fix potential crash in unixfs directory

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ The following emojis are used to highlight certain changes:
 
 - `gateway` Fix redirect URLs for subdirectories with characters that need escaping. [#779](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/779)
 - `ipns` Fix `ipns` protobuf namespace conflicts by using full package name `github.com/ipfs/boxo/ipns/pb/record.proto` instead of the generic `record.proto` [#794](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/794)
+- `unixfs` Fix possible crash when modifying directory [#798](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/798)
 
 ### Security
 

ipld/unixfs/io/directory.go

@@ -489,33 +489,46 @@
 // until we either reach a value above the threshold (in that case no need
 // to keep counting) or an error occurs (like the context being canceled
 // if we take too much time fetching the necessary shards).
-func (d *HAMTDirectory) sizeBelowThreshold(ctx context.Context, sizeChange int) (below bool, err error) {
+func (d *HAMTDirectory) sizeBelowThreshold(ctx context.Context, sizeChange int) (bool, error) {
 	if HAMTShardingSize == 0 {
 		panic("asked to compute HAMT size with HAMTShardingSize option off (0)")
 	}
 
 	// We don't necessarily compute the full size of *all* shards as we might
 	// end early if we already know we're above the threshold or run out of time.
 	partialSize := 0
+	var err error
+	below := true
 
 	// We stop the enumeration once we have enough information and exit this function.
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
-	defer cancel()
+	linkResults := d.EnumLinksAsync(ctx)
 
-	for linkResult := range d.EnumLinksAsync(ctx) {
+	for linkResult := range linkResults {
 		if linkResult.Err != nil {
-			return false, linkResult.Err
+			below = false
+			err = linkResult.Err
+			break
 		}
 
 		partialSize += linksize.LinkSizeFunction(linkResult.Link.Name, linkResult.Link.Cid)
 		if partialSize+sizeChange >= HAMTShardingSize {
-			// We have already fetched enough shards to assert we are
-			//  above the threshold, so no need to keep fetching.
-			return false, nil
+			// We have already fetched enough shards to assert we are above the
+			// threshold, so no need to keep fetching.
+			below = false
+			break
 		}
 	}
+	cancel()
 
-	// We enumerated *all* links in all shards and didn't reach the threshold.
+	if !below {
+		// Wait for channel to close so links are not being read after return.
+		for range linkResults {
+		}
+		return false, err
+	}
+
+	// Enumerated all links in all shards before threshold reached.
 	return true, nil
 }