[robobun]

Open question (@Jarred-Sumner, @cirospaciari): with no listener these reports end the process, as upgrade(); await 1; throw does on main. #34661 keeps the server alive for websocket callback throws. Same here?

Problem

• A Bun.serve handler that fails after server.upgrade() returned true is reported nowhere: no error(), no uncaughtException, no unhandledRejection. Stderr is empty, exit code 0.
• A sync throw ends in discard_handler_result (src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:781), which only looks for a Response. After await x; upgrade(), on_reject (:1061) finds no context.

Fix

• On an upgraded context a thrown value goes to VirtualMachine::uncaught_exception.
• The promise cell keeps the handler's promise across upgrade(). on_reject passes it to VirtualMachine::unhandled_rejection, as for upgrade(); await 1; throw (Bun.serve: report a rejection from a handler that upgraded before it returned #41227).
• Verified: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-propagate-errors.test.ts (16 new tests, 10 fail on main), serve and websocket suites. Self-reviewed: 4 concerns raised, 4 addressed.

Background

• After the 101, error() has no response to send.
• NativePromiseContext is the GC cell passed to the server's reactions on a handler promise. They mark it handled, so JSC reports nothing.
• Considered: clearing JSC's handled flag at upgrade, the websocket.error hook, a typed handler outcome. Bun.serve: report handler errors thrown after server.upgrade() #33525 was first.

Downsides

• Behaviour change: such a server keeps running today and now exits with code 1 when nothing listens. A client can trigger this in @socket.io/bun-engine 0.1.2.
• Cost: about 13 instructions per pending handler promise, about 15 per upgraded request. Text: +5,376 bytes (linux x64 release).
• Still dropped: a failure after a client abort, server.stop(true) or a 426. Still reported: a rejection the program catches from a later task.

Notes

The open question. On main an uncaught exception or an unhandled rejection that nothing handles ends the event loop (is_event_loop_alive requires unhandled_error_counter == 0). That already holds for the async spelling of this bug, async fetch() { upgrade(); await 1; throw e }, on 1.4.2 and on main. This PR gives the other two spellings the same result. #34661 (open) adds uncaught_exception_keep_alive and unhandled_rejection_keep_alive and uses them for Bun.serve websocket callbacks, after #35394 ("a throw in a websocket message handler exits an otherwise-idle server process"). If keep-serving is the rule for Bun.serve callbacks, the two calls in RequestContext.rs take those reporters and the tests need no change: they assert the report, not the exit code.

Shapes, measured on debug builds of the merge base (6c1eb06) and of this branch. Each row is one child process with a WebSocket client. The right columns name the process event that fires when a listener is installed.

shape	main	this PR
upgrade(); throw e in fetch	silent	uncaughtException
upgrade(); throw e in a route	silent	uncaughtException
upgrade(); throw undefined (also null, a string)	silent	uncaughtException
error() upgrades, then throws	silent	uncaughtException
await task; upgrade(); throw e	silent	unhandledRejection, the handler's promise
await task; upgrade(); await task; throw e	silent	unhandledRejection
the promise rejects, then upgrade() in the same task	silent	unhandledRejection, the handler's promise
error() awaits, upgrades, then throws	silent	unhandledRejection, the promise of error()
await task; upgrade(); throw e, and the program called promise.catch() before it returned the promise	silent	silent
the same, but the program calls promise.catch() from a later task	silent	unhandledRejection (see below)
await task; upgrade(); return new Response()	silent	silent
control: upgrade(); await 1; throw e and await 1; upgrade(); throw e	unhandledRejection	same
control: upgrade(); await 1; throw e, program has its own catch	silent	same
control: throw in websocket open()	uncaughtException	same
client aborts, then the handler rejects	silent	silent
upgrade() answers 426 (Sec-WebSocket-Version: 12), then a sync throw	silent	silent
error() calls server.stop(true), then throws	silent	silent
stop(true); throw e, stop(true); await 1; throw e, await task; stop(true); throw e	silent	silent

No listener. Checked with a script that has no top-level await and a timer that must keep ticking:

shape, no process listener	main	this PR
a timer callback throws	prints, exit 1	same
plain fetch throw, no error()	prints, 500, process lives	same
throw in websocket open()	prints, exit 1	same
upgrade(); await 1; throw e	prints, exit 1	same
upgrade(); throw e	silent, process lives	prints, exit 1
await task; upgrade(); throw e	silent, process lives	prints, exit 1

The rejection shape honours --unhandled-rejections: none is silent and the process lives, warn prints a warning and the process lives, strict and throw exit with code 1.

@socket.io/bun-engine 0.1.2 (published dist, not modified). Its handler awaits allowRequest, calls server.upgrade() and then socket._maybeUpgrade(transport). If the client drops its long poll while its websocket upgrade request is inside an async allowRequest, socket is undefined and the handler throws a TypeError after the upgrade. On the merge base the server prints nothing and lives. With this change it prints the TypeError and, with no listener, exits with code 1.

bun test. A failed expect() after server.upgrade() in a handler leaves the test passing on main (1 pass, 0 fail). With this change the test fails at that line.

The two repro files from the report. Both print the fault on a debug build of the merge base. With this change the newer one prints RESULT right: uncaughtException boom-sync and exits 0, and the older one has no REPORTED NOWHERE row.

Which promise the cell holds. The cell holds the handler's promise only when the promise is not yet handled at the time the server subscribes. Then the server's reaction is what stops JSC's own report, and the server owes the report. If the program attached catch() first, its own chain reports or handles the rejection, as it does for upgrade(); await 1; throw e. One residue, pinned by a test: a program that attaches its handler to the same promise from a later task, before the rejection, still gets the report, and no rejectionHandled follows. A later change can remove it by leaving the promise unhandled for JSC's tracker while the server is subscribed.

Where the decision is. discard_handler_result and reclaim_promise_cell both read did_upgrade_web_socket() (UpgradeState::Upgraded). No caller picks report or drop, so a second upgrade path (#44061, WebSockets over HTTP/2, sets the same state before its reclaim) gets the report too. The promise is read inside the reaction, where the cell is an argument and alive. This also covers a promise that is rejected before upgrade() runs in the same task.

A returned Error. discard_handler_result uses the test that on_response uses for "this result goes to error()" (to_error()). So upgrade(); return new Error() from a non-async handler is reported too, as it reaches error() without an upgrade.

Self-review. The first version of this diff reported whenever the context had no response. That also caught upgrade() answering 426 and error() after server.stop(true), where main drops the throw, and one Sec-WebSocket-Version: 12 handshake ended a server with a handler of the form if (srv.upgrade(req)) return; throw e. The 4 changes: test the upgrade state, one reclaim function, tests that assert the report and not the exit code, and the open question at the top. The async spelling of that 426 handler already exits on main. That is a separate defect and is not changed here.

Cost, how measured. size on bun from bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release of the merge base and of this branch: text 89,151,860 to 89,157,236, data and bss unchanged. The code is in on_reject, discard_handler_result and the callers of reclaim_promise_cell, once for each of the 8 request-context variants. The instruction counts are read from the release disassembly: create_handler_promise_cell adds 6 (the handled-flag test and the select), Bun__NativePromiseContext__create runs 7 more for the store and its write-barrier check, and JSC__JSValue__toError_ runs 9 plus the call for undefined. perf and valgrind are not in the build container, so there is no dynamic count. A handler that returns a Response, or a promise that settles in the microtask drain, takes none of the changed paths.

Suites run on a debug build. bun-serve-propagate-errors, serve-pending-promise-abort-leak, serve-error-handler-stream, serve-stream-body-error, bun-server, websocket-server-upgrade-reentrant, websocket-upgrade-signal-gc, web/websocket/websocket-upgrade, heap-snapshot and the upgrade tests of websocket-server on the final code. On the first version also serve-async-stream-client-abort, serve-stream-reject-flush-leak, async-iterator-stream, bun-serve-routes, serve.test.ts, all of websocket-server, websocket-server-upgrade-early-frames, websocket-server-forced-close, websocket-server-stop-retained-ws, in-process-cron and html-rewriter.

Failures that are the same with a debug build of the merge base, in this container:

• websocket-server.test.ts: 10 tests in send(), sendText(), sendBinary() and subscribe() hit their own 10 s and 30 s limits.
• serve.test.ts: the root range port test (the container runs as root) and the sendfile abort test.
• A debug binary needs about 0.5 s to start here, so tests with the default 5 s limit fail at random on both builds. With --timeout 60000 the files that showed this pass on both.

Mutation checks. Without take_held in reclaim_promise_cell, "drops a rejection that follows a client abort" fails. Without the handled check, "reports nothing when the program handles the handler's promise itself" fails. With the first version's test for a missing response, the two "drops a throw" tests for the 426 and for error() after server.stop(true) fail.

Siblings left alone. #41011 made server.stop(true) inside a handler drop a later rejection, and the notes of #41227 call that intended (an abort drops a later rejection).

[robobun]

^{Updated 5:35 AM PT - Oct 12th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 118672e has 2 failures in Build #124829 (All Failures):

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[robobun]

Status: reproduced, fix in this PR (#45000).

Reproduced on a debug build of main (6c1eb06), 3 of 3 runs:

// bun repro.mjs
const seen = [];
process.on("uncaughtException", e => seen.push("uncaughtException " + e.message));
process.on("unhandledRejection", e => seen.push("unhandledRejection " + e.message));
const server = Bun.serve({
  hostname: "127.0.0.1",
  port: 0,
  routes: {
    "/sync": (req, srv) => { srv.upgrade(req); throw new Error("sync"); },
    "/late": async (req, srv) => { await Bun.sleep(1); srv.upgrade(req); throw new Error("late"); },
  },
  error(e) { seen.push("error() " + e.message); },
  websocket: { open(ws) { ws.send("hi"); }, message() {} },
});
for (const path of ["/sync", "/late"]) {
  await new Promise(done => {
    const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://127.0.0.1:${server.port}${path}`);
    ws.onmessage = () => { ws.close(); done(); };
  });
}
await Bun.sleep(50);
server.stop(true);
console.log(seen.length ? seen.join(" | ") : "reported nowhere");

• main: reported nowhere
• this branch: uncaughtException sync | unhandledRejection late

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Walkthrough

The change tracks unhandled handler promises across WebSocket upgrades. It reports synchronous post-upgrade throws as uncaught exceptions and rejected handler promises as unhandled rejections. Tests cover handled promises, process listeners, client aborts, unsupported upgrades, and server shutdown.

Changes

Post-upgrade handler errors

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Promise status and held-value primitives src/jsc/AnyPromise.rs, src/jsc/JSPromise.rs, src/jsc/bindings/NativePromiseContext.*, src/runtime/api/NativePromiseContext.rs	Promise types expose handled-status queries. NativePromiseContext can return its held value and clear the held-value barrier.
Request error lifecycle and validation src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-propagate-errors.test.ts	Request handling retains unhandled handler promises across WebSocket upgrades and reports post-upgrade throws and rejections. Other termination paths discard held values. Tests cover reporting and dropped-error cases.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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The change is mergeable with a bounded test gap: a future regression could log the error yet exit successfully without failing these tests.

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Assert the listener-free child exit code.

upgradeChild returns the child process exitCode, but these tests only inspect stderr. A regression that logs error: E and exits with code 0 would pass. Assert exitCode is 1 in both listener-free cases.

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-    const { stderr } = await upgradeChild(handlers, "");
+    const { stderr, exitCode } = await upgradeChild(handlers, "");
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	test.each([
	["a throw", syncThrow],
	["a rejection", rejectionAfterAwait],
	])("with no listener, prints %s to stderr", async (_, handlers) => {
	const { stderr } = await upgradeChild(handlers, "");
	expect(stderr).toContain("error: E\n");
	});
	test.each([
	["a throw", syncThrow],
	["a rejection", rejectionAfterAwait],
	])("with no listener, prints %s to stderr", async (_, handlers) => {
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[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked whether the PromiseUnwrapMode::MarkHandled unwrap that precedes create_handler_promise_cell at RequestContext.rs:2827 and :3766 would make is_handled() always true (leaving the held promise dead) — it only sets the flag on an already-rejected promise, so on the pending path the check reflects only program-attached reactions. The JSC__JSInternalPromise__isHandled shim takes a plain JSC::JSPromise* with no JSInternalPromise downcast, so calling it with a &JSPromise is sound.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the Bun.serve handler-promise lifecycle (NativePromiseContext cell, reclaim/abort/upgrade paths) and adds a held JSValue in the GC cell plus new uncaught_exception/unhandled_rejection reports; no injection, auth, or data-exposure surface. A verified finding on the process-exit behavior change is posted inline and another verified finding is unposted, so approval is not appropriate; the note records two adjacent concerns examined from the source and ruled out.

[claude]

🔴 Operators of a websocket server whose handler throws after server.upgrade() now get a process exit with code 1 instead of a server that keeps running. With no uncaughtException listener, vm.uncaught_exception at RequestContext.rs:788 (and vm.unhandled_rejection at RequestContext.rs:1104) bumps unhandled_error_counter, which stops the event loop even though the upgraded socket is live, and a remote client can trigger this (the PR names @ socket.io/bun-engine 0.1.2). Fix: report the failure without arming the exit when nothing listens, the way a plain fetch throw with no error() prints and keeps serving, for both the sync and the rejection paths. The PR calls this an open question; the consequence is a client-triggerable outage. [also at: src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:1104 - Operators of a Bun.serve websocket server with no process-level listener can now have the whole process killed (exit 1) by a remote client, where on the base branch the server kept running.]

Why this was flagged

A Bun.serve handler calls server.upgrade(req) and then throws synchronously, or returns a promise that rejects after the upgrade (e.g. the TypeError in @ socket.io/bun-engine 0.1.2 when a client drops its long poll during an async allowRequest). No process listener is installed. discard_handler_result at src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:786-788 calls vm.uncaught_exception, and on_reject at src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:1101-1105 calls vm.unhandled_rejection for the held handler promise. In src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:2148-2149 the unhandled path does unhandled_error_counter += 1 and exit_handler.exit_code = 1; is_event_loop_alive requires the counter to be 0, so the loop ends and the process exits 1 while websocket clients are connected. On the base branch the same request prints nothing and the server keeps serving.

Verification: A Bun.serve handler throws synchronously or its returned promise rejects after server.upgrade(), with no uncaughtException/unhandledRejection listener. src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:786-788 calls vm.uncaught_exception; src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:2148-2149 does self.unhandled_error_counter += 1, so the process exits 1. On the base branch the server keeps running.

[Jarred-Sumner]

This is Claude, working with Jarred on consolidating the open WebSocket PRs.

Superseded by #45223 (reports, but does not end the process).

Real: upgrade(); throw and await task; upgrade(); throw leave nothing at all, exit 0; a failed expect() after upgrade() leaves a test green.

The PR's question, "with no listener these reports end the process. Same here?": no. A failing fetch handler never takes a Bun.serve process down (error() runs, or Bun prints and answers 500), and whether upgrade() ran one line earlier should not change that. A remote client can trigger it: the PR names @socket.io/bun-engine 0.1.2, where dropping a long poll at the right moment makes the handler throw after the upgrade.

So the error goes where any fetch failure goes: error(err) if the server has one (its Response is ignored), else it is printed. The server keeps serving, and a surrounding bun test fails.

Mechanism: I first tried not reclaiming the promise cell at the upgrade, but serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts (#39743) pins that stop() drains while the handler's promise is parked. So the takeHeld plumbing is kept, with the server's JS wrapper in the slot; no is_handled, no create_handler_promise_cell, and the "later task" residue is gone.

Scope: the two silent shapes only. async: upgrade(); throw is still an unhandledRejection, which six existing rows pin.

Tests: bun-serve-propagate-errors.test.ts "a handler that fails after server.upgrade()".