// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public // License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this // file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. package safepath import ( "os" "path/filepath" ) // CleanPath makes a path safe for use with filepath.Join. This is done by not // only cleaning the path, but also (if the path is relative) adding a leading // '/' and cleaning it (then removing the leading '/'). This ensures that a // path resulting from prepending another path will always resolve to lexically // be a subdirectory of the prefixed path. This is all done lexically, so paths // that include symlinks won't be safe as a result of using CleanPath. func CleanPath(path string) string { // Deal with empty strings nicely. if path == "" { return "" } // Ensure that all paths are cleaned (especially problematic ones like // "/../../../../../" which can cause lots of issues). path = filepath.Clean(path) // If the path isn't absolute, we need to do more processing to fix paths // such as "../../../..//some/path". We also shouldn't convert absolute // paths to relative ones. if !filepath.IsAbs(path) { path = filepath.Clean(string(os.PathSeparator) + path) // This can't fail, as (by definition) all paths are relative to root. path, _ = filepath.Rel(string(os.PathSeparator), path) //nolint: errcheck } // Clean the path again for good measure. return filepath.Clean(path) }