Return None instead of raising on a cross-drive userdata path (#15820)

[ntdat812]

Fixes #15820.

Reproduced

ComfyUI installed on D:, user directory on D:, request for a path on C:. Measured on master (b78cec8), calling the real get_request_user_filepath():

'C:\Windows\temp\test.txt'      -> ValueError: Paths don't have the same drive
'C:%5CWindows%5Ctemp%5Ctest.txt'   -> ValueError: Paths don't have the same drive
'../escape.json'                   -> None                     (rejected, as intended)
'sub/ok.json'                      -> D:\...\default\sub\ok.json

os.path.commonpath() raises when the two paths are on different Windows drives, so the containment check at app/user_manager.py:95 exited through an exception instead of returning None, and aiohttp answered 500 instead of 403/404.

The fix

A path on another drive is by definition not inside the user directory, so the ValueError is treated as "not inside":

try:
    inside_user_root = os.path.commonpath((user_root, path)) == user_root
except ValueError:
    inside_user_root = False
if not inside_user_root:
    return None

Why not folder_paths.is_within_directory()

That is what the issue proposes, and it does fix the crash — it already catches this exact ValueError. I did not use it here because it also realpath()s both operands, which changes behaviour for symlinked user data. Measured with a junction at user/default/linked pointing outside the user directory:

today:                     'linked/workflow.json' -> D:\...\default\linked\workflow.json   (served)
is_within_directory says:  False                                                           (would 403)

Symlinking a subfolder of user/default elsewhere is something people do, so switching to the helper would silently start rejecting those installs — a separate decision from fixing a 500. The guard above keeps containment semantics byte-for-byte identical and only stops the crash.

Happy to switch to is_within_directory() in this PR if you would rather have the stricter symlink semantics as well — it is a two-line change and the tests below cover both readings except the junction case.

Tests

tests-unit/app_test/user_manager_cross_drive_test.py — 4 tests. The drive mismatch is simulated by making commonpath raise the real ValueError so the tests run on Linux and macOS too, plus one test that does it for real on Windows when a second drive exists (it did run here, not skip).

Against master with only app/user_manager.py reverted:

FAILED test_cross_drive_path_is_rejected_not_raised
FAILED test_url_encoded_cross_drive_path_is_rejected
FAILED test_real_cross_drive_path_on_windows
3 failed, 1 passed

The one that passes on both is test_ordinary_paths_are_unaffected, which pins the behaviour that must not change.

With the fix: 4 passed. Rest of tests-unit/app_test: 29 passed (frontend_manager_test, model_manager_test and test_migrations do not collect in my environment — missing requests / PIL — unrelated to this change). ruff check clean on both files.

Not fixed here, flagged

The same construction appears at server.py:414, server.py:494, server.py:551 and comfy/sd1_clip.py:426, where the joined path comes from a request field (subfolder, filename). I have not exercised those endpoints, so I am flagging rather than claiming they crash — happy to follow up with a separate PR if you want that swept.

The sibling check at user_manager.py:85 is not affected: add_user() reduces a user id to [a-zA-Z0-9-_] plus a uuid, so user_root can never land on another drive.

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get_request_user_filepath now catches ValueError from os.path.commonpath when paths use different Windows drives and rejects those paths. Regression tests cover raw and URL-encoded drive paths, valid paths, escaping paths, simulated cross-drive failures, and an optional real multi-drive Windows case.

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Good catch, and the defect is mine — though it fails one step earlier than the summary suggests.

My mock decided when to raise by comparing drive letters. On POSIX both sides return '' from splitdrive(), so it never raised, and Z:\Windows\temp\test.txt is an ordinary filename there — the join stays inside the user directory:

'Z:\Windows\temp\test.txt'
  -> joined  '/home/runner/userdir/default/Z:\Windows\temp\test.txt'
  -> mock would raise? False   commonpath-inside? True

So on Linux those two tests do not silently pass — assert result is None fails, because the function correctly returns a path for something that really is inside the directory. Either way the guard was covered on Windows only, which is exactly what you flagged.

Fixed in a7cd5a8

The ValueError is now driven by call position rather than by drive letters: the first commonpath() call (root_dir vs user_root) passes through to the real implementation, the second one (user_root vs the joined path — the check under test) raises. That is platform-independent, and it leaves the first comparison honest: both of its operands are derived from the user directory, so a real drive mismatch cannot occur there.

Each test also asserts the mock actually reached the second call:

assert len(calls) == 2, "the containment check under test was never reached"

so the test cannot go green by never exercising the guard — which is the failure mode your comment is really about.

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• 4 passed with the fix.
• Against origin/master with only app/user_manager.py reverted: 3 failed, 1 passed — the three cross-drive tests fail, and test_ordinary_paths_are_unaffected passes on both, which is what it is for.
• tests-unit/app_test (collectable modules): 19 passed. ruff check clean.

The Windows real-drive test is unchanged and still runs for real here rather than skipping.