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Problem

  • Each stopped Bun.serve({ development: true }) kept its file watcher alive: one thread, one inotify instance (or kqueue and mach port, or directory handle and IOCP) and the Box<Watcher>. After N servers the next one fails with EMFILE while initializing file watcher for development server.
  • Watcher::shutdown (src/watcher/Watcher.rs) only cleared running under the mutex. The watcher thread was parked in a blocking read(), kevent() or GetQueuedCompletionStatus() and never read the flag until a file changed.

Fix

  • shutdown() now calls a per-platform wake() under the mutex. Linux: an eventfd that read() polls with ppoll() next to the inotify fd. macOS: a mach port on the kqueue through the existing io_darwin_create_machport helper, with every kqueue call moved to the new bun_sys::kevent64 because XNU rejects kevent() on a kqueue that kevent64() has touched. FreeBSD: EVFILT_USER. Windows: PostQueuedCompletionStatus with a null OVERLAPPED.
  • Ownership is decided under the mutex. shutdown() locks before it reads watchloop_handle, and thread_body clears that flag under the same lock when it hands the allocation back after a watch error. One release() stops the platform and closes the watch fds on whichever side frees the Box.
  • Windows keeps one ReadDirectoryChangesW outstanding (read_pending, the same flag as Windows: fix a watcher panic and lost events in a burst of file changes, and a --hot that stops watching a deleted file #44344), and stop() cancels it with CancelIoEx and dequeues its packet before the buffer is freed.
  • Verified: test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts (new case: two dev servers started and stopped in the test process, then a poll until /proc/self/fd holds no more inotify instances than before. It passes in under 0.5s warm with the fix and fails with Received: 2 on the released bun. Also green under CI's LeakSanitizer env). Also test/cli/hot/, test/cli/watch/, test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts, test/js/node/watch/fs.watch.test.ts. cargo check -p bun_watcher on linux, darwin, windows and freebsd.

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Downsides

  • Per watcher: one more fd on Linux (the eventfd), one mach port plus a 1 KiB receive buffer on macOS. Per blocking wait on Linux: one ppoll() before the read(), in place of the futex wait it replaces, so the syscall count per event batch is unchanged.
  • Per shutdown(): one mutex lock on the no-thread path that had none. Per stop() on Windows: CancelIoEx plus one GetQueuedCompletionStatus when a read is pending.
  • Binary size not measured: no release build of the merge base and the PR was made here.
Notes

Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 2 addressed (Windows aligned to #44344's read_pending; #30644 is superseded by this PR and noted above for a maintainer to close). Rejected: building on bun_io::waker instead of the io_darwin_* helpers. LinuxWaker and KEventWaker have no close path, KEventWaker::init_with_file_descriptor is crate-private, and bun_watcher would take a dependency on bun_io for one eventfd write.

Earlier history of this PR: the first version used EVFILT_USER on both Darwin and FreeBSD (rejected in review), then the mach port with plain kevent() (EINVAL on both darwin lanes, build 122375), then kevent64() for every call (green on darwin, build 122423). The watch_count futex in INotifyWatcher is gone: an inotify fd with no watches never becomes readable, so ppoll() already blocks there and the eventfd is the only way out.

Hand-back path: thread_body stops the platform before it clears watchloop_handle, so a --hot process whose watcher failed closes its fds at once, as on main. wake() after stop() is a no-op on every platform. on_error runs under the mutex, like on_file_update; both implementations (DevServer::on_watch_error, NewHotReloader::on_error) only print.

The regression test moved from its own file into test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts and runs in the test process: a child's exit under ASAN plus LeakSanitizer took 0.6 to 2 s by itself, which made the earlier shape flaky against the 5 s default. The LeakSanitizer exclusion added earlier is dropped: with BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 and test/leaksan.supp the file passes locally with the fix.

Repro:

import html from "./index.html";
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  const s = Bun.serve({ port: 0, development: true, static: { "/": html }, fetch: () => new Response("") });
  await (await fetch(s.url)).text();
  s.stop(true);
}
// /proc/self/fd now has 10 anon_inode:inotify entries

no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts

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Found 3 issues this PR may fix:

  1. Intermittent ASAN heap-use-after-free in bake dev-server deinit (test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts) #34850 - PR adds mutex barrier in thread_main preventing use-after-free race during dev-server watcher teardown
  2. bun run dev, crashes after running killall bun #15329 - PR fixes leaked inotify instances from improper watcher shutdown, which caused ProcessFdQuotaExceeded when restarting after killall bun
  3. using --watch giving too many files issue #18717 - PR ensures inotify fds are properly cleaned up on shutdown, preventing EMFILE from exhausted max_user_instances

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Fixes #34850
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This PR may be a duplicate of:

  1. watcher: wake the watcher thread on shutdown so torn-down dev servers release it #30644 - Both PRs add per-platform wake() methods to the same 4 watcher files (INotifyWatcher.rs, KEventWatcher.rs, WindowsWatcher.rs, Watcher.rs), both use EVFILT_USER on macOS, and both fix watcher thread leaks on shutdown. watcher: wake the watcher thread on shutdown so a stopped dev server releases it #36253 replaces watcher: wake the watcher thread on shutdown so torn-down dev servers release it #30644's futex-based Linux wake with eventfd+ppoll to also cover threads blocked in inotify read(), but the two PRs have substantial code overlap and cannot both merge cleanly.

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Watcher shutdown now signals blocked platform waits and coordinates thread ownership during cleanup. Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows watchers add or update wake and teardown handling. A Linux-only test checks inotify descriptor counts after repeated development-server start and stop cycles.

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Watcher shutdown lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Watcher ownership and shutdown
src/watcher/Watcher.rs, src/watcher/WatcherTrace.rs
Watcher startup detaches the thread. Shutdown checks thread ownership, signals the platform when needed, and centralizes cleanup. Drop releases watchlist elements, and the trace deinitialization function is removed.
inotify eventfd wakeup
src/watcher/INotifyWatcher.rs
INotifyWatcher replaces futex waiting with ppoll() on the inotify and eventfd descriptors. wake() signals the eventfd, and stop() closes it.
kqueue platform wake and event handling
src/watcher/KEventWatcher.rs, src/watcher/Watcher.rs, src/sys/lib.rs, src/io/io_darwin.cpp
Kqueue watchers use platform-specific event types and wake mechanisms. Event processing filters to VNODE events. macOS adds a kevent64 wrapper and Mach-port cleanup; watcher registration uses the platform-specific kqueue API.
Windows pending-read lifecycle
src/watcher/WindowsWatcher.rs, src/sys/windows/mod.rs
WindowsWatcher tracks pending reads, cancels and drains a pending operation before closing handles, and posts a completion packet for wakeups. The Windows declarations add CancelIoEx and PostQueuedCompletionStatus.
Development-server watcher release validation
test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts
A Linux-only test runs 10 development-server start and stop cycles. It requires zero net inotify descriptors and a successful exit, and checks stderr for error:.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5dda8

The watcher shutdown change is mostly sound, but an earlier ownership concern on the thread error path is still open. The new Linux test also violates the repository's no-timeout rule and could fail spuriously under load. Resolve these before merging; neither is likely to cause broad production impact.

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19-30: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial

Sound UAF-avoidance; leak-until-exit is preserved as documented, not newly introduced.

The armed latch never resets to false, so in practice stop() will leak dir_handle/iocp for essentially every watcher that has processed at least one wait cycle — but that matches this PR's stated intent (wake() stays a no-op on Windows; avoid a UAF from closing handles under a pending ReadDirectoryChangesW). The proper fix (CancelIoEx + IOCP drain before heap::take) is called out in the comment but not tracked as a follow-up issue here, and the new regression test explicitly skips Windows, so this remains unverified going forward.

Worth filing a follow-up issue for the CancelIoEx fix so the Windows-side leak doesn't get forgotten?

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- Around line 19-32: Handle failures from the EVFILT_USER registration kevent
call in KEventWatcher::new instead of discarding its result. Propagate the error
through new’s existing crate::Result return path (and ensure the watcher fd is
not returned) so wake() only operates after WAKE_EVENT_IDENT is successfully
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84-94: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the fixture’s stderr is empty.

not.toContain("error:") is case-sensitive and allows other diagnostics to pass silently. Since the child uses bunEnv, assert the repository’s stronger empty-stderr invariant.

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Run this regression test only on Linux.

test.skipIf(isWindows) still executes on macOS/FreeBSD, but scan() returns zero counts there and the resource assertions are skipped, so those runs do not validate watcher release. Use test.skipIf(!isLinux) for this Linux /proc and inotify-specific test.

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Rebased onto main 37471e5. The rebase changes source lines, and one commit is new.

The change request of 07-29 (use the waker that uses a machport, not EVFILT_USER)

macOS registers a mach port on the kqueue of the watcher with io_darwin_create_machport, the helper that bun_io::waker::KEventWaker uses. wake() sends to the port with io_darwin_schedule_wakeup, and stop() releases it with io_darwin_close_machport. EVFILT_USER is left only for FreeBSD, which has no mach ports. The commits are fab20d3 and e459d2d (e127d41 and 6e4417d before the rebase).

What the rebase changed

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  • test/bake/dev-server-watcher-release.test.ts fails with bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 (release) and passes with the debug (ASAN) build.
  • cargo check -p bun_watcher passes for aarch64-apple-darwin, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and x86_64-unknown-freebsd.
  • Not compiled here: io_darwin.cpp.

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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟣 src/watcher/Watcher.rs — pre-existing: a dev server stopped while its watcher thread is reporting a watch error can free the Watcher under that thread and crash. Watcher.rs:300 still keys shutdown() off watchloop_handle, which thread_body clears at Watcher.rs:374 before it calls on_error, takes the mutex barrier, runs platform.stop() and reads the watchlist. The PR text says shutdown() now uses thread.is_some(); commit 2f0dd2c only touched the test, so that change is absent. Fix: decide ownership from state the thread never writes (thread.is_some(), or clear the flag only after the last self access), so shutdown() never frees *this while thread_body is still running. [also at: src/watcher/Watcher.rs:304 - A dev server stopped while its watcher thread is failing can write 8 bytes into an unrelated, reused fd. In thread_body the Err arm stores watchloop_handle=false before the mutex barrier, and the barrier only orders against a shutdown() that already holds mutex; a shutdown() that loaded watchloop_handle==true a moment earlier then calls platform.wake() at Watcher.rs:304 while the thread is inside platform.stop() closing wake_fd (INotifyWatcher.rs:407-410) or the machport.]

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    watch_loop returns Err on the watcher thread (Windows: GetQueuedCompletionStatus fails after the project root is deleted, WindowsWatcher.rs:325; macOS/Linux: a kevent()/read() error). thread_body stores watchloop_handle=false at Watcher.rs:374, then calls on_error, then locks/unlocks self.mutex, calls self.platform.stop() and reads self.close_descriptors and self.watchlist.items_fd() (Watcher.rs:384-398). If the JS thread calls server.stop() in that window, DevServer deinit calls Watcher::shutdown (DevServer.rs:1090); Watcher.rs:300 sees watchloop_handle false, takes the free branch and heap::take(this) + drop at Watcher.rs:325-331. The thread then touches freed memory (mutex, platform, watchlist) — a use-after-free. The base branch has the same window, so this is pre-existing, but the PR description claims it was closed by keying shutdown() off self.thread, and commit 2f0dd2c only changed test/bake/dev-server-watcher-release.test.ts.

    Verification: pre-existing (the base fails by the same route; the PR touches both sides of the race but does not close it). Watcher.rs:300 if me.watchloop_handle.load() { still decides the free; thread_body line 374 self.watchloop_handle.store(false); precedes self.mutex.lock(), self.platform.stop() and self.watchlist.items_fd() (lines 387-398). git show 2f0dd2ce --stat lists only the test file.

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XNU ties a kqueue to the event struct of the first call made on it.
io_darwin_create_machport registers the mach port with kevent64(), so the
plain kevent() calls that add a watch and wait for events failed with
EINVAL on macOS. Every dev server printed "EINVAL: Invalid argument:
failed to watch files for hot-reloading (kevent)" on both darwin lanes.

KEvent is kevent64_s on Darwin and kevent on FreeBSD. kevent_call() calls
kevent64() on Darwin, as bun_io does for its loop, and kevent() on FreeBSD.
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Buildkite 122375 on ff3d8be failed on both darwin lanes, and only there. Every dev server printed EINVAL: Invalid argument: failed to watch files for hot-reloading (kevent), so test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts, dev-and-prod.test.ts and the test/bake/dev/ files failed or timed out.

  • Cause: XNU ties a kqueue to the event struct of the first call made on it. io_darwin_create_machport registers the mach port with kevent64(). The watcher then added its watches and waited with plain kevent(), which fails with EINVAL on that kqueue.
  • This is not from the rebase. The darwin lanes did not run for the mach port commit on 07-29 (the agents expired), so this path never ran in CI before.
  • Fix in da1fc4a: on macOS every call on the kqueue of the watcher is kevent64() with kevent64_s, as bun_io does for its loop. FreeBSD keeps kevent().
  • Checked here: cargo check -p bun_watcher for aarch64-apple-darwin, x86_64-apple-darwin and x86_64-unknown-freebsd. I cannot run macOS here, so the darwin lanes of the new build are the test.

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🟠 Major · Wait for thread completion before reclaiming the watcher. · Watcher.rs:325

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Wait for thread completion before reclaiming the watcher.

If watch_loop() returns an error, Line 374 clears watchloop_handle before thread_body finishes. A concurrent shutdown() can then take the no-thread path and drop this allocation while the watcher thread still calls on_error, accesses the mutex, or runs platform.stop(). The new mutex barrier does not protect this path.

Use a completion or ownership handoff that prevents reclamation until thread_body finishes. An existing JoinHandle does not establish that the thread has completed.

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Review comment at @src/watcher/Watcher.rs at line 325:
Update the watcher reclamation path around `bun_core::heap::take(this)` so
`shutdown()` cannot reclaim the allocation until `thread_body` has finished,
including when `watch_loop()` returns an error and clears `watchloop_handle`.
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Buildkite 122423 on da1fc4a: both darwin lanes now pass test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts, dev-and-prod.test.ts and the test/bake/dev/ files. The EINVAL ... (kevent) error is gone, so the kevent64() change holds on macOS.

The build is still red from two files that this diff does not touch:

  • test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts on debian 13 x64-asan. It also fails on main.
  • test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts on darwin x64.

The other entries passed on retry.

…se bun_sys::kevent64

Watcher.rs: shutdown() takes the mutex before it reads watchloop_handle,
and thread_body clears the flag under the same mutex when it hands the
allocation back after a watch error. One release() runs platform.stop()
and closes the watch fds on whichever side frees the Box. The JoinHandle
field is gone: the thread is never joined.

WindowsWatcher.rs: wake() posts an empty completion packet, which next()
returns as "no events" so watch_loop re-checks running. read_pending says
whether the kernel holds the buffer, so next() starts one read at a time
and stop() cancels it with CancelIoEx and dequeues its packet before it
closes the handles.

KEventWatcher.rs: the kqueue calls go through bun_sys::kevent64 on macOS.
A failed mach port registration is an error. An empty batch skips
dispatch_file_updates. wake() after stop() is a no-op on every platform.

The release test moves into test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts and no
longer needs a LeakSanitizer exclusion.
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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 nit, I also checked the reworked ownership handoff in 5dda897: the thread's free path in thread_body is only reachable after shutdown() has stored running=false, and the error hand-back clears watchloop_handle under the same mutex shutdown() takes, so neither side can free *this under the other. on_error now runs under that mutex, but both implementations (DevServer on_watch_error, hot_reloader on_error) only log and never re-enter shutdown() or the mutex. The release(true) fd close on the thread path matches what thread_body already did under close_descriptors before this PR, so it is not new behaviour for the resolver cache.

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The latest push (5dda897) reworks the Watcher ownership protocol (shutdown/thread_body/release), the macOS kevent64 switch, and the Windows CancelIoEx path; this note records the concurrency checks done on that new commit that found no defect. A CHANGES_REQUESTED review from a human maintainer is still outstanding with no visible reply, so approval is not appropriate.

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Code review completed

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@robobun robobun changed the title watcher: wake blocked inotify read() / kevent() on shutdown watcher: wake the watcher thread on shutdown so a stopped dev server releases it Oct 2, 2026
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Pushed 5dda897, 44f7e4e, 098c6dc and 5c88ac0 on top of the kevent64 change. CI is green on 5c88ac0 (build 122865, 181 of 181 jobs).

  • Ownership is decided under the mutex: shutdown() locks before it reads watchloop_handle, and thread_body clears the flag under the same lock when it hands the allocation back after a watch error. One release() stops the platform and closes the watch fds on whichever side frees the Box. This closes the hand-back race flagged above.
  • Windows: wake() posts an empty completion packet, next() starts one ReadDirectoryChangesW at a time (read_pending, the same flag as Windows: fix a watcher panic and lost events in a burst of file changes, and a --hot that stops watching a deleted file #44344), and stop() cancels it with CancelIoEx and dequeues its packet before the buffer is freed. No handle is leaked any more.
  • macOS: the kqueue calls go through bun_sys::kevent64, next to bun_sys::kevent. A failed mach port registration is an error instead of a silent no-wake.
  • The test runs in the test process: two dev servers, then a poll until /proc/self/fd holds no more inotify instances than before. It passes in under 0.5 s warm with the fix and fails with Received: 2 on the released bun. No per-test timeout, no LeakSanitizer exclusion.

Checked with cargo check -p bun_watcher on linux, darwin, windows and freebsd, and the hot, watch and bake suites locally. #30644 is superseded by this PR.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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