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node:zlib: force decodeStrings back to true in ZlibBase - #47140
zlib.createGzip({ decodeStrings: false }).end("hello") throws TypeError: The "in" argument must be a TypedArray or DataView (ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE). Node.js v26.12.1 compresses the string. All five codecs do this, in streams and callbacks.
The cause is ZlibBase (src/js/node/zlib.ts:283). It resets encoding, objectMode and writableObjectMode in the caller's options, but not decodeStrings. So the native handle gets a string.
Correct because the stream converts each string before _transform, as a default stream does.
Verified: test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts (main fails 11 of 11, Node.js v26.12.1 passes all). Node's test-zlib-decode-strings.js is added unmodified. Also the vendored test-zlib-*.js files and test/js/node/zlib/.
Background
decodeStrings is a stream.Writable option. By default a written string becomes a Buffer. With false, _write gets the string.
ZlibBase is the Transform class behind each node:zlib stream. A callback function makes one stream and calls end(input).
Considered a conversion in _transform. Then writableLength counts characters, but _transform compares it with chunk.byteLength for the last chunk. The reset is Node's code.
Downsides
A stream with decodeStrings: false no longer throws for a string. Code that relies on the throw changes.
Each stream with an options object: +1 property read and +1 comparison, no allocation. Embedded module text: +54 B.
The report has four rows. Rows 1 to 3 are the zstd dictionary option: an ArrayBuffer is ignored, and a wrong type does not throw. #47027 changes those lines and removes the comment above them, so this PR does not touch them. Row 4 is decodeStrings, which #47027 lists as a limit.
A probe with 58 rows. For each codec (gzip, deflate, deflateRaw, brotli, zstd): end(string), write(string) then end(), end(string, "latin1"), defaultEncoding: "hex", end(Buffer), and decodeStrings of true, 0 and null. Then the five classes with new, the five callback functions, the five sync functions, a frozen options object, and _writableState.decodeStrings.
main and Bun 1.4.3-canary: 32 of 58 rows differ from Node.js v26.12.1. 30 rows throw ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE. In the other 2, _writableState.decodeStrings is false.
This PR: 0 of 58 rows differ.
The callback functions threw synchronously on main. They did not call the callback.
zstdCompress and defaultEncoding
On main, zlib.zstdCompress("68656c6c6f", { defaultEncoding: "hex" }, cb) gives ZSTD_error_srcSize_wrong. createConvenienceMethod pledges the UTF-8 length of a string (10), and the stream writes the 5 decoded bytes.
With decodeStrings: false, the same call threw ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE on main. With this PR it reaches the pledge and gives ZSTD_error_srcSize_wrong in the callback.
A probe of the five callback functions with defaultEncoding: "hex", with and without decodeStrings: false (10 rows): main differs from Node.js on 6, this PR on 2 (both zstd).
What changes for callers
A string written to a stream made with decodeStrings: false is compressed. Before, write() and end() threw.
_writableState.decodeStrings of such a stream is true, as in Node.js.
The options object of the caller is not changed. ZlibBase copies it first. This costs one copy for each stream made with decodeStrings: false.
decodeStrings of 0 or null already meant true, in Bun and in Node.js. Only false turns the conversion off in stream.Writable.
Other streams
decodeStrings: false with a string gives the same result on a debug build of this PR and on Node.js v26.12.1 for crypto.createHash, createHmac, createCipheriv, createSign, stream.PassThrough and fs.createWriteStream (11 rows, 0 differ). This PR changes only node:zlib.
The upstream test is test/parallel/test-zlib-decode-strings.js. The copy here is the v26.12.1 file, byte for byte.
The new test file uses node:test and node:assert. Its last test runs the same file under Node.js when the node on PATH is v26.11.0 or later. It compares stderr and the exit code of that run.
Measurements
node/zlib.js in the release-mode module bundle (bundle-modules.ts --debug=OFF): 28,542 B on main, 28,596 B with this PR. The blob of all modules that the binary embeds: 2,751,803 B and 2,751,857 B. Not measured on a linked release binary.
The added condition is the last operand of an || chain. When the caller gives no options object, ZlibBase skips the block.
Tests run on the debug build (linux x64)
test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts: 11 pass and 1 skip with this PR (12 pass with Node.js v26.12.1 on PATH), 11 fail on main.
The 62 vendored test-zlib-*.js files: all pass.
test/js/node/zlib/: zlib.test.js 473 pass. The 8 other files without leak.test.ts: 69 pass.
Two Bun.gzipSync and Bun.deflateSync tests with libdeflate in zlib.test.js have a 5 s timeout and timed out in 3 of 5 local runs. They make no node:zlib stream.
leak.test.ts went over its resident memory bound in 2 of 4 local runs with this PR and in 3 of 4 runs on main, for different methods each time.
The type check of the built-in modules (check-types-of-modules.ts), prettier and bun lint on the changed files: no findings.
Not run: Windows and macOS.
Changes after the review comments
The stream helper of the test awaits finished(stream). It rejects for a stream that closes before its end. events.once(stream, "end") stayed pending there.
The Node.js run compares { stderr, exitCode } on every run. Before, the output was compared only for a failed run.
Not changed: the test file keeps node:test and the dynamic import of harness, so that Node.js can run the same file.
ASAN without fix: 11 failed, 1 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/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.tsbun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:399 | handle.buffer = chunk;400 | handle.cb = cb;401 | handle.availOutBefore = self._chunkSize - self._outOffset;402 | handle.availInBefore = chunk.byteLength;403 | handle.inOff = 0;404 | handle.write(flushFlag, chunk, 0, handle.availInBefore, self._outBuffer, self._outOffset, handle.availOutBefore); ^TypeError: The "in" argument must be a TypedArray or DataView code: "ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE" at processChunk (node:zlib:404:15) at <anonymous> (node:zlib:313:15) at <anonymous> (internal:streams/transform:73:18) at writeOrBuffer (internal:streams/writable:185:18) at <anonymous> (internal:streams/writable:144:16) at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:48:16) at output (/workspace/bun/test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:37:3) at output (/workspace/bun/test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-string... (truncated)release without fix: 11 failed, 1 skippedbun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939d9)test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:239 | return buffers.length === 1 ? buffers[0] : @Buffer.concat(buffers, nread);240 | }241 | function processChunk(self, chunk, flushFlag, cb) {242 | let handle = self._handle;243 | if (!handle)244 | handle.buffer = chunk, handle.cb = cb, handle.availOutBefore = self._chunkSize - self._outOffset, handle.availInBefore = chunk.byteLength, handle.inOff = 0, handle.flushFlag = flushFlag, handle.write(flushFlag, chunk, 0, handle.availInBefore, self._outBuffer, self._outOffset, handle.availOutBefore); ^TypeError: The "in" argument must be a TypedArray or DataView code: "ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE" at processChunk (node:zlib:244:202) at <anonymous> (node:zlib:189:15) at <anonymous> (internal:streams/transform:52:18) at writeOrBuffer (internal:streams/writable:285:70) at <anonymous> (internal:streams/writable:251:16) at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:48:16) at output (/workspace/bun/test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:37:3) at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: 1 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/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.tsbun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts:(pass) decodeStrings: false > gzip: the streams decode each string with its encoding [340.56ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > gzip: the callback functions decode a string [52.73ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > deflate: the streams decode each string with its encoding [56.57ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > deflate: the callback functions decode a string [58.26ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > deflateRaw: the streams decode each string with its encoding [69.08ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > deflateRaw: the callback functions decode a string [38.69ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > brotli: the streams decode each string with its encoding [69.24ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > brotli: the callback functions decode a string [77.79ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > zstd: the streams decode each string with its encoding [47.55ms](pass) decodeStrings: false > zstd: the callback functions decode a string [21.03ms](pass) ... (truncated)release with fix: 1 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) target linux-x64-gnu build type Release build dir ./build/release revision bbb5054ce2 features lto, baseline21 deps, 432 codegen, 1228 objects in 1690msninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'[1/5] fetch lolhtml[lolhtml] up to date[2/5] fetch rust-argon2[rust-argon2] up to date[2/5] cargo plan → /workspace/bun/build/release/rust-target/plan.json301 units: 203 lib, 32 custom-build (host), 28 run custom-build, 16 proc-macro (host), 17 lib (host), 4 run custom-build (host), 1 rlib[4/5] fetch WebKit (prebuilt)[WebKit] fetching https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/releases/download/autobuild-fcc1ea0973a4b96a007e699b25f52aab6a3d3470/bun-webkit-linux-amd64-lto-aot.tar.gz[WebKit] extracted to /root/.bun/build-cache/webkit-fcc1ea0973a4b96a-lto-aot (27.4s)[4/5] reconfigure[1/7] fetch WebKit (prebuilt)[WebKit] up to date[1/1622] rustc bun_output_tags [2/1622] rustc unicode_xid [3/1622] rustc fnv [4/1622] rustc unicode_ident [5/1622] rustc heck [6/1622] mkdir codegen[7/1622] rustc ident_case [8/1622] mkdir stamps[9/1622] rustc... (truncated)
A zlib stream made with `decodeStrings: false` passed each string to the
native handle, which takes only buffers. `stream.write("x")` threw
`TypeError: The "in" argument must be a TypedArray or DataView`.
ZlibBase now sets `decodeStrings` back to true, as it already does for
`encoding`, `objectMode` and `writableObjectMode`. This is the change of
nodejs/node#66359 (Node.js v26.11.0).
Adds Node's test-zlib-decode-strings.js, unmodified from v26.12.1.
Status: the fix is in this pull request (#47140). It is ready for a maintainer review.
How I reproduced it, on Bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 and on a debug build of main (11c3671):
constzlib=require("node:zlib");// Throws TypeError: The "in" argument must be a TypedArray or DataView (ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE).// Node.js v26.12.1 compresses the string.zlib.createGzip({decodeStrings: false}).end("hello");
CI on cb3c403 (build 134286) at 07:13 UTC on 28 October. No failure comes from this diff:
Each Linux lane and each Windows lane passes (7 Linux lanes, ASAN and musl included, and 2 Windows lanes).
test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts passes with 12 tests on Debian 13 x64 ASAN and on Windows 2019 x64. The 12th test is the run of the same file under Node.js v26.12.1.
Two test-aot-drawn jobs fail, in test/aot/every-program-45.test.ts and test/aot/programs-that-ask-the-shell-4.test.ts. CI marks that lane as a soft failure, so it does not fail the build. At 04:50 UTC the lane had failed in 23 of the 25 most recent builds of other branches that ran it.
The 4 macOS jobs are still in the queue.
The run before it (build 134249, the same tree) was red for one test: test/js/node/process/dlopen-duplicate-load.test.ts on Windows 2019 x64. The download of the Node.js headers by node-gyp stalled in each of its 4 attempts. That test passes in build 134286.
Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 9489a47 and cb3c403.
Files selected for processing: 1
test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts
Walkthrough
Zlib stream option normalization now also handles decodeStrings: false. New tests check string round trips across compression formats and APIs, and verify that a frozen options object remains unchanged.
Changes
Zlib string option handling
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Summary
Option normalization and string round-trip tests src/js/node/zlib.ts, test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts, test/js/node/test/parallel/test-zlib-decode-strings.js
ZlibBase clones and normalizes options when decodeStrings is false. Tests cover stream and callback APIs for five compression formats, the gzip convenience API, frozen options, and conditional Node.js compatibility. The parallel test checks streaming and gzip round trips.
Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway
Priority: Normal
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 9489a
A premature stream close can leave a test waiting for its timeout. The change is otherwise mergeable with this bounded follow-up.
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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 findings, I also checked: the spread copy at src/js/node/zlib.ts:285 dropping inherited option properties, and the strict === false check leaving 0/null alone, both match the cited upstream lib/zlib.js lines and the existing encoding/objectMode handling. The zstd pledgedSrcSize mismatch with a non-utf8 defaultEncoding in createConvenienceMethod (src/js/node/zlib.ts:839) is reachable on main with the default decodeStrings as well, so it predates this PR rather than being introduced by it.
Extended reasoning...
The PR adds two lines to the ZlibBase constructor in src/js/node/zlib.ts so decodeStrings: false is reset to true on a copied options object, plus a vendored Node test and a new node:test-style test file that re-runs itself under Node. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Inline findings were posted (a conditional stderr assertion, test-file conventions, and the zstd callback encoding mismatch), so a human should weigh those; the ruled-out items above were checked against the cited upstream code and the pre-existing convenience-method path.
… it ends
output() awaits stream.finished(), which rejects for an error and for a
stream that closes before its end. events.once(stream, "end") stayed
pending in the second case.
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report on stdout is the message of a failure.
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LGTM — the follow-up commit addressed the earlier assertion feedback, and the fix itself is a two-line mirror of upstream lib/zlib.js.
What was reviewed:
ZlibBase option sanitizing (src/js/node/zlib.ts:283-290): the new decodeStrings === false branch copies opts before writing, so a frozen caller object is safe; Transform then receives decodeStrings: true and decodes with the write's encoding / defaultEncoding before _transform, matching the stream-level contract the native handle needs.
Test matrix: all five codecs in both stream and callback form, explicit and default encodings on compress and decompress sides, caller-options immutability, plus a real-Node run gated on nodeExeAtLeast("26.11.0") whose {stderr, exitCode} assertion is now unconditional.
The node:test + runtime await import("harness") shape matches the existing dual-runtime files under test/js/node/ (http, tls, fs), so it follows local convention.
Extended reasoning...
The diff adds one condition and one assignment to the existing option-sanitizing block in src/js/node/zlib.ts so a stream created with decodeStrings: false still decodes strings to buffers before the native handle, matching Node v26.11.0+; it adds a vendored Node test and a node:test-based file covering every codec via streams and callbacks with a gated real-Node parity run. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. The production change is small and verbatim-equivalent to upstream, the second commit resolved the conditional-assertion nit from the prior review, no CODEOWNER entry covers the changed paths, and the bug hunt ran dry with no findings.
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Problem
zlib.createGzip({ decodeStrings: false }).end("hello")throwsTypeError: The "in" argument must be a TypedArray or DataView(ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE). Node.js v26.12.1 compresses the string. All five codecs do this, in streams and callbacks.ZlibBase(src/js/node/zlib.ts:283). It resetsencoding,objectModeandwritableObjectModein the caller's options, but notdecodeStrings. So the native handle gets a string.Fix
ZlibBasesetsdecodeStringsback to true on its copy of the options. These are the two lines of zlib: fix abort with decodeStrings: false nodejs/node#66359 (Node.js v26.11.0)._transform, as a default stream does.test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts(main fails 11 of 11, Node.js v26.12.1 passes all). Node'stest-zlib-decode-strings.jsis added unmodified. Also the vendoredtest-zlib-*.jsfiles andtest/js/node/zlib/.Background
decodeStringsis astream.Writableoption. By default a written string becomes aBuffer. Withfalse,_writegets the string.ZlibBaseis theTransformclass behind eachnode:zlibstream. A callback function makes one stream and callsend(input)._transform. ThenwritableLengthcounts characters, but_transformcompares it withchunk.byteLengthfor the last chunk. The reset is Node's code.Downsides
decodeStrings: falseno longer throws for a string. Code that relies on the throw changes.dictionaryrows, andzstdCompress(string)with a non-UTF-8defaultEncoding(ZSTD_error_srcSize_wrong).Notes
Report
The report has four rows. Rows 1 to 3 are the zstd
dictionaryoption: anArrayBufferis ignored, and a wrong type does not throw. #47027 changes those lines and removes the comment above them, so this PR does not touch them. Row 4 isdecodeStrings, which #47027 lists as a limit.The script of the report, on linux x64:
Probe
A probe with 58 rows. For each codec (gzip, deflate, deflateRaw, brotli, zstd):
end(string),write(string)thenend(),end(string, "latin1"),defaultEncoding: "hex",end(Buffer), anddecodeStringsoftrue,0andnull. Then the five classes withnew, the five callback functions, the five sync functions, a frozen options object, and_writableState.decodeStrings.ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE. In the other 2,_writableState.decodeStringsisfalse.zstdCompress and defaultEncoding
zlib.zstdCompress("68656c6c6f", { defaultEncoding: "hex" }, cb)givesZSTD_error_srcSize_wrong.createConvenienceMethodpledges the UTF-8 length of a string (10), and the stream writes the 5 decoded bytes.decodeStrings: false, the same call threwERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPEon main. With this PR it reaches the pledge and givesZSTD_error_srcSize_wrongin the callback.withPledgedSrcSize, which pledges only for UTF-8. This PR does not edit those lines.defaultEncoding: "hex", with and withoutdecodeStrings: false(10 rows): main differs from Node.js on 6, this PR on 2 (both zstd).What changes for callers
decodeStrings: falseis compressed. Before,write()andend()threw._writableState.decodeStringsof such a stream istrue, as in Node.js.ZlibBasecopies it first. This costs one copy for each stream made withdecodeStrings: false.decodeStringsof0ornullalready meant true, in Bun and in Node.js. Onlyfalseturns the conversion off instream.Writable.Other streams
decodeStrings: falsewith a string gives the same result on a debug build of this PR and on Node.js v26.12.1 forcrypto.createHash,createHmac,createCipheriv,createSign,stream.PassThroughandfs.createWriteStream(11 rows, 0 differ). This PR changes onlynode:zlib.Node.js
test/parallel/test-zlib-decode-strings.js. The copy here is the v26.12.1 file, byte for byte.node:testandnode:assert. Its last test runs the same file under Node.js when thenodeonPATHis v26.11.0 or later. It compares stderr and the exit code of that run.Measurements
node/zlib.jsin the release-mode module bundle (bundle-modules.ts --debug=OFF): 28,542 B on main, 28,596 B with this PR. The blob of all modules that the binary embeds: 2,751,803 B and 2,751,857 B. Not measured on a linked release binary.||chain. When the caller gives no options object,ZlibBaseskips the block.Tests run on the debug build (linux x64)
test/js/node/zlib/zlib-decode-strings.test.ts: 11 pass and 1 skip with this PR (12 pass with Node.js v26.12.1 onPATH), 11 fail on main.test-zlib-*.jsfiles: all pass.test/js/node/zlib/:zlib.test.js473 pass. The 8 other files withoutleak.test.ts: 69 pass.Bun.gzipSyncandBun.deflateSynctests with libdeflate inzlib.test.jshave a 5 s timeout and timed out in 3 of 5 local runs. They make nonode:zlibstream.leak.test.tswent over its resident memory bound in 2 of 4 local runs with this PR and in 3 of 4 runs on main, for different methods each time.check-types-of-modules.ts),prettierandbun linton the changed files: no findings.Changes after the review comments
finished(stream). It rejects for a stream that closes before its end.events.once(stream, "end")stayed pending there.{ stderr, exitCode }on every run. Before, the output was compared only for a failed run.node:testand the dynamic import ofharness, so that Node.js can run the same file.[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 3 files touched
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