fix: strip absolute paths more comprehensively

lib/strip-absolute-path.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// unix absolute paths are also absolute on win32, so we use this for both
+const { isAbsolute, parse } = require('path').win32
+
+// returns [root, stripped]
+module.exports = path => {
+  let r = ''
+  while (isAbsolute(path)) {
+    // windows will think that //x/y/z has a "root" of //x/y/
+    const root = path.charAt(0) === '/' ? '/' : parse(path).root
+    path = path.substr(root.length)
+    r += root
+  }
+  return [r, path]
+}

lib/unpack.js

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const path = require('path')
 const mkdir = require('./mkdir.js')
 const mkdirSync = mkdir.sync
 const wc = require('./winchars.js')
+const stripAbsolutePath = require('./strip-absolute-path.js')
 
 const ONENTRY = Symbol('onEntry')
 const CHECKFS = Symbol('checkFs')
@@ -195,10 +196,10 @@ class Unpack extends Parser {
 
       // absolutes on posix are also absolutes on win32
       // so we only need to test this one to get both
-      if (path.win32.isAbsolute(p)) {
-        const parsed = path.win32.parse(p)
-        this.warn('stripping ' + parsed.root + ' from absolute path', p)
-        entry.path = p.substr(parsed.root.length)
+      const s = stripAbsolutePath(p)
+      if (s[0]) {
+        entry.path = s[1]
+        this.warn(`stripping ${s[0]} from absolute path`, p)
       }
     }
 

lib/write-entry.js

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ const CLOSE = Symbol('close')
 const MODE = Symbol('mode')
 const warner = require('./warn-mixin.js')
 const winchars = require('./winchars.js')
+const stripAbsolutePath = require('./strip-absolute-path.js')
 
 const modeFix = require('./mode-fix.js')
 
@@ -54,12 +55,12 @@ const WriteEntry = warner(class WriteEntry extends MiniPass {
     if (typeof opt.onwarn === 'function')
       this.on('warn', opt.onwarn)
 
-    if (!this.preservePaths && path.win32.isAbsolute(p)) {
-      // absolutes on posix are also absolutes on win32
-      // so we only need to test this one to get both
-      const parsed = path.win32.parse(p)
-      this.warn('stripping ' + parsed.root + ' from absolute path', p)
-      this.path = p.substr(parsed.root.length)
+    if (!this.preservePaths) {
+      const s = stripAbsolutePath(this.path)
+      if (s[0]) {
+        this.path = s[1]
+        this.warn('stripping ' + s[0] + ' from absolute path', p)
+      }
     }
 
     this.win32 = !!opt.win32 || process.platform === 'win32'
@@ -343,13 +344,15 @@ const WriteEntryTar = warner(class WriteEntryTar extends MiniPass {
     if (typeof opt.onwarn === 'function')
       this.on('warn', opt.onwarn)
 
-    if (path.isAbsolute(this.path) && !this.preservePaths) {
-      const parsed = path.parse(this.path)
-      this.warn(
-        'stripping ' + parsed.root + ' from absolute path',
-        this.path
-      )
-      this.path = this.path.substr(parsed.root.length)
+    if (!this.preservePaths) {
+      const s = stripAbsolutePath(this.path)
+      if (s[0]) {
+        this.warn(
+          'stripping ' + s[0] + ' from absolute path',
+          this.path
+        )
+        this.path = s[1]
+      }
     }
 
     this.remain = readEntry.size

test/strip-absolute-path.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+const t = require('tap')
+const stripAbsolutePath = require('../lib/strip-absolute-path.js')
+
+const cases = {
+  '/': ['/', ''],
+  '////': ['////', ''],
+  'c:///a/b/c': ['c:///', 'a/b/c'],
+  '\\\\foo\\bar\\baz': ['\\\\foo\\bar\\', 'baz'],
+  '//foo//bar//baz': ['//', 'foo//bar//baz'],
+  'c:\\c:\\c:\\c:\\\\d:\\e/f/g': ['c:\\c:\\c:\\c:\\\\d:\\', 'e/f/g'],
+}
+
+for (const [input, [root, stripped]] of Object.entries(cases))
+  t.strictSame(stripAbsolutePath(input), [root, stripped], input)

test/write-entry.js

@@ -362,7 +362,10 @@ t.test('nonexistent file', t => {
 })
 
 t.test('absolute path', t => {
-  const f = path.resolve(files, '512-bytes.txt')
+  const absolute = path.resolve(files, '512-bytes.txt')
+  const { root } = path.parse(absolute)
+  const f = root + root + root + absolute
+  const warn = root + root + root + root
   t.test('preservePaths=false strict=false', t => {
     const warnings = []
     const ws = new WriteEntry(f, {
@@ -375,13 +378,13 @@ t.test('absolute path', t => {
       out = Buffer.concat(out)
       t.equal(out.length, 1024)
       t.match(warnings, [[
-        /stripping .* from absolute path/, f
+        'stripping ' + warn + ' from absolute path', f
       ]])
 
       t.match(ws.header, {
         cksumValid: true,
         needPax: false,
-        path: f.replace(/^(\/|[a-z]:\\\\)/, ''),
+        path: f.replace(/^(\/|[a-z]:\\\\){4}/, ''),
         mode: 0o644,
         size: 512,
         linkpath: null,