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…Windows The thread-local output buffers behind join_abs_string / join_abs_string_z / join / join_z were a platform-agnostic [u8; 4096]. On Windows MAX_PATH_BYTES is 98302, so any caller of FileSystem::abs() (or a direct join_abs_string call) with a path whose normalized length landed in [4096, 98302) aborted the process with a slice-index panic in normalize_string_generic_tz. Size the buffers to max(MAX_PATH_BYTES, 4096) and back them with a lazily heap-allocated pointer (the existing LazyPathBuf pattern) so the Windows .tls section stays at 8 bytes per buffer instead of ~96KB of zeros. Also guard the unbounded FileSystem::abs() fallback in bun:ffi dlopen, which reached the same primitive with no upstream length check on any platform.
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Beyond the inline nit, I also checked: the pub(crate) → private visibility drop on JOIN_BUF — no other in-crate users; the LazyJoinBuf unsafe pattern — mirrors the existing LazyPathBuf/lazy_path_buf a few lines down (same heap::into_raw/take pairing, same &'static mut contract, same Drop); and Box::new_zeroed() — already used elsewhere in-tree so the feature is enabled.
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The one finding is a diagnostic-quality nit on degenerate input. The core change touches a widely-used path primitive with new unsafe thread-local storage, so leaving for a human to confirm the TLS sizing decision (2×~96 KB lazily per thread on Windows) and the scoping vs #35863. The mechanical concerns I could verify statically are noted in the message.
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…ary names The previous name.len() guard ignored top_level_dir, so a relative library name whose cwd+name exceeded the join buffer still reached the slice-index panic. abs_buf_checked returns None on overflow regardless of how the length is reached. Also swap the open-coded Box::new_zeroed().assume_init() for the existing bun_core::boxed_zeroed helper.
When the first DynLib::open reached the loader (name.len() < MAX_PATH_BYTES), dlerror()/GetLastError() is fresh regardless of whether the fallback short-circuited. Keying on last_err could discard a rich dlerror on macOS/BSD when cwd + a short library name exceeded 1024 bytes.
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Both earlier inline findings are addressed in cd9b949 and I didn't find anything new, but this reworks the thread-local output buffers behind join_abs_string/join (~40 indirect callers via FileSystem::abs()) with a new lazy-heap unsafe-pointer type and platform-dependent sizing — worth a maintainer sign-off on the approach.
What was reviewed:
LazyJoinBufmirrorsLazyPathBuf(same file) — alloc/Drop pairing,'static mutcontract, andboxed_zeroedbound all check out.TL_JOIN_BUF_LENkeeps the 4096 floor on POSIX so no caller sees reduced capacity;JOIN_BUFgoing private has no other in-crate references.- FFI: keying the fallback message on
name.len() >= MAX_PATH_BYTESis sound — the firstDynLib::openreaches the loader iffname.len() < MAX_PATH_BYTES, sodlerror()is fresh regardless of whetherabs_buf_checkedreturnsNoneor the second open short-circuits. - Tests drain pipes concurrently, use
test.concurrent.each, assert exit code last.
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Overview
Resizes the two thread-local join output buffers (PARSER_JOIN_INPUT_BUFFER, JOIN_BUF) from a fixed [u8; 4096] to max(MAX_PATH_BYTES, 4096), backing them with a new LazyJoinBuf heap-pointer type so Windows keeps 8 bytes in .tls instead of ~96 KB of zeros. Separately refactors the bun:ffi dlopen fallback to use abs_buf_checked into a pooled PathBuffer and to key its stale-dlerror fallback on name.len(). Adds Rust unit tests and two JS subprocess regression tests.
Security risks
None. This is defensive hardening: user-reachable slice-index panics (process abort under panic = "abort") become recoverable errors. No new attack surface; buffer capacity only grows.
Level of scrutiny
High. join_abs_string / join back FileSystem::abs() and ~40 direct callers across install/CLI/resolver/bake — a foundational primitive. The new LazyJoinBuf carries unsafe raw-pointer deref and a Drop impl. That said, it is a byte-for-byte copy of LazyPathBuf a few lines below (an accepted in-tree pattern), and the 4096 floor guarantees no POSIX caller sees reduced capacity.
Other factors
- Two prior inline findings from me (stale
dlerroron the skipped-fallback path; macOS diagnostic regression when only the fallback short-circuits) are both resolved by cd9b949'sname.len() >= MAX_PATH_BYTESgate +abs_buf_checkedswitch. I re-tracedDynLib::openatsrc/sys/lib.rs:6107andjoin_abs_string_buf_checkedto confirm the invariant holds on macOS (MAX_PATH_BYTES = 1024). JOIN_BUFvisibility drop (pub(crate)→ private) andJOIN_BUF_LEN→TL_JOIN_BUF_LENrename have no other in-crate references.- The PR description explicitly scopes out inputs that normalize above the host limit (deferred to #35863) — a maintainer should confirm that scoping is agreed.
- CI build #85105 was still running at last timeline update; the Windows-specific behavior (98302-byte buffer,
ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPEin the manifest test) is only verifiable there.
Deferring because the blast radius (core path primitive, new unsafe TLS type, platform-dependent sizing) warrants a maintainer glance even though I found nothing wrong with the final revision.
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The import { dlopen } from "bun:ffi";
dlopen("/" + "a".repeat(5000) + ".so", { f: { args: [], returns: "void" } });
// panic: range end index 5003 out of range for slice of length 4095 (exit 134)
dlopen("a".repeat(5000) + ".so", { f: { args: [], returns: "void" } });
// panic: range end index 5014 out of range for slice of length 4095 (exit 134)A name of 4,090 bytes throws This branch no longer merges into main. Its base is from July 28. The conflicts are:
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Conflicts: - src/paths/resolve_path.rs: keep the lazily heap-backed join buffers and use TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN as the one capacity constant. join_abs_string_spill and its tests from main now compare against it. Keep both sets of tests. - src/runtime/ffi/ffi_body.rs: keep the checked dlopen fallback on top of the JsResult signature of FFI::open.
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Merged main (4ada08b) into the branch in 564d106. Nothing was force-pushed. Conflict resolution:
Checked after the merge, on Linux x64 and Windows x64: both test files fail on the current canary with the slice index panic and pass with this branch ( The |
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things in this revision and ruled them out: LazyJoinBuf (drop-at-thread-teardown, &'static mut into a heap box) is the same shape as the pre-existing LazyPathBuf in the same file, so it introduces no new lifetime hazard relative to the base branch; and the dlopen fallback now holds a path_buffer_pool guard while DynLib::open takes a second one, which is fine since the pool pops or allocates fresh rather than sharing a single buffer.
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The change resizes two thread-local path-join buffers in src/paths/resolve_path.rs to max(MAX_PATH_BYTES, 4096) behind a lazily heap-allocated Cell pointer, and rewires the bun:ffi dlopen fallback in src/runtime/ffi/ffi_body.rs to use the bounds-checked abs_buf_checked with a pooled buffer. No security-sensitive surface beyond path handling; the inline findings already flag the remaining exact-length boundary and the relative-path case the per-part guard does not cover.
Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):
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src/runtime/server/server_body.rs— pre-existing: a Bun.serve HTML-manifest entry whose relativepathis under MAX_PATH_BYTES but longer than the cwd leaves room for still aborts the process instead of throwing.Valid::path_too_long(src/runtime/node/types.rs:1245) bounds only the part, thenFileSystem::instance().abs(&[path_slice])at src/runtime/server/server_body.rs:615 joins cwd + path into the unchecked TL buffer and normalize slice-indexes past TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN. Fix: bound the joined result at this site the way the PR does for bun:ffi (abs_buf_checkedinto a pooled buffer, throw ENAMETOOLONG on None), so every manifest path, relative or absolute, is rejected rather than aborting. … [also at: src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1418 - pre-existing: a Bun.serve manifest whose relativepathis just under MAX_PATH_BYTES still aborts the process on every platform after this change, becausejoin_abs_string(src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1418) still slice-index panics when cwd + part exceeds TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN.; src/paths/resolve_path.rs:583 - pre-existing: a Bun.serve manifestpathjust under MAX_PATH_BYTES still aborts the process instead of throwing, on every platform, after this fix.; +1 more]Why this was flagged
…The PR's new test only covers the absolute form; the relative form (e.g. 4090 bytes on Linux, ~98250 on Windows) hits the same panic as the base branch.
Trigger: Bun.serve({ routes: { "/": { index, files: [{ path: "a".repeat(4090), loader: "html", ... }] } } }) on Linux (MAX_PATH_BYTES = 4096 = TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN), or a relative path of about 98302 - cwd.len() - 1 bytes on Windows. Entry point is AnyRoute::bundled_html_manifest_item_from_js, src/runtime/server/server_body.rs:583. PathLike::from_bun_string (src/runtime/node/types.rs:1184-1193) accepts the string because path.len() < MAX_PATH_BYTES (types.rs:1245). server_body.rs:615 then calls FileSystem::abs, which is join_abs_string into the thread-local…
Verification: pre-existing (base fails the same way by the same route on Linux; on Windows the PR narrows the window from [4096, 98302) down to relative paths whose cwd-joined length lands in [98302 - cwd.len() - 1, 98302), but does not close it). Acknowledged in PR description: "This does not make the primitive overflow-safe for inputs that normalize above the host limit; #35863 covers that at the…
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src/paths/resolve_path.rs— A caller ofjoin_abs_string_zwhose normalized result is exactlyTL_JOIN_BUF_LENbytes crashes the process with a slice-index panic instead of getting a path or an error._join_abs_string_bufwrites the NUL atbuf[result_len + leading_len](src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1863) and the Windows variant atbuf[result_len](src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1971), one past the end when the result fills the buffer. The new lazy buffers are sized exactlyMAX_PATH_BYTESon Windows (src/paths/resolve_path.rs:25-29), so a Windows path of the host maximum, which every other layer accepts, now lands on this off-by-one where it previously hit the 4096 overflow. …Why this was flagged
…Fix: reserve one byte for the sentinel in the thread-local capacity (
TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN = MAX_PATH_BYTES + 1) or bound the sentinel write in both_join_abs_string_bufandjoin_abs_string_buf_windows.Trigger:
join_abs_string_z(src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1445) orjoin_zwith parts whose normalized output length equalsTL_JOIN_BUF_LEN(98302 on Windows, 4096 on Linux)._join_abs_string_buf::<true, _>computesresultfromnormalize_string_bufinto&mut buf[leading_len..](src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1856-1859), which may fill the buffer, then unconditionally writesbuf[result_len + leading_len] = 0(line 1863);join_abs_string_buf_windowsdoes the same at line 1971. Indexing one past a[u8; TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN]panics, and withpanic = "abort"the process dies. The diff changes the Windows capacity from 4096 to exactlyMAX_PATH_BYTES(lines 25-29) without leaving room for the NUL, so the sentinel variant has zero slack at the host limit, while the_spillhelpers compareneeded <= TL_JOIN_BUF_LEN(lines 1430, 1488, 1501) and route at-capacity inputs to the fixed…Verification: pre-existing. Mechanism verified:
_join_abs_string_buf::<true, _>(src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1856-1864) handsnormalize_string_bufthe full remaining capacity&mut buf[leading_len..], andnormalize_string_generic_tz(lines 1057-1112,buf[buf_i..buf_i + count].copy_from_slice(...)) will happily fill it to exactlybuf.len()without panicking; then line 1863 `buf[result_len +…
…tead of aborting A Bun.serve route manifest path shorter than MAX_PATH_BYTES on its own can exceed the join buffer once joined onto the cwd. abs() slice-index panics on that. Use abs_buf_checked into a pooled PathBuffer and throw ENAMETOOLONG when the joined path does not fit. The manifest test now asserts the exact error code per platform.
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On the two findings outside the diff: The relative manifest path case is fixed in 05dfe3a. The sentinel write at exactly |
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I also rebased this branch separately, before 564d106 landed here. I did not push that work to this PR. It is on Two things on that branch are not in this PR:
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… cwd relative(cwd, abs_path) prepends one "/.." per cwd segment. For an absolute manifest path close to MAX_PATH_BYTES that is not under the cwd, that output exceeded the fixed thread-local buffer and aborted. Write it into a Vec sized for the worst case instead.
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In `@src/paths/resolve_path.rs`:
- Line 42: Update the buffer accessor get and the join/join_z APIs to remove the
incorrect 'static lifetime and return an owned or guard-backed result that keeps
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A joined path of MAX_PATH_BYTES bytes has no room for its NUL, so the OS rejects it. On Windows relative() also overflowed its own buffer for that length. Apply the same bound as Valid::path_too_long to the joined result and throw ENAMETOOLONG.
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I re-reviewed the latest push and found no bugs; the abs_path.len() < MAX_PATH_BYTES check in a1248c1 closes the exactly-MAX_PATH_BYTES case I raised earlier. Because this replaces the thread-local buffers behind join/join_abs_string (used across the resolver, install, and CLI) with a lazily heap-backed unsafe accessor, a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
LazyJoinBufinsrc/paths/resolve_path.rs: allocation viaboxed_zeroed/heap::into_raw, single owner freed inDropviaheap::take, and the same&'static mut-from-&selfcontract as the existingLazyPathBuf; no new re-entrantjoincall inside the borrow.server_body.rs: theabs_path.len() + 3 * cwd.len() + 4bound againstrelative_to_common_path(at most one..//..percwdseparator plus one, one joining separator, then thetotail) and thatabs_path < MAX_PATH_BYTESkeeps the normalizedtoinsideRELATIVE_TO_BUF[1..].ffi_body.rs: the "file name too long" substitution is gated onname.len() >= MAX_PATH_BYTES, which is exactly when the firstDynLib::openshort-circuits before the loader, so a freshdlerror()is never discarded; the pooledbackup_bufdoes not conflict with the pool bufferDynLib::opentakes.- Tests: the exact-
MAX_PATH_BYTESmanifest case and the 100k ffi rows exercise the new guards on both POSIX and Windows constants.
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The change touches the core path-join thread-local buffers in src/paths/resolve_path.rs (new unsafe LazyJoinBuf type, buffer capacity now max(MAX_PATH_BYTES, 4096)), the bun:ffi dlopen fallback, the Bun.serve HTML-manifest route setup, and a small Valid::name_too_long helper, plus subprocess tests for both crash inputs. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface; the security-relevant aspect is bounds arithmetic on user-controlled path lengths, which I traced against relative_to_common_path and join_abs_string_buf_checked. Deferring rather than approving because the unsafe thread-local pattern (Drop-registered TLS destructor on a buffer reached by ~40 callers) and the cfg-gated Windows sizing cannot be exercised on this Linux host, and the bug hunt ran dry rather than proving the platform matrix.
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On Windows:
On any platform (
bun:ffihas no upstream length guard):Both abort the process (
panic = "abort").Cause
join_abs_string/join_abs_string_z/join/join_zwrite their normalized output into the thread-localPARSER_JOIN_INPUT_BUFFER/JOIN_BUF, each a platform-agnostic[u8; 4096]since the Zig era. On WindowsMAX_PATH_BYTESis32767*3+1 = 98302, so any caller ofFileSystem::abs()(and ~40 direct callers in the install/CLI/resolver/bake paths) with a path whose normalized length lands in[4096, 98302)slice-index panics innormalize_string_generic_tz. TheBun.serveroute-manifest path passesValid::path_string_length(bounds atMAX_PATH_BYTES, i.e. 98302 on Windows) and so reachesabs()with the full user string;bun:ffi'sdlopenfallback has no length check at all.Fix
Size both thread-local join buffers to
max(MAX_PATH_BYTES, 4096)so the output buffer can hold any valid host path. On POSIXMAX_PATH_BYTES <= 4096so the capacity is unchanged; on Windows it becomes 98302. Back them with the existing lazy-heap pointer pattern (same asLazyPathBufa few lines down) so Windows keeps 8 bytes per buffer in.tlsinstead of ~96 KB of raw zeros (PE/COFF has no TLS-BSS; see #30219).Separately, bound the
bun:ffidlopenfallback atMAX_PATH_BYTESbefore callingabs(): a library name that long cannot exist on the host, so skipping straight to theERR_DLOPEN_FAILEDreport is the correct outcome.The
Bun.servemanifest site (server_body.rs:615) has the same shape for a relativepath: the per-part guard bounds the part, but cwd + part can exceed the join buffer. That case aborted on every platform, before and after the buffer resize. It now joins throughabs_buf_checkedinto a pooledPathBufferand throwsENAMETOOLONGwhen the joined path does not fit. Therelative(cwd, abs_path)call after it had the same problem for an absolute path outside the cwd: one/..per cwd segment pushed the output past its fixed buffer. That output now goes into aVecsized for the worst case. A joined path of exactlyMAX_PATH_BYTESbytes is rejected too, with the same< MAX_PATH_BYTESbound asValid::path_too_long: it has no room for its NUL, and on Windowsrelative()overflowed its input buffer for that length.Why this buffer size
join_abs_string's output is a normalized absolute path. The kernel rejects any path that long withENAMETOOLONG, soMAX_PATH_BYTESis the tight upper bound for a path that is usable by the caller. The 4096 floor keeps the POSIX capacity exactly where it was so no unguarded caller sees a new panic surface on macOS (MAX_PATH_BYTES = 1024there). This does not make the primitive overflow-safe for inputs that normalize above the host limit. Callers with unbounded input use the_spilland_checkedvariants for that (#35863, #37521, #38368, #38379, #39578, all merged). Their thresholds (join_spill,join_z_spill,join_abs_string_spill) now compare againstTL_JOIN_BUF_LEN, the one capacity constant for both thread-local buffers.Verification
Run again on 2026-09-22 after merging main (4ada08b) into the branch. The merge resolves two conflicts:
resolve_path.rs(main addedjoin_abs_string_spilland its tests, which now useTL_JOIN_BUF_LEN) andFFI::open(it returnsJsResultnow).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/bun/http/bun-serve-html-manifest.test.ts, test/js/bun/ffi/ffi-error-messages.test.ts