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Problem

  • stream.close(errorCode) on a node:http2 server never sends RST_STREAM. The abort goes out as a clean END_STREAM, so the client reads an aborted response as complete. For respond(); write(x); close(INTERNAL_ERROR), node sends HEADERS DATA RST_STREAM(2). Bun sends HEADERS DATA DATA+END_STREAM.
  • close() calls this.end() before it schedules the reset. The writable side then announces end-of-stream, from _final or from isFinalWrite() on a buffered chunk. That takes the native stream to CLOSED, where the reset is dropped.

Fix

  • close() and _destroy() set StreamState.RstPending first. _final then settles without END_STREAM, and isFinalWrite() does not let a buffered chunk carry it.
  • Reset submission is first-wins per stream (RstSubmitted). close() and _destroy() each schedule one and neither stands down, so a destroy() that pre-empts close(NO_ERROR)'s 'finish' still resets.
  • A server stream that never sent HEADERS writes nothing from _final, and a respond() after that puts END_STREAM on its HEADERS. respond, respondWithFile, respondWithFD throw on a closed stream. An inbound RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) gives the client 'end' before 'close'. All as node does.
  • Verified: test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts (17 new tests). The 279 vendored node:http2 tests pass. Wire output matches node v26.3.0 across 29 scenarios.

Background

  • HTTP/2 ends a stream with END_STREAM (complete) or RST_STREAM plus an error code (aborted). Without the second, a peer cannot tell a truncated body from a whole one.
  • Http2Stream is a Duplex. end() makes the stream machinery call _final, where bun writes an empty DATA+END_STREAM. isFinalWrite() puts the flag on the last real DATA frame instead.
  • A server stream for a GET starts HALF_CLOSED_REMOTE, so END_STREAM closes it fully, and rstStream on a CLOSED native stream is a no-op.
Notes

Duplicate reset. After a reset the native side evicts the stream from its map. rstStream for an id it does not know writes the frame directly (that path exists for pushed streams), which is how a second scheduled reset became a second frame on the wire. Hence RstSubmitted.

RFC. "Writes nothing from _final" is RFC 9113 §8.1: a response begins with HEADERS, so a DATA frame there is a connection error on the peer.

POST streams. On a stream whose request body is still open the reset did go out before this change, behind a spurious END_STREAM. That is why node's own test-http2-server-rst-stream.js passes on main: its client never ends the body.

Other suites. test/js/node/http2/ is 534 pass plus 5s timeouts in DATA frame header straddling the cork flush and, on some runs, the forEachStream rehash test. Both fail 3/3 on main's src/ in the same container, so they are debug+ASAN slowness there. Of the vendored tests, test-http2-forget-closed-streams.js (10,000 sequential requests) takes 133 to 148s on a loaded host, against 147 to 155s on main's src/.

A bare end() with no respond() leaves the stream open, as in node: nothing on the wire, no 'close', and session.close() does not complete while it is outstanding. main closed it only by writing a DATA frame with no HEADERS ahead of it, which an nghttp2-based peer treats as a connection error. Node supports end() followed by respond() (SubmitResponse sets EMPTY_PAYLOAD when the stream is no longer writable), so the stream must stay usable.

Wire comparison against node v26.3.0 (raw-frame observer, server under test, hand-rolled client). main is canary 4ff919377.

server does node main this PR
write + close(2) DATA RST(2) DATA DATA+END_STREAM DATA RST(2)
write + close(2), POST DATA RST(2) DATA DATA+END_STREAM RST(2) DATA RST(2)
write + close(0) DATA RST(0) DATA DATA+END_STREAM RST(0) DATA RST(0)
write a + write b + close(2) DATA RST(2) DATA DATA+END_STREAM DATA DATA RST(2)
close(2) before respond RST(2) DATA+END_STREAM (no HEADERS) RST(2)
close() before respond RST(0) DATA+END_STREAM RST(0) RST(0)
end() before respond nothing DATA+END_STREAM (no HEADERS) nothing
end() then respond() HEADERS+END_STREAM DATA+END_STREAM then HEADERS, or respond() throws HEADERS+END_STREAM
write + destroy() DATA RST(0) DATA RST(0) DATA RST(0)
write + destroy(err) DATA RST(2) DATA RST(2) DATA RST(2)
write + close(2) + destroy() DATA RST(2) DATA RST(2) DATA RST(2)
end(200KB) + close(2) DATA(65535) RST(2) same same
end(200KB) + destroy() DATA(65535) RST(0) same same
write(200KB) + close(0) + destroy() DATA(65535) RST(0) same same
end("done") DATA+END_STREAM same same
write + end(chunk) DATA DATA+END_STREAM same same

With two buffered writes node drops the second chunk and bun flushes it before the reset. The reset is what matters to the peer, and it is there.

Two deliberate divergences from node.

  • close(code) with nothing queued to write. Node's SubmitRstStream flushes pending DATA before it submits the reset (nodejs/node#35695). When _final's shutdown has already queued the end-of-stream, that flush sends it and nghttp2 then suppresses the reset. So node answers respond(); close(INTERNAL_ERROR) with a clean 200 and no reset. Bun sends the reset.
  • stream.end(body); stream.close(INTERNAL_ERROR) in the same tick still emits the end-of-stream, because end(body) has already put END_STREAM on its DATA frame. Node defers serialization and can still retract it. This PR does not change that, and the body is complete in that case either way.

Snapshot change. The inline snapshot in the re-entrant toString fixture loses its req error ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL line. The fixture feeds the client a RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR), which is now the clean close it should have been, so the later client.destroy() has nothing left to cancel. The test still asserts signalCode and the exit code, which is the use-after-free property it guards.

Rebase. This was rebased across about 1350 commits on main, which had reworked the http2 write path (deferred write completion, EndStreamSent). RstPending moved to 1 << 9. The writeHead() guard left the diff because main landed it on its own. The isFinalWrite() guard and the first-wins reset are new in the rebase: the first path did not exist before, and the second replaces a dedup that could drop the reset.

Overlap. #33375 touches the same _final block for a different reason (respond() whose HEADERS carries END_STREAM). It is still open. Whichever lands second needs a small rebase.


[human-review] gate passed · iteration 7 · 3 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 14 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (4ff919377)

test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts:
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > server sends a SETTINGS frame first (§1.4) [572.56ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > server ACKs the client's SETTINGS frame (§3.5) [153.51ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS frame with a non-zero stream id is a PROTOCOL_ERROR (§3.5) [148.68ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS frame whose length is not a multiple of 6 is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR (§3.5) [79.83ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS ACK that carries a payload is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR (§3.5) [60.03ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > server replies to PING with a PING ACK echoing the payload [54.65ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > a PING with length != 8 is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR [66.76ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > a PING on a non-zero st
... (truncated)

release without fix: 14 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (4ff919377)

test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts:
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > server sends a SETTINGS frame first (§1.4) [11.33ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > server ACKs the client's SETTINGS frame (§3.5) [3.62ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS frame with a non-zero stream id is a PROTOCOL_ERROR (§3.5) [3.11ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS frame whose length is not a multiple of 6 is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR (§3.5) [1.57ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS ACK that carries a payload is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR (§3.5) [1.24ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > server replies to PING with a PING ACK echoing the payload [1.27ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > a PING with length != 8 is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR [1.26ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > a PING on a non-zero stream id is a PROTOCOL_ERROR [1.00ms]
(pass) WINDOW_UPDATE (checklist §6) > a connection-level WINDOW_UPDATE with a 0 increment is a PROTOCOL_ERROR [1.02ms]
(pass) WINDOW_UPDAT
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (4ff919377)

test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts:
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > server sends a SETTINGS frame first (§1.4) [606.58ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > server ACKs the client's SETTINGS frame (§3.5) [207.17ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS frame with a non-zero stream id is a PROTOCOL_ERROR (§3.5) [157.05ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS frame whose length is not a multiple of 6 is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR (§3.5) [73.93ms]
(pass) connection preface & SETTINGS handshake (checklist §1) > a SETTINGS ACK that carries a payload is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR (§3.5) [63.87ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > server replies to PING with a PING ACK echoing the payload [57.04ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > a PING with length != 8 is a FRAME_SIZE_ERROR [63.39ms]
(pass) PING (checklist §3.7) > a PING on a non-zero st
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 945ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/22] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 122 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=107, rust=0); 243 extern-C blocks audited
[2/22] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (14778ms)
Bundle modules (87ms)
Postprocesss modules (163ms)
Bundle Functions (594ms)
Generate Code (53ms)

[15.69s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2596 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[2/8] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
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... (truncated)
diff hotspot
src/js/node/http2.ts                      |  56 +++--
 src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs    |   7 +
 test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts | 327 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 371 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

gate history · 4 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 7

evidence per changed file
file                                       reads  edits  tests
src/js/node/http2.ts                          22     19     45
src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs        10      4     46
test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts      4     12     42

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This PR updates HTTP/2 reset handling across stream teardown, frame parsing, response validation, and conformance tests. It tracks reset submission state, handles NO_ERROR resets as clean completion, rejects closed-stream response APIs, and adds RFC 9113 coverage.

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HTTP/2 stream reset handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
NO_ERROR reset dispatch
src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs
Reports NO_ERROR resets as clean stream completion with a CLOSED stream state.
Reset state and stream teardown
src/js/node/http2.ts
Tracks pending and submitted resets, prevents duplicate RST_STREAM submission, and excludes reset-pending streams from normal END_STREAM finalization.
Closed-stream response validation
src/js/node/http2.ts
Response APIs reject destroyed, closed, or session-detached streams. respond() forces END_STREAM when required.
HTTP/2 reset conformance coverage
test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts
Tests reset ordering, duplicate prevention, closed-stream response APIs, clean resets, aborted responses, and the updated trailer snapshot.

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Good catch, fixed in ab75965 — respondWithFile and respondWithFD now guard on this.destroyed || this.closed, matching respond(), additionalHeaders(), and sendTrailers().

Confirmed node guards all four the same way:

$ node --expose-internals -e '...dump ServerHttp2Stream.prototype guards...'
--- respond:            if (this.destroyed || this.closed)
--- respondWithFile:    if (this.destroyed || this.closed)
--- respondWithFD:      if (this.destroyed || this.closed)
--- additionalHeaders:  if (this.destroyed || this.closed)

Two corrections to the framing, for the record:

This gap predates the PR. close() + respondWithFile() already failed to throw on released 1.4.0, so it isn't fallout from the deferred destroy. respond() was the one the PR changed (1.4.0 didn't throw there either):

after close(REFUSED_STREAM) node bun 1.4.0 before this commit after
respond throws no throw throws throws
additionalHeaders throws throws throws throws
respondWithFile throws no throw no throw throws
respondWithFD throws no throw no throw throws

It's the same bug class as the respond() guard, so it belongs in this PR either way.

The "nothing reaches the wire" assessment is correct, and I verified it rather than assuming — a raw-frame observer on close(REFUSED_STREAM) followed by respondWithFile/respondWithFD shows RST_STREAM code=7 and nothing else, on both node and bun. So the only divergence really was the missing synchronous throw.

New test covers all four entry points, asserting both the ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_STREAM throw and that RST_STREAM is the only frame on the stream. It fails on main, and it also fails against this PR with just the two guards reverted, so it pins the respondWith* gap specifically rather than riding on the respond() fix.

The 290 vendored node:http2 tests (20 of which exercise respondWithFile/respondWithFD) remain identical to main.

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src/js/node/http2.ts (1)

2341-2361: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Set RstPending before the ending check in _destroy(). close() does this unconditionally, but _destroy() only sets it on the non-ending path. If .end() has already queued _final() and .destroy() runs before it, _final() can still emit a clean END_STREAM before the deferred RST_STREAM. The current HTTP/2 coverage only exercises mid-body destroy/close cases, not end() -> destroy().

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In `@src/js/node/http2.ts` around lines 2341 - 2361, In Http2Stream._destroy(),
set bunHTTP2StreamStatus with StreamState.RstPending before checking
writableState.ending so the reset is always marked ahead of any queued
END_STREAM path. Update the _destroy() flow to match close() semantics by moving
the RstPending assignment out of the !ending branch, while keeping the aborted
handling and writable-state restore logic intact. This ensures destroy() after
end() still prioritizes RST_STREAM over a deferred clean close.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/js/node/http2.ts`:
- Around line 2831-2834: The respondWithFile() and respondWithFD() paths are
missing the same teardown guard already used by respond() and
additionalHeaders(). Update these methods in http2 to also fail fast when
this.session is undefined, alongside the existing destroyed/closed checks, so
they don’t schedule fs.open or fs.fstat during the teardown window.

In `@test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts`:
- Around line 847-874: The test in h2-conformance.test.ts waits for stream
closure with a bare promise on req.on("close"), which won’t fail fast if an
unexpected error occurs. Update the test around the client.request() flow to use
the already available once(req, "close") helper so the awaited promise rejects
on any unexpected 'error' event, while still asserting the expected events,
error code, and rstCode for the clean NO_ERROR reset case.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/js/node/http2.ts`:
- Around line 2341-2361: In Http2Stream._destroy(), set bunHTTP2StreamStatus
with StreamState.RstPending before checking writableState.ending so the reset is
always marked ahead of any queued END_STREAM path. Update the _destroy() flow to
match close() semantics by moving the RstPending assignment out of the !ending
branch, while keeping the aborted handling and writable-state restore logic
intact. This ensures destroy() after end() still prioritizes RST_STREAM over a
deferred clean close.
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Both inline findings are in 1d14cfa995. The third (the outside-diff one on _destroy) I'm declining, with the measurements below, because the suggested line cannot execute.

_destroy should set RstPending before the ending check — declined

If .end() has already queued _final() and .destroy() runs before it, _final() can still emit a clean END_STREAM before the deferred RST_STREAM.

_final can never run after destroy(). Writable.destroy() sets state.destroyed = true before _destroy is invoked, so needFinish() is false from that point on and the writable machinery will not call _final again. _destroy also nulls bunHTTP2Session, so even an already-deferred once("ready", _final) lands in the non-native branch and just calls back.

Instrumented _final on exactly the scenario described (end(200KB) leaves DATA queued behind the 65535-byte flow-control window, so _final has not run, then reset):

destroy:  _final never reached
close:    _final reached: destroyed=false session=live rstPending=true

And the wire, against node v26.3.0:

end(200KB) + destroy()                node: HEADERS DATA(65535) RST(0)   bun: HEADERS DATA(65535) RST(0)
end(200KB) + close(INTERNAL_ERROR)    node: HEADERS DATA(65535) RST(2)   bun: HEADERS DATA(65535) RST(2)

No END_STREAM in either. I also tried it the other way round, moving RstPending out of the branch as suggested, and rebuilt: the wire is byte-for-byte identical, which is what you would expect from a line that never runs.

The asymmetry with close() is deliberate. close() does not destroy the stream, so a _final sitting behind a queued write does run later, on a live session, which is the second line of that instrumented output. That is precisely why it is unconditional there. Making _destroy match would add a line whose condition cannot occur, and the next reader would have to re-derive why.

(There is also a native backstop: write_stream returns early when !stream.can_send_data(), which is false once the stream is CLOSED. But the JS guard is what makes the ordering irrelevant rather than lucky.)

What was worth taking from it

You were right that end() -> reset had no coverage, only the mid-body cases. Added in 1d14cfa995 as a test.each over close and destroy, resetting a stream whose end(body) is still queued behind the flow-control window and asserting no END_STREAM precedes the RST_STREAM.

The reset suite is now 9 tests. The 290 vendored node:http2 tests remain identical to main.

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Status: green. Head fbda71ce62 (two commits on current main), mergeable, build 114148 passed 181 of 181 with no test-failure annotations.

Both automated reviewers are clean on this head (no actionable comments, no issues found), and all inline threads are resolved.

How it was reproduced

A raw-frame observer: a node:http2 server under test, and a hand-rolled socket client that prints every frame the server puts on the wire. Run under node v26.3.0, under main, and under this branch.

respond(); write("partial"); close(INTERNAL_ERROR)      (GET)
node:  HEADERS DATA(7) RST_STREAM(2)
main:  HEADERS DATA(7) DATA(0)+END_STREAM
PR:    HEADERS DATA(7) RST_STREAM(2)

The full table is in the PR description. The end-to-end cases (real client, real server, a frame-logging proxy between them) match node too, including event order on both sides.

Local verification

  • test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts: 87 pass, 0 fail (17 in the new reset suite).
  • The 279 vendored node:http2 tests under test/js/node/test/{parallel,sequential}/ pass.
  • test/js/node/http2/: 534 pass. The 5s timeouts in DATA frame header straddling the cork flush and (on some runs) the forEachStream rehash test fail 3 of 3 on main's src/ in the same debug+ASAN container, and both pass in CI.

For the maintainer

What still wants a human eye is design, not correctness: the two deliberate divergences from node in the description, and the overlap with #33375 (still open) in the same _final block, which needs a small rebase whichever lands second.

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My earlier feedback and CodeRabbit's have all been addressed and I found nothing further, but this reworks HTTP/2 stream close/reset ordering across the JS and native layers with two documented deliberate Node divergences, so it warrants a human sign-off on the lifecycle changes.

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Overview

This PR fixes node:http2 server streams so that stream.close(code) and stream.destroy() actually put an RST_STREAM on the wire instead of a clean END_STREAM, which was causing aborted responses to be delivered to clients as successful complete responses. It touches three files: src/js/node/http2.ts (adds a StreamState.RstPending bit, changes _final/close/_destroy sequencing, and adds closed/session === undefined guards to writeHead/respond/respondWithFile/respondWithFD), src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs (routes inbound RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) to onStreamEnd instead of onStreamError), and test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts (nine new wire-level tests plus one snapshot line removed from an existing UAF regression test).

All prior review feedback has been addressed: my earlier inline comment about the missing this.closed guard on respondWithFile/respondWithFD was fixed in ab75965, and CodeRabbit's two findings (session === undefined guard, once() for fail-fast) were applied in 1d14cfa. A third suggestion was declined with instrumented measurements showing the line cannot execute. All inline threads are resolved. CI is 284/286 green with both failures being darwin agent infra (artifact download timeout, autobahn container arch mismatch) unrelated to this diff.

Security risks

None identified. The change tightens behavior (refusing work on closed streams, sending resets instead of clean closes) rather than loosening it. No auth, crypto, or untrusted-input parsing paths are touched.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is production-critical networking code that changes wire-level HTTP/2 protocol behavior and reorders the interaction between the JS Duplex writable state machine (_final, end(), _destroy) and the native frame emitter. The correctness argument depends on subtle ordering (e.g., _final never running after destroy() because needFinish() becomes false), and the PR explicitly documents two deliberate divergences from Node's behavior around close(code) with nothing queued and end(body); close() in the same tick. It also removes a line from an existing UAF-guard snapshot with a stated justification. The author has verified against the 290 vendored node:http2 tests and provided frame-by-frame comparisons against Node v26.3.0, but the design decisions (particularly the Node divergences and the RstPending state-bit approach vs. alternatives) merit maintainer review.

Other factors

The PR description notes overlap with #33375 in the same _final block, so whichever lands second needs a rebase — another reason for a human to coordinate the merge. Test coverage is thorough (GET/POST, mid-body/before-respond, close/destroy, end-then-reset with queued data, all four entry-point guards, client-side NO_ERROR handling), and the author's responses to review feedback were detailed and evidence-based.

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No bugs found, but this changes HTTP/2 stream-lifecycle wire behavior and documents two deliberate divergences from Node — worth a maintainer sign-off on the design, plus the coordination with #33375 in the same _final block.

What was reviewed:

  • RstPending flag flow through close()/_destroy()/_final — the flag is set before end() in both paths, and _final's short-circuit still sets WritableClosed and calls back.
  • The respondWithFile/respondWithFD guards now match respond()/additionalHeaders() (my earlier note, addressed in ab75965 + 1d14cfa).
  • The rewrite-engine on_rst_stream change routes only NO_ERROR to onStreamEnd, matching handle_rst_stream_frame.
  • The updated inline snapshot in the re-entrant toString fixture — the dropped ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL line is explained and the UAF property the test guards is unchanged.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Three files: src/js/node/http2.ts adds a StreamState.RstPending bit, sets it in close() and _destroy() before calling this.end(), and short-circuits _final on it so no empty DATA+END_STREAM precedes the deferred RST_STREAM. It also aligns the destroyed || closed || session === undefined guard across respond/respondWithFile/respondWithFD. src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs routes an inbound RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) in the rewrite engine's Sink::on_rst_stream to onStreamEnd instead of onStreamError, matching the legacy handle_rst_stream_frame. test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts adds nine wire-level tests and updates one existing inline snapshot.

Security risks

None identified. The change tightens behavior (aborted responses now surface as errors instead of complete 200s) and adds fail-fast guards. No auth/crypto/permission surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The mechanism is small and well-argued, but it sits in the Duplex lifecycle interaction (close/_destroy/_final/writable state) of node:http2, which is exactly the kind of ordering-sensitive code where subtle regressions hide. The PR itself calls out two deliberate divergences from Node (respond(); close(code) with nothing queued, and end(body); close(code) in the same tick) and an overlap with #33375 in the same block — both are design calls a maintainer should acknowledge before merge.

Other factors

All prior inline threads (mine on the respondWith* guards, CodeRabbit on the session === undefined guard and once(), and the comment-cop notes) are resolved. Test coverage is thorough: raw-frame assertions on GET vs POST, before-respond, destroy(), end(large)+reset, all four response entry-point guards, and both client-side reset paths. The 290 vendored node http2 tests are reported unchanged. CI is green except an unrelated artifact-download timeout. Given the protocol-semantics nature and the author's own note that the design deserves maintainer eyes, deferring rather than auto-approving.

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No bugs found, but deferring to a human — this reworks the HTTP/2 server stream close/destroy → _final → RST_STREAM ordering, and the author explicitly flagged the two deliberate Node divergences and the _final overlap with #33375 for maintainer sign-off.

Checked: the new RstPending flag is set on every path that schedules rstNextTick (both close() and the !ending arm of _destroy), and _final's new early-returns still call callback() so the writable settles. The widened !headersSent guard now covers odd-id streams without breaking the even-id pushed-stream stash. The respond* guards match the existing additionalHeaders() pattern. The dropped req error ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL snapshot line follows from routing RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) to onStreamEnd and the fixture's UAF property is still asserted via signalCode/exit.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Three files: src/js/node/http2.ts (+36/−9) adds a StreamState.RstPending bit, sets it in close() and _destroy() before end() runs, and teaches _final to settle the writable without emitting DATA+END_STREAM when a reset is pending or when a server stream never sent HEADERS. It also adds closed || session === undefined guards to respond/respondWithFile/respondWithFD and gates _destroy's deferred rstNextTick on !rstAlreadyPending. src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs (+7) routes an inbound RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) through onStreamEnd in the rewrite-engine bridge, matching handle_rst_stream_frame. test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts (+264/−2) adds a 9-test wire-level suite and updates one snapshot.

Security risks

None identified. This is protocol-conformance work: it tightens behavior (aborted responses now reach clients as errors rather than clean 200s) and adds fail-closed guards on already-closed streams. No auth, crypto, or untrusted-input parsing changes.

Level of scrutiny

High. HTTP/2 stream-state ordering is subtle: the interaction between Duplex _final/_destroy, the deferred setImmediate(rstNextTick), and the native stream map's eviction fallback has several paths (GET vs POST half-closed states, end() queued behind flow control, close() then destroy()). The PR description traces each and the tests cover them at the raw-frame level, but this is exactly the kind of state-machine change where a maintainer familiar with the h2 rewrite should confirm the design — which the author explicitly requested.

Other factors

  • All CodeRabbit and comment-cop threads are resolved; the remaining kept comments (the RstPending enum doc, the rstAlreadyPending why-comment, and the §8.1 cite in _final) were justified inline and match the file's existing 1–2 line doc convention.
  • The 290 vendored node:http2 parallel tests are reported identical to main; CI is green modulo an unrelated darwin artifact-download timeout.
  • Two documented deliberate divergences from Node (nghttp2's shutdown-flush suppressing the reset when nothing is queued; end(body); close() same-tick still emitting END_STREAM) are design calls, not bugs.
  • Known one-line rebase conflict with #33375 in the same _final block — merge order matters.
  • One existing inline snapshot loses a line; the reasoning is documented and the test's guarded property (no UAF under ASAN) is unchanged.

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My earlier finding (the missing this.closed guard on respondWithFile/respondWithFD) was addressed, along with the follow-on session === undefined guard and comment cleanup. This run found no further issues, but the change reshapes HTTP/2 server stream close/destroy wire behavior with two documented divergences from Node and an overlap with #33375 in _final, so a maintainer should sign off on the design.

What was reviewed:

  • RstPending ordering: set before end() in close(), captured before re-set in _destroy, checked after FinalCalled in _final — no window where a stale flag suppresses a legitimate reset or lets END_STREAM slip out.
  • The odd-id _final branch (server stream, no HEADERS sent): settles the writable without emitting DATA; verified pushed even-id streams still stash the callback for a later respond().
  • The Rust on_reset bridge routing NO_ERROR to onStreamEnd: matches handle_rst_stream_frame; the dropped req error ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL snapshot line is the fix surfacing, and the UAF property that test guards is still held by the signalCode/exitCode assertions.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Three files: src/js/node/http2.ts (+36 lines across close(), _destroy, _final, and the four respond* entry-point guards), src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs (+7 lines routing an inbound RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) through the rewrite-engine bridge to onStreamEnd instead of onStreamError), and ~260 lines of new wire-level tests in h2-conformance.test.ts plus one snapshot line removed from an existing UAF regression test.

The core fix introduces a StreamState.RstPending bit so that when close(code)/destroy() schedule an RST_STREAM, _final no longer races ahead and puts a clean END_STREAM on the wire. It also closes several adjacent gaps the deferred destroy exposed: respond/respondWithFile/respondWithFD now refuse a closed stream and a session-teardown window, _final on a server stream that never sent HEADERS no longer emits an illegal bare DATA frame, and _destroy no longer double-schedules the reset.

Security risks

None identified. This is Node-compat protocol semantics; no auth, crypto, or untrusted-input parsing paths are touched. The Rust change is a dispatch branch on an already-decoded error code.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is wire-level HTTP/2 behavior in the Node compat layer — a mistake here silently corrupts responses (which is exactly the bug being fixed). The change is well-scoped and exhaustively tested at the frame level against Node v26.3.0, and the 290 vendored node:http2 tests are unchanged. But the PR itself documents two deliberate divergences from Node's exact behavior (around close() with nothing queued, and end(body); close() in the same tick) and flags a rebase interaction with #33375 in the same _final block. Those are design calls a maintainer should ratify, not correctness issues an automated pass can settle.

Other factors

My prior review on this PR flagged the missing closed guard on respondWithFile/respondWithFD; that was fixed in a281d70 and extended with the session === undefined teardown guard in d99f833. All CodeRabbit and comment-cop threads are resolved. CI is 195/196 green with the one failure an unrelated require-cache RSS-threshold flake seen across other branches. The one weakened assertion (the removed req error ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL snapshot line) is explained inline and in the description as the fix's own effect on the fixture; the test's actual invariant — no UAF, clean exit — is still asserted.

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On it. The branch is 1349 commits behind main and conflicts: main's StreamState enum has since gained EndStreamSent = 1 << 7 and Delivered = 1 << 8, which collides with this PR's RstPending = 1 << 7. Rebasing onto current main, resolving, and re-running the wire-level comparison against node plus the vendored node:http2 sweep before I push.

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stream.close(code) and stream.destroy() scheduled an RST_STREAM but let
the writable side announce a clean end-of-stream first. On a server
stream whose request body is complete (any GET) that drives the native
stream to CLOSED, where the reset is dropped: the peer read an aborted
response as a complete one. On a stream whose request body is still
open the reset did go out, behind a spurious END_STREAM.

Mark the stream as having a reset pending before closing the writable
side. _final then settles without writing END_STREAM, and isFinalWrite
no longer lets the last buffered chunk carry it either: with a chunk
still queued in the Writable when close() runs, that chunk reaches
_write as the final one and would end the stream on its DATA frame.

close() and _destroy() each schedule the reset, and the native map-miss
fallback writes it again once the first has evicted the stream. Make the
submission first-wins on the stream rather than letting one path stand
down for the other: close(NO_ERROR) waits for 'finish' to reset, and a
destroy() that pre-empts 'finish' must still send it.

A server stream that reaches _final without having sent HEADERS has no
frame it may write (RFC 9113 8.1); settle the writable instead of
emitting DATA ahead of any response.

respond(), respondWithFile() and respondWithFD() refuse a closed stream
and a stream whose session is already gone, as node does.

An inbound RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) is a clean end of stream: route it to
onStreamEnd so 'end' fires before 'close', instead of destroying the
stream with the queued EOF still unread.
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Fixed and pushed as 6502029bfb: rebased onto current main (was 1349 commits behind), conflicts resolved, now one commit and mergeable.

The rebase was not mechanical. main's http2 write path changed underneath the fix (writes now complete on a later turn, and END_STREAM can ride the last DATA frame via EndStreamSent), so I re-measured everything on the wire against node v26.3.0 rather than trusting the old results. That turned up two things:

The reported bug is still live on main, now through a second path as well. With a chunk still queued in the Writable when close(code) runs, isFinalWrite() sees it as the last chunk and ends the stream on its DATA frame:

respond(); write("aaaa"); write("bbbb"); close(INTERNAL_ERROR)
node:  HEADERS DATA(4) RST(2)
main:  HEADERS DATA(4) DATA(4)+END_STREAM          <- no RST at all
PR:    HEADERS DATA(4) DATA(4) RST(2)

isFinalWrite() now checks RstPending too. New test; it fails with that one guard reverted.

A regression in this branch, which I have fixed. An earlier push deduplicated the reset by having _destroy() stand down whenever close() had already scheduled one. But close(NO_ERROR) waits for 'finish' before resetting, and a destroy() that pre-empts 'finish' left nobody to send it:

respond(); write(200KB); close(NO_ERROR); destroy()
node:  HEADERS DATA..65535 RST(0)
main:  HEADERS DATA..65535 RST(0)
PR before: HEADERS DATA..65535                      <- peer never told the stream closed
PR now:    HEADERS DATA..65535 RST(0)

Replaced with first-wins idempotence on the stream (RstSubmitted): every path that wants a reset schedules one and whichever runs first sends it. That cannot drop a reset, and still prevents the duplicate frame the dedup was for. New test for this too.

Also: RstPending moved to 1 << 9 (main took 1 << 7/1 << 8 for EndStreamSent/Delivered), the writeHead() guard dropped out of the diff because main landed it independently, and a Rust comment cited handle_rst_stream_frame, which main has since deleted as dead code.

Verification on the rebased tree

  • Wire-level comparison against node across 26 scenarios (GET and POST, close/destroy, before/after respond, buffered and flow-control-blocked bodies): matches node wherever node resets, never worse than main, ordinary end() responses byte-identical.
  • All 279 vendored node:http2 tests under test/js/node/test/{parallel,sequential}/ pass.
  • test/js/node/http2/: 531 pass. Two 5s timeouts (DATA frame header straddling the cork flush, the forEachStream rehash test) fail 3/3 on main's src/ in the same container, so they are debug+ASAN slowness here, not this diff.
  • h2-conformance.test.ts: 85 pass, 0 fail (15 in the new reset suite).

The two deliberate divergences from node are unchanged and still documented in the description. #33375 is still open, so the _final overlap I flagged has not bitten yet.

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A server stream that reaches _final before any HEADERS went out settles
its writable side without writing a frame. A respond() after that sent
HEADERS with no END_STREAM, and nothing else would ever end the stream,
so the peer got a response that never finished.

node supports end() followed by respond(): SubmitResponse sets
EMPTY_PAYLOAD when the stream is no longer writable, so END_STREAM rides
the HEADERS frame. Do the same.
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… carries END_STREAM (#42348)

### Problem

- A `node:http2` stream emits no `'end'` when a listener calls
`close(code)` with an error code (2, 7, 11) after the peer's half ended
on a HEADERS frame: server `'stream'` and `'trailers'`, client
`'response'` and `'trailers'`, the `pushStream()` callback. Node v26.3.0
and Bun 1.4.2 emit `'end'`, `'error'`, `'close'`. Main skips `'end'`.
- Both `streamHeaders` handlers (`src/js/node/http2.ts`) emit the event
inside the HEADERS dispatch. The frame's END_STREAM reaches the readable
only in the later `streamEnd` dispatch, after the listener's ticks
drain. By then the error has destroyed the stream and suppressed
`'end'`. A pushed server stream never got an EOF.
- `close()` hid this with an unconditional `push(null)` until #33607
(fc479fb) gated it.

### Fix

- `endInboundHalf()` gives the readable its EOF. Both `streamHeaders`
handlers call it before the event of a HEADERS frame that carries
END_STREAM. `pushStream()` calls it for the new stream. Node's
`onSessionHeaders` and `pushStream` do the same.
- The `close()` gate stays. With the peer's half still open, an error
code gives no `'end'`, as on Node.
- Verified: `test/js/node/http2/node-http2-client-close.test.ts` (56 new
cases, 24 fail on main, all 68 pass on Node v26.3.0). Also
`test/js/node/http2/`, Node's `test-http2-*`, grpc-js, `serve-http2`,
fetch HTTP/2.

### Background

- The native frame parser calls JS once per event: `streamHeaders` for a
header block, then `streamEnd` if the frame carried END_STREAM. The
`nextTick` queue drains between the two.
- `push(null)` gives a Readable its EOF. `'end'` fires a tick later,
unless the stream has an error by then.
- `close(code)` with a code other than NO_ERROR or CANCEL destroys the
stream with `ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR`.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

The regression is unreleased. A fuzz ledger found it, no user reported
it.

"Before" below is `1.4.3-canary.1+4ff919377`, the last build before
#33607. The report measured the same sequences on 1.4.2.

Server-side events for `close(2)` inside the `'stream'` listener. The
client sent `request({':path':'/'}).end()` with no body:

| when | Node v26.3.0 | before | main | this PR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| sync | aborted, finish, end, error, close | as Node | aborted, finish,
error, close | as Node |
| nextTick | aborted, end, finish, error, close | as Node | aborted,
finish, error, close | as Node |
| setImmediate | end, aborted, finish, error, close | as Node | as Node
| as Node |
| setTimeout | end, aborted, finish, error, close | as Node | as Node |
as Node |

Codes 7 and 11 behave like 2. Codes 0 and 8 agree on all four builds.

The other sites, `close(2)` or `close(11)` in the listener or one tick
later. The column says whether `'end'` fires before `'error'`:

| listener | Node v26.3.0 | before | main | this PR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| server `'stream'`, after `respond({endStream: true})` | yes | yes | no
| yes |
| server `'trailers'` | yes | yes | no | yes |
| client `'response'`, response ended on HEADERS (204) | yes | yes | no
| yes |
| client `'trailers'` | yes | yes | no | yes |
| `pushStream()` callback | yes | yes | no | yes |

Three probe scripts cover these sites with codes 0, 8, 2, 11 (and 7 for
the push), sync and nextTick. Their output on this branch is identical
to Node v26.3.0 on all 82 cells.

Cells that #33607 moved to Node's sequence and that this PR keeps
(`'end'` for `close(2)` on a server stream):

| request | close(2) runs | Node v26.3.0 | before | main and this PR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `end('hello')` | sync or nextTick in `'stream'` | no `'end'` | `'end'`
| no `'end'` |
| `end('hello')` | in `'data'`, or a tick after it | no `'end'` |
`'end'` | no `'end'` |
| never ended | sync, nextTick, setImmediate, setTimeout | no `'end'` |
`'end'` | no `'end'` |

END_STREAM on a DATA frame is not part of this change. nghttp2 ignores
frames for a stream that `close()` already reset, so Node emits no
`'end'` in the `'data'` rows above, and main already agrees.

Sites left out on purpose:

- The client `'headers'` event (a 1xx block). A 1xx block with
END_STREAM is malformed. Node reports it as `'response'`. Nothing
changes there.
- The client `streamPush` handler (PUSH_PROMISE). A PUSH_PROMISE cannot
carry END_STREAM.

The two shapes the report proposed, and why this PR uses neither:

- "Apply the gate only to client streams" brings back `'end'` on server
streams whose request is still open. Node does not emit it there. It
also leaves the client `'response'` and `'trailers'` cells broken.
- "Apply the gate only when the readable has not received END_STREAM":
in the failing cells the JS readable has not received it yet when
`close()` runs. That is the defect. `close()` would have to ask the
native layer, and any other code that looks at the readable inside the
listener would still see the stale state.

Related open PRs:

- #33380 (server-side RST_STREAM) is why the client still sees
`rstCode=0` and no `'error'` in the no-body cells. It does not touch
these hunks. With it, `close()` no longer sends END_STREAM first, so
some `'stream'` cells would pass without this change. The `after
respond()` cells stay red without it on both main and #33380.
- #41945 gives `rstCode` a default of 0. If it lands, the `rstCode`
guard in `endInboundHalf()` is dead and can go.

`endInboundHalf()` also sets `rstCode = 0` when no reset set it, as the
`streamEnd` handlers did. Without that, a listener that resumes the
stream inside `'stream'` reads `rstCode === undefined` in its `'end'`
handler, because `'end'` now fires before the `streamEnd` dispatch. Node
reports 0.

The Node cross-check inside the test file is now skipped on musl.
Alpine's `node` segfaults at a random point of this file under `node
--test` (alpine 3.23 aarch64, also on main in build 114123, before this
change). The CI runner fails a file for any new core dump, whichever
process wrote it. The glibc, macOS and Windows lanes keep the
cross-check.

Suites run on the debug build: `test/js/node/http2/` (576 pass, 6 skip),
261 `test-http2-*` and 18 `test-diagnostics-channel-http2-*` Node tests,
`serve-http2`, `serve-http2-protocol`, `serve-http2-lifecycle`,
`node-http2-ping-flood-staged`, `fetch-http2-client`,
`fetch-http2-adversarial`, `fetch-http2-leak`, `undici-h2`, `wpt-h2`,
`grpc-js`, the http2 regression tests (25589, 24924, 26915, 29073).

Local failures that also occur without the change: the
`test-outlier-detection.test.ts` ejection tests (5 s timeouts on a
loaded debug build, they flip between runs on main too), `test tonic
server`, the grpc-js DNS tests (no network), `http2-wrapper.test.ts`
(ECONNREFUSED, on the release build too), one
`AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts` timing test (debug build timeout).

</details>

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**no test proof** · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/js/node/http2/node-http2-client-close.test.ts

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A note for the merge of this PR and #43558. They share the _final hunk, the respond() hunk and the three closed checks with the same text, so those merge cleanly in either order.

The RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) hunk in on_stream_reset differs. With the hunk in this PR, a peer NO_ERROR reset reaches streamEnd(7) while the writable side can still be open. The handler then waits for 'end' and does not end the writable side. A client that still uploads (file.pipe(req)) after an early response plus RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) keeps writing to a stream that the native side already closed, and writeStream throws Invalid stream id after the stream id is evicted. #43558 passes a flag with that dispatch and ends the writable side at reset time, with 'aborted' first, like node's closeStream. Keep the #43558 version of that hunk when the two meet.

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robobun commented Sep 19, 2026 •

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A correction to my note above, after the review of #43558. The two PRs still share the respond() hunk, the closed checks and the _final logic. The RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) hunk of #43558 changed:

  • It covers the client role only. A paused server stream with an empty buffer never reached 'end' on the new path, so the server role keeps onStreamError (destroy on the next tick).
  • It does not end() the writable side at reset time. A write between end() and 'finish' raised an uncaught ERR_STREAM_WRITE_AFTER_END. The client emits 'aborted', holds later writes so backpressure stops a piped source, and fails them with ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED in _destroy.
  • With the closed checks, the two error branches of doSendFileFD must skip respond() for a closed stream, or the fstat callback throws. node:http2: never send or accept DATA before the response HEADERS #43558 has that guard.

The hunk in this PR routes both roles to streamEnd(7), so the first two cases apply here.

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