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Problem

• A child that calls process.send() and exits right away can lose that message in the parent, both through Bun.spawn({ ipc }) and child_process.fork(). Node delivers it. The repro in the issue lost 5 of 10 messages on bun 1.4.0.
• It happens whenever the parent handles the child's exit before it has read the IPC socket. That is the normal order on the waiter-thread exit path (no usable pidfd; forced with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1), because the exit arrives as a task and tasks run before the loop polls sockets.
• Cause: on exit the parent closed the IPC channel unconditionally, so data still sitting in the kernel buffer was thrown away. The pidfd and kqueue paths only work because the readable event happens to be reported first; nothing guarantees that order.
• Fixes IPC message sent right before the child exits is dropped on the waiter-thread exit path (Bun.spawn ipc and child_process.fork) #37849

Fix

• uSockets gains a call that runs one socket's readable dispatch synchronously with the EOF hint set: read and deliver until EOF or would-block, then end and close the socket, the same path a peer FIN takes.
• On child exit the parent now drains its IPC socket this way, where stdout/stderr are drained and before exited resolves or onExit runs, so ipc messages arrive before the exit as in node. Windows, and a close the user already requested, keep the old deferred close.
• Why it is correct: the child has exited, so everything it wrote is already in the kernel; drain then close delivers all of it, and "the channel is closed once the child has exited" stays true even when a grandchild still holds the child's end open.
• The drain counts as a loop tick (tick_depth). The exit task runs outside a tick, and an ipc callback that waits synchronously (bun:test expect().resolves) ticks the loop from inside the drain. That nested tick closes the channel on the child's hangup and must leave the socket for the outermost tick to free, as the drain still holds it. Without this it was a use-after-free in us_internal_socket_follow_adopted.
• The drain passes its own hint value, LIBUS_POLL_DRAIN, and only that drain stops after 64 reads instead of running until would-block. A grandchild that keeps writing to the inherited channel could otherwise keep the drain, and the event loop, busy without bound. A kernel hangup or error still reads to the end as before.
• Verification: new Bun.spawn (both serialization modes) and fork() tests pin the ordering deterministically via /proc and fail without the fix (receivedBeforeExited: [], ["exit", 3] first); a third, sentinel-file based test carried over from ipc: deliver messages sent right before child exit on the waiter-thread path #37882 runs on every POSIX platform (macOS included) and also fails without the fix (received: []). Two more tests cover the re-entrant wait (ASAN use-after-free 12 of 12 runs without the tick count) and the writing grandchild (the event loop stalled for 132 s and 146 s in two runs without the cap). The repro goes from 5/10 to 10/10; existing spawn, child_process and cluster tests still pass.
• Consolidation: ipc: deliver messages sent right before child exit on the waiter-thread path #37882 was the same mechanism (one synchronous readable dispatch with the EOF hint) but ran it after exited had resolved and onExit had run, and did not skip a close the user had already requested; this PR drains where stdout/stderr are drained, so the messages precede exited/onExit as in node. ipc: deliver messages sent right before child exit on the waiter-thread path #37882 is closed; its portable test is now here. Merged current main into the branch (no conflicts).

Downsides

• A grandchild that keeps writing to the inherited channel after the child exits delays exited by up to 64 reads of the channel (about 13 MB through the ipc callback on Linux, where the socketpair buffer is 208 KB). Before, that data was dropped at once. The writer then gets EPIPE.
• On the waiter thread, an ipc callback that waits synchronously for proc.exited (bun:test expect(proc.exited).resolves) hangs: the callback runs inside the exit handling, before exited resolves, so its nested tick has no exit to process. Debug builds, 3 runs each: this PR prints the message and hangs 3 of 3, main's source loses the message and exits, spawn: report a waiter-thread child exit after the loop's next poll #43888 delivers the message and exits. The script is in the status comment.
• None measured for callers that never hit the race: the drain is one extra recvmsg returning EAGAIN per child exit with IPC, and the tick count is two integer writes.

Background

• IPC channel: Bun.spawn({ ipc }) and fork() hand the child one end of a Unix socketpair (fd 3); the parent's end is a uSockets socket read by the event loop. Today the child's exit is the only thing that closes the parent's end; bun never waits for EOF on it.
• Waiter thread: how bun learns a child exited when it has no Linux pidfd (or macOS EVFILT_PROC). A separate thread waits on the pid and posts the exit to the main loop as a task, and tasks run before the loop's next socket poll.
• Readable dispatch with the EOF hint: uSockets' regular read handler loops recv() into on_data; with the hint set it also dispatches on_end and closes on EOF or would-block. Deferred accept already invokes it directly, and closed sockets are only freed at the end of the loop iteration.
• Grandchildren: whatever the child spawns inherits its channel fd, so waiting for EOF (node's approach) could leave the channel open after the child exits, and the parent's socket does not keep the loop alive. That is why the fix drains at exit instead of waiting for EOF.

Original description

Symptom

Reported in #37849. A child that sends an IPC message and exits right away:

process.send("hello"); Promise.resolve().then(() => process.exit(0));

loses the message in the parent whenever the parent processes the exit before it has read the socket. That is the normal order on the waiter-thread exit path, used when no usable pidfd is available (and forced by BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1, which needs BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL set as well):

// BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=0 BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1 bun repro.ts
let delivered = 0, lost = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  const { promise, resolve } = Promise.withResolvers();
  const child = Bun.spawn({
    cmd: [process.execPath, "-e", `process.send("hello"); Promise.resolve().then(() => process.exit(0));`],
    ipc: resolve,
    stdio: ["inherit", "inherit", "inherit"],
  });
  Bun.spawnSync({ cmd: [process.execPath, "-e", "0"] }); // busy until the child has written and exited
  (await Promise.race([promise, Bun.sleep(2000)])) === "hello" ? delivered++ : lost++;
  await child.exited;
}
console.log({ delivered, lost });

bun 1.4.0: { delivered: 5, lost: 5 } with the flag, { delivered: 10, lost: 0 } without. The same happens through child_process.fork(). Node delivers the message in both cases: it reads the channel to EOF and the exit does not close it. With BUN_DEBUG_IPC=1 the child logs the 19-byte write of the message, and the parent logs SendQueue#closeSocketNextTick -> closeSocketTask -> Subprocess#handleIPCClose right after the exit, without ever logging a received message: the socket is closed with the data still in the kernel buffer.

Cause

Subprocess::on_process_exit ended by closing the IPC SendQueue unconditionally. On the waiter-thread path the exit arrives as a task posted from the waiter thread, and tasks run before the loop polls sockets, so the deferred close always wins against the socket's readable event. pidfd (Linux) and EVFILT_PROC (macOS) only get this right because the socket became readable before the exit and epoll/kqueue happen to report it first; nothing guarantees that order either.

Fix

• uSockets: us_socket_drain_readable_then_end(s) runs the readable dispatch for one socket synchronously with the EOF hint set. That reuses the existing read loop (including the SCM_RIGHTS handling for IPC sockets): it reads and dispatches on_data until recv() reports EOF or would block, then dispatches on_end and closes the socket, exactly what a peer FIN does. us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll is already invoked this way for deferred accept, and closed sockets are still only freed at the end of the loop iteration.
• SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit() drains the socket this way (unless the user already asked for a close, in which case that close proceeds untouched, and on Windows, where the channel is a libuv pipe without a synchronous read and the previous deferred close is kept), then falls through to the old deferred close, which is now a no-op on POSIX because on_end already closed the socket.
• Subprocess::on_process_exit calls it where stdout/stderr are drained, before the exited promise is resolved and onExit is called, so the ipc callback sees the final messages before either, which is the order node produces ('message' before 'exit'). onDisconnect / 'disconnect' still arrive afterwards through the same deferred notification the EOF path has always used.

Why drain-then-close rather than simply not closing at exit and waiting for EOF, as node does: the child's exit is the only thing that closes the parent's channel today, and in-flight work builds on that (#33285 holds 'exit' until the disconnect that exit guarantees; #36405 releases its channel keepalive from the close that exit guarantees). With a pure wait-for-EOF, a grandchild that inherited the child's end of the channel (a shell child that backgrounds something, for example) would keep the channel open indefinitely, and since the parent-side socket does not keep the event loop alive, a parent with nothing else to do would also exit before the EOF was ever read. Draining synchronously at exit delivers everything the child wrote (it has exited, so all of it is already in the kernel) and keeps "the channel is closed once the child has exited" true in every case.

Verification

• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.ipc.test.ts: for both serialization modes, a parent running under BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1 spawns the child above, blocks off its event loop until /proc/<pid>/stat reports the child dead, and then checks that both messages are present by the time exited resolves and that onDisconnect still fires. Fails on the unfixed build with receivedBeforeExited: [] (both modes, every run), passes with the fix. Linux only, since it relies on /proc and the waiter thread is the Linux pidfd fallback. A second test has a shell child write a message to the channel and leave a sleep holding its end open, and checks that the message arrives and the disconnect is not delayed until the grandchild exits; this pins the drain-then-close behavior and passes before and after.
• test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts: the same scenario through fork(), checking 'message' is emitted first and 'close' last. Fails on the unfixed build with ["exit", 3] as the first event.
• With the fix: the standalone repro above delivers 10/10 on the waiter-thread path; spawn.test.ts (including its nested BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1 re-run), the other spawn*ipc* files, test/js/node/child_process/, cluster.test.ts and the 108 test-cluster-* / test-child-process-{fork,ipc,send,disconnect,exit-code}* node tests pass on a debug build (the only failures seen were unrelated 5s timeouts of tests that spawn many debug children, which also pass given a longer timeout). cargo check of bun_uws_sys and bun_runtime for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc is clean.

Fixes #37849

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Walkthrough

On peer exit, IPC handling now drains readable socket data before closing the socket on non-Windows systems. Regression tests cover final-message delivery when exit handling precedes socket polling and channel closure when a grandchild inherits the channel.

Changes

IPC message delivery on peer exit

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Synchronous socket drain packages/bun-usockets/src/libusockets.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c, src/uws_sys/us_socket_t.rs, src/uws_sys/socket.rs	A non-Windows socket operation synchronously dispatches readable data before end and close handling. Rust bindings expose the operation through NewSocketHandler. The POSIX drain loop caps reads triggered by the drain hint at 64 iterations.
Peer-exit close integration src/runtime/ipc.rs, src/runtime/api/bun/subprocess.rs	SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit drains readable data on non-Windows systems before requesting a next-tick close. The subprocess exit handler calls it before reporting exit. Windows proceeds directly to the next-tick close.
Peer-exit IPC regression tests test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.ipc.test.ts, test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts	Tests cover final IPC messages when process exit is handled before socket polling. Spawn tests also cover synchronous waits during draining and channel closure when a grandchild inherits the channel.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 56276

A child with enough pending IPC data can still lose messages when it exits. Resolve or explicitly accept that limit before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#37849]. Subprocess::on_process_exit now calls SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit before exit reporting. The non-Windows path drains readable IPC data, t…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within [#37849]. The usockets, FFI, subprocess, and IPC changes implement exit-time IPC draining. The tests verify the affected APIs, exit ordering, re-entrancy, and grandchild writer…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving IPC messages sent immediately before a child exits.
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✅ @robobun, your commit 56276b3a2c276581651c1c2c794caace3de165a6 passed in Build #121182! 🎉

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[robobun]

Status

• Tracks IPC message sent right before the child exits is dropped on the waiter-thread exit path (Bun.spawn ipc and child_process.fork) #37849. The head is 56276b3, on main at 91c3182.

• This PR is closed. Known defect at its head: on the waiter thread, an ipc callback that waits synchronously for proc.exited hangs. The design note on the issue compares this PR, spawn: report a waiter-thread child exit after the loop's next poll #43888 and a close that waits for the next poll: IPC message sent right before the child exits is dropped on the waiter-thread exit path (Bun.spawn ipc and child_process.fork) #37849 (comment)

• How to reproduce the loss (linux x64): save the script below as lost.mjs and run BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=0 BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD=1 bun lost.mjs. bun 1.4.3-canary (367d939) prints 2 of 20 messages arrived in 3 of 3 runs. Without the two variables (pidfd) it prints 20 of 20. node v26.3.0 prints 20 of 20.

  import { fork } from "node:child_process";
  if (process.argv[2] === "child") process.send("last words", () => process.exit(0));
  else {
    let got = 0;
    const runs = 20;
    for (let i = 0; i < runs; i++)
      await new Promise(done => {
        const c = fork(import.meta.filename, ["child"]);
        c.on("message", () => got++);
        c.on("close", done);
        const end = performance.now() + 30;
        while (performance.now() < end); // the parent is busy for 30 ms
      });
    console.log(`${got} of ${runs} messages arrived`);
  }

• How to reproduce the hang: save the script below as hang.mjs and run it with the same two variables. A debug build needs a longer busy time than a release build, because the child starts slower: the runs below used 3000 ms.

  import { expect } from "bun:test";
  if (process.argv[2] === "child") process.send("done", () => process.exit(0));
  else {
    const proc = Bun.spawn({
      cmd: [process.execPath, import.meta.filename, "child"],
      stdio: ["ignore", "inherit", "inherit"],
      ipc(message) {
        console.log("message:", message);
        expect(proc.exited).resolves.toBe(0); // bun:test waits here by running the event loop
        console.log("the wait returned");
      },
    });
    const end = performance.now() + 30;
    while (performance.now() < end); // the parent is busy
    console.log("exited with", await proc.exited);
  }

  Debug builds on the same base (91c3182), 3 runs each:

  Build	Waiter thread	pidfd
  main's source	exited with 0, the message is lost, the process exits	message, wait returns, exits
  this PR (56276b3)	message: done, then no more output, killed after 40 s	message, wait returns, exits
  spawn: report a waiter-thread child exit after the loop's next poll #43888 (0783c13)	message, exited with 0, wait returns, exits	message, wait returns, exits

• Tests at this head, debug build: test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.ipc.test.ts 23 pass. On main's source the two /proc cases fail (receivedBeforeExited: []) and the fork() case in test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts fails (first event ["exit", 3]).

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Found 1 issue this PR may fix:

1. IPC message sent right before the child exits is dropped on the waiter-thread exit path (Bun.spawn ipc and child_process.fork) #37849 - Reports exactly this defect: disconnect_ipc(true) -> SendQueue::close_socket_next_tick closes the IPC socket with unread data still in the kernel buffer on the waiter-thread exit path, which this PR replaces with close_after_peer_exit() draining first.

If this is helpful, copy the block below into the PR description to auto-close these issues on merge.

Fixes #37849

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[robobun]

Confirmed: #37849 is this bug (same repro and the same close-before-read in the exit path). Added Fixes #37849 to the description. The tests stay in the spawn IPC and child_process files rather than test/regression, since this never worked rather than regressed.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds a new synchronous re-entry into uSockets' dispatch (us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll from outside the poll loop, over the shared recv_buf), moves user-JS ipc callback execution inside on_process_exit ahead of exited/onExit, and encodes a drain-then-close vs. wait-for-EOF design choice that #33285/#36405 depend on, a maintainer look would be worthwhile.

Checked: the IPC socket dispatch re-entry uses the ipc recvmsg path with the eof hint set, so the read loop drains to EOF/would-block and then falls through to on_end → us_internal_socket_close_raw; the fallback close_socket_next_tick(true) after the drain sees !socket_is_open() and is a no-op on POSIX. Windows is gated out and keeps the previous deferred close. SendQueue stays live across the drain via the Subprocess.ipc_data ref.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes IPC message loss when a child sends and exits before the parent's event loop reads the socket. Adds us_socket_drain_readable_then_end in bun-usockets (C) that synchronously invokes us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll(&s->p, 0, /*eof*/1, LIBUS_SOCKET_READABLE), plus Rust FFI wrappers in uws_sys, a SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit in ipc.rs, and moves the IPC channel close in Subprocess::on_process_exit from the tail (after onExit/exited) to just after the stdout/stderr drain (before them). Three new tests across Bun.spawn and child_process.fork().

Security risks

None identified. No auth/crypto/permission surface; the change reads already-buffered socketpair data on the parent side.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is process-lifecycle and event-loop-ordering code with a new synchronous re-entry into the uSockets dispatch loop. us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll reads into the loop-wide shared recv_buf and dispatches on_data/on_fd/on_end/on_close, which in turn run user JS (ipc callback via handle_ipc_message → run_callback) inside on_process_exit, before exited resolves. The PR description justifies the drain-then-close design (vs. Node's wait-for-EOF) by pointing at downstream invariants in #33285 and #36405 — a real design decision a maintainer should confirm.

Other factors

• I traced the POLL_TYPE_SOCKET arm of us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll with error=0, eof=1, events=READABLE: for an ipc socket it loops recvmsg (SCM_RIGHTS-aware) until 0/EAGAIN because the (eof || error) continue at loop.c:739 keeps it going, then hits the eof && s block at 838 which (for non-half-open, non-paused) dispatches on_end and us_internal_socket_close_raw. The closed socket goes on loop->data.closed_head and is only freed at loop post, so the deferred-accept precedent the PR cites holds. If the socket were paused the eof is cleared at 834 and the drain would not close it — I did not find a path that pauses the IPC socket, but flagging for the human reviewer.
• Re-entrancy of user JS inside on_process_exit: self is kept live by the exit-handler ref (deref at the tail) and this_jsvalue.ensure_still_alive(); SendQueue is kept live by Subprocess.ipc_data (only released in finalize). A user disconnect() from the ipc callback sets pending_close and schedules a deferred task, which is compatible with the trailing close_socket_next_tick(true).
• Windows is #[cfg]-gated out of the drain and keeps the prior deferred close; the PR reports cargo check for the msvc target is clean.
• Tests are solid: the Linux waiter-thread test polls /proc/<pid>/stat for the zombie state before yielding to the event loop (deterministic ordering), and the grandchild-holding-channel test pins the drain-then-close semantics. Verified against Node event ordering ('message' before 'exit', 'close' last).

[robobun]

On the paused-socket point from the review: nothing pauses the parent-side IPC socket (the SendQueue never calls us_socket_pause; the pause in ipc_host.rs is a method on a received JS handle, not the channel). If something ever did, us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll would drop the EOF hint and leave the socket open after reading one chunk, and the close_socket_next_tick(true) that close_after_peer_exit still falls through to would close it as before. That fallthrough is there for exactly that reason, plus Windows and the user-requested-close case; it is only a no-op on the path the tests exercise.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. It touches uSockets' internal poll dispatch (invoking us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll from outside the poll loop), moves the IPC close from after exited/onExit to before, and now runs the user's ipc callback synchronously from inside on_process_exit — all reasonable, but subtle enough that a maintainer should sign off on the approach.

What was reviewed:

• us_socket_drain_readable_then_end reuses the existing POLL_TYPE_SOCKET read-to-EOF loop and the shared loop->data.recv_buf; process exit arrives via pidfd/kqueue callback poll or a waiter-thread task, not from inside another socket's on_data, so the buffer is not aliased.
• The paused-socket branch in us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll drops the EOF hint, but the IPC channel is never paused and the fallthrough close_socket_next_tick(true) covers that case (and Windows / user-requested close).
• disconnect_ipc had no other callers; close_socket_next_tick early-returns once socket_is_open() is false, so the fallthrough after the drain is a no-op on the drained POSIX path.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes #37849: IPC messages a child sends immediately before exiting could be dropped when the parent processed the exit before polling the IPC socket (guaranteed on the waiter-thread path). The fix adds us_socket_drain_readable_then_end to uSockets (a thin wrapper that invokes us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll(&s->p, 0, 1, LIBUS_SOCKET_READABLE) — the same call already made for deferred-accept sockets), plumbs it through us_socket_t.rs / socket.rs, adds SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit in ipc.rs, and moves the IPC close in Subprocess::on_process_exit from the tail (after deref) to before exited/onExit. Three new tests plus the fork() variant in child_process.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. No parsing of untrusted input is added; the drain reuses the existing recvmsg → on_data path. No auth/crypto/permissions surface.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native event-loop / socket-lifecycle code with new synchronous re-entrancy: the user's ipc callback (arbitrary JS) now runs from inside on_process_exit before the exited promise resolves, whereas previously IPC data only arrived from the loop's own poll dispatch. It also changes user-observable ordering (ipc callback now fires before exited/onExit for the last messages, matching Node), and adds a new public uSockets entry point that directly invokes us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll from outside the poll iteration. The mechanism is sound as far as I can tell — closed sockets are freed at end of iteration, the shared recv_buf is not in use on any path that reaches on_process_exit, and the fallthrough close_socket_next_tick(true) covers the paused/Windows/already-pending cases — but a maintainer should confirm that:

• Driving us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll from a task-queue callback (not the poll dispatcher) is an accepted pattern going forward.
• Running the ipc callback inside on_process_exit (before the trailing deref() and while stdout/stderr have already been drained/closed) is safe against whatever that callback might do to the Subprocess.
• The behavioral change of ordering ipc callback → exited → onExit is intended (it matches Node, but previously the last message either arrived earlier via the poll or was dropped).

Other factors

The PR description is thorough and the tests pin the ordering deterministically. The removed disconnect_ipc had no other callers. Four comment-cop bot inline comments are outstanding on the new doc comments; they look like false positives (the comments document the mechanism, not a workaround), but the author hasn't responded to them yet.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds a new uSockets entry point that synchronously invokes the poll dispatch from a task, reorders the IPC close relative to exited/onExit, and re-enters user JS from on_process_exit, a maintainer look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed

• us_socket_drain_readable_then_end reuses the existing POLL_TYPE_SOCKET read loop (including SCM_RIGHTS handling); closed sockets are freed at loop-iteration end so calling from a task is memory-safe.
• disconnect_ipc had no other callers; the paused-socket case (dispatch drops the EOF hint) is covered by the close_socket_next_tick(true) fallthrough.
• Windows and user-requested-close skip the drain and keep the previous deferred close; is_sync spawns have no IPC so the drain is a no-op there.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes IPC message loss when a child sends and exits before the parent's event loop reads the socket. Adds us_socket_drain_readable_then_end() in bun-usockets (calls us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll with eof=1, LIBUS_SOCKET_READABLE, guarded by is_closed), threads it through us_socket_t.rs / socket.rs (POSIX-only), adds SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit in ipc.rs, and moves the IPC close in Subprocess::on_process_exit from the tail to just after the stdout/stderr drains — before exited resolves and onExit runs. The removed disconnect_ipc method has no remaining callers. Three new tests (Bun.spawn both serialization modes, fork(), and a grandchild-holds-fd case) fail on the unfixed build.

Security risks

None. No untrusted-input parsing; the drain reads from a Unix socketpair the parent created, using the existing recvmsg loop.

Level of scrutiny

High. This touches three re-entrancy-sensitive subsystems at once: native uSockets dispatch (invoked from outside its normal poll iteration), the subprocess exit lifecycle, and the IPC send queue. The drain synchronously runs on_data → handle_ipc_message → user ipc() callback from within on_process_exit, and reorders that callback relative to exited/onExit. I traced us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll in loop.c: with eof=1 it loops recvmsg until 0/would-block, then dispatches on_end and closes; the paused-socket branch drops the hint (leaving the socket open), which the fallthrough close_socket_next_tick(true) covers. Closed sockets go on closed_head and are freed only at loop-iteration end, so the task-context call is memory-safe. Deferred-accept already calls us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll directly (though with eof=0), so there is precedent.

Other factors

The PR description is thorough and the design choice (drain-then-close vs. wait-for-EOF, to keep the grandchild-holds-fd case bounded and preserve #33285/#36405's assumption that exit closes the channel) is well-argued. The comment-cop bot flagged the doc comments; they were trimmed in 81896a1 and now read as concise mechanism descriptions. Tests are well-constructed (deterministic via /proc polling and sentinel files, bounded polls, hermetic, kill the backgrounded sleep in finally). What I can't fully verify without a maintainer: whether any loop invariant beyond closed_head deferral assumes us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll runs only from the poll iteration, and whether anything downstream depended on the old ipc-after-onExit ordering.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds a synchronous re-entry into uSockets' event dispatch (us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll invoked from inside on_process_exit, which then runs user JS via the ipc callback) and reorders IPC close relative to exited/onExit, a human look at the re-entrancy and lifecycle interactions would be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The new us_socket_drain_readable_then_end reuses loop->data.recv_buf; verified on_process_exit is only reached from a task or a pidfd/EVFILT_PROC poll callback, never from inside a POLL_TYPE_SOCKET read that already holds that buffer.
• The close_socket_next_tick(true) fallthrough after the drain is idempotent once on_end has closed the socket, and covers the paused-socket / user-already-requested-close / Windows cases.
• disconnect_ipc had no other callers; user JS calling subprocess.disconnect() from inside the drained ipc callback is handled by the pending_close guard and the outer read loop's post-dispatch is_closed check.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes #37849: a child that process.send()s and exits immediately can lose the message when the parent processes the exit before reading the IPC socket (normal on the waiter-thread path). It adds us_socket_drain_readable_then_end to bun-usockets (socket.c, libusockets.h), which synchronously invokes us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll with the EOF hint; wires FFI bindings through us_socket_t.rs and socket.rs; adds SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit in ipc.rs; and moves the IPC close in Subprocess::on_process_exit from the tail (after deref) to just before exited/onExit, replacing the removed disconnect_ipc helper. Three new tests cover both serialization modes via Bun.spawn, fork(), and a portable sentinel-file variant, plus a grandchild-holding-the-channel test that pins the drain-then-close (not wait-for-EOF) semantics.

Security risks

None identified. This is IPC lifecycle plumbing between a parent and its own child process; no untrusted input parsing or trust-boundary changes.

Level of scrutiny

High. The change touches the vendored uSockets C library and adds a synchronous re-entry into its poll-dispatch path from a context (task queue / pidfd callback) that is not the normal poll loop. on_data here reaches handle_ipc_message → event_loop.run_callback, so user JS runs synchronously inside on_process_exit and can call disconnect()/send() on the same subprocess. The uSockets read loop's post-dispatch us_socket_is_closed(s) checks and the closed-socket deferred-free (loop->data.closed_head) look correct for this, and close_after_peer_exit guards against a user-requested close already in flight, but the interaction surface (event-loop re-entrancy, callback ordering, POSIX/Windows divergence) is exactly what REVIEW.md flags as the most-blocked category.

Other factors

The tests are well-constructed (deterministic via /proc/<pid>/stat polling with the event loop blocked, plus a portable macOS variant), fail on the unfixed build per the description, and cover both entry points (Bun.spawn and fork()). The PR description is thorough and the paused-socket concern from an earlier review round was addressed. All comment-cop threads are resolved. The removed disconnect_ipc has no other callers. Nothing here is obviously wrong, but the change is neither simple nor mechanical.

[robobun]

Heads-up on overlap: #39479 also adds a call at the same spot in Subprocess::on_process_exit (before the exited/onExit block) and a SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit with the same name: it closes the socket if still open and delivers the close event right there (the after-close body is factored into run_after_close), so the channel's close is reported before the exit. The two compose: your drain goes first in that function, and the close it produces is delivered by the same call; whichever lands second only has to merge that function. #39479 leaves the tail disconnect_ipc(true) removed, which your diff removes as well.

[robobun]

For whoever reviews this: #43888 was rewritten and now also makes the repro of #37849 pass on the waiter thread. It does so by order: the exit is reported after the loop's next poll, so the message is read before the channel closes.

This PR fixes the loss in the owner, on every path. #43888 changes the waiter thread only. The two change different files. A maintainer should pick which of them closes the issue, or land both.

[robobun]

CI state at 72101fa: the IPC tests added here pass on every lane. The one red lane (debian 13 x64-asan) is test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts, where two non-IPC tests assert an empty stderr and get a LeakSanitizer "ptrace appears to be blocked (is seccomp enabled?)" warning from the agent. That test landed in #42038 and the same warning shows up on other open PRs, so it is the agent, not this diff. It is reported separately. The other failures in that run passed on retry. I will not push another retrigger; this is ready for a maintainer.

[claude]

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/runtime/ipc.rs — A parent whose ipc callback re-enters the event loop while a multi-message chunk is being decoded can now see corrupted or spurious IPC messages, or an unexpected channel close, because the new synchronous drain overwrites the shared receive buffer under the decoder. src/runtime/ipc.rs:2402 keeps slicing data (a view into loop->data.recv_buf) after the callback returns; the drain at src/runtime/ipc.rs:1283 recv()s into that same buffer whenever a child-exit task runs inside the nested tick. Fix: make the advanced-mode decoder copy or re-validate its remaining bytes before running user code, or have the drain copy the recv buffer when dispatch_ready_poll is already on the stack.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: advanced-serialization IPC where one recv returns two or more messages (common: child sends several process.send() calls back to back). on_data2 at ipc.rs:2394-2406 decodes the first message directly from data, which points into loop->data.recv_buf (loop.c:765), then runs the user's ipc callback via handle_ipc_message (subprocess.rs:1444). If that callback re-enters the loop (waitForPromise from an un-awaited expect().resolves, Bun.sleepSync-free but synchronous nested tick paths), the nested tick drains tasks, and a waiter-thread exit task for this or another child now calls close_after_peer_exit -> drain_readable_then_end (ipc.rs:1283) -> recvmsg into the same recv_buf (loop.c:707/721). When control returns, ipc.rs:2402-2403 continues decoding data[consumed..] from bytes that were overwritten, yielding a garbage message, an IPCDecodeError -> finish_decode Fail (channel closed with an error), or a message attributed to the wrong child. The dismissal said the base branch already re-dispatches readable polls in a nested tick; the new code adds a route that does not depend…

  Verification: nit (mostly a pre-existing hazard class; this PR adds one new route into it). Triggering condition: advanced-mode IPC (Bun.spawn's default, js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs:500), the user's ipc callback re-enters the event loop (e.g. expect(p).resolves -> wait_for_promise -> tick()/auto_tick(), event_loop.rs:1139-1157; the codebase already acknowledges poll callbacks re-entering the loop this…

[robobun]

b8267d2 addresses the two red findings from the review, both confirmed with a repro:

• Re-entrancy: the drain now counts as a loop tick (tick_depth++ around the dispatch in us_socket_drain_readable_then_end). An ipc callback that waits synchronously ticks the loop from inside the drain, and that nested tick used to free the socket the drain still held (ASAN use-after-free, 12 of 12 runs). Test: "a synchronous wait inside the ipc callback during the exit-time drain".
• Unbounded drain: the EOF-hint branch of the read loop stops after 64 reads and then ends and closes as before. A grandchild that kept writing to the inherited channel stalled the event loop for 132 s on the old build. Test: "a grandchild still writing to the channel after the child exits".

The yellow finding (the shared recv_buf rewritten under the advanced-mode decoder when the callback re-enters the loop) is a hazard the base branch already has: a nested tick inside any on_data re-dispatches other sockets into the same buffer. This PR adds one more route into that class but does not change the decoder. It is worth a separate fix if a maintainer wants it.

The PR body has the new Fix bullets and a Downsides section.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the unconditional close_socket_next_tick(true) fall-through in SendQueue::close_after_peer_exit (src/runtime/ipc.rs) after the drain has already dispatched on_end/on_close: it hits the !socket_is_open() early return and only sets the union to Closed, so there is no second close or deferred task on an already-closed socket.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a synchronous EOF-hinted readable dispatch to uSockets (socket.c, loop.c), Rust wrappers, and calls it from the subprocess exit handler before exited/onExit settle; it touches no auth or injection surface. The earlier tick_depth and unbounded-drain concerns are now addressed in the code (b8267d2), and the remaining posted findings concern the global read cap and test robustness, so a human should still weigh those.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push (56276b3) and found no new bugs; the loop.c cap is now keyed on the new LIBUS_POLL_DRAIN bit so kernel hangups/errors read to EOF as before, and the test changes from the earlier threads are in. Because this re-enters uSockets' read loop and the IPC handlers synchronously from the exit task, a human look at the re-entrancy story would still be worthwhile before merging.

What was reviewed:

• The DRAIN eof path through us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll: hangup stays 0, so it takes the end+close_raw branch, and the freed socket is left to the outermost tick via the tick_depth bump.
• SendQueue lifetime across the drain: on_end -> close_socket -> on_close -> socket_closed_notify schedules the deferred close notification once; the trailing close_socket_next_tick sees Closed and returns, and the Subprocess still holds its own ref until the tail deref.
• Windows and user-requested-close paths keep the previous next-tick close (pending_close gate), so no double-close.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a POSIX-only usockets entry point that synchronously runs the readable dispatch with a new LIBUS_POLL_DRAIN eof bit, caps that drain at 64 reads, and calls it from Subprocess::on_process_exit before exited/onExit so IPC messages a child sent right before exiting are delivered; it removes the old disconnect_ipc helper and adds Linux/POSIX tests for the waiter-thread race, a re-entrant ipc callback, and a still-writing grandchild. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface, but it does run user JS (on_data/on_end/on_close) from inside a task-driven exit path in the event-loop core, which has already produced one ASAN use-after-free during this PR's iteration. The latest commit addresses the points raised in the prior review (cap scoped to the drain, macOS-safe grandchild test, sentinel-based wait, timeout dropped), and no CODEOWNER covers these paths, but the re-entrancy and tick_depth reasoning is subtle enough that approving without a human look is not warranted.

[robobun]

Closing this in favor of #43888 after a review of the two approaches.

Both fix #37849. This PR adds a synchronous readable drain to uSockets and runs it from the exit task with a synthetic EOF hint. #43888 reports a waiter-thread exit only after the loop's next poll, so the socket is read before the channel closes, with no uSockets change. The two defects the last pushes here had to harden (a use-after-free when the ipc callback ticks the loop from inside the drain, and an unbounded read loop with a still-writing grandchild) exist only because of the synchronous dispatch, and neither arises in #43888. The tick_depth bump this PR needs also cuts against the direction in #32233 and #33261 of not teaching dispatchers to survive a nested tick. On the pidfd and kqueue paths the readable event is already reported before the exit, so the drain adds nothing there.

Two things from here are worth carrying into #43888, noted on that PR:

• the waiter-thread ordering tests in test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.ipc.test.ts on this branch (farm/95f80754/ipc-drain-on-child-exit), which fail on the unfixed build
• the spawn-defer path in js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs (the scopeguard::defer! that calls on_exit when the child was already gone at spawn), which reports the exit synchronously and is not covered by the yield in spawn: report a waiter-thread child exit after the loop's next poll #43888

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