[robobun]

What does this PR do?

Fixes a Windows use-after-free: tearing down a pipe reader while a cooked-mode console read is in flight frees the buffer libuv's worker thread is still writing into.

Problem

• On Windows, WindowsBufferedReader serves every libuv read from _buffer's spare capacity. For a cooked-mode console read (the default for process.stdin / Bun.stdin.stream() on a console), libuv's uv__tty_queue_read_line stores that pointer and blocks a worker thread in ReadConsoleW; the worker converts the typed line into the buffer whenever ReadConsoleW returns (uv_utf16_to_wtf8 into read_line_buffer.base), including when the read was cancelled mid-flight: uv_read_stop cancels asynchronously by injecting a VK_RETURN, and after read_stop the buffer is never handed back through read_cb.
• Reader teardown (deinit() / Drop / finish()'s shrink_to_fit) frees or moves _buffer regardless, so the worker's late write lands in freed mimalloc memory and corrupts whatever is allocated there next. The crash then surfaces arbitrarily far away, typically as a fault on the corrupted allocation's next owner.
• This is a plausible mechanism for the Windows-dominant Sentry crash family around Heap::sweepArrayBuffers -> ~ArrayBufferContents -> mi_free (BUN-30T8 and siblings): the corrupted blocks are prime-size tenants for ArrayBuffer backing stores, and release-build _mi_ptr_page is unchecked only off macOS, matching the platform skew. No crash dump directly ties the family to this path, so that attribution is a hypothesis, not a claim.
• Separately, deinit() emptied _buffer before calling close_impl, so the orphaned_read_buf parking that Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075 added for in-flight uv_fs_read received an empty Vec and the threadpool write still targeted a freed block on that path.

Fix

• Own the console read buffer by what libuv ties the read's lifetime to: the handle. uv::Tty becomes a #[repr(C)] wrapper over uv_tty_t (the same shape as File over uv::fs_t) with a read_scratch: Vec<u8>; alloc_cb serves tty reads from it, and on_stream_read stages delivered chunks into _buffer so commit/callback behavior is byte-identical to a pipe chunk.
• The scratch is freed with its handle: libuv only runs a handle's close callback once no requests are pending on it (the parked line read holds one), and the process-static stdin tty is never closed at all. Heap ttys drop the scratch with the Box in on_tty_close / the open_handles teardown path.
• Pipe reads complete synchronously inside uv__pipe_read_data on the loop thread and keep using _buffer; uv_fs_read keeps main's orphaned_read_buf parking. HAS_INFLIGHT_READ semantics are untouched, so has_pending_read() behaves exactly as on main (no per-chunk buffer churn for FileReader over a pipe).
• deinit() now frees _buffer after close_impl, so the orphaned_read_buf parking gets the real allocation.
• The tty scratch gets the same ReadLimit clamp main applies to _buffer (BufferedReader: enforce the blob slice window at the read instead of after it #39296), so a sliced read over a tty is cut at the limit exactly as over a pipe. This is the only change the rebase onto the PipeReader rework (Streams: one PipeReader loop with owned chunks, hold-not-adopt buffer pins, right-sized native pulls #38886) needed; the staging copy in on_stream_read lands in _buffer's spare capacity, which is what main's on_read / on_read_chunk commit and hand to the parent.

How did you verify your code works?

• test/js/bun/terminal/terminal-spawn.test.ts "cancelling a parked console stdin read does not corrupt the heap" (Windows-only, ConPTY via Bun.Terminal so the child has a real console): the child proves the cooked-mode line-read machinery works with a parent round-trip, arms a read, cancels it while the worker is parked in ReadConsoleW (the pre-fix free point), immediately adopts the freed-size allocation with ArrayBuffer probes, and fails if the cancelled read's late write mutates one. The run is one-sidedly nondeterministic: a cycle where the worker had not yet entered ReadConsoleW is vacuous, never a false failure.
• Windows x64 debug build on the rebased base (main at 771c7e6): with only the test applied, the test fails 7 of 8 runs, each with the child tripping mimalloc: error: corrupted free list entry of size 10240b (the debug size class of libuv's 8 KiB line-read buffer); with the fix, 12 of 12 runs pass, the whole file passes (14 pass, 4 platform skips), and terminal.test.ts, terminal-platform-gaps.test.ts, process-stdin.test.ts, stdin-fixtures.test.ts, spawn-streaming-stdin.test.ts, bun-stdin-slice.test.ts, tty.test.ts and the tty regression tests pass (133 pass, 0 fail). A raw-mode ConPTY child (libuv's per-key-event read path through the same staging code) also received its input intact.
• cargo check --workspace passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.

Background

• libuv on Windows gives every stream read its buffer via alloc_cb and normally returns it through read_cb in the same loop iteration. The exception is the cooked-mode console line read: it parks a worker thread in ReadConsoleW, retains the alloc_cb buffer across loop iterations, and a cancellation via uv_read_stop never produces a read_cb for the in-flight read, so no reader-side completion point exists to free that buffer safely. The handle is the only object whose lifetime libuv guarantees covers the read.

Superseded earlier versions of this PR

Earlier revisions also (a) parked in-flight uv_fs_read buffers on the File and consumed DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK on normal completion after a lost uv_cancel race (both landed on main in a different shape via #37075), (b) redefined HAS_INFLIGHT_READ as a retention flag with clears moved to the read callbacks (dropped: it flipped has_pending_read() inside the chunk callback, causing a free+malloc per chunk for FileReader over a pipe), and (c) leaked one buffer per torn-down stdin reader, later reclaimed at the next alloc_cb, guarded by a malloc_bins-based leak test (dropped: the counters read 0 on release builds, making the test vacuous on CI, and the handle-owned scratch removes the leak outright).

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[robobun]

^{Updated 10:26 PM PT - Aug 16th, 2026}

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Found 3 issues this PR may fix:

1. Segmentation Fault in Bun v1.3.5 on Windows 10 x64 During Opencode Execution #26026 - Windows segfault at 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF after ~755s with heavy spawn usage exercising WindowsBufferedReader pipe reads
2. Segfault (null pointer at 0x0) in long-running standalone executable on Windows after sustained memory pressure #26862 - Windows segfault after sustained memory pressure (~78min, 892 spawns) crashing in mimalloc internals (mi_realloc_aligned)
3. Bun crashes in Claude Code cause Windows BSOD (KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE) — full system reboots on Windows 11 x64 #27692 - Windows BSOD (KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE) during Claude Code sessions with heavy stdin/stdout/spawn usage, consistent with JSC::Heap corruption from freed pipe reader buffer

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Fixes #26026
Fixes #26862
Fixes #27692

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[robobun]

Checked all three before adding any auto-close lines:

• Segmentation Fault in Bun v1.3.5 on Windows 10 x64 During Opencode Execution #26026 and Segfault (null pointer at 0x0) in long-running standalone executable on Windows after sustained memory pressure #26862 are plausibly this corruption family: Windows, long-running fetch/spawn/stdin workloads, delayed crashes at garbage addresses, on versions that shipped the same defect in the Zig reader (finish -> shrinkAndFree, deinit -> buffer().deinit()). Neither report includes a stack that ties it to this specific bug, though (no sweepArrayBuffers / mi_free frames; Segfault (null pointer at 0x0) in long-running standalone executable on Windows after sustained memory pressure #26862 reports a 0x0 deref with no stack, not mi_realloc_aligned). I'm linking them as possibly related rather than auto-closing, so they stay open if the crashes persist after this ships.
• Bun crashes in Claude Code cause Windows BSOD (KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE) — full system reboots on Windows 11 x64 #27692 reports kernel BSODs (KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED). A user-mode heap use-after-free cannot corrupt kernel data structures; that points at a driver or hardware problem, so this PR does not address it.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Windows TTY reads now use TTY-owned scratch storage before copying data into the reader buffer. TTY wrappers preserve ownership through libuv close callbacks. Reader teardown retains buffers needed by in-flight reads. A Windows cancellation regression test checks for delayed memory corruption.

Changes

Windows TTY ownership and buffer safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TTY wrapper and initialization src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs, src/io/source.rs, src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs	Adds the public Tty wrapper with embedded uv_tty_t and read_scratch. Updates TTY initialization, accessors, stdin storage, raw-mode calls, and safety comments.
TTY scratch-buffer read path src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/io/source.rs	TTY reads use size-limited scratch capacity owned by the TTY. Completed data is copied into _buffer before on_read; non-TTY reads keep the existing path.
TTY and reader teardown src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/io/PipeWriter.rs, src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs, src/libuv_sys/open_handles.rs	TTY closure recovers the owning wrapper through Tty::from_uv. deinit() preserves buffer ownership for in-flight reads and handles already-closing sources safely.
Console read cancellation regression test test/js/bun/terminal/terminal-spawn.test.ts	Adds a Windows child and parent test that cancels a parked cooked-mode read, probes 8 KiB ArrayBuffer allocations, and checks for delayed corruption.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38354: Both changes modify Windows-related PipeWriter.rs teardown and ownership behavior.
• oven-sh/bun#38726: Both changes modify PipeReader.rs read-buffer ownership and handling.
• oven-sh/bun#38886: Both changes modify PipeReader.rs buffer ownership and read handling.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
In `@src/io/PipeReader.rs`:
- Around line 1735-1750: on_file_read() currently only handles
DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK in the was_canceled branch, leaving DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK set
if the threadpool read completes normally (uv_cancel lost the race); update
on_file_read() so that in the successful-read (non-was_canceled) path it also
consumes the deferred-close: if DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK is set for
Source::File/Source::SyncFile, transfer self._buffer into
file.retained_read_buffer (mem::take(&mut self._buffer)) and invoke the same
done()/deferred-close handoff logic used in the was_canceled branch, and clear
DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK, so close()/deferred-completion is always completed
regardless of cancel race.

In `@test/js/bun/terminal/terminal-spawn.test.ts`:
- Around line 455-484: The test currently cancels the stdin read after a fixed
sleep which can be raced; instead gate reader.cancel() on an explicit observable
readiness signal that proves the native ReadConsoleW call is parked: add or use
a readiness API (e.g., expose/wait on a native binding like
Terminal.isReadConsoleWActive() or a promise such as waitForConsoleReadActive())
immediately after calling Bun.stdin.stream().getReader() and reader.read(), and
only call reader.cancel() once that readiness function resolves; then run the
existing probes loop (probes array and corruption checks) from that
guaranteed-ready state so the test deterministically exercises the
cancellation-path corruption rather than depending on Bun.sleep timing.

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[claude]

Thanks for the fix in 5d9d259 — the ConPTY verdict-line race is resolved. I'm not auto-approving since this reworks the HAS_INFLIGHT_READ lifetime invariant and buffer-teardown paths (including intentional leaks and Drop changes) in unsafe Windows IO code; that's worth a human pass.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a Windows-only use-after-free where WindowsBufferedReader freed/moved _buffer while a libuv console line read or threadpool uv_fs_read still held a pointer into its spare capacity. Touches four files: src/io/PipeReader.rs (flag-lifecycle rework, release_buffer_on_teardown, take_buffer copy-and-leak path, close_impl buffer parking, deferred-close consumption in on_file_read, Drop), src/io/source.rs (new File::retained_read_buffer field), src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs (route drain/consume_reader_buffer through take_buffer), and a Windows-only ConPTY regression test.

Security risks

No new attack surface — this is a memory-safety hardening fix, not a feature. The change removes a heap-corruption vector. The intentional mem::forget paths are bounded (one spare-capacity buffer per torn-down reader on the console-cancel path) and documented as the only sound option given libuv never returns the buffer after uv_read_stop.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is production-critical unsafe Rust in the core IO layer, fixing the dominant Windows crash family (8k+ Sentry events). The fix redefines what HAS_INFLIGHT_READ means (now: "libuv may still write into _buffer"), moves where it's cleared, adds a new state-machine interaction between DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK and the uv_cancel-lost-the-race completion path, and changes Drop behavior. The reasoning is cross-thread (libuv worker threads writing through retained pointers) and the correctness argument leans on libuv internals (uv__pipe_read_data synchrony, tty read_cb ordering, uv_cancel best-effort semantics). Getting any of these invariants wrong trades one UAF for another, or for a hang/leak — exactly the sort of change a human owner of this code should sign off on.

Other factors

• The bug-hunting system found no issues on the current revision.
• All three prior review threads (CodeRabbit ×2, my ConPTY race comment) are resolved; the deferred-close consumption fix (e53bc27) and the test's probeReported await (5d9d259) both landed.
• CI failures on the latest build appear to be infrastructure ("Failed to create agent" on Windows aarch64, musl LTO link issues) and a pre-existing bunx.test.ts flake, not related to this change.
• The regression test is Windows-only and acknowledged as probabilistic on the unfixed build (one-sided nondeterminism, documented in the test); fail-before cannot be demonstrated on the Linux runner here.
• POSIX paths are untouched (PosixBufferedReader reads synchronously), so blast radius is Windows-only — but that's also where the fix can't be exercised by Linux CI.

[robobun]

CI status: the only failing test in build 61166 is test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts, failing identically on all 15 test lanes (glibc, musl, macOS, Windows, ASAN) with:

error: UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE downloading tarball cowsay@github:piuccio/cowsay

This reproduces locally with the stock release bun (USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1), which contains none of this PR's code, so it is an external GitHub tarball TLS issue (verified still failing after 2+ hours of polling), not something this diff touches. This PR's changes are #[cfg(windows)] reader code plus a behavior-identical take_buffer routing in FileReader; the earlier build's other annotations (win11-aarch64 "failed to create agent", musl LTO stub link errors) were infra.

Everything this PR changed is green: both Windows targets compile (cargo check --workspace for x64 and aarch64 msvc), the linux-x64-asan lane passed everything except the external bunx test, and all review threads (CodeRabbit x2, claude-bot x1) are addressed and resolved. Needs a rebuild once the GitHub tarball issue clears, then a maintainer pass (claude-bot deferred approval to a human for the unsafe Windows IO rework, reasonably).

[Jarred-Sumner]

@dylan-conway can you check if this test still reproduces the issue or if you already fixed it?

[robobun]

Rechecked against main at 7f33321: the mechanism this PR fixes is still present there, unchanged.

• WindowsBufferedReader::finish() still clears HAS_INFLIGHT_READ and calls _buffer.shrink_to_fit() unconditionally (src/io/PipeReader.rs:1283-1287 on main), and deinit() / Drop still release _buffer with no retention check. Those are the frees that race the parked ReadConsoleW worker and an operating uv_fs_read.
• The only PipeReader.rs change since this branch point is shell: fix use-after-free when poll re-registration fails during a poll-driven read #32986 (POSIX shell poll re-registration UAF), a different bug. The FileReader pin fixes (webcore: pin the FileReader across re-entrant cancel in on_read_chunk and on_reader_error #32921, webcore: pin subprocess stdout FileReader while its pipe poll is live #32743) are also a different class: they pin the FileReader object itself across re-entrant callbacks, not the libuv read buffer. The vendored libuv commit is unchanged.
• The branch still merges cleanly against current main.

On whether the test reproduces: it is Windows-only (the child needs a real console, so it runs under ConPTY via Bun.Terminal), and on an unfixed build it is probabilistic in one direction. The cancelled console read's late write always happens, but detecting it requires mimalloc to hand the freed 8 KiB block to one of the test's probe ArrayBuffers, which the size-class free list makes very likely but not guaranteed. So one clean run on an unfixed build is weaker evidence than the code inspection above; if it does not fail for you, the signal to look for is whether PROBE-CORRUPTED ever appears across a few runs. I cannot run the Windows lane from this environment.

I can push a rebase for a fresh CI run if useful. The previous run was red only on test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts, which failed on every lane (including ones this #[cfg(windows)] diff does not compile into) with UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE downloading GitHub tarballs, and reproduced with the stock release bun.

[robobun]

@Jarred-Sumner ran both directions on a Windows x64 machine (debug build) to answer this concretely instead of by inspection.

Does the test still reproduce the issue on current main? Yes. On main at 00a93bd plus only this PR's test file, "cancelling a parked console stdin read does not corrupt the heap" failed 11 of 30 runs, every failure with mimalloc's own consistency check tripping in the child:

mimalloc: error: corrupted free list entry of size 10240b at 0x01B500255000: value 0x14E095A47E8

10240 bytes is the debug size class of the 8 KiB buffer libuv's cooked-mode line read writes into, so this is the stale ReadConsoleW write landing in freed memory rather than an unrelated crash. The passing runs are the probabilistic direction described in the PR body: the late write always happens, detection depends on where it lands. The FileReader pinning fixes that landed since (#32921, #32743, #32986) do not change it; they pin the FileReader object across re-entrant callbacks, not the buffer libuv retains.

Does the fix still work on main? Same machine, main plus this PR's src/ changes: 20/20 runs pass. The wider Windows IO suites are green on that build too (terminal-spawn 15 pass; spawn, spawn-streaming-stdin, spawn-streaming-stdout, process-stdin, web streams together 220 pass, 0 fail), which matters because the retention-flag rework sits under every Windows pipe read.

One fix on top, pushed as 93eda5e. Auditing this PR for leaks while I had the Windows machine turned up a real one: it replaced the use-after-free with a mem::forget of the 8 KiB buffer on every console stdin reader torn down with a line read in flight, on the claim that no completion signal exists to reclaim it on. libuv indeed never returns a cancelled line read through read_cb, but the stdin tty is a process-global handle that outlives every reader and carries at most one read request at a time, so the next alloc_cb on that handle proves the retained request finished. The buffer is now parked on the tty itself: Tty is a #[repr(C)] struct owning the uv_tty_t plus the parked buffer, the same shape as File and its uv::fs_t, and the tty's next alloc_cb (or, for a heap tty, its close callback) frees it. Worst case is one 8 KiB buffer retained per tty handle instead of one leaked per cancelled reader. File sources already had the equivalent (File::retained_read_buffer, freed in on_close_complete) and are unchanged.

The new regression test for it measures live native allocation with mimalloc's own per-bin counters (heapStats().mimalloc), which are exact, rather than RSS:

• this PR without the retention slot: +5,242,368 bytes across 512 cancel cycles, exactly one 10 KiB block per cycle
• with it: no growth, 20/20 reruns

PR body updated with all of the above.

[robobun]

CI status for build 67492 at e58b2ad, for whoever evaluates this: 279 jobs passed, 3 failed, and none of the failures involve this PR's code.

• All 34 Windows jobs passed. Windows is the only platform where the changed native code compiles (src/io/PipeReader.rs / src/io/source.rs are #[cfg(windows)]), and those lanes run both new regression tests (the ConPTY use-after-free probe and the retained-buffer leak check).
• darwin-26-aarch64 test-bun: buildkite-agent artifact download timed out after 120s for step 'darwin-aarch64-build-bun'. That agent has failed identically in every build of this branch today (67436, 67467, 67478, 67492); it never gets a binary to test.
• alpine 3.23 x64 and x64-baseline: test/js/node/test/parallel/test-net-connect-memleak.js, an upstream Node GC-observability test, on Linux-musl lanes that do not compile any of this PR's native changes.
• The other annotated flakes (update_interactive_install.test.ts, bun-install.test.ts) are live-npm-registry install tests that were retried inside jobs that ultimately passed.

The earlier bake/deinitialization.test.ts failure from build 67467 did not reproduce here; it also passes locally on Linux with this diff.

[alii]

Needs a rebase and a re-scope first.

• The uv_fs_read half landed in #37075 in a different shape. The File parking here conflicts with it and the on_file_read hunk becomes dead code. What is left is the cooked-mode console read.
• The leak test that guards the remaining tty reclamation reads 0 on the release builds CI runs, so it passes with or without the fix.
• Moving the flag clear flips has_pending_read() inside the chunk callback, which turns into a free+malloc per chunk for FileReader over a pipe on Windows; not mentioned anywhere.
• The description needs rewriting for what remains. Much of the root cause and fix text is about the File side now, and nothing in this diff shows the console read is what the Sentry family is; say it is a guess or leave it out.

[robobun]

@alii rebased and re-scoped per your review, taking the source.rs suggestion as the design. As of 13a9871:

• uv::Tty is a #[repr(C)] wrapper owning read_scratch: Vec<u8>; alloc_cb serves tty reads from it and on_stream_read stages delivered chunks into _buffer. No flag redefinition, no finish() guard, no parkings, no teardown leak, no leak test. HAS_INFLIGHT_READ and has_pending_read() behave exactly as on main, so the per-chunk free+malloc concern is gone by construction.
• The uv_fs_read half is dropped in favor of main's orphaned_read_buf (Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075); the only File-side change kept is the deinit() reorder so the parking receives a non-empty buffer.
• Description rewritten for the remaining scope; the Sentry-family attribution is now explicitly labeled a hypothesis.
• The retention contract is stated once, on Tty::read_scratch; use sites are one or two lines.

Verified: cargo check --workspace for both Windows msvc targets, and the terminal/stdin suites under bun bd test on Linux. The ConPTY regression test is unchanged in approach (warm-up round-trip, then cancel-while-parked, then probe the freed size class).

[alii]

Looks ready to merge from this side. The rework is the handle-owned buffer shape: File side gone (only the deinit() reorder kept, which is right since close_impl parks _buffer), no HAS_INFLIGHT_READ changes so has_pending_read() and buffer retention across chunks are as on main, tty reads land in Tty::read_scratch and libuv only calls alloc_cb with no line read pending (uv__tty_read_start returns early on READ_PENDING), so the Vec is never reallocated under a parked worker; the three free sites all go through from_uv; merges cleanly with current main. Windows compile and the ConPTY test are unverified here. One comment nit below, not blocking.

[claude]

Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

• 🟡 src/io/PipeReader.rs:1635-1650 — The PR description's "Fix" section and the 3-row "Verified on Windows" table describe the pre-rework implementation, not what's in the diff — please rewrite them to match the shipped design (tty owns its read buffer via Tty::read_scratch; alloc_cb returns it; on_stream_read stages into _buffer; deinit() reordered so close_impl sees a live buffer for the File→orphaned_read_buf parking that already exists on main). The described HAS_INFLIGHT_READ clear-site changes, finish() shrink guard, File::retained_read_buffer/Tty::retained_read_buffer parking, on_file_read DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK handling, release_buffer_on_teardown(), take_buffer()+FileReader routing, and the heapStats().mimalloc leak test are all gone — reviewers and future git blame readers will look for code and a test that don't exist.

  Extended reasoning...

  What the issue is

  The PR description was written for the earlier implementation and never updated after alii's 2026-08-13 review triggered a wholesale redesign. Almost every mechanism named in the "Fix" section, and one of the two tests in the "Verified on Windows" table, no longer exist in the diff.

  Step-by-step: description claim vs. diff

  Description claims	Diff reality
  "HAS_INFLIGHT_READ now means exactly … cleared only in on_stream_read entry … and on_file_read entry. The clears in finish() and _on_read_chunk are removed"	No hunk touches finish(), _on_read_chunk, or the flag's clear sites.
  "finish() skips shrink_to_fit while the flag is set"	No finish() hunk.
  "close_impl parks the buffer on the Box<File> (new File::retained_read_buffer field)"	No such field. File uses the pre-existing orphaned_read_buf (source.rs:76) added by #37075 on main; this PR adds no File-side parking.
  "on_file_read now also consumes DEFER_DONE_CALLBACK when the read completes normally"	No on_file_read hunk. alii's review said "Dead once rebased … Drop this block."
  "Tty … close_impl parks the buffer on it (Tty::retained_read_buffer). The tty's next alloc_cb frees it"	The Tty field is read_scratch, and per libuv.rs:1483's doc comment it is the destination buffer for this handle's console reads — the actual read buffer, not a parking slot. alloc_cb doesn't free anything; it returns this buffer for tty sources (PipeReader.rs:1643-1649).
  "deinit()/Drop release the buffer through release_buffer_on_teardown()"	No such function exists. deinit() was reordered so _buffer is dropped after close_impl (so File's orphaned_read_buf parking on main gets a live Vec), but there is no separate release helper.
  "take_buffer() copies out the committed bytes … FileReader::drain/consume_reader_buffer now go through it"	No take_buffer() change; FileReader.rs is not in the changed-files list. alii's review said this branch "never sees a non-empty buffer … Drop it and the two FileReader.rs hunks."
  Tests section: "cancelling console stdin readers repeatedly does not leak the read buffer … measures live native allocation with mimalloc's own per-bin counters (heapStats().mimalloc)"	Only one test is added (the heap-corruption probe). The leak test is gone.
  Verification table: 3 columns × 3 rows including "leak test" and "this PR without the stdin-tty retention slot"	The leak-test column and the middle row reference removed code and a removed test.

  What the diff actually implements

  This is exactly alii's 2026-08-13 suggestion on source.rs: "consider making this the read buffer rather than a parking slot … on_stream_alloc returns it for Source::Tty, on_stream_read copies nread bytes into _buffer. That removes the flag redefinition, the finish() guard, release_buffer_on_teardown, both parkings, the release at the next alloc_cb, and the leak test."

  Concretely:

  1. Tty becomes a #[repr(C)] wrapper (libuv.rs) with uv: uv_tty_t at offset 0 and read_scratch: Vec<u8> — the tty owns its console-read buffer for the handle's lifetime.
  2. get_read_buffer_with_stable_memory_address returns tty_read_scratch() for tty sources instead of _buffer's spare capacity (PipeReader.rs:1635-1650).
  3. on_stream_read copies the tty chunk from the scratch into _buffer before dispatching (PipeReader.rs:1810-1828), so downstream consumers see the same shape as pipe reads.
  4. deinit() is reordered to drop _buffer after close_impl(), so main's existing File::orphaned_read_buf parking (from #37075) receives a live Vec rather than an empty one.
  5. on_tty_close / open_handles.rs / PipeWriter.rs recover *mut Tty from the uv_tty_t* libuv hands back via Tty::from_uv and free the wrapper (which drops read_scratch — safe because libuv only fires the close callback once no requests are pending).
  6. FileSink.rs gets a comment-only update to name the wrapper type in a SAFETY comment.

  The description's root-cause analysis and the heap-corruption test description are still accurate.

  Why this matters

  CLAUDE.md #11: "NEVER overstate what you got done or what actually works in commits, PRs." REVIEW.md's PR-process section (in .claude/docs/landing-prs.md) treats the PR description as the permanent record of the fix mechanism. A reviewer following the current description will grep for release_buffer_on_teardown, retained_read_buffer, and take_buffer, find nothing, and either assume the diff is incomplete or waste time reconstructing the timeline from review comments. A future git blame reader landing on the tty-scratch hunk will read a description that says the field is a parking slot released at the next alloc_cb, which is the opposite of what the code does.

  Impact and severity

  No runtime effect — this is metadata only. Marked nit per the PR-description-mismatch default: the code is correct and the description is stale, not the other way around. Not blocking, but the description is currently wholesale wrong about the mechanism, so it's worth fixing before merge rather than after.

  How to fix

  Rewrite the "Fix" section around the tty-owned-scratch design (bullets 1–5 above), delete the paragraph about take_buffer()/FileReader, drop the leak-test bullet from the Tests section, and reduce the verification table to two rows (main + tests → fails; this PR → passes) with the leak-test column removed.

• 🟡 src/io/PipeReader.rs:2245-2256 — Now that Tty wraps uv_tty_t + read_scratch, on_tty_close (here and in PipeWriter.rs) and open_handles::free_tty recover *mut Tty via Tty::from_uv(handle) and Box::from_raw it — but handle was derived from &mut (*p).uv (via (*p).uv.close(...) → UvHandle::as_handle_mut = (self as *mut Self).cast()), so its provenance covers only the uv field, not the whole Tty. Dropping the Box reads/frees read_scratch outside that provenance — the exact class File::start_close in this file documents and avoids ("'&mut self.fs' would narrow provenance to the field under SB/TB and make that UB"). The full-provenance pointer is already in (*handle).data (close_impl set it to p.cast()); use that instead of from_uv(handle), and have Tty::init register core::ptr::from_mut(self).cast() for open_handles rather than delegating to self.uv.init's add_tty(&mut self.uv).

  Extended reasoning...

  What the bug is

  This PR changes Tty from type Tty = uv_tty_t to a #[repr(C)] struct { uv: uv_tty_t, read_scratch: Vec<u8> }. Three sites now reconstruct and drop Box<Tty> from a *mut uv_tty_t whose Stacked-Borrows/Tree-Borrows provenance covers only the inner uv field, not the whole allocation:

  • WindowsBufferedReader::on_tty_close (PipeReader.rs:2245-2256)
  • BaseWindowsPipeWriter's on_tty_close (PipeWriter.rs:1330-1338)
  • open_handles::stop_all_for_vm_teardown's free_tty (open_handles.rs:209-215)

  Before this PR, Tty was uv_tty_t, so field == whole allocation and the pattern was sound. The wrapper struct is what breaks it.

  The specific code path

  For the two on_tty_close callbacks, trace close_impl (PipeReader.rs:2168-2169, PipeWriter.rs:1198-1200):

  1. (*p).uv.close(Self::on_tty_close) where p: *mut Tty. Method-call autoref forms &mut (*p).uv: &mut uv_tty_t — this reference's provenance is narrowed to the uv field only.
  2. UvHandle::close(&mut self, cb) (libuv.rs:725) calls uv_close(self.as_handle_mut(), cb), where as_handle_mut is (self as *mut Self).cast() (libuv.rs:670-671). The raw pointer libuv stores and later hands to the callback is derived from that field-narrowed &mut uv_tty_t.
  3. on_tty_close(handle) does Tty::from_uv(handle) = handle.cast::<Tty>(), then heap::take(tty) = Box::from_raw(tty). Dropping the Box reads/frees read_scratch at offset size_of::<uv_tty_t>() and deallocates size_of::<Tty>() bytes — both outside the pointer's provenance.

  For open_handles::free_tty: the registry key was inserted by uv_tty_t::init via add_tty(self) with self: &mut uv_tty_t (libuv.rs:1509-1516), reached from the new Tty::init as self.uv.init(...). Same field-narrowing; free_tty then does Box::from_raw(Tty::from_uv(t)) on it. The uv_close(handle, free_tty) call in the (None, Kind::Tty) arm passes that same field-narrowed key as handle.

  Why existing code doesn't prevent it

  Nothing prevents it — but the repo's own convention explicitly forbids it. File::start_close in the same file (source.rs:214-221) documents exactly this class:

  Derive the fs_t pointer from the whole *mut File (fs is the first #[repr(C)] field, offset 0) so the pointer carries full-struct provenance — on_close_complete recovers *mut File via from_fs and reads/frees bytes outside the fs field. &mut self.fs would narrow provenance to the field under SB/TB and make that UB.

  And src/CLAUDE.md:280 ("Pointer provenance at FFI boundaries") calls it out as a repo convention. REVIEW.md requires SAFETY comments to be accurate; the ones on on_tty_close ("'from_uv' recovers the owning Tty") and free_tty now misstate the invariant — from_uv recovers the address of the owning Tty, but not with provenance to touch all of it.

  Step-by-step proof

  Concrete example with WindowsBufferedReader::close_impl closing a heap tty:

  1. open_tty allocated Box<Tty> and leaked it; p: *mut Tty points at the whole allocation with full provenance.
  2. close_impl runs (*p).uv.data = p.cast::<c_void>() — this stores the full-provenance *mut Tty in data.
  3. close_impl runs (*p).uv.close(on_tty_close). Autoref creates tmp: &mut uv_tty_t = &mut (*p).uv. Under SB/TB, tmp's tag grants access only to bytes [0, size_of::<uv_tty_t>()) of the allocation.
  4. Inside UvHandle::close, self.as_handle_mut() = (tmp as *mut uv_tty_t).cast::<uv_handle_t>(). This raw pointer inherits tmp's field-narrowed tag. libuv stores it.
  5. libuv calls on_tty_close(handle) with that field-narrowed pointer.
  6. Tty::from_uv(handle) = handle.cast::<Tty>() — same address, same narrowed tag.
  7. heap::take(tty) = Box::from_raw(tty); dropping the box runs Vec::drop on read_scratch (reading ptr/cap/len at offset size_of::<uv_tty_t>(), outside the tag's range) and then deallocates size_of::<Tty>() bytes. Both are SB/TB violations — Miri would flag the first out-of-range read.

  Impact

  This is Miri-model UB, not an observed miscompilation — no shipping rustc/LLVM miscompiles this today, so it won't cause a runtime failure. But (a) the repo explicitly treats this pattern as a defect and enforces it in sibling code in the same file, (b) this PR's entire purpose is memory-safety hardening on this exact code path, so introducing new provenance UB while fixing a UAF is worth cleaning up before merge, and (c) alii's review is already requesting a re-scope of the tty-owned-buffer approach, so this folds naturally into that rework.

  How to fix

  Both close_impl paths already stash the full-provenance pointer: (*p).uv.data = p.cast::<c_void>(). So the callbacks can read (*handle).data.cast::<Tty>() instead of Tty::from_uv(handle). Alternatively, mirror File::start_close exactly: in close_impl, derive the handle pointer from the whole struct (core::ptr::from_mut::<Tty>(&mut *p).cast::<uv_tty_t>()) and pass that to uv_close directly rather than going through (*p).uv.close(...).

  For open_handles: Tty::init should register the outer pointer — e.g. call open_handles::add_tty(core::ptr::from_mut(self).cast()) itself (and skip uv_tty_t::init's internal add_tty), or change add_tty to accept *mut Tty and have every caller pass the wrapper. The (None, Kind::Tty) arm's uv_close(handle, free_tty) then hands free_tty a full-provenance pointer, and from_uv on it is sound.

[robobun]

Both findings from the latest review addressed:

• Provenance: fixed in 3810e12. Tty::close(this: *mut Tty, cb) now mirrors UvHandle::close but derives the handle pointer from the whole-struct *mut Tty (the File::start_close rule), and Tty::init registers the whole-struct pointer with open_handles instead of delegating to uv_tty_t::init's add_tty(&mut self.uv); that narrowed variant had no other callers and is removed. Both on_tty_close callbacks and open_handles::free_tty therefore receive full-provenance pointers, so from_uv + Box::from_raw are sound under SB/TB.
• Description: that finding raced the rework push; the body was rewritten at the same time as 70529b4 and has described the tty-owned read_scratch design since (alii's follow-up nit referenced the updated wording). The walkthrough table that still mentions retained_read_buffer / release_buffer_on_teardown is CodeRabbit's stale summary, not the PR body.

[claude]

I reviewed the reworked diff and didn't find any bugs. Because this is an unsafe Windows I/O rework (FFI pointer provenance, cross-thread buffer lifetime) and the head commit 3810e12 landed after the last maintainer pass, a human sign-off on the final shape is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Tty alias → #[repr(C)] wrapper: checked every .cast()/.as_ptr() site for the offset-0 chain (source.rs, PipeWriter.rs, FileSink.rs, open_handles.rs) — all sound.
• tty_read_scratch alloc_cb path and the on_stream_read staging copy — _buffer commit semantics match the pipe path; HAS_INFLIGHT_READ untouched so has_pending_read() behavior is preserved.
• deinit() reorder so close_impl's orphaned_read_buf parking receives the real allocation; static stdin tty init via addr_of_mut! write (no drop of uninit Vec).
• The two unresolved comment-cop flags on libuv.rs:1501/1518 target provenance explanations, not workarounds.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a Windows use-after-free where cancelling a cooked-mode console read (ReadConsoleW parked on a libuv worker thread) races the reader teardown freeing the buffer libuv still holds. The fix moves the tty read buffer onto the handle itself: uv::Tty becomes a #[repr(C)] wrapper over uv_tty_t with a read_scratch: Vec<u8>; alloc_cb serves tty reads from it and on_stream_read copies delivered chunks into _buffer. The handle's close callback (which libuv only fires once no requests are pending) frees the scratch. Touches src/io/PipeReader.rs, PipeWriter.rs, source.rs, src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs, open_handles.rs, one SAFETY-comment update in FileSink.rs, and a Windows-only ConPTY regression test.

Security risks

This is memory-safety code: cross-thread buffer lifetime under an FFI boundary, #[repr(C)] offset-0 pointer casts, Box::from_raw reclamation from libuv callbacks, and Stacked-Borrows provenance for whole-struct pointers derived from field addresses. A mistake here is a UAF or double-free. No auth/crypto/injection surface.

Level of scrutiny

High. REVIEW.md flags native memory safety as the most-blocked category, and this PR redefines a type that every Windows tty cast site depends on. The current shape is the result of a maintainer-driven redesign (alii, 2026-08-13) that dropped the earlier flag-redefinition approach in favor of handle-owned storage; all seven of alii's review threads are resolved, and the follow-up nit was addressed in 20e945a. However, the head commit 3810e12 (Tty::init/Tty::close whole-struct-provenance routing, open_handles::add_tty through the cast pointer) was pushed after alii's last look and adds new unsafe — a maintainer should confirm that shape.

Other factors

• The bug-hunting system found nothing this run. My two earlier inline findings (ConPTY output/exit race in the test; stale FileSink SAFETY comment) were both fixed.
• The two unresolved github-actions comment-cop flags on libuv.rs:1501/1518 fire on the 3-line provenance comments in Tty::init/Tty::close. Those comments state a Stacked-Borrows requirement (deriving the uv_tty_t* from *mut Tty so the close callback can Box::from_raw the wrapper), not a workaround; I don't think they need action, but that's the maintainer's call.
• Windows CI on the pre-3810e12c build was green; the new test is Windows-only and the author cannot run it locally, so CI on the current head is the remaining verification.

[alii]

Still looks ready to merge from this side. Checked the provenance push: Tty::init now hands libuv and open_handles a pointer derived from the whole Tty and Tty::close mirrors UvHandle::close (open_handles::remove then uv_close) through the whole-struct pointer, so all three from_uv free sites (both on_tty_close callbacks and open_handles::free_tty) get a pointer covering the full Box, same shape as File::start_close; the narrowed uv_tty_t::init has no remaining callers, the remaining .uv accesses (ref/unref/is_closed/set_mode/data) never free, the static stdin tty still initialises through uv_tty_init directly and is never freed, and read_scratch is reached through the reader's own source pointer rather than the libuv handle. The earlier test comment nit is fixed. Merges cleanly with current main; Windows compile and the ConPTY test remain unverified here.

[robobun]

The verification you listed as outstanding is now in: build 94027 at 3810e12 is final with all 19 Windows jobs passed, which covers the Windows compile and both runs of the ConPTY regression test (windows-2019 x64, x64-baseline, and win11-aarch64 test lanes).

The build's only two red jobs are debian-13-x64-asan shards failing on worker_threads.test.ts (unchecked exception in JSC__JSModuleLoader__loadAndEvaluateModule) and inspect-error-leak.test.js (RSS growth timeout). Neither touches this PR's #[cfg(windows)] code; both are reported to main-break triage. The complex-workspace.test.ts annotation recovered on retry and its job passed.

Nothing further pending from my side.

[alii]

@robobun rebase

[robobun]

Rebased onto main (771c7e6) and pushed as 0589593; the PR merges cleanly again. The conflicts came from the PipeReader rework (#38886) and the read limit (#39296); the only code adaptation is that the tty scratch now gets the same ReadLimit clamp as _buffer, the rest of the diff is unchanged.

Re-verified on a Windows x64 debug build of the rebased base: the ConPTY test still fails on main without the fix (7 of 8 runs, mimalloc: error: corrupted free list entry in the child) and passes 12 of 12 with it; the terminal, stdin and tty suites pass (133 tests), and both Windows msvc targets cargo check clean. Details are in the PR body.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/io/source.rs`:
- Around line 523-536: Reorder initialization in the INITIALIZED block so
read_scratch is initialized before calling uv_tty_init, and add/use a separate
SCRATCH_INITIALIZED guard so retries after uv_tty_init failure never overwrite
the existing Vec. Preserve resetting INITIALIZED and returning the uv error on
failure.

In `@src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs`:
- Around line 1395-1414: Update Tty::close to check stdin_tty::is_stdin_tty for
the handle and skip uv_close when it represents the process-static stdin tty;
preserve open_handles cleanup and existing closure behavior for all other TTYs,
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