gh-141707: Skip TarInfo DIRTYPE normalization during GNU long name handling

Co-authored-by: Eashwar Ranganathan <eashwar@eashwar.com>

Lib/tarfile.py

@@ -1276,6 +1276,20 @@ class TarInfo(object):
     @classmethod
     def frombuf(cls, buf, encoding, errors):
         """Construct a TarInfo object from a 512 byte bytes object.
+
+        To support the old v7 tar format AREGTYPE headers are
+        transformed to DIRTYPE headers if their name ends in '/'.
+        """
+        return cls._frombuf(buf, encoding, errors)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _frombuf(cls, buf, encoding, errors, *, dircheck=True):
+        """Construct a TarInfo object from a 512 byte bytes object.
+
+        If ``dircheck`` is set to ``True`` then ``AREGTYPE`` headers will
+        be normalized to ``DIRTYPE`` if the name ends in a trailing slash.
+        ``dircheck`` must be set to ``False`` if this function is called
+        on a follow-up header such as ``GNUTYPE_LONGNAME``.
         """
         if len(buf) == 0:
             raise EmptyHeaderError("empty header")
@@ -1306,7 +1320,7 @@ class TarInfo(object):
 
         # Old V7 tar format represents a directory as a regular
         # file with a trailing slash.
-        if obj.type == AREGTYPE and obj.name.endswith("/"):
+        if dircheck and obj.type == AREGTYPE and obj.name.endswith("/"):
             obj.type = DIRTYPE
 
         # The old GNU sparse format occupies some of the unused
@@ -1341,8 +1355,15 @@ class TarInfo(object):
         """Return the next TarInfo object from TarFile object
            tarfile.
         """
+        return cls._fromtarfile(tarfile)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _fromtarfile(cls, tarfile, *, dircheck=True):
+        """
+        See dircheck documentation in _frombuf().
+        """
         buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
-        obj = cls.frombuf(buf, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors)
+        obj = cls._frombuf(buf, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors, dircheck=dircheck)
         obj.offset = tarfile.fileobj.tell() - BLOCKSIZE
         return obj._proc_member(tarfile)
 
@@ -1400,7 +1421,7 @@ class TarInfo(object):
 
         # Fetch the next header and process it.
         try:
-            next = self.fromtarfile(tarfile)
+            next = self._fromtarfile(tarfile, dircheck=False)
         except HeaderError as e:
             raise SubsequentHeaderError(str(e)) from None
 
@@ -1535,7 +1556,7 @@ class TarInfo(object):
 
         # Fetch the next header.
         try:
-            next = self.fromtarfile(tarfile)
+            next = self._fromtarfile(tarfile, dircheck=False)
         except HeaderError as e:
             raise SubsequentHeaderError(str(e)) from None
 

Lib/test/test_tarfile.py

@@ -1234,6 +1234,25 @@ class LongnameTest:
                 self.assertIsNotNone(tar.getmember(longdir))
                 self.assertIsNotNone(tar.getmember(longdir.removesuffix('/')))
 
+    def test_longname_file_not_directory(self):
+        # Test reading a longname file and ensure it is not handled as a directory
+        # Issue #141707
+        buf = io.BytesIO()
+        with tarfile.open(mode='w', fileobj=buf, format=self.format) as tar:
+            ti = tarfile.TarInfo()
+            ti.type = tarfile.AREGTYPE
+            ti.name = ('a' * 99) + '/' + ('b' * 3)
+            tar.addfile(ti)
+
+            expected = {t.name: t.type for t in tar.getmembers()}
+
+        buf.seek(0)
+        with tarfile.open(mode='r', fileobj=buf) as tar:
+            actual = {t.name: t.type for t in tar.getmembers()}
+
+        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
+
+
 class GNUReadTest(LongnameTest, ReadTest, unittest.TestCase):
 
     subdir = "gnu"

Misc/ACKS

@@ -1557,6 +1557,7 @@ Ashwin Ramaswami
 Jeff Ramnani
 Grant Ramsay
 Bayard Randel
+Eashwar Ranganathan
 Varpu Rantala
 Brodie Rao
 Rémi Rampin

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-11-18-06-35-53.gh-issue-141707.DBmQIy.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Don't change :class:`tarfile.TarInfo` type from ``AREGTYPE`` to ``DIRTYPE`` when parsing
+GNU long name or link headers.