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Problem

  • A TLS 1.3 tls.connect() client whose certificate the server rejects reports error: read ECONNRESET and close(true). A Node client in the same exchange reports a clean end and close(false) (node:tls: bare EOF after TLS 1.3 client-certificate rejection is ECONNRESET instead of end #40653, reproduced 5/5 on Linux, 20/20 by the reporter on macOS).
  • The client sends its final handshake flight and the write from secureConnect as two TCP segments: the custom BIO (BIO_s_custom_write, packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c) raw-writes the flight from inside SSL_read, before the handshake event reaches JS. The server rejects the certificate after reading segment one and destroys the socket with segment two unread. Linux then sends an RST instead of a FIN, and the RST is a real ECONNRESET at the client.

Fix

  • Batch the records SSL_read seals while the handshake is pending. When the handshake completes in that read, hold the batch across the on_handshake dispatch. A write the callback issues appends to the held flight, and the existing flush in us_internal_ssl_write sends flight plus first application data in one kernel write. This is the segment shape Node produces through its memory BIO.
  • Any other outcome of the read flushes the batch at once. The close and shutdown paths flush a held batch before their close_notify/FIN. An error teardown or a destroy from inside the handshake drops it. A new ssl_write_batch_owner field pins the shared per-loop batch to one socket, and the loop-state save/zero keeps re-entrant JS (SNI/ALPN callbacks) from mixing another socket's records into a held flight. The snapshot size is now exported and debug-asserted at the Rust call site.
  • Verified: four new tests in test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts. The segment-count test fails on main (3 chunks, expected 2). The cross-socket-write and end-from-handshake tests cover the shared-slot hard paths. The issue's script prints secureConnect -> write -> end -> close:false 10/10 with the debug build. Also ran test/js/node/tls/, node-http2.test.js, fetch.tls.test.ts, bun-serve-ssl.test.ts, and the upstream test-tls-*/test-https-* suites.

Background

  • usockets gives every TLS socket on a loop the same BIO pair. loop_ssl_data->ssl_socket routes BIO_s_custom_write output to the right fd. ssl_write_batching already existed for us_internal_ssl_write: it collects sealed records and writes them once.
  • The spill slot holds ciphertext a partial batch flush could not deliver. SSL counts those bytes as written, so they must reach that exact socket, in order. Batching is gated on a free spill slot for that reason.
  • In TLS 1.3 the client finishes first: it sees secureConnect one round trip before the server decides on the client certificate. That is why the rejection lands after the client already wrote application data.
Notes
  • Diagnosis: an LD_PRELOAD shim logging send/recv shows Node's client writes flight + app data as one write(1253) while Bun issues send(1152) then send(57). The server (Node in both runs) reads 1253 in one chunk from the Node client, but only 1152 from the Bun client before it destroys.
  • The RST path needs the second segment to arrive inside the window between the server reading the flight and destroying the socket. Release builds hit it almost always. Debug builds are slow enough that the server's FIN usually wins, and Linux masks the late RST (SOCK_DONE is checked before sk_err in tcp_recvmsg). The gate-facing test therefore counts the client's segments through a raw in-test TCP proxy. The count discriminates reliably on an unloaded machine; under heavy CPU load the two unfixed sends can coalesce in the kernel, so a green run on a loaded machine is weaker evidence than the idle fail-before recorded here (20/20 fail on the unfixed build when idle). The end-to-end Node-server repro is kept as a second test, skipIf(!nodeExe()).
  • Related, not the same bug: tls: close a destroyed TLS socket with a bare FIN, no close_notify #40412 covers the send side of a destroyed TLS socket (bare FIN, no close_notify). tls: hold the handshake's final flight until on_handshake decides #35378 holds the flight so a verify-rejecting client's destroy can recall it; it parks the flight in the spill slot and drains it before the callback's write, so it still produces two segments and does not fix node:tls: bare EOF after TLS 1.3 client-certificate rejection is ECONNRESET instead of end #40653. This PR's batch-owner hold subsumes most of that machinery. tls: hold the handshake's final flight until on_handshake decides #35378 should be restacked on top of this as a flush-vs-release policy decision at us_internal_ssl_close rather than rebased mechanically.
  • Follow-up direction for this file: a per-socket outbound-ciphertext buffer would delete the shared batch/spill slots, both owner fields, the loop-state save slots for routing, and the cross-socket double-spill fatal path. Worth doing before more features extend the shared-slot surface.
  • Pre-existing failures seen during the sweep, identical on an unmodified build: node-tls-server.test.ts "SNICallback runs even when the requested servername matches the bind hostname" (ECONNREFUSED in this environment), test/js/bun/net/ hostname-resolution failures (13, same set on system bun), test-tls-client-allow-partial-trust-chain.js (node:test runner), and test-https-timeout.js (hangs on a main debug build too).

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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 1 failed, 18 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (731aa92da)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [3.82ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [346.19ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [7.78ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [106.76ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [12.46ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [82.50ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [77.93ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port a
... (truncated)

release without fix: 2 failed, 18 skipped
bun test v1.4.1-canary.1 (731aa92da)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [0.03ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [6.30ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [0.15ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [3.27ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [0.22ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [4.43ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [3.11ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port and host correctly
(skip) tls.connect > should process port, host, and callback correctly
(skip) tls.connect > should handle the absence of a callback gracefully
(skip) tls.c
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: 18 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (731aa92da)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [2.71ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [362.37ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [8.06ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [115.84ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [13.31ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [87.82ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [85.23ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port a
... (truncated)

release with fix: 18 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 863ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c.o
[2/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c.o
[3/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c.o
[4/25] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-packages_bun_usockets_src_crypto-0.cpp.o
[5/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/libuv.c.o
[6/25] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_uws_sys-0.cpp.o
[7/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/epoll_kqueue.c.o
[8/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/fault_inject.c.o
[9/25] cxx obj/src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp.o
[10/25] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-5.cpp.o
[11/25] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node-0.cpp.o
[12/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c.o
[13/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c.o
[14/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c.o
[15/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/udp.c.o
[16/25] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c.o
[17/25] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-4.cpp.o
[18/25] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_j
... (truncated)
diff hotspot
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c    | 149 +++++++++++++-
 packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h |  11 +-
 src/runtime/socket/socket_body.rs             |   9 +-
 src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs    |   9 +-
 test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts     | 276 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 436 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                           reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c         9     21      0
packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h      2      3      0
src/runtime/socket/socket_body.rs                  2      2      0
src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs         2      3      0
test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts          2      9      0

…e in one segment

A TLS 1.3 client seals its final flight (Certificate, CertificateVerify,
Finished) inside SSL_read, and the custom BIO raw-wrote those records to
the socket before the handshake event reached JS. A write issued from the
'secureConnect' callback then left in a second TCP segment. A server that
tears the connection down right after the handshake (node destroying a
socket whose client certificate failed verification) closes with that
second segment unread, so its FIN teardown becomes an RST and the client
reports 'read ECONNRESET' instead of a clean 'end'. Node coalesces both
into one segment through its memory BIO, so a node client sees 'end'.

Batch the records SSL_read seals while the handshake is pending. When the
handshake completes in that read, hold the batch across the on_handshake
dispatch: a write the callback issues appends to it and flushes flight
plus application data in one kernel write. Every other outcome of the
read flushes the batch at once. The close and shutdown paths flush a held
batch before their close_notify/FIN, an error teardown drops it, and the
loop-state save/zero keeps re-entrant JS (SNI/ALPN callbacks) from
appending another socket's records to a held flight.

Fixes #40653
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TLS ciphertext batching now tracks socket ownership and preserves ordering across callbacks, handshakes, writes, shutdown, close, detach, and relocation. SSL loop-state storage expands to six slots. TLS 1.3 regression tests cover record coalescing, cross-socket isolation, synchronous termination, and certificate rejection.

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TLS batching and loop-state preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Loop-state contract and callback preservation
packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h, src/runtime/socket/socket_body.rs, src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs, packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c
SSL loop-state snapshots now use six pointers. Reentrant callbacks preserve and restore batching state.
Batch ownership and lifecycle handling
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c
Ciphertext batches track their owning socket. Owner switches flush pending records. Close, shutdown, detach, destruction, and relocation update or release batch state.
Handshake and application-data ordering
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c, test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
Handshake ciphertext remains batched across callbacks and flushes before application data or teardown traffic. TLS 1.3 tests validate TCP coalescing, cross-socket isolation, synchronous termination, and certificate-rejection handling.

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In `@test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts`:
- Around line 1708-1710: Update the TLS test’s assertions around the client data
handler and the corresponding code near the second referenced location so they
do not treat data callback invocations as TCP segment boundaries. Replace the
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Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the 5→6 loop-state slot growth — every caller (us_select_cert_cb in openssl.c, select_alpn_callback in socket_body.rs) is updated, no stragglers. The spill-collision guard in ssl_flush_write_batch was examined for the ssl_spill_owner == s self-case: batching is only entered when ssl_spill_owner == NULL, and the owner-check guard means only s's own records reach that flush, so a self-collision would require s to have spilled mid-batch, which the entry gate rules out. Given the re-entrancy surface here (per-loop shared batch held across JS dispatch, cross-socket writes from inside on_handshake), a human pass on the C changes is still warranted.

Extended reasoning...

The confirmed finding is a test-harness nit; the substantive review effort went into the openssl.c batching/ownership changes. Two concrete concerns were examined and ruled out: the FFI array-size change is applied at every call site (grep confirms only two callers, both updated), and the spill-slot self-collision case in ssl_flush_write_batch cannot occur because the batching entry gate requires an empty spill slot and the new owner check prevents flushing another socket's records into s's spill. The change is complex enough — shared per-loop state held across a JS dispatch that can write to, close, or destroy other TLS sockets on the same loop — that recording what was checked helps a human reviewer focus on the remaining re-entrancy edges rather than re-deriving these.

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The listen() reject-wiring nit is addressed — once(server.listen(...), "listening") rejects on 'error'. I didn't find any bugs this round, but the batch-ownership and re-entrant flush changes in packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c are subtle enough that a human pass on the state machine is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • The 5→6 slot save/restore array is updated at every FFI caller (openssl.c us_select_cert_cb, internal.h, socket_body.rs, tls_socket_functions.rs) — no stale 5-slot arrays remain.
  • Every path that sets hs_batching = 1 reaches a matching flush or ssl_release_batch (WANT_READ early return, both handshake-completion branches, pending-detach, close/shutdown).
  • ssl_write_batch_owner is cleared on detach/relocate and checked before every flush, and us_internal_ssl_write now saves/restores outer_batching instead of zeroing the caller's flag.
  • New tests use port: 0, once() for listen readiness, drain subprocess pipes concurrently, and assert stdout/stderr before exit code.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR changes TLS 1.3 client handshake behavior in packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c so that the final handshake flight sealed inside SSL_read is batched and held across the on_handshake JS dispatch, letting a secureConnect callback's first write coalesce with it into a single kernel write. To make that safe, it adds a per-loop ssl_write_batch_owner pointer, teaches BIO_s_custom_write and ssl_flush_write_batch to respect batch ownership, gates batching on a free spill slot, adds ssl_release_batch on detach/relocate/destroy, flushes held batches in us_internal_ssl_close and us_internal_ssl_shutdown, and grows the in-handshake loop-state save/restore snapshot from 5 to 6 slots (updated in C, the internal header, and both Rust FFI callers). Two tests are added to test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts: a deterministic segment-count test via a raw TCP proxy, and an end-to-end Node-server repro gated on nodeExe().

Security risks

The change lives entirely in the TLS write path — per-loop shared batch/spill buffers, ownership attribution across sockets, and re-entrant JS callbacks that can write to or destroy other TLS sockets on the same loop. A mistake here could deliver one socket's ciphertext to another socket's fd (stream corruption) or drop already-sealed records (silent data loss). The ownership checks look consistent: ssl_flush_write_batch refuses to flush a batch it doesn't own, BIO_s_custom_write flushes a foreign owner's batch before appending and skips batching while a spill slot is occupied, and a second concurrent spill is now treated as a fatal socket error rather than clobbering. No new user-controlled input parsing, no auth/crypto primitive changes.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is hand-written C touching a per-loop shared mutable buffer with multiple owners, re-entrancy through JS callbacks (SNI/ALPN, on_handshake), and several exit paths that each need to either flush or release the held batch. REVIEW.md explicitly flags TLS/crypto paths and cross-socket shared state as areas where a maintainer should sign off. The FFI/ABI surface changed (array grew from 5 to 6 slots), which the landing-prs cross-platform section calls out as needing every caller updated in lockstep — I verified all four sites match, but a maintainer familiar with any out-of-tree callers should confirm.

Other factors

Since my prior inline nit, commit 9070ea2 switched both new listen waits to await once(server.listen(...), "listening"), which rejects on 'error' — that resolves the only thing I'd raised. The tests follow harness conventions (port 0, tempDir, bunExe/bunEnv/nodeExe, concurrent pipe drain, stdout asserted before exitCode, no sleeps), and the segment-count test is designed to be deterministic in debug+ASAN. The PR description reports a broad test sweep. Given the intrinsic complexity of the openssl.c state machine and the number of interacting exit paths, I'm deferring rather than approving.

… held-flight hard paths

The save/restore snapshot size was hand-synced across four files. Export
US_SSL_LOOP_STATE_SLOTS through us_internal_ssl_loop_state_slots() and
check it with a debug assertion at the Rust call site, so the next growth
fails loudly instead of writing past a caller's stack array.

Add tests for the two shared-slot hard paths: a write to a second TLS
socket from inside secureConnect (the BIO must flush the held flight to
its owner before it takes the batch slot), and end() called from the
handshake callback (the shutdown must flush the held flight before
close_notify and FIN). Document the load limitation of the segment-count
assertion.

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In `@src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs`:
- Around line 192-193: Update the FFI declarations
us_internal_ssl_loop_state_save and us_internal_ssl_loop_state_restore to remove
the safe qualifier and mark them unsafe; then wrap every call site in explicit
unsafe blocks while preserving the existing save/restore behavior.

In `@test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts`:
- Around line 1770-1774: Remove the redundant issue-context comments before the
cross-socket test at test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts lines 1770-1774
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Jarred-Sumner merged commit 6d9577b into main Aug 27, 2026
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…the final handshake flight (#43766)

### Problem
- A TLS client that writes before the handshake completes (as
`node:https` does) can report `ECONNRESET` with `bytesRead === 0`
although the server replied first. Bun 1.4.3-canary: 16 of 24 runs.
Node: none.
- Bun sends the TLS 1.3 Finished and that write as two segments, Node as
one. `us_internal_ssl_on_data`
(`packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c`) flushes the flight, then
retries the write.

### Fix
- `ssl_write_parked` (new bit) records a write refused before the
handshake finished, until the next writable dispatch. If set,
`ssl_retry_parked_write` runs with the flight held, and the write joins
it: one `send(113)`, was `send(64)`, `send(49)`.
- Nothing parked: the old order stays (flush, then dispatch writable).
Callback order never changes.
- Verified: six new tests in
`test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts`: three fail without the fix,
one without the gate. Ran `test/js/node/tls/`, upstream
`test-tls-*`/`test-https-*`, http2, fetch TLS.
- Self-reviewed: 16 concerns raised, 12 addressed. Rejected (Notes): two
race-dependent tests, a refactor of the #40653 test, an unreachable-case
guard.

### Background
- usockets batches the records `SSL_read` seals during a handshake. If
the handshake completes in that read, it holds this final flight across
`on_handshake` (#40655).
- `ssl_retry_parked_write` dispatches a writable event so the owner
resends the parked write.
- A Nagle server that reads the Finished alone sends session tickets.
Its reply waits for their ACK (40 ms on Linux), and a reset discards it.

### Downsides
- With a parked write, the final flight leaves with that write. A
`Bun.connect` `drain` handler that blocks first delays the peer's
handshake that long.
- Not covered: a server that sends data with its Finished. The parked
write stays a second segment.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

- Repro: a Node v26.3.0 server wraps each accepted socket in `new
tls.TLSSocket(raw, { isServer: true })`, writes 20000 bytes on the first
`data`, and calls `raw.resetAndDestroy()` 3 ms after the write callback.
The client is `tls.connect()` with `socket.write(request)` on the next
line. Linux x64, one client process per run.
- Diagnosis: an `LD_PRELOAD` shim that logs `epoll_ctl`, `epoll_pwait`,
`send` and `recv`. A losing run reads `recv = 478` (the two session
tickets), then `IN|ERR|HUP` with `recv = ECONNRESET` and nothing queued.
A run that works reads `recv = 20522` (tickets and reply in one
segment). The read path (`drain_for_error` and the low-priority
exception in `loop.c`) is not involved: Linux returns queued data before
the error, and there is none.
- `raw.setNoDelay(true)` on the server makes the unfixed client deliver
24 of 24. That isolates Nagle on the server as the hold. Node `net` and
`tls` servers leave Nagle on. Node `http` and `https` servers set
`noDelay`
([`_http_server.js`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/_http_server.js#L645),
[`https.js`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/https.js#L95)),
so they do not hold the reply.
- Node's shape: a write before the handshake is parked in
`pending_cleartext_input_`
([`DoWrite`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/src/crypto/crypto_tls.cc#L1126-L1133)).
When the server flight arrives,
[`Cycle()`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/src/crypto/crypto_tls.cc#L2136-L2147)
runs
[`ClearIn()`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/src/crypto/crypto_tls.cc#L909-L956),
whose `SSL_write` finishes the handshake and seals the record, and then
one
[`EncOut()`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/src/crypto/crypto_tls.cc#L641-L719)
write. The trace shows one `write(129)`.
- Without the reset, the same split costs latency. Against the same
server with `end()` in place of the reset, the unfixed release client
reads `recv = 478` and then `recv = 20044` 40.6 ms later in 10 of 12
fresh processes.
- A second symptom of the same split is the #40653 shape with the write
moved before the handshake: a Node TLS 1.3 server that rejects the
client certificate destroys the socket with the second segment unread.
The unfixed debug build reports
`secureConnect,error:ECONNRESET,close:true` in 4 of 8 runs. With the fix
it reports `secureConnect,end,close:false` in 8 of 8, like Node.
- With the fix (debug build): the repro client delivers 32 of 32 at
reset delays 0, 1, 3 and 10 ms (unfixed debug: 5 of 8 lost at 3 ms).
`https.get()` delivers 8 of 8 (unfixed debug: 4 of 8). 60 of 60
connections in one process (unfixed debug: 18, 8 and 11 lost of 30). An
8 MB write queued before the handshake arrives intact: the first send is
131312 bytes, the flight plus the first batch of records.
- The loss rate depends on machine load, because the server must read
the Finished before the second segment lands. At a load average near 60
the unfixed release client lost 16 of 24. Near 125 it lost 0 of 24. That
is why the suite does not carry the end-to-end reset test: it passed on
the unfixed release build 6 of 6 times under load.
- Why the bit: `ssl_update_handshake` sets `ssl_write_wants_read` for
every pending handshake, so that flag cannot tell whether a write is
parked. Without the gate the final flight of every TLS socket waited on
the writable dispatch (review feedback on the first commit).
`us_internal_ssl_write` sets `ssl_write_parked` at its three refusal
sites (`WANT_READ`, a write from inside an `SSL_read` callback, a socket
that is not open yet). The bit fits in spare bits of `us_socket_t`, so
the struct does not grow. `us_internal_ssl_on_writable` clears it right
before `us_dispatch_writable`, where the owner is told to resend. The
tail retry runs after every read and only re-drives a pending handshake,
so it must not clear the bit. End to end with a HelloRetryRequest
against the Node reset server: `send(1452)`, `send(303)`, then one
`send(107)`, 8 of 8 delivered.
- Tests. The three `Bun.connect` cases are deterministic: the client's
`drain` handler blocks until the proxy has read everything the client
sent before the handler's own write, so a flight sent on its own is
always its own chunk. `Bun.connect, retried from drain` fails on main 4
of 4 (debug) and 8 of 8 (release) with 3 chunks, expected 2.
`Bun.connect, retried from drain after a HelloRetryRequest` covers a
handshake that takes two reads (server with `ecdhCurve: "P-384"`): 4
chunks on main, 3 with the fix. It also reads 4 on the second commit of
this PR, which cleared the bit at the tail of the first read (review
feedback). `Bun.connect, first write from drain leaves after the flight`
pins the gate: with nothing parked the flight does not wait for `drain`,
so the count is 3. It reads 2 when the retry runs before the flush for
every socket, as in the first commit. `node:tls` has no JS between the
two sends, so it runs 4 connections. It fails on main 9 of 9 (debug) and
6 of 12 (release), measured at a load average near 125. A
`secureConnect` listener cannot add a sync point there: since #40655 the
flight is held across that listener on main too, and the parked bytes
are flushed natively before any JS runs. The four segment cases run
under `describe.concurrent`. The two `is failed, not delivered` tests
pin the negative contract on the fd-backed path and pass with and
without the fix. Before this they existed only for the Duplex transport.
- Rejected self-review concerns. (1) An `https.request` test: it reaches
the same `tls.connect()` write path, and its end-to-end failure is a
race. (2) A Node-server test of the reset or of the #40653 shape: the
failure is a race, numbers above. (3) Folding the #40653 test's inline
proxy into the new helper: it is outside this diff. (4) Following an
adopted socket after the retry: adoption needs a request, and no data
was read on this path. The same pattern follows `ssl_trigger_handshake`
two lines above.
- Not changed: a handshake that completes in the same `SSL_read` that
returns application data (a TLS 1.3 server that speaks first). There the
flight is still flushed before the data dispatch, and a parked write
follows as a second segment. A retry at that point runs the writable
dispatch before the decrypted data reaches JS, which reorders `drain`
ahead of `data`. Holding the flight to the end of the read loop is not
safe: later `SSL_read` calls do not batch, so a record they seal would
pass the held flight.
- Failures seen during the sweep that are identical on the unfixed debug
build in this environment: `node-tls-server.test.ts` "SNICallback runs
even when the requested servername matches the bind hostname"
(ECONNREFUSED), `node-tls-root-certs-concurrent-init.test.ts` (5 s
timeout), `socket.test.ts` "should not call drain before handshake"
(needs the public internet), `node-http-connect.test.ts` "tests should
run on bun" (5 s timeout), upstream `test-https-timeout.js` and
`test-tls-client-allow-partial-trust-chain.js`.

</details>

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---

**[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 0 · 3 files touched

<details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN without fix: 3 failed, 18 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [2.18ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [314.26ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [6.57ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [124.75ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [13.74ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [82.82ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [121.45ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port a
... (truncated)

release without fix: 3 failed, 18 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [0.04ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [9.10ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [0.23ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [5.45ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [0.37ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [9.64ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [6.63ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port and host correctly
(skip) tls.connect > should process port, host, and callback correctly
(skip) tls.connect > should handle the absence of a callback gracefully
(skip) tls.c
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN with fix: 18 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [8.11ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [619.12ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [11.14ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [161.01ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [53.23ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [116.67ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [182.21ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port
... (truncated)

release with fix: 18 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 1622ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/226] gen bake.{client,server,error}.js
-> bake.client.js, bake.server.js, bake.error.js
[2/224] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 121 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=106, rust=0); 245 extern-C blocks audited
[3/224] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[4/224] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (8862ms)
Bundle modules (104ms)
Postprocesss modules (155ms)
Bundle Functions (410ms)
Generate Code (35ms)

[9.58s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2595 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[5/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c.o
[6/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/epoll_kqueue.c.o
[7/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/fault_inject.c.o
[8/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c.o
[9/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c.o
[10/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c.o
[11/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/libuv.c.o
[12/221] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c.o
[13/2
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c    |  22 ++-
 packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h |   4 +
 test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts     | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                           reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c         7      4     52
packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h      1      1     52
test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts          1      1     52
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
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