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completions, upgrade: do not treat an executable with an embedded program as a Bun install - #47709
With BUN_BE_BUN=1, an executable from bun build --compile runs as the bun CLI. There bun upgrade replaces the app with Bun, and bun completions makes a bunx that runs the app.
Both take self_exe_path() for an installed Bun: upgrade_command.rs:1065, install_completions_command.rs:39. On Windows, completions first deletes bunx.exe beside the app.
No user reported it. Children inherit the variable, so it reaches other compiled tools.
Fix
In a file with an embedded program (Graph::image_has_program()), bun upgrade exits with an error. bun completions makes no bunx and no uninstall.ps1.
completions still prints or installs the script. Plain bun is not changed.
Verified: new tests in test/cli/bun.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts and test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts fail on main. Also rust:check-all.
Self-reviewed: 21 concerns raised, 19 addressed. Notes has the rest.
Background
A compiled executable is bun with a program attached. Command::start (src/runtime/cli/mod.rs:1053) runs it before it reads argv[0], unless BUN_BE_BUN is truthy.
BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app upgrade --stable against a local release server prints Upgraded. and Welcome to Bun v9.9.9!, and exits 0. The 82,519,984-byte app is then the 32-byte file that the server sent.
The inherited variable: package.json has "gen": "/path/toolB completions", and toolB is a second compiled executable. BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./appA run gen makes toolB print the completion script of bun and link bunx to toolB.
The rule that this PR asks a maintainer to confirm. An executable with an embedded program is not a Bun install, also with BUN_BE_BUN. #2879 had the opposite rule for the file name: an executable that starts as bun or bunx does not look for a program. The payload lookups by section dropped that rule per platform (#17207 macOS, #21091 Windows, #26923 Linux). If that rule comes back, the completions check skips a link that would work.
The code.
InstallCompletionsCommand::exec has one check around the bunx step and the Windows uninstaller step. The first version had one check in each of the three writers. A review asked for one site.
image_has_program() reads the header only. On ELF that is the address that bun build --compile writes into BUN_COMPILED (elf::has_data()), not the loader of the program, which exits on a truncated executable. On macOS and Windows it asks the loader, which reads only the length of the section there. A length that the loader rejects counts as no program on these two platforms, and the start runs such a file as plain bun. On ELF the same damage still counts as a program.
A truncated executable counts as one with a program. As bun it still prints the script and gets no bunx, and bun upgrade still refuses it.
Relation to #47636. That PR has the same bun upgrade refusal, byte for byte, and an earlier form of image_has_program(). It waits on another fix. Both defects reproduce on main without it, so this PR goes first. After the merge, #47636 can drop its StandaloneModuleGraph.rs hunk, its upgrade_command.rs hunk and its upgrade nothing test cell. Its callers need no change. A merge of the two PRs conflicts in image_has_program(), so the two forms cannot land side by side.
Not in this PR. These sites also take the running file for bun. There the remedy is "start this file as bun", not "write nothing", so an early return is wrong:
bun build --compile --outfile bunx is still refused, with a message from the old name rule (src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs:446).
A bunx link to an app from an earlier run stays. While it is on PATH, plain bun makes no link of its own (the which check in install_bunx_symlink). On Windows, a bunx.exe that an earlier build of the app made is a hard link to the old file and also stays.
On a terminal, completions in an app still installs the script of bun and edits .zshrc.
Measurements. Release builds with LTO, linux x64, main 3f3a9ff against 9003015. Syscalls from qemu-x86_64 -strace, instructions from qemu-x86_64 -one-insn-per-tb -d exec,nochain, sizes from size and nm -S. strace, perf, valgrind and bloaty are not installed here.
plain bun completions, bunx on PATH: syscalls 97 -> 97 (tables identical), +86 instructions (505,416 -> 505,502)
plain bun completions, first run: +87 instructions (13,342 -> 13,429 from the entry of exec to the symlink call), syscalls 99 -> 99 (symlink 1 -> 1), hits of the mimalloc entry points 15 -> 15
plain bun upgrade bun-types (a refused argument, no network): +86 instructions (286,755 -> 286,841), syscalls 95 -> 95
release binary: text +512 B (140,286,972 -> 140,287,484), data +0 B, bss +0 B. InstallCompletionsCommand::exec 12,707 B -> 12,793 B
start path: Graph::from_executable 547 B -> 547 B, disassembly diff 0 lines (payload_of_executable is inlined on Linux). command::start 1,750 B -> 1,750 B. command::which 2,624 B -> 2,624 B. bun --version: 257,277 -> 257,277 instructions. A compiled hello app up to boot_standalone: 270,278 -> 270,282 instructions (builds with the same code differ by up to 6). On macOS and Windows the check also calls payload_of_executable: not measured
an app as bun, completions: symlink 1 -> 0, readlink 1 -> 0, PATH stats 1 -> 0, madvise 2 -> 2, syscalls 101 -> 98, stdout 15,385 bytes on both
bunx entries after 4 runs: app 4 -> 0, plain bun 4 -> 4, plain bun with BUN_BE_BUN=1 4 -> 4
bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets pass. A typo put into a Windows arm fails the Windows check, so those arms are type-checked
test/cli/bun.test.ts, "completions in an executable with an embedded program". POSIX: plain bun with BUN_BE_BUN=1 still links bunx beside itself. The app prints the same script, and none of the four link places gets an entry. On main it fails with bunx beside the app. On macOS the plain copy is a clone, for the reason in test: run the bunx symlink test on a clone of the executable on macOS #43721.
Windows test in the same block: plain bun replaces bunx.cmd with bunx.exe and writes uninstall.ps1. The app keeps bunx.cmd and gets neither file.
test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts, "refuses to replace an executable that has an embedded program". On main the app is replaced and the exit code is 0.
test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts, "a truncated standalone executable that runs as bun prints the completions and gets no bunx link" (Linux). On main the link is made. With a check that calls the loader, the command exits 1 and prints no script.
With the source of main and a debug build, the tests fail. With this branch they pass, and so does the rest of the three files (66 tests).
The tests in the first two files pass isDebug ? 60_000 : undefined as the timeout. A debug build is 1.69 GB and --compile copies it, so there the tests take 2 to 5 s. This is a deliberate exception to the no-timeout rule. A release build takes about 0.3 s.
Windows is not run here. In CI the Windows test passes on x64 and aarch64. Nothing ran the Windows defect.
Parts of other concerns that I did not do: no tracking issue, no guard in Bun.cron, no comparison of the content of uninstall.ps1, and no CI run of the Windows test without the guards.
Other designs.
One check in each writer, with the POSIX one below the which check: plain bun with bunx on PATH then pays no probe (87 instructions). It was the first version of this PR.
Print only in an app: it also stops the script install and the .zshrc edit, which do not name the executable.
A typed "plain bun" path in bun_standalone_graph: one consumer file, and no test can tell it from the bool.
A check of BUN_BE_BUN in place of the file: plain bun with the variable must still link.
no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts, test/cli/bun.test.ts, test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts
…gram as a Bun install
An executable from `bun build --compile` starts as the bun CLI when
BUN_BE_BUN is truthy. Two commands then took that file for an installed
bun:
- `bun completions` linked `bunx` to it. On Windows it first deleted
bunx.cmd and bunx.exe beside it, and wrote uninstall.ps1.
- `bun upgrade` replaced it with a release of Bun.
`Graph::image_has_program()` tests the executable file, because
`Graph::get()` is None after a start with BUN_BE_BUN. The three writers
in install_completions_command.rs return when it is true, and
`bun upgrade` exits with an error.
Plain bun is not changed, also with BUN_BE_BUN=1.
env -i HOME=$PWD/home SHELL=/bin/bash PATH= BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app completions > out.txt leaves the symlink bunx -> app. After that, env -i PATH= ./bunx --version prints app.
BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app upgrade --stable against a local release server exits 0. The 82,519,984-byte app is then the 32-byte file that the server sent.
The new tests fail on main and pass on this branch.
CI on 9003015: the three test files of this PR pass on Linux (x64, aarch64, ASAN), macOS (x64, aarch64) and Windows (x64, aarch64). The red jobs come from test/aot tests and from test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. Those tests fail on main too, or fail with the same assertion as on main (test/aot/engine/native-5.test.ts). This PR does not touch them.
The change adds cached detection for standalone images with embedded programs. Completion installation skips creating links and, on Windows, an uninstaller for those images. bun upgrade exits with an error when run from a compiled app.
Completion installation skips bunx links for images with embedded programs and, on Windows, also skips uninstall.ps1. Tests cover plain Bun, compiled apps, and a truncated embedded program.
bun upgrade exits with status 1 for compiled apps. The test checks the error output and that the app’s files and executable size remain unchanged.
Possibly related issues
oven-sh/bun#45374 identifies BUN_BE_BUN=1 as a mode that makes a compiled executable act as the Bun CLI. This change handles that mode for completion installation and upgrade.
Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 90030
The safeguards prevent compiled apps from being treated as Bun installations. The remaining corrupted-length limitation predates this change; no actionable merge-blocking regression was established.
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Review comments at @src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs:
- Line 3470: Update Graph::image_has_program() and its HAS_PROGRAM
initialization so a truncated embedded payload is reported as absent without
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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 checked the updated SAFETY claim on pe::get_data() against every caller: from_executable is reached only from Command::start (src/runtime/cli/mod.rs:1054) on the main thread, and image_has_program only from the completions and upgrade exec paths, also main-thread and behind the OnceLock — so the "nothing races the first call" invariant holds for the current call sites. I also looked for other commands that take self_exe_path() as an installed Bun and found only the bun/node shim-link directory in src/install/lib.rs, which the description already lists as out of scope.
Extended reasoning...
The change adds a cached image_has_program() probe in src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs and gates three completions link/install steps and the bun upgrade entry on it, with new subprocess tests in test/cli/bun.test.ts and test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface; the only sensitive piece is the unsafe lock-free static fill in the Windows PE lookup, whose callers I traced. Three inline findings were posted (Linux truncated-payload probe now exits 1 on completions/upgrade, stale Windows bunx.exe hard links no longer re-linked, and triplicated guard), so a human decision on those is needed rather than an approval.
`Graph::image_has_program()` called the loader of the program. On Linux that
loader exits when the end of the program is cut off, so `bun completions` in
a truncated executable that runs as bun exited before it printed the script.
On ELF the check now reads the header alone: the address that
`bun build --compile` writes into BUN_COMPILED. A truncated program still
counts as a program, so `bun upgrade` still refuses and `bunx` is still not
linked.
`exec` has one check around the `bunx` step and the uninstaller step. The
three checks in the writers are gone.
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Gate bunx and uninstaller creation on the embedded program, not the length word.
3481-3481: Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
Gate bunx and uninstaller creation on the embedded program, not the length word.
On macOS and Windows, image_has_program uses payload_of_executable. That returns no payload when the embedded length is invalid: a __BUN length below 8 on macOS, or a PE length of 0 on Windows. The check then reports no program. exec still creates the bunx link, and on Windows under bun\bin it writes uninstall.ps1. This happens for an image with a corrupted length when BUN_BE_BUN is set. The behavior predates this change.
Adding a length check to this gate would call the same predicate and would not change the result. A correction needs a separate image-presence marker that distinguishes a damaged image from a plain Bun binary. The inspected code does not provide one for these platforms.
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Review comment at @src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs at line 3481:
Update the `image_has_program` gate used by `exec` so `bunx` and Windows
`uninstall.ps1` creation depend on a marker that distinguishes an embedded
program from a plain Bun binary, even when the embedded length is invalid. Do
not reuse `payload_of_executable` or add another check of the same length word;
establish an appropriate image-presence marker for macOS and Windows before
changing the gate.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
The latest commit addresses two of my earlier inline comments: image_has_program() now probes only the ELF vaddr static through elf::has_data(), so the OnceLock initializer no longer calls exit_if_page_is_past_eof on a truncated file, and the completions guard is a single check in InstallCompletionsCommand::exec instead of three copies.
Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the reworded PE get_data() SAFETY comment against its callers: from_executable runs on the main thread at startup and image_has_program is serialized by the OnceLock, so the lock-free static fill is not raced; has_data() reading the static without a null check matches the existing Bun__sizeOfPayloadWithCompiledProgram precedent at the same file.
The PR description itself asks a maintainer to confirm the rule that an executable with an embedded program is never a Bun install (even under BUN_BE_BUN), so a human look is still worthwhile for that design question.
Extended reasoning...
The change touches src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs (new OnceLock-cached image_has_program() and ELF-only has_data() probe, from_executable split into payload_of_executable), src/runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs (exit 1 before upgrade when the image has a program) and src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs (skip bunx symlink and Windows uninstaller for such an image), plus tests in three existing files. The security-relevant surface is self-replacement of the running executable by bun upgrade, which the change narrows rather than widens. Commit 9003015 addressed the exit-inside-OnceLock and the triplicated-guard comments from the prior run; the Windows stale bunx.exe hard-link comment was not followed and is explicitly listed by the author as out of scope. Deferring rather than approving because the PR explicitly asks a maintainer to confirm the design rule and one inline nit about macOS/Windows parity on a corrupt length header remains.
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Problem
BUN_BE_BUN=1, an executable frombun build --compileruns as thebunCLI. Therebun upgradereplaces the app with Bun, andbun completionsmakes abunxthat runs the app.self_exe_path()for an installed Bun:upgrade_command.rs:1065,install_completions_command.rs:39. On Windows,completionsfirst deletesbunx.exebeside the app.Fix
Graph::image_has_program()),bun upgradeexits with an error.bun completionsmakes nobunxand nouninstall.ps1.completionsstill prints or installs the script. Plain bun is not changed.test/cli/bun.test.ts,test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.tsandtest/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.tsfail on main. Alsorust:check-all.Background
Command::start(src/runtime/cli/mod.rs:1053) runs it before it readsargv[0], unlessBUN_BE_BUNis truthy.image_has_program()reads the file header:Graph::get()isNoneafter a start withBUN_BE_BUN. shell: start a compiled executable as the bun CLI for the commandbun#47636 has the same refusal. Merge this first.bunxfrom the installers (changes plain bun) and the name rule of Single-file standalone Bun executables #2879 (an app namedbunxis a full bun).Downsides
BUN_BE_BUN=1the link was a workingbunx../app xworks there.bun completionsandbun upgrade: +87 and +86 instructions, 0 syscalls.Notes
Repro (linux x64, 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9). Line numbers in Problem are those of main.
BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app upgrade --stableagainst a local release server printsUpgraded.andWelcome to Bun v9.9.9!, and exits 0. The 82,519,984-byte app is then the 32-byte file that the server sent.package.jsonhas"gen": "/path/toolB completions", andtoolBis a second compiled executable.BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./appA run genmakestoolBprint the completion script of bun and linkbunxtotoolB.bun#47636.The rule that this PR asks a maintainer to confirm. An executable with an embedded program is not a Bun install, also with
BUN_BE_BUN. #2879 had the opposite rule for the file name: an executable that starts asbunorbunxdoes not look for a program. The payload lookups by section dropped that rule per platform (#17207 macOS, #21091 Windows, #26923 Linux). If that rule comes back, thecompletionscheck skips a link that would work.The code.
InstallCompletionsCommand::exechas one check around thebunxstep and the Windows uninstaller step. The first version had one check in each of the three writers. A review asked for one site.image_has_program()reads the header only. On ELF that is the address thatbun build --compilewrites intoBUN_COMPILED(elf::has_data()), not the loader of the program, which exits on a truncated executable. On macOS and Windows it asks the loader, which reads only the length of the section there. A length that the loader rejects counts as no program on these two platforms, and the start runs such a file as plain bun. On ELF the same damage still counts as a program.bunx, andbun upgradestill refuses it.Relation to #47636. That PR has the same
bun upgraderefusal, byte for byte, and an earlier form ofimage_has_program(). It waits on another fix. Both defects reproduce on main without it, so this PR goes first. After the merge, #47636 can drop itsStandaloneModuleGraph.rshunk, itsupgrade_command.rshunk and itsupgrade nothingtest cell. Its callers need no change. A merge of the two PRs conflicts inimage_has_program(), so the two forms cannot land side by side.Not in this PR. These sites also take the running file for bun. There the remedy is "start this file as bun", not "write nothing", so an early return is wrong:
bun/nodelink directory (bun_node_dir()andwindows_node_shim_dir(),src/install/lib.rs:399and:422).BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app run <script>points it at the app. Reports about the shared directory: Several copies of Bun accidentally share each other's /private/tmp/bun-node-* #27722,--bunsilently falls back tonodewhen/tmp/bun-node-<sha>is owned by another user #42048. shell: start a compiled executable as the bun CLI for the commandbun#47636 says that a fix is in progress.Bun.cron()in an app storesself_exe_path()for the OS scheduler (src/runtime/api/cron.rs:790). Read, not run. No report.child_process.fork()andnode:testrun()in an app. Not verified by me. Earlier work: child_process: run the requested module when fork() is called inside a compiled executable #35129, node:test: give each file of run() the runtime flags of its caller #45549.Also not changed:
bun build --compile --outfile bunxis still refused, with a message from the old name rule (src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs:446).bunxlink to an app from an earlier run stays. While it is onPATH, plain bun makes no link of its own (thewhichcheck ininstall_bunx_symlink). On Windows, abunx.exethat an earlier build of the app made is a hard link to the old file and also stays.completionsin an app still installs the script of bun and edits.zshrc.Measurements. Release builds with LTO, linux x64, main 3f3a9ff against 9003015. Syscalls from
qemu-x86_64 -strace, instructions fromqemu-x86_64 -one-insn-per-tb -d exec,nochain, sizes fromsizeandnm -S.strace,perf,valgrindandbloatyare not installed here.bun completions,bunxonPATH: syscalls 97 -> 97 (tables identical), +86 instructions (505,416 -> 505,502)bun completions, first run: +87 instructions (13,342 -> 13,429 from the entry ofexecto thesymlinkcall), syscalls 99 -> 99 (symlink 1 -> 1), hits of the mimalloc entry points 15 -> 15bun upgrade bun-types(a refused argument, no network): +86 instructions (286,755 -> 286,841), syscalls 95 -> 95InstallCompletionsCommand::exec12,707 B -> 12,793 BGraph::from_executable547 B -> 547 B, disassembly diff 0 lines (payload_of_executableis inlined on Linux).command::start1,750 B -> 1,750 B.command::which2,624 B -> 2,624 B.bun --version: 257,277 -> 257,277 instructions. A compiled hello app up toboot_standalone: 270,278 -> 270,282 instructions (builds with the same code differ by up to 6). On macOS and Windows the check also callspayload_of_executable: not measuredcompletions: symlink 1 -> 0, readlink 1 -> 0,PATHstats 1 -> 0, madvise 2 -> 2, syscalls 101 -> 98, stdout 15,385 bytes on bothbunxentries after 4 runs: app 4 -> 0, plain bun 4 -> 4, plain bun withBUN_BE_BUN=14 -> 4bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets pass. A typo put into a Windows arm fails the Windows check, so those arms are type-checkedbun upgraderefusal: 1 conflict region, the same one that shell: start a compiled executable as the bun CLI for the commandbun#47636 hasTests.
test/cli/bun.test.ts, "completions in an executable with an embedded program". POSIX: plain bun withBUN_BE_BUN=1still linksbunxbeside itself. The app prints the same script, and none of the four link places gets an entry. On main it fails withbunxbeside the app. On macOS the plain copy is a clone, for the reason in test: run the bunx symlink test on a clone of the executable on macOS #43721.bunx.cmdwithbunx.exeand writesuninstall.ps1. The app keepsbunx.cmdand gets neither file.test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts, "refuses to replace an executable that has an embedded program". On main the app is replaced and the exit code is 0.test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts, "a truncated standalone executable that runs as bun prints the completions and gets no bunx link" (Linux). On main the link is made. With a check that calls the loader, the command exits 1 and prints no script.isDebug ? 60_000 : undefinedas the timeout. A debug build is 1.69 GB and--compilecopies it, so there the tests take 2 to 5 s. This is a deliberate exception to the no-timeout rule. A release build takes about 0.3 s.Self-review. Two concerns that I did not follow:
bun#47636, or hold this PR until it merges." shell: start a compiled executable as the bun CLI for the commandbun#47636 waits on another fix, andbun upgradein an app destroys a file on main today.bun/nodelink directory." That site needs the other remedy and belongs to the change that shell: start a compiled executable as the bun CLI for the commandbun#47636 waits on.Parts of other concerns that I did not do: no tracking issue, no guard in
Bun.cron, no comparison of the content ofuninstall.ps1, and no CI run of the Windows test without the guards.Other designs.
whichcheck: plain bun withbunxonPATHthen pays no probe (87 instructions). It was the first version of this PR..zshrcedit, which do not name the executable.bun_standalone_graph: one consumer file, and no test can tell it from the bool.BUN_BE_BUNin place of the file: plain bun with the variable must still link.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts, test/cli/bun.test.ts, test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts