Fixes 51 bugs discovered via comparison with `actions/runner`. Every fix has test coverage.
### Secrets
- A short secret registered no shifted-base64 form, so `base64("user:$TOKEN")` printed in the clear
- Encoded forms came only from the whole trimmed value, missing padded and per-line spellings
- Masks split only on `\n`, so `::add-mask::a%0Db` registered neither half
- Adds XML, expression-string and quote-trimming encoders
### Workflow commands
- Split at the last `::` or `]` rather than the first, so `::add-mask::a::b` registered no mask
- A command on the last line without a newline was ignored, and `::ADD-MASK::` did nothing
- `##[...]` did not decode `%3B`/`%5D`, properties lost anything after a second `=`
- `$GITHUB_ENV` and `::set-env::` now refuse `NODE_OPTIONS`
### Status
- `continue-on-error` reported failed, a cancelled job reported success, an `if:` error reported cancelled
- File commands ran after `continue-on-error`, failing the job while the step stayed green
- A bad job output aborted the whole run instead of that job
### Steps and actions
- `${{ matrix.* }}` and `${{ strategy.* }}` were empty inside composite actions
- Composite inputs leaked into nested actions as `INPUT_*`, `with:` matched case-sensitively, `pre` failures were dropped
- Docker actions dropped `runs.env` when the caller passed `with: args:`, and caller `args`/`entrypoint` beat the manifest
- An implicit shell ran with `pipefail`, a `shell:` without `{0}` passed without running
- `container.env` overrode job env and every `$GITHUB_ENV` write, heredocs lost leading blank lines, `$GITHUB_PATH` was not BOM-decoded
Written by Claude Opus 5.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1194
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
My builds kept flaking out with errors like `invalid format delimiter 'ghadelimiter_...' not found before end of file` or just strange failures in the complete job. After some digging I found an issue in `parseEnvFile` and have tested this fix against the test case presented.
- `parseEnvFile` reads `$GITHUB_ENV` / `$GITHUB_OUTPUT` with a `bufio.Scanner` using the default 64 KiB token size, and never checks `s.Err()`.
- Any action that writes a multi-line value with a single line >64 KiB silently aborts the scan with `bufio.ErrTooLong`, which surfaces as the misleading `"invalid format delimiter
'ghadelimiter_…' not found before end of file"`.
- Real-world trigger: `docker/build-push-action`'s `metadata` output embeds the full `GITHUB_EVENT_PATH` payload via buildx provenance; a long PR description (e.g. a Renovate dependency
table) puts the body field on one JSON-escaped line well past 64 KiB.
- Raise the scanner buffer to 1 MiB so realistic outputs parse.
### Reproduction
Test this in an action. This removes the `docker/build-push-action` aspect and reproduces it directly.
```yaml
jobs:
repro:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- id: big
run: |
{
echo 'value<<EOF'
head -c 70000 /dev/urandom | base64 -w0
echo
echo 'EOF'
} >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
```
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Co-authored-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/974
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Alberty <jacob.alberty@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: Jacob Alberty <jacob.alberty@gmail.com>
silverwind
bircni
Jacob Alberty