From 390c256c3804366a7aff406e9570202f1e75905d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DmitriyLewen <91113035+DmitriyLewen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 18:57:08 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] chore(image): skip symlinks and hardlinks from tar scan
 (#2634)

---
 pkg/fanal/walker/tar.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/fanal/walker/tar.go b/pkg/fanal/walker/tar.go
index 4875ce00a66..836c22fc562 100644
--- a/pkg/fanal/walker/tar.go
+++ b/pkg/fanal/walker/tar.go
@@ -64,10 +64,11 @@ func (w LayerTar) Walk(layer io.Reader, analyzeFn WalkFunc) ([]string, []string,
 				skipDirs = append(skipDirs, filePath)
 				continue
 			}
-		case tar.TypeSymlink, tar.TypeLink, tar.TypeReg:
+		case tar.TypeReg:
 			if w.shouldSkipFile(filePath) {
 				continue
 			}
+		// symlinks and hardlinks have no content in reader, skip them
 		default:
 			continue
 		}