[robobun]

Fixes #45491

Problem

• bun build crashes at random when two or more modules call a macro and a .env file is in the cwd: panic: index out of bounds in bun_dotenv::env_loader::Parser::parse, or a segfault in copy_env_for_define, or a bus error in mi_free. Each crash is under Macro::init -> configure_defines -> run_env_loader -> Loader::load. The same race also hangs a build (the pool threads spin at full CPU) or, more rarely, exits 0 with a wrong bundle: a macro that reads a .env key sees it unset.
• A worker thread's first macro call creates a VM. Macro::init (src/js_parser_jsc/Macro.rs:448) gave that VM's transpiler a raw pointer to the build's one shared dot_env::Loader. configure_defines then ran on it from every worker thread at once, with no lock. bun build does not read .env by default, so the first macro VM on each thread did, into the shared map.

Fix

• Macro::init gives the new VM a copy of the build's loader (Loader::clone_loaded). The copy carries the map and the record of what the source already read, so it reads only what the build skipped.
• The VM owns the copy: InitOptions::owned_env_loader moves into RuntimeState::owned_env_loader, next to transpiler_arena, and deinit_runtime_state frees it after the VM.
• Correct because no parse thread writes the build's loader any more. The build thread and the resolver read a map that does not change during the parse. A macro still sees .env in its process.env, through its own copy.
• Verified: test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts (four new tests, two fail on the unfixed build). Also bundler_env.test.ts, bundler_edgecase.test.ts, test/cli/run/env.test.ts, test/js/bun/transpiler.
• Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 3 addressed (the sequencing against bundler: copy inlined env values into the define arena, and give each Bun.build its own env copy #37784 and macros: move a worker thread's macro VM to the build it serves #41160 below, and two tests that pin what a macro reads from .env).

Background

• A macro import (with { type: "macro" }) runs a module at bundle time in a JSC VM. Each worker-pool thread creates one VM at its first macro call and keeps it for the life of the process.
• dot_env::Loader is the native env map (process env plus .env files). The bundler has one, and every worker transpiler points at it. A Worker thread already takes a copy of its parent's loader (Loader::clone_for_worker). This change gives the macro VM the same shape.
• Considered a lock around the new-VM arm of Macro::init: it serialises the writers, but a worker thread still parses .env into the build's map, which the build thread and the resolver read without a lock. Considered skipping the env load in the macro VM: a macro would no longer see .env.
• Open PRs on the same lines: bundler: copy inlined env values into the define arena, and give each Bun.build its own env copy #37784 clones the loader at the same site through a leaked raw pointer and also refreshes the reused-VM arm per Bun.build(). It can rebase onto clone_loaded and owned_env_loader. macros: move a worker thread's macro VM to the build it serves #41160 sets self.transpiler.env to the build's loader in serve_macro_build. It must clone into the owned loader instead, or this race returns on the reused arm.

Downsides

• A build with macros reads .env once per worker thread that runs a macro, not once per build. Measured: 8 reads per bun build with 8 macro threads, 1 to 3 before (the shared, racy load). 0 for a build without macros. Bun.build() from a program that loaded .env at start: 1 read, both ways.
• Each first macro VM on a thread copies the env map: about 2N+5 allocations for N env entries. A build without macros allocates nothing new. Release binary size: not measured, the container has no release build of the merge base. The change adds one branch per VM init and two Option<Box<Loader>> fields (8 bytes each).
• The reused-VM arm is unchanged: a pool thread's VM keeps the env copy of the build that created it (macros: move a worker thread's macro VM to the build it serves #41160 covers this).

Notes

• Repro from the issue: 8 macro modules, a 200-line .env, bun build entry.ts --target=bun --outdir=out in a loop. Debug ASAN build before the fix: 4 of 6 and 6 of 8 runs crash (double-free, heap-use-after-free, heap-buffer-overflow, bounds panic). After: 0 of 10.
• Wrong bundle: 8 macros that each return process.env.KEY_21 + "|" + process.env.LAST_KEY with a 5001-line .env. Release 1.4.3: 1 wrong bundle (LAST_KEY unset in one macro), 3 crashes, 26 correct of 30. Fixed debug build: 30 correct of 30, no hang under a 60 s limit. A VM built its process.env from the shared map while another thread was still parsing .env into it. With a copy per VM the map is complete before the macro runs.
• The fixed pool size in the test (UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=8) makes the overlap likely on any CPU count. A 5000-line .env widens the parse window. Four builds at once share the cores.
• load_env_file checks default_files_loaded.contains(env_file) before the read and inserts after the parse, so N threads pass the check together. With an owned copy per VM that check is thread local.
• Without a macro, a bun build creates no VM, so init_runtime_state does not run. With bun -e '', init_runtime_state moves one Option<Box<Loader>> (None) and takes one branch more per VM.
• .env reads counted with a temporary print in load_env_file on the debug build, 3 to 5 runs each. strace is not in the container.
• The second new test asserts that bun build without --env resolves the same with and without a macro. Before the fix, the macro VM loaded NODE_PATH from .env into the build's loader, and the build resolved a package through it that the same build without a macro could not.
• bun --no-env-file build.ts, where build.ts calls Bun.build() on an entry with a macro: the macro VM's copy has default_files_loaded empty, so it reads .env for the macro, into its own copy. Before the fix that read went into the program's loader.
• JS process.env.X = ... in a macro does not reach the native map for ordinary keys (only proxy variables and TZ), so the copy changes nothing there.
• edgecase/DeepImportDiamondDAG (20000 modules, 60 s budget) times out on this container's debug build with and without the change. No macro, no VM.
• Workaround for released versions: bun build --no-env-file, or --env=disable. Both keep .env out of the macro VM's loader, so a macro that reads .env values through process.env does not see them.

[robobun]

^{Updated 7:22 PM PT - Oct 18th, 2026}

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Walkthrough

Macro VMs now receive an owned clone of the build environment loader’s loaded state. Runtime initialization passes that loader to the transpiler when present and otherwise uses the caller-provided loader. Tests cover concurrent builds and environment loading behavior.

Changes

Macro environment loader

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clone loaded environment state src/dotenv/env_loader.rs	Loader::clone_loaded copies the environment map and loaded-file tracking state, along with quiet and process-loaded state. It leaves TLS rejection and cached AWS credentials unset.
Pass an owned loader to macro VMs src/js_parser_jsc/Macro.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs, test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts	Macro VM initialization clones the build loader when present. Runtime state takes ownership and passes the owned loader to the transpiler, or uses the caller-provided loader if no owned loader exists. Tests cover concurrent builds, resolver isolation, macro .env access, and startup-loaded environment state.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬆️ High

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1ed56

A plugin environment write can overlap macro initialization and crash a Bun.build compilation. Synchronize the loader clone before merging.

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Linked Issues check		[#45491] The PR clones the build loader with its loaded-file state for each new macro VM. The VM owns the clone through InitOptions::owned_env_loader and RuntimeState, so macro threads do not writ…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes to Loader, macro VM initialization, runtime ownership, and macro tests directly support [#45491]. The supplied change summary identifies no unrelated change.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: each parse-worker macro VM receives its own environment loader.
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[#45491] The PR clones the build loader with its loaded-file state for each new macro VM. The VM owns the clone through InitOptions::owned_env_loader and RuntimeState, so macro threads do not write to the shared build loader. The reported tests cover four concurrent builds, resolver isolation, macro access to .env, and loader state at Bun.build() startup.

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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also traced the new Box<Loader> ownership: init_runtime_state takes it into RuntimeState and it is dropped with the state on both the Transpiler::init failure path (src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:503) and deinit_runtime_state (src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:688), after the VM, matching transpiler_arena — no leak or dangling transpiler pointer. The reject_unauthorized/aws_credentials reset in clone_loaded was also checked: both are lazily recomputed from the copied map, so the macro VM resolves the same values.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves the parse-worker macro VM from a shared raw pointer to the build's DotEnv loader to a per-VM owned copy (new Loader::clone_loaded, InitOptions::owned_env_loader, RuntimeState::owned_env_loader), touching unsafe Rust in VM init/teardown and the macro bootstrap path, plus four new spawned bundler tests. No auth, crypto, or injection surface is touched, but the fix addresses a cross-thread data race and one inline finding shows the same race class remains reachable from Bun.build() with a different writer, so a human should weigh the remaining exposure. The Box ownership and the clone's field resets were examined and found consistent on both success and error paths.

[claude]

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

Beyond the inline note, I also checked the ownership of the new RuntimeState::owned_env_loader field since the diff does not touch deinit_runtime_state: both teardown exits (deinit_runtime_state at src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:686-688 and the Transpiler::init error path at :503) drop the RuntimeState box, so the loader is freed on each, and vm.transpiler is never dropped so there is no ordering hazard. clone_loaded resetting reject_unauthorized and aws_credentials is fine: both are lazy caches recomputed from the map (src/dotenv/env_loader.rs:255-321), matching clone_for_worker.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces a shared raw Loader pointer in parse-worker macro VMs with a per-VM owned copy, adding an owning field to InitOptions and RuntimeState plus four spawned-subprocess tests; no security-sensitive surface. The second commit addressed the dead stderr filter from the prior review. Unsafe cross-thread lifetime code in VM init is not a simple change, so a human look remains worthwhile.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the current revision and found no bugs; the latest push also moved the three light tests to test.concurrent. Because the fix sits on an unsafe cross-thread read of the build's loader and adds a new owning field to per-VM state, a maintainer's look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• RuntimeState::owned_env_loader lifecycle: it is dropped on both the Transpiler::init error unwind (heap::take(state)) and deinit_runtime_state, and nothing else frees transpiler.env, so there is no double free or leak on either exit.
• Transpiler::init writes quiet into the loader it is given; with the owned copy that write now lands on the per-thread copy rather than the shared build loader (a second shared-write the old code had).
• Transpiler::init only installs its loader as the global dot_env instance when none exists; in both the CLI bun build and Bun.build() paths the main-thread transpiler has already set it, so the VM-owned box is never registered as the process singleton.
• Callers of InitOptions all use ..Default::default(), so the new field needs no other construction-site changes.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches src/dotenv/env_loader.rs (new clone_loaded), src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs and src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs (new owned_env_loader option and per-VM owning field), src/js_parser_jsc/Macro.rs (new-VM arm clones the build's loader instead of sharing a raw pointer), and four new spawned-bun build tests. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive part is unsafe Rust with cross-thread pointer reads and memory ownership at the VM boundary. The owning field is released on every lifecycle exit and the shared-write race the PR targets is removed, but the clone still reads the source loader from a pool thread without a lock (raised in a prior run, author-resolved) and a coderabbitai thread at Macro.rs:452 opened after the author's last code commit has no non-author resolution, so approval is not appropriate.

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[Jarred-Sumner]

This is Claude (an AI assistant) commenting on Jarred's behalf.

This fix went in with #46021, which is merged. Closing.