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Richard Feldman 28c2e7d1e4
Fix tree-sitter-markdown scanner serialize buffer overflow (#60312)
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
2026-07-07 07:28:33 +00:00
.agents/skills Add dylint lint library for Zed-specific patterns (#58496) 2026-07-03 22:05:34 +00:00
.cargo livekit: Use our build of libwebrtc.a (#51433) 2026-03-16 10:47:36 +01:00
.cloudflare Staged docs releases (#50136) 2026-04-30 11:10:14 +00:00
.config Increase timeout for test_random_blocks (#50724) 2026-03-04 12:25:12 -05:00
.factory Add humanizer skill for AI writing pattern detection (#50021) 2026-02-24 14:58:52 -06:00
.github run_tests: Stop treating non-workspace dirs as packages (#60502) 2026-07-07 01:20:27 +00:00
.zed agent: Remove old edit file tool (#55612) 2026-05-04 09:54:39 +00:00
assets Improve diff tabs toolbar design (#60464) 2026-07-06 15:46:44 +00:00
ci Move Nightly release to gh-workflow (#41349) 2025-10-28 13:57:23 -06:00
crates Git partially staged changes (#46541) 2026-07-07 06:55:29 +00:00
docs docs: Add Tailwind LSP configuration section for Go (Templ) (#55255) 2026-07-06 12:19:35 +00:00
extensions ci: Set and enforce more default permissions (#60222) 2026-07-06 16:02:54 +00:00
legal Document provider safety retention for designated Zed-hosted models (#58967) 2026-06-09 21:54:48 +00:00
nix agent: Sandboxing polish (#60173) 2026-07-01 14:55:30 +00:00
script Update Danger to 13.0.8 (#60346) 2026-07-03 10:10:41 +00:00
tooling Add license symlinks to lint test fixture crates (#60505) 2026-07-07 01:35:06 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs Add PR 50413 to .git-blame-ignore-revs (#50421) 2026-03-01 00:50:33 +01:00
.gitattributes windows: Make sure zed.sh using the correct line ending (#37650) 2025-09-05 16:25:55 +00:00
.gitignore gpui: Accesskit support (#56065) 2026-05-27 18:17:59 +00:00
.mailmap Update .mailmap (#47413) 2026-01-22 23:57:26 +05:30
.prettierrc
.rules Update AI rules to reflect that AsyncApp updates are now infallible (#54818) 2026-04-24 19:04:32 +00:00
AGENTS.md ai: Symlink an AGENTS.md file to .rules (#45939) 2026-01-19 15:29:42 +01:00
Cargo.lock Fix tree-sitter-markdown scanner serialize buffer overflow (#60312) 2026-07-07 07:28:33 +00:00
Cargo.toml Fix tree-sitter-markdown scanner serialize buffer overflow (#60312) 2026-07-07 07:28:33 +00:00
CLAUDE.md
clippy.toml Revert "Revert scheduler update (#46659)" (#46671) 2026-01-14 07:19:13 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
compose.yml Remove Postgres and stripe-mock from Docker Compose (#48313) 2026-02-04 03:42:58 +00:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Re-add section about extension API to CONTRIBUTING.md (#59702) 2026-06-22 12:55:51 +00:00
debug.plist
default.nix nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
Dockerfile-collab Bump Rust version to 1.94 (#51086) 2026-03-30 09:06:59 +00:00
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore
Dockerfile-distros Removal of mold/wild scripts and mentions in docs (#53078) 2026-04-08 21:20:02 +03:00
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore
flake.lock Rust 1.95 (#55104) 2026-04-29 10:27:47 +00:00
flake.nix ci: Remove garnix substitutor (#58033) 2026-05-29 05:56:42 +00:00
GEMINI.md Add missing GEMINI.md rule file for gemini-cli (#38885) 2025-10-02 09:47:29 -04:00
LICENSE-APACHE
LICENSE-GPL
livekit.yaml
lychee.toml
Procfile
Procfile.web Remove PostgREST (#41299) 2025-10-27 13:27:59 -04:00
README.md docs: Remove readme junk (#60008) 2026-06-27 15:06:29 +00:00
renovate.json Remove workspace-hack (#40216) 2025-10-17 18:58:14 +00:00
REVIEWERS.conl Remove past reviewer (#51767) 2026-03-17 16:34:35 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml Rust 1.95 (#55104) 2026-04-29 10:27:47 +00:00
rustfmt.toml nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
shell.nix nix: Use flake-parts, partitions, and treefmt-nix (#45321) 2026-02-02 14:26:42 +00:00
typos.toml Update bundled JSON schemas (2026-04-29) (#58948) 2026-06-25 17:30:12 +00:00

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