first revision wrote each at 67,108,864 bytes.
• The header that declares 8 GiB - 1 for a 100-byte body: bun install exits 1 with Fail extracting tarball, and the temporary directory is empty. Bun.Archive.extract() rejects and leaves a 1536-byte file. main leaves 8.1G in the temporary directory.
• 9 new or changed tests in test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts, test/js/bun/archive.test.ts and test/cli/install/bun-create.test.ts. All 9 fail on main, 6 fail on the first revision, and all pass here. The tests build the sparse members by hand, so they use no tar binary.
• Suites on the head: archive.test.ts 111 pass, bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts 30 pass, bun-create.test.ts 22 pass, bun-install-tarball-integrity.test.ts 16 pass, bun-publish.test.ts 46 pass, bun-pm-diff.test.ts 46 pass. cargo clippy has no finding in the touched files, and rust:check-all passes for 12 targets.
• Two runs on this machine failed for reasons outside this change, and each passes when run again. One bun-publish.test.ts run lost its local registry (ECONNREFUSED), and a build without this change does the same. One bun-pm-diff.test.ts run timed out in a tarball entry larger than 64 MiB is read whole, which takes 2.3 to 4.5 s alone on both builds, against a 5 s limit.

Not measured on my side

• macOS and Windows: I have no machine for them. CI ran the tests there, and they pass on Linux (glibc and musl), macOS and Windows. The tests compare content on every platform and allocated blocks on Linux only.
• Binary size, added after the first version of this comment: size on a release build of the merge base (bf42a52) and of 21138f9 gives the same numbers: text 80,676,555, data 110,424, bss 1,822,992.

The review also found that bun create sized a memory buffer from the header of package.json in a template tarball. That is fixed in 004800c, with a test in bun-create.test.ts.

[robobun]

The head moved to 7ca8779. The PR stays a draft until CI is green on it.

What changed since 21138f9

• EntryWriter no longer writes zeros to reach the offset of a block. When pwrite and a seek both fail, the entry fails. Before, a sparse map with a chunk above the ext4 file size limit (16 TiB) made the writer write zeros up to that offset. main has the same fallback.
• On Windows, EntryWriter sends FSCTL_SET_SPARSE before a seek or an ftruncate leaves a hole. Without the mark, NTFS allocates clusters for the hole.
• Tests: one new test (a chunk at 17 TiB, with a 32 MiB file size limit on the child). The allocation check now runs on Windows too. The streamed sparse tests split the body at a fixed place inside package.json.
• TempExtractionDir and the rest of the change are as before.

What I verified (Linux x64, debug build with ASAN)

• test/js/bun/archive.test.ts: 112 pass, 1 skip. test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts: 30 pass. test/cli/install/bun-create.test.ts: 22 pass. test/cli/install/bun-install-tarball-integrity.test.ts: 16 pass.
• Sparse members of 300000 and 3000000 bytes are whole in the four paths: bun install of a file: tarball, a streamed registry tarball, Bun.Archive.extract(), and the same with a glob. A streamed 65 MiB member is whole too.
• A header that declares more than the archive holds allocates nothing, fails, and leaves no temporary directory.
• On a release build of main, the 10 new or changed tests fail.
• cargo check passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-pc-windows-msvc. I cannot run Windows here. CI runs the allocation check there.

Still true after this change

A hole becomes real bytes in memory for Bun.Archive.files() and bun create, and on disk with --backend=copyfile or on a file system without sparse files. The PR body has the numbers.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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🔵 Trivial · Replace the polling loop with a condition-driven… · bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts:1366

test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts:1366
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Replace the polling loop with a condition-driven wait.

The loop calls Bun.sleep(5) to poll for the extraction directory. The test guidelines say to never wait for time to pass and to wait for the condition instead. The loop also runs readdirSync(tmp) every 5 ms, and it throws if tmp is removed.

The !exited guard bounds the loop. The code comment explains why the ordering is needed. Use fs.watch on tmp, or add a signal from the child, if a deterministic wait is practical.

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[robobun]

The head moved to 79e7e5d. The new commit changes two test files and no source file.

What changed since 7ca8779

• Two new tests for a write that the file system refuses in the middle of a file (a full disk, a quota, a file size limit). Each puts a 6,000,000-byte member under a 4 MiB file size limit.
  • test/js/bun/archive.test.ts: Bun.Archive.extract() of a gzip archive must reject, and what stays of the file must be its start.
  • test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts: a streamed registry install must exit 1 with EFBIG extracting tarball for "pk", and the next install from the same cache must give the whole file.
• The two review nits: the test for a header that declares too much asserts the ReadError rejection, and two install spawns no longer pipe a stdout that nothing reads.
• The PR body now names this defect. On main the fallback after a failed pwrite calls write() with no seek while the file position is still 0. The file is cut, its start holds its end, extract() resolves, and a streamed install exits 0 and leaves that package in the cache. EntryWriter (already in the previous head) seeks and fails the entry.

What I verified (Linux x64)

• Debug build with ASAN of this head: test/js/bun/archive.test.ts 113 pass, 1 skip. test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts 31 pass.
• Release build of main: both new tests fail. extract() resolves with a 4,194,304-byte file whose bytes at offset 0 are those of offset 4,193,792. The install prints Resolved, downloaded and extracted [3].
• The test for a chunk at 17 TiB fails on main only where the file system cannot seek to that offset (ext4). On tmpfs main passes it. The body says so now.

Also stated in the body now

With a glob, an archive that is cut inside the zero padding after the data of a member loses that member (main keeps it). Without a glob both reject.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

Coordination with #44509 (what Bun.Archive#extract() rejects with).

#44509 now sits on this branch: its base is farm/413059c4/install-tarball-size-lie, and it no longer changes the pwrite fallback. The split:

• This PR holds the writer (EntryWriter), the fix for a write() after a failed pwrite in the buffered and the streaming extractor, and the tests for that fix.
• Bun.Archive: extract() rejects with the failed syscall or libarchive's message #44509 holds the error of extract(): read_data_into_fd returns the bun_sys::Error of a failed call on the output file, extract_to_dir returns it with the entry path, and Archive.rs rejects with a SystemError or the libarchive message. One effect outside Bun.Archive: the buffered install prints EFBIG extracting tarball from <pkg> where it prints Fail.

What I measured for the failed pwrite, to save a run here. Linux x64, file size limit set with ulimit -f:

case	1.4.3-canary.1	this branch at 7ca8779 (debug)
extract() of a .tar.gz with one 131072-byte entry, limit 102400 bytes	resolves with 1, the file has 102400 bytes and its first 64 KiB are not the entry's	rejects (ReadError)
streaming bun install, one 128 KiB entry, limit 96 KiB	exit 0, Saved lockfile, the scrambled file is installed	exit 1, error: EFBIG extracting tarball for "stream-pkg" (at byte 131341 of 131341), nothing installed
buffered bun install, same tarball	exit 1, error: Fail extracting tarball from stream-pkg	the same

The limit has to sit between one 64 KiB block and the entry size, or main also fails and the test proves nothing. ulimit -f counts 512-byte blocks in dash and 1024-byte blocks in bash, so the test below reads the unit first.

The streaming install test I removed from #44509

It goes in test/cli/install/bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts and uses that file's buildTarball and makeRegistry. On this branch it passes. On 1.4.3-canary.1 it fails: the install exits 0.

// `ulimit -f` makes a write fail without a full disk. It counts blocks of 512
// bytes in dash and in a shell in POSIX mode, and of 1024 bytes in bash.
let fileSizeLimitUnit: Promise<number> | undefined;
async function probeFileSizeLimitUnit(): Promise<number> {
  using dir = tempDir("file-size-limit-unit", {});
  const script = `
    const fs = require("node:fs");
    const fd = fs.openSync(process.env.PROBE, "w");
    let written = 0;
    try {
      while (written < 4096) written += fs.writeSync(fd, Buffer.alloc(64));
    } catch {}
    console.log(written);
  `;
  await using proc = Bun.spawn({
    cmd: ["/bin/sh", "-c", 'ulimit -f 1 && exec "$@"', "sh", bunExe(), "-e", script],
    env: { ...bunEnv, PROBE: join(String(dir), "probe") },
    stdout: "pipe",
    stderr: "inherit",
  });
  const [stdout, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.exited]);
  expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
  return Number(stdout);
}

test.skipIf(isWindows)("streaming extract fails when a write is refused in the middle of an entry", async () => {
  // The gzip filter hands the entry over in blocks of 64 KiB. The limit lets
  // the first block through and fails the second. From offset 0, the second
  // block fits under the limit.
  const big = Buffer.alloc(128 * 1024);
  let seed = createHash("sha256").update("file-size-limit").digest();
  for (let off = 0; off < big.length; off += 32) {
    seed.copy(big, off);
    seed = createHash("sha256").update(seed).digest();
  }
  const limit = 96 * 1024;
  const { tgz, shasum, integrity } = buildTarball([
    { path: "package.json", body: Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ name: "stream-pkg", version: "1.0.0" }) + "\n") },
    { path: "big.bin", body: big },
  ]);
  await using reg = await makeRegistry(tgz, shasum, integrity, 4096);
  using dir = tempDir("streaming-extract-file-size-limit", {
    "package.json": JSON.stringify({ name: "app", version: "1.0.0", dependencies: { "stream-pkg": "1.0.0" } }),
    "bunfig.toml": Bun.TOML.stringify({ install: { registry: reg.url } }),
  });
  const unit = await (fileSizeLimitUnit ??= probeFileSizeLimitUnit());
  expect([512, 1024]).toContain(unit);

  await using proc = Bun.spawn({
    cmd: ["/bin/sh", "-c", `ulimit -f ${limit / unit} && exec "$@"`, "sh", bunExe(), "install", "--verbose"],
    cwd: String(dir),
    env: { ...bunEnv, BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR: join(String(dir), ".cache"), BUN_INSTALL_STREAMING_MIN_SIZE: "1024" },
    stdout: "pipe",
    stderr: "pipe",
  });
  const [, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);

  expect(stderr).toMatch(/error: EFBIG extracting tarball for "stream-pkg" \(at byte \d+ of \d+\)/);
  expect(existsSync(join(String(dir), "node_modules", "stream-pkg"))).toBe(false);
  expect(exitCode).toBe(1);
});

#44509 keeps its own tests for the refused write. They assert the error (EFBIG, write, the path) that only exists with #44509, so they do not fit here.

[Jarred-Sumner]

This is Claude (an AI assistant) writing on Jarred's behalf.

Included in #44968.