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Bun.Archive: reject when a header read fails, with one in-memory tar reader and a named policy - #43242
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The read loops behind files(), extract() with a glob, and the file count in console.log stopped at any status other than OK or WARN. A FAILED or FATAL status from archive_read_next_header ended the loop like the end of the archive, so a damaged archive resolved with a partial result. The loops now stop only at EOF. FAILED and FATAL reject, as extract() without a glob already does. RETRY (a header block with a bad checksum) continues with the next block, also as extract() does. In extract() with a glob, a negative archive_read_data now rejects after the partial file is removed.
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Status: ready for review. Head Two questions for a maintainer. The details are at the top of the Notes in the PR body.
What the PR does now: What is new (2026-10-02):
Verified on this branch: CI: build 122893 on Corrections I made to my own text in this PR:
Review state: no open threads. How I reproduced it (bun 1.4.3-canary.1+b52d51348, Linux x64). The archive has a complete function header(name, size) {
const h = Buffer.alloc(512);
h.write(name, 0);
h.write("0000644\0", 100);
h.write("0000000\0", 108);
h.write("0000000\0", 116);
h.write(size.toString(8).padStart(11, "0") + "\0", 124);
h.write("00000000000\0", 136);
h.write(" ", 148);
h.write("0", 156);
h.write("ustar\x0000", 257);
const sum = h.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
h.write(sum.toString(8).padStart(6, "0") + "\0 ", 148);
return h;
}
const a = Buffer.concat([header("a.txt", 5), Buffer.from("hello"), Buffer.alloc(507)]);
const tar = Buffer.concat([a, header("b.txt", 5).subarray(0, 100)]);
console.log([...(await new Bun.Archive(tar).files()).keys()]); // [ "a.txt" ]
console.log(await new Bun.Archive(tar).extract("out-glob", { glob: "*" })); // 1
await new Bun.Archive(tar).extract("out"); // rejects: ReadErrorOn main the first two calls resolve. With this branch all three reject. The tar.gz case from the report (an entry that fills exactly the first 64 KiB block of gzip output, then a cut stream) is one of the new tests in |
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Move the helper from Bun.Archive into lib::Archive as read_next_memory_entry, and use it in ArchiveIterator::next, which had the same four match arms. The status policy for a header read of an in-memory archive now lives next to the other header loops in this file. The function is only for archives opened with read_open_memory. The streaming extractor keeps its own read_next_header call, because there RETRY also means that the stream has no bytes yet. Also correct the doc of Result::succeeded: write_header is its only caller now.
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I reviewed the latest push (helper moved into src/libarchive/lib.rs and reused by ArchiveIterator::next) and found no bugs, but because this changes what files() and extract(dir, {glob}) resolve or reject on damaged input, a maintainer should still weigh the behavior change.
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ArchiveIterator::next(used bybun publishandbun pm diff): the rewrite keeps the same Retry-continue / Eof-None / Ok|Warn-entry / Failed|Fatal-error mapping as before, so those commands are unaffected.extract_to_disk_filterederror exit: the partial file fd is closed and unlinked before theReadErrorreturn, anddir_fd/the archive handle are released by their RAII guards.read_next_memory_entrylifetime: the returned&Entryis tied to&selfand converted back to a raw pointer only forNextEntry, matching the prior pattern;Error::Failexists insrc/libarchive/error.rs.
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Overview
The diff touches src/libarchive/lib.rs (new ReadArchive::read_next_memory_entry helper, ArchiveIterator::next rewritten on top of it, a doc reword on Result::succeeded), src/runtime/api/Archive.rs (three header-read loops moved onto the helper; files() now rejects with libarchive's message on a failed header read; the glob extract path unlinks the partial file and returns ReadError on a negative archive_read_data; a read_error() helper dedupes the error mapping), and test/js/bun/archive.test.ts (a new describe block with seven cases across files(), files(glob), extract(dir), extract(dir, {glob}), and the inspect count).
Since the prior review the helper was moved from a private function in Archive.rs into the libarchive crate and ArchiveIterator::next (used by bun publish and bun pm diff) now calls it. I compared the old and new match arms in next: both continue on Retry, return None on Eof, yield the entry on Ok/Warn, and report "failed to read archive header" otherwise, so that path is behavior-preserving. The NextEntry still stores a raw *mut Entry obtained via as_mut_ptr(), which is the same pointer libarchive handed out.
Security risks
No new attack surface. Path safety checks (is_safe_path, symlink target validation) are untouched. The change is strictly on error propagation: inputs that previously produced a silently partial result now reject. The partial-file cleanup on a read failure runs before the early return, and dir_fd is released by CloseOnDrop, so the new early exit does not leak a descriptor or leave a truncated file behind.
Level of scrutiny
Moderate. The code is small and the refactor is verifiably equivalent at each site, but the user-visible semantics of Bun.Archive change for damaged archives: Retry (bad-checksum header block) now skips rather than stops in files() and the glob extract, and a tar with a non-block-aligned tail now rejects in files() where it previously resolved. The PR description itself flags the Retry choice as an open question for a maintainer, and the earlier inline threads on these points were resolved by the author rather than by an independent reviewer. That is a product decision rather than a bug, so a human maintainer should make the call; it is not something an automated review can settle.
Other factors
The new tests pin exact libarchive error strings ("Truncated tar archive detected while reading next header", etc.), which will need updating on a future libarchive bump but are otherwise strong assertions. The tests exercise every sibling entry point per case, which matches the variant-matrix expectation. The bug hunt ran to a dry streak with no findings.
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- Line 215: Update the archive-reading loop’s Result::Retry arm to return
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… damaged header block Add lib::MemoryReader. It owns the libarchive handle and borrows the bytes, and its next_entry is the one place that decodes the status of a header read for an archive in memory. It does not deref to lib::Archive, so the streaming extractor cannot reach that decode: there RETRY also means that the stream has no bytes yet. Each opener names what to do at a header block with a bad checksum: DamagedBlock::Skip or DamagedBlock::Fail. ExtractOptions carries the policy and has no default for it. The header loops of extract_to_dir, get_overwriting_file_list, ArchiveIterator, readTarball and Bun.Archive now use the reader. It replaces BufferReadStream and lib::Archive::read_next_memory_entry. ArchiveIterator owns its reader, so its errors carry a copy of libarchive's message and no raw handle. Every opener names Skip in this commit, so no outcome changes.
files(), files(glob), extract() with and without a glob, and the file count in console.log now open their reader with DamagedBlock::Fail. libarchive drops a header block with a bad checksum and does not learn the size of that entry, so the next header reads see the data of the entry. With Skip, the entry was lost with no error, and a damaged entry that holds a tar put the members of that tar into the result. On main, files() and extract() with a glob stopped at the block and resolved with a short result, and extract() without a glob skipped it. bun install, bun create, the --compile download, bun publish and bun pm diff keep Skip.
Problem
files()andextract(dir, {glob})resolve with a partial result.extract(dir)skips a bad header checksum and can write entries the archive does not have.src/runtime/api/Archive.rsranwhile archive.read_next_header(&mut entry).succeeded().Retry,FailedandFatalended the loop likeEof.Fix
lib::MemoryReader(src/libarchive/lib.rs) decodes every header status of a tar in memory. Each opener namesDamagedBlock::SkiporFailfor a bad checksum.Bun.ArchivenamesFail, sofiles()and everyextract()form reject.bun install,create,publishandpm diffnameSkipand do not change.test/js/bun/archive.test.ts(12 new tests fail on main) and 152 probe cells (116 now reject, 0 change value).Background
RETRYmeans that it dropped a header block with a bad checksum.TarballStream.rs,RETRYalso means "no bytes yet", so that code keeps its own decode.Archive.rsonly (extract(dir)still skips), or fail every caller (breaks two install tests). The reader cuts decode sites from 8 to 2.Downsides
Bun.Archivenow rejects a complete tar followed by non-zero 512-byte blocks. Main and most tar readers accept it.bun installgains 2 instructions per tar entry (4,868 to 4,870). Release.textgrows by 256 bytes.Notes
Two questions for a maintainer.
REVIEW.mdasks for agreement before a PR adds a cross-cutting abstraction. Is one reader for a tar in memory, withDamagedBlocknamed at each opener, agreed for this PR? It replaces two readers that exist today (BufferReadStreamand the handle insideArchiveIterator). If the answer is no, the same behavior fits in a smaller change, which the design review sized at about 250 changed lines in 3 files: reject arms in the threeArchive.rsloops, and one flag onExtractOptionsthat onlyBun.Archivesets. The other loops then keep their ownRetryarms.Bun.Archivereject a complete tar that has non-zero bytes after its end-of-archive marker? This PR rejects it, and one test pins that. Main accepts it in every entry point, andbun installaccepts it. GNU tar 1.35 accepts it by default and exits 2 with--ignore-zeros, which is the mode that Bun uses (read_concatenated_archives). node-tar 6.2.1 and Pythontarfileaccept it. The reader cannot tell the two cases apart from outside libarchive. In that mode libarchive consumes the zero blocks and the next block in one call, and returns the sameRETRYas for a damaged header. The stream positions do not help: a pax global header before a damaged block gives the same positions and the sameRETRY. To accept the trailing bytes needs a patch to the tar reader of libarchive (a block that is not a header, after an end-of-archive marker, ends the read), in a PR of its own. If the answer is "accept", I remove that one test row and write the patch.The policy at each opener.
Bun.Archive:files(),files(glob),extract(dir),extract(dir, {glob}), thefiles:count ofconsole.logFailbun install(extract_tarball.rs, two openers)Skipbun create(create_command.rs, two openers)Skip--compiledownload (StandaloneModuleGraph.rs)Skipbun publish <tarball>,bun pm diff(ArchiveIterator)SkipreadTarballinbun:internal-for-testingSkipNot changed:
TarballStream::step(the streaming extractor ofbun install) keeps its ownRetryarms. Thefiles:count ofconsole.log(archive)has no error channel: the caller insrc/runtime/jsc_hooks.rsdiscards the result, so the count stops at the failed read and prints the partial number, as on main.Measurements. Release builds of the merge base (
3b7ee8e83) and of this branch (f62aec355), Linux x64.extract(dir): 3 -> 0. Async cells that resolve after a failed header read: 13/18 -> 0/18. 5 rejecting inputs were listed completely on main (all have data after the last entry).stepi, 6 consecutive headers, same input): inspect loop 3,868 -> 3,868.extract_to_dir(bufferedbun installof a 1,001-filefile:tarball) 4,868 -> 4,870. Status decode in the inspect loop 4 -> 3 instructions. Out-of-linenext_entrycopies: 0..text: 80,676,876 bytes (main 80,676,620, delta +256).extract_to_dir6,832 -> 6,650 B.get_overwriting_file_list2,347 -> 1,993 B.count_files_in_archive392 -> 277 B.MemoryReader::next_entry,TarballStream::step).read_open_memorycall sites outsidebun_libarchive: 4 -> 0. A scratcharchive.next_entry()inTarballStream::step:cargo checkfails with E0599 (line removed).Skip: 12 of 12 outputs byte-identical to main (stdout, stderr, exit code, installed tree) forbun pm diff,bun publish --dry-runandbun installoffile:tarballs, with clean and damaged inputs.test/clilines changed: 0. Unmodified install, pack, publish, pm-diff and create test files that pass: 5 of 5.size_of::<ExtractOptions>(): 16 -> 16 bytes.extract(dir)settles: a damaged 1 MiB entry 2,052 -> 2,bad-checksum.tar5 -> 2,nested-bad-checksum.tar7 -> 2. A valid tar: 3 -> 3.Skip, no outcome change), policy commit +4/-4 source lines and +81/-16 test lines. Whole PR: source +259/-402 in 8 files, tests +219/-2.Tools:
perf,valgrind,straceandbloatyare not installed here, so the counts come fromgdb,objdump,nmandsize.The 19 probe inputs. Each has a complete
a.txtfirst unless the name says otherwise. Columns:files(), thenextract(dir)and the tree it leaves.[a.txt],extractrejectsextractrejects[a.txt],extractrejectsb.txt, thenc.txt(also as tar.gz)[a.txt],extractwritesa.txt,c.txta.txton disk[a.txt],extractresolves with 1[a.txt],extractwritesa.txt,d.txt[a.txt],extractresolves with 2[a.txt],extractwrites 5 entries, 3 of them not in the archivea.txton disk[a.txt],extractresolves with 2[a.txt],extractresolves with 2[],extractresolves with 2Behavior changes to know.
read_concatenated_archives, so libarchive reads past the end-of-archive marker. Non-zero bytes there are the sameRETRYas a damaged header (whole blocks) or aFATAL(a partial block). Both reject now. Zero padding and bytes after the gzip stream of a tar.gz still resolve. To tell trailing data from a damaged header needs a libarchive patch, orBun.Archivewithoutread_concatenated_archives(then it reads only the first of two concatenated archives). This is question 2 above.extract(dir)leaves the entries it wrote before the damage, and does not create the symlinks it deferred. AFATALdoes the same on main.files()rejection carries libarchive's message, for exampleDamaged tar archive (bad header checksum).extract()keepsReadError.--sparseentries in both formats, blocking factor 64, zero padding, gzip, gzip with trailing bytes), two concatenated tars, two concatenated gzip members,bun pm pack,Bun.Archiveitself, and the six fixture tars of the test suite.Removed messages. Two became unreachable, because the reader frees the handle when it drops:
failed to free archive readinArchiveIterator::close, and the secondfailed to close read archiveinreadTarball. Every other message is byte-identical.IteratorResult::Errnow carries a copy of libarchive's text and no raw handle. With an owning reader, a raw handle in the error would be a use after free.Other PRs. #39724 proposes that a bad checksum fails in
bun installtoo. On top of this PR that is a change of the namedSkiptokens plus its check inTarballStream. #37678 makesBufferReadStreamown its handle and borrow its bytes:MemoryReaderincludes that. #41503 adds a gzip trailer check that returnsFATAL: with this PRBun.Archiverejects when that error lands in a header read. The per-caller policy ("install and create keep the skip,Bun.Archivedoes not") comes from commit6f541fac5eon the unpublished branchrobobun/065f3bea/archive-read-path.Left out. This PR reports what libarchive reports. It does not make libarchive find more damage: a tar.gz with one flipped bit in the data of an entry still resolves with the changed bytes, because libarchive does not check the gzip trailer (#41503 adds that check). In
extract()with a glob, a failedopenatorwriteof an output file still skips that entry.extract(dir)rejects on a failed write. That is an output error, not a read error. With bun 1.4.3, whenb.txtis an existing directory in the destination,extract()with a glob resolves with 2 of 3 entries.docs/runtime/archive.mdxpromises a throw for an output error. No open PR changes it. After a failed data read,extract(dir)leaves the partial file of that entry on disk (1,000 of 4,096 bytes for the input of the test), andextract()with a glob removes it. Both do the same on main. For a 2 MiB entry on Linux, the file that stays has the full size and a zero tail, because the extractor allocates the file first. Both cases belong to the code that writes an entry. The draft #36542 replaces the two write loops with one writer. For an old GNU sparse entry whose map is out of order,files()andextract()with a glob reject, andextract(dir)resolves, because it writes each block at its offset. A test pins all three.bun publish <tarball>andbun pm diffstill skip a damaged block, so they can list an entry that is not in the tarball. One named token changes each, in a PR of its own with a test.Self-review. A review of this diff raised the four concerns below. Part of its output was lost before I read it, so this list can be incomplete.
extract(dir). Addressed in part: those tests now coverextract(dir). The two extractors behindextract()still differ, as "Left out" says.Archive::read_free, a title that said "damaged archives", and conflicts with open PRs. Addressed: the method is removed, the title now names header reads, and the conflicts are listed below.The review also found that one reason in the design rationale is wrong. It said that no reference tar reader drops a damaged block without an error. node-tar 6.2.1 emits a
warnevent, skips the block and resolves. It rejects only withstrict: true. This body does not use that reason.Open PRs that touch the same lines (checked with
git merge-tree). These merge into main today and conflict with this branch: #41503 (extract_tarball.rs), #41750 and #43144 (lib.rs,Archive.rs,archive.test.ts), #31979 (lib.rs,pack_command.rs), #42400 (pm_diff_command.rs). So does the draft #36542 (lib.rs,Archive.rs,archive.test.ts): it replaces the write loop ofextract()with a glob, which holds the failed-read arm of this PR. These conflict with main already, and with this branch too: #37678, #39724, #31585. This branch merges into main (bc7a813b10) with no conflict.History of this PR. The first version made
files()andextract()with a glob skip a damaged block, asextract(dir)did. Three reviews objected, and I measured that the skip adds entries that are not in the archive. I had written this fix without a design review. That review then picked the shape above. Earlier notes of mine were wrong in two places, and both are corrected here: the six files intest/js/bun/fixtures/sparse-tarsare not sparse entries, and a check offiles()cannot see a symlink or a directory, because it lists regular files only.Tests run. Debug build:
test/js/bun/archive.test.ts(120 pass, 1 skip; on main 12 of them fail),bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts(25 pass),bun-create.test.ts(21 pass). Release build of this branch:bun-pm-diff.test.ts(47 pass),bun-pack.test.ts(86 pass),bun-publish.test.ts(46 pass),bun-create.test.ts(21 pass),bun-install-streaming-extract.test.ts(25 pass). On the debug build, on this loaded host, two pm-diff tests and one pack test exceed the 5 s limit, and the publish file times out in a setup hook. The two pm-diff tests time out without this change too. I did not run that control for pack and publish. All of these files pass on the release build of this branch.bun run rust:check-all: 12 targets ok.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/archive.test.ts