Error: The configuration file "/home/runner/work/_temp/user-config-from-action.yml" is outside of the workspace

[p5]

As of an hour ago, we have been receiving errors from the github/codeql-action/init@v3 action with no changes being made on our end.

This is happening during the "Load language configuration" step. Please see the below error:

  Error: The configuration file "/home/runner/work/_temp/user-config-from-action.yml" is outside of the workspace

Since there were no changes on our end, I feel a bug or backwards-incompatible change may have been introduced in a recent commit. I am looking to see if there's anything obvious I can find.

Edit:
A fix has been proposed 🎉
#2147

[p5]

The individual commit appears to be 191f59f which introduced the error

[p5]

I believe we have identified the commit which introduced the error, and the logic which is causing it.

This code requires the configuration file to be inside the workspace directory before proceeding
https://github.com/github/codeql-action/blob/main/src/config-utils.ts#L886-L902

But this doesn't account for 191f59f moving the configuration file outside the workspace, into a _temp directory

[angelapwen]

Thank you for the notification: we've identified the error and have a fix up at #2147 As soon as it's in main, we'll release again to v2 and v3.

[angelapwen]

The fix is merged, and we're going through the release process for v2 and v3 again. In the meantime, we've manually retagged v2 and v3 to the version prior to the faulty release, so workflows using those tags should already no longer be seeing this issue.

[p5]

Have confirmed our CodeQL workflows using @v3 are working again.
Thank you!

Will close this issue as complete.

[angelapwen]

Thank you also for identifying the commit with the error 😄 we were doing it at the same time internally and you were just as fast!