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Problem

  • After await b.slice(0, 5).text() of an ASCII prefix, b.text() decodes UTF-8 as Latin-1 ("hello wörld").
  • new Response([b]), new Request(url, { body: [b] }) and server.fetch(url, { body: b }) empty b: b.text() is "", b.size stays.
  • b.bytes() above the allocation limit rejects, then b is empty.

Fix

  • set_is_ascii_flag (src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:2352) writes the store's all-ASCII flag only when the Blob covers the store. A Blob that starts with a UTF-8 BOM counts as not ASCII.
  • The single-Blob arm of from_js_without_defer_gc returns blob.dupe(). The MOVE const generic is deleted.
  • The Lifetime::Clone arm of to_array_buffer_view_with_bytes no longer detaches the Blob before it throws.
  • Verified: blob.test.ts, body.test.ts. 27 of 28 new cases fail on the 1.4.3 canary, all pass here. Other suites: Notes. Self-reviewed: 4 concerns raised, 4 addressed.

Background

Downsides

Notes

The causes

  1. set_is_ascii_flag wrote store.is_all_ascii for each Blob with offset == 0 && size > 0. A 5-byte prefix slice scans hello and marks the whole store. to_string_with_bytes and to_json_with_bytes read the store flag when the Blob's own charset is unknown, and "all ASCII" takes the Latin-1 path. The same flag reaches a sibling slice, new Response(b), new Blob([b]), a stream of b, and a File from a parsed FormData.
  2. A second route to the same bad cache: text() and json() scan the bytes that follow a stripped UTF-8 BOM, so new Blob([BOM, "abc"]).text() recorded "all ASCII" for a range that contains the BOM. blob.slice(1).text() then returned "»¿abc", and new Blob(["x", blob]).text() returned "xabc".
  3. Body::Value::from_js (src/runtime/webcore/Body.rs:1050) and the server's fetch() (src/runtime/server/server_body.rs:2328) called Blob::get::<MOVE = true, _>. In the single-Blob arm of from_js_without_defer_gc, MOVE built the body with store: blob.take_store(), which takes the store out of the Blob that the caller holds. A File lost its name with the store. A Bun.file() and a BuildArtifact read back empty.
  4. In to_array_buffer_view_with_bytes, the Lifetime::Clone arm ran self.detach() before throw_out_of_memory(). Blob.prototype.bytes() calls that arm with the caller's own Blob. The Transfer arm, which also detaches, owns a private copy.

Why each fix is at that place

  • After a Blob is made, set_is_ascii_flag is the one place that updates the two caches. init_with_all_ascii sets them when it makes a fresh store that the new Blob covers. The pessimistic states (unknown, not ASCII) both mean "scan", so a value that is too pessimistic costs a scan and cannot change the output. The per-Blob charset is still set for each Blob: it describes the bytes that this Blob decodes.
  • dupe() is the field copy that MOVE did, with one more store reference. That reference is what keeps the caller's Blob valid. new Blob([blob]), new Response(blob) and blob.slice() already take their own reference. With no caller that moves, get takes only REQUIRE_ARRAY, and from_js_move, from_js_clone and from_js_clone_optional_array go away. For an array of several parts the fast-path block matched nothing before, so if might_only_be_one_thing behaves the same as if might_only_be_one_thing || !MOVE.
  • After the Clone arm the owner still owns the store. The callers that pass a private copy detach it themselves: ByteBlobLoader::to_buffered_value calls blob.detach() after the read, and the Transfer arm detaches after its fallback to Clone.

Review: the four concerns

  1. A section banner in Blob.rs still named fromJSMove and fromJSClone. Removed.
  2. "set_is_ascii_flag is the only writer" was not exact: init_with_all_ascii also writes, at construction, for a store that the Blob covers. No change needed, the text above says so.
  3. Does the BOM check miss Blobs with no in-memory view? A file read passes Lifetime::Temporary, which never calls set_is_ascii_flag. An S3 read runs on the download task's private dupe(), whose store is replaced by the downloaded bytes and dropped after the read. Neither can leave a flag that a later read sees.
  4. The per-Blob flag also picks the default Content-Type in Bun.serve (Any::was_string, src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:4823). That change is the second Downsides bullet. A test holds it.

Tests

  • test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts, describe("Blob text()/json() decoding does not depend on what was read before"): 15 cases. 14 fail on the 1.4.3 canary (367d939, USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1). The one that passes is the slice(0) control. The last case serves a BOM Blob from Bun.serve before and after text() read it, and wants the same Content-Type. Three cases are new against the first revision: a peek through Bun.readableStreamToText(slice.stream()), the stream of a Blob made from one string, and a File from a parsed FormData.
  • test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts, a Blob keeps its bytes after bytes() rejected it for its size: a child process with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_SYNTHETIC_MEMORY_LIMIT=100000 and a Blob of 500,000 bytes. On the canary the Blob reads "" and arrayBuffer() has 0 bytes afterwards.
  • test/js/web/fetch/body.test.ts, array containing a Blob (for Request and Response: a Blob, one Blob for two bodies, a File, a Bun.file(), a BuildArtifact) and server.fetch() body option (a Blob, and an array with a Blob): 12 cases, all fail on the canary.

Suites run on the debug build of this branch

blob.test.ts (163 pass) and body.test.ts (786 pass, 4 skip) ran on the final tree, which has main 80de08a merged in. Before the merge and the last test commit, with the same source changes: body-clone.test.ts (85), utf8-bom.test.ts (21), blob-array-fast-path.test.ts (11), blob-file-name-ownership.test.ts (1), blob-write.test.ts (15), FormData.test.ts (149), structured-clone-blob-file.test.ts (42), bun-write.test.js (86), body-mixin-errors.test.ts (13), blob-cow.test.ts (5), response.test.ts (23), streams.test.js (624). All pass. The runs used --timeout 120000, because the machine was under heavy load.

The copy, measured

// 64 Blobs of 4 MB, each read through a body while the caller keeps the Blob
const blobs = Array.from({ length: 64 }, () => new Blob([new Uint8Array(4 * 1024 * 1024).fill(65)]));
const buffers = [];
for (const blob of blobs) buffers.push(await new Response([blob]).arrayBuffer());
Build new Response([blob]) new Response(blob)
1.4.3 canary (release) RSS +1 MB, 0 of 64 Blobs intact RSS +255 MB, 64 of 64 intact
this branch (debug, 3 runs) RSS +178 to +194 MB, 64 of 64 intact RSS +123 to +124 MB, 64 of 64 intact

The debug build uses the system allocator under ASAN, so its RSS is not exact. The release row of new Response(blob) is the path that the array form now takes. From 8 MB up a Blob made from one typed array is a memfd store, which Linux clones copy-on-write: one Blob of 256 MB costs RSS +3 MB on this branch, and the Blob is intact.

The Content-Type, measured

Untyped Blobs made from bytes, returned from Bun.serve with no Content-Type header. "read" means that text() read the Blob before it was served.

Blob 1.4.3 canary this branch
abc, read text/plain;charset=utf-8 text/plain;charset=utf-8
abc, not read application/octet-stream application/octet-stream
héllo, read application/octet-stream application/octet-stream
héllo, not read application/octet-stream application/octet-stream
BOM and abc, read text/plain;charset=utf-8 application/octet-stream
BOM and abc, not read application/octet-stream application/octet-stream

The default is text/plain only for a Blob that is known to be all ASCII. A BOM Blob now follows that rule in both orders.

A case that stays: b.type after blob()

const b = new Blob(["hi"]); await new Response([b]).blob(); b.type

Build new Response([b]) new Response(b)
1.4.3 canary "", and b is empty text/plain;charset=utf-8
this branch text/plain;charset=utf-8, and b is intact text/plain;charset=utf-8

blob() writes the type into the store that the body shares with b. That is #35284, and #42016 removes the write. Before this PR the array form hid it, because it emptied b.

Same class, other PR

The window check for to_internal_blob_if_possible (a slice's stream returned the whole store) is #38685, merged. This branch has main merged in, so it holds that fix too.

Also changed by the fix

After a prefix slice was read, the parent's first text() scans its bytes. Before, it skipped the scan and returned wrong text.

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Blob conversion now duplicates Blob-backed inputs instead of moving their stores. The change updates Blob parsing call sites and adds regression tests for input reuse, BOM-aware decoding, and Blob state after an out-of-memory error.

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Blob conversion and read safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Blob input conversion and reuse
src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Body.rs, src/runtime/server/server_body.rs, test/js/web/fetch/body.test.ts
The parsing API no longer takes a move parameter. Blob and BuildArtifact inputs duplicate their Blob. Call sites use the updated API, and tests cover Blob reuse in bodies and server.fetch().
BOM decoding and transfer errors
src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts
The ASCII flag update accounts for BOM-prefixed views and only updates the store for a full-store view. Oversized typed-array conversion returns an out-of-memory error without detaching the Blob. Tests cover decoding across consumers and Blob readability after the error.

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Status: ready for review. Main is merged in (80de08a), head a088b2d. This PR carries the change of #38555 and a fix for bytes().

Reproduced with USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test on the 1.4.3 canary (367d939). In test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts, 14 of the 15 cases of does not depend on what was read before fail, and a Blob keeps its bytes after bytes() rejected it for its size fails. In test/js/web/fetch/body.test.ts, the 12 cases of array containing a Blob and server.fetch() body option fail. With this branch, bun bd test passes both files.

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LGTM — tightens the store-level all-ASCII cache to only be written by Blobs whose window spans the whole store, and records a stripped BOM as non-ASCII so the per-Blob flag describes raw bytes.

What was reviewed:

  • set_is_ascii_flag: new guard offset == 0 && size >= bytes.len() (both u64) is strictly more conservative than the old size > 0 && offset == 0; pessimistic/unset states already mean "scan", so the only effect is losing an incorrect fast-path.
  • BOM change: traced the other readers of charset — get_slice_from copies it into slices (line ~1950, comment now actually holds), the constructor's Blob-part arm trusts AllAscii to skip the scan (lines ~3465/3502), and Any::was_string — all become correct once AllAscii describes raw bytes.
  • Checked init_with_all_ascii (fresh store, full window) and the set_is_ascii_flag(false) sites — unaffected.
  • Tests cover both fixed paths, the json() twin, sibling/Response consumers, and the slice(0) full-window control.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Two small hunks in src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs plus 9 new tests in test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts. The Rust changes: (1) set_is_ascii_flag now writes the shared store's is_all_ascii only when the calling Blob's (offset, size) window covers the entire byte store, instead of merely offset == 0; (2) the all-ASCII branch of to_string_with_bytes and to_json_with_bytes now records bom.is_none() rather than a hardcoded true, so a Blob whose UTF-8 BOM was stripped is recorded as not-all-ASCII (matching its raw bytes).

Security risks

None. This is a correctness fix to an internal decoding-optimization cache. No untrusted-input parsing, no allocation sizing, no auth/crypto/permissions.

Level of scrutiny

Medium — Blob text()/json() is a hot user-facing path, but the change is a strict tightening of when a cache bit is set. The two non-None states already collapse to "scan" for anything but Some(true), so the only possible regression from over-tightening is a redundant UTF-8 scan, never a wrong string. I traced every reader of both the store flag (to_string_with_bytes/to_json_with_bytes fallback) and the per-Blob charset (get_slice_from's dupe, the constructor's Blob-part fast-path at ~3465/3502, Any::was_string); each now sees a value that soundly describes the raw bytes it will read. The u64-vs-u64 comparison in the new guard has no signedness or truncation concern (SizeType == u64, Bytes::len() -> SizeType).

Other factors

The PR description demonstrates the root cause precisely, verified 8/9 new tests fail on released 1.4.0 and all pass on the fix, and cross-checked a 19-case probe against Node. Tests exercise the sync/async twins (text/json), the sibling-slice and Response-wrapping consumers, the constructor-trusts-part path, and a positive control (slice(0) still caches). No CODEOWNERS entry for this path. No outstanding reviewer comments. The fix lives at the layer owning the invariant (the cache writer), not at a symptom site.

Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs Outdated
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs Outdated
…e whole store

set_is_ascii_flag wrote the store-level flag for any Blob at offset 0, so
text() or json() of an ASCII-only prefix slice made the parent, sibling
slices and Blobs built from them decode UTF-8 as Latin-1. Write the flag
only when the Blob's size covers the store.

text() and json() scan the bytes after a stripped UTF-8 BOM. Record such
a Blob as not all ASCII, so a slice into the BOM and a Blob built from
the part decode the BOM bytes.
…caller's Blob

new Response([blob]), new Request(url, { body: [blob] }) and
server.fetch(url, { body: blob }) built the body with Blob::get::<MOVE = true>,
which took the store out of the Blob that the caller still holds. The
caller's Blob then read as empty while its size stayed.

The single-Blob arm of from_js_without_defer_gc now returns blob.dupe().
No caller moves any more, so the MOVE const generic and the three wrapper
functions it selected are deleted.
The Lifetime::Clone arm of to_array_buffer_view_with_bytes detached the
Blob before it threw the out of memory error. In that arm the Blob is the
caller's own object, so a bytes() that was refused left it empty. The
other arms that detach own a private copy.
@robobun robobun changed the title Blob: stop a prefix slice's text() (or a stripped BOM) from marking the shared store all-ASCII Blob: keep the caller's Blob intact after a slice read, an array body, and a rejected bytes() Oct 2, 2026
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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

  • 🟣 src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs — A body built from a sliced Blob can read back the whole backing store instead of the slice once the body holds the last store reference. to_internal_blob_if_possible at src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:5964 converts the store with has_one_ref() into an InternalBlob and ignores the Blob's offset and size. Body parts created at src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:3034 via blob.dupe() carry the slice's offset/size and share the store, so after the caller's Blob and the slice are finalized the body returns too many bytes from text()/bytes(). Fix: make to_internal_blob_if_possible respect offset/size (slice before converting, or skip conversion when the view does not cover the store), covering both the direct Blob body at Body.rs:1010 and the array/server.fetch paths.

    Why this was flagged

    Trigger: const s = big.slice(10, 20); const r = new Response([s]); s = big = null; then after a GC, r.body; await r.text(). Blob.rs:3034 returns s.dupe() with offset 10, size 10 and a shared store. Once the JS Blobs are finalized the body's store has one ref. Any::to_action_value at Blob.rs:5979 calls to_internal_blob_if_possible; Blob.rs:5964 checks only matches!(s.data, Bytes) && s.has_one_ref() and converts the entire store bytes via to_internal_blob(), dropping offset/size, so the user gets all of big's bytes instead of 10. The base branch reaches the same code for new Response(blob.slice(..)) through Body.rs:1010 (dupe_with_content_type), so the defect pre-dates the PR, but the PR's array and server.fetch() paths now also produce shared-store sliced bodies instead of moved stores, and the PR adds tests for exactly these paths without a sliced-Blob variant. Remedy: honor offset/size in to_internal_blob_if_possible.

    Verification: pre-existing. src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:5964-5971 converts the store with has_one_ref() and never consults blob.offset/blob.size, so a sliced Blob that holds the last store ref yields the entire backing bytes. The defective function is reached only via the native-stream buffered fast path. On the base, new Response([s]) with MOVE took s's store without bumping the refcount; after this PR dupe() adds a ref.

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🟡 Minor · Keep body MIME assignment off the caller's shared store. · Blob.rs:3031-3035

src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:3031-3035
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep body MIME assignment off the caller's shared store.

A one-element array body such as [blob] reaches Blob::get::<false>, which now returns blob.dupe() and shares the store. When blob() materializes an untyped body, it assigns text/plain;charset=utf-8 through set_blob_content_type. That function writes to the shared store, so the caller's previously empty blob.type becomes text/plain;charset=utf-8.

At the PR base, the MOVE path removed the store from the caller before this assignment. Store sharing must remain, but MIME assignment must stay local to the body Blob.

Suggested fix
-#[allow(clippy::mut_from_ref)]
-fn blob_store_mut(blob: &Blob) -> Option<&mut blob::Store> {
-    blob.store
-        .get()
-        .as_ref()
-        // SAFETY: `RefPtr<Store>` invariant — pointee is a live heap `Store` while
-        // any `RefPtr<Store>` exists; single-threaded JS event-loop discipline
-        // guarantees no other `&`/`&mut Store` is live for this borrow.
-        .map(|s| unsafe { &mut *s.as_ptr() })
-}
-
 fn set_blob_content_type(blob: &Blob, mime_type: MimeType) {
     blob.content_type_was_set.set(true);
-    if let Some(store) = blob_store_mut(blob) {
-        store.mime_type = mime_type.clone();
-    }
     blob.content_type
         .set(blob::BlobContentType::from(mime_type));
 }
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Review comment at @src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs around lines 3031 - 3035:
Update set_blob_content_type to assign the MIME type only to the Blob’s local
content_type and content_type_was_set fields; remove the shared-store MIME
mutation so materializing an untyped body does not change the caller’s Blob
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- Around line 3031-3035: Update set_blob_content_type to assign the MIME type
only to the Blob’s local content_type and content_type_was_set fields; remove
the shared-store MIME mutation so materializing an untyped body does not change
the caller’s Blob type. Preserve shared store ownership and sharing.

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…o one line

Bun.serve reads the per-Blob all-ASCII flag to pick text/plain for an
untyped Blob. A Blob that starts with a UTF-8 BOM is not recorded as all
ASCII any more, so it gets application/octet-stream before and after a
text() read. The new test holds that.

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