Zed bundles the markdown grammar's block scanner natively, and its `serialize()` `memcpy`s the open-block stack into tree-sitter's fixed 1024-byte serialization buffer with no bounds check. Markdown with roughly 255+ nested blocks overflows that buffer, and because it sits at the front of `struct TSParser`, the overflow clobbers the adjacent parse-stack pointer and heap. Debug builds of the tree-sitter runtime catch this with an assertion, but release builds like Zed's have no check and silently corrupt parser memory — which is why this surfaced as wild crashes deep in tree-sitter's parse stack rather than clean failures. Still open upstream as tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-markdown#243. This PR points `tree-sitter-md` at a `zed-industries` fork whose `serialize()` refuses to write state that doesn't fit (bounded by the same running counter the header writes advance, so the check can't drift). The scanner then deserializes to a fresh state, and the pathologically nested region surfaces as ordinary tree-sitter `ERROR` nodes — visible, safe degradation for an adversarial input class, deliberately chosen over the two alternatives: truncating the block stack would deserialize into a plausible-but-wrong state and produce silently incorrect trees, and the scanner ABI offers no error channel at all (`serialize()` returns a length into a fixed buffer; there is no way to fail a parse). A nesting-depth cap at block-open time would give fully deterministic semantics, but that's a behavior change across 13 scanner call sites that belongs upstream, not in a hotfix fork. The pinned branch is upstream's `9a23c1a9` (the revision Zed already pinned) plus exactly two commits, for easy review: the guard (zed-industries/tree-sitter-markdown@179422edf8) and regression tests (zed-industries/tree-sitter-markdown@b596e73728). The deep-nesting test aborts on the unguarded scanner and passes with the guard; a moderate-nesting test pins that inputs fitting the buffer still parse cleanly. The same change is also up as zed-industries/tree-sitter-markdown#1 into the fork's default branch (`split_parser`), so future pin bumps don't lose it; if upstream fixes #243, we can drop the fork entirely on the next bump. Closes FR-115 Release Notes: - Fixed a potential crash when editing Markdown with deeply nested blocks |
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Zed
Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Installation
On macOS, Linux, and Windows you can download Zed directly or install Zed via your local package manager (macOS/Linux/Windows).
Other platforms are not yet available:
- Web (tracking discussion)
Developing Zed
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways you can contribute to Zed.
Also... we're hiring! Check out our jobs page for open roles.
Licensing
Zed source code is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.
License information for third party dependencies must be correctly provided for CI to pass.
We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:
- Is it showing a
no license specifiederror for a crate you've created? If so, addpublish = falseunder[package]in your crate's Cargo.toml. - Is the error
failed to satisfy license requirementsfor a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to theacceptedarray inscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml. - Is
cargo-aboutunable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end ofscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.
Sponsorship
Zed is developed by Zed Industries, Inc., a for-profit company.
If you’d like to financially support the project, you can do so via GitHub Sponsors. Sponsorships go directly to Zed Industries and are used as general company revenue. There are no perks or entitlements associated with sponsorship.