unpack tar files copied via sftp subsystem, too (not just older scp)

For compatibility with OpenSSH ≥ 9

scp.go

@@ -66,36 +66,9 @@ func scpSink(channel ssh.Channel, req *ssh.Request, cmdline []string) error {
 
 			// Retrieve file contents
 			var cw countingWriter
-			tr := tar.NewReader(io.TeeReader(channel, &cw))
-			for {
-				h, err := tr.Next()
-				if err == io.EOF {
-					break
-				}
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-
-				log.Printf("extracting %q", h.Name)
-				if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(h.Name), 0700); err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-				if strings.HasSuffix(h.Name, "/") {
-					continue // directory, don’t try to OpenFile() it
-				}
-				mode := h.FileInfo().Mode() & os.ModePerm
-				out, err := renameio.NewPendingFile(h.Name, renameio.WithStaticPermissions(mode))
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-				if _, err := io.Copy(out, tr); err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-				if err := out.CloseAtomicallyReplace(); err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
+			if err := unpackTar(io.TeeReader(channel, &cw)); err != nil {
+				return err
 			}
-
 			if rest := size - int64(cw); rest > 0 {
 				buf := make([]byte, rest)
 				if _, err := channel.Read(buf); err != nil {
@@ -125,3 +98,36 @@ func scpSink(channel ssh.Channel, req *ssh.Request, cmdline []string) error {
 	req.Reply(true, nil)
 	return nil
 }
+
+func unpackTar(r io.Reader) error {
+	tr := tar.NewReader(r)
+	for {
+		h, err := tr.Next()
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			break
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		log.Printf("extracting %q", h.Name)
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(h.Name), 0700); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if strings.HasSuffix(h.Name, "/") {
+			continue // directory, don’t try to OpenFile() it
+		}
+		mode := h.FileInfo().Mode() & os.ModePerm
+		out, err := renameio.NewPendingFile(h.Name, renameio.WithStaticPermissions(mode))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if _, err := io.Copy(out, tr); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err := out.CloseAtomicallyReplace(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}

ssh.go

@@ -292,9 +292,34 @@ func (s *session) request(ctx context.Context, req *ssh.Request) error {
 			}
 		}
 
+		// Special case for breakglass usage: unpack all .tar files that were
+		// transferred into $PWD (which is a /tmp/breakglass… temporary
+		// directory), so that the binaries included in the tar file can be used
+		// for debugging.
+		dirents, err := os.ReadDir(".")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		for _, dirent := range dirents {
+			if !strings.HasSuffix(dirent.Name(), ".tar") {
+				continue
+			}
+			f, err := os.Open(dirent.Name())
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			defer f.Close()
+			if err := unpackTar(f); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		}
+
 		// See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4254#section-6.10
-		_, err = s.channel.SendRequest("exit-status", false /* wantReply */, ssh.Marshal(exitStatus{exitCode}))
-		return err
+		if _, err := s.channel.SendRequest("exit-status", false /* wantReply */, ssh.Marshal(exitStatus{exitCode})); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		return nil
 
 	case "shell":
 		req.Payload = []byte("\x00\x00\x00\x02sh")