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When a module's load goes through the module registry (a file the transpiler classifies as ESM, a CommonJS file first reached via import(), a plugin module, a direct require.extensions call) and it throws while being evaluated, the module is removed from the require map but the registry keeps the failed entry, and JSModuleLoader::loadModule settles every later load of that key with the stored error. Every later require() therefore rethrew the same exception instead of running the file again, while require.cache already reported the module as absent. Drop a failed registry entry before loading a module on behalf of require(), in fetchCommonJSModule and in the builtin Module._extensions loaders. Entries that are still loading or loaded successfully are left alone, since they may belong to an in-flight import(). import() of a failed module is unchanged.
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Reproduced on bun 1.4.3 and on main with the script in the PR description: a file with no module syntax that throws is evaluated once, and the second |
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes core module-loading semantics in the JSC bindings — including a deliberate divergence from Node for require() of real ES modules that failed, and a retry strategy that a prior attempt (#27288) got wrong — a human maintainer should weigh in on the design.
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evictFailedModuleRegistryEntrymatches the existingremoveEntry()-under-cellLock()pattern inZigGlobalObject.cpp($esmRegistryDelete,clearAll).- Checked that only-failed-entry gating (Status::*Failed or
CyclicModuleRecord::evaluationError()) avoids the double-evaluation hazard that reverted #27288;require-esm-transitive-tla.test.tsstill pins that case. bunRunin the new tests is the async harness helper and drains stdout/stderr concurrently; tests assert exact outcomes and cover the plugin,--isolatecache, dependency-of-failed-graph, andrequire.extensionsentry points.import()semantics are preserved by the last test (same error object rejects, module not re-evaluated).
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Overview
The PR adds evictFailedModuleRegistryEntry() in ModuleLoader.cpp, called at the top of fetchCommonJSModule and in builtinLoader (JSCommonJSExtensions.cpp). It removes a JSC ModuleRegistryEntry for a specifier whose prior load failed (status FetchFailed/InstantiationFailed/EvaluationFailed, or a CyclicModuleRecord with an evaluationError()), so that a subsequent require() re-evaluates the module instead of rethrowing the cached error. Six new subprocess tests in require.test.ts and one in isolation.test.ts cover retry-until-success, import()→require() of CJS, dependency of a failed graph, Bun.plugin virtual modules, direct require.extensions['.js'] calls, and preservation of import() rejection semantics.
Security risks
None identified. This is module cache eviction on the JS thread using an existing locked-removal pattern; no untrusted-input parsing, no auth/crypto, no filesystem writes.
Level of scrutiny
High. Module loading is on the critical path of every Bun program, and this change alters user-visible semantics: after this PR, require() of any module that previously threw (including real .mjs files under "type": "module") re-evaluates it, which the PR description flags as a deliberate difference from Node. A previous attempt at the same problem (#27288, unconditional removal on the error path) was reverted because it double-evaluated modules with in-flight import(). The new approach — evict only failed entries, and only at the next require() — is well-argued and pinned by require-esm-transitive-tla.test.ts, but the design tradeoff (Bun cannot distinguish syntax-less files from real ESM without new transpiler information) is a maintainer-level call.
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cellLock()+removeEntry()pattern is copied verbatim from three existing sites inZigGlobalObject.cpp, so the GC-thread race is handled the same way asdelete require.cache[id]already does. - Test coverage is thorough: each entry point that reaches the module registry on behalf of
require()has a dedicated case, the negative contract (import()of a failed ESM still rejects with the identical error object, evaluations === 1) is asserted, and the--isolateSourceProvider-cache path is covered separately. - The PR description reports running the resolve/plugin/module/mock/isolation suites and Node's
test-require-exceptions.jswith no new failures, which is consistent with the scope of the change.
Given the semantic change to a critical path and the explicitly acknowledged Node divergence, deferring to a human reviewer.
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On the one design point raised above (retrying Keeping Node's split exactly would need the loader to know, at eviction time, whether the file only ended up in the registry because it has no module syntax at all. That information exists only in the parser ( |
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Fixture and output// throwing.cjs
globalThis.__thr = (globalThis.__thr || 0) + 1;
exports.before = globalThis.__thr;
if (!globalThis.__allow) throw new Error('cjs-fail-' + globalThis.__thr);
exports.after = 'ok';// entry.mjs (package.json has "type": "module")
import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url); const out = {};
try { await import('./throwing.cjs'); } catch (e) { out.imp1 = 'THREW:' + e.message; }
try { require('./throwing.cjs'); } catch (e) { out.req2 = 'THREW:' + e.message; }
globalThis.__allow = true;
try { out.req3 = Object.keys(require('./throwing.cjs')); } catch (e) { out.req3 = 'THREW:' + e.message; }
try { const m = await import('./throwing.cjs'); out.imp4 = Object.keys(m); } catch (e) { out.imp4 = 'THREW:' + e.message; }
out.evaluations = globalThis.__thr;
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…for what Node runs as CommonJS JSModuleLoader::removeEntry takes the loader's cellLock itself since the WebKit upgrade. The eviction held that lock around the call, so the second require() of a module that threw never returned. Call removeEntry bare, as main's other call sites do. Evict from the loader the load goes through: the requiring module's Bun.ModuleGraph's, or the global object's. The direct Module._extensions call now does this inside fetchCommonJSModuleNonBuiltin, which already has that loader, so ModuleLoader.h and JSCommonJSExtensions.cpp are unchanged. Evict only a module that Node would have run as CommonJS: an entry whose record has no import, export, top-level await or import.meta, or an entry with no JSModuleRecord (a CommonJS module that import() loaded first). An ES module that threw keeps its error for every later require(), as in Node. A failed fetch is left to the loader, which drops such an entry itself.
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This push brings the PR up to current main and changes its scope. The details are in the Notes of the description. In short:
In a comparison of 77 cases with Node v26.3.0 (11 file kinds, 7 load sequences), main agrees with Node on 53, this branch on 70, and no case is worse than on main. The two narrow cases where this branch differs from Node and main does not (a file with no import and no export that is an ES module by extension or package type, and a file whose only module syntax is |
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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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src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp— Underbun test --isolate, a require() retried after a module threw runs the old source again even after the file was fixed on disk, so the retry throws the stale error instead of re-reading the file as the PR promises. The new eviction at ModuleLoader.cpp:701 makes the retry fall through to the IsolatedModuleCache lookup at :829, which serves the SourceProvider inserted at :935 by the failed first attempt. Fix: on eviction of a failed entry, also drop that key from IsolatedModuleCache (or skip the cache when the entry was just evicted), so a retry re-transpiles from disk in every mode.Extended reasoning...
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bun test --isolate, a test writes m.js that throws, requires it (throws), rewrites m.js to a working version, requires it again. First require: no entry, cache miss at :829, transpile at :874, provider inserted at :935, provideFetch, evaluation throws, require map cleared at JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1401. Second require: evictFailedModuleRegistryEntry at :701 removes the entry; hasAlreadyLoaded at :819 is false; IsolatedModuleCache::lookup at :829 hits; sourceType is Module so provideFetch at :842 runs with the cached provider; loadModuleSync evaluates the old throwing source; the user gets the old error. On base the second require rethrew the stored error too, so the observable result is the same but the PR's own headline test ('re-reads file from disk', require.test.ts) is contradicted under --isolate, and the isolation.test.ts assertion pins that the stale provider survives. The dismissing finder accepted the author's intent; the cache is keyed by path only (no mtime) and there is no invalidation on eviction. Population: bun test --isolate users with fixtures rewritten…Verification: pre-existing; acknowledged in diff: the new test's comment in test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts:1783-1786 ("Under --isolate the first attempt leaves its SourceProvider in the cache, so the retry is served from there") is accurate, and the base branch already yields the same stale error for this scenario. Mechanism verified. Trigger:
bun test --isolate, require() of a no-module-syntax file that…
…ry entry delete require.cache[key] evicts both the registry entry and the --isolate SourceProvider cache. The retry of a module that threw now does the same, so it reads the file from disk again in every mode.
The case spawns one child process like its neighbours, so it does not need module-graph.test.ts. That file has 293 tests, several of which heat JIT tiers against a 5 s limit, and running it next to the concurrent require and --isolate tests on a debug build makes those time out.
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In `@src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp`:
- Line 666: Update threwAsCommonJS and the evictFailedModuleRegistryEntry
decision to classify failed modules using the resolved module type, including
package type and resolved .mjs type, rather than relying only on
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resolved as PackageJsonTypeModule so subsequent require calls reuse the stored
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Node runs a .mjs/.mts file, or a file under a package.json with "type": "module", as an ES module whatever its syntax, and never evaluates it again after it threw. The eviction now checks the resolved path's extension and the provider's package.json tag before it falls back to the syntax check.
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In `@src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp`:
- Around line 660-673: Update isESModule or threwAsCommonJS to preserve the
parser-authoritative ES module classification for ambiguous .js files containing
lexical redeclarations of require, module, exports, __dirname, or __filename,
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… the provider tag The provider tag is set only on the fresh transpile branch, so a "type": "module" file served from the runtime transpiler cache or the watcher lost its ES module classification. The registry can also hold a record parsed from a provider that is not Zig's (Bake), so the cast was not safe. Ask the resolver instead: Bun__isESModuleByPathOrPackage reads the extension (.mjs, .mts) and the nearest package.json of the resolved path, with a ?query stripped. Tests: a plain .js with an export and one with import.meta, so the syntax branch is the deciding check, a .mjs with a query, and the import() contract test now uses a file that require() would retry.
enclosing_package_json skips a package.json with no "name", so a file in a subdirectory of a nameless "type": "module" project was retried. Use package_json_for_module_type, the lookup the bundler uses for the same decision.
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I re-reviewed the latest push (1ea7ba0) and found no new bugs; the switch to dir_info.package_json_for_module_type resolves the nameless-package.json case I raised, and the new subdirectory test case covers it. Because this changes require() semantics in the module-registry path for every non-plain-CommonJS load, a human look would still be worthwhile.
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Bun__isESModuleByPathOrPackage:package_json_for_module_typeis populated from any parsed package.json (named or not) with parent fallback, and is the same field the resolver's own module-type classification reads (resolver.rs:1532).- FFI/lifetime:
Bun::toString(specifier)borrows aWTF::Stringthat outlives the call;to_utf8()returns a scopedUtf8Bytes; no.unwrap()on the path. - Eviction:
registryEntry/removeEntryfollow the existingdelete require.cachepattern in ZigGlobalObject.cpp:829; onlyEvaluationFailed/evaluationError()entries are removed, so in-flightimport()entries are untouched.
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Overview
The PR makes require() evict a failed ModuleRegistryEntry before loading, so a module that threw during evaluation is re-run on the next require() as in Node, provided Node would treat it as CommonJS. The C++ side (src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp) adds isESModule, threwAsCommonJS, and evictFailedModuleRegistryEntry, called from fetchCommonJSModule and from the isExtension branch of fetchCommonJSModuleNonBuiltin. The Rust side (src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs) adds Bun__isESModuleByPathOrPackage, which classifies by extension (.mjs/.mts) then by the nearest package.json "type" via resolver.read_dir_info. Tests are added to test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts and test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts.
Security risks
None specific to this change. The new FFI function reads a borrowed BunString, strips a ? query, and consults the resolver's directory-info cache; it does not write to the filesystem or accept attacker-controlled sizes. The registry eviction only removes entries that already carry an evaluation error and are not ES modules, which cannot be used to double-evaluate an in-flight import().
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Moderate-to-high. Module loader semantics affect every require() that goes through the JSC registry (syntax-less files, CJS first loaded via import(), plugin modules). The change is small and the tests are thorough (retry-until-success, disk re-read, import-then-require, dependency-of-ESM, plugin, require.extensions, Bun.ModuleGraph, --isolate, and a six-case ESM negative matrix). The known limits the PR describes (the one-microtask ModuleLoadTopRejected window, syntax stripped by the transpiler such as export {}, CommonJS reached via ESM as a SyntheticModuleRecord) are behavioral trade-offs that a maintainer should consciously accept rather than something an automated review can sign off on.
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The last push resolves the one blocking finding from my prior review: the fallback to enclosing_package_json (which required a non-empty name) was replaced with package_json_for_module_type, the field the resolver itself uses for module-type decisions, and a test for a nameless "type": "module" package.json with the file in a subdirectory was added. All earlier threads are author-resolved; the ones I could verify against the code (.mjs exclusion, ?query stripping, provider-tag dependence replaced by the resolver, exact --isolate cache assertion) are reflected in the diff. Remaining author-resolved threads describe documented, pre-existing or accepted-limit behavior rather than regressions. The hunt exited on dry_streak with no findings.
…try already removed (#42311) ### Problem - A `require()` that fails after its `require.cache` entry is gone aborts assert builds: `ASSERTION FAILED: wasRemoved || (graph && graph->disposed())` at `JSCommonJSModule.cpp(1403)` in `Bun::finishRequireWithError` (`ASSERTION FAILED: wasRemoved` before #42590). - Bun removes it first when a `Module._extensions` handler calls the loader it replaced and the ES module fails to load. `requireESMFromHijackedExtension` (`src/js/builtins/CommonJS.ts:216`) deleted the entry and rethrew. On release, a handler that catches that error lost its module from `require.cache`. Node keeps it. - User code removes it first with `delete require.cache[__filename]; throw new Error("x")`. ### Fix - `requireESMFromHijackedExtension` no longer deletes the entry. The enclosing native `$require` removes the entry if the error escapes the handler. - `finishRequireWithError` and `JSCommonJSModule::load` no longer assert that the removal found the key. User code can remove it first. - Verified: 14 new tests in `test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts` and `test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts` fail on a debug build of main. Also ran `test/js/node/module/`, `module-graph.test.ts`. - Self-reviewed: 2 concerns raised, 1 addressed. Rejected: a test for `load()`, nothing reaches it (Notes). ### Background - The require map is the `Map` behind `require.cache`. `overridableRequire` puts a placeholder in it before the load, and a failed load must remove it. - `$require` is the native `jsFunctionRequireCommonJS`. Every throw inside it goes through `finishRequireWithError`, which removes the entry and rethrows. - `Module._extensions['.js']` is the native `builtinLoader`. A handler that replaces it (pirates, ts-node) usually calls it back. For an ES module it calls the builtin `requireESMFromHijackedExtension`. - A `Bun.ModuleGraph` has its own require map. #42590 exempted a disposed graph from the assert. <details><summary>Notes</summary> **Why `overridableRequire` keeps its own `catch`.** With no handler, `$require` returns -1 for an ES module and `overridableRequire` loads it after `$require` returned. That path still does `requireMap.$delete(id)` in a `catch`, because no native frame is left to do it. **Rebase onto #42590 (per-graph CommonJS).** That PR reworded both asserts to `ASSERT_UNUSED(wasRemoved, wasRemoved || (graph && graph->disposed()))` and made the `catch` in `requireESMFromHijackedExtension` delete from `this.$requireMap || $requireMap`. In an ordinary program `graph` is null, so the condition is the same as before. This PR removes the whole assert, so the `disposed()` clause goes with it: a disposed graph is one more way the entry can already be gone. The removal still uses the graph's map. The module that `requireESMFromHijackedExtension` receives is the child that `overridableRequire` created, and `$createCommonJSModule` gives it the graph of its parent, so `finishRequireWithError` removes from the same map that the old `catch` used. Two of the new tests run inside a `Bun.ModuleGraph` that is not disposed. Both abort on main. **Self-review.** Addressed: each wrapper row now asserts that the handler ran (`calls: 1`), so a row cannot pass through the path that has no handler. Other suites run on the fixed debug build: `test/js/bun/resolve/require-esm-*.test.ts`, `esModule.test.ts`, `test/cli/run/run-cjs.test.ts`, `test/regression/issue/24387.test.ts`, `test/js/bun/test/mock/mock-module.test.ts`, `test/regression/issue/require-extensions-override.test.ts`, `test/regression/issue/22929-module-extensions-asi.test.ts`. Before the rebase I also ran the Node `test-require-*` and `test-module-*` files (48 pass) and the repro scripts under `BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1`. In `module-graph.test.ts`, 288 tests pass. The 4 `dynamicImport: ...` tests time out at 5 s in the full debug run and pass when run alone (3.5 s to 4.6 s each), so that is the speed of the debug build. **Original repro** (`bun repro.cjs`, debug build of main: rc 134. Release: prints `caught boom | still cached: false`): ```js const fs = require("fs"), path = require("path"), os = require("os"), Module = require("module"); const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "extesm-")); const f = path.join(dir, "esm-throws.js"); fs.writeFileSync(f, "export default 1;\nthrow new Error('boom');\n"); const orig = Module._extensions[".js"]; Module._extensions[".js"] = function (m, filename) { return orig.call(this, m, filename); }; try { require(f); } catch (e) { console.log("caught", e.message, "| still cached:", f in require.cache); } fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); ``` **Call path of the double removal.** `overridableRequire` sets the require map entry and calls `$require`. `fetchCommonJSModuleNonBuiltin<false>` gets a `CommonJSCustomExtension` result and calls `evaluateCommonJSCustomExtension`, which calls the user's handler. The handler calls `builtinLoader`, which gets -1 (ES module) and calls `requireESMFromHijackedExtension`. Its `catch` deleted the key. The exception unwound to `jsFunctionRequireCommonJS`, and `finishRequireWithError` removed the same key again. **Handler that catches the error** (the release-visible part). With a handler of the shape `try { return orig.call(this, m, f) } catch (e) { m.exports = { recovered: e.message } }` and an ES module that throws: | | first `require(f)` | `f in require.cache` | second `require(f)` | |---|---|---|---| | node v26.3.0 | `{ recovered: "boom" }` | true | same object, handler ran once | | bun 1.4.3-canary.1 | `{ recovered: "boom" }` | false | throws `boom`, not through the handler | | this PR | `{ recovered: "boom" }` | true | same object, handler ran once | The second `require()` threw on release because the map entry was gone, the ES module registry still had the failed record, and `fetchCommonJSModule` returns -1 for a file the registry already knows without a call to the handler. **Each half of the fix is needed.** With only the C++ change, the handler-catches test fails. With only the JS change, the eviction tests in `require.test.ts` and the `pirates-evict` row fail with the assert. **Rows in the new tests.** Handler that calls the original loader: `.js` with ES module syntax, `.ts`, `.mjs`, `.js` under `"type": "module"`, an import that does not resolve, a file with neither CommonJS nor ES module syntax (`nope();`, the transpiler classifies it as an ES module), top-level await, the pirates shape (wrap `module._compile`, then call the original loader), and the plain wrapper inside a `Bun.ModuleGraph`. Eviction before the throw: the module deletes itself (in the host and inside a `Bun.ModuleGraph`), a child module deletes its parent, and a `module._compile` wrapper deletes the entry before a CommonJS file runs. Each row runs in its own process, because the assert aborts the process. **`JSCommonJSModule::load`.** It is the same copied block, so the assert there is wrong for the same reason. I did not find a deterministic way to reach it. `load()` only evaluates a module that an ES module import created in the map and that has not run yet. With the current loader a CommonJS file that an ES module imports runs right after its fetch, so a `require()` from a sibling never finds it in that state (checked with static imports and with `import()` after startup: the sibling is not in `require.cache` yet). A module that `require()` itself is loading has a null `sourceCode`, so `load()` returns early for it. **Windows.** The fix has no platform code. Before the rebase I ran both test files on Windows x64 with the canary build to check the path handling in the fixtures: 29 pass, and the handler-catches test fails as it does on every release build without the fix. **Not changed here.** `Module.prototype.require.call(plainObject, id)` throws `TypeError: undefined is not a function` and leaves the placeholder in the map, so a later `require(id)` returns `{}`. That is an entry that nothing removes, not a double removal. It is a separate bug. **Nearby open PRs.** #38645 and #38072 change the same functions for other reasons. Neither touches this removal. </details> <!-- robobun:evidence:begin --> --- **[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 1 · 4 files touched <details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary> ```console ASAN without fix: 12 failed, 3 skipped $ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts bun test v1.4.3 (4ff9193) test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts: (pass) require(specifier) > has a length of 1 [3.86ms] (pass) require(specifier) > is a function [1.89ms] (pass) require(specifier) > has an empty prototype [4.72ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.toml') synchronously produces an object [12.43ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.json') synchronously produces an object [4.24ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.jsonc') synchronously produces an object [4.07ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.xml') synchronously produces an object [4.48ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('arr.json') synchronously produces an array [7.30ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when ... (truncated) release without fix: 3 skipped bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (9c3bcdd) test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts: (pass) require(specifier) > has a length of 1 [0.04ms] (pass) require(specifier) > is a function [0.05ms] (pass) require(specifier) > has an empty prototype [0.12ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.toml') synchronously produces an object [0.37ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.json') synchronously produces an object [0.11ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.jsonc') synchronously produces an object [0.09ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.xml') synchronously produces an object [0.08ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('arr.json') synchronously produces an array [0.15ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('arr.jsonc') synchronously produces an array [0.07ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('*.txt') sy ... (truncated) ``` </details> <details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary> ```console ASAN with fix: 3 skipped $ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts bun test v1.4.3 (4ff9193) test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts: (pass) require(specifier) > has a length of 1 [3.08ms] (pass) require(specifier) > is a function [2.57ms] (pass) require(specifier) > has an empty prototype [4.14ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.toml') synchronously produces an object [10.72ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.json') synchronously produces an object [3.23ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.jsonc') synchronously produces an object [22.57ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('obj.xml') synchronously produces an object [3.00ms] (pass) require(specifier) > when specifier is a path to a non js/ts/etc file > require('arr.json') synchronously produces an array [5.47ms] (pass) require(specifier) > whe ... (truncated) release with fix: 3 skipped $ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release [configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 808ms (unchanged) ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release' [1/22] gen cpp.rs (cppbind) [2/22] gen JS modules (bundle-modules) Preprocess modules (12513ms) Bundle modules (70ms) Postprocesss modules (162ms) Bundle Functions (690ms) Generate Code (48ms) [13.49s] Bundled "src/js" for production 2599 kb 197 internal modules 13 native modules 50 internal functions across 16 files [2/8] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_core v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/bun_core) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_errno v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/errno) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_ptr v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/ptr) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_boringssl_sys v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/boringssl_sys) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_safety v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/safety) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_base64 v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/base64) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_cares_sys v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/cares_sys) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_zlib_sys v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/zlib_sys) ^[[1m^[[92m Compiling^[[0m bun_zstd v0.0.0 (/workspace/bu ... (truncated) ``` </details> <details><summary>diff hotspot</summary> ``` src/js/builtins/CommonJS.ts | 10 +-- src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp | 14 ++-- test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts | 49 ++++++++++- test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) ``` </details> **gate history** · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1 <details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary> ``` file reads edits tests src/js/builtins/CommonJS.ts 1 2 29 src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp 4 3 29 test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts 3 2 21 test/js/node/module/require-extensions.test.ts 4 2 24 ``` </details> <!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
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require()of a module that threw while it was evaluated never runs it again. Every laterrequire()rethrows the first exception object, thoughrequire.cacheno longer lists the module. Node evaluates the file again on eachrequire()until one succeeds.require()that goes through the module registry: a file with no module syntax at all (ESM to Bun, CommonJS to Node), a CommonJS file whose first load was a failedimport(), aBun.pluginmodule.ModuleRegistryEntrykeeps the error, andJSModuleLoader::loadModulereplays it on every later load.Fix
evictFailedModuleRegistryEntry()insrc/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cppruns before arequire()load. It removes the entry when the module threw (statusEvaluationFailed, orevaluationError()on its record) and Node would run it as CommonJS: not.mjs/.mts, not under a"type": "module"package.json (Bun__isESModuleByPathOrPackageasks the resolver), no import, export, top-level await or import.meta, or noJSModuleRecordat all.import(), and removing it would evaluate the module twice (why fix: clean up ESM registry when require() of ESM module fails #27288 was reverted).--isolatesource cache entry for the key is dropped with the registry entry, asdelete require.cache[key]does. So the retry reads the file from disk again in every mode.test/js/bun/resolve/require.test.ts(9 of 15 new tests fail on main) andtest/cli/test/isolation.test.ts. 70 of 77 cases equal Node v26.3.0 (main: 53), none is worse than main. Also theresolve,pluginandnode/modulesuites.Background
require.cache.require()inserts the module before it evaluates it and removes it again if evaluation throws.ModuleRegistryEntry. Bun routesrequire()through it for everything that is not plain CommonJS. A record that failed is never evaluated again (ES spec).module,exportsorrequireand noimport/exportis ESM in Bun and CommonJS in Node.Notes
Repro:
bun 1.4.0 prints
evaluating t2once and botha:andb:showat a (...). Node, and bun with this change, print it twice andb:showsat b (...).removeEntry()takes the loader's cell lock itself since the WebKit upgrade. An earlier revision held that lock around the call and the secondrequire()never returned.Earlier shape of this PR: it also evicted
FetchFailedandInstantiationFailedentries and did not check for ES module syntax, sorequire()of a real.mjsthat threw was retried too. That is gone. AFetchFailedentry is dropped by the loader itself, and theModuleLoadTopRejectedreaction one microtask after a top-levelimport()failure looks the key up again, so evicting in that window would poison the retry's entry (#39204). The check for ES module syntax reads theJSModuleRecordthat JSC already parsed, so no new information has to travel from the transpiler.Comparison with Node v26.3.0, one child process per case: 11 file kinds (no module syntax
.js/.ts,exportin.js/.mjs/.ts, CommonJS.js/.cjs, JSON, a syntax error, a file with no module syntax as a dependency of a CommonJS parent and of an.mjsparent) times 7 load sequences (require()fails thenrequire(), with and without a fix on disk ordelete require.cache[path]in between,import()fails thenrequire(),require()succeeds then the file changes,require()fails thenimport()). main equals Node in 53 of 77 cases, this branch in 70. The 17 that changed are the cases this PR is about. The 7 left are identical on main:delete require.cache[path]of a real ES module (4),import()after a failedrequire()of a file with no module syntax (2), one JSON case.Classification order, as in Node: the extension (
.mjs,.mts, with a?querystripped), then the nearest package.json"type"of a.js/.tsfile (Bun__isESModuleByPathOrPackageinjsc_hooks.rsruns the resolver'sread_dir_infowalk and readspackage_json_for_module_type, the nearest package.json named or not, as the bundler does), then the record's syntax. The provider'sResolvedSourceTagis not used: the runtime transpiler cache-hit and watcher branches do not set it, and a record parsed from a Bake provider is not aZig::SourceProvider.Known limit of the syntax check: a
.jsfile whose only module syntax does not reach the record is retried here where Node keeps the error. That isexport {}, a type-only import, or a top-levellet/const/classnamedrequire,module,exports,__dirnameor__filename(Node counts that redeclaration as ES module syntax). Telling it apart needs one more bit from the transpiler, carried through the runtime transpiler cache. An import that the transpiler injects (the automatic JSX runtime) has the opposite effect: the record looks like an ES module, so such a file keeps the stale error, as on main. A bundledrequire()(bun build,--compile) does not go through the runtime registry and is unchanged.Known window:
ModuleLoadTopRejectedruns one microtask after a top-levelimport()fails and looks the key up by name. Arequire()of the same key inside that window runs the file again and gets a fresh entry, which the reaction then marks with the first error. Closing it needs a pending set on the loader. Left as is.import()after a failedrequire(): still rejects with the stored error for an ES module. For a file Node runs as CommonJS, a laterrequire()that succeeds makes a followingimport()resolve to that namespace. Node keeps rejecting there because its ESM cache keeps the failed job.Other suites run with the debug build:
test/regression/issue/{24387,22743,23139,30493}.test.ts,test/js/bun/resolve/require-esm-transitive-tla.test.tsand Node'stest-require-exceptions.js. No new failures.[human-review] gate passed · iteration 2 · 4 files touched
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When a CommonJS module threw during evaluation, Bun left the failed entry in the JSC module registry, so subsequent require() calls returned the cached error instead of re-evaluating the file as Node does. The fix makes the CommonJS load paths evict a registry entry that carries an evaluation error before loading, but only when the module is classified as CommonJS by extension and by the nearest package.json "type" field via the resolver. Failed ES module entries are preserved, so import() semantics and in-flight imports are unaffected while require() of a fixed CommonJS module now retries …