[robobun]

Problem

• A read of RegExp.lastMatch or another legacy static property can end the process after a test() that matched: SIGSEGV at 0x4, a null JSArray* in RegExpGlobalData::getBackref.
• test() records only the position of the match. The property read runs the match again for the captures. That second run can fail, and RegExpCachedResult::lastResult() (runtime/RegExpCachedResult.cpp:81) then uses a null array.

Fix

• The first commit is upstream WebKit/WebKit@191803bb2304 (324533@main, bug 328417), cherry-picked unchanged. lastResult() throws an out of memory error when the second run fails.
• The second commit makes the new test skip the fork's two RegExp modes. It is the change that Upgrade to upstream WebKit e8f704815e94 #923 has for this test.
• Verified: JSTests/stress/regexp-legacy-static-properties-rematch-failure.js passes in 17 modes. The two programs in Notes end with SIGSEGV on main and pass here.

Background

• Upgrade to upstream WebKit e8f704815e94 #923, the upgrade to upstream e8f704815e94, carries the same commit. Bun cannot take that upgrade yet. Its bump Upgrade WebKit to e8f704815e94 bun#47112 fails six test files of the ahead-of-time compiler in a step that blocks a merge (Notes). After Upgrade to upstream WebKit e8f704815e94 #923 merges, this pull request adds nothing.
• RegExp.lastMatch, RegExp.$1 and the other legacy static properties are computed from the last match when they are read.
• regexp-flat-program and regexp-image-mode are test modes of the fork. In them the second run does not run out of stack.

Downsides

• None found. The four new lines are on the path where createRegExpMatchesArray() returned null. That path ended in a null dereference before, and ends in a RangeError now.

Notes

The two programs

var s = "a".repeat(10000) + "c";
var re = new RegExp("(?:(?!(?:a|b)*d)a)*c" + "(x)?".repeat(200));
re.test(s);         // true
RegExp.lastMatch;   // main: SIGSEGV. Here: RangeError: Out of memory

var N = 3000000, s = "a".repeat(N) + "b", re = new RegExp("(?:a){" + N + "}b");
re.test(s);
function rec() { try { return rec(); } catch (e) { return RegExp.lastMatch.length; } }
rec();              // main: SIGSEGV. Here: 3000001

jsc	first program	second program
x64 lto-aot lane of main (fcc1ea0973)	SIGSEGV	SIGSEGV
local Release build of main (23d7f1dcef), Linux x64, without the ahead-of-time compiler	SIGSEGV, 3 of 3	SIGSEGV, 3 of 3
the same build with the first commit	RangeError: Out of memory, 3 of 3	3000001, 3 of 3

The test in the fork's modes

With the first commit alone, run-javascriptcore-tests --filter=regexp-legacy-static-properties-rematch-failure runs the test in 18 modes of the local build. 17 pass. regexp-flat-program fails with expected RangeError but got undefined: a flat program makes the second match within --maxRegExpStackSize=65536. regexp-image-mode exists only in a build with the ahead-of-time compiler, and #923 found the same there. With the second commit the 17 modes pass and the two modes are skipped. JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md lists the test in section B, and the fork now changes 125 upstream tests.

Other RegExp tests

Local Release build of this branch, Linux x64, without the ahead-of-time compiler: run-javascriptcore-tests --filter="regex|regexp|yarr", 7258 runs from all collections, no failure.

What the merge of #923 has to do after this

runtime/RegExpCachedResult.cpp and the test are the same here and on #923, and git merges them without a conflict. A trial merge of this branch with the head of #923 (bcd362b31e) has two conflicts, both the count of changed upstream tests: CLAUDE.md and JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md say 125 here and 126 there. 126 is right after that merge.

Why ahead of #923

#923 is green and has no conflict with main. The Bun side holds it up. oven-sh/bun#47112 runs Bun's CI on the preview build of #923. Its Buildkite build 134232 fails six test files in test-aot, the step of the ahead-of-time compiler's tests that blocks a merge:

• Four files: a compiled program shows another function name in a stack frame after { ...fn } than plain Bun does. Upgrade WebKit to e8f704815e94 bun#47112 names upstream WebKit/WebKit@e04a6f9faecf as the cause, a fast path of object spread for functions.
• One file: Array.from of an unknown value keeps 443 functions in a trimmed program where it kept 3. That pull request names upstream WebKit/WebKit@37aa2b5bd94d, which changed how the JavaScript builtins iterate.
• One file: a hello world built with --trim maps 25,739,552 bytes, and the bound of the test is 25,700,000.

Once #923 is on main, every later commit of main has that merge, so every later pin in Bun meets these failures until they are repaired.

oven-sh/bun#47160 runs Bun's CI on the preview build of this pull request. Its Buildkite build 134386 passed, and test-aot passed on every lane.

The crash is reachable from a plain script, and this fix does not depend on the rest of the upgrade.

To keep the upstream commit as it is, land this as a merge commit or with a rebase, not as a squash.

[robobun]

Status: CI is green at c50875535b (84 jobs passed, 2 skipped, the six test jobs with them). The preview release is autobuild-preview-pr-929-c5087553. Ready to merge. A merge commit or a rebase keeps the upstream commit as it is. If #923 merges first, this pull request has nothing left to add, and it closes.

• Reproduced with the jsc of the x64 lto-aot lane of main (fcc1ea0973): the two programs in the description end with SIGSEGV. A local Release build of main (23d7f1dcef) does the same, and the same build with the cherry-pick passes both.
• The first commit is upstream WebKit/WebKit@191803bb2304 with no change. The second commit is the test's skip of the fork's two RegExp modes, as on Upgrade to upstream WebKit e8f704815e94 #923.
• main got [JSC] AOT: counted loops that can be interrupted, vector loops over typed arrays, number fields past 32 bits, records that passes keep true #927 after this branch was cut. A trial merge with d6e9f85e67 has no conflict.
• For Bun: Bump WebKit (oven-sh/WebKit#929 preview): a legacy static property of RegExp throws when its second match fails bun#47160 pins the preview release above and adds a test (test/js/bun/jsc/regexp-legacy-static-properties.test.ts). Its CI passed (Buildkite build 134386). The merge commit of this pull request also has [JSC] AOT: counted loops that can be interrupted, vector loops over typed arrays, number fields past 32 bits, records that passes keep true #927, whose Bun side is AOT: fixes for modules, classes and Workers, WebKit upgrade, shorter compiler docs bun#47129. The preview release is 23d7f1dcef plus this fix and nothing else.
• Why ahead of Upgrade to upstream WebKit e8f704815e94 #923: the Bun bump for that upgrade (Upgrade WebKit to e8f704815e94 bun#47112) fails six test files of the ahead-of-time compiler in the step that blocks a merge (Buildkite build 134232). The description lists them under "Why ahead of Upgrade to upstream WebKit e8f704815e94 #923".

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Walkthrough

The change handles a null result from RegExp match-array creation and adds a stress test for legacy RegExp properties after a rematch failure. The test skips two modes, and the test-difference documents update the changed-test count.

Changes

RegExp rematch failure handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle failed match-array creation Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpCachedResult.cpp	lastResult now throws an out-of-memory error and returns nullptr when match-array creation returns null.
Test rematch failure and track modes JSTests/stress/regexp-legacy-static-properties-rematch-failure.js, JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md, CLAUDE.md	The stress test checks for RangeError when reading or setting legacy RegExp properties after a successful match, then checks their values after a later match. The test-difference document records skips for two modes, and both documents update the changed-test count.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/WebKit#343: Changes the same lazy RegExp rematch failure path and updates RegExpCachedResult::lastResult for match-array creation failures.

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to c5087

The implementation fix is not blocked, but the regression test should require the initial match to succeed before merging.

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes a runtime path in JavaScriptCore (a CODEOWNERS-covered area) and adds a test whose expectation depends on stack-usage behavior of specific modes, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The 4-line null check in Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpCachedResult.cpp matches createRegExpMatchesArray's contract (returns null on position == -1) and mirrors the null handling already in RegExpObjectInlines.h; m_reified stays false on the throw, so a later read retries rather than caching a null.
• The new test's $skipModes names (regexp-flat-program, regexp-image-mode) match the mode names in Tools/Scripts/run-jsc-stress-tests, and the fork's bookkeeping (BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md row, 124 to 125 counts in both files) is consistent.
• Considered whether the test could fail in interpreter-only or other modes with "expected RangeError but got undefined"; the PR's own 17-mode run and upstream's unchanged test cover that, so no change was warranted here.

Extended reasoning...

The change is a verbatim cherry-pick of upstream WebKit 191803b adding a null check with throwOutOfMemoryError in RegExpCachedResult::lastResult, plus the upstream regression test with two fork-specific mode skips and the matching bookkeeping edits in CLAUDE.md and JSTests/BUN-TEST-DIFFERENCES.md. It touches no security-sensitive surface beyond converting a null dereference crash into a thrown RangeError. The code is small and correct against the callee's null-return contract, but /Source/JavaScriptCore and /JSTests are covered by .github/CODEOWNERS, and the test's correctness rests on stack-usage behavior across JIT modes that cannot be exercised in this checkout, which is why this is a defer rather than an approve.

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