Security, performance and dead-code audit

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Requested by beingsuz · project thread

Before: a path with $, backticks or a newline in haru's Linux autostart entry or systemd unit was live shell or unit syntax; a Workshop item's project.json could point its preview at any file on disk, which was read whole and decoded without limits; any kirie or haru download that took over 30 s failed; after kirie updated itself in place haru didn't see it running and started a second one; the Settings tab parsed Steam's library file, loaded the config and scanned PATH on every frame, and ran kirie synchronously; the live preview redrew continuously and queued 3.7 MB frames on an unbounded channel.

After: autostart and menu entries are quoted for every layer that reads them; previews must stay inside the item and are size- and dimension-capped; downloads use a connect plus per-read timeout and never write through an existing file; the renderer is found as kirie (deleted) too; Settings probes are cached and process starts run off the UI thread; the preview paces to 30 fps, keeps one latest frame, updates its texture in place, and writes its screenshot to the per-user runtime dir instead of a fixed /tmp/haru-preview.png. The library scan runs once, on a background thread.

How: eight commits, one per concern. Dead code removed: detect(), Kirie::socket(), set_background, latest_from, Haru::new, opening_on, a duplicate kirie_env (which passed an empty KIRIE_STEAM_LIBRARY). supported() now reports only Apple Silicon Macs, the only macOS build kirie publishes.

Contract with kirie checked string by string against kirie's docs/COMMANDS.md: all match. kirie's Linux control socket splits on whitespace, so property keys containing spaces can't be sent; that would need a kirie change.

Not fixed, needs a decision: gap between the WebView2 installer's signature check and its elevated run in %TEMP%; self-updates are checked by GitHub's sha256 digest only, not signed; Windows polls tasklist every 0.9 s.

Verified: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets clean and cargo test --workspace all passing locally (181, 2 network tests ignored); CI lint and Windows cross-check green. Not verified: running the app (no display here), anything on real Windows or macOS.

Also on this branch: your own pictures and videos, no Steam needed

Requested in the plain picture and video wallpapers thread (one PR per repo).

Before: the Library only listed Workshop items, so putting anything up meant a Steam account that owns Wallpaper Engine.

After: the Library has Add a picture or video… and Add a folder…, and takes files or folders dropped on the window. A single file goes up on the chosen screen at once; a folder adds every picture and video in it and its subfolders (name order, hidden ones skipped, folder links not followed, at most 1000 files) to the library. Files dropped while an add is running are queued and added next. No Steam sign-in, no Wallpaper Engine assets. Removing one says Remove, sends nothing to Steam, and leaves the original file alone. After adding pictures, haru runs kirie prebake so each picture is already resized for every screen kirie has seen (kirie #13).

How: a new haru_core::own module turns each file into a folder under haru's data directory (haru/own/own-<hash>/) shaped like a Workshop item: project.json with type image or video, the file as wallpaper.<ext>, and a 512 px preview.jpg for pictures. kirie already draws such folders. The file is always copied (haru keeps its own copy, so editing or deleting the original changes nothing) on a background thread into a staging folder that is renamed into place, so a scan never sees half an item. The prebake run is bounded: 10 s plus 20 s per picture, at most an hour, then kirie is killed and reaped. The library scan now also reads that folder. The dialog is rfd with the desktop portal on Linux, so no GTK is linked. image gains WebP.

Tested: 9 new haru-core tests (picture with thumbnail, video, adding twice, the copy is unchanged when the original is edited in place, refused types, folder discovery with nesting, hidden files and non-media, a missing folder); cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings and cargo test --workspace clean on Linux; the same clippy against x86_64-pc-windows-gnu clean. Folders in exactly this layout render through kirie's --screenshot (picture and video) with an empty HOME and no Steam. Not tested: the haru window itself (no display here), so the buttons, the file and folder dialogs and drag and drop have never been clicked; nothing on Windows or macOS.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds personal picture and video items to the library and updates renderer setup, startup formatting, and preview handling. It also adds bounds for image and stream processing, asynchronous UI status lookups, and progress-update coalescing.

Changes

User-owned media and library

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Create and scan user-owned media crates/haru-core/src/own.rs, crates/haru-core/src/library.rs, crates/haru-core/src/lib.rs, crates/haru-core/Cargo.toml, Cargo.toml	The core recognizes supported picture and video files, creates Workshop-shaped item folders, and generates image previews when possible. Library scans can include personal media. Preview paths must resolve to files inside the item directory.
Add and manage personal media in the UI crates/haru-ui/src/library.rs, crates/haru-ui/src/app.rs, crates/haru-ui/Cargo.toml, README.md	The Library adds files through pickers or drag-and-drop, performs scans and additions in background workers, and distinguishes removal of personal copies from Workshop unsubscription. The README describes supported personal media and how to add it.
Bound image reads and decoding crates/haru-media/src/lib.rs	Local preview reads are size-limited. Image decoding enforces dimension and allocation limits, with tests for oversized images.

Apply and renderer runtime

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backend selection and installation crates/haru-apply/src/lib.rs, crates/haru-apply/src/install.rs, crates/haru-apply/src/kirie.rs, crates/haru-apply/src/webview2.rs	Backend selection now always returns a backend. Installation adds renderer prebaking, narrows macOS support to aarch64, changes download timeouts, and opens staged files without overwriting an existing path.
Startup and desktop command formatting crates/haru-apply/src/startup.rs, crates/haru-apply/src/desktop.rs	Startup entries use format-specific escaping and reject line-breaking values. Desktop Exec formatting is separate from TryExec formatting, and Windows command paths escape percent signs.
Offscreen renderer process handling crates/haru-apply/src/offscreen.rs, crates/haru-apply/src/launch.rs	Offscreen rendering drains stderr while the renderer runs and waits after timeout termination. Linux process lookup also recognizes an executable marked deleted.
Preview stream validation and commands crates/haru-apply/src/stream.rs	Preview startup uses the shared renderer environment. Frame dimensions and byte lengths are checked, and sent commands replace newline and carriage-return characters with spaces.

UI preview and status work

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached status and asynchronous lookups crates/haru-ui/src/settings.rs, crates/haru-ui/src/app.rs, crates/haru-core/src/renderer.rs	Settings caches filesystem-derived status and runs graphics-card and renderer-version lookups in background workers. Renderer availability checks use the engine snapshot. The renderer comments are reworded without changing executable logic.
Background preview rendering and frame delivery crates/haru-ui/src/preview.rs	The preview worker decodes frames and replaces a single latest-frame value. The UI consumes matching frames, updates textures, and schedules repainting.

Progress update coalescing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deduplicate download progress crates/haru-ui/src/updates.rs	Download progress notes are emitted only when the computed percentage changes.
Retain the latest Workshop progress crates/haru-workshop/src/lib.rs	Workshop progress replies replace older queued progress for the same request. A test checks that unrelated replies remain queued.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PreviewUI
  participant PreviewWorker
  participant PreviewStream
  participant OffscreenRenderer
  PreviewUI->>PreviewWorker: Request preview render
  PreviewWorker->>PreviewStream: Read or start live preview
  PreviewStream-->>PreviewWorker: Return frame
  PreviewWorker->>OffscreenRenderer: Render screenshot if live startup fails
  OffscreenRenderer-->>PreviewWorker: Write screenshot
  PreviewWorker->>PreviewWorker: Decode frame or screenshot
  PreviewWorker-->>PreviewUI: Replace latest-frame value
  PreviewUI->>PreviewUI: Update texture and schedule repaint

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to af4d9

An edit to an original file can unexpectedly change an imported wallpaper. Drops during an import can also be lost without notice. Fix these behaviors and bound stalled prebaking before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2b247

Preview-file checks are stronger, but background library scans can restore an item that was just removed or leave a selection pointing at a different item. The demonstrated effects are local; the available evidence does not establish a new remote exploit.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: An in-flight scan can restore a locally removed item to the displayed library. Replacing the item vector can also make an in-range selected index refer to another item, changing which item subsequent preview or action controls address.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected preview route concerns files readable by the local user's application. No cross-user privilege gain or outbound transfer from the local-file decode path is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If an installed item contains a symlink to an outside regular file, its normal-looking preview name can pass validation and be opened by the preview loader. Workshop symlink availability is unresolved, the file read is bounded, and this route predates the PR; it is not a verified PR-introduced finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The local preview loader checks file length, caps bytes read, and applies image dimension and allocation limits before producing a texture. Those controls limit the consequence of accepting a path but do not constrain where it resolves.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The unsubscribe confirmation compares against the current item's ID, limiting the chance that a changed selection immediately confirms removal of a different item. It does not reconcile scan results after removal or preserve selection identity across replacement.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — For the existing preview-file boundary, validate containment against the resolved item directory and address symlink replacement between validation and open if that threat is in scope.

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Title check		The title is concise and accurately describes the security, performance, and dead-code changes in the pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 55.56% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 144 functions across 19 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @crates/haru-apply/src/stream.rs:
- Around line 106-110: Update the frame validation in the code surrounding the
MAX_FRAME_BYTES check to reject frames when either width or height exceeds 3840,
before allocating or passing the frame to the preview UI. Preserve the existing
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Review comments at @crates/haru-core/src/library.rs:
- Around line 167-180: Update the preview path handling around
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canonicalize `dir` and the candidate path, and only store the candidate if it is
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Review comments at @crates/haru-media/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 272-277: Update the oversized PNG test using decode so it
recalculates the IHDR CRC after changing the width, then assert that the valid
oversized image is rejected by the dimension limit.

Review comments at @crates/haru-ui/src/library.rs:
- Around line 169-171: Update Library::unsubscribe and take_scan so a scan
started before a directory is removed cannot overwrite the removal and restore
its item. Invalidate stale scan results or ensure a new scan supersedes them,
while preserving the existing handling of current scan results.
- Around line 140-146: Update the Rescan handling around `self.scanning` so
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• crates/haru-apply/src/desktop.rs
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• crates/haru-apply/src/lib.rs
• crates/haru-apply/src/offscreen.rs
• crates/haru-apply/src/startup.rs
• crates/haru-apply/src/stream.rs
• crates/haru-apply/src/webview2.rs
• crates/haru-core/src/lib.rs
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• crates/haru-core/src/renderer.rs
• crates/haru-media/src/lib.rs
• crates/haru-ui/src/app.rs
• crates/haru-ui/src/library.rs
• crates/haru-ui/src/preview.rs
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