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Problem

  • serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts "async generator body: client abort between yields returns the generator: finally runs, catch does not" fails on :darwin: any x64 - test-bun in 16 of 500 builds: expect(received).toEqual(expected), received ["completed", "finally"].
  • The generator gives the abort 50 setImmediate turns to reach the server (:2293). A turn is one poll that does not wait (epoll_kqueue.c:538), so 50 turns take 0.2 ms to 0.5 ms on the darwin lanes.
  • The macOS loopback delivers from a kernel thread. Measured on those lanes, the abort needs up to 1,637 turns. Linux always needs 3.

Fix

  • The generator yields until the server returns it. The loop runs while req.signal.aborted is false: no count, no deadline.
  • Correct because the server fires the signal and calls return() in one call. A server that saw the abort and still resumes the body ends the loop, and the test fails with "completed" as before.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/http/serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts. With the Linux loopback delayed by 100 ms, the old test fails 20 of 20 runs with the CI message, the new test passes 20 of 20. A build whose cancel hook does nothing fails with "completed".

Background

  • Linux delivers a loopback packet inside the sender's syscall. XNU queues it for its main_input thread.
  • Each request has an AbortSignal. The server fires it when the client leaves.
  • Considered a higher count: it moves the race. Considered a deadline: it expires on a stalled machine, or it outlasts the 5 s test timeout.
Notes

macOS and Linux numbers from CI

A temporary test file ran once on this branch (commit 9eae695, removed again in ed2fd42). It ran the server and the client of this test with no limit on the rounds, and counted the await later(); yield "more" rounds until the server returned the generator. It also measured the loopback with raw libc sockets: after write(2) or close(2) returns on one end, is the other end readable at the first poll(2)?

Machine Neighbors Not readable at the first poll, of 1,000 (data / close) Rounds until return() (median / p99 / max) Runs over 50 rounds
debian 13 x64 none 0 / 0 3 / 3 / 3 0 of 300
debian 13 x64 busy 0 / 0 3 / 3 / 3 0 of 1,500
ubuntu 25.04 x64 none 0 / 0 3 / 3 / 3 0 of 300
ubuntu 25.04 x64 busy 0 / 0 3 / 3 / 3 0 of 1,500
darwin x64 (darwin-x64-14-8-9-1) none 25 / 2 8 / 17 / 17 0 of 300
darwin x64 (darwin-x64-14-8-9-1) busy 402 / 112 3 / 21 / 1,637 3 of 1,500
darwin aarch64 (darwin-arm64-focaccia-tart-15-2) none 80 / 94 28 / 159 / 194 68 of 300
darwin aarch64 (darwin-arm64-focaccia-tart-15-2) busy 666 / 693 61 / 300 / 430 868 of 1,500
  • A run over 50 rounds is a run in which the old test fails.
  • "busy" is one more process for each CPU (at most 12). Each one fetches a 64 KB response from its own Bun.serve in a loop. With no neighbors the machine is still not idle: the test runner prepares the other tests at that time (load average 6.7 on the x64 machine, 23.6 on the aarch64 machine).
  • The server returned the generator in every run, 3,600 of 3,600 on darwin. The longest time from first to the return was 110 ms on x64 and 129 ms on aarch64. The probe loop ended on a 3 s deadline, which no run reached.
  • 50 rounds with a client that stays take 0.49 ms (x64) and 0.37 ms (aarch64) at the median. The two loopback deliveries together take 0.15 ms (x64) and 0.44 ms (aarch64) at the median when the machine is busy, and 11 ms and 131 ms at the longest.

The server is not late (code path, all on one stack)

Line numbers are from main at e81a34c.

Step Where
The poll returns the close and dispatches it packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/epoll_kqueue.c:538, :558
recv() returns 0, the socket gets on_end packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c:886, :1003
A response that still streams closes the socket packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h:1134
onClose calls onAborted packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h:301
RequestContext::on_abort aborts the sink src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:1593, :1666
The sink closes its source src/runtime/webcore/streams.rs:2018
The stream calls the source's cancel src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamSource.cpp:717
cancel calls iterator.return() src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunAsyncIterableSource.cpp:461, :85

The client is a node:net socket in the same process. It reads until first, then calls destroy(). It has no deferral either: the data event, the await, sock.destroy() and close(2) run inside the one on_data dispatch (src/js/node/net.ts:4525, packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c:329).

What a turn costs

With an immediate pending, timer::All::get_timeout returns a zero timeout (src/runtime/timer/mod.rs:932). us_loop_run_bun_tick then calls kevent64 with KEVENT_FLAG_IMMEDIATE (epoll_kqueue.c:545), which returns without a wait. On Linux x64, release build, 50 rounds of await later(); yield "more" take 0.22 ms at best and 1.7 ms at the median.

Linux: synchronous loopback, then the same run through a proxy

lo delivers a packet in the softirq of the sending syscall. So the client sees first at the next poll and the server sees the close one poll later.

Loopback path (release build, 200 runs) Generator completed 50 rounds first
direct 0 of 200 (abort seen at round 3, every run)
through a user-space proxy, no added delay 100 of 200
proxy, 1 ms for each direction 157 of 200
proxy, 5 ms for each direction 200 of 200

The proxy runs in a private network namespace. iptables -t nat ... -j REDIRECT sends each connection to 127.0.0.1 through it, and the test file and bun are not changed. With 100 ms for each direction and the debug build, the old test fails 20 of 20 runs with ["completed", "finally"]. 168 of the 169 tests in the file pass under that delay: no other test in the file has this race.

macOS: asynchronous loopback

lo_output hands each packet to ifnet_input_extended (bsd/net/if_loop.c:329). For lo0 that is dlil_input_async: it appends the packet to lo_rcvq_pkts and wakes the main input thread (bsd/net/dlil_input.c:417, :484). The comment on that thread says "handles all inbound packets for lo0" (dlil_input.c:1359). Line numbers are from xnu-12377.1.9. The test needs two such deliveries, the response to the client and the close to the server, and every process on the machine shares that one thread.

The 16 sightings

All are on the agent darwin-x64-14-8-9-1, all in the parallel batch, and the file passed when it ran alone. The failing test took 5.9 ms to 16.4 ms. Builds: 125725, 125739, 125889, 126068, 126148, 126188, 126217, 126256, 126295, 126336, 126378, 126413, 126444, 126453, 126475, 126526.

What the test reports for a broken server

Debug build on Linux. The two broken servers are temporary patches to the cancel hook, jsWebStreamsHandler_asyncIterableSourceCancel.

Server main (50 turns) this PR
The cancel hook does nothing ["completed", "finally"] ["completed", "finally"]
The cancel hook stops the pump and calls nothing on the iterator timed out after 5000ms timed out after 5000ms
1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9, which throws the close reason into the generator ["catch:The connection was closed.", "finally"] ["catch:The connection was closed.", "finally"]

In the second row the generator stays at its yield, because nothing calls next() again. No loop condition can report that case.

Why the loop ends on the request signal

The first version of this PR ended the loop on a deadline (3 s, then 10 s). Review found the flaw on each side. A deadline longer than the default 5 s test timeout turns the first row above into "timed out after 5000ms" and leaves the loop running. A shorter one can expire on a machine that stalls. on_abort fires the request signal and then aborts the sink, which returns the generator, in one call (src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:1646, :1666). So a returned generator never evaluates the condition again, and a healthy server cannot produce "completed".

Build 125907, "write, flush() not awaited, task, write, close()"

This is a different failure. The response that the client got has x-powered-by: hidden, content-security-policy: connect-src 'self' and keep-alive: timeout=5: it is the web page of a Verdaccio registry. That build ran on a branch from 2026-10-07. At that commit the install tests started Verdaccio on 127.0.0.1 with a port from randomPort() (test/harness.ts), which does not check that the port is free. #44055 replaced Verdaccio with a registry on Bun.serve({ port: 0 }).


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/http/serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts

The test "async generator body: client abort between yields returns the
generator" gave the client abort 50 setImmediate turns to reach the
server. A turn is one poll that does not wait, so 50 turns take about
0.25 ms in a release build. On macOS the loopback delivers the response
and the close from a kernel thread, and both can arrive later than that.
Then the generator completes and the test fails with
["completed", "finally"].

The generator now yields until the server returns it. A 3 second
deadline ends it only when the server never does, and the test then
fails with "completed" as before.
The probe prints how long the loopback needs to deliver a byte and a
close, and how many setImmediate turns a streamed response runs before
the server sees a client abort. It runs on macOS and on Linux with
glibc. It is removed before this branch merges.
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Updated 4:05 AM PT - Oct 22nd, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit ad6385a has some failures in Build #130796 (All Failures)


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 45773

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-45773 executable, so you can run:

bun-45773 --bun

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  • Reproduced on Linux: behind a loopback proxy that delays each direction by 100 ms, the old test fails 20 of 20 runs with ["completed", "finally"]. The new test passes 20 of 20.
  • Reproduced on the darwin lanes with a temporary probe (removed again): the abort needs more than the 50 turns of the old test in 3 of 1,500 runs on x64 and in 868 of 1,500 runs on aarch64, with busy neighbors. The server returned the generator in 3,600 of 3,600 runs.
  • PR: test: do not bound the generator abort test by 50 event-loop turns #45773

On the darwin CI machines the server returned the generator after 129 ms
at the longest. 10 s is the deadline that bun-server.test.ts uses for an
abort that must reach the server, and it leaves room for a machine that
stalls. A server that never returns the generator still fails the test.
The probe ran once on the darwin and the Linux machines. The pull
request has its numbers.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding on the deadline, I also checked that the new loop costs nothing on a passing build (it exits in the turn the server calls return(), so the 10 s bound is never waited on) and that the assertion still protects the original property: a build that throws the close reason into the generator still fails with ["catch:...", "finally"], and a build that never returns it still cannot produce ["finally"].

Extended reasoning...

The diff is a four-line test-only change in test/js/bun/http/serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts replacing a fixed 50-turn yield loop with a wall-clock-bounded loop so the client abort has as long as it needs to reach the server. It touches no runtime code and no security-sensitive surface. The one inline finding (the 10 s deadline exceeds the per-test timeout, so a regression surfaces as a timeout rather than the documented ["completed", "finally"] failure) is worth a maintainer's call on the bound, so this is not a clean approve.

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The async-generator abort test now yields until the request signal is aborted instead of stopping after 50 iterations.

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Async-generator abort test

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Extend generator yield loop
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The generator now yields until req.signal.aborted. The test still waits for the generator’s finally block and expects only "finally" in the event list.

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The loop had a 10 s deadline for a server that never returns the
generator. That is longer than the default 5 s test timeout, so such a
server made the test time out and left the loop running. A deadline can
also expire on a machine that stalls.

The loop now runs while `req.signal.aborted` is false. The server fires
that signal and returns the generator in the same call, so a returned
generator never reaches the check again. A server that saw the abort and
still resumes the body leaves the loop at once, and the test fails with
["completed", "finally"], as it does on main.
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Both reviews pointed at the deadline in the loop, from opposite sides. f4b5415 removes it. The loop now runs while req.signal.aborted is false.

  • A correct server fires the request signal and returns the generator in one call. A returned generator never evaluates the condition again, so no count and no clock can fail a correct build.
  • A server that saw the abort and still resumes the body leaves the loop at once. The test then fails with ["completed", "finally"], as it does on main. I checked this with a temporary patch that makes the cancel hook do nothing. The version with the 10 s deadline timed out after 5000 ms on that build.
  • A server that never sees the abort is left to the test timeout.

The PR body has the table with these cases.

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LGTM — the latest push replaces the 10 s deadline with while (!req.signal.aborted), which resolves the earlier concern about a regression surfacing as a 5 s test timeout, and the loop is sound on every platform.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced on_abort in src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs: it fires req.signal and then calls the sink's abort → source.abort → asyncIterableSourceCancel → iterator.return() on one stack, with microtasks drained only afterward, so no next() can observe aborted === true before the return is queued; ["completed", "finally"] can only appear if the server aborts the signal but never returns the generator, which is the failure the test is meant to report.
  • Checked the generator-executing case (abort lands while await later() is pending): the queued return() runs right after the pending yield settles, and the drive's m_cancelled check keeps it from calling next() again.
  • req.signal is a cached getter and is first touched in the drive step immediately after "first" is written, before the client can disconnect, so the signal exists before on_abort runs.
  • Optional nit: the four-line comment at test/js/bun/http/serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts:2293 could shrink to one line per the repo comment rule (e.g. "Turn counts cannot bound when the kernel delivers the abort; macOS loopback delivers from another thread").
Extended reasoning...

The change is a net +6/-2 edit to one existing test in test/js/bun/http/serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts, swapping a fixed 50-turn loop for a loop on req.signal.aborted and giving the fetch handler the req parameter; no runtime code, no security-sensitive surface. The hunt exited on dry_streak with no findings, the file is not under CODEOWNERS, and the only third-party review is a COMMENTED coderabbit note on the line the subsequent commit rewrote. Approve was decided by confirming from RequestContext.rs, streams.rs and BunAsyncIterableSource.cpp that signal fire and iterator.return() happen synchronously in one abort dispatch, so the new loop cannot spuriously push "completed" and cannot spin forever on a healthy server.

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3cd7de6 shortens the comment above the loop to one line, as suggested. The diff against main is now 3 lines added and 2 removed.

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LGTM — the signal-bounded loop replaces the 10 s deadline from the earlier revision, so the regression path no longer collides with the 5 s per-test default.

What was reviewed:

  • Checked that req.signal is the context's own AbortSignal, created eagerly at request creation (src/runtime/server/mod.rs:849), and that on_abort fires it (RequestContext.rs:1587) before aborting the sink that calls return() on the generator in the same call — so the loop cannot exit on the signal without return() following in the same tick.
  • Checked the ordering when the abort lands while the generator is parked in await later(): the queued return() is applied at the next yield "more", so finally runs and "completed" is never pushed; a server that fires the signal but resumes the body still ends the loop and fails with "completed" as before.
  • The assertion expect(events).toEqual(["finally"]) is unchanged, no per-test timeout was added, and the one-line comment states only what the code cannot (why no turn count).
Extended reasoning...

The diff touches one test file, test/js/bun/http/serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts, changing a generator body's fixed 50-iteration loop to while (!req.signal.aborted) and adding a one-line comment; it touches no production code and no security-sensitive surface. The change is three lines, the assertion is unchanged, the file is not CODEOWNERS-owned, and the only prior objection (a 10 s deadline exceeding the 5 s test timeout, raised by this bot and coderabbit on the previous revision) is removed by this revision, which has no deadline at all. I verified from the server source that the request signal exists before the body runs and is fired in the same on_abort call that cancels the stream and returns the generator, which is what makes the loop condition a correct bound.

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