feat(packages): fail at unpack when a core arrives without its submodules - #1401
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…ules Implements the generalizable half of #1380 and #1400: a post-unpack sanity check, rather than fixing one core's URL at a time. GitHub's auto-generated source archives omit submodules by design — the directories are created, the contents are not. Several Arduino cores keep libraries as submodules, so an archive-sourced package extracts to something that looks complete and fails much later, inside the core's own headers: LittleFS.h:38:10: fatal error: ../lib/littlefs/lfs.h: No such file That error is unguardable from the consumer side. `__has_include(<LittleFS.h>)` passes, because the header is present and only the thing it includes is missing. The archive carries `.gitmodules` even when it drops the submodule contents, which is what makes this cheap: the file names exactly which directories are supposed to be non-empty. `staged_install` now checks them before committing the staging directory, so a bad package never reaches the cache and the error names the empty directories and the likely cause instead of surfacing as a missing header three layers down. Two deliberate non-behaviours: - No `.gitmodules` is clean, not suspicious. Most packages are plain archives rather than git checkouts. - A declared submodule whose directory is *missing entirely* is not reported. Git records the directory itself in the archive, so its absence means an incomplete extract — a different failure, and claiming otherwise would send the reader after the wrong cause. The message only blames the archive form when the URL actually is one (`/archive/refs/`), so a project that ships a broken release asset does not get advice to switch to the release asset. Scans the staging root and one level down, since archives usually nest under a single version directory (`esp8266-3.1.2/`) — one extra `read_dir`. This would have caught #1380 at package time. It does not by itself fix #1400: samd has no release asset to switch to, so that core needs a submodule-aware fetch or a vendor bundle. It will now fail loudly instead of producing a confusing compile error. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe package fetch crate now detects empty Git submodules in extracted packages. Staged installation scans package roots before validation and atomic commit, then returns contextual errors for affected archives. ChangesEmpty submodule detection
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new unpack check can follow malformed submodule paths outside the extracted package or reject installation unexpectedly when absolute, parent-directory, or symlink paths are declared. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but path containment should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant staged_install
participant submodule_scan_roots
participant find_empty_submodules
participant empty_submodule_error
staged_install->>submodule_scan_roots: determine package roots
submodule_scan_roots-->>staged_install: staging and child roots
staged_install->>find_empty_submodules: inspect each root
find_empty_submodules-->>staged_install: empty submodule records
staged_install->>empty_submodule_error: format package error
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`ban_std_pathbuf` rejected `EmptySubmodule::extracted_at: PathBuf` on the Dylint gate. The repo's rule is `fbuild_core::path::NormalizedPath` for public path surfaces, and a struct field reported out of a package check is exactly that. My own gate missed it: I ran clippy and the unit tests on this new file but not dylint, so the one lint that governs new path types never ran until CI. Fixed and re-verified with `dylint --all` on the crate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@crates/fbuild-packages-fetch/src/submodules.rs`:
- Around line 80-84: Validate each declared path before and after joining in the
submodule extraction flow around is_empty_dir and NormalizedPath::from: reject
absolute paths and any ParentDir, RootDir, or Windows Prefix components, then
verify the resolved path remains within root so symlinks cannot escape it.
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| let extracted_at = root.join(&declared); | ||
| is_empty_dir(&extracted_at).then(|| EmptySubmodule { | ||
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According to the Rust standard-library documentation for the repository's declared Rust toolchain, what does std::path::Path::join do when its argument is absolute, and how does Path::components represent .. and platform path prefixes?
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According to the Rust standard library documentation, the behavior of std::path::Path::join and the representation of components are as follows: Path::join and Absolute Arguments When the argument provided to Path::join is absolute, it replaces the current path [1][2]. More specifically, the method creates an owned PathBuf with the path adjoined to self, but if the path argument is absolute, self is effectively ignored, and the argument becomes the result [1][3]. On Windows, this behavior is nuanced [1][3]: - If the argument has a root but no prefix (e.g., \windows), it replaces and returns everything except for the prefix (if any) of the original path [1][3]. - If the argument has a prefix but no root, the original path is ignored, and the argument is returned [1][3]. - If the original path has a verbatim prefix (e.g., \?\C:\windows) and the argument is not empty, the new path is normalized to remove all references to. and.. [1][3]. Path::components and Representation The Path::components method returns an iterator over the components of a path, where each component is represented by the Component enum [4][5]. - Representation of ..: The .. path component is represented by the Component::ParentDir variant [4][5]. - Representation of Platform Prefixes: Platform-specific path prefixes (which occur on Windows) are represented by the Component::Prefix variant [4][5]. This variant holds a PrefixComponent struct, which encapsulates the raw, unparsed OsStr slice of the prefix as well as the parsed prefix data (accessible via the kind method) [6][7]. Unix paths do not have prefixes, so this variant does not occur there [6][8].
Citations:
- 1: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/struct.Path.html
- 2: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/path/struct.Path.html
- 3: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/std/src/path.rs
- 4: https://dev-doc.rust-lang.org/std/path/enum.Component.html
- 5: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/enum.Component.html
- 6: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/struct.PrefixComponent.html
- 7: https://stdrs.dev/nightly/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rustc_std_workspace_std/path/struct.PrefixComponent.html
- 8: https://docs.rs/pub-just/latest/pub_just/path/struct.PrefixComponent.html
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cat -n crates/fbuild-packages-fetch/src/submodules.rs | sed -n '1,180p'
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rg -n -C 5 'struct NormalizedPath|impl NormalizedPath|fn (new|from|join|relative_to|canonical)' crates/fbuild-core crates
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sed -n '35,145p' crates/fbuild-core/src/path.rs
sed -n '360,435p' crates/fbuild-core/src/path.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- package-fetch extraction references ---'
rg -n -C 3 --glob '*.rs' 'staging_path|extract|unpack|tar::|ZipArchive|archive' crates/fbuild-packages-fetch/src
printf '%s\n' '--- focused source guard check ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
p = Path("crates/fbuild-packages-fetch/src/submodules.rs")
s = p.read_text()
start = s.index("pub fn find_empty_submodules")
end = s.index("\n}", start) + 2
body = s[start:end]
print(body)
print("pre_join_path_component_guard=",
any(token in body for token in ("Component::", ".components()", "is_absolute()", "starts_with(")))
PY
printf '%s\n' '--- lexical path-behavior verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import PurePosixPath
root = PurePosixPath("/tmp/staging/root")
cases = ["libraries/foo", "../empty", "../../empty", "/tmp/outside", "a/../../empty"]
for declared in cases:
joined = PurePosixPath(declared) if declared.startswith("/") else root / declared
print(f"{declared!r} -> {str(joined)!r}")
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s = Path("crates/fbuild-packages-fetch/src/submodules.rs").read_text()
start = s.index("pub fn find_empty_submodules")
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body = s[start:end]
print("Component::" in body, ".components()" in body, "is_absolute()" in body)
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printf '%s\n' '--- documented lexical join cases ---'
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from pathlib import PurePosixPath
root = PurePosixPath("/tmp/staging/root")
for declared in ("libraries/foo", "../empty", "../../empty", "/tmp/outside", "a/../../empty"):
joined = PurePosixPath(declared) if declared.startswith("/") else root / declared
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def raw_join(root: Path, declared: str) -> Path:
# Equivalent to Path::join for the POSIX cases under test:
# an absolute argument replaces the base; otherwise it is appended.
return Path(declared) if Path(declared).is_absolute() else root / declared
with TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
base = Path(tmp)
root = base / "root"
outside = base / "outside"
root.mkdir()
outside.mkdir()
(outside / "empty").mkdir()
(root / "link").symlink_to(outside, target_is_directory=True)
for declared in ("../outside/empty", str(outside / "empty"), "link/empty"):
target = raw_join(root, declared)
print(f"{declared!r} -> {target!s}; is_dir={target.is_dir()}; entries={list(target.iterdir())}")
assert raw_join(root, "../outside/empty") == base / "outside" / "empty"
assert raw_join(root, str(outside / "empty")) == outside / "empty"
assert (root / "link" / "empty").resolve().is_relative_to(root.resolve()) is False
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from pathlib import Path
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def raw_join(root: Path, declared: str) -> Path:
return Path(declared) if Path(declared).is_absolute() else root / declared
with TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
base = Path(tmp)
root = base / "root"
outside = base / "outside"
root.mkdir()
outside.mkdir()
(outside / "empty").mkdir()
(root / "link").symlink_to(outside, target_is_directory=True)
cases = ("../outside/empty", str(outside / "empty"), "link/empty")
for declared in cases:
target = raw_join(root, declared)
print(f"{declared!r} -> {target.resolve()}; empty={not any(target.iterdir())}")
assert raw_join(root, "../outside/empty").resolve() == outside / "empty"
assert raw_join(root, str(outside / "empty")).resolve() == outside / "empty"
assert (root / "link" / "empty").resolve().is_relative_to(root.resolve()) is False
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Keep declared submodule paths inside root.
root.join(&declared) accepts absolute paths and .. components. A package-controlled .gitmodules can make is_empty_dir inspect an empty directory outside the extraction root and reject installation. Reject ParentDir, RootDir, and Windows Prefix components. Also check resolved paths, because a symlink can bypass lexical checks. Add tests for absolute, parent-directory, and symlink paths.
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In `@crates/fbuild-packages-fetch/src/submodules.rs` around lines 80 - 84,
Validate each declared path before and after joining in the submodule extraction
flow around is_empty_dir and NormalizedPath::from: reject absolute paths and any
ParentDir, RootDir, or Windows Prefix components, then verify the resolved path
remains within root so symlinks cannot escape it. Preserve valid in-root
submodule handling and add tests covering absolute, parent-directory, and
symlink escapes.
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Implements the generalizable half of #1380 and #1400 — the post-unpack sanity
check both issues suggest — rather than chasing one core's URL at a time.
What it catches
GitHub's auto-generated source archives omit submodules by design: the
directories are created, the contents are not. Several Arduino cores keep
libraries as submodules, so the package extracts to something that looks
complete and fails much later, inside the core's own headers:
That error is unguardable from the consumer side —
__has_include(<LittleFS.h>)passes, because the header is present and only the thing it includes is
missing. There is no preprocessor test a sketch can write.
The archive carries
.gitmoduleseven when it drops the contents, which iswhat makes this cheap: the file names exactly which directories must be
non-empty.
staged_installchecks them before committing staging, so a badpackage never reaches the cache.
Two deliberate non-behaviours
Both are tested, because both are ways this check could be worse than
nothing:
.gitmodulesis clean, not suspicious. Most packages are plainarchives, not git checkouts.
reported. Git records the directory itself in the archive, so its absence
means an incomplete extract — a different failure. Reporting it here would
send the reader after the wrong cause.
The message also only blames the archive form when the URL actually is one
(
/archive/refs/). A project that ships a genuinely broken release assetshould not be told to switch to the release asset.
Scope, honestly
This would have caught #1380 at package time. It does not by itself fix
#1400 — samd has no release asset to switch to, so that core still needs a
submodule-aware fetch or a vendor bundle. What changes is that it will fail
loudly at unpack with a message naming the empty directories, instead of
producing a confusing compile error much later.
I have also not reproduced a samd failure (noted on #1400); this check is
what would tell us definitively, since it fires on the package rather than
requiring a sketch that happens to include TinyUSB.
Verification
soldr cargo test -p fbuild-packages-fetch --lib— 144 passed-D warnings— cleantempfiletrees, including the exact ESP8266 core cached without the littlefs submodule; any <LittleFS.h> include fails #1380 shape:directories present, contents absent, vendored
lfs.csitting next to theempty
lib/littlefs— which is what made the original failure look strangerthan it was.
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