fix(tools): rewrite Windows POSIX /home paths and hint on miss - #977
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WalkthroughThe change adds Windows-aware handling for synthetic POSIX workspace paths. It rewrites recognized prefixes, annotates missing-path errors, rejects unsafe Windows path forms, applies GOOS-specific joining, confines paths, and rechecks resolved write targets for symlink swaps. ChangesPOSIX paths on Windows
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Windows path handling can currently panic on whitespace-only input, and rooted-path normalization may redirect an operation to an unintended workspace file. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Tool
participant WorkspaceResolver
participant PathNormalizer
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Tool->>WorkspaceResolver: resolve requested path
WorkspaceResolver->>PathNormalizer: classify and rewrite synthetic POSIX prefix
PathNormalizer-->>WorkspaceResolver: return workspace-relative path
WorkspaceResolver->>Filesystem: check containment and evaluate symlinks
Filesystem-->>WorkspaceResolver: return resolved path or missing-path error
WorkspaceResolver-->>Tool: return result or annotated error
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In `@internal/tools/workspace.go`:
- Around line 94-103: Add regression tests that directly exercise
resolveWorkspaceTargetPathForGOOS for the synthetic POSIX rewrite: verify a
missing target such as /tmp/zero/new.txt resolves successfully, and verify a
traversal path such as /home/alice/zero/../../new.txt returns the expected
confinement error. Cover both the successful and failure paths without changing
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- Around line 72-75: Validate lexical containment after converting the rewritten
target to an absolute path and before calling filepath.EvalSymlinks, returning
outsideWorkspaceError for paths that escape even when the target is missing.
Preserve the existing post-resolution symlink containment check and add a
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- Around line 221-269: Update resolveWorkspacePathForGOOS and
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14-25: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not rewrite backslash-rooted Windows paths.
On Windows,
filepath.ToSlashconverts\tmp\zero\notes.txtto/tmp/zero/notes.txtbefore the synthetic-prefix check. With workspace basenamezero, the rewrite can returnnotes.txt, causing both resolvers to target a workspace file instead of the original rooted path. Classify raw/...paths before separator conversion, or reject a raw leading backslash. Add a Windows-executed regression test; the simulated-goostest passes on Unix becausefilepath.ToSlashuses the host separator.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/tools/posix_windows_path.go`:
- Around line 14-25: Update looksLikePosixAbsolute to classify raw rooted paths
before filepath.ToSlash conversion, rejecting Windows paths with a leading
backslash so they are not rewritten as POSIX paths. Add a regression test
executed on Windows, rather than relying only on simulated-goos tests, covering
a backslash-rooted path and confirming both resolvers preserve the original
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Your CI had never actually run: the fork workflow gate held it at action_required, so "CI will run them" never happened. I have released it. It found a build break immediately, and there is a second issue that stops the feature firing on this repo.
Before those, the part that matters most, since rewriting a path before the confinement check is where this kind of change usually goes wrong: containment holds. I resolved 16 adversarial inputs through resolveWorkspacePathForGOOS("windows", ...) against a real workspace with a real file planted outside it. Every escape is rejected with outsideWorkspaceError: .. climbing out through each rewritten prefix (/home/alice/zero/../../secret.txt, /tmp/zero/../secret.txt), volume-relative \Windows\System32\..., \..\secret.txt, UNC //server/share/x, drive-absolute C:\Windows\notepad.exe, and plain ../secret.txt. Nothing resolved outside the root. Pulling the lexical check up before EvalSymlinks is a real improvement too: a missing ../../x used to come back as a bare ENOENT rather than a confinement error.
Blocker: this does not compile on Linux or macOS
internal/tools/posix_windows_path.go:73:
switch repo {
case "", ".", "..", string(filepath.Separator), "/":filepath.Separator is / on Unix, so string(filepath.Separator) and "/" are the same constant there and Go rejects the duplicate case. On Windows the separator is \, so it builds. I reduced it to a standalone file to be sure it is this and not something upstream:
windows : compiles
linux : duplicate case "/" (constant of type string) in expression switch
darwin : duplicate case "/" (constant of type string) in expression switch
That is why ubuntu, macos, Performance Smoke and Security all fail together. Dropping the literal "/" is enough, since the separator case already covers it on each host.
Worth noting this is also why testing on a Windows checkout alone would not have caught it. The whole file is Windows-only in intent, but it still has to compile everywhere.
The rewrite does not fire on this repository
matchSyntheticHomePrefix compares the basename with parts[2] != repo, which is case-sensitive. This checkout is Zero, and the GitHub repo is zero, so the lowercase form a model is most likely to hallucinate misses:
ws=Zero /home/alice/zero/go.mod rewrite=/home/alice/zero/go.mod ERROR
ws=Zero /home/alice/Zero/go.mod rewrite=go.mod rel=go.mod
Windows filesystems are case-insensitive, so zero and Zero name the same directory and the comparison is the only thing separating them. strings.EqualFold for the basename comparisons fixes it. The lead segments are a different matter: /Users is genuinely capitalised and /home is not, so I would leave those exact.
Note, not a blocker
The rewrite applies to resolveWorkspaceTargetPath, so it relocates writes as well as reads:
main: /tmp/zero/notes.txt -> <workspace>\tmp\zero\notes.txt
this: /tmp/zero/notes.txt -> <workspace>\notes.txt
Both stay inside the workspace so there is no confinement question, but a model that deliberately writes scratch files under /tmp/<repo>/ will now find them at the workspace root instead. Probably what you want given the issue, just worth being deliberate about.
Requesting changes for the build break and the case comparison. The approach itself is sound and the confinement work is good.
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1-26: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not rewrite rooted Windows paths as synthetic POSIX paths.
On Windows,
filepath.ToSlashconverts\tmp\zero\file.txtto/tmp/zero/file.txt.looksLikePosixAbsolutethen accepts it. Before Windows path handling runs,rewritePosixWorkspacePathcan striptmp/zeroand targetfile.txtin the workspace instead of the requested rooted path.Reject Windows backslashes before normalization, or make the detector target-OS aware. Add regression tests for
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In `@internal/tools/posix_windows_path.go`:
- Around line 1-26: Update looksLikePosixAbsolute to reject rooted Windows paths
containing backslashes before filepath.ToSlash normalization, or otherwise make
its detection target-OS aware so \tmp\zero\file.txt and
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- Around line 14-25: Update looksLikePosixAbsolute to reject inputs whose
original, untrimmed path begins with a backslash before applying
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- Around line 86-96: Update posixPathSegments to discard empty interior segments
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The build break and the case comparison are both fixed, and I re-ran the containment probe on this head: zero, ZERO and Zero all resolve inside a workspace named Zero, and every escape is still rejected, including the newly rejected rooted-backslash forms. Rejecting a leading backslash before ToSlash is a good catch that I had not asked for.
CI is now red on Windows only. Four failures, and one of them is not yours:
TestExecCommandForegroundServerReturnsSessionAndServesHTTP is a known pre-existing flake on the Windows runner (the foreground server races a 5s startup timeout). It fails on unrelated PRs too. Please ignore it.
The other three are real.
The hint leaks what the confinement error deliberately withholds
TestLSPNavigateConfinesPathToWorkspace is pre-existing, from #706, and the assertion says why it is there:
// The error must not leak the resolved absolute path.
if strings.Contains(got.Output, "/etc/") && strings.Contains(got.Output, root) {The new hint prints both halves:
Error: lsp_navigate GetFileAttributesEx ...\001\etc: The system cannot find the file specified.;
host is Windows and "/etc/passwd" looks like a POSIX absolute path;
use a workspace-relative path or a Windows path (workspace root: C:\...\001)
annotatePosixWindowsPathError exempts outsideWorkspaceError, but that exemption does not cover this case: /etc/passwd on Windows joins into the workspace as <root>\etc\passwd, which does not exist, so it arrives as a missing-path error and gets annotated. The result is that an attempt to reach outside the workspace now answers with the workspace root.
Naming the workspace root is the part worth removing. Saying "this looks like a POSIX absolute path, use a workspace-relative one" is useful and discloses nothing; the root is what the older guard was protecting.
isAbsForGOOS answers for the host, not for the goos it is given
Your own two tests catch this:
isAbsForGOOS("linux", "/tmp/x") = false, want true
joinAgainstRoot(linux, ...) should keep POSIX abs, got "C:\...\zero\tmp\does-not-exist-xyz"
The non-Windows branch delegates to filepath.IsAbs, which is the host's implementation. On a Windows runner filepath.IsAbs("/tmp/x") is false, so the function contradicts its own name and joinAgainstRoot then folds a POSIX-absolute path into the workspace. Production always passes runtime.GOOS, so the two agree there and only the tests see it, but the tests are asserting the contract the function claims and they are right to fail.
Deciding it directly rather than delegating fixes both:
if goos != "windows" {
return strings.HasPrefix(filepath.ToSlash(path), "/")
}Good tests, incidentally. They failed for the right reason and pointed straight at the cause.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P1] Rebase onto current
mainand resolve the current review branch against it. The PR merge base is27b319ca, while livemainis1b5db176(including #968 and #991). There is no merge conflict in the current merge-tree check, but repository policy requires a fresh base before review. -
Correct the PR description's claim that the missing-path hint includes the workspace root. The current implementation intentionally excludes it to avoid leaking the root alongside a POSIX escape attempt, and the regression test enforces that behavior.
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[P1] Recheck the resolved target before the final write
internal/tools/write_file.go:107This PR's Windows rewrite resolves
/home/<user>/<repo>/dir/filetodir/fileand writes that resolvedabsolutePath, but the existing final symlink guard rechecks the original POSIX argument. On Windows that original argument is interpreted as a different in-workspacehome/<user>/<repo>/dir/filepath, so the rewrite activates a gap: a symlink swapped intodirafter resolution is never checked beforeos.WriteFilefollows it outside the workspace. Recheck the actual resolved target that will be written (and cover the sameedit_fileflow) so the rewrite retains the existing write-time confinement guarantee.
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The absolute-path rejection is closed: isAbsForGOOS decides directly now, and TestIsAbsForGOOS and TestJoinAgainstRootWindowsPosix both pass.
Two things still blocking.
The workspace root is still echoed to the model
3c2e3c58 removed the words "workspace root" but not the leak. TestLSPNavigateConfinesPathToWorkspace fails on this head and passes on base:
lsp_navigate_test.go:37: path "/etc/passwd": error should not echo an absolute
out-of-workspace path: "Error: lsp_navigate GetFileAttributesEx <ABSOLUTE-ROOT>\etc:
The system cannot find the file specified.; host is Windows and \"/etc/passwd\" looks
like a POSIX absolute path; use a workspace-relative path or a Windows path"
annotatePosixWindowsPathError wraps the raw *os.PathError, which carries the joined root, and then appends the requested POSIX path. Base emits the root half already; what is new is composing it with the %q echo. One probe for /etc/passwd now hands back the absolute workspace root.
Your two tests cannot see it. TestAnnotatePosixWindowsPathError feeds a hand-built PathError whose .Path is /tmp/does-not-exist-xyz, where the real resolver's carries the joined root, and TestResolveWorkspacePathAnnotatesPosixMissOnWindows asserts only that the phrase "workspace root" is absent, not that root itself is. Adding strings.Contains(msg, root) to the second one makes it fail.
Worth knowing why CI will not catch this either: on the Windows runner t.TempDir() returns the 8.3 form while EvalSymlinks expands it, so the strings.Contains guard compares two different spellings of the same directory and can never fire. That short-name form is visible in this PR's own windows-latest log. I reproduced the same vacuity locally with a case-differing root and no 8.3 involved.
The rewrite fires unconditionally, so the guess beats the fact
workspace.go:44 and :98 rewrite before anything touches the filesystem, with no fallback when the literal path exists. Driven end to end through the real tools with the file present only at the literal path:
HEAD read_file("/tmp/zero/only.md") -> error, "looks like a POSIX absolute path"
BASE -> ok, contents returned
HEAD write_file("/tmp/zero/only.md") -> ok, "Created only.md (1 lines)."
a stray <ROOT>\only.md is created; tmp/zero/only.md still holds the old content
BASE -> ok, "Overwrote tmp/zero/only.md"
The write is lost and the tool reports success naming a file that is not the one the model asked for. Because the redirected target does not exist, neither the "already exists, pass overwrite" check nor the seen-file gate fires. With both copies present it reads and overwrites the wrong one, and edit_file reports that it could not find the exact string. The doc comment says the rewrite does not invent files, which is true, but it silently re-addresses existing ones and nothing pins that.
Trying the literal path first and rewriting only when it does not resolve closes the shadowing, the lost write, and one more thing worth folding into the same pass: recheckScopedWriteTarget (write_file.go:107, edit_file.go:153) still walks the raw path while os.WriteFile uses the rewritten one, so for exactly the paths this feature introduces the symlink recheck walks a different tree, misses on the first segment and returns nil. I could not fire the symlink branch on an unelevated box, so I am reporting the divergence as confirmed and the TOCTOU as unproven.
Two things I want to keep, credit where it is due: rejecting //srv/share/x lexically, where base did a live UNC network round trip on model input, and rejecting C:x, which base accepted as an ADS path.
Models on Windows pass /home/user/<repo>/... into read_file, glob, and grep. Windows joins those onto the workspace, which surfaces GetFileAttributesEx errors. Strip synthetic /home, /Users, /tmp, and /var/tmp prefixes when they include the workspace basename, and annotate remaining POSIX-absolute misses with the workspace root and host OS. Fixes Gitlawb#972
A rewritten ../../missing path failed EvalSymlinks with NotExist and got a POSIX Windows hint instead of outsideWorkspaceError. Check containment after Abs first. Cover resolveWorkspaceTargetPath rewrite and the escaped write-target path.
resolveWorkspacePathForGOOS("windows") still used host filepath.IsAbs
and Join, so on Linux CI /tmp/does-not-exist-xyz was absolute and the
missing-path hint test hit confinement instead. Join POSIX-absolute
paths onto the workspace when goos is windows.
Drop the duplicate "/" switch case so workspaceBasename compiles when filepath.Separator is already "/". Compare the repo path segment with EqualFold so a Zero checkout still rewrites /home/.../zero/... on Windows.
looksLikePosixAbsolute ran ToSlash first, so \tmp\zero\file became /tmp/zero/file and rewrote to a workspace-relative file. Reject a leading backslash before slash normalization. Keep /tmp/zero/file rewriting as the POSIX hallucination.
annotatePosixWindowsPathError named the workspace root, so a Windows /etc/passwd miss (joined as <root>\etc\passwd) printed both /etc/ and the root. Keep the POSIX-vs-Windows hint without the root. isAbsForGOOS now treats a leading "/" as absolute on non-Windows goos instead of host filepath.IsAbs, so linux paths stay absolute on Windows CI. posixPathSegments drops empty interior segments so /tmp/zero//file rewrites to file.
The Windows POSIX rewrite was shadowing files that already existed at the literal join, and missing-path hints wrapped *os.PathError whose Path still named the workspace root. Recheck the resolved write target so a post-resolve symlink swap is not missed after a rewrite.
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- Line 538: Update the symlink setup around os.Symlink in the outer-symlink test
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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The repeated findings on this PR are coming from one underlying boundary problem rather than a collection of unrelated edge cases. The new Windows path translation is currently a local resolver step that runs after other subsystems have already interpreted and authorized the original spelling. As a result, four decisions can disagree: what kind of path was supplied, whether the literal or synthetic interpretation won, which target the sandbox authorized, and which target the tool finally reads or modifies. The literal-path probe also reduces “missing” and “could not determine because of an I/O error” to the same boolean. Fixing individual spellings without aligning those decisions leaves another alias, error path, or tool consumer able to select a different identity.
Please address that shared contract in this revision:
- Classify the input explicitly enough to distinguish accepted synthetic POSIX prefixes, Windows drive-absolute paths, Windows drive-relative forms, rooted-current-drive paths, UNC/device paths, and ordinary relative paths. Drive-relative forms such as
C:fooshould be rejected rather than coerced into either an ordinary file or an ADS-relative spelling. - Select the literal or rewritten target once. Preserve the original spelling for diagnostics if useful, but carry the selected target as an explicit value rather than independently reconstructing it in policy and execution layers.
- Preserve the result of the literal probe: existing, confirmed absent, or indeterminate/error. Only confirmed absence should enable the documented missing-target rewrite; permission and other I/O errors should propagate or fail closed.
- Authorize the selected target before direct I/O. Scope checks,
DenyRead/DenyWrite, protected-metadata handling, and permission prompts must all evaluate the same target the tool consumes. Existing write-time rechecks should continue to operate on that target. - Add end-to-end Windows regressions through the registry/sandbox and real file tools, in addition to helper tests. A useful matrix is: every accepted synthetic prefix × direct read/write × protected metadata/deny lists/scope, plus existing/missing/error literal probes and the Windows path categories above.
This does not require a large rewrite. A small shared resolution result, or a second policy evaluation of the resolved target with equivalent guarantees, is sufficient. The important property is that target selection happens with full error information and that authorization and I/O cannot diverge afterward.
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[P1] Authorize the rewritten target, not the original spelling
internal/tools/workspace.go:44
Registry.RunWithOptionsevaluates the original arguments before this Windows-only rewrite runs. For/home/alice/zero/.git/config, Windows path handling causes the policy layer to evaluate a path under<workspace>\home\alice\zero\...; protected-metadata detection therefore does not see the target.gitcomponent at the workspace root. This resolver later strips the synthetic prefix and the direct tool consumes<workspace>\.git\configwithout a second sandbox decision. The same identity mismatch bypasses aDenyReadorDenyWriteentry for<workspace>\secret.txt: policy compares the deny entry with the longer original identity, then the tool reads or writes the denied root file after rewriting.This affects direct consumers of the resolver, including
read_file,read_minified_file,list_directory,view_image,lsp_navigate,write_file, andedit_file. Grep/glob have per-entry exclusions, but those sibling safeguards do not protect these direct consumers. The root fix is to ensure the resolved target—not merely the user-supplied spelling—is the identity evaluated for scope, deny lists, protected metadata, and permissions before I/O. Use that same selected target for any later write recheck and the actual filesystem call. Add end-to-end Windows tests that invoke the registry/sandbox and a real read or write tool for every accepted prefix, with protected.git/.zero/.agentstargets, explicitDenyRead/DenyWriteentries, workspace boundaries, and configured extra roots. -
[P2] Do not rewrite after a non-missing literal probe error
internal/tools/posix_windows_path.go:231
existingLiteralPosixWorkspacePathreducesos.Lstat(target)toerr == nil, so confirmed absence, access denial, and transient I/O failure all becomefalse. Both read and write resolvers interpret that value as permission to select the rewritten counterpart. For example, if the literal<workspace>\tmp\zero\locked\only.mdis behind an unreadable parent but<workspace>\locked\only.mdis accessible, a read can return the latter file and a write/edit can modify it successfully instead of reporting the literal path's access error. The review probe reproduced this selection in both resolvers.The root issue is that target selection needs three outcomes, not a boolean: the literal exists, it is definitely absent, or its identity could not be determined. Return a structured result or
(exists, error)equivalent; rewrite only foros.IsNotExist, preserve the existing-literal precedence, and propagate or fail closed for every other error. Regression coverage should exercise both read and write resolution with an existing final target, a confirmed missing target (which must retain the documented rewrite), and an injected or hermetic non-IsNotExistLstaterror. -
[P2] Reject drive-relative Windows paths without retargeting them
internal/tools/posix_windows_path.go:54
The letter-colon test returns true for every drive prefix, includingC:fooandC:, even though Windows defines those forms as drive-relative rather than absolute.joinAgainstRootconsequently skips the workspace join, and the later Windowsfilepath.Abs/FullPathresolution uses per-drive current-directory state. A request can therefore be retargeted to an ordinary file such as the workspace'sfoorather than being rejected. The merge-base behavior is not a safe fallback either: joining the spelling can expose ADS semantics. The requested outcome is rejection, consistent with the branch review that called outC:x, not restoration of the base behavior.Replace the broad letter-colon shortcut with path-kind handling that distinguishes drive-absolute (
C:\\foo,C:/foo) from drive-relative (C:foo,C:), as well as rooted-current-drive, UNC/device, accepted synthetic POSIX, and ordinary relative paths. Test the final resolver result or rejection for each category rather than only the classifier boolean, so a future classifier change cannot silently alter the consumed identity.
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The repeated findings on this PR are manifestations of one unresolved boundary problem, not a collection of unrelated Windows path edge cases. The new POSIX-to-Windows translation currently runs as a local filesystem-resolver step after other subsystems have already interpreted the original spelling. That allows several decisions which must describe one file to disagree:
- Input classification: whether the argument is an accepted synthetic POSIX path, an ordinary relative path, a Windows drive-absolute path, a drive-relative path, a rooted-current-drive path, or a UNC/device path.
- Target selection: whether an existing literal join wins, or whether a confirmed-missing literal is replaced by its synthetic workspace-relative counterpart.
- Authorization identity: which path the sandbox evaluates for workspace scope, extra roots,
DenyRead/AllowRead,DenyWrite/AllowWrite, protected metadata, permission prompts, grants, and workspace auto-allow. - Execution identity: which path the direct tool, scan, tracker, diagnostics, formatter, rewind logic, and final filesystem operation actually consume.
- Write-time identity: which lexical path is checked for pre-existing symlink traversal and which resolved path is checked again for a later swap before the write.
Right now those stages independently reconstruct or discard information. The sandbox authorizes the original spelling, the resolver may later select another file, the literal probe reduces “confirmed absent” and “could not determine” to the same boolean, and the edit recheck replaces the lexical identity with the resolved identity. A local fix to any one spelling can therefore close one report while opening another alias, error, policy, or symlink path. That is why this PR has accumulated several review rounds.
Please address the shared contract in this revision rather than patching the examples independently:
- Classify the input once and retain that classification.
- Select the literal or rewritten target once, preserving the original spelling separately for diagnostics.
- Represent the literal probe with at least three outcomes: existing, confirmed absent, and indeterminate/error. Only confirmed absence should enable the rewrite.
- Carry the selected target as an explicit value into the registry/sandbox decision, or perform an equivalent second policy evaluation before any effect. Scope, deny/allow lists, protected metadata, grants, prompts, auto-allow, resource identity, and I/O must all govern the same target.
- Preserve both write guarantees: reject a pre-existing lexical symlink path and recheck the selected resolved target for a post-resolution swap. Do not trade one guarantee for the other.
- Compare canonical paths in platform tests, especially across Windows 8.3/long-name and macOS alias spellings.
This does not require a broad redesign. A small shared resolution result—for example, original input, path kind, literal-probe state, selected target, canonical target, and display path—would be enough if every policy and execution consumer uses it consistently. The important invariant is: one selected filesystem identity is authorized and consumed, without losing the original lexical identity or probe error.
Please add end-to-end Windows regressions through the registry/sandbox and real tools, not only resolver helpers. The matrix should cover:
- every accepted synthetic prefix (
/home,/Users,/tmp,/var/tmp); - an existing literal, confirmed-missing literal, and injected/hermetic non-
IsNotExistliteral-probe error; - representative direct reads and writes, including
read_file,write_file, andedit_file; - protected
.git,.zero, and.agentstargets; - explicit
DenyReadandDenyWriteentries; - workspace scope and configured extra roots;
- a pre-existing in-workspace symlink alias and a post-resolution symlink swap;
- drive-absolute, drive-relative, rooted-current-drive, UNC/device, ordinary relative, and whitespace-only inputs;
- canonical expected paths on an actual Windows runner.
The individual findings below identify the current concrete failures and remain useful as regression cases, but fixing the shared identity-selection contract should resolve them together and avoid another round of alias-by-alias feedback.
Merge readiness
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Findings
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[P1] Authorize the target selected by the Windows rewrite
internal/tools/workspace.go:52
The registry callsSandbox.Evaluatewith the original arguments before this resolver decides whether the literal or synthetic interpretation wins. On Windows, the sequence for/home/u/zero/secret.txtis therefore:- Sandbox path extraction sees the original spelling.
- Windows treats that spelling as the workspace-relative literal
home\u\zero\secret.txtfor policy purposes. - A
DenyReadorDenyWriteentry for<workspace>\secret.txtdoes not match that longer literal identity. - This resolver strips
/home/u/zeroand selects<workspace>\secret.txt. - The direct tool reads or modifies the denied file without another sandbox decision.
The same mismatch affects protected metadata.
/home/u/zero/.git/configis classified before rewriting as a nestedhome\u\zero\.git\config, so the first component is not.gitand workspace write auto-allow can succeed. The resolver then selects the real root.git/config. This is not limited to one tool: direct consumers includeread_file,read_minified_file,list_directory,view_image,lsp_navigate,write_file, andedit_file. Grep/glob have per-entry read exclusions, but those sibling safeguards do not repair the direct consumers, writes, protected-metadata prompt, or grant identity.Ensure the selected literal-or-rewritten identity is the identity used by workspace/extra-root scope, deny and allow lists, protected metadata, permission/grant matching, auto-allow, resource classification, and the eventual filesystem call. Preserve the original spelling only for diagnostics and audit output. The current
TestReadFileToolRewritesSyntheticPosixPrefixOnWindowscalls the resolver andos.ReadFiledirectly, so it cannot detect this registry/sandbox split; add registry-level read and write tests with real policy entries. -
[P1] Keep both lexical and resolved symlink checks for edits
internal/tools/edit_file.go:156
PassingabsolutePathhere fixes the reported post-resolution swap case, but replacingrequestedPathremoves a different guarantee that existed at the merge base.resolveScopedPathhas already calledEvalSymlinks, soabsolutePathno longer records whether the caller reached the target through a symlink that existed before resolution.A concrete sequence is
alias -> .gitfollowed byedit_file("alias/config"):- The sandbox deliberately allows an in-workspace symlink whose final target remains under a granted root.
- Protected-metadata classification sees the lexical first component
alias, not.git, so it does not suppress workspace auto-allow. - Read resolution follows the symlink and returns the canonical
<workspace>/.git/config. - This recheck receives that already-resolved path, walks
.git/configdirectly, and sees no symlink. os.WriteFilemodifies protected metadata.
A registry-driven probe on current head read and then auto-allowed an edit through
alias/config, modifying.git/config. The merge-base edit recheck receivesrequestedPath, walksalias, and rejects it.write_filedoes not have the same exact regression because target resolution performs an earlier lexical recheck; this path is specific to edit's read-then-write flow.Retain the new resolved-target recheck for later swaps, but also preserve the lexical-path check for pre-existing aliases—or use a single traversal-resistant, handle-relative/bound operation that provides both guarantees. Regression coverage should exercise an ordinary alias, an alias to protected metadata, and a directory replaced by a symlink after resolution.
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[P2] Rewrite only after a confirmed missing literal target
internal/tools/posix_windows_path.go:255
existingLiteralPosixWorkspacePathreturns only a boolean and implements it aserr == nil. That collapses materially different states:- the literal target exists, so it must win;
- the literal target is definitely absent, so the documented rewrite may run;
- the literal target could not be inspected because of access denial, an invalid/intermediate component, a transient filesystem failure, or another non-
IsNotExisterror.
Both read and write resolvers interpret the third state as permission to select the synthetic counterpart. A request for a literal path whose identity cannot be determined can consequently read or modify an accessible root file and report success instead of surfacing the literal-path error. A hermetic GOOS-seam probe supplied a non-
IsNotExistliteral failure and confirmed that current head takes the fallback target.Return the probe result and error separately (or use an explicit enum/result), rewrite only when
os.IsNotExistconfirms absence, and propagate or fail closed for every other error. Test both resolvers with an existing literal, a confirmed miss, and an injected/hermetic non-missingLstaterror; assert not only the returned error but also that the rewritten file was not read, created, or modified. -
[P2] Compare canonical paths in the new Windows resolution test
internal/tools/posix_windows_path_test.go:649
This assertion, and the equivalent assertion at line 674, compare two different path representations:targetcomes fromresolveWorkspacePathForGOOS, which canonicalizes the workspace withEvalSymlinks;- the expected value uses the raw
root := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "zero")spelling.
On Windows runners,
t.TempDir()can carry an 8.3 short-name prefix whileEvalSymlinksexpands the same directory to its long form. The paths identify the same file but compare unequal, so the new supported-platform test fails for representation rather than behavior. This repository'sAGENTS.mdexplicitly says never to assert rawt.TempDir()spellings for this reason, andinternal/sandbox/scope_windows_test.godocuments the same short-to-long contract.Canonicalize the expected root before constructing expected targets, or assert the already-checked relative identity plus filesystem equivalence. Apply the same rule to both loops and to any new end-to-end Windows matrix so a short/long spelling mismatch cannot make a security regression test vacuous or flaky.
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Fixes #972
The issue is not
issue-approved. Proceeding anyway at @euxaristia's request (issue author), not a Gitlawb maintainer exemption.What changed
Windows hosts treat model-hallucinated POSIX paths (
/home/user/<repo>/...,/tmp/...) as workspace-relative, soread_file/glob/grepjoin them onto the repo root and fail withGetFileAttributesEx./home/<user>/<repo>/rest→rest(or.)/Users/<user>/<repo>/rest→rest/tmp/<repo>/restand/var/tmp/<repo>/rest→rest/tmp/foo.txtthat does not contain the basename. Missing files are not invented./tmp/<repo>/xwith a differentxat the workspace root.*os.PathError.Path). Confinement/outsideWorkspaceErroris left unchanged.resolveWorkspacePath/resolveWorkspaceTargetPath(unexportedForGOOSseam for tests), soread_file,glob, andgrepall get it.Tests
internal/tools/posix_windows_path_test.go:looksLikePosixAbsolute:/home/xtrue;C:\foo,//unc/share,relative/pathfalse/home/alice/zero/..., repo root→ .,/Users/...,/tmp/zero/foo.txt,/var/tmp/zero/foo.txt; no rewrite for/tmp/foo.txt, foreign repo, linux GOOS, or a workspace namedhomevs/home/user/filePathErroris redacted; linux does not wrap; confinement errors not wrapped/tmp/zero/only.mdwins over rewrite for both read and write resolversdirafter a POSIX rewrite; rechecking the original POSIX join does notTestReadFileToolRewritesSyntheticPosixPrefixOnWindows: named temp dirzero,/home/alice/zero/notes.txtresolves and is readable viaresolveWorkspacePathForGOOS("windows", ...)/tmp/does-not-exist-xyzand/etc/passwdon windows GOOS includeWindowsand the requested path, and must not contain any spelling of the workspace root (Abs/EvalSymlinks)/home/alice/otherrepo/xstays unchanged and does not resolve as workspacexVerification
gofmtclean;go vet ./...go test ./internal/tools(including the new regressions, which fail without this change)go test ./...go run ./cmd/zero-release buildandsmokegolangci-lintunused/ineffassign/staticcheck on./internal/toolsgovulncheck ./...git diff HEAD --check-racerequires cgo; this environment has no C toolchain)Without the change,
TestResolveWorkspacePathPrefersExistingLiteralOverRewriteresolved/tmp/zero/only.mdtoonly.md, andTestAnnotatePosixWindowsPathError/TestResolveWorkspacePathAnnotatesPosixMissOnWindowsechoed the workspace root from*os.PathError.Path.Summary by CodeRabbit
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