node:http2: destroy the socket on session.destroy() without close(), emit the session 'close' once the socket has closed

[robobun]

Problem

• session.destroy() with no error only calls end() on the socket. If the peer keeps its side open, the socket stays open. The process never exits and server.close(cb) never calls back. A TLS handshake that the server never answers has the same result.
• bun 1.3.14 exits. 1.4.0 and main do not.
• Both destroy() bodies in src/js/node/http2.ts destroy the socket only if (error). Node's finishSessionClose decides on session.closed.

Fix

• closeSessionSocket() calls end(), then destroy(), unless close() was called and there is no error.
• emitSessionCloseAfterSocket() emits the session's 'error' and 'close' from the socket's 'close'.
• The stream-reset flood tests now wait for 'sessionError'. They read it when the GOAWAY arrived.
• Verified: test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js (8 of 9 new tests fail on main). Also test/js/node/http2/, AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts, vendored test-http2-*.

Background

• close() is the graceful shutdown: GOAWAY, open streams finish, then destroy(). destroy() is the immediate teardown.
• socket.end() sends a FIN. The socket stays open until the peer sends its FIN or socket.destroy() runs.
• Considered a change of the if (error) condition only. Then 'close' still fires while the socket is open.

Downsides

All three match node.

• After close(), 'close' and the close(cb) callback wait for the peer. If the peer never closes, they never come. main fires them at once.
• destroy(err) with no 'error' listener no longer throws at the call site. The error is an uncaught exception. A connect() listener that throws now ends the process.
• The session's 'error' and 'close' come after its streams' events. Each destroy() adds one closure and one socket listener.

Notes

Runs: does the process exit after session.destroy()?

• h2c column: the peer completes the SETTINGS exchange, reads the client's GOAWAY and FIN, and keeps its side open.
• TLS column: the server accepts the TCP connection and never answers the ClientHello. The session calls destroy() after 1 s.

                                 h2c, peer never sends FIN    TLS, handshake never answered
node v26.3.0                     exits                        exits after 1.0 s
bun 1.3.14                       exits                        exits after 1.0 s
bun 1.4.0                        'close', then no exit        'close', then no exit
main 9f70da0741 (debug build)    'close', then no exit        'close', then no exit
this branch (debug build)        exits                        exits

session.setTimeout(1000, () => session.destroy()) gives the same results as destroy() in the TLS column. destroy(err) exits on every build. close() waits for the peer on node and on this branch.

socket.end(cb) on a TLS socket in the middle of the handshake calls cb at once on node and on bun. So the destroy() that follows does not depend on the peer.

The three behaviour changes, as run

                                       node v26.3.0    main 9f70da0741            this branch
close(cb), peer never closes           no 'close'      'close' and cb at once,    no 'close'
                                                       socket stays open
destroy(err), no 'error' listener      returns,        throws at the call site,   returns,
                                       exit code 1     exit code 0, no 'close'    exit code 1
connect() listener throws,             exit code 1     exit code 0, no 'close'    exit code 1
no 'error' listener
destroy(err) with one stream open,     stream error    session error              stream error
order of events                        stream close    session close              stream close
                                       session error   stream error               session error
                                       session close   stream close               session close

Node's source for the order is emitClose and finishSessionClose in lib/internal/http2/core.js.

Changes after the merge of main

• The close helpers accept null for the error. main's ClientHttp2Session#destroy() takes Error | number | null now, and the typecheck of src/js failed without this. destroy(null, 8) exits on this branch and on node.
• New test: "client session.destroy() during a TLS handshake the server never answers destroys the socket". On main it records [["close", false]]. On this branch it records [["close", true]].
• h2-conformance.test.ts, "stream-reset floods": the tests read the server's 'sessionError' at the moment the GOAWAY reached the raw client. On this branch the event comes after the socket closes, so the value was undefined in five tests. respondingServer() now returns a promise for the event and the tests wait for it. These tests give the same result with and without the src/ change.

Cost for a session that never meets the bug

Per destroy(): one closure and one once('close') listener on the socket replace one process.nextTick entry. A destroy() with no error also adds one closure and one setImmediate, then closes the socket. Nothing changes per request or per stream.

Suites run on a debug build of this branch, with main 9f70da0 merged in

• test/js/node/http2/ (12 files) and test/js/node/async_hooks/AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts.
• The vendored node files test/js/node/test/{parallel,sequential}/test-*http2*.js (283 files): 281 pass. test-http2-forget-closed-streams.js and test-worker-http2-stream-terminate.js exceed 120 s on the debug build with and without this change.
• test/js/third_party/grpc-js/ (29 files), test/js/bun/http/serve-http2*.test.ts, node-http2-ping-flood-staged.test.ts, fetch-http2-client.test.ts, fetch-http2-leak.test.ts, node-tls-server.test.ts, socket-syscall-fault.test.ts, http2-wrapper.test.ts, and test/regression/issue/{25589,25589-frame-size-connect,25589-write-end,24924,26915,29073}.test.ts.
• The host was under heavy load, so each test had a 60 s timeout.
• These fail in the same way without this change on that host: the grpc-js DNS resolver tests and test-tonic (no network), two grpc-js outlier detection tests (timeout), http2-wrapper.test.ts (ECONNREFUSED for localhost), and the flood test "a RST_STREAM flood is answered with GOAWAY(ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM) and a session error" (the GOAWAY does not arrive, because the bucket refills faster than the loaded debug build handles the resets).

Account from the first version of this PR

Problem (first version)

• session.destroy() without an error only end()s the session's socket. Against a peer that does not close its own side the socket then stays open for as long as the peer likes: a server's getConnections() keeps counting it and server.close(cb) never calls back. Node destroys the socket. Same on bun 1.4.0 and main, on a plain listening http2.createServer() / createSecureServer() and on client sessions.
• A peer that does not hang up is exactly the peer destroy() gets used against (idle-timeout reaping, server.setTimeout(), error handling). A well-behaved peer hides the bug by closing when it reads our GOAWAY + FIN.
• The session's 'error' / 'close' fire synchronously / on the next tick while the socket is still open. In node both fire from the socket's own 'close', so a session that has reported 'close' has already released its connection.
• Cause: ServerHttp2Session#destroy() and ClientHttp2Session#destroy() in src/js/node/http2.ts (main L4941 and L6032) choose end-then-destroy only if (error) and a bare end() otherwise. Node's finishSessionClose (lib/internal/http2/core.js L1188, v26.3.0) keys this on whether close() was called (session.closed), not on whether there was an error; destroy() on a session that was not close()d always destroys the socket.

Fix (first version)

• closeSessionSocket() replaces the two inline branches in both destroy()s: end() only when close() was called (bun already tracks this as #closeCalled) and there is no error, otherwise end() followed by socket.destroy(error) one setImmediate after the FIN is out. That is node's condition, plus the existing bun behaviour that an error after close() still hard-closes; the error path itself is unchanged. A socket that is already destroyed is left alone, as in node.
• emitSessionCloseAfterSocket() replaces the synchronous 'error' emit plus nextTick 'close': when the socket is still up, the session's 'error' and 'close' are emitted from the socket's 'close' (node's emitClose); when it is already gone (socket 'close' / 'error' driven teardown) or there never was one, they are emitted on the next tick, as node does. The events still run in the session's captured async-context frame, which destroy() still clears before scheduling them.
• Why this is right: it matches node. The end() before the destroy still puts GOAWAY + FIN on the wire before the hard close (node's Windows ECONNRESET avoidance, already used on the error path), the graceful close() path is unchanged apart from when 'close' fires, and the only other observable difference is also node's: destroy(err) with no 'error' listener now surfaces the error as an uncaught exception instead of throwing out of destroy().
• Verified with bun bd test test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js (new describe "session teardown when the peer never closes its side of the connection": server destroy(), destroy(err), server.setTimeout() reaping, close() parity, createSecureServer over TLS, client destroy() / destroy(err), and the peer-closes-first path; 7 of the 8 fail on main, the last one guards the next-tick path) and test/js/node/async_hooks/AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts (the destroy(err) frame-clearing test now asserts the node-shaped unlistened-error behaviour; fails on main).
• node's vendored http2 suites (test/js/node/test/{parallel,sequential}/test-http2-*, 282 files) give the same result before and after (281 pass; test-http2-forget-closed-streams times out under the debug build either way). node-http2.test.js, h2-conformance, the staged h2 tests, node-http2-upgrade, grpc-js test-server / test-metadata, the ping-flood test and AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts pass.
• Related, not overlapping: node:http2: destroy the accepted socket when an injected connection's TLS proxy is destroyed #38154 releases the raw socket behind an injected (server.emit('connection', raw)) connection at the TLS proxy layer and is what surfaced this; node:http2: deliver the destroy() GOAWAY on sessions whose socket has no native handle #38158 reorders the same destroy() bodies so handle-less sockets get their GOAWAY and will need a trivial rebase against this (or vice versa).

Background (first version)

• Http2Session#close() is the graceful shutdown: it sends GOAWAY, lets in-flight streams finish and then calls destroy() itself. destroy() is the immediate teardown, used directly by timeouts and error handling. Node records close() in session.closed; bun's equivalent flag is #closeCalled (#closed is also set by destroy()).
• Node's finishSessionClose is the last step of both: it registers the session's 'error'/'close' emission on the socket's 'close', calls socket.end(), and, unless session.closed, destroys the socket once end() has flushed. socket.end() only half-closes (sends a FIN); the socket is not released, and the server's connection count not decremented, until it is destroyed, which without socket.destroy() only happens once the peer sends its own FIN.
• The tests build an unresponsive peer out of a net socket with allowHalfOpen: true (it receives our FIN and keeps its side open) and, for the TLS case, a client whose carrier Duplex stops delivering inbound bytes after the handshake, so it never answers the server's close_notify.

Probe: h2c server, peer never closes its side, `server.getConnections()` read after the session reported `'close'` (or after 2s)

                node v26.3.0                                     bun 1.4.0 / main                                         this branch
destroy()       socket destroyed, connections=0                  socket never destroyed, connections=1                    as node
destroy(err)    socket destroyed, 'error'/'close' fire with      socket destroyed, but 'error'/'close' fire with          as node
                socket.destroyed === true                        socket.destroyed === false
close()         waits for the peer: no 'close', connections=1    'close' fires at once, connections=1                     as node

createSecureServer behaves the same. Whether a user's own socket 'close' listener runs before or after the session's 'close' depends only on listener registration order (it differs between node's h2c and TLS runs as well), so the tests assert socket.destroyed from inside the session's handlers rather than that order.

[robobun]

Status: main 9f70da0 is merged into the branch. One test for a session that never connects is added. The stream-reset flood tests now wait for 'sessionError'. Waiting on CI.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.0 and on main with a plain http2.createServer() (and createSecureServer()) whose peer keeps its side of the TCP connection open: after session.destroy() the server's getConnections() stays at 1 and server.close(cb) never calls back. node v26.3.0 reports 0. Client sessions behave the same way against a server that never hangs up.

Second reproduction: http2.connect("https://...") to a server that accepts the TCP connection and never answers the ClientHello, then session.destroy() after 1 s. bun 1.4.0 and main 9f70da0 emit 'close' and never exit. bun 1.3.14 and node v26.3.0 exit after 1.0 s. This branch exits.

The tests in test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js ("session teardown when the peer never closes its side of the connection") fail on main (8 of 9, the ninth guards the unchanged peer-closes-first path) and pass with this branch.

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HTTP/2 session teardown now uses shared socket shutdown and defers terminal events based on socket closure. Tests cover server and client teardown, TLS, timeouts, graceful close, async-context behavior, and asynchronous session error-code assertions.

Changes

HTTP/2 teardown

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Socket shutdown and event dispatch src/js/node/http2.ts	Session teardown adds socket-aware terminal-event dispatch and shared graceful or destructive socket closure.
Server and client integration src/js/node/http2.ts	Server and client teardown capture the socket before performance metrics, use the shared socket policy, and defer error and close events after clearing retained async-context frames.
Teardown behavior validation test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js, test/js/node/async_hooks/AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts, test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts	Tests cover lingering-peer cleanup, TLS and timeout cleanup, graceful close, deferred errors, async-context clearing, and asynchronous session error-code assertions.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes user-observable http2 session lifecycle semantics (when destroy() hard-closes the socket, and when 'error'/'close' fire relative to the socket's own 'close'), a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• closeSessionSocket gating on #closeCalled && !error matches Node's finishSessionClose (session.closed), and the already-destroyed-socket early return pairs correctly with emitSessionCloseAfterSocket's nextTick fallback.
• The hoisted socket local in ServerHttp2Session#destroy() is read before this[bunHTTP2Socket] = null and stays valid for the deferred emit; the client path already had it hoisted.
• The graceful close() path is behaviourally unchanged for the socket (resume+end); only the session 'close' timing moves to after the socket closes, which the new test covers.
• Test imports (net, tls, Duplex, TLS_CERT, TLS_OPTIONS) already exist in the file; the updated AsyncLocalStorage test correctly reflects the now-deferred unlistened-error emission.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reworks the tail of ServerHttp2Session#destroy() and ClientHttp2Session#destroy() in src/js/node/http2.ts to match Node's finishSessionClose: (1) a session that is destroy()d without a preceding close() now hard-destroys its socket (via end() → setImmediate → socket.destroy()) instead of only half-closing with end(), and (2) the session's 'error'/'close' are now emitted from the socket's 'close' listener rather than synchronously / on the next tick. Two new shared helpers, closeSessionSocket and emitSessionCloseAfterSocket, replace the duplicated inline branches in both session classes. Eight new tests in node-http2.test.js cover the server and client destroy/destroy(err)/setTimeout/close paths, a TLS variant, and the peer-closes-first fallback; one existing AsyncLocalStorage test is updated because the unlistened 'error' now surfaces as an uncaughtException rather than a synchronous throw.

Security risks

None identified. The change tightens teardown (a peer that never closes can no longer keep a server connection alive after session.destroy()), which is a mild DoS-hardening improvement. No parsing of untrusted input, no auth/crypto surface, no new user-controlled data reaching syscalls.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. src/js/node/http2.ts is a heavily-used Node compat module and this changes user-observable lifecycle semantics: the timing of 'error'/'close' on Http2Session, and whether a bare destroy() hard-closes the socket. The change moves toward Node parity (verified against lib/internal/http2/core.js v26.3.0 per the PR), and the PR reports the full vendored test-http2-* suite (282 files) is unchanged, plus grpc-js and h2-conformance suites. Still, event-timing changes in a session lifecycle path are the kind of thing that can surface downstream regressions in code that (incorrectly) relied on the old synchronous emission, so a maintainer sign-off is appropriate.

Other factors

• The refactor deduplicates the two destroy() bodies into shared helpers, which is a REVIEW.md win ("the second time a multi-line block appears in your diff, extract a named helper").
• I checked that #closeCalled exists on both session classes and is only set by close(), so the graceful gate is the right flag; #closed (also set by destroy()) would have been wrong.
• emitSessionCloseAfterSocket allocates a closure per destroy (the socket.once('close', () => …) arrow), which is fine at once-per-session frequency.
• The PR notes overlap with #38158 (same destroy() bodies) which will need a rebase — worth a maintainer being aware of the merge order.

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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 note, I also checked the two user-visible behavior shifts in src/js/node/http2.ts: close(cb) now waiting for the peer's FIN before the session 'close' (and so server.close(cb)) fires, and destroy(err) with no 'error' listener surfacing as an uncaughtException instead of throwing out of destroy(). Both match Node's finishSessionClose/emitClose (core.js#L1188), so they are intentional parity changes, not regressions.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces the per-error branches in ServerHttp2Session#destroy and ClientHttp2Session#destroy with a shared closeSessionSocket keyed on #closeCalled, and moves the session 'error'/'close' emission to the socket's 'close' event; both session classes received identical rewiring and the removed endThenDestroySessionSocket has no remaining callers. No security-sensitive surface is touched. The close(cb)-waits-for-peer and unlistened-destroy(err) shifts were traced against Node's core.js and ruled out as regressions.

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🟡 Minor · Prevent destroy() from waiting indefinitely for socket backpressure to clear. · http2.ts:455-462

src/js/node/http2.ts:455-462
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Prevent destroy() from waiting indefinitely for socket backpressure to clear.

A peer that only stops responding does not block this path after socket.end() flushes. However, if the local write side remains blocked by backpressure, the socket.end() callback may not run. Since closeSessionSocket schedules socket.destroy() only from that callback, emitSessionCloseAfterSocket can wait indefinitely for "close". Add a bounded fallback that destroys the socket while preserving the current FIN-first path.

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Review comment at @src/js/node/http2.ts around lines 455 - 462:
Add a bounded fallback in the session shutdown flow near
emitSessionCloseAfterSocket and closeSessionSocket so socket.destroy() runs if
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CI is green on ce680b4 (Buildkite build 121653). The remaining red check is the internal evidence gate. Its ASAN run times out on the subprocess-spawning tests in the "DATA payload survives its ArrayBuffer being detached/resized" block of node-http2.test.js, which this PR does not touch. Those timeouts track the load on the gate host (load average above 300 on 16 cores at every run today). A local run of the same three files at lower load passes every test in this PR.