Stop zero-filling buffers that are overwritten anyway (compressors, image, text encoding, I/O, networking, paths) and make the compressors' allocations fallible

[robobun]

Problem

• Bun.zstdDecompressSync on the canary is slower than 1.3.14 on the same data: 8 MiB of incompressible data takes 1.3-1.4 ms instead of 0.7-0.9 ms (about +45%), compressible data a few percent more; Bun.zstdCompressSync regressed the same way (2.4 ms to 3.4 ms). Cause: the Rust port allocates the output with vec![0u8; size] / resize(n, 0) and zstd then overwrites every byte, so each call pays a memset over the whole output on top of the codec work (the Zig code used an uninitialized allocation). Incompressible data hurts most because decoding it is close to a memcpy.
• At a maintainer's request this grew into the same treatment for the other compressors and then for the rest of the tree. An audit of every vec![0; n] / resize(n, 0) / large [0u8; N] in src/ (296 sites) found 138 whose zeros are always overwritten; the ones that are large or on hot paths are fixed here (listed under Fix), the rest are small or cold and left alone.
• The compressors also allocated and grew their output buffers infallibly: a gzip trailer claiming up to 256 MiB (Bun.gunzipSync), a response decompressing to more than the machine has (fetch), or a large input to compress aborted the process, and the allocator hooks handed to zlib and brotli aborted on their own although both libraries handle a null return. zlib's state was additionally allocated with calloc (a second memset of ~42 KiB per inflate and ~350 KiB per deflate stream; zlib-ng's own default is plain malloc and it initializes its state itself).

Fix

The idiom throughout: reserve the buffer (try_reserve where input data decides the size), let the producer write into the spare capacity, then commit exactly the bytes it reports (bun_core::vec::commit_spare / fill_spare, MaybeUninit writes, or plain to_vec / extend / collect where the buffer is just a copy). Each unsafe block states the producer contract it relies on. One commit per area.

zstd and the other compressors (commits 1-8):

• bun_zstd::decompress_alloc decompresses into reserved capacity (decompress_append, mirror of the existing compress_append); its streaming path starts from a bounded guess (the 16 MiB cap for an oversized header, the input length clamped to [4 KiB, 16 MiB] without one) instead of doubling up from 4 KiB. Bun.zstdCompress{,Sync} share compress_to_box; all four functions report through one Failure enum and hand their result to JS as a boxed slice (create_buffer_from_box), which also fixes a pre-existing leak: a frame without a content size that decompresses to nothing returned an empty Vec whose 4 KiB reservation the empty Buffer never freed (the Bun.gzip* functions already shrink before handing over).
• zlib, brotli, libdeflate and their consumers (Bun.gzip/deflate/gunzip/inflateSync with both libraries, fetch response decompression and fetch({ compress }), CompressionStream / DecompressionStream, WebSocket permessage-deflate, Bun.Archive gzip, bun audit, bun create): output buffers are reserved and grown with try_reserve, the fetch({ compress }) spill buffer is no longer zero-filled to the bound (bun_brotli::encode_append), and the allocator hooks return null. A failed allocation is JSC's standard RangeError: Out of memory when thrown or rejected and code: "OutOfMemory" from fetch (Error::Alloc, ZlibError::OutOfMemory, the new bun_brotli::Error::OutOfMemory and ZstdError::OutOfMemory all carry that name); brotli's and zstd's own allocation error codes on every decompression path (their window buffers, whose size the stream dictates) map to it too (BrotliDecoderErrorCode2::is_alloc_failure, ZstdError::for_decompression). MutableString::grow_by / grow_if_needed, which fetch's decompression output goes through, really are fallible now. A gzip trailer size that cannot be reserved falls back to growing from a small buffer (Bun.gunzipSync) or to the streaming path (fetch).
• Left alone on purpose: node:zlib (output goes into JS-allocated Buffers), the chunk-sized input copies in CompressionStream, the fixed 512 KiB scratch buffers, the other infallible-in-practice MutableString methods.

The audit's large or hot zero-fills (commits 9-15; each producer was re-read to confirm it writes everything it reports):

• image: every PNG/JPEG/BMP/GIF decode and every resize/rotate/flip zeroed the full w*h*4 output first (codec_png.rs, codec_jpeg.rs, codec_bmp.rs, codec_gif.rs, codecs.rs, quantize.rs). The macOS/Windows system backends have the same pattern but cannot be compiled here and are untouched.
• text: hex decoding (Buffer.from(s, "hex"), both string widths), UTF-16 narrowing, latin1 -> UTF-16 and byte copies in encoding.rs; TextDecoder latin1 output and chunk joining; the structured-clone Blob payload.
• I/O: Bun.file() reads zeroed 64 KiB of stack per read loop, the copyFile / cp fallbacks 64 KiB per call (sys/copy_file.rs once per 32 KiB chunk, a full extra pass over the copied data), archive extraction 64 KiB per entry, QUIC 16 KiB per read callback. bun_core::vec::UninitBuf is the stack-array form of the spare-capacity idiom (its filled(len) keeps the bounds check that slicing the old arrays had); Archive.files() reads straight into the destination. Note: read_file.rs had a comment choosing its once-per-read memset deliberately as negligible, to avoid the uninitialized &mut [u8] view; the heap branch of the same function already used that view, as do bun_core::vec's helpers, and for small files the memset is a third of the call (numbers below), so this reverses that choice knowingly.
• networking: every HTTP/1 request allocated and zeroed a 32 KiB (512 KiB for large bodies) buffer whose only use was its length before allocating the real one (HTTPThread.rs; the size classes stay, the dead buffers go); each queued HTTP/2 DATA frame was a zeroed full-size 16 KiB buffer regardless of payload (h2_frame_parser.rs); the TLS wrapper behind upgraded duplexes, named pipes and proxy tunnels zeroed 64 KiB per traffic pass (uws/lib.rs); WebSocket sends transcoded into zeroed buffers, even for messages too small to compress (websocket_client.rs).
• paths: join_string_buf*() (glob, static directory routes, the watchers, most CLI commands) zeroed a 4 KiB (u8) or 8 KiB (u16) stack scratch per call (resolve_path.rs; unit tests added for both widths, including the spill to the heap; they also run under Miri in CI). The resolver's join_abs_string_buf already used the pooled path buffer without re-zeroing and is unchanged.
• others: randomFill's scratch (try_reserve_exact followed by resize(n, 0)); compile-cache file reads (which now also fail the lookup instead of aborting when a header's size cannot be allocated); XML.parse of UTF-16 input (transcodes straight into the arena, one copy less); postgres text-format bytea cells (freed with the exact length they were allocated with); bundler chunk assembly (Chunk.rs, commits the bytes actually written); the JSON tape's string chunks (e.rs); base64 encoding for inline sourcemaps and data: URLs plus decode_alloc; and standalone-executable sourcemaps, which use decompress_alloc (a frame without a content size previously became a near-usize::MAX vec!).
• Not done from the audit, as riskier refactors of shared structures for smaller gains: the lockfile and semver string builders, MutableString::expand_to_capacity (zeroes deliberately), the Mach-O signing buffer, the postgres array scratch, and the low-impact list.

Numbers for the original regression, against the last Zig release (release builds, 8 MiB input unless noted, best of 60; per-iteration numbers with page-fault counts in the details below):

Bun.*Sync	1.3.14	canary before	canary after
zstd decompress, incompressible (fast path)	0.67-0.95 ms	1.34-1.35 ms	0.86-0.95 ms
zstd decompress, compressible 4.6x (fast path)	8.8-9.8 ms	8.8-9.2 ms	8.7-8.9 ms
zstd decompress, incompressible, 32 MiB (streaming)	15.8-17.4 ms	9.0-9.8 ms	7.2-7.5 ms
zstd decompress, compressible, 32 MiB (streaming)	43.5-45.9 ms	38.1 ms	36.5 ms
zstd compress, incompressible	2.4 ms	3.4-5.0 ms	2.4-3.5 ms

Numbers for the whole PR at its final commit: release build of this branch against the release build of main at 8326d1b (21 commits before the merge base, none touching these paths), each case run in its own process, the two binaries alternating for 3 rounds (5 for the gunzip rows), best minimum per binary. The rows marked control exercise code this PR does not change and show the noise floor on this shared box (about 0.5%); the medians move by up to 10% between rounds, which is why minima are reported.

case	main	this PR
zstdDecompressSync, 8 MiB incompressible	1.44 ms	0.93 ms	-35%
zstdDecompressSync, 8 MiB JSON-like text	10.55 ms	9.81 ms	-7%
zstdCompressSync, 8 MiB incompressible	3.53 ms	2.43 ms	-31%
gunzipSync, 8 MiB text, zlib (allocations made fallible, state no longer calloc'd)	9.50 ms	9.53 ms	+0.2%
gunzipSync, 8 MiB text, libdeflate (allocations made fallible only)	8.13 ms	8.15 ms	+0.2%
gzipSync, 8 MiB incompressible, libdeflate (control)	103.1 ms	103.0 ms	-0.1%
Bun.Image decode of a 2048x2048 PNG (16 MiB of pixels)	58.1 ms	56.8 ms	-2%
Bun.Image decode of the same image as JPEG	9.65 ms	9.55 ms	-1%
Bun.Image decode PNG + resize to 1024x1024 + encode	91.5 ms	86.4 ms	-6%
Buffer.from(hex) producing 8 MiB	1.93 ms	1.30 ms	-33%
Buffer.from(latin1 string, "utf16le"), 8 MiB string	3.04 ms	1.79 ms	-41%
TextDecoder("latin1"), 8 MiB of random bytes	63.7 ms	61.5 ms	-3%
Bun.file(1 KiB file).text() (the once-per-read 64 KiB stack memset)	14.7 us	12.4 us	-16%
Bun.file(8 MiB file).arrayBuffer()	1.09 ms	1.03 ms	-5%
crypto.randomFill (async; fills the scratch buffer), 1 MiB	285.7 us	258.5 us	-10%
crypto.randomFillSync, 1 MiB (control; fills in place)	153.0 us	152.3 us	-0.5%

The remaining sweep sites (HTTP/1 request setup, HTTP/2 DATA frames, the TLS wrapper behind duplexes, WebSocket sends, archive extraction, QUIC, the compile cache, XML, bytea, the JSON tape, chunk assembly, base64, path joining) are the same transformation but sit inside larger operations where a memset of this size is a few percent at most; they are not measured individually.

Tests

• test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts (also where the Bun.gzip* sync functions are tested): round trips of the zstd paths whose allocation pattern changed (frames without a content size, output larger/smaller than the input, concatenated frames, one byte over the 16 MiB limit), an RSS check that an empty streaming result does not leak its reservation (grew by 54 MiB per 10k calls before), and a failed allocation is an error, not a crash (ASAN builds only, where max_allocation_size_mb makes the failure deterministic; one child process per case): the zstd functions through the fast path, the streaming path's initial reservation and its growth, and zstd's own window allocation (a hand-written empty frame declaring a 16 MiB window); Bun.gzipSync/deflateSync/gunzipSync/inflateSync with both libraries; fetch() of responses encoded with gzip, deflate, br and zstd that decompress to 12 MiB, plus a brotli stream compressed with a 16 MiB window and the zstd window frame as responses; DecompressionStream with the same two large-window streams (its chunked output never hits the cap, and a default-window brotli stream decompressing all 12 MiB under the cap shows that). Everything throws or rejects out-of-memory and the process keeps working; against main's src the children abort.
• cargo test -p bun_paths covers the join scratch.
• The audit changes are behavior-preserving, so their coverage is the existing suites, all run on the debug build: image (4 files), web encoding (8), node buffer, archive, quic, structured clone (2), blob, Bun.write, node fs and cp, crypto random, xml, postgres, http2, permessage-deflate (3), fetch tls / proxy / fetch, node tls, 5 bundler suites, the compile-cache node tests, bundler_compile (sourcemap cases), plus zstd, node zlib, fetch gzip/compress, streams compression and the 23314 / 34485 regressions: about 3700 tests pass. The failures seen are independent of this diff: tests fetching the literal hostname localhost (this box routes that through an egress proxy), tests expecting chmod 000 to fail as root, gc-per-byte tests exceeding their 5 s timeout under the debug build, compile/HelloWorldWithProcessVersionsBun (debug version suffix), and three slow tests (Bun.write large-file fallback, XML.stringify deep values, readdir recursive x100) that I re-ran against a build without the audit commits: same failures, same timings, so no debug-build slowdown either.
• cargo clippy on every touched crate, cargo fmt --check and the source lints are clean.

Overlapping open PRs

• zstd: throw instead of aborting when the output buffer cannot be allocated #39038 (zstd OOM throws) and Bun.gzipSync/deflateSync/gunzipSync/inflateSync: throw instead of aborting when an output buffer cannot be allocated #39043 (gzip/deflate sync OOM throws): superseded, both changes are part of this PR's compressor commits.
• zstd: free the output buffer when Bun.zstdDecompress decodes a content-size-less frame to 0 bytes #39083 (leak of an empty Bun.zstdDecompress* result): the same fix is in this PR (needed by its large-window test), so it is superseded too.
• zstd: delete ZstdReaderArrayList in favour of StreamingDecoder #37555 (delete ZstdReaderArrayList) edits the same zstd reader code; whichever lands second needs a small rebase (the reader's try_reserve here would move into StreamingDecoder).
• Deduplicate zlib/brotli/zstd binding helpers #31996 (zlib helper dedup) rewrites the same two zlib growth sites; after either lands, the other's try_reserve goes inside its regrow_output_tail helper.
• http: pool the HTTP/1.1 request build buffer instead of reallocating per request #32350 (pool the HTTP/1 request buffer) removes the same dead storage this PR removes, and additionally pools the live Vec; this PR leaves the per-request Vec as it is, so the pooling / writev question discussed there stays open and independent.
• postgres: skip 16KB memset in parse_array scratch buffer #32281 (postgres parse_array scratch) and crypto: encode base64url digests directly into the WTF string buffer #32320 (base64url digests) touch neighbouring code in DataCell.rs and base64/lib.rs without overlapping: the array scratch is deliberately left to postgres: skip 16KB memset in parse_array scratch buffer #32281, and crypto: encode base64url digests directly into the WTF string buffer #32320 deletes simdutf_encode_url_safe_alloc, which this PR only rewrote.

Background

• ZSTD_decompress, spng_decode_image, tj3Decompress8, read(2), SSL_read, simdutf and the other producers here write into a caller-provided buffer and report how many bytes they wrote; none reads the buffer. Vec::spare_capacity_mut() or a MaybeUninit array is the storage for such a call, and set_len (bun_core::vec::commit_spare) afterwards exposes exactly the written prefix. vec![0u8; n], resize(n, 0) and [0u8; N] zero the whole buffer first instead, which for a recycled heap block or a stack array is a memset of n bytes per call.
• Vec::try_reserve returns an error when the allocator refuses, where with_capacity / vec! / reserve abort. JSGlobalObject::throw_out_of_memory / create_out_of_memory_error produce JSC's standard out-of-memory RangeError; fetch surfaces a bun_http::Error as a TypeError whose code is the error's name.
• zlib's zalloc and brotli's alloc_func hooks may return null: zlib then returns Z_MEM_ERROR from the call that needed the memory, brotli fails instance creation or sets an ERROR_ALLOC_* decoder error. bun's hooks exist to tag these allocations with a heap-breakdown zone on macOS.
• A zstd frame header and a gzip trailer both optionally state the decompressed size, and both are attacker-controlled, which is why zstd trusts it only up to 16 MiB and the gzip paths treat a size they cannot reserve as a hint to ignore rather than an error.

Per-iteration timings with minor page faults (release build, Bun.zstdDecompressSync, 40 iterations)

Each entry is time/minor page faults for one call. Iterations with 0 faults are the steady state; the others re-touch memory the allocator had returned to the OS in between (8192 faults = one fresh 32 MiB buffer), which is what moves the medians on this box.

before, 8 MiB incompressible (fast path): steady state 1.0-1.4 ms
4.7ms/1845pf 4.1ms/2048pf 4.0ms/2049pf 4.3ms/2055pf 1.0ms/0pf 1.2ms/0pf 1.2ms/0pf 3.7ms/2049pf ... 1.3ms/0pf 1.3ms/0pf 1.4ms/0pf 1.4ms/0pf 1.3ms/0pf

after, 8 MiB incompressible (fast path): steady state 0.7-0.9 ms
4.7ms/2070pf 3.7ms/2049pf 3.6ms/2050pf 4.3ms/2052pf 3.5ms/2049pf 3.5ms/2050pf 0.9ms/0pf 0.9ms/0pf 0.8ms/0pf ... 0.7ms/0pf 0.9ms/0pf 0.9ms/0pf 3.6ms/2048pf 3.6ms/2048pf 0.7ms/0pf

before, 32 MiB incompressible (streaming): steady state 9.1-9.8 ms, worst iterations 16128 faults (intermediate buffers + result)
35.1ms/16790pf 22.5ms/8615pf 21.8ms/8194pf 22.7ms/8199pf 20.5ms/7936pf 9.8ms/0pf 9.8ms/0pf 21.4ms/8194pf ... 9.4ms/0pf 32.3ms/16128pf 21.7ms/8192pf

after, 32 MiB incompressible (streaming): steady state 7.6-8.1 ms, worst iterations 12290 faults (one 16 MiB intermediate + result)
27.8ms/12658pf 25.7ms/12290pf 20.0ms/8194pf 20.2ms/8199pf 8.1ms/0pf 8.1ms/0pf 8.0ms/0pf 18.7ms/8194pf ... 19.2ms/8195pf 8.0ms/0pf 8.0ms/0pf 7.8ms/0pf

1.3.14 for reference: 8 MiB incompressible steady state 0.6-0.9 ms; 32 MiB incompressible streaming steady state 13-14 ms (its list grew by 1.5x per step, so it copied more than either canary build).

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[review] gate passed · iteration 1 · 50 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 5 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts
bun test v1.4.0 (8326d1bd3)

test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:
(pass) Zstandard compression > throws with invalid level [7.78ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > throws with invalid input [8.14ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > does not leak on streaming decompression error (unknown content size + corrupt stream) [8254.82ms]
102 |     }
103 | 
104 |     expect(
105 |       growthMiB,
106 |       `RSS grew by ${growthMiB.toFixed(1)} MiB over ${iterations} ${what} zstd decompressions after warmup`,
107 |     ).toBeLessThan(10);
            ^
error: RSS grew by 54.9 MiB over 10000 empty zstd decompressions after warmup

Expected: < 10
Received: 54.91015625

      at expectStreamingDecompressionNotToLeak (/workspace/bun/test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:107:7)
      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:82:5)
(fail) Zstandard compression > does not leak on streaming decompression of an empty result (unknown content size) [2026.33ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > zstd CLI compatibility > can deco
... (truncated)

release without fix: 4 skipped
bun test v1.4.0-canary.1 (eb2c2ce5c)

test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:
(pass) Zstandard compression > throws with invalid level [0.10ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > throws with invalid input [0.38ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > does not leak on streaming decompression error (unknown content size + corrupt stream) [107.13ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > does not leak on streaming decompression of an empty result (unknown content size) [71.50ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > zstd CLI compatibility > can decompress package.json [0.62ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 3 [0.38ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 1 [0.55ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 12 [0.36ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 10 [1.79ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 11 [3.37ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 5 [5.27ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 16 [7.68ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 18 [12.56ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 2 [17.01ms]
(pass) Zstandard compressio
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts
bun test v1.4.0 (8326d1bd3)

test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:
(pass) Zstandard compression > throws with invalid level [7.06ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > throws with invalid input [7.42ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > does not leak on streaming decompression error (unknown content size + corrupt stream) [8062.56ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > does not leak on streaming decompression of an empty result (unknown content size) [1037.34ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > zstd CLI compatibility > can decompress package.json [23.08ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 1 [22.69ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 2 [11.99ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 3 [11.99ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 4 [12.31ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 5 [12.38ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 6 [11.22ms]
(pass) Zstandard compression > small (13 bytes) > level 7 [10.98ms]
(pa
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release with fix: 4 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     139f31d968
  features     baseline

22 deps, 120 codegen, 1175 objects in 657ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/127] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 92 exports (host=3, lazy=10, generic=79, rust=0); 241 extern-C blocks audited
[2/127] gen BunProcess.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/BunProcess.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp
[3/127] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[4/127] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (14388ms)
Bundle modules (94ms)
Postprocesss modules (223ms)
Bundle Functions (864ms)
Generate Code (35ms)

[15.63s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2631 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  91 internal functions across 17 files
[4/127] cargo bun_bin → libbun_rust.a (--target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

  nightly-2026-07-20-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.99.0-nightly (9f36de775 2026-07-19)

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diff hotspot

src/ast/e.rs                                       |  23 +-
 src/base64/lib.rs                                  |  43 ++-
 src/brotli/error.rs                                |   4 +
 src/brotli/lib.rs                                  |  45 ++-
 src/brotli_sys/brotli_c.rs                         |  15 +
 src/bun_alloc/c_thunks.rs                          |  39 +--
 src/bun_core/lib.rs                                |  32 ++
 src/bun_core/string/MutableString.rs               |   6 +-
 src/bundler/Chunk.rs                               |  25 +-
 .../linker_context/generateChunksInParallel.rs     |  14 +-
 .../linker_context/writeOutputFilesToDisk.rs       |   6 +-
 src/http/HTTPThread.rs                             |  89 +-----
 src/http/InternalState.rs                          |  22 +-
 src/http/compress_body.rs                          |  55 ++--
 src/http/lib.rs                                    |  14 +-
 src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs                   |  31 +-
 src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketDeflate.rs  |  11 +-
 src/jsc/NodeCompileCache.rs                        |  22 +-
 src/libdeflate_sys/libdeflate.rs                   |  27 +-
 src/parsers/xml.rs                                 |  11 +-
 src/paths/resolve_path.rs                          | 118 ++++++--
 src/resolver/data_url.rs                           |  22 +-
 src/runtime/api/Archive.rs                         | 114 +++----
 src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs                       | 279 +++++++++--------
 src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs             |  13 +-
 src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs                   |   5 +-
 src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs                  |   4 +-
 src/runtime/image/codec_bmp.rs                     |  14 +-
 src/runtime/image/codec_gif.rs                     |  69 ++---
 src/runtime/image/codec_jpeg.rs                    |   9 +-
 src/runtime/image/codec_png.rs                     |   8 +-
 src/runtime/image/codecs.rs                        |  21 
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gate history · 1 passed · 1 rejected · iteration 1

evidence per changed file

file                                                    reads  edits  tests
src/ast/e.rs                                                0      0      0
src/base64/lib.rs                                           1      1      0
src/brotli/error.rs                                         1      3      0
src/brotli/lib.rs                                           2      5      0
src/brotli_sys/brotli_c.rs                                  1      1      0
src/bun_alloc/c_thunks.rs                                   3      9      0
src/bun_core/lib.rs                                         6      3      0
src/bun_core/string/MutableString.rs                        1      3      0
src/bundler/Chunk.rs                                        2      1      0
src/bundler/linker_context/generateChunksInParallel.rs      0      0      0
src/bundler/linker_context/writeOutputFilesToDisk.rs        0      0      0
src/http/HTTPThread.rs                                      1      1      0
src/http/InternalState.rs                                   1      3      0
src/http/compress_body.rs                                   3      8      0
src/http/lib.rs                                             1      2      0
src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs                            0      0      0
(+ 34 more files)

[robobun]

Status: reproduced by benchmarking Bun.zstdDecompressSync / zstdCompressSync on 1.3.14 against a release build of main (8 MiB incompressible: 0.7-0.9 ms vs 1.3-1.4 ms), traced to zero-filled output buffers. Per maintainer direction the PR now covers the same fix for every compressor (with fallible allocations and ASAN out-of-memory tests) and the other large or hot zero-fills found by a tree-wide audit; the description has before/after numbers for the compressors and the larger sweep sites, and lists the open PRs this overlaps with.

CI on the current head (rebased onto main, build 100127): every lane is green except Windows 2019 x64, where test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts crashes at process exit after all of its cases pass. The same crash shows up on unrelated branches (builds 100095, 100048, 100047) and on main (99911), and it is reported separately; nothing in this diff is on that path. The lint jobs (clippy, miri, mordant, JS lint, source lints, format) all pass. Ready for review.

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Walkthrough

The pull request replaces zero-filled and infallible allocations with fallible reservations and explicit initialization. Compression and decompression paths propagate out-of-memory errors. Zstandard jobs use unified results, and tests cover allocation failures.

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Allocation and codec error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Codec allocation and error propagation src/zlib/lib.rs, src/zstd/lib.rs, src/brotli/*, src/libdeflate_sys/*	Codec output growth uses fallible reservations. Codec allocation failures map to explicit OutOfMemory errors.
Runtime compression and decompression integration src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs, src/http/*, src/runtime/api/Archive.rs, src/runtime/webcore/CompressionStreamCoder.rs	Runtime compression and decompression paths propagate allocation, compression, and decompression failures. Zstandard asynchronous jobs store unified Result values and settle or reject promises from those results.
Append-mode encoding and generated output src/base64/lib.rs, src/brotli/lib.rs, src/bundler/*, src/resolver/data_url.rs	Encoding functions append into reserved vectors. Bundler and data URL paths commit only generated bytes.
Uninitialized I/O and FFI buffers src/sys/lib.rs, src/sys/copy_file.rs, src/uws/lib.rs, src/runtime/node/*, src/runtime/webcore/blob/*	I/O and FFI scratch buffers use uninitialized storage. Consumers access only the initialized bytes reported by producers.
Runtime buffer construction and data processing src/runtime/image/*, src/runtime/webcore/encoding.rs, src/paths/resolve_path.rs, src/runtime/api/Archive.rs, src/jsc/NodeCompileCache.rs, src/sql_jsc/*	Image, text, path, archive, cache, SQL, and string paths construct output in spare capacity or fallible allocations.
Allocation-failure and decompression tests test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts	Tests cover unknown-size, concatenated, oversized, synchronous, asynchronous, and forced allocation-failure cases for compression and decompression.

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In `@src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs`:
- Around line 2754-2756: Validate the result of bun_zstd::compress_bound with
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asynchronous compression paths. When the bound is an error, reject the input
using jsc::ErrCode::ZSTD; only pass a successful max_size to Vec::with_capacity
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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it swaps zero-filled allocations for uninitialized spare-capacity writes across the zstd FFI boundary (new unsafe in decompress_append, and the async job now reserves directly into this.output), a human look at the memory-safety reasoning would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• decompress_append mirrors the existing compress_append: rc from ZSTD_decompress is ≤ spare.len() and names exactly the bytes zstd initialized, so commit_spare(out, rc) never exposes uninitialized memory.
• Streaming initial capacity is bounded by min(src.len(), 16 MiB) or the existing 16 MiB cap — no attacker-controlled amplification beyond what the fast path already allowed.
• ZstdJob.output starts as Vec::new() and run() is one-shot, so try_reserve_exact + compress_append on it is equivalent to the old local Vec.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR removes redundant zero-filling of zstd output buffers in three places: JSZstd::compress_sync, ZstdJob::run (async compress), and bun_zstd::decompress_alloc. It adds a private decompress_append helper (a mirror of the existing public compress_append) that decompresses into a Vec's spare capacity via spare_capacity_mut() + commit_spare(). It also gives the streaming-decompress path a bounded initial capacity guess instead of starting from zero, and extracts the magic 4096 step size into a named constant. Four new tests cover the streaming path's growth behavior (output larger/smaller than input, multi-frame, and the 16 MiB + 1 boundary).

Security risks

The key risk is exposing uninitialized memory to JS. ZSTD_decompress/ZSTD_compress return the exact byte count written (or an error code that fails ZSTD_isError), and commit_spare advances len by exactly that count — so only zstd-written bytes become visible. This is the same contract compress_append already relies on. The new streaming initial-capacity guess is clamped to [4 KiB, min(src.len(), 16 MiB)] for unknown-size frames and to exactly 16 MiB for oversized headers — an attacker gains no allocation leverage beyond what they already had (they supplied src.len() bytes, and 16 MiB is the existing fast-path cap).

Level of scrutiny

High. This is unsafe Rust handing uninitialized memory to a C library and then committing a C-reported byte count into a Vec's length — the exact class REVIEW.md flags as most-blocked. The change is mechanical (copy of an existing pattern) and the SAFETY comments are accurate, but a second pair of eyes on the commit_spare invariants and the async job's switch from a local Vec to this.output is warranted before it lands.

Other factors

The new decompress_append is nearly byte-identical to the pre-existing compress_append, which reduces novel risk. The async path change (reserving into this.output directly) is safe because ZstdJob.output is initialized to Vec::new() at construction and run() executes once. The 90 existing zstd tests plus the 4 new ones exercise both sync and async, both fast and streaming paths, and the 16 MiB boundary. The PR description flags an overlap with #39038 (try_reserve at the same sites) that whichever lands second will need to rebase. No bugs surfaced in the automated hunt or in my read-through.

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In `@test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts`:
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Updated in 4536d50 and 27ded9e:

• Every output allocation is now fallible (try_reserve_exact for the up-front reservations, try_reserve for the streaming decoder's growth steps). A failed allocation throws or rejects RangeError: Out of memory instead of aborting; the sync and async functions share one Failure type so all four report the same way. Covered by the new ASAN-only test, which aborts (exit 134) against main's src and passes here.
• compress_bound is checked with is_error before it is used as a size, in both the sync and the async path (the CodeRabbit finding above).
• The allocation failure test drains the child's stderr and includes it in the failure message.
• Comments trimmed to single lines.

The description is updated to describe the PR as it stands now.

[Jarred-Sumner]

Do this for all the compressors. zlib. brotli. libdeflate.

[robobun]

Will do. Going through the zlib, brotli and libdeflate output buffers next (the Bun.gzip/gunzip/deflate/inflateSync paths, the streaming readers behind them and fetch, and the fetch body compression spill buffer) and applying the same two changes: no zero-fill of output that the codec overwrites, and fallible allocation of anything whose size the input decides. I'll add them to this PR as separate commits per compressor.

[claude]

I re-reviewed after 27ded9e and found no issues — the stderr-drain nit from my earlier inline comment is now addressed. Given this touches unsafe FFI paths (writing into uninitialized spare_capacity_mut() and commit_spare), changes the streaming decoder's initial-capacity heuristic, and carries a performance claim, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• decompress_append mirrors the existing compress_append pattern; ZSTD_decompress returns <= dstCapacity so commit_spare(out, rc) is sound.
• The new ZstdError::OutOfMemory variant flows through the wildcard arm in src/http/error.rs and the other decompress_alloc callers (add_completions.rs, node_fallbacks.rs) without breaking anything.
• The streaming initial reservation is bounded by min(src.len(), 16 MiB) or exactly 16 MiB, so a hostile header gains no more than the fast path already allowed.
• compress_bound is now is_error-checked before use in both sync and async paths.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR removes zero-filling of zstd output buffers (a ~45% perf regression from the Rust port) and makes those allocations fallible. It touches three files: src/zstd/lib.rs (new private decompress_append writing into spare capacity, try_reserve everywhere, new ZstdError::OutOfMemory variant, and an initial-capacity heuristic for the streaming path), src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs (unified Failure enum and shared compress_to_vec across sync/async, compress_bound error-code check), and test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts (round-trip tests for unknown-size / boundary frames plus an ASAN-only allocation-failure test).

Security risks

The output buffer size is decided by attacker-controllable input (frame header content size, or the input length). The change is strictly a hardening here: infallible vec!/reserve become try_reserve with a catchable error, and the new streaming initial reservation never exceeds MAX_PREALLOCATE_SIZE (16 MiB) or the caller's own input length — the same ceiling the fast path already enforces. No new DoS surface. compress_bound returning an error code for inputs over ZSTD_MAX_INPUT_SIZE is now checked before it is used as a size.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native runtime code with new unsafe blocks that hand uninitialized memory to a C library and then set_len based on its return value. The pattern is correct (it exactly mirrors the pre-existing compress_append in the same file, and ZSTD_decompress is documented to return <= dstCapacity), but memory-safety changes, allocation heuristic tweaks, and a benchmarked performance claim are the kind of thing REVIEW.md flags for maintainer sign-off rather than bot-only approval.

Other factors

All prior review feedback is resolved: the comment-cop long-comment flags were trimmed in 27ded9e, CodeRabbit's compress_bound guard and stderr-drain findings are addressed, and my own earlier stderr-drain nit is fixed in the current diff (the test now does Promise.all([stdout.text(), stderr.text(), exited]) and surfaces stderr in the failure message). I checked downstream consumers of ZstdError — src/http/error.rs has a wildcard arm so the new variant is handled, and the two embedded-data decompress_alloc callers just propagate the error. Test coverage is thorough (sync+async across three allocation paths, boundary at 16 MiB + 1, ASAN-gated OOM). The PR description mentions overlap with #39038 which a maintainer may want to reconcile.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. The prior stderr-drain note has been addressed. Because this touches unsafe FFI (writing into spare_capacity_mut + commit_spare over uninitialized memory), reworks the sync/async error-handling shape, and adds an initial-capacity heuristic to the streaming decoder, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• decompress_append mirrors the existing compress_append; ZSTD_decompress writes at most dstCapacity bytes and commit_spare is called only after ZSTD_isError clears, so no uninitialized bytes are exposed.
• The new ZstdError::OutOfMemory variant against other consumers — http/error.rs has a catch-all arm, and the node_fallbacks/add_completions callers use .expect, so nothing breaks.
• The streaming initial reservation is capped at MAX_PREALLOCATE_SIZE (same bound the fast path already trusts) or the input length, so a hostile header gains no new leverage.
• compress_to_vec checks is_error(compress_bound) before reserving; sync and async now share it, so the CodeRabbit finding is covered on both paths.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR removes the zero-fill of zstd output buffers (a perf regression from the Rust port) and makes every output allocation fallible. In src/zstd/lib.rs it adds a private decompress_append that decompresses into a Vec's spare capacity, converts decompress_alloc's fast path to try_reserve_exact + decompress_append, gives the streaming path a bounded initial reservation, and switches ZstdReaderArrayList::read_all / StreamingDecoder::decompress from reserve to try_reserve. In src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs it introduces a Failure enum and a shared compress_to_vec so compress_sync and ZstdJob::run follow the same code path, and collapses ZstdJob's output + error_message fields into one result: Result<Vec<u8>, Failure>. Tests add streaming-decoder edge cases (unknown content size, output larger/smaller than input, multi-frame, 16 MiB + 1) and an ASAN-only subprocess test that forces allocation failures via max_allocation_size_mb.

Security risks

The output size is attacker-controlled (frame header content size, compression bound). The change tightens this: allocations that used to abort now return a catchable error, and the new streaming initial reservation is bounded by MAX_PREALLOCATE_SIZE (16 MiB) for oversized headers and by src.len() for unknown-size frames — neither exceeds what the caller already holds or what the previous fast path would have allocated. I don't see new DoS surface. The unsafe blocks all follow the established spare_capacity_mut → FFI write → commit_spare pattern already used by compress_append in the same file.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native hot-path code with new unsafe blocks over uninitialized memory, an FFI boundary, and a refactor of the async job's state and completion path. REVIEW.md flags memory safety as the most-blocked category, and set_len-style operations after an FFI producer are exactly the kind of thing a maintainer should eyeball. The change is well-motivated, well-tested, and I found no defects — but it is not a mechanical change.

Other factors

All prior inline comments (comment-cop's long-comment warnings, CodeRabbit's compress_bound guard, the stderr-drain note from both CodeRabbit and my earlier run) are resolved and reflected in the current diff. I checked the other ZstdError / decompress_alloc consumers (http/error.rs, node_fallbacks.rs, add_completions.rs) for exhaustive matches — none break. The author's last timeline comment mentions adding zlib/brotli/libdeflate commits to this PR; the current head only contains the zstd work, so a maintainer may want to confirm scope before merging.