From c45a83883625ea5226bace08e72f45782e31c29f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 12:09:55 +0200
Subject: add linuxnamespaces.tarinfo.XAttrTarFile

This is a mixin subclass for TarFile that enables it to restore and
apply linux extended attributes as PAX headers in the SCHILY.xattr.*
format. As a consequence, this enables us to process tar archives
containing file system capabilities.
---
 linuxnamespaces/tarutils.py | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+)

(limited to 'linuxnamespaces')

diff --git a/linuxnamespaces/tarutils.py b/linuxnamespaces/tarutils.py
index c7a065c..facb537 100644
--- a/linuxnamespaces/tarutils.py
+++ b/linuxnamespaces/tarutils.py
@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
 """Extensions to the tarfile module.
  * ZstdTarFile extends TarFile to deal with zstd-compressed archives.
  * get_comptype guesses the compression used for an open TarFile.
+ * XAttrTarFile extends TarFile to map extended attributes to PAX headers.
 """
 
+import os
 import tarfile
 import typing
 
 
+TarPath = str | bytes | os.PathLike[str] | os.PathLike[bytes]
+
+
 class ZstdTarFile(tarfile.TarFile):
     """Subclass of tarfile.TarFile that can read zstd compressed archives."""
 
@@ -75,3 +80,73 @@ def get_comptype(tarobj: tarfile.TarFile) -> str:
     except KeyError:
         # pylint: disable=raise-missing-from  # no value in chaining
         raise ValueError(f"cannot guess comptype for module {compmodule}")
+
+
+class XAttrTarFile(tarfile.TarFile):
+    """A subclass to tarfile.TarFile that adds support for extended attributes
+    via SCHILY.xattr.* PAX headers to extraction and creation of archives. It
+    can be used as a mixin class with others as it does not add any state.
+    """
+
+    def extract(
+        self,
+        member: tarfile.TarInfo | str,
+        path: TarPath = "",
+        set_attrs: bool = True,
+        **kwargs: typing.Any,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Refer to tarfile.TarFile.extract. In addition, SCHILY.xattr.* PAX
+        headers are examined and applied as extended attributes if set_attrs is
+        true-ish.
+        """
+        if not set_attrs:
+            super().extract(member, path, False, **kwargs)
+            return
+
+        # We also need the tarinfo, so mimic the start of the built-in extract.
+        if isinstance(member, str):
+            tarinfo = self.getmember(member)
+        else:
+            tarinfo = member
+
+        super().extract(tarinfo, path, True, **kwargs)
+
+        # mypy is unhappy about the next line, but we have the same code in
+        # TarFile.extract and if it bails here, it also bails there.
+        path = os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name)  # type: ignore
+
+        for attr, value in tarinfo.pax_headers.items():
+            if not attr.startswith("SCHILY.xattr."):
+                continue
+            attr = attr.removeprefix("SCHILY.xattr.")
+            os.setxattr(
+                path,
+                attr,
+                value.encode(self.encoding or "utf8", "surrogateescape"),
+                follow_symlinks=False,
+            )
+
+    def gettarinfo(
+        self,
+        name: TarPath | None = None,
+        arcname: str | None = None,
+        fileobj: typing.IO[bytes] | None = None,
+    ) -> tarfile.TarInfo:
+        tarinfo = super().gettarinfo(name, arcname, fileobj)
+        path: int | TarPath
+        if fileobj is not None:
+            path = fileobj.fileno()
+        elif name is not None:
+            path = name
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("gettarinfo requires a name or fileobj")
+        dereference = True if self.dereference is None else self.dereference
+        for attr in os.listxattr(path, follow_symlinks=dereference):
+            key = "SCHILY.xattr." + attr
+            value = os.getxattr(
+                path, attr, follow_symlinks=dereference
+            ).decode(self.encoding or "utf8", "surrogateescape")
+            # TarInfo.pax_headers is designated as (read-only) Mapping, but it
+            # really is a writable dict.
+            tarinfo.pax_headers[key] = value  # type: ignore[index]
+        return tarinfo
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