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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. It touches crash-handler encoding on three platforms with new unsafe FFI (_dyld_get_image_name, dlsym(RTLD_NEXT)) and changes how foreign frames are identified and serialized into the trace URL, so a human look would still be worthwhile.
Checked: own_image_base() falls back to usize::MAX if lookup fails (degrades to all-foreign, not a crash); in_foreign_image returns None on empty basename or i32 overflow (encoded as _); the URL-safe byte substitution preserves length so the decoder's length-prefixed read stays aligned; the ASAN path's pc: strlen as usize lands in a .so either way (libc or the sanitizer runtime), matching the test's regex. The undrained stdout pipe in the new test was examined — the fixture writes nothing to stdout before faulting, matching the pattern already used by neighboring tests in this file.
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Overview
The PR extends the crash-handler trace-string encoder so frames outside bun's own image carry the image's basename on macOS and Linux/ELF, matching what the Windows path already did. It adds StackLine::in_foreign_image, a cached own_image_base() (via OnceLock + dl_iterate_phdr), the _dyld_get_image_name FFI import, and a URL-safe byte sanitizer in write_encoded. The segfaultInDll test hook is rewritten on POSIX to fault inside libc's strlen (resolved via dlsym(RTLD_NEXT) to avoid the PLT stub), with an ASAN branch that hands the handler a synthetic fault context. A new POSIX test decodes the uploaded trace string with a small VLQ decoder and asserts frame 0 names a .so/.dylib while later frames are still bun.
Security risks
None user-facing. The new code runs only during crash reporting or via bun:internal-for-testing. The unsafe blocks (_dyld_get_image_name deref, dlsym result transmute, intentional bad-pointer read) are gated to the crash path or test hooks and carry SAFETY comments that check out against the FFI contracts.
Level of scrutiny
High. The crash handler is the last line of diagnostics — a regression here loses crash reports silently or crashes inside the handler. The change involves platform-specific reasoning (image 0 on macOS, glibc vs musl dlpi_name for the main program, PLT stubs vs libc addresses, ASAN interception of strlen), three separate #[cfg] paths, and a wire-format change (name sanitization now applies to Windows names too). The reasoning in the PR description is thorough and I traced each claim, but this is exactly the kind of change where a maintainer familiar with bun.report's decoder and the crash-reporting pipeline should confirm the assumptions.
Other factors
The test is well-constructed (fails-before assertion documented, checks both the positive — frame 0 is foreign — and negative — bun's own frames are not misclassified, and the executable's basename does not appear). cargo check was run across four targets per the description. No prior human review comments to address. The change to write_encoded is a small behavior change for Windows too (name bytes now sanitized), which is defensive but worth a glance.
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#39815 contains this change as well (image names for non-bun frames on macOS and Linux, with the same URL-safe encoding) and adds the attribution on top: a banner that names the module, a |
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Both earlier notes are addressed — stdout is now ignored in the new test, and spawn_symbolizer now routes foreign frames correctly (skipped on Windows, per-frame "<file>" 0xADDR on Linux). No further issues from this pass; given the platform-specific unsafe FFI across five targets and the overlap with #39815 that needs a merge decision, a human look is still warranted.
Reviewed: the URL-safe name encoding preserves byte length (decoder reads by length); in_foreign_image stores the full path so spawn_symbolizer gets a resolvable file while write_encoded takes the basename; own_image_base()'s usize::MAX fallback degrades bun frames to unknown on glibc rather than misattributing; the ASAN branch of js_segfault_in_dll seeds TraceSeed::Fault with the resolved libc address so frame 0 still lands in a .so.
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Overview
The PR changes how the crash handler encodes stack frames that fall outside bun's own executable image. Previously, macOS encoded such frames as unknown (_) and Linux encoded them as offsets into bun's image (misattributed by bun.report). Now both platforms emit the containing image's basename via the trace string's existing per-frame name slot, which bun.report already decodes on every platform. Four files: src/crash_handler/lib.rs (encoder + spawn_symbolizer rewrite + own_image_base cache), src/runtime/api/crash_handler_jsc.rs (POSIX segfaultInDll now faults inside libc's strlen via dlsym(RTLD_NEXT)), src/sys/lib.rs (RTLD_NEXT and _dyld_get_image_name bindings), and a new end-to-end test that decodes the uploaded trace string.
Prior feedback resolved
Two commits landed after my earlier comments. a857861 switched the new test's stdout to "ignore". 3b14f94 rewrote spawn_symbolizer: on Windows it now skips frames with object.is_some() (pdb-addr2line only reads bun's PDB); on Linux/Android it drops --exe and passes one "<path>" 0xADDR positional argument per frame — llvm-symbolizer's documented per-argument object+address form — using the full stored path (not the basename), so foreign frames resolve against their own DWARF instead of bun's.
Security risks
Image names are user-influenced (native addon filenames) and go into a URL uploaded to bun.report. write_encoded maps every byte outside [A-Za-z0-9._-] to _, which keeps the byte count stable (the decoder reads by length) and prevents URL metacharacters. No injection or auth surface; this is diagnostic metadata only.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is production crash-reporting infrastructure with unsafe FFI across macOS (dyld), Linux/musl/Android/FreeBSD (dl_iterate_phdr), and Windows, plus a change to how the debug-build symbolizer is invoked. The trace-string format is consumed by an external service (bun.report), so encoding mistakes silently corrupt every crash report.
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The new test decodes the uploaded payload with a hand-written VLQ parser mirroring bun.report's and asserts frame 0 matches /.(so\b|dylib$)/ while later frames are still bun and never bun's own basename — this covers both the foreign-image detection and the main-program-not-mistaken-for-foreign invariant on glibc and musl. robobun flagged that #39815 contains the same encoder change plus attribution banners and uses a different main-program check (first dl_iterate_phdr object vs. load-base comparison); which one lands is a human call. The comment-cop bot's paragraph-comment warnings were addressed in 67c37d1 and are all resolved.
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In `@src/crash_handler/lib.rs`:
- Around line 2644-2650: Update the trace construction around TraceStringBuf,
FRAMES_CAPACITY, and the report path so the frame budget is derived from the
actual header plus encoded reason size rather than always reserving half the
buffer. Enforce TRACE_STRING_CAPACITY by truncating frames or the reason as
needed while preserving a valid terminator, and add a regression test using a
maximum-length incompressible panic message.
- Around line 2572-2579: Update the main-image branch near StackLine
construction to replace the i32 conversion expect with fallible handling that
returns None when the image-relative offset exceeds i32 limits, while preserving
the existing successful StackLine result and foreign-image path.
In `@src/runtime/api/crash_handler_jsc.rs`:
- Around line 122-125: Update the null-check error path after the dlsym call for
“strlen” to include crate::ffi::get_dl_error() in the thrown exception, while
retaining the RTLD_NEXT scope, strlen symbol, and loader-provided cause in the
message.
In `@test/cli/run/run-crash-handler.test.ts`:
- Around line 277-284: Update uploadedCrashFrames to return exitCode alongside
stderr and decoded frames, and remove its early exit-code assertion. In each
caller test, validate stderr, payload, and decoded frames first, then make the
exit-code assertion the final assertion.
- Around line 280-284: Update the uploaded-report wait in the crash-handler test
to use a bounded observable wait for the `/ack` response, wiring upload and
process failure events to reject with the captured stderr and exit-code
diagnostics. Preserve the existing pathname payload extraction and trace-frame
decoding once the acknowledgement is received.
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I reviewed the latest revision (6241f40) and didn't find any bugs. Given this touches signal-handler-context code across three platforms (dyld image lookup, dl_iterate_phdr main-image identification, the debug spawn_symbolizer argv shape) and the description names #39815 as an overlapping alternative that a maintainer needs to pick between, a human look is still warranted.
Checked: write_encoded's per-byte URL-safe substitution keeps the length prefix consistent with the emitted bytes; own_image_base() falling back to usize::MAX degrades to the pre-PR behavior rather than misclassifying bun frames; the frame-budget change leaves the panic-message region at least as much room as the old 1 KB buffer did (the open CodeRabbit note on FRAMES_CAPACITY describes pre-existing behavior tracked by #38950, not a regression here); the new POSIX segfaultInDll hook's ASAN branch mirrors js_segfault's; the previously-flagged unbounded uploaded.promise wait is now raced against a 2 s reject that surfaces stderr.
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Overview
Four files: src/crash_handler/lib.rs (~130 lines — StackLine::in_foreign_image, macOS _dyld_get_image_name branch, ELF own_image_base() check, URL-safe basename encoding with a 64-byte cap, MAX_FRAMES 20→64, TraceStringBuf 1 KB→2 KB with a bounded per-frame staging buffer, and spawn_symbolizer reworked to pass \"<file>\" <offset> per frame on POSIX / skip DLL frames on Windows), src/runtime/api/crash_handler_jsc.rs (POSIX segfaultInDll now faults inside libc's strlen via dlsym(RTLD_NEXT) with an ASAN direct-call fallback), src/sys/lib.rs (RTLD_NEXT re-export + Android constant, _dyld_get_image_name binding), and two new tests plus a decoder helper in test/cli/run/run-crash-handler.test.ts.
Security risks
None user-facing. This is diagnostic-output code that runs after a crash; the only new external input is loader-reported image paths, which are length-capped at 64 bytes and byte-for-byte mapped into [A-Za-z0-9._-] before entering the URL, so the encoded length matches the VLQ prefix and no URL metacharacters pass through. The new dlsym/transmute in js_segfault_in_dll is behind bun:internal-for-testing.
Level of scrutiny
High. The encoder runs inside the fault handler, so a panic or overflow there loses the report entirely; the change spans macOS/ELF/Windows cfg branches with unsafe FFI (_dyld_get_image_name, dl_iterate_phdr, dlsym+transmute); and the PR description explicitly says this and #39815 conflict in StackLine::from_address and the test file, with a design difference (load-base vs iteration-order for identifying the main program) that a maintainer should choose. That is a human decision, not a mechanical merge.
Other factors
All three of my earlier inline nits (undrained stdout, spawn_symbolizer ignoring line.object, unbounded upload wait) have been addressed in code. Of CodeRabbit's five notes, four are marked addressed in 6241f40; the remaining one about FRAMES_CAPACITY vs a maximally incompressible panic message is not a regression — the reason segment now has ≥1024 bytes vs ~880 before, and the PR notes #38950 covers the residual case. CI is reported green. The tests decode the uploaded trace string end-to-end and assert both the positive (frame 0 named as a .so/.dylib) and negative (bun's own basename never appears as a foreign object; bun frames still present) contracts, plus the >20-frame capture.
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…on macOS and Linux The trace string can carry an image name per frame, and bun.report shows it as the frame's package. Only the Windows encoder used that. On macOS a frame in any image other than bun's was encoded as unknown, so a crash inside a native addon uploaded as a list of anonymous frames. On Linux such a frame was encoded as an offset in bun's executable, so bun.report symbolized it to an unrelated bun function. Encode the basename of the image on both platforms. On Linux the main program is told apart by its load base, because dl_iterate_phdr names it differently per libc. The name bytes are reduced to the characters that need no URL escaping, since the decoder reads the name by length. The segfaultInDll test hook now faults inside libc on POSIX too, and the test decodes the uploaded trace string and checks that frame 0 names a shared library while the callers are still bun frames.
…ug builds spawn_symbolizer handed every frame's offset to llvm-symbolizer together with bun's executable, so a frame in libc or in an addon came back as an unrelated bun function. StackLine now keeps the image path the loader reported (the trace string still encodes the basename), and each frame is passed as its own `"<file>" <offset>` argument. pdb-addr2line reads one PDB, so on Windows such frames are left out instead.
…ring A report carried at most 20 frames. An addon that aborts on the JS thread has that many frames of its own and libc's before the first bun frame, so those reports showed no bun frame at all, and a report from an addon's own thread looked the same. The capture now holds 64 frames. The trace string buffer grows from 1 KB to 2 KB (report() copies it into 4 KB command lines), and the encoder writes frames into a budget of half of it, dropping the outermost ones that do not fit, instead of letting a long trace overflow the buffer mid-frame and upload an undecodable string. An image name is cut at 64 bytes so that one frame's encoding has a known maximum size. A bun-only trace of 64 frames is about 380 bytes.
The upload wait in the tests is bounded and fails with the child's stderr. The exit code is asserted last. The main-image offset on Linux encodes as unknown instead of panicking when it does not fit an i32. The segfaultInDll hook includes dlerror() in its failure message.
… have The encoder writes image names from [A-Za-z0-9._-], so the old sentinel "bun" was also what a stripped release executable named bun would decode to, and the two assertions about it contradicted each other there.
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I reviewed this PR again after d1b017a and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes crash-handler internals that run in a compromised process (unsafe dyld/dlsym paths, the trace-string encoding bun.report depends on, the debug symbolizer argv), and because the description notes #39815 covers the same encoder change and "one of the two lands", a human should pick between them and give the unsafe paths a look.
Checked: in_foreign_image / write_encoded keep the length-prefixed name at one byte per input byte so bun.report's decoder stays aligned; own_image_base()'s usize::MAX fallback cannot equal any real load base; the 1 KB frame budget leaves the panic-message path at least the room it had on main; the new spawn_symbolizer argv shape matches llvm-symbolizer's "FILE" OFFSET form and skips DLL frames on Windows where pdb-addr2line can't resolve them.
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Overview
The PR extends the crash handler's trace-string encoder so frames outside bun's own image carry the image basename on macOS (via _dyld_get_image_name) and Linux/ELF (via dl_iterate_phdr + a cached own_image_base()), where previously such frames were encoded as unknown (macOS) or as bun offsets (Linux). It raises the captured frame count from 20 to 64, doubles the trace-string buffer to 2 KB with a 1 KB frame budget so overflow drops outermost frames rather than corrupting the encoding, rewrites spawn_symbolizer to pass one "<file>" <offset> argument per frame so foreign frames resolve against their own image, and adds a POSIX segfaultInDll test hook that faults inside libc's strlen via dlsym(RTLD_NEXT). Two new tests decode the uploaded trace string and assert frame 0 names a shared library and that more than 20 frames are captured. src/sys/lib.rs gains RTLD_NEXT and _dyld_get_image_name bindings.
Security risks
None user-facing. The new code runs only inside the crash handler and a bun:internal-for-testing hook. The image name is sanitized to [A-Za-z0-9._-] and length-capped at 64 bytes before it goes into the URL, so it cannot break out of the length-prefixed field. The dlsym/transmute path is test-only and gated behind bun:internal-for-testing.
Level of scrutiny
High. The crash handler runs after memory may already be corrupted and must be async-signal-safe; it contains new unsafe blocks that dereference loader-owned C strings, transmute a dlsym result, and read from a deliberately bad pointer. The trace-string format is a wire contract with bun.report. The change is cross-platform with distinct cfg branches for macOS, ELF (glibc/musl/android), and Windows. None of this is mechanical.
Other factors
All prior bot feedback (mine and CodeRabbit's) has been addressed in follow-up commits and every thread is resolved. CI on d1b017a passed 180/181 with one infrastructure-only failure (git clone timeout), retriggered as 654b4e9. The PR description explicitly flags that #39815 overlaps this change ("one of the two lands") and that #38950 will need a small rebase against whichever lands — a human should make that sequencing call. No human reviewer has weighed in yet.
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One more data point for this change: BUN-4S83 (1.4.0, Linux x64) shows a I wrote the same ELF encoder change before I found this PR, so I stand down in favor of it. The branch is farm/85688ce0/crash-report-shared-object-names ( |
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StackLine::from_address(src/crash_handler/lib.rs) encodes every frame outside bun's image as unknown: Sentry shows<anonymous>for BUN-4MMY, BUN-4KFP, BUN-2V1T and BUN-2V2Y. On Linux it encodes such a frame as an offset into bun, so bun.report names an unrelated bun function.addr_buf: [usize; 20]). An addon that aborts has more frames than that before the first bun frame, so the report shows no bun frame at all (BUN-4MN5, BUN-2PFR).1, length, name, offset). Only the Windows encoder uses it. bun.report decodes it on every platform.Fix
i != 0gets the name of_dyld_get_image_name(i)and its offset in that image. ELF: the module name fromdl_iterate_phdr, unless the load base is bun's own. The base identifies the main program, because glibc names it""and musl names it by path.write_encodedwrites the basename, cut at 64 bytes. Each byte outside[A-Za-z0-9._-]becomes_. bun.report reads the name back by length, so the byte count must not change.test/cli/run/run-crash-handler.test.ts. The two new tests decode the uploaded string. Without the fix, frame 0 decodes asbun, and a crash under 60 JS frames uploads 20 frames. Also the rest of the file,crash-report-command-char.test.ts, andcargo checkfor darwin, windows, musl, freebsd and android.Background
bun.report/...URL a crash prints and uploads. It holds one VLQ offset per frame. bun.report remaps the offsets against bun's debug symbols. A frame that starts with VLQ1names an image instead. bun.report shows the name as the frame's package, as it does for DLL frames today.segfaultInDllinbun:internal-for-testingnow faults inside libc'sstrlenon POSIX.dlsym(RTLD_NEXT)finds libc's address, not the PLT stub in the executable. Under ASAN bun installs no fault handler, so the hook calls the handler with the fault context itself, assegfaultdoes.Notes
dl_iterate_phdrorder, and it fixes the debug symbolizer.spawn_symbolizerpassed every offset to llvm-symbolizer together with bun's executable. It now passes each frame as its own"<file>" <offset>argument, so a foreign frame resolves against its own image. pdb-addr2line reads one PDB, so Windows leaves foreign frames out.lib/parser.tsdecodes a trace from the new hook as{address: 0x175aff, object: "libc.so.6"}followed by bun frames.llvm-symbolizer "libc.so.6 0x175b00"gives__strlen_evex.buildFingerprintuses remapped bun frames only. The name now arrives in every event.report()copies the string into 4 KB command lines on both platforms. Before the budget, a long trace could fail the buffer write in the middle of a frame and leave an undecodable string.encode_trace_string.own_image_base()is one extradl_iterate_phdrcall per process. The encoder already makes one per frame.src/crash_handler/lib.rsagainst Remove dead code from uws_sys, webcore bindings, crash_handler, and scripts #37181's dead code removal: it deleted theDisplayimpl forStackLine, which this branch had extended with the image name. The impl stays deleted.own_image_base()and the frame constants were kept from this branch. Main's new platform characters for musl and android (crash_handler: give the musl and android builds their own trace string platform characters #39801) are still one byte, so the test decoder is unchanged.git cloneofvendor/elysiatimed out on that host (GitHub was slow to reach from it, the other Macs were fine). Retriggered once as 654b4e9.no test proof · iteration 13 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/run/run-crash-handler.test.ts