bunfig: stop panicking when the config path does not fit in a path buffer - #38370
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WalkthroughBunfig path resolution now uses bounded path construction. Automatically loaded unreadable configs are skipped, while explicit config errors remain fatal. Tests cover path-buffer boundaries for discovered, explicit, normalized, and global configs. ChangesBunfig path hardening
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LGTM — focused fix that routes over-long config paths through the existing unreadable-config handling instead of panicking in the path-buffer join.
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join_config_pathreserves the NUL slot viabuf[..len-1]before callingjoin_abs_string_buf_checked; verified the checked helper's fast/slow paths and that a 4095-byte result still fits while 4096 returnsNone.- Absolute
--configarm'slen < config_buf.len()guard matchesresolve_path::z's own>= MAX_PATH_BYTESprecondition. get_home_config_pathrefactor preserves the XDG-then-HOME precedence (no fallback to HOME when XDG is set but too long);unreadable_configextraction is byte-identical to the old inline error path.- Tests cover the exact-fit boundary, the NUL-write boundary, and the longer-than-buffer case at each of the four sites, plus a normalization control.
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Overview
This PR fixes a class of startup panics in src/bunfig/arguments.rs where config paths built into a fixed-size PathBuffer (PATH_MAX bytes) could overflow: joining cwd + bunfig.toml, joining $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOME + .bunfig.toml, and copying an absolute --config value. The fix introduces join_config_path (uses the existing join_abs_string_buf_checked into a slice that reserves the NUL slot), length-guards the absolute arm before resolve_path::z, and factors the existing "auto-loaded → skip, explicit → exit 1" error handling into unreadable_config so the too-long case reuses it with a synthesized ENAMETOOLONG error. 15 new tests in test/config/bunfig/bunfig-errors.test.ts cover each site at the exact-fit, NUL-overflow, and over-buffer boundaries, plus a control showing long inputs that normalize short still load.
Security risks
None. The change strictly tightens handling of adversarial-length inputs (cwd, argv, env vars) by replacing an unchecked buffer write (which panicked in Rust rather than corrupting memory) with a checked one that takes the existing error path. No new file opens, no new trust boundaries.
Level of scrutiny
Medium. This is CLI startup path-building code, not memory-unsafe (Rust bounds checks were catching it as panics), and the fix reuses existing checked helpers rather than hand-rolling arithmetic. I verified join_abs_string_buf_checked at src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1640 returns Option<&[u8]> with the semantics the PR relies on (normalize-then-check, so long-but-normalizes-short inputs still fit), and that resolve_path::z at line 39 requires the exact len < MAX_PATH_BYTES guard the caller now provides. The get_home_config_path refactor to .or_else() preserves the original precedence: XDG_CONFIG_HOME wins when set, and a too-long XDG value returns None rather than silently falling back to HOME.
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- The removal of
awdfrom thepartsarray is correct:join_abs_string_bufalready uses the first argument as the base, and passing it again inpartswas redundant (and would have inflated the checked variant's size estimate). unreadable_configtakes&bun_sys::Errorand is called from both the new too-long path and the existingto_sourcefailure — behavior for the latter is unchanged.- Tests follow harness conventions:
tempDir+using,bunEnvspread,Buffer.alloc(n, fill), concurrent subprocess drain,skipIf(isWindows)with a stated reason, and boundary controls that would pass on the unfixed build (so failures are attributable). - No CODEOWNERS entry for
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- Around line 50-56: Update pathOfLength to measure and construct paths using
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LGTM — the .repeat() nit from the last pass is addressed in 1a40f6d, and no new issues surfaced.
What was reviewed:
join_config_pathreserves the NUL slot (buf[..len-1]) before callingjoin_abs_string_buf_checked, sobuf[len] = 0is always in bounds; the absolute-path guardlen < config_buf.len()matchesresolve_path::z's own precondition.get_home_config_path's XDG-then-HOME precedence is unchanged (a too-long XDG skips rather than falling through), andunreadable_configis a straight extraction of the existing auto-loaded/explicit split inload_bunfig.- Dropping the cwd from the
partsarray is correct —join_abs_string_bufalready takes it as the base, and keeping it would have double-counted in the checked variant's size estimate. - Tests hit the exact boundary (MAX-1 loads, MAX and longer fail/skip) at all four join sites, measure in UTF-8 bytes, drain pipes concurrently, and skip on Windows with a stated reason.
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Overview
The PR fixes three buffer-overflow panics in src/bunfig/arguments.rs where config paths were joined into a fixed-size PathBuffer without a length check: the cwd + bunfig.toml join in load_config, the absolute --config copy, and the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOME + .bunfig.toml join in get_home_config_path. The fix introduces join_config_path (built on the existing join_abs_string_buf_checked, reserving one byte for the NUL) and factors the existing "auto-loaded → skip, explicit → exit 1" branch out of load_bunfig into unreadable_config so the new too-long case can reuse it with a synthesized ENAMETOOLONG. About 50 lines of Rust net, plus 15 new tests in the existing bunfig-errors.test.ts.
Security risks
None. The panic being fixed was a bounds-checked slice index (a DoS on the user's own process from a deep cwd), not memory unsafety. The replacement uses the existing checked-join helper and the existing bun_sys::Error machinery. No new inputs are trusted; over-long paths that would have been rejected by open() anyway now take the same error route the kernel's ENAMETOOLONG already did.
Level of scrutiny
Medium. This is CLI-startup path handling — every command hits it, but the change is mechanical (unchecked join → checked join) with no happy-path behavior change. I traced join_abs_string_buf_checked at src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1640 and resolve_path::z at :39 to confirm the guards line up: the checked join returns None when the normalized result exceeds the passed slice (here buf[..MAX_PATH_BYTES-1]), so buf[len] = 0 writes at most index MAX_PATH_BYTES-1; z requires len < MAX_PATH_BYTES, which the absolute arm's guard enforces exactly.
Other factors
Since my previous review the only change is 1a40f6d, which swaps the last .repeat() for Buffer.alloc() per the harness convention nit — that was the sole open item. All bot threads (comment-cop on the doc comments, CodeRabbit on byte-length measurement) are resolved with pushed fixes. The test matrix is thorough: exact-boundary controls that still load (proving the fix isn't over-eager), the two overflow shapes (NUL-write-at-len and join-overflow) at each of the four sites, a normalization case showing long input that shrinks still loads, and both env-var routes. The PR description documents 10 of the 15 new tests failing on the unfixed build and all passing with the fix, and the boundary tests assert the resolved absolute path in the parse error so they can't pass vacuously. The remaining same-class sites (.npmrc join, --cwd, process.chdir) are named as out of scope with the constraint that keeps the global-config tests below the .npmrc threshold, which is the right call for a focused fix.
load_config joined the working directory and "bunfig.toml" (or the --config value) into a stack PathBuffer with the unchecked join, and get_home_config_path did the same with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME / $HOME and ".bunfig.toml". A cwd within 12 bytes of PATH_MAX, a --config value of PATH_MAX bytes or more, or an over-long config home panicked at startup with a slice index out of bounds. Build the paths with join_abs_string_buf_checked, leaving room for the NUL, and length-check the absolute --config arm. A path that does not fit cannot be opened anyway, so it is handled like any other unreadable config: auto-loaded configs (bunfig.toml in the cwd, the global .bunfig.toml) are skipped, and an explicit --config fails with the same ENAMETOOLONG message open() would produce.
bun pm cache creates the directory named by BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR and falls back to node_modules/.cache when it cannot, so a marker under / only worked when the tests ran as root.
The path buffer holds bytes, so a temporary directory with non-ASCII characters shifted every boundary case when lengths were measured in UTF-16 code units.
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LGTM — focused crash fix with thorough boundary tests; all prior review feedback addressed.
What was reviewed:
join_config_pathreserves the NUL slot viabuf[..len-1]before callingjoin_abs_string_buf_checked, sobuf[len] = 0is provably in-bounds; the absolute-path arm guardslen < config_buf.len()beforeresolve_path::z.get_home_config_pathrefactor preserves XDG-then-HOME precedence (a too-long XDG skips rather than falls back, matching the existing unreadable-config behavior).unreadable_configis a straight extraction of the existing error path inload_bunfig; auto-loaded vs explicit semantics unchanged.- Tests cover the exact-fit / exact-overflow / far-overflow triple at every join site, measure UTF-8 bytes, and are hermetic (
tempDir,BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR).
Extended reasoning...
Overview
The PR fixes three panic sites in src/bunfig/arguments.rs where user-controlled path components (cwd, --config value, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOME) were joined into a fixed-size PathBuffer with the unchecked join_abs_string_buf/join_abs_string_buf_z and a manual out-of-bounds NUL write. It introduces join_config_path (uses the checked join into buf[..len-1], returns None on overflow) and unreadable_config (factored from load_bunfig's existing error branch), routes all three sites through them, and adds 15 tests covering the boundary at each site.
Security risks
None new. The change converts a reachable release-build panic on adversarial-length inputs (cwd, CLI arg, env var) into the existing recoverable-error path — an improvement per REVIEW.md's "user-reachable failures are recoverable errors, never panics". No new parsing, no auth/crypto, no privilege changes. The open() semantics argument in the PR description is sound: any path ≥ MAX_PATH_BYTES would be rejected by openat_a with ENAMETOOLONG anyway, so returning that error before the syscall loses no functionality.
Level of scrutiny
Medium. This runs at CLI startup for every command, so a regression would be visible immediately, but the change is narrow: ~50 net Rust lines in one file, no signature changes to public functions, and every path leads to either the pre-existing load_config_path call or the pre-existing unreadable-config exit. I traced join_abs_string_buf_checked (resolve_path.rs:1640) — it returns None only when the normalized result exceeds buf.len(), so passing buf[..MAX_PATH_BYTES-1] correctly caps the payload at MAX_PATH_BYTES-1 bytes and the subsequent buf[len] = 0 write is always in-bounds. The removal of cwd from the parts array is correct: join_abs_string_buf already prepends the first argument as base.
Other factors
- All four prior review threads (comment-cop ×2 on doc-comment length, CodeRabbit on
Buffer.byteLengthvs.length, my own nit on.repeatvsBuffer.alloc) are resolved with corresponding commits, and the current diff reflects each fix. - The one CI failure (
test/bake/deinitialization.test.tssegfault on Windows x64) is unrelated: the new tests areskipIf(isWindows)and the Rust change is platform-agnostic buffer arithmetic. - Test quality is high: each site has a "longest path that still loads" control asserting the full absolute path in the error, plus the two overflow lengths;
describe.concurrentfor speed;using tempDirfor cleanup;bunEnvspread; the .npmrc adjacency is documented and scoped out with a stated reason. - The
get_home_config_pathcollapse to.or_else()was flagged by robobun as intentionally not changing the skip-vs-fallback semantics, deferring to #38313.
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LGTM — focused fix replacing unchecked path-buffer joins with bounded ones, routing overflow through the existing unreadable-config path.
What was reviewed:
join_config_pathbounds: verifiedjoin_abs_string_buf_checkedreturnslen <= max_lenon both fast and slow paths, sobuf[len] = 0andZStr::from_bufpreconditions hold.- Absolute
--configarm: guardlen < config_buf.len()matchesresolve_path::z's own check; no normalization here matches the pre-change behavior. - Dropping the duplicate cwd from
parts: equivalent because cwd is absolute (resolve(cwd, cwd, x) == resolve(cwd, x)); avoids double-counting in the checked-join size estimate. get_home_config_pathrewrite: too-long$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEskips (no$HOMEfallback), consistent with how any other unreadable global config is handled.
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Overview
Two files: src/bunfig/arguments.rs (~60 net lines) replaces three unchecked PathBuffer joins with a shared join_config_path helper built on join_abs_string_buf_checked, factors the "unreadable config" branch into unreadable_config(), and length-guards the absolute --config copy. test/config/bunfig/bunfig-errors.test.ts adds ~210 lines / 15 tests covering the exact-boundary, at-limit, and over-limit cases for each of the four call sites (auto-loaded cwd, relative --config, absolute --config, global $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOME), skipped on Windows where the ~96 KiB buffer makes the overflow unreachable.
Security risks
None. This is defensive bounds-checking on stack path buffers during CLI startup. The pre-change code panicked (Rust bounds check) rather than corrupting memory; the change turns that panic into a clean ENAMETOOLONG (explicit --config) or a silent skip (auto-loaded), matching what a kernel-level ENAMETOOLONG on open() already produced. No auth/crypto/permission surface.
Level of scrutiny
Medium — this runs on every bun invocation, but the change is mechanical: the happy path (paths that fit) still routes through join_abs_string_buf via the checked variant's fast path, and the only behavioral additions are on paths that previously panicked. I traced the bounds arithmetic in join_config_path against join_abs_string_buf_checked's slow-path len > buf.len() guard and ZStr::from_buf's len < buf.len() precondition; passing buf[..len-1] reserves the NUL slot correctly. The one non-obvious refactor — dropping the cwd from the parts array — is behavior-preserving (absolute cwd resets the base to itself) and necessary to avoid the checked join's size estimate double-counting it.
Other factors
All four prior review threads (two comment-cop doc-comment length nits, CodeRabbit's UTF-8 byte-length vs code-unit finding, and my .repeat() → Buffer.alloc harness-convention nit) were addressed with commits and are resolved. The tests are thorough: each site has a "fits at exactly MAX_PATH_BYTES-1" control that asserts the config was loaded via its absolute path in the parse error, plus the two overflow lengths, plus a normalization control (x/../ repeated past the buffer that normalizes down and still loads). The PR description explicitly scopes out the sibling .npmrc join and --cwd sites as separate reports, which is reasonable — those are in different crates. No CODEOWNERS entry for bunfig.
…n the path join buffer (#38368) ### Problem - `bun --cwd <value> ...` aborts at startup when the value is longer than the path join buffer, instead of printing an error: ``` $ bun --cwd "/$(head -c 5000 /dev/zero | tr '\0' a)" -e 0 panic: range end index 5000 out of range for slice of length 4095 ``` (exit 134). A relative value of the same length, and `bun run` / `bun test` with the flag, abort the same way; so does `bun --tsconfig-override <value>` with a value of that length. - Cause: both flags are resolved in `src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs` (`parse`, the `--cwd` block and the `--tsconfig-override` assignment) with `resolve_path::join_abs` / `join_abs_string`, which normalize into a fixed 4096 byte thread-local buffer (`PARSER_JOIN_INPUT_BUFFER`, `src/paths/resolve_path.rs`) with no bounds check, so a value whose normalized form does not fit panics inside the normalizer, before the syscall that would have rejected it. ### Fix - `src/paths/resolve_path.rs`: add `join_abs_string_spill`, the `join_abs` counterpart of the existing `normalize_string_spill` / `join_spill`: it uses the thread-local buffer when the result is known to fit and otherwise joins into a caller-provided `Vec`, grown as needed. The size bound it relies on (`join_abs_needed`) is the one `JoinScratch::init` and `join_abs_string_buf_checked` already computed inline; both now call the shared helper. - `src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs`: `--cwd` and `--tsconfig-override` resolve through `join_abs_string_spill`. Nothing else about either flag changes: `--cwd` still hands the result to `chdir`, which rejects anything over the OS limit itself, so an over-long value now prints the existing `ENAMETOOLONG: File name too long: Could not change directory to "<value>" (chdir)` and exits 1; `--tsconfig-override` is still stored and opened by the resolver, which already prints `error: Cannot read file "<path>": ENAMETOOLONG` for such a path (same as it does today for a value that happens to fit the buffer but not the OS limit), non-fatal at runtime and fatal for `bun build`, as for any other unreadable override. - Why this shape: the OS (or the resolver's bounded `open`) is already the authority on path length for both flags, and reports the right errno, so the CLI only has to get the value there without going through a fixed buffer. Values that merely look long but normalize down (`a/../a/...`) keep working, which a length check on the argument would have broken; a test covers that. - Scope: these are the two argv values that `Arguments::parse` itself turns into a path. Every other option `parse` accepts was probed with a 5000 byte value as well (`--env-file`, `--preload` / `--require` / `--import`, script and `bun build` entry paths, `--cpu-prof-dir` / `--cpu-prof-name`, `bun test --coverage-dir`, `bun build --outdir` / `--outfile` / `--root` / `--public-path` / `--external`, `-c`); the ones that still abort are in other code and each already has its own fix open, so they are intentionally left alone here: - `-c` / `--config` is resolved in `src/bunfig/arguments.rs`: #38370. - An absolute script, entry point or `--preload` path (and any absolute `import` / `require` specifier) over `PATH_MAX` aborts in the resolver's `load_as_file` (`src/resolver/resolver.rs`): #35857. - `bun build --external` goes through the unbounded `join_abs` primitive itself: #35863. - `bun install` / `bun add` parse `--cwd` with their own implementation in `src/install/PackageManager/CommandLineArguments.rs` (different joining rules and error path); a separate fix for it is in progress. - Verified: - `test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts`, new `--cwd longer than the OS path limit` block: the two over-long cases fail on the current release build with the panic above and pass with this branch; the normalizing case and the existing `--cwd` test pass both ways. Whole file passes (`bun bd test`). - `test/cli/run/tsconfig-override.test.ts`, new `path longer than the OS path limit` block: both cases fail on the release build and pass with this branch; whole file passes. - `cargo test -p bun_paths resolve_path::tests`: 4 new unit tests for `join_abs_string_spill` (fits, spills, absolute part and long cwd, long part that collapses), 8 pass. - By hand with the debug build: `--cwd` with `""`, `/`, `.`, `..`, `subdir/`, an absolute directory and a missing directory behave as before; `--cwd` values of about 4 KiB, 5 KB and 100 KB all print the `ENAMETOOLONG` error and exit 1; `--tsconfig-override` with a missing file still prints `Cannot find tsconfig file` and continues. ### Background - `resolve_path::join_abs` / `join_abs_string` return a slice into a per-thread 4096 byte scratch buffer; the `*_string_buf` variants write into a caller buffer. Neither checks that the normalized result fits, so they are only safe for inputs whose length is already bounded. The file already has `normalize_string_spill` and `join_spill` for unbounded input: use the thread-local buffer when a cheap upper bound says the result fits, otherwise a caller `Vec`. This PR adds the missing `join_abs` member of that family. - The upper bound: `_join_abs_string_buf` concatenates `cwd` and the parts with one separator each (plus one more when a bare Windows root needs a separator appended) and then normalizes, which never makes a path longer except for the Windows cases noted on `normalize_string_spill`, so `cwd.len() + sum(part.len() + 1) + 2` always holds both the concatenation and the output. That expression was already used in two places in the file; `join_abs_needed` names it. - `chdir(2)` returns `ENAMETOOLONG` for any path at or over `PATH_MAX` (4096 on Linux, 1024 on macOS) or with a component over `NAME_MAX`; `Output::err(sys_error, ...)` prints it as `<ERRNO>: <strerror>: <message> (<syscall>)`, which is the message the `--cwd` block already prints for any `chdir` failure. - The resolver opens `tsconfig_override` through `bun_sys::openat_a` / `open_a`, which return `ENAMETOOLONG` themselves for a path that does not fit a `PathBuffer`, and reports it as `Cannot read file "<path>": <errno>`; a long value that fits the buffer gets the same message from the kernel today.
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bun x.cjs,bun -e 0and every command inALWAYS_LOADS_CONFIG(bun test,bun build,bun install,bun pm, ...) crash at startup when the working directory is 4084..4095 bytes long on Linux (1012..1023 on macOS, whereMAX_PATH_BYTESis 1024):MAX_PATH_BYTES - 12bytes:panic: index out of bounds: the len is 4096 but the index is 4096panic: range end index 4101 out of range for slice of length 4095(end index = cwd length + 11), top framebun_paths::resolve_path::normalize_string_generic_tz(src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1071), called frombun_bunfig::arguments::load_config--config=<value>when the value (absolute) or cwd + value (relative) isMAX_PATH_BYTESbytes or longer, and forbun install/bun pm ...when$XDG_CONFIG_HOME(or$HOME) isMAX_PATH_BYTES - 13bytes or longer.src/bunfig/arguments.rs:load_configjoined cwd + config name into a stackPathBufferwith the uncheckedjoin_abs_string_buf(L213) and wrote the NUL atconfig_buf[len](L217). A result of exactlyMAX_PATH_BYTESbytes fits the join but the NUL write is out of bounds; anything longer overflows inside the join.--configarm copied the argument into the buffer without a length check (L192).get_home_config_pathjoined$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOME+.bunfig.tomlwith the uncheckedjoin_abs_string_buf_z(L24, L30), which writes the NUL itself.bun -e 0from a directory of that length: the path is built before anything is opened, so no bunfig.toml has to exist.Fix
join_config_pathbuildsdir/namewithjoin_abs_string_buf_checkedintobuf[..len - 1](reserving the NUL slot) and returnsNonewhen the result does not fit; the cwd join andget_home_config_pathboth use it. The absolute--configarm length-checks and usesresolve_path::z, the guard-then-zshape its other callers use.load_bunfig, factored intounreadable_config: auto-loaded configs (bunfig.tomlin the cwd, the global.bunfig.toml) are skipped, as they already are on any read error; an explicit--configexits 1 withENAMETOOLONG: <path>: File name too long (open())/while reading config "<path>", the message a kernel ENAMETOOLONG on the same flag already produces.open()rejects any path ofMAX_PATH_BYTESbytes or more (bun_sys::openat_areturns ENAMETOOLONG for the same condition before the syscall), so no file at such a path could have been loaded; the failure now takes the existing route instead of overflowing the buffer.join_abs_string_buf_checkednormalizes before deciding, so a long--configvalue that normalizes to a path that fits still loads. Forbun <file>/bun -e,run_commandadditionally loadsbunfig.tomlrelative to the cwd whenload_configloaded nothing, so a bunfig.toml in such a deep directory is still picked up there.partsentry:join_abs_string_bufalready uses it as the base, so the result is identical, and the copy would have made the checked join count the cwd twice in its size estimate.test/config/bunfig/bunfig-errors.test.ts(15 new tests): on the unfixed build the 10 overflow cases fail with the panics above and the 5 boundary/normalization controls pass; with the fix all 20 tests in the file pass. Per site they cover the longest path that still loads (exactlyMAX_PATH_BYTES - 1bytes, asserted through the absolute path in the parse error), theMAX_PATH_BYTEScase that failed on the NUL write, and a longer one, forbun -eandbun file.jsin a deep cwd, relative and absolute--config, and$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOMEthroughbun pm cache. Skipped on Windows, where the buffer (~96 KiB) is longer than any path, argument or environment value the OS accepts.test/config/bunfig/preload.test.ts,test/cli/install/bun-run-bunfig.test.ts,test/cli/bunfig-test-options.test.ts,test/cli/install/npmrc.test.ts, the global-bunfig tests intest/cli/install/minimum-release-age.test.ts;cargo clippy -p bun_bunfigandcargo fmtare clean.bun install/bun pmwith$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$HOMEofMAX_PATH_BYTES - 7bytes or longer still panic one step later in the.npmrclookup (src/install/PackageManager.rs, same unchecked join), so the global-config tests here stay below that length;--cwd <over-long value>(src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs) andprocess.chdir()into a directory of exactlyMAX_PATH_BYTES - 1bytes are the same bug class at other sites. Working directories ofMAX_PATH_BYTESbytes or more fail ingetcwdbefore this code runs; cli: refuse to start when the cwd is longer than PATH_MAX instead of using the executable's directory #38363 covers those.Background
PathBufferis bun's fixed stack buffer for path syscalls,MAX_PATH_BYTESlong (the platform'sPATH_MAX: 4096 on Linux, 1024 on macOS). Paths in it are NUL-terminated, so the longest path it holds isMAX_PATH_BYTES - 1bytes.resolve_path::join_abs_string_buf(cwd, buf, parts)ispath.resolveinto a caller buffer: it concatenates, normalizes and writes the result, assuming it fits.join_abs_string_buf_checkedis the variant for unbounded input and returnsNoneinstead of writing when the normalized result is longer thanbuf.resolve_path::zcopies a slice into aPathBufferwith a NUL and expects the caller to have checked the length.load_configloadsbunfig.tomlfrom the cwd for the commands inALWAYS_LOADS_CONFIGand forbun <file>/bun -e(auto_loaded), or the--configvalue (not auto-loaded); install-family commands first load$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.bunfig.toml, else$HOME/.bunfig.toml.load_bunfigignores read errors for auto-loaded configs and exits with the error for explicit ones.no test proof · iteration 1 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/config/bunfig/bunfig-errors.test.ts