Stop reading user-mutable built-ins on the fs, child_process, dns, and CJS loader paths by robobun · Pull Request #40291 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-08-24T05:10:21Z

Problem

Several internal modules read built-ins live at call time. A user patch that changes results (a buggy polyfill, an instrumentation shim) then changes what the public API does, with no error. Node.js is not affected: its internals use primordials captured at bootstrap. Five cases, all with the modules loaded before the patch:
- fs.cpSync(dir, { recursive: true }) drops entries when Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] skips an element (internal/fs/cp-sync.ts:445, for...of). fs.promises.readFile(path, "utf8") returns a Buffer under the same patch (fs.promises.ts:307, ...args spread).
- fs.createWriteStream / fs.createReadStream write to and close the wrong descriptor when Promise.prototype.then changes resolved numbers: the callback fs API resolves every native promise with the public .then() (fs.ts, 51 sites), so the fd from fs.open() passes through user code.
- spawn / spawnSync / fork execute a different argv when Array.prototype.slice or the array iterator is patched (child_process.ts:567, :1413: [file, ...Array.prototype.slice.$call(args, 1)]).
- dns.lookup("localhost") returns "localhost" as the address when RegExp.prototype.test is patched (internal/net/isIP.ts).
- require("./m.cjs") hands the file to dlopen ("file too short") when String.prototype.endsWith is patched; a patched startsWith breaks require("node:*") (builtins/CommonJS.ts:20, :66).

Fix

fs: index loop in copyDir; named parameters instead of ...args in readFile/writeFile/appendFile; .$then() (the private @then) for the native promises in fs.ts and the $isPromise-guarded FileSink promises in internal/fs/streams.ts. Where the callee is a property that user code can replace (fs.promises.rm, fs.promises.cp, Array.fromAsync), the result can be a plain thenable, so the private then is used only when $isPromise holds. A FileHandle stream now takes the native fsync path: the check compared fh.sync with FileHandle.prototype.fsync, which does not exist.
child_process: spawnCommand() copies spawnargs with the captured ArrayPrototypeSlice and overwrites index 0; fork args, the shell command string, and the env loop no longer spread or for...of. A non-array execArgv keeps the spread, so a non-iterable value still throws like Node. ChildProcess#spawn walks this.stdio by index: the for...of ran after the child had started, so an iterator that throws left the child running while spawn() threw. spawnCommand() defines cmd[0] as an own property, like the array literal it replaced.
Windows process.env proxy (builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts): the traps read slice, toUpperCase, includes, some, findIndex, splice, push and Reflect.getOwnPropertyDescriptor live. ownKeys returning envMapList.slice() through the patched slice made every spawn on Windows throw from for...in process.env. Capture them once and iterate by index.
dns/net: isIP uses the captured RegExp.prototype.exec, the idiom _http_common.ts and validators.ts already use.
CJS loader: $stringSubstring / $stringIndexOfInternal (JSC link-time constants, the engine's own String methods) instead of startsWith / endsWith / indexOf / substring.
Verified: test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts, test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts, test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts (10 tests. 8 fail on main. The other 2 guard behavior that main already has, and they fail on an earlier head of this branch.). Also fs.test.ts, cp.test.ts, promises.test.js, fs-stream.js, child_process.test.ts, child_process-node.test.js, node-dns.test.js, require.test.ts, and 86 upstream test-fs-cp-sync-*, test-fs-promises-*, test-child-process-{fork,spawn,spawnsync}-* files.

Background

.$then is Promise.prototype.@then, a private-name alias of the builtin then that JSC installs on the Promise prototype. User code cannot reach it. It only exists on real promises, so it is used where the receiver is a native promise.
$stringSubstring, $stringIndexOfInternal, $min are link-time constants: function objects the runtime creates at global-object init and that builtins reference at bytecode compile time. No property lookup on String.prototype or Math happens.
A const X = Array.prototype.x capture at module top is the established src/js idiom (child_process.ts, validators.ts). It protects against patches made after the module loads, which is the scenario here.
Out of scope: first-load module init under a patched iterator (node/path.ts:4 and node/url.ts:29 destructure the native binding array). child_process: don't route argv through Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] #35013 covers that class and overlaps with the child_process hunks here.

Notes

Repros (run on stock 1.4.0, all modules loaded before the patch):

// cpSync: copy: ["1.txt","e"] instead of ["1.txt","2.txt","e","e/3.txt"]
const orig = Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator];
Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] = function () { const it = orig.call(this); it.next(); return it; };
fs.cpSync("d", "d2", { recursive: true });

// streams: write stream error: EBADF, out.txt stays empty, the user then() sees [7, 8] (the two fds)
Promise.prototype.then = function (ok, err) { return orig.call(this, v => ok(typeof v === "number" ? v + 1 : v), err); };
fs.createWriteStream("out.txt").end("abcdef");

// child argv: /bin/echo intended last last
Array.prototype.slice = function (...a) { const r = orig.apply(this, a); if (r.length) r.push(r[r.length - 1]); return r; };
spawnSync("/bin/echo", ["intended", "last"]);

// dns: {"address":"localhost","family":4}
RegExp.prototype.test = function (s) { return !orig.call(this, s); };
dns.lookup("localhost", { family: 4 }, cb);

// loader: Error: .../m.cjs: file too short (dlopen)
String.prototype.endsWith = function (s, ...r) { return s === ".node" ? true : orig.call(this, s, ...r); };
require("./m.cjs");

fs.promises.readFile/writeFile/appendFile now have .length 2/3/3 like Node (was 1/1/1).

Windows: the new child_process test found the process.env proxy. With the patched slice live, ownKeys returned a list with a duplicate and JSC threw Proxy handler's 'ownKeys' trap result must not contain any duplicate names from normalizeSpawnArguments. Verified on Windows x64 with a debug build: the new tests, env-windows.test.ts, run-process-env.test.ts, process.test.js, and spawn-env.test.ts pass (one pre-existing 5 s timeout in the JIT inline-cache test, same without this change).

The two .then(...).catch(cb) chains in internal/fs/streams.ts became .$then(...).$then(undefined, cb): same semantics, Promise.prototype.catch calls the public then.

Failures seen while running the wider suites that also fail on stock 1.4.0 in this container or are timing-bound under the debug build: child_process.test.ts "default shell" ($SHELL), "extra stdio pipes are not double-closed on GC" (5 s cap, 4.7 s standalone), node-net.test.ts ECONNREFUSED group, require-cache.test.ts leak tests (ASAN quarantine; 18 MB with quarantine_size_mb=0), dns.resolveSrv (network).

Re-verified after the merge of main at a8e4e90 (one conflict, a comment in windowsEnv that #42692 reworded). Debug builds on Linux x64 and Windows x64: the 6 new tests pass and all 6 fail on a stock build of main. Two tests time out at 5 s on debug builds only (extra stdio pipes are not double-closed on GC on Linux, the process.env inline-cache test on Windows). Both also time out with the unmodified src/js of main on the same debug binary.

[human-review] gate passed · iteration 1 · 13 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 8 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (c6b7fcb5b)

test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts:
34 |     cwd: String(dir),
35 |     stderr: "pipe",
36 |   });
37 |   const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
38 |   expect(stderr).toBe("");
39 |   expect(JSON.parse(stdout)).toEqual({ cjs: "cjs-ok", builtin: "function", bare: "function" });
                                  ^
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  {
-   "bare": "function",
-   "builtin": "function",
-   "cjs": "cjs-ok",
+   "error": "/tmp/require-primordials_EtQtnW/m.cjs: file too short",
  }

- Expected  - 3
+ Received  + 1

      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts:39:30)
(fail) require() dispatch ignores patched String.prototype.startsWith/endsWith [394.83ms]

test/js/node/net/net-i
... (truncated)

release without fix: 4 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (efbff750d)

test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) require() dispatch ignores patched String.prototype.startsWith/endsWith [13.13ms]

test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) net.isIP and dns.lookup ignore a patched RegExp.prototype.test [16.71ms]

test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) spawnSync, spawn, and fork pass argv through with patched Array.prototype.slice and iterator [44.63ms]
 98 |     env: bunEnv,
 99 |     cwd: String(dir),
100 |     stderr: "pipe",
101 |   });
102 |   const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
103 |   expect({ stdout, stderr, exitCode }).toEqual({
                                             ^
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  {
    "exitCode": 0,
    "stderr": "",
    "stdout": 
- "{"result":"threw","name":"TypeError"}
+ "{"result":"spawned"}
  "
  ,
  }

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts:103:40)
(fail) fork() throws for a non-iterable execArgv [17.76ms]
158 |     env: bunEnv,
1
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (c6b7fcb5b)

test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) require() dispatch ignores patched String.prototype.startsWith/endsWith [507.00ms]

test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) net.isIP and dns.lookup ignore a patched RegExp.prototype.test [839.98ms]

test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) spawnSync, spawn, and fork pass argv through with patched Array.prototype.slice and iterator [2048.07ms]
(pass) fork() throws for a non-iterable execArgv [439.59ms]
(pass) spawnSync, spawn, and fork never call Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] [2086.81ms]

test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts:
(pass) fs.promises.readFile keeps its encoding when Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] is patched [536.74ms]
(pass) fs.cpSync copies every entry when Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] is patched [56
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 595ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/125] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (6847ms)
Bundle modules (48ms)
Postprocesss modules (32ms)
Bundle Functions (532ms)
Generate Code (27ms)

[7.50s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2602 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[2/6] link bun-profile
ld.lld: warning: Linking two modules of different target triples: 'obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-0.cpp.o' is 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' whereas '../../../../root/.bun/build-cache/webkit-c28156899e5f90ce-lto/lib/libJavaScriptCore.a(UnifiedSource-inspector-2.cpp.o at 102507352)' is 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'


ld.lld: warning: Linking two modules of different target triples: 'obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-1.cpp.o' is 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' whereas '../../../../root/.bun/build-cache/webkit-c28156899e5f90ce-lto/lib/libJavaScriptCore.a(UnifiedSource-inspector-2.cpp.o at 102507352)' is 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'


ld.lld: warning: Linking two modules of different target triples
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

src/js/builtins.d.ts                               |   4 +
 src/js/builtins/CommonJS.ts                        |  14 +-
 src/js/builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts          |  62 ++++---
 src/js/internal/fs/cp-sync.ts                      |   5 +-
 src/js/internal/fs/streams.ts                      |  25 +--
 src/js/internal/net/isIP.ts                        |  33 ++--
 src/js/node/child_process.ts                       |  39 +++--
 src/js/node/fs.promises.ts                         |  23 ++-
 src/js/node/fs.ts                                  | 106 +++++------
 test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts    |  41 +++++
 .../child_process-primordials.test.ts              | 168 ++++++++++++++++++
 test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts             | 193 +++++++++++++++++++++
 test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts      |  44 +++++
 13 files changed, 624 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)

gate history · 5 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

evidence per changed file

file                                                      reads  edits  tests
src/js/builtins.d.ts                                          1      2     31
src/js/builtins/CommonJS.ts                                   2      5     31
src/js/builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts                     3      0     31
src/js/internal/fs/cp-sync.ts                                 1      1     31
src/js/internal/fs/streams.ts                                 4      0     32
src/js/internal/net/isIP.ts                                   1      1     31
src/js/node/child_process.ts                                  2      4     31
src/js/node/fs.promises.ts                                    2      3     31
src/js/node/fs.ts                                             0      0     31
test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts               0      1     17
…js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts      3      6     26
test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts                        2      5     19
test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts                 0      1     13

…d CJS loader paths Internal modules read several built-ins live at call time. A user patch that changes results (a buggy polyfill, an instrumentation shim) then changes what the API does, silently. Node.js is immune because its internals use primordials captured at bootstrap. fs - cpSync walked each directory with for...of, so a patched Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] dropped entries from the copy. Iterate by index. - fs.promises readFile/writeFile/appendFile forwarded their arguments with a spread, so the same patch dropped the encoding (readFile returned a Buffer for 'utf8') or the data. Take named parameters. - The callback fs API resolved every native promise with .then(), so a patched Promise.prototype.then saw (and could change) the file descriptor of fs.open() before createReadStream/createWriteStream used it. Use the private $then, and the same in internal/fs/streams for the FileSink promises. child_process - spawn/spawnSync built cmd with the live Array.prototype.slice plus a spread, so patched slice or iterator changed the child's argv. Copy spawnargs with the captured slice and overwrite index 0. fork's argv, the shell command string, and the env loop no longer spread or for...of either. dns / net - isIP() used RegExp.prototype.test, so a patched test() made dns.lookup() return the hostname as the address. Use the captured RegExp.prototype.exec like the other internal regex checks. CJS loader - require() picked the loader with the live String.prototype startsWith/endsWith/indexOf: a patched endsWith handed any file to dlopen, a patched startsWith broke require("node:*"). Use the engine's $stringSubstring and $stringIndexOfInternal link-time constants.

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Walkthrough

The pull request hardens Node.js-compatible internals against patched built-in methods. It updates CommonJS, environment proxies, child processes, filesystem APIs, streams, and IP validation, with regression tests for patched prototypes.

Changes

Primordial hardening

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CommonJS string primitives `src/js/builtins.d.ts`, `src/js/builtins/CommonJS.ts`, `test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts`	CommonJS path and native-module handling uses engine-owned string operations. The test patches string methods and verifies module loading.
Windows environment intrinsics `src/js/builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts`	`windowsEnv` captures built-in methods for lookup, proxy traps, serialization, descriptors, and key enumeration. Stdio finalization uses `$then`.
Child process command construction `src/js/node/child_process.ts`, `test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts`	`spawnSync`, `spawn`, and `fork` use normalized command construction and cached array operations. Tests verify arguments and non-iterable `execArgv` behavior.
Filesystem primordial-safe operations `src/js/internal/fs/cp-sync.ts`, `src/js/node/fs.promises.ts`, `src/js/node/fs.ts`, `test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts`	Filesystem wrappers use intrinsic promise settlement, indexed directory iteration, and explicit promise API parameters. Tests cover copying, promise APIs, callbacks, and plain thenables.
Filesystem stream completions `src/js/internal/fs/streams.ts`, `test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts`	File-handle and fast-path stream operations use `$then`. Tests verify descriptor, completion, and file-content behavior after promise methods are patched.
Network regex intrinsics `src/js/internal/net/isIP.ts`, `test/js/node/net/net-isip-primordials.test.ts`	IP validation uses intrinsic regular expression execution. Tests verify IP classification and DNS lookup after `RegExp.prototype.test` is patched.

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robobun · 2026-08-24T05:11:15Z

Status: main (a8e4e90) is merged into the branch. Reviews then found problems in earlier commits of this PR, and one older bug of the same class. All are fixed (f228437, ce12a47).

fs.rm, fs.rmdir({ recursive }), fs.cp, fs.glob: with fs.promises.rm / cp replaced by a stub that returns a plain thenable, they threw @then is not a function. Main runs the callback.
fork(): a non-iterable execArgv started the child with no flags and no error. Main throws a TypeError.
spawn() and fork() still walked this.stdio with for...of after the child had started. With an array iterator that throws, they threw to the caller while the child kept running. An earlier reply of mine on this PR called that loop harmless. That was wrong, and I had not measured it.
spawnCommand() assigned cmd[0]. With no args and a setter for index 0 on Array.prototype, cmd stayed empty and Bun.spawn threw cmd must not be empty. The element is now defined as an own property, like the array literal on main. Limit: under that accessor spawn still assigns index 0 of new arrays in three other places, and the parent does not exit. Index accessors on Array.prototype are outside this PR.
Older bug, also on main: a FileHandle write stream with flush: true never closes when Promise.prototype.then does not call its handlers. The check compared fh.sync with FileHandle.prototype.fsync, which does not exist, so every handle took the public then.

Verified on Linux x64 with one debug binary, where only src/js changes between runs:

This branch (ce12a47): the 10 new tests pass.
src/js of main: 8 of the 10 fail. The 2 that pass guard behavior that main already has.
Earlier heads of this branch: the 2 guards fail on efbff75, and the throwing-iterator test fails on f228437. Each test catches the problem it was written for.
child_process (with ipc) and node-dns suites at ce12a47: 32 tests fail, and each of them also fails with the src/js of main. They need the public internet or $SHELL, or hit the 5 s cap on debug builds. No test fails only with this branch.
fs.test.ts, cp.test.ts, promises.test.js, dir.test.ts, glob.test.ts, process-stdio.test.ts, require.test.ts at f228437: 721 pass, 0 fail. ce12a47 changes only child_process.ts and tests after that.

Two more hostile patches, checked by hand on Linux against a stock build (c6b7fcb). With the array iterator replaced by function* () { yield "REWRITTEN" }, stock makes spawnSync run /bin/echo REWRITTEN and fs.promises.readFile(p, "utf8") throw encoding 'REWRITTEN' is an invalid encoding. With Promise.prototype.then replaced by a function that returns 42, fs.readFile, fs.readdir, fs.stat, createReadStream, and a FileHandle stream never complete on stock. All of these behave correctly on this branch.

Windows x64, debug build of ce12a47: the 10 new tests pass. The process.env suites ran on efbff75, and the later commits do not touch that code: 166 pass, and the inline-cache test hits the 5 s cap on debug builds, also with the src/js of main.

CI: the diff is green. Build 116677 has one red job, the x64-asan shard, on test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts ("an idle reader stopped at the highwater mark does not keep the process alive"). The fixture asserts an empty stderr, and LeakSanitizer writes WARNING: ptrace appears to be blocked (is seccomp enabled?) to it. This PR does not cause it. The same case is in the failure summaries of 18 of the 28 builds of other PRs that ran the x64-asan lane today. The shard logs of 7 of those builds show the same LeakSanitizer text, 2 to 5 times each (6 and 7 times in the two builds of this PR, where every retry was used). Builds of main have no ASAN lane, so this failure never shows on main. The test came in with #42038. Every other failure in build 116677 passed on a retry.

claude

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked: the .then → .$then receivers in fs.ts (all are native-binding promises, async-function returns, or Promise.$resolve/$reject — none are user thenables); spawnCommand() produces the same array as the old [file, ...slice(spawnargs, 1)]; the fork args and shell command string rewrites are behavior-equivalent; and writeFileAsyncIterator's now-optional flag/mode were already always undefined at the only call site.

Extended reasoning...

The two inline nits (macOS clonefile fast-path bypasses the cpSync test; one remaining live Array.prototype.slice read on the ENOENT error path) already cover the actionable findings. I spot-checked the higher-risk mechanical rewrites for semantic drift and found none, so noting those here so a human pass doesn't re-derive them.

The ownKeys trap returned envMapList.slice() through the live Array.prototype.slice, so the patched slice in the new child_process test made the trap return a duplicate key and JSC rejected the enumeration ("ownKeys trap result must not contain any duplicate names") from inside normalizeSpawnArguments. The other traps read toUpperCase, includes, some, findIndex, splice, push, and Reflect.getOwnPropertyDescriptor live as well. Capture them when the proxy is created and iterate by index. Also use the captured slice on the deferred spawn error path, pre-create the cpSync destination in the fs test so macOS runs the JS walker instead of clonefile, and report stdout, stderr, and the exit code together in the child_process test.

robobun · 2026-08-24T05:47:58Z

^{Updated 12:41 PM PT - Sep 16th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit ce12a47 has 1 failures in Build #116677 (All Failures):

test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts - code 1: stdout reader of an unref'd child and process lifetime > an idle reader stopped at the highwater … on 🐧 13 x64-asan

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…aiting The fixture awaited the spawned child's close event and only then attached the listener for the forked child. When the forked child closed first, that listener missed the event, nothing kept the event loop alive, and the fixture exited 0 with no output (10 of 150 runs under load).

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Inline comments:
In `@src/js/builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts`:
- Around line 487-491: Update the environment serialization loop in
ProcessObjectInternals to define each key, including __proto__, as an own data
property via the captured Object.defineProperty primitive instead of assigning
through o[k]. Add a regression test covering __proto__ in
JSON.stringify(process.env) and Bun.inspect.custom output.

In `@test/js/bun/resolve/require-primordials.test.ts`:
- Around line 12-19: Extend the primordials test around the existing
String.prototype.endsWith and startsWith patches by also patching
String.prototype.indexOf for query detection. Require an empty .node fixture
with a query suffix, then assert native-addon dispatch occurs and the query is
removed before process.dlopen.
- Line 8: Move the test case named “require() dispatch ignores patched
String.prototype.startsWith/endsWith” into the existing focused require() test
file, preserving its assertions and behavior; remove the standalone test file if
it contains no remaining cases.

In `@test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts`:
- Around line 69-78: Update the assertion in child_process-primordials.test.ts
to verify stdout first and exitCode last, while removing the exact stderr
expectation because stderr is not under test. Preserve the existing expected
stdout content and exit status.
- Around line 22-41: Update the primordial patch in the test to make
Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] throw on use, replace the live stdio iteration
with indexed access, and wrap spawnSync, spawn, and fork execution plus
prototype restoration in a finally block so both original methods are always
restored.

In `@test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts`:
- Around line 33-41: Update the test around fs.cpSync so the patched
Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] is restored unconditionally in a finally block,
including when the copy throws. Keep the existing iterator mutation and copy
behavior unchanged.
- Around line 25-43: Update the filesystem fixture setup around the
fs.mkdirSync, fs.writeFileSync, fs.cpSync, fs.readdirSync, and related calls to
construct paths from process.cwd() before each file operation, while preserving
the existing relative fixture entry that is intentionally resolved through cwd.
Ensure all created, copied, and read paths use the same absolute fixture-root
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Both earlier nits are addressed (a41df89 for the stdio _final FileSink flush, e8ea8a8 for streamFileHandleClose — the latter now guards with $isPromise and falls back to public .then for a user-replaced close(), which is stricter than what I asked for). This run's automated review found no further issues.

Given the breadth — the CJS require() dispatch, spawn/spawnSync/fork argv construction, the Windows process.env proxy, and 51 .then → .$then sites in fs.ts — a human pass would still be worthwhile before landing.

What was reviewed:

spawnCommand vs. the old [file, ...slice(args, 1)]: same result including the empty-spawnargs case (cmd[0] = file on [] yields [file]).
deleteProperty trap dropping String(p): safe, symbol keys already returned early so p is a string.
fs.promises rest-→-named params: writeFileAsyncIterator still receives the same 3 args; .length now matches Node.
$stringSubstring/$stringIndexOfInternal are real JSC link-time constants (build passed in the evidence block).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR hardens five internal-module families against user-patched built-in prototypes (a threat model Node.js addresses via primordials): the CJS loader's require() dispatch (builtins/CommonJS.ts), the callback fs API and fs.promises wrappers, internal/fs/streams.ts FileSink promise handling, child_process argv construction and env normalization, the Windows process.env proxy (ProcessObjectInternals.ts), internal/fs/cp-sync.ts directory iteration, and internal/net/isIP.ts. The changes are mostly mechanical: .then → .$then on native promises under $isPromise guards (51 sites in fs.ts, 8 in streams.ts, 1 in ProcessObjectInternals.ts), captured ArrayPrototype*/StringPrototype* references, index loops in place of for...of/spread, and $stringSubstring/$stringIndexOfInternal link-time constants in the loader. Four new subprocess-fixture test files exercise each patch class.

Security risks

None introduced. The change reduces the surface where user code can influence internal control flow. No new external inputs, no auth/crypto, no privilege changes.

Level of scrutiny

High. overridableRequire runs on every require() — the .node extension check was rewritten from endsWith(".node", queryIndex) to a length-guarded substring compare, which I traced as semantically equivalent (including queryIndex === 0 and short paths). spawnCommand replaces the spread-based cmd construction at both Bun.spawn and Bun.spawnSync call sites. The Windows process.env proxy is platform-gated and reworks every trap. These are hot, correctness-critical paths where a subtle mistake would break a lot silently.

Other factors

I previously left two 🟡 nits on this PR; both are now addressed (a41df89, e8ea8a8). All CodeRabbit threads were withdrawn after robobun explained repo conventions. The evidence block shows the four new test files fail on main (release) and pass with the fix under both ASAN-debug and release. The PR description enumerates the wider suites that were re-run. Given the number of subsystems touched and the criticality of the CJS loader and spawn paths, I'm deferring rather than auto-approving.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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

🟣 src/js/internal/fs/streams.ts — pre-existing: a FileHandle write stream opened with flush: true still routes its final fsync through the public Promise.prototype.then, so the PR's patched-then scenario can leave the stream never closing. streams.ts:76 compares fh.sync against fileHandlePrototypeFsync, which is FileHandle.prototype.fsync; that property does not exist (the method is named sync, fs.promises.ts:508), so the comparison is always false and streams.ts:79 fh.sync().then(() => cb(), cb) runs for every handle, patched or not. Fix: compare against FileHandle.prototype.sync (destructure sync at streams.ts:48) so the native fsync path is taken for an unpatched handle, and settle the fallback with .$then when $isPromise holds, as streamFileHandleClose now does.

Extended reasoning...

The earlier review comment on this file said lines 60/69/79 run only when the user replaced the FileHandle method, so they were left on the public then. That holds for read and write but not for fsync: the destructuring at streams.ts:45-50 pulls fsync from FileHandle.prototype, and that class only defines sync() and datasync() (fs.promises.ts:496, :508), so fileHandlePrototypeFsync is undefined. fh.sync === undefined is false for every real handle, so the ternary at streams.ts:76 always picks the fallback function at :78-80. Path: fh.createWriteStream({ flush: true }) or fs.createWriteStream(null, { fd: fh, flush: true }) sets this[kFs] = fileHandleStreamFs(fd) at :416 and this.flush = true at :447. On end, _destroy (:732) reaches close() (:345); stream.flush is true so :359 calls stream[kFs].fsync(fd, cb), i.e. :79. fh.sync() is an async method returning a native promise; .then is the user-visible property. Under the same kind of patch the new fs-primordials test installs, a then that swallows fulfillment never calls cb, closeAfterSync never runs,…

Verification: pre-existing (base fails the same way by the same route; the diff touches streamFileHandleClose at lines 84-91 but leaves lines 45-80 untouched), but it is exactly the class this PR sets out to close in this file. Trigger: a FileHandle-backed WriteStream created with flush: true (fh.createWriteStream({flush:true}) or fs.createWriteStream(null, {fd: fh, flush: true})) is destroyed/ended…

…v again; fix the FileHandle sync fast path fs.rm, fs.rmdir({ recursive }), fs.cp and fs.glob call a function that user code can replace (fs.promises.rm, fs.promises.cp, Array.fromAsync). The result can be a plain thenable, which has no private then, so the earlier switch to .$then made these throw synchronously. Use the private then only when the result is a real promise. fork() copied execArgv with slice, which turns a non-iterable value into an empty list and starts the child without the flags. Node throws a TypeError there. Keep the spread for a non-array execArgv. internal/fs/streams compared fh.sync with FileHandle.prototype.fsync, which does not exist, so every FileHandle stream took the fallback that resolves through the public then. With flush: true and a then that never calls its handlers, the stream never closed. Compare with FileHandle.prototype.sync.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/js/node/child_process.ts`:
- Line 917: Update the command construction in spawnCommand so an empty cmd
returns an array containing file instead of assigning through cmd[0]; preserve
the existing indexed assignment path for non-empty commands.

In `@test/js/node/child_process/child_process-primordials.test.ts`:
- Around line 22-41: Update the primordials test around the patched
Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] and the spawn/fork calls to make post-spawn
stdio traversal fail observably when it uses the patched iterator. Ensure the
iterator throws (or add an equivalent dedicated assertion), and replace the
restoration loop with indexed or pre-captured traversal so cleanup does not
depend on the patched iterator.

In `@test/js/node/fs/fs-primordials.test.ts`:
- Around line 154-158: Update the subprocess assertions in the affected test
cases to assert stdout and stderr first, then assert exitCode separately as the
final assertion. Apply the same ordering to the corresponding case around the
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…n own property ChildProcess#spawn walked this.stdio with for...of after Bun.spawn() had started the child. A replaced Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] that throws made spawn() and fork() throw to the caller while the child kept running, and one that skips an element left a stdio socket without its ref(). Iterate by index. spawnCommand() assigned cmd[0] = file. With no args the copy is empty, so that assignment consults the prototype chain and a setter for index 0 on Array.prototype received the file while cmd stayed empty ("cmd must not be empty"). The array literal this replaced defined own properties. Define the element directly. The new test runs spawnSync, spawn and fork under an iterator that throws. The fs test file now uses one assertion form throughout.

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No new blocking issues. 2 optional suggestions (nits or notes on pre-existing code) were found and not posted. Nothing in this review needs a push before merging.

robobun · 2026-11-08T20:24:18Z

Closing: this PR no longer applies to main (all 8 source files conflict), and #43728 already made its .then changes in fs.ts unnecessary. It also added copies of built-in functions that are taken when a module first loads, which is after user code, so a replacement that is on at that moment stays.

Its parts continue as separate PRs:

node:child_process: node:child_process: build what a child receives by index, with direct writes #48277, without those copies.
Math.min in node:http: node:http: bound the header count with the engine's min, not the live Math.min #40290.
fs.cpSync, fs.promises.readFile, the FileHandle streams, the CommonJS loader and net.isIP: separate PRs, not open yet.

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