feat(decoding): add caller-owned streaming workspace decoder

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Summary

• Adds decoding::workspace::WorkspaceDecoder behind the caller-workspace feature: a streaming decoder that runs entirely in one caller-supplied byte slice and never allocates, so a consumer can admit the memory in its own accounting before decoding.
• Every step is bounded by the frame window, the total output and a work budget charged before the work it pays for; limit refusals, malformed input, dictionary frames and truncation are reported apart.
• Decoding goes through the shared core; with the feature off the existing decoders build as before.

Changes

• workspace_bytes(max_window) sizes the workspace; WorkspaceDecoder::new(&mut [u8], DecodeLimits) lays the tables, window, literals and block staging out in it; step(input, input_is_final, output, &mut WorkBudget) returns consumed/produced and whether it needs input, needs output, or is done.
• Concatenated and skippable frames decode in order; the content checksum is verified with the hash feature; frames naming a dictionary are refused as unsupported.
• Single-segment frames decode linearly into the workspace, others through a ring over the same region; Raw blocks stream into the window without staging.
• The literals stage takes its buffer through a ByteScratch trait (Vec for the owned decoders). Under the feature the entropy tables keep their build scratch inline (InlineVec), the Huffman scratch of the owned decoders is boxed to keep their stack frame, and the ring can borrow memory.
• The FSE table build borrows the table's fields one by one instead of moving its spread scratch out and back.
• A compressed block whose content exceeds the frame's block maximum is refused on every path (RFC 8878 3.1.1.2.4), as upstream does.
• An FSE table description stops at the alphabet bound, as upstream's FSE_readNCount does, instead of collecting zero probabilities until the input runs out.
• Zero-allocation integration test, workspace_stream_verify example, workspace_decode_loop harness, decode_workspace fuzz target, README and crate docs.

Testing

• Tests, doc tests, clippy and rustdoc pass with and without the feature; the workspace decoder's tests and the zero-allocation test also run as wasm32-wasip1 under wasmtime; the feature builds for no_std (thumbv7em, x86_64-unknown-none) and wasm32-unknown-unknown. CI covers all of these and fuzzes the new target.
• Paired A/B on the x86 bench host (bench profile, interleaved prebuilt binaries, C decoder as control): the default build matches main on decode_all and StreamingDecoder; with the feature on they stay within 0.4%. The workspace decoder is faster than StreamingDecoder on single-segment, multi-segment and incompressible input.

Closes #582

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an opt-in streaming decoder that works with caller-provided memory, without allocating during decoding. It supports configurable window, output, and work limits, plus chunked input and output.
  • Added examples for verifying compressed data and comparing decoding performance.
• Bug Fixes
  • Compressed blocks exceeding the frame’s maximum block size are now rejected.
  • Invalid entropy-table data that exceeds its allowed symbol range is rejected during parsing.
• Documentation
  • Documented the caller-provided-memory decoder and its limits.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
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• zstd/src/decoding/workspace/tests.rs
• zstd/src/fse/fse_decoder.rs
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• zstd/src/lib.rs

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The pull request adds an opt-in streaming decoder that uses caller-owned workspace and enforces window, output, and work limits. It adds inline scratch support, tests, examples, fuzzing, and platform checks. The existing decoder paths also gain compressed-block size validation.

Changes: Caller-owned workspace decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fixed-capacity storage zstd/src/common/inline_vec.rs, zstd/src/common/inline_vec/tests.rs, zstd/src/common/mod.rs	Adds feature-gated InlineVec storage and tests for capacity bounds and core operations.
Decoder scratch and borrowed storage zstd/src/decoding/scratch.rs, zstd/src/decoding/ringbuffer.rs, zstd/src/decoding/literals_section_decoder.rs, zstd/src/decoding/block_decoder.rs, zstd/src/fse/fse_decoder.rs, zstd/src/huff0/huff0_decoder.rs	Generalizes decoder scratch buffers and entropy tables for caller-owned storage. Adds borrowed ring-buffer handling and in-place initialization support.
Workspace API and decode engine zstd/src/decoding/workspace.rs, zstd/src/decoding/mod.rs	Adds workspace sizing, limits, work budgets, typed progress and error states, and incremental frame decoding. Tests cover chunking, limits, checksums, malformed input, and differential results.
Examples and allocation checks zstd/examples/workspace_decode_loop.rs, zstd/examples/workspace_stream_verify.rs, zstd/tests/workspace_no_alloc.rs	Adds a decode benchmark, a streaming size-and-digest verification example, and allocation-counting tests for decoder operations.
Feature and platform integration zstd/Cargo.toml, README.md, zstd/src/lib.rs, .github/workflows/ci.yml, zstd/fuzz/*	Registers and documents caller-workspace. Adds workspace fuzzing and CI checks for no-std, bare-metal, and WebAssembly builds and tests.

Compressed block size validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reject blocks above the frame maximum zstd/src/decoding/block_decoder.rs, zstd/src/decoding/errors.rs, zstd/src/decoding/frame_decoder/tests.rs	Both slice-source and Read-source decoding reject compressed content sizes above the smaller of the frame window and 128 KiB. A regression test checks one-shot and streaming decoding.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant verify
  participant WorkspaceDecoder
  participant Fnv1aHasher
  Caller->>verify: compressed blob, size and digest manifest
  verify->>WorkspaceDecoder: step with input, output buffer and work budget
  WorkspaceDecoder-->>verify: progress and decoded output
  verify->>Fnv1aHasher: update with decoded output
  verify-->>Caller: verification result

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c9da6

The new caller-owned workspace decoder is additive and opt-in. The remaining issues are small: a typed-error gap in a fuzz-exported FSE builder when the feature is enabled, a documentation link that may not resolve without the feature, and some test and CI hardening. The change is mergeable after these follow-ups.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a caller-owned streaming workspace decoder for decoding.
Linked Issues check		Issue #582 coding requirements are implemented. The feature-gated WorkspaceDecoder uses caller-owned storage, checked workspace_bytes, typed initialization errors, chunked step progress, explici…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #582. InlineVec, borrowed ring storage, generic ByteScratch, and in-place entropy initialization support caller-owned decoding. The compressed-block size check and FS…

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 551: Update the taiki-e/install-action invocation to use a reviewed full
commit SHA instead of the moving @v2 reference, preserving the action’s existing
purpose and configuration.

Review comments at @zstd/src/decoding/frame_decoder/tests.rs:
- Line 4044: Strengthen the assertions in both decode paths around
FrameDecoder::decode_all to match the ContentPastBlockMaximum error through each
API’s error wrapper and verify its size and maximum fields, rather than
accepting any error.

Review comments at @zstd/src/decoding/workspace.rs:
- Around line 657-661: Implement Send for WorkspaceDecoder, whose NonNull<u8>
field prevents automatic derivation. Add a justified unsafe Send implementation
based on the exclusive workspace access represented by _region, so moving the
decoder transfers that access to the new thread.

Review comments at @zstd/src/fse/fse_decoder.rs:
- Around line 6-12: In `build_from_probabilities`, reject inputs longer than the
supported symbol count before validation or copying into `ProbabilityBuf`,
returning `FSETableError::TooManySymbols` with the input length; keep valid
inputs on the existing path.

Review comments at @zstd/src/lib.rs:
- Line 13: Update the crate-level documentation near the `decoding::workspace`
reference so it remains valid when the `caller-workspace` feature is disabled;
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• zstd/fuzz/Cargo.toml
• zstd/fuzz/fuzz_targets/decode_workspace.rs
• zstd/src/common/inline_vec.rs
• zstd/src/common/inline_vec/tests.rs
• zstd/src/common/mod.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/block_decoder.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/errors.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/frame_decoder/tests.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/literals_section_decoder.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/mod.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/ringbuffer.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/scratch.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/workspace.rs
• zstd/src/decoding/workspace/tests.rs
• zstd/src/fse/fse_decoder.rs
• zstd/src/fse/fse_decoder/tests.rs
• zstd/src/huff0/huff0_decoder.rs
• zstd/src/huff0/huff0_decoder/tests.rs
• zstd/src/lib.rs
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