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Alex Goodman 2be26a1af9 fix(kernel): bound what a compressed kernel module expands to (#5294)
`.ko.gz`/`.ko.xz`/`.ko.zst` modules are spilled to a temp file so ELF parsing
can seek over them. The compressed size is bounded by the file in the image but
what it decompresses to is not, so a few KB of crafted zstd filled the temp
directory until the disk did.

`io.Copy` now stops one byte past a 256MB cap and rejects rather than
truncating, since a partial ELF reads as a corrupt module instead of a rejected
one. The partial spill is removed on the reject path.

The cap is a parameter on an inner function so the tests exercise the boundary
with a few hundred bytes instead of materializing 256MB, matching
`decompressSbomWithLimit` in the graalvm cataloger.

The cap bounds one spill, not the process: peak disk is 256MB times however many
modules are parsed at once, which is cataloger parallelism (`NumCPU*4` by
default, and unbounded when `--parallelism` is negative).

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-14 17:40:41 -04:00
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