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Problem

  • Loading a module built with bun build --target=bun --bytecode read the whole .jsc sidecar into a Box<[u8]> (src/bundler/transpiler.rs, the @bytecode arm of parse_maybe_return_file_only_allow_shared_buffer). JSC decodes functions lazily, so it holds that buffer for as long as the module exists, and all of it is resident because read() touched every page.
  • Sidecars are several times the size of the source (3.4 MB for the 316 KB module below), so the bytecode path ended up using more memory than parsing the source would.
  • The same branch (jsc_hooks.rs and RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs) also copied the module text it had just read into a second WTF string with clone_latin1.

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  • New bun_sys::MappedFile (src/sys/mapped_file.rs): the contents of a whole file as a PROT_READ/MAP_PRIVATE mapping. open() falls back to a heap read where mapping is unavailable (Windows, where bun_sys::mmap is a stub and a file mapping would block bun build from overwriting its output) or refused; map() fails instead of copying.
  • The transpiler opens the sidecar and maps the module text, and AlreadyBundled::Bytecode{,Cjs} carries both (BytecodeFiles). ResolvedSource::from_already_bundled (src/jsc/ResolvedSource.rs) replaces the two copies of the hand-off code: the text becomes an external Latin-1 WTF string whose free function unmaps it (falling back to clone_latin1 when the text could not be mapped, as before), and the sidecar mapping goes to C++ as Bytecode::mapped.
  • Bytecode's owned: bool becomes file: *mut c_void, the Box<MappedFile> behind ptr[..len] (null for bytes borrowed from a standalone executable or the Node compile cache, which keep getting no destructor). ResolvedSource grows from 136 to 144 bytes (and ErrorableResolvedSource to 152) because Compiled executables: alias embedded bytecode instead of copying it; smaller, page-friendly bytecode (WebKit#494) #40201 added the persistent bool that used to share a slot with owned; the layout asserts on both sides are updated. The release points are the ones main already has since Make bun_core::String own its WTF ref #40238: the CachedBytecode destructor installed in SourceProvider::create (which exchanges the field out), ~ErrorableResolvedSource for a fetch that never creates a provider, and Bytecode's Drop on the Rust side. ResolvedSource__freeBytecode(ptr) is renamed ResolvedSource__destroyBytecodeFile(file) because its argument changed.
  • Why mapping is safe here: JSC only reads the payload (CachePayload::span() is const and the decoder keeps its pointers in a side table), the Node compile cache already hands JSC a PROT_READ mapping (NodeCompileCache.rs), and compiled executables on Windows already run bytecode out of a read-only section. The mapping base is page aligned, which covers the decoder's alignment requirement.
  • Trade-off to be aware of: a mapping follows in-place truncation or rewriting of the .js/.jsc by a later bun build while an older process is still running them (replacing the files via rename is fine). This is the same exposure the compile cache mapping has; writing sidecars through a temporary file plus rename would remove it and is not part of this PR.
  • Verified with test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts:
    • "bytecode output is mapped from disk while it is in use": four modules loaded through require() (JS thread), import() (RuntimeTranspilerStore, confirmed with BUN_DEBUG_RuntimeTranspilerStore=1), require() followed by import() (~ErrorableResolvedSource release), and an overridden module._compile; checks the modules ran from their sidecars (BUN_JSC_verboseDiskCache) and, on Linux, the per-file mapping counts in /proc/self/maps (1, 1, 1 and 0 of each file). Fails on 1.4.0 with every count at 0.
    • "bytecode output is unmapped once the module is collected" (Linux): one live module holds one mapping of each file; after 10 load/delete require.cache cycles and Bun.gc(true) none are left (12 of 12 runs gave 0; the assertion allows 1 for a conservative stack scan). Fails on 1.4.0 because nothing is mapped.
    • Also ran bundler_bun, bundler_banner, bundler_compile -t bytecode (30 standalone tests), regression/issue/26298, require-extensions, require-extensions-override, node-module-module and the test-compile-cache-* Node tests on the debug (ASan) build; cargo check of the touched crates for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin; cargo fmt, clippy and clang-format are clean.
  • Measurements (RssAnon of a process after loading the module, minus the same with a build of the same module without --bytecode; details in the fold-out):
    • 2000 small functions, 316 KB source, 3.4 MB sidecar: bun 1.4.0 +4.2 MB; this branch +0.7 to +1.2 MB (what JSC decodes eagerly). The sidecar and source now show up as file-backed mappings; for this module they are fully resident because the per-function metadata touches every page.
    • 8 functions of 3000 statements, 360 KB source, 1.9 MB sidecar: with this branch 512 KB of the sidecar is resident after loading without calling anything, and calling one function adds about 112 KB.

Background

  • // @bun @bytecode is the pragma bun build --target=bun --bytecode puts at the top of its output next to a <file>.jsc sidecar holding JSC's serialized bytecode for that exact text. At load time the parser stops at the pragma and the loader hands JSC the text plus the sidecar; JSC checks a hash of the text and decodes from the sidecar instead of parsing, one function at a time as they are first called.
  • ResolvedSource (ResolvedSource.rs and the C mirror in headers-handwritten.h) is the struct the Rust module loader fills in for C++ for every module. Since Make bun_core::String own its WTF ref #40238 it is owned on both sides: Rust drops it, C++'s ~ErrorableResolvedSource releases whatever a consumer did not take.
  • Zig::SourceProvider is Bun's JSC::SourceProvider for a module: it owns the text and, when present, a JSC::CachedBytecode wrapping the bytecode bytes. CachedBytecode takes a destructor callback that runs when its last reference goes away; lazily decoded functions keep references to it, so it is always the last thing holding the bytes.
  • Two producers build these values: transpile_source_code_inner in jsc_hooks.rs on the JS thread (require(), entry points) and TranspilerJob in RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs on the thread pool (import and import()), which is why both are changed.
  • An external WTF string (bun_core::String::create_external) is a WTF::StringImpl that points at memory it does not own and calls a free function when it is destroyed; this is also how standalone executables expose their embedded module text.
  • Related PRs: Free the .jsc sidecar blob handed to ResolvedSource.bytecode_cache #38138 fixed the leak that Make bun_core::String own its WTF ref #40238 has since fixed on main. bundler: frame .jsc bytecode sidecars and verify them before decoding #39396 adds a footer check to the sidecar reader; it composes with this change (the check would read the mapping) at the cost of touching every page at load.
Measurement setup

Module A: 2000 one-line functions plus an export (bun build --target=bun --bytecode, 316 KB entry.js, 3.4 MB entry.js.jsc). Module B: 8 functions of 3000 statements each, built with --minify (360 KB, 1.9 MB sidecar). The probe records RssAnon from /proc/self/status before and after require() of the built file (after Bun.gc(true) both times) and prints the /proc/self/smaps entries for the output directory.

Module A, bun 1.4.0 (release), three runs: plain build +3.6/3.6/3.7 MB, bytecode build +7.9/7.9/8.0 MB, no mappings of the output files.

Module A, this branch (debug build, so the baseline differs), three runs: plain build +2.8/2.8/2.8 MB, bytecode build +3.5/3.5/4.0 MB, plus:

entry.js.jsc: Size: 3428 kB | Rss: 3428 kB
entry.js:     Size:  316 kB | Rss:  316 kB

Module B, this branch, no function called: big.js.jsc: Size: 1896 kB | Rss: 512 kB; after calling one of the eight functions: Rss: 624 kB. The source is always fully resident because JSC hashes the text to validate the cache.

Reload probe (this branch): require() plus delete require.cache[...] 30 times leaves 30 mappings of each file before Bun.gc(true) and 0 after.

Before the rebase onto #40238 this PR also fixed the sidecar never being freed (SourceProvider::create cleared needsDeref before reading it to choose the CachedBytecode destructor) and added release sites in ResolvedSourceCodeHolder and the overridden module._compile branch; main now covers those through ~ErrorableResolvedSource.


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Mapped bytecode ownership

Layer / File(s) Summary
MappedFile abstraction
src/sys/mapped_file.rs, src/sys/lib.rs
Adds MappedFile with Unix mapping, heap-backed fallback, accessors, and cleanup.
Bundled bytecode and source conversion
src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/jsc/ResolvedSource.rs
Stores mapped sidecars and optional mapped sources in BytecodeFiles. Converts them into ResolvedSource and mapped Bytecode values.
Runtime integration and cleanup
src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs, src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs, src/jsc/bindings/*, src/jsc/Errorable.rs, test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts
Updates runtime and FFI ownership handling. Adds mapping and garbage-collection regression tests.

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I reviewed this PR and the bug-hunting pass found no issues. Because it introduces a new cross-FFI ownership protocol for mmap'd bytecode (with four distinct destruction sites across Rust and C++, plus a #[repr(C)] struct layout change), a human look at the memory-safety reasoning would still be worthwhile.

Checked: ResolvedSource field order matches between ResolvedSource.rs and headers-handwritten.h; std::exchange in SourceProvider::create nulls the caller's reference before both m_resolvedSource copy and the holder run; the JSCommonJSExtensions.cpp path (no ResolvedSourceCodeHolder) reaches either releaseBytecodeCache or SourceProvider::create on every branch that can carry a mapping; MappedFile::open falls back to heap on zero-length/mmap failure so as_slice never dereferences a bad pointer.

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Overview

This PR replaces heap-read .jsc bytecode sidecars with PROT_READ/MAP_PRIVATE mappings and does the same for the module source text, so untouched pages never become resident. It adds bun_sys::MappedFile (new file), a bytecode_cache_file field to the ResolvedSource FFI struct (both Rust and C++ mirrors), consolidates two copies of the already-bundled hand-off into ResolvedSource::from_already_bundled, and wires four destruction sites: the CachedBytecode destructor lambda in SourceProvider::create, ResolvedSourceCodeHolder, the overridden-_compile branch in JSCommonJSModule.cpp, and OwnedResolvedSource::drop. It also fixes a pre-existing leak where the old needsDeref-gated destructor was always the no-op. Two new tests in bun-build-api.test.ts observe mapping counts via /proc/self/maps on Linux and verify GC releases them.

Security risks

None user-facing. The mapping is read-only over files the process already opened; the PR description notes the exposure to in-place file rewriting (same as the existing Node compile-cache mapping). No untrusted input parsing changes.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is squarely in REVIEW.md's most-blocked category — native memory safety with cross-FFI ownership. The protocol depends on std::exchange ordering relative to a struct copy stored in SourceProvider::m_resolvedSource, on every C++ consumer path either creating a provider or explicitly releasing, and on the JSCommonJSExtensions.cpp caller (which has no ResolvedSourceCodeHolder) reaching a release on every branch. I traced each of these and they hold, but the number of paths through the module loader (ESM/CJS × sync/async × builtin/virtual/isolation-cache) and the fact that a miss is a UAF or a per-load leak of an mmap make this worth a maintainer's eyes.

Other factors

The PR description is unusually thorough (mechanism, measurements, trade-offs, related PRs) and the test coverage is targeted at exactly the four load paths and the GC-release invariant. The author also cross-checked Windows/macOS via cargo check and ran the compile-cache and require-extensions suites under ASan. No prior human review on the timeline; CI was still building at the time of review.

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For whoever does the human pass on the ownership protocol, here is the path list I checked, with line numbers as of 29484ec. Only two producers ever set bytecode_cache_file: jsc_hooks.rs:2950 (JS thread) and RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs:1041 (thread pool); both wrap the value in OwnedResolvedSource and hand it to C++ through into_ffi() (jsc_hooks.rs:2250, RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs:589), which forgets the owner, so OwnedResolvedSource::drop (ResolvedSource.rs:229) only ever sees values that did not reach C++ (a transpiler job torn down before run_from_js_thread).

On the C++ side the value arrives through one of these entry points, and every way out of each of them either hands the mapping to a CachedBytecode (SourceProvider::create, exchange at ZigSourceProvider.cpp:121) or releases it:

Entry point Holder Ways out that do not call SourceProvider::create Released by
fetchESMSourceCode (ModuleLoader.cpp:956; sync Bun__transpileFile at 1131) 967 createCommonJSModule finding the module already in require.cache (JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1523 not taken), the JSON / ExportsObject tags (never carry bytecode) holder
Bun__onFulfillAsyncModule (483; the thread-pool producer) 490 RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION after toJS(specifier), same createCommonJSModule case holder
fetchCommonJSModule (664) -> fetchCommonJSModuleNonBuiltin<false> (832) 680 tag paths that never carry bytecode; the CJS branch goes through evaluate (JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1425, unconditional create) holder
builtinLoader (JSCommonJSExtensions.cpp:267) -> fetchCommonJSModuleNonBuiltin<true> none overridden module._compile (JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1462, released before either throwTypeError or the call); a non-overridden _compile goes through evaluate explicit release
handleVirtualModuleResult (357) 370 none reachable: the producer skips the sidecar for virtual sources (transpiler.rs, virtual_source.is_none() gate), and create is unconditional anyway n/a
Bun__fetchBuiltinModule (551, 1010; standalone executables) builds its value with ..ResolvedSource::default(), so the field is null nothing to release

Two details the table relies on: every ErrorableResolvedSource local in C++ is memset to zero before Rust fills it (ModuleLoader.cpp:599, 675, 1269; JSCommonJSModule.cpp:1376; ZigGlobalObject.cpp:732, 3877; JSCommonJSExtensions.cpp:265), and the holder only looks at the value when success is set, which only Rust's ok() does for these paths, so it never reads an unwritten field. releaseBytecodeCache and the create path both null the field as they take it, so running more than one of them on the same value is a no-op rather than a double destroy; the lazy and compiled modules in the new test exercise exactly the holder and _compile rows under the ASan lane.

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CI on 29484ec (https://buildkite.com/bun/bun/builds/99837): 178 of 179 jobs green, including the ASan lane and the Windows shards that run the new tests. The one red job is test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts segfaulting on Windows 2019 x64, which is failing the same way in the final builds of recently merged PRs and does not involve module loading; it has been reported separately. Ready for review.

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Rebased onto main after #40238 landed (owned ResolvedSource, ~ErrorableResolvedSource, the std::exchange in SourceProvider::create). That PR already fixes the sidecar leak this one used to fix, so the needsDeref rewrite, releaseBytecodeCache, and the holder / module._compile release sites are gone from the diff. What remains: Bytecode::owned(Box<[u8]>) becomes Bytecode::mapped(MappedFile), with the owned bit replaced by the file pointer (ResolvedSource stays 136 bytes), plus the mapped source text. The PR body is updated to describe the rebased change.

On the comment-length bot: 16c8a18 and 20a380c cut the comments in the diff from 59 lines to 33 and removed the ones that only restated the code. The threads that are still flagged are two-to-three line rustdoc on new API (MappedFile, open, from_already_bundled, Bytecode) and SAFETY / # Safety notes above unsafe, which REVIEW.md asks for. They have the same shape as the upstream docs they replace (the Bytecode doc on main is four lines, the bytecode_cache comment in headers-handwritten.h two), so I have left them and resolved those threads with this note.

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In `@src/sys/mapped_file.rs`:
- Around line 21-27: Update the .jsc output-writing flow in
writeOutputFilesToDisk to create the data in a temporary file within the
destination directory, write and close it fully, then atomically rename it over
the target sidecar; avoid opening the existing destination with truncation so
readers holding a mapping remain valid.

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- Line 151: Update the stderr assertion around diskCacheLines so it validates
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Thanks for tightening the collection test to released: { js: 0, jsc: 0 } — that addresses my earlier note. I reviewed this pass and didn't find any bugs; given the cross-FFI ownership rework (Box handed through CachedBytecode's destructor and a WTF external-string free function) and the acknowledged in-place-rewrite/SIGBUS trade-off, a human sign-off is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

  • MappedFile::open/map — zero-length files fall through to the heap read (mmap len=0 → EINVAL), File::openat NUL-terminates internally so the dropped ZStr is fine, and the total > sidecar_path.len() bound is correct for a slice with no trailing NUL.
  • Bytecode layout: bool owned → void* file keeps the 136-byte assert; ~ErrorableResolvedSource and SourceProvider::create both std::exchange the file pointer out, and a default-constructed CachePayload::Destructor matches the nullptr other call sites already pass.
  • from_already_bundled deduplication in jsc_hooks.rs / RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs preserves the per-caller source_url/tag/ensure_hash behavior.
  • Second test now asserts the strongest invariant (0/0) with no scanner-blame comment.
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Overview

This PR replaces heap reads of .jsc bytecode sidecars (and their source text) with PROT_READ/MAP_PRIVATE mappings so JSC's lazy decoder does not force the whole sidecar resident. It adds bun_sys::MappedFile (new file), changes AlreadyBundled::Bytecode{,Cjs} to carry a BytecodeFiles struct, replaces two hand-rolled ResolvedSource constructions in jsc_hooks.rs and RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs with a shared ResolvedSource::from_already_bundled, and swaps the C-mirror Bytecode struct's owned: bool for a file: *mut c_void (the Box<MappedFile>). On the C++ side ZigSourceProvider.cpp and headers-handwritten.h are updated to destroy that box via a captured-pointer lambda in CachedBytecode's destructor, and ~ErrorableResolvedSource releases it when no provider is created. Two subprocess tests assert per-file mapping counts via /proc/self/maps on Linux and disk-cache hit counts everywhere.

Security risks

None identified. The mapped bytes come from files the process already opened and read; the only new attack-surface consideration is the documented hazard that rewriting a mapped .js/.jsc in place (not via rename) while an older process is running it can SIGBUS or return stale/torn bytes. That is the same exposure the Node compile-cache mapping already has in production and is called out in the PR body as a follow-up for the bundler's writer.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is memory-ownership work across the Rust/C++ FFI boundary in the module loader: a Box<MappedFile> is into_raw'd twice (once for the external WTF string, once for the Bytecode struct), handed to C++, and freed by callbacks (WTF::ExternalStringImpl free function, JSC::CachedBytecode destructor, ~ErrorableResolvedSource). The release points were established by #40238 on main and this PR only changes what they release, but the new MappedFile type, the mmap trade-off, and the closure-captured file pointer in SourceProvider::create are the kind of change a maintainer should sign off on rather than an automated approval.

Other factors

My one prior finding on this PR — the toBeLessThanOrEqual(1) assertion justified by conservative-stack-scanner blame — was addressed in dd8ea6c: the test now asserts released: { js: 0, jsc: 0 } via a single toEqual and the comment is gone (author reports 20/20 runs give 0). All comment-cop and CodeRabbit threads are resolved. I spot-checked that File::openat accepts non-NUL-terminated &[u8] (it copies into its own buffer via openat_a), that a default-constructed CachePayload::Destructor is valid (three other call sites pass nullptr), that get_end_pos() returning 0 makes mmap fail so open() falls through to the heap read, and that the assert_ffi_layout!(ResolvedSource, 136, 8) still holds with void* replacing bool (both occupy an 8-byte slot after size_t). No new issues found.

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Loading a `// @Bun @bytecode` module read the whole sidecar into a
Box<[u8]> that JSC keeps for the life of the module (functions are
decoded lazily), and copied the module text into a second WTF string.
Sidecars are several times the size of the source, so the bytecode path
used more memory than parsing would.

bun_sys::MappedFile maps a file PROT_READ/MAP_PRIVATE (falling back to a
heap read where mmap is unavailable, i.e. Windows). The transpiler maps
the sidecar and the module text with it; the text becomes an external
Latin-1 WTF string that unmaps itself, and the sidecar mapping replaces
the `owned` bit of ResolvedSource.bytecode_cache: `bytecode_cache_file`
is the Box<MappedFile> behind the bytes, destroyed by the CachedBytecode
destructor, by ~ErrorableResolvedSource for a fetch that never creates a
provider, or by Bytecode's Drop on the Rust side. Borrowed bytecode
(standalone executables, the Node compile cache) has no file and keeps
getting no destructor.
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function reload(times) {
for (let i = 0; i < times; i++) {
require(file);
release();
}
}

const value = require(file).value();
const loaded = mappings();
release();
reload(${RELOADS} - 1);
Bun.gc(true);
console.log(JSON.stringify({ value, loaded, released: mappings() }));

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Poll for the released mapping count instead of asserting after one Bun.gc(true).

The fixture calls Bun.gc(true) once and then reads /proc/self/maps. Conservative stack scanning can keep the most recent SourceProvider alive across a single full GC. The reload(RELOADS - 1) loop reduces that risk for older loads, but the final load's temporaries can still be reachable. In that case released reads { js: 1, jsc: 1 } and the exact-equality assertion at Line 227 fails on that lane only.

Poll with a bounded deadline until both counts reach 0.

🧪 Proposed fix to remove the GC timing dependency
         const value = require(file).value();
         const loaded = mappings();
         release();
         reload(${RELOADS} - 1);
-        Bun.gc(true);
-        console.log(JSON.stringify({ value, loaded, released: mappings() }));
+        let released = mappings();
+        const deadline = Date.now() + 5000;
+        while ((released.js > 0 || released.jsc > 0) && Date.now() < deadline) {
+          Bun.gc(true);
+          released = mappings();
+        }
+        console.log(JSON.stringify({ value, loaded, released }));

As per coding guidelines: "CRITICAL: Do not write flaky tests. Do not use setTimeout or await sleep(N) to wait for a condition; poll with a deadline or await the event itself."

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function reload(times) {
for (let i = 0; i < times; i++) {
require(file);
release();
}
}
const value = require(file).value();
const loaded = mappings();
release();
reload(${RELOADS} - 1);
Bun.gc(true);
console.log(JSON.stringify({ value, loaded, released: mappings() }));
function reload(times) {
for (let i = 0; i < times; i++) {
require(file);
release();
}
}
const value = require(file).value();
const loaded = mappings();
release();
reload(${RELOADS} - 1);
let released = mappings();
const deadline = Date.now() + 5000;
while ((released.js > 0 || released.jsc > 0) && Date.now() < deadline) {
Bun.gc(true);
released = mappings();
}
console.log(JSON.stringify({ value, loaded, released }));
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In `@test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts` around lines 200 - 212, Update the
fixture’s post-GC mapping check around reload and mappings so it polls until
both js and jsc released counts reach zero, using a bounded deadline rather than
a single Bun.gc(true) assertion. Avoid fixed delays such as setTimeout or sleep,
and preserve the existing exact zero-count assertion once the condition is met.

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Thanks for tightening the unmap test to released: { js: 0, jsc: 0 } — that resolves my earlier note. I re-ran the automated review over the current diff and found no bugs. Given this reworks cross-language ownership of mmap'd memory (Rust Box<MappedFile> handed to C++ as void*, freed via CachedBytecode's destructor and ~ErrorableResolvedSource), changes the mirrored ResolvedSource layout, and carries a documented in-place-rewrite trade-off, a maintainer sign-off is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • MappedFile: empty-file / len=0 mmap falls back to heap read (EINVAL from crate::mmap); Windows path stubs to ENOTSUP and never constructs Repr::Mapped.
  • Ownership on every path: SourceProvider::create std::exchanges both bytecode_cache and bytecode_cache_file before installing the destructor lambda; ~ErrorableResolvedSource and Rust Drop for Bytecode cover the not-consumed case; mapped_source_text drops the MappedFile on the > max_length() early return.
  • transpiler.rs sidecar-path bound loosened from >= to > — correct now that File::openat takes &[u8] and no NUL sentinel is written.
  • The two producers (jsc_hooks.rs, RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs) both route through the new from_already_bundled; the tag/source_url each caller adds is preserved.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces heap reads of .jsc bytecode sidecars (and their source text) with PROT_READ/MAP_PRIVATE file mappings. It introduces bun_sys::MappedFile (new file), changes AlreadyBundled::Bytecode{,Cjs} to carry a BytecodeFiles pair, adds ResolvedSource::from_already_bundled to consolidate the two producers (jsc_hooks.rs on the JS thread, RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs on the pool), and swaps Bytecode's owned: bool for a file: *mut c_void pointing at a Box<MappedFile>. The C++ mirror in headers-handwritten.h and the SourceProvider::create consumer are updated to match, and the layout asserts on both sides are bumped (136→144 / 144→152). Two new tests in bun-build-api.test.ts observe the mappings via /proc/self/maps on Linux and check every load path (require, dynamic import, cache-hit re-import, overridden module._compile, and collection).

Security risks

None identified. The mapping is read-only and private; the input is a build artifact the process already trusts enough to execute. No new user-controlled length is used to size an allocation without going through get_end_pos() → mmap, which the kernel validates. The one behavioral hazard — a later bun build truncating a mapped file in place while an older process runs it — is documented in the PR body as a follow-up for the writer, and matches the existing NodeCompileCache mapping's exposure.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native memory-safety code at an FFI boundary: a Rust-owned Box<MappedFile> is handed to C++ as a raw void*, captured by value in a CachePayload::Destructor lambda, and freed later on whatever thread drops the last CachedBytecode reference. The source-text mapping is separately handed to a WTF::ExternalStringImpl free function. Both producers include the thread-pool path. Getting any of the release sites wrong is a UAF or a leak of an mmap'd region. The PR body traces every release site against #40238's ownership model and the tests assert exact mapping counts, but the surface area and the documented trade-off both warrant a maintainer's eyes.

Other factors

My earlier inline comment (weakened toBeLessThanOrEqual(1) blaming the conservative stack scanner) was addressed in a follow-up commit — the assertion is now toEqual({ value, loaded: {js:1, jsc:1}, released: {js:0, jsc:0} }) and the scanner comment is gone. All comment-cop threads are resolved (remaining doc/SAFETY comments are in line with what REVIEW.md requires). Both CodeRabbit findings were withdrawn after the author's replies. The PR body reports the full test matrix run (bundler bytecode/compile suites, Node compile-cache tests, ASan, cross-target cargo check), and CI build 99837 passed on all lanes per the author's thread reply.

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