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Problem

  • On macOS below 15.6, a connected UDP socket loses datagrams. bsd_recvmmsg reads one datagram per recvmsg. A receive that fails after the first returns -1 (return ret;, packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c:193), and loop.c reports only the error.
  • Cause: a peer sends, then closes. XNU returns the queued datagrams, then ECONNREFUSED (from ICMP), once.
  • New in 1.4.0 for macOS 14.0 to 15.5 (Gate recvmsg_x / sendmsg_x to macOS 15.6 or later #34461). No user report.

Fix

  • bsd_recvmsg_each stores the count in recvbuf->received_before_error. loop.c delivers those datagrams, then reports the error as before.
  • Correct: recvmsg_x, Linux recvmmsg and Node give this order.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts (4 new tests), red without the fix and green with it on macOS 14.8.9 in CI (Notes). Also dgram.test.ts, Node's test-dgram-*.js.
  • Self-reviewed: 8 concerns raised, 7 addressed. Open: order against http: consolidate the open fetch, Bun.serve, node:http, node:http2 and HTTP/3 pull requests #46528 (Notes).

Background

  • A batch fills up to 8 slots per readable event: recvmsg_x on macOS 15.6+, one recvmsg per slot before (a kernel deadlock).
  • A recvmsg fault rule that names the descriptor takes this loop on any POSIX ASAN build, so the Linux ASAN lane runs it.
  • Considered return i > 0 ? i : ret (udp(macOS): keep partial recvmsg batch when a later call fails #36589): it drops the error. Considered a -1 - n return: a sentinel for all arms.

Downsides

  • macOS: struct udp_recvbuf grows 8 bytes, which the per-batch memset clears. The dispatcher gains 9 instructions, all in the failure branch (measured on linux-x64).
  • Size: CI reports +0.0 KB on darwin and linux-x64. Linux release objects equal main. Darwin disassembly: not measured (Notes).
  • Still lossy: FreeBSD's libc recvmmsg and the send loops drop a one-shot errno.
Notes

The scenario. A socket made with Bun.udpSocket({ connect }) or dgram socket.connect(). The peer sends some datagrams and closes its port. The next send of the socket goes to a closed port, so the kernel answers with ICMP port unreachable and latches ECONNREFUSED on the socket. When the readable event is handled, the datagrams and the error are both pending. Found by reading the code. Three tracker searches found no report of it.

Commits. To be squashed.

  1. 8492b6d adds the tests and what they need (the loop moved into bsd_recvmsg_each, the fault hook). It does not change the behavior, so its new tests are red by design.
  2. 8ca28fb is the fix (+27/-2 in 3 files).
  3. 95d185c, f9ef180 and 58ca31d change the tests only: two comments, a todo on FreeBSD, and the Linux order on Android. The rest are merges of main.

CI without the fix (build 136131, commit 1). This is the first time the loss was seen on a real kernel.

  • macOS 14.8.9, x64 (agent darwin-x64-14.8.9-1), which takes the per-message loop by itself: "gets the datagrams and the error" fails in 4 of 4 attempts. The socket sees only error ECONNREFUSED. The three datagrams are gone.
  • macOS 15.7.7, aarch64 (agent darwin-arm64-sourdough-tart-15-1): the same test passes through recvmsg_x with data 1, data 2, data 3, error ECONNREFUSED. The SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 variant fails in 4 of 4 attempts with only error ECONNREFUSED.
  • debian 13 x64-asan: both fault tests fail, data 1 is lost.

CI with the fix (build 136153, commits 1 and 2).

  • macOS 14.8.9, x64 (same agent): udp_socket.test.ts 236 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail. Without the fix it was 234 pass, 2 fail.
  • macOS 26.4, aarch64: 235 pass, 3 skip, 0 fail. The extra skip is the SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 variant: on 26.4 sysctl does not answer with a version below 15.6, so that test has nothing to select and skips.
  • macOS 15.7.7, aarch64 (build 136180, the same code one commit later): 236 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail. The SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 variant ran and passed there. Without the fix it failed in 4 of 4 attempts.
  • debian 13 x64-asan: the fault tests pass.
  • The size check passes. Against main #136146: darwin-aarch64 +0.0 KB, darwin-x64 +0.0 KB, linux-x64 +0.0 KB, freebsd +0.0 KB, windows-x64 -1.5 KB, linux-x64-android -4.0 KB. That main build is one commit ahead of what this branch had merged, so the negative numbers are not from this diff.
  • Red in both builds and not from this diff: test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts. It is gone since main was merged in.
  • The head of the branch, 58ca31d (build 136190): the build passes. udp_socket.test.ts is 236 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail on macOS 14.8.9 (x64) and on macOS 15.7.7 (aarch64).

Local runs (Linux, debug build with ASAN and fault injection). No Linux binary ever had this defect, so Linux shows the loop only through the fault rule.

  • The two fault tests pass. Events: data 1, error ECONNREFUSED, data 2, data 3, socket open.
  • With src/ and packages/ of main, fault test 1 fails because the rule cannot reach UDP receive there. That is not the defect.
  • Mutations of the fix, each one rebuilt and run:
    • no redelivery in loop.c: both fault tests fail (data 1 missing)
    • no if (u->closed) break;: test 2 fails (an error after the close)
    • the count is not stored: both fail
    • return i > 0 ? i : -1; (the one-line patch): test 1 fails, the error never arrives
    • errno read after the handlers ran: test 1 fails with error ENOENT
  • The real-kernel fixture: 100 of 100 runs print error ECONNREFUSED, data 1, data 2, data 3. Linux reports the error first, and it passes there with and without the fix.
  • Suites: udp_socket.test.ts 237 pass, 1 skip. dgram.test.ts 62 pass. socket-fault-injection.test.ts 17 pass, 2 skip. fetch-http3-syscall-fault.test.ts 7 pass. fetch-http3-client.test.ts 82 pass. node/quic/quic-endpoint.test.ts 9 pass. node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts 13 pass. test/js/node/test/parallel/test-dgram-*.js 75 of 75.

Kernel sources read.

  • XNU soreceive (bsd/kern/uipc_socket.c, xnu-12377.121.6 near line 3407): with data queued it returns the data and keeps so_error. With an empty buffer it returns so_error and clears it.
  • XNU soreceive_m_list (recvmsg_x, same file near line 4216): it stops when the buffer is empty and leaves so_error, so the next call reports it.
  • Linux do_recvmmsg (net/socket.c): an error after the first datagram goes back into sk->sk_err, "we record the error to return on the next call".
  • So only the per-message loop consumes the error in the same batch as the data.

Who takes the per-message loop. macOS 13.0 to 15.5. Also macOS 15.6 to 15.x when the process has SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 in its environment: libSystem then turns on version compatibility for the task, and the kern.osproductversion sysctl, which the gate reads, answers 10.16 (XNU sysctl_osproductversion, Libsystem init.c). The second real-kernel test uses this. It first asks sysctl what a child with that variable sees, and skips when the answer is 15.6 or later.

Measurements.

  • linux-x64, release flags (-O3), loop.c, bsd.c, fault_inject.c at main and at this PR: text 6443, 9458 and 0 bytes at both. llvm-objdump -d -r output is identical. Compiled to ThinLTO bitcode without debug info, the IR is identical too. The new code is inside #if LIBUS_UDP_RECV_PER_MESSAGE, which is 0 there and on Windows.
  • sizeof(struct udp_recvbuf): linux-x64 release 3712 at both. With the arm compiled in, 3712 to 3720 (static assert). darwin: 3648 to 3656 by the layout of the struct, not measured on a darwin build.
  • The cost of the arm where it is compiled in, measured on linux-x64 with -O3 and -DLIBUS_SOCKET_FAULT_INJECTION=1 at both revisions, as a stand-in for darwin-x64: us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll goes from 949 to 958 instructions. All 9 are in the receive failure branch, after errno is read. The path of a successful batch and of EAGAIN has no new instruction. loop.o text 6443 to 6483.
  • In the per-message loop the only new instruction is the store of the count, in the failure branch.
  • Not measured: darwin and Windows disassembly and symbol sizes. The CI artifacts are on S3 and the macOS SDK is on Apple's CDN, and the work machine reaches neither. Also not run: strace counts (not installed, and the Linux release objects are identical), dtrace and lldb counts on macOS (no macOS host), bloaty (not installed, size and llvm-objdump used).

Related pull requests.

Not in this PR.

  • FreeBSD: libc recvmmsg is the same loop in userland and drops the errno of a receive that fails after the first (lib/libc/gen/recvmmsg.c, releng/14.4), while soreceive_dgram clears so_error as it returns it. Moving FreeBSD to bsd_recvmsg_each is three lines, but CI has no FreeBSD test lane, and the change would turn a dropped error into an error event. The real-kernel test is a todo on FreeBSD for this reason.
  • The Windows receive loop and the userland send loops also drop a one-shot errno after the first datagram. No datagram is lost there.
  • The gate reads kern.osproductversion, so SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 sends a process on macOS 15.6 and later to the slower per-message path. After this PR that costs speed only.

Self-review concerns. (1) show the loss on a real kernel: the two builds above. (2) do not land ahead of #46528: not mine to decide, the order is stated above. (3) name the one helper for #42678: done above. (4) take the FreeBSD arm out: done. (5) say that it is a 1.4.0 regression found by reading: done. (6) carry the count in a field, not in a -1 - n return: done. (7) pin the errno save with a test: done, see the last mutation. (8) the env flag of the first draft had no test that it was honoured: the flag is gone.


no test proof · iteration 9 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts

[macos tests]

On macOS below 15.6, bsd_recvmmsg reads a batch with one recvmsg per
datagram. When a receive fails after the first datagram, the loop returns
-1 and the datagrams it already read are lost.

This commit adds the tests and what they need. It does not change that
behavior, so these tests fail until the next commit: the two fault tests
on a fault-injection build, and the two real-kernel tests on a macOS that
takes the per-message loop.

- Move the per-message loop into bsd_recvmsg_each and give it the
  US_FAULT_RECVMSG hook.
- In a fault-injection build, a recvmsg rule that names the descriptor
  sends bsd_recvmmsg through that loop on every POSIX platform.
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Updated 3:29 PM PT - Oct 31st, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 58ca31dbd24815871a985f9688690fdc7cc701b6 passed in Build #136190! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47560

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47560 executable, so you can run:

bun-47560 --bun

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Status: reproduced on a real macOS kernel, fixed, and ready for review. CI passes on the head of the branch (build 136190).

How it was reproduced. A connected UDP socket gets three datagrams from a peer that then closes. The next send of the socket draws an ICMP error, so the datagrams and the error are pending together (test/js/bun/udp/udp-recv-error-after-data-fixture.ts).

  • Without the fix (build 136131, the tests alone): on macOS 14.8.9 the socket sees only error ECONNREFUSED and the three datagrams are lost, in 4 of 4 attempts. On macOS 15.7.7 the same happens for a child that has SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1.
  • With the fix: on macOS 14.8.9 and on macOS 15.7.7 the socket sees data 1, data 2, data 3, error ECONNREFUSED and stays open.

…error

Each recvmsg of a per-message batch consumes what it returns. When a
receive fails after the first datagram, the batch has two results: the
datagrams already read, and an errno that the kernel cleared as it
returned it. bsd_recvmmsg returned -1 and the UDP dispatch reported only
the error, so the datagrams were lost.

bsd_recvmsg_each now records how many datagrams it read before the
failure in recvbuf->received_before_error. The UDP dispatch in loop.c
delivers them, checks that the handler did not close the socket, then
makes the error report that it already made. This is the order of
recvmsg_x, of Linux recvmmsg and of Node: the data, then the error.

The return value of bsd_recvmmsg keeps its meaning in every arm: a count,
or -1 with errno. The field exists only in builds that have a per-message
arm, so the Linux release and Windows objects do not change.
Up to macOS 15 the variable makes the process see 10.16. On macOS 26 the
check does not see a version below 15.6, so the test is skipped there.
The fault tests are about macOS below 15.6 only.
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Walkthrough

The UDP receive path now records datagrams received before a batch error and delivers them before reporting that error. Tests cover injected receive errors and platform-specific event ordering.

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UDP receive errors

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track partial receive progress
packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/networking/bsd.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/fault_inject.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/fault_inject.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c
Per-message receive support records datagrams received before an error. A fault-target check lets bsd_recvmmsg select per-message handling for a targeted descriptor.
Deliver datagrams before the error
packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c
The loop delivers datagrams received before a batch error through on_data before calling on_recv_error. It stops processing the error path if on_data closes the socket.
Test receive errors after queued datagrams
test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts, test/js/bun/udp/udp-recv-error-after-data-fixture.ts
Tests cover injected receive errors, socket closure from a data handler, and platform-specific ordering of queued datagrams and a connection-refused error.

Suggested reviewers: alii, dylan-conway

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 58ca3

The change preserves datagrams received before an error. No concrete merge-blocking defect is established; the native macOS 15.6+ test outcome remains unverified.

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Comment thread test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts Resolved
The batch there is libc's recvmmsg, which returns the count and drops the
errno of a receive that fails after the first datagram. The socket gets
the datagrams and never the error, so the fixture would wait for it.

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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 two things in the native path: received_before_error is zeroed by the per-batch memset in bsd_udp_setup_recvbuf, so the Linux/FreeBSD libc recvmmsg arm (which never writes it) cannot redeliver a stale count; and the new if (u->closed) break; after mid-batch redelivery exits into post-loop code whose close/drain branches are all already guarded by !u->closed, so a handler closing the socket there leaves no dangling close or double report.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the usockets UDP receive path (bsd.c, loop.c, bsd.h) plus the fault-injection helper, with the new behavior compiled only under APPLE or POSIX fault-injection builds; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. The two inline findings concern test behavior on Android and FreeBSD rather than the core fix, and the core redelivery logic reads errno before calling into JS and reuses the existing closed-guard pattern. Native code on a platform-gated path still warrants a human look, which the inline findings already signal.

Comment thread test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts Resolved
Android reports its own platform name, and its kernel is Linux: the
pending error comes before the queued datagrams. The test and the fixture
now branch on the kernel.

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Thanks for addressing both earlier points (the Android kernel branching in the test and fixture, and the FreeBSD todo with its reason) — I re-reviewed the updated diff and found no bugs, but since this adds a JS-running callback to a new error branch of the usockets UDP dispatch on a platform arm that can only be exercised on macOS below 15.6 or a fault-injection build, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • received_before_error initialisation: bsd_udp_setup_recvbuf memsets the whole struct per batch, so the Linux recvmmsg and recvmsg_x -1 paths see 0 and never redeliver.
  • The bsd_recvmsg_each extraction: EINTR/EAGAIN handling, msg_len writes and the -1 return match the old inline loop.
  • The new on_data call in loop.c: errno is captured before it runs, and the u->closed check after it matches the existing pattern in the same do/while.
  • us_fault_targets takes the lock and matches only an fd-specific rule, so an "any fd" rule cannot divert Linux onto the per-message path.
Extended reasoning...

The diff touches the usockets UDP receive path (bsd.c, bsd.h, loop.c) plus the fault-injection helpers and adds two fault-injection tests, a real-kernel fixture test, and a macOS SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT variant. Production change is small (+27/-2) and gated by LIBUS_UDP_RECV_PER_MESSAGE, which is 1 only on Apple and on non-Windows fault-injection builds; it touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. Both inline findings from the prior run were addressed in commit 58ca31d, and the coderabbit thread was resolved by a non-author. Deferring rather than approving because the new code runs user JS from an error branch of the native event-loop dispatch on a platform arm that cannot be exercised in this checkout, so the CI evidence in the description is the only verification of the macOS path.

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test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts-952-954: 1

952-954: Minor · Potential issue · Low value

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We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

The test expects macOS to deliver queued datagrams followed by an error regardless of macOS version. If newer macOS uses a native batch read that returns the datagram count while consuming the pending error, that expectation cannot be met.

The fixture never observes the required error, so the newly added test times out rather than validating the receive path.

This can occur when: Run the real-kernel test on macOS 15.6 or later without compatibility mode, with datagrams queued ahead of a pending ECONNREFUSED.


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On the unverified note about macOS 15.6 and later (udp_socket.test.ts:952-954): that case ran in CI, and the error arrives there.

  • macOS 15.7.7: "gets the datagrams and the error" passes through recvmsg_x with data 1, data 2, data 3, error ECONNREFUSED (build 136131, which has the tests and not the fix).
  • macOS 26.4 and 27.0: the same test passes (build 136153, build 136180).

The reason is in XNU: soreceive_m_list, which serves recvmsg_x, stops when the buffer is empty and leaves so_error set, so the next call reports it. Only a plain recvmsg on an empty buffer takes the error, and that is the per-message loop this PR changes.

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