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What does this PR do?

Fixes an aliasing bug in the package manager: while a yarn.lock, package-lock.json or pnpm-lock.yaml was migrated, the same Lockfile was live as a &mut Lockfile argument and was read and written through manager.lockfile. &mut arguments are noalias, so this is undefined behaviour that LLVM may miscompile. It follows #47291, which only replaced the SAFETY comments that denied the bug with a FIXME.

What was wrong

Two places made both paths from one raw pointer:

  • PackageManager::load_lockfile_from_cwd: (*lf).load_from_cwd::<ATTEMPT_OTHER>(Some(&mut *pm), ..) with lf = &raw mut *(*pm).lockfile
  • bun pm migrate: migration::detect_and_load_other_lockfile(&mut *lockfile, .., &mut *pm_raw, ..)

The callees then reached the lockfile through the manager:

  • yarn v1: migrate_yarn_lockfile(this, manager) → append_package_json → Package::parse_with_json(this, manager, ..) → MissingWorkspace::SkipIfInLockfile(&pm.lockfile) if FEATURES.workspaces && keeps_missing_workspaces(pm) (--frozen-lockfile, bun pm migrate)
  • npm, pnpm, yarn v1, yarn berry: this.fetch_necessary_package_metadata_after_yarn_or_pnpm_migration(manager, ..) → populate_manifest_cache → run_tasks::<ManifestsOnlyCallbacks> → FinishPass::drop, drain_dependency_list, flush_dependency_queue, enqueue::advance, which stores this.lockfile.scratch.dependency_list_queue.waits_for = None

create_new_lockfile_and_enqueue reaches the same read of pm.lockfile: it parses the root with &mut (*mgr).lockfile and &mut *mgr.

#47414 has since limited that read to a parse whose features have workspaces. So the other raw splits of manager and manager.lockfile that end in a parse no longer reach it: Package::parse_from_real_manager (extracted tarballs and git checkouts), folder_resolver::read_package_json_from_disk and the nested parses of Diff::generate. Only their SAFETY comments keep it that way. Here the first two become plain borrows.

What changed

The lockfile that is loaded or migrated is now borrowed in ways that rustc checks.

  1. The bun.lock and bun.lockb loaders take Option<&Options>, which is all they used of the manager. They no longer migrate, so self.lockfile.load_from_dir(dir, Some(&self.options), log) is a plain split of two fields.
  2. A migration takes the manager only, and fills manager.lockfile. detect_and_load_other_lockfile, the four migrators, finish_migration and parse_root_overrides lost their &mut Lockfile parameter, and fetch_necessary_package_metadata_… is a method of the manager. Inside, let this = &mut *manager.lockfile; sits next to borrows of other fields and ends before each call that takes the whole manager. The helpers take the fields they use.
  3. Package::parse / parse_with_json take a PackageJsonContext, a view of the manager's fields that a parse uses.
    • package_json_context!(manager) borrows field by field and leaves out the lockfile, so &mut manager.lockfile can be the lockfile parsed into. It is a macro for the reason string_builder! is one: a method would borrow all of manager.
    • manager.package_json_context() is for a parse into another lockfile. Only this one has SkipIfInLockfile(&self.lockfile).
    • OverrideMap, CatalogMap and dependency::parse take the alias map or Option<&mut dyn NpmAliasRegistry>, which dependency::parse already converted the manager to.
  4. bun pm diff and bun patch --commit load into manager.lockfile, with the new PackageManager::load_lockfile_from_dir(dir, log, migrate). Both used to load a separate Box<Lockfile> and then assign it to manager.lockfile. Only the parseLockfile test binding needs the manager's own lockfile back, so it swaps its lockfile in and out around the load.
  5. prune.rs: parse_with_json is out of the unsafe block. The two splits that remain (Diff::generate, hoist::<Filter>) keep their unsafe. I traced every use of the manager in both callees, and neither reaches manager.lockfile. With change 3 the nested parses of Diff::generate cannot: their context has no lockfile.

The diff removes 9 unsafe blocks, parse_from_real_manager and both FIXMEs. It adds 2 blocks, which are narrowed versions of removed ones: the Diff::generate split in prune.rs and one &*source in folder_resolver.rs. Nothing moved into a helper.

There is no new clone, allocation, copy, lock, atomic or lookup. Three placeholder Box<Lockfile> allocations are gone (two in the start-up of runtime auto-install, one in bun pm diff), and so is the pair of mem::swaps in fetch_necessary_package_metadata_….

Why behaviour is the same

  • SkipIfInLockfile for a parse into the manager's own lockfile. Only a parse whose features have workspaces reads missing_workspace. Of the parses into manager.lockfile, these are yarn v1's root and create_new_lockfile_and_enqueue, both right after init_empty(), and the runtime's root. A lockfile that lists no workspace makes SkipIfInLockfile decide like Error, which is what package_json_context!(manager) uses. The runtime's root still gets SkipEmptyToo.
  • Manifest downloads for bun pm diff and bun patch --commit. fetch_necessary_package_metadata_… swapped a separate lockfile into the manager only if fill_integrity. So yarn berry and npm downloaded manifests for the right lockfile, while yarn v1 and pnpm ran populate_manifest_cache on the manager's own, empty lockfile, which downloads nothing. migration::Backfill::{Download, CachedOnly} now says this explicitly.
  • load_lockfile_from_dir resets the cached root_package_id for these two commands too, as every other load does. It is computed again from the lockfile that was just loaded.
  • rebase_folder_dependencies still runs after a load, including one that migrates, and still does not run for bun pm migrate.
  • One difference, only in the parseLockfile binding of bun:internal-for-testing. There the manager is the runtime's, and its own lockfile need not be empty. For a yarn v1 or pnpm lockfile, main then requests the manifests of the packages in the runtime's lockfile, which have nothing to do with the lockfile being parsed. That no longer happens. What parseLockfile returns is the same.

Not in this PR

PackageManager::log_mut() hands out a &mut Log whose lifetime is not tied to the manager, so a log: &mut Log argument can still alias manager.log, on these paths too. The raw splits of manager and manager.lockfile for clean_with_logger and the installers are not on a load or migration path. I did not touch or trace them.

How did you verify your code works?

Debug + ASAN builds of main (b1305dd) and of this branch with that main merged in, on Linux x64. Behaviour does not change, so there is no new test.

Tests. These pass on both builds, with 0 failures and the same counts:

  • test/cli/install/migration/: complex-workspace 38, migrate 108, npm-arborist 57, pnpm-comprehensive 5, pnpm-lock-migration 20, pnpm-lock-v9 168, pnpm-migration-complete 1, pnpm-migration 14, yarn-berry 116, yarn-lock-migration 69
  • test/cli/install/: bun-install 772, bun-lock 317, bun-lockb 66, bun-pm 154, bun-patch 232, bun-workspaces 340, bun-prune 177, bun-update 175

Package::parse has callers all over the package manager, so I also ran the other 96 files of test/cli/install/ and 5 auto-install files. Over all 119 files both builds have 14,514 passes and 9 failures, with the same counts in every file. The same 9 tests fail on both: bun-upgrade (7), bun-create (1) and bunx (1, a 300 s timeout).

By hand. 17 small projects × 11 command sequences, each run with both builds against the local test registry. I compared stdout, stderr, exit code, bun.lock, the rewritten package.json files, the tree of node_modules, the patch file and the requests that the registry received. All 187 are the same.

  • Projects: package-lock.json (plain, workspaces, overrides, entries without integrity, the same on a host that is not the registry, the same with a package that the registry does not have), yarn v1 (plain, without integrity, workspaces, a listed workspace that is missing, a missing workspace that another one depends on, an empty folder under a glob), yarn berry (plain, workspaces), pnpm (plain, workspaces, overrides).
  • Commands: bun install, bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun pm migrate, bun pm migrate then bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun install --lockfile-only, bun install --production, bun add, bun pm ls --all, bun pm diff, and bun install + bun patch + bun patch --commit without the bun.lock, once with and once without the cached manifests.
  • parseLockfile on bun.lock, yarn v1, pnpm and npm lockfiles, twice each in one process: the same result on both builds.

I ran the same comparison before merging main, against 57f4f19. One test differed then, once: "a long chain of links costs no more than as many links to one file" in bun-install-git-deps, which compares the CPU time of two installs, failed on the branch while clippy and rust:check-all ran next to it. It passed 11 of 11 times on each build afterwards, and it passes on both builds now.

Lints. cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy --workspace, bun test test/internal/source-lints (194 pass) and bun run rust:check-all (12 of 12 targets) pass.


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…or migrated

While a yarn.lock, package-lock.json or pnpm-lock.yaml was migrated, the same
`Lockfile` was live as a `&mut Lockfile` argument and was also read and written
through `manager.lockfile`. `&mut` arguments are `noalias`, so that is undefined
behaviour.

- The bun.lock and bun.lockb loaders take `&Options` instead of the manager.
- A migration takes the manager only and fills `manager.lockfile`.
- `Package::parse` takes a `PackageJsonContext`, a view of the manager's fields
  that leaves the lockfile free to be the one parsed into.
- `bun pm diff` and `bun patch --commit` load into `manager.lockfile`.

This removes 11 `unsafe` blocks and `unsafe fn parse_from_real_manager`, and
adds 2 blocks that are narrowed versions of removed ones.

Co-authored-by: dylanc <dylanc@anthropic.com>
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Updated 8:32 PM PT - Nov 5th, 2026

❌ @claude, your commit b251232 has 39 failures in Build #137882 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47330

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47330 executable, so you can run:

bun-47330 --bun

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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, I also checked two behavioral claims in the description. MissingWorkspace::SkipIfInLockfile dropping out of package_json_context!(manager): every such parse that enables Features::workspaces (create_new_lockfile_and_enqueue, yarn v1 root, runtime root) targets a lockfile just reset by init_empty(), so the arm would have resolved to Error anyway; the parses into another lockfile (install_with_manager, prune, dedupe, link) still get it via manager.package_json_context(). Backfill::CachedOnly for bun pm diff / bun patch --commit: npm and yarn berry callers hard-code Download and yarn v1 / pnpm skip populate_manifest_cache, which matches the old detached = fill_integrity && ... swap, where the non-fill_integrity migrators only ever populated the manager's then-empty lockfile. bun pm migrate still calls detect_and_load_other_lockfile directly, so it keeps skipping rebase_folder_dependencies.

Extended reasoning...

Large borrow-splitting refactor of the Rust package manager (29 files, +542/-522) that replaces raw-pointer unsafe aliasing of manager.lockfile during package.json parsing and yarn/pnpm/npm lockfile migration with field-level borrows (PackageJsonContext, MissingWorkspace::new, Backfill). It touches lockfile loading and migration but no auth, crypto or injection surface. One inline finding (&mut Log aliasing via log_mut()) remains, which the author also lists as out of scope; the ruled-out items above are the other behavioral edges I traced against the old code.

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Package parsing now receives explicit context instead of the package manager. Lockfile loading and migration use manager-owned state, with cached-only and download backfill modes for foreign lockfiles.

Changes

Package manager state and lockfile migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package parsing context and registry interfaces
src/install/lockfile/Package.rs, src/install/dependency.rs, src/install/lockfile/{CatalogMap.rs,OverrideMap.rs,Package/WorkspaceMap.rs}, src/install/PackageManager/*, src/install/{dedupe.rs,prune.rs,resolvers/folder_resolver.rs}, src/runtime/cli/link_command.rs
Package parsing now receives a PackageJsonContext. Dependency parsing accepts an optional NpmAliasRegistry. Workspace, catalog, and override parsing use explicit JSON-cache, alias-map, and options inputs. Related parsing call sites use these interfaces.
Lockfile loading and backfill entry points
src/install/PackageManager.rs, src/install/lockfile.rs, src/install/lockfile/{Buffers.rs,bun.lock.rs,bun.lockb.rs}, src/install/PackageManager/patchPackage.rs, src/install_jsc/install_binding.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs
Lockfile loaders now accept package-manager options. PackageManager loads lockfiles into its own state and invokes migration for a missing Bun lockfile when a backfill mode is supplied. Lockfile-loading call sites use the manager-owned lockfile.
Foreign lockfile migration and metadata backfill
src/install/migration.rs, src/install/migration/npm_lock.rs, src/install/{pnpm.rs,yarn.rs,yarn_berry.rs}, src/install/lockfile.rs, src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs
npm, pnpm, and Yarn migrations now operate on package-manager-owned lockfile and workspace JSON state. Metadata fetching uses explicit backfill modes. pnpm migration records catalogs according to the migration path.

Possibly related issues

  • oven-sh/bun#38668: The PR changes the migration path, but it does not claim to address the reported migration failure or install fallback.
  • oven-sh/bun#43977: The PR changes runtime lockfile loading and root parsing, but it does not claim to change version selection.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#47291: This PR continues related lockfile loading and migration changes.
  • oven-sh/bun#46974: This PR changes the loader and parser interfaces touched here.
  • oven-sh/bun#47414: This PR concerns the package parsing bridge that this change replaces.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, robobun, alii

Merge Risk: Low · up to b2512

The refactor looks behavior-preserving overall. One minor open concern remains: bun patch --commit on a lockfile migrated from Yarn v1 or pnpm can include an unrelated file-mode change in the patch when the package manifest is not cached. This is mergeable with that awareness or a small follow-up.

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Minor · Keep executable-mode preparation when CachedOnly finds no manifest. · patchPackage.rs:468-469

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Keep executable-mode preparation when CachedOnly finds no manifest.

With CachedOnly, a Yarn v1 or pnpm npm package whose manifest is missing from the manifest cache keeps an empty pkg.bin. make_bins_executable then returns early, so bun patch --commit can include an unrelated old mode/new mode change for a bin file in the generated patch. Yarn berry is not affected, because its lockfile records bins directly.

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CI on b251232 (#137882) is red, and every failure also fails in unrelated PRs and on main. Final result, 6 Nov, 04:35 UTC: 130 jobs passed and 58 failed. All macOS jobs passed. Three attempts of the macOS x64 test jobs expired for lack of an agent, and their retries passed.

What fails: 39 files: 38 under test/aot/, and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. No test of the package manager is among them, and no build job failed.

Why it is not this PR:

What is next: I found no open PR that fixes these tests, so there is no fix to port. I cannot re-run BuildKite jobs, and a re-run would fail as main does. Once main is green I will merge it into this branch, so that CI runs again.

Correction: an earlier version of this comment said that main fails 29 files in all. That is the number of error annotations, and every build I looked at shows 29 of them, so I take it for a cap.

The build of the previous head, 43d984d (#135005): 186 jobs passed, 2 failed, neither from this PR

1. test/aot/engine/native-6.test.ts on debian 13 x64-asan. The native test collector/empty-eden/allocation-ends-the-skips aborted at AOTCollectorTests.cpp:281, ASSERTION FAILED: !vm.heap.didSkipMarkingInLastCollection(). The process that aborted is testaot, not bun. emitJscPrograms (scripts/build/bun.ts) links it from no Rust crate. Likely cause: line 281 follows the allocation of a 1,000,000-element array, and a collection that this allocation itself requested finished first, which left the explicit collectSync(Eden) an empty eden. I have not reproduced it.

2. test/aot/parallel/node-http/objects-closed-in-other-ways.ts on macOS x64. The test waits a fixed 2 ms between requests. After the server breaks a response, the next fetch either reuses the dying keep-alive connection and fails, or finds it closed and opens a second one. The compiled program and plain Bun fell on different sides. The same test failed the same way in two unrelated PR builds of the same hours, #134990 and #135001.


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