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Problem

  • A streamed fetch() response intermittently loses its tail with TypeError: The socket connection was closed unexpectedly (ECONNRESET) when the server closes while the client still uploads. A 1.3.14 to 1.4 regression (1.4 regression: streamed response intermittently lost with ECONNRESET when the request body finishes as the server closes the connection #39846). The reporter proved with a TCP relay that every byte reaches the client.
  • The cause is in us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll (packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c). A poll error event (EPOLLERR, kqueue EV_EOF with an error in fflags, AFD abort) closed the socket without reading when it carried no READABLE bit, which is always the case for a socket paused by receive backpressure. The kernel keeps the receive queue on a reset, so the tail queued ahead of it was discarded with the fd. node:net and Bun.Socket lost it the same way.

Fix

  • An error is the end of the connection, so a pause no longer protects anything: run the read loop for an error event even without READABLE interest and through a pause. recv() delivers the queued data and then the error, and the same dispatch closes with it.
  • No per-socket opt-in and no deferred-error state. The error event stays terminal for every owner, so a paused socket that never resumes still learns the connection died.
  • Windows loses its paused-socket special cases: the MSG_PEEK probe, the fin_deferred bit, its loop counter, and the sweep are removed.
  • Verified: test/regression/issue/39846.test.ts (deterministic, fails on unfixed, passes fixed), the issue's 2000-iteration race script (12 failures to 0 on the debug build), the flipped paused-reset contract tests in socket.test.ts, new node-net.test.ts coverage, node-tls-server.test.ts, and the fetch-backpressure h1 suites.

Background

  • fetch() receive backpressure pauses the transport after each delivered chunk until JS pulls. us_socket_pause drops read interest. uSockets has no userspace receive buffer, so paused bytes wait in the kernel.
  • The RST here is normal: the server answers connection: close, ends, and closes. The client's last request-body bytes land on the closed socket, and the server kernel answers with RST. That reset races the response tail into the client.
  • node delivers buffered data before the reset error on Linux and macOS. This fix matches that where the data is recoverable.
Notes
  • Root-caused by running the server and the client of the issue's repro in separate processes on mixed versions: 1.3.14 server + 1.4 client fails, 1.4 server + 1.3.14 client does not.
  • Two earlier shapes were discarded. An unconditional deferral of the error until resume broke the pinned contract that a paused socket still learns about a reset. A per-socket opt-in flag drew the line at user pause() vs flow-control pause, a distinction node does not have, and left node:net with the tail loss. The final shape keeps the error terminal and only stops discarding the queued tail.
  • Deferring until resume was also unsafe for owners that pause with their timeout zeroed (Bun.serve and node:http body backpressure): the poll error is their only peer-death signal, the uWS and TLS write paths swallow ECONNRESET as backpressure, and a send() after the RST consumes sk_err so a later read looks like a clean EOF.
  • The regression test shape: the first response chunk pauses the transport (no consumer attached), the server finishes the response and closes cleanly, then a request-body chunk written to the closed socket draws the RST. Consuming the body must deliver the full payload. Its sleeps sequence loopback delivery; the paused state is unobservable from JS by design, and a short sleep can only weaken the fail-before signal, never flake the fixed build.
  • The test skips Windows: AFD discards the receive queue on an abortive reset, so the tail is unrecoverable there (node loses it on Windows too).

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The change adds deferred peer-reset handling for paused sockets, wires the option through the C and Rust APIs, enables it during HTTP receive pauses, and adds regression coverage for preserving queued response data.

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Deferred reset handling

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Socket state and initialization
packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/libusockets.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c
The socket state and public API now support deferred resets. Listener, connecting, accepted, and regular socket creation paths initialize the option as disabled.
Reset deferral flow
packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, src/uws_sys/us_socket_t.rs, src/uws_sys/socket.rs, src/http/lib.rs
The event loop defers eligible resets for paused sockets. Rust bindings forward the setting to connected sockets, and HTTP receive pauses enable it.
Paused response regression coverage
test/regression/issue/39846.test.ts
The regression test verifies that queued response data is drained before a TCP reset is reported. The test skips Windows and repeats the scenario twice.

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Updated 3:09 PM PT - Aug 21st, 2026

⏳ @Jarred-Sumner, your commit edfdcfb is still building in Build #102866, but has 1 failures so far (All Failures):

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Beyond the inline findings, I also verified the load-bearing assumption that us_socket_resume re-adds a parked fd after us_poll_stop: us_poll_change (epoll_kqueue.c:728) already falls back from EPOLL_CTL_MOD → ENOENT to us_poll_start_rc, the same path the sibling paused-hangup deferral relies on. On kqueue, us_poll_stop is not called here, so the existing kqueue_change in us_poll_change covers resume.

Extended reasoning...

Checked that the new epoll parking (us_poll_stop + poll_type sync) exactly mirrors the existing hangup deferral a few lines above, and that the resume path it depends on — us_socket_resume → us_poll_change → ENOENT fallback to us_poll_start_rc — is already in place for that sibling code. The kqueue arm skips parking and relies on the paused read knote being EV_CLEAR, which matches kqueue_change's handling of a socket poll. This is core event-loop dispatch with platform-gated branches, so a human look is still warranted; the inline nits stand on their own.

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I don't think the opt-in flag is the right abstraction here — the distinction it draws (user pause() vs. flow-control pause) doesn't exist in node, and the fix should remove state from us_socket_t rather than add another bit.

The premise of the opt-in is off. The PR keeps plain Bun.Socket/node:net on "close at once with ECONNRESET, discard unread data" because socket.test.ts (#39610) pins it. But that isn't node's behavior. Linux, node 26.3 vs bun 1.4.0 — peer writes 64 KB, then 32 KB more (which stays in the kernel because the handle is read-stopped), then RSTs; the server socket is paused and resumes at 1.5 s:

--- node
before resume: bytesRead= 65536 readableLength= 65536
error ECONNRESET total data delivered before error = 98304
--- bun 1.4.0
error ECONNRESET total data delivered before error = 0     (at 411ms, while still paused)

With no resume at all, node reports nothing for the RST (libuv drops a watcher with no interest out of epoll). So node:net in Bun has the same tail-loss bug this PR fixes for fetch only, and the "a user pause may never resume, so report the reset now" behavior the flag preserves is something our own tests introduced in #39600/#39610, not compat. There is one correct behavior for every paused socket, so nothing per-socket needs to select it.

Suggested shape. Follow libuv's model in us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll: HUP/ERR are only "drain now" hints for a socket that currently has read interest, and everything user-visible is derived from recv() returning 0 (FIN → on_end) or -1 (errno → error close):

  1. reading (!is_paused && !read_eof) and (eof || error) → the read loop already drains to 0/-1 and handles both outcomes inside the loop.
  2. not reading and (eof || error) → park (us_poll_stop on epoll since HUP/ERR are unmaskable; nothing needed on kqueue). resume() re-adds and (1) runs.
  3. us_socket_is_shut_down(s) && read_fin → clean close, unchanged.

That collapses the existing special-case arms (eof_deferrable && is_paused, "collected while paused but resumed earlier in this batch", eof && error && !read_fin, the SO_ERROR close) plus the two added here into one rule, drops the need for defer_reset_while_paused, and lets the kqueue dual-mode paused read knote from #39610 go (it only exists so a paused socket can see the RST). The src/http/lib.rs change becomes unnecessary and #39846's test passes as-is; the two "while still paused" tests flip to "data, then ECONNRESET, after resume".

I'll push that onto this branch.

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Agreed, that is the better shape. Your node trace settles the premise: the flag preserved a contract our own tests introduced, not node behavior. My mixed-version bisect points the same way: the 1.3.14 client drained eagerly and never lost the tail.

Two landmines from this branch worth keeping in view for the rework:

  • Windows cannot take rule 2 as-is. AFD discards the receive queue on an abortive reset, and a parked socket has no event left to ride once the one-shot DISCONNECT is consumed. That is what the MSG_PEEK probe and the fin_deferred sweep in libuv.c cover today.
  • Besides the two socket.test.ts tests, the node:net and node:tls shapes of the paused-reset scenario live in test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts, and the paused unix hangup fixture in test/js/node/net/ leans on the deferred-eof path.

test/regression/issue/39846.test.ts and the 2000-iteration script from the issue reproduce the fetch tail loss deterministically if you want a quick check on the rework. Standing by until your push lands.

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I reviewed this PR again after the follow-up commits — both earlier inline concerns are addressed (the second "resumed-in-batch" arm now mirrors the eof-deferral sibling, and the test's cleanup is in a try/finally), and the comment-cop flags are resolved. No new issues found. Given this touches the core us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll error path with platform-specific kernel semantics (epoll parking vs kqueue EV_CLEAR, opt-in gating to preserve the #39610 contract), a human sign-off is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • The new deferral in loop.c mirrors both arms of the existing eof-deferral exactly; us_poll_stop + poll_type sync matches the sibling; the !read_fin && !read_eof guard prevents deferring when there is provably no tail.
  • defer_reset_while_paused initialized at all four socket-creation sites (listen, connect, accept, from-fd); adopt copies the struct.
  • The flag is set only from HTTPClient::pause_receive, so Bun.Socket/node:net pause() keeps its immediate-close-on-reset contract.
  • us_socket_resume's existing us_poll_change ENOENT→ADD fallback and its failure-close path cover the parked-fd re-registration.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes #39846: a streamed fetch() response intermittently drops its tail with ECONNRESET when the server closes while the client is still uploading. The root cause is that fetch receive-backpressure pauses the socket (drops read interest), so when a peer RST arrives as EPOLLERR, the dispatch loop's error branch closes immediately without draining the kernel receive queue — discarding response bytes that had already arrived.

The fix adds an opt-in defer_reset_while_paused bit on us_socket_t. When set and an error event lands on a paused socket, loop.c defers the close (parking the fd on epoll since EPOLLERR is unmaskable) so that resume() can re-arm reads and drain the tail before the reset surfaces via the normal recv() error path. Only the HTTP client's fetch backpressure sets the flag; user-facing pause() (Bun.Socket / node:net) keeps its existing close-immediately-on-reset contract from #39610. Windows is excluded (AFD discards the receive queue on abortive reset).

Files: loop.c (deferral logic), internal.h/libusockets.h/socket.c/context.c (flag definition, setter, init at 4 creation sites), src/uws_sys/{socket,us_socket_t}.rs (Rust wrappers), src/http/lib.rs (set flag in pause_receive), and a regression test.

Follow-up since prior review

My earlier review flagged two items; both are now fixed in the current diff:

  • The error-deferral now has the second arm covering the "collected while paused, resumed by an earlier dispatch in the same batch" window (loop.c), matching the sibling eof-deferral exactly.
  • The regression test wraps its loop body in try { … } finally { conn?.destroy(); server.close(); }.

The comment-cop flags on the Rust files were trimmed to one-line cross-references in f5b7e74/c98cbdfc.

Security risks

None identified. This is receive-path flow-control ordering; no new user-controlled input parsing, no auth/crypto surface. The deferral is opt-in and scoped to a single internal caller.

Level of scrutiny

High. us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll is the hottest, most delicate function in the socket layer, and the reasoning here depends on platform-specific kernel semantics: EPOLLERR being level-triggered and unmaskable (hence us_poll_stop), kqueue's paused read knote being EV_CLEAR so no parking is needed, us_poll_change's ENOENT→ADD fallback for parked fds, and the interaction with the existing eof && error && !read_fin clearing. The PR description demonstrates deep understanding and the implementation mirrors the proven eof-deferral pattern line-for-line, but this is exactly the kind of change where a maintainer familiar with the loop.c history should confirm the kqueue reasoning and the "guaranteed resume" invariant on the fetch side.

Other factors

  • The regression test is deterministic per the description (fails 5/5 unfixed, passes fixed) and skips on Windows with a documented reason. The sleeps are justified in-comment (a paused socket produces no observable events).
  • The flag is initialized at all four socket-creation sites; I verified there are exactly four (listen init, connect init, accept in loop.c, from-fd in socket.c).
  • The opt-in design correctly preserves the #39610 pinned contract for user pause().
  • No CI results visible yet on the current head commit.

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In `@test/regression/issue/39846.test.ts`:
- Around line 6-10: Remove the explanatory multi-line regression comment
beginning with “A fetch() response tail” while preserving the existing issue-URL
comment on the preceding line, leaving the test with only that single URL
comment.
- Line 16: Update the socket error handling around c.on in the test so
unexpected errors reject the test instead of being discarded; before the
expected-reset phase, propagate every error, and after that phase begins, handle
only the anticipated reset error while continuing to reject unexpected errors.
- Around line 51-55: Update the connection teardown in the regression test to
use conn!.end() with the terminal chunk and await its flush callback, then call
push("x") afterward to trigger the intended reset sequence; remove the abortive
conn!.destroy() path while preserving the existing delay.
- Around line 66-68: Update the cleanup in the test’s finally block to await
completion of server.close after destroying conn, wrapping the callback-based
teardown in a Promise that rejects on close errors so each iteration starts only
after all resources are released.
- Around line 45-61: Replace the fixed Bun.sleep calls in this regression test
with bounded waits for observable fixture signals: expose a test-only signal at
the actual receive_paused pause point, await confirmation before writing the
response tail, and await a signal or predicate confirming the reset has reached
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I reviewed this PR and the follow-up commits address both of my earlier inline findings (the second deferral arm in loop.c and the test's try/finally cleanup). No new issues found. Given this touches the core epoll/kqueue dispatch path in us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll and introduces a new socket-level opt-in with cross-platform #ifdef gating, a human look is still warranted — particularly on the design question raised mid-thread about whether the opt-in flag is preserving a Bun-test contract rather than node behavior.

What was reviewed:

  • Flag initialization at all four us_socket_t creation sites (listen, connect, accept, from-fd) — all covered; adoption struct-copies preserve it.
  • The epoll us_poll_stop park + us_poll_change ENOENT→ADD fallback on resume, and us_socket_resume's close-on-failure — the parked-then-resumed path is complete.
  • kqueue arm: paused read knote is EV_CLEAR so no park needed; the second "resumed in same batch" arm mirrors the existing eof-deferral sibling.
  • resume_receive never clears the flag, but that's fine: it only takes effect while is_paused (or in the same-batch window), and fetch's pause always sets it before pause_stream().
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes #39846: a streamed fetch() response tail is discarded with ECONNRESET when a peer RST arrives while the client socket is paused for receive backpressure. It adds a per-socket defer_reset_while_paused bit (internal.h, initialized at all four creation sites in context.c/loop.c/socket.c), a public setter us_socket_defer_reset_while_paused (libusockets.h, socket.c) with Rust bindings (us_socket_t.rs, socket.rs), and a new deferral block in the error branch of us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll (loop.c) that parks the poll on epoll and defers the close until resume() re-arms reads. src/http/lib.rs sets the flag in maybe_pause_receive before pause_stream(). A regression test lands in test/regression/issue/39846.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. No parsing of untrusted input, no auth/crypto/permissions. The change narrows when a socket is closed (defers instead of closing immediately), gated on an internal-only flag set exclusively by the HTTP client's own backpressure path. A user-facing Bun.Socket/node:net pause() keeps the existing immediate-close-on-reset contract (#39610), so there's no new hang exposure for user code. Windows is excluded via #ifndef LIBUS_USE_LIBUV.

Level of scrutiny

High. us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll is the single hottest path in Bun's networking layer — every epoll/kqueue socket event flows through it. The new block sits inside platform-gated #ifdefs and relies on subtle kernel semantics (Linux keeps the receive queue on RST; EPOLLERR is unmaskable and level-triggered; kqueue's paused read knote is EV_CLEAR). It also depends on us_poll_change's ENOENT→EPOLL_CTL_ADD fallback (epoll_kqueue.c:724) and us_socket_resume's close-on-failure to make the park/resume round-trip safe. These are the kind of interactions a maintainer who owns this file should sign off on.

Other factors

  • My two earlier inline findings (missing second deferral arm; test cleanup ordering) were both addressed in follow-up commits (cb55f70 added the second arm; a4b684f added try/finally, awaited server.close, and fixture-error tracking). All CodeRabbit threads are resolved.
  • The 04:16 thread comment ("the flag preserved a contract our own tests introduced, not node behavior… Standing by until your push lands") suggests an alternative design (unconditional deferral, adjusting socket.test.ts) may be under consideration. That's a maintainer-level call on whether the opt-in flag is the right shape or a stopgap.
  • The test uses Bun.sleep() to sequence loopback delivery. The rationale (a paused socket produces no observable events; a too-short sleep can only weaken the fail-before signal, not flake the fixed build) is documented and was accepted in the review thread, but timing-sequenced tests in this area still merit a human glance.
  • The bitfield addition sits in us_socket_t's pad-to-pointer gap, so no size/ABI change on epoll/kqueue.

Given the critical-path location and the open design question, deferring rather than approving.

A poll error event (EPOLLERR / EV_EOF+fflags / AFD abort) closed the
socket without reading when it carried no READABLE bit for us - which is
always the case for a paused socket. The kernel keeps the receive queue
on a reset, so the tail of the peer's stream queued ahead of it was
discarded with the fd: a streamed fetch() response under receive
backpressure lost its end with ECONNRESET although every byte had
arrived (#39846), and node:net / Bun.Socket lost it the same way.

An error is the end of the connection, so a pause no longer protects
anything: run the read loop for an error event even without READABLE
interest and through a pause, so recv() delivers the queued data and
then the error, and the same dispatch closes with it. No per-socket
opt-in and no deferred-error state.

Windows: the paused-socket MSG_PEEK probe, the fin_deferred bit, its
loop counter and the sweep that escalated it are removed; a paused
socket takes the existing not-reading branch (reset -> error dispatch,
FIN -> ABORT-only re-arm until resume), and a shut-down paused socket no
longer has READABLE forced on.
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@Jarred-Sumner Jarred-Sumner changed the title usockets: defer a reset on a paused socket until resume drains the queued tail usockets: drain the receive queue before closing on a peer reset Aug 21, 2026
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Pushed 6d1ac96. I backed off the "paused socket is deaf until resume()" shape from my review after working through it: it's node's model, but here the poll error is the only peer-death signal for owners that pause with their timeout zeroed (Bun.serve/node:http body backpressure), the uWS/TLS write paths swallow ECONNRESET as backpressure, and a send() after the RST consumes sk_err so the eventual read looks like a clean EOF — each of those would need its own change. The version pushed keeps ERR terminal and just stops discarding the tail: the read loop runs for an error event even without READABLE interest / through a pause, delivers what's queued, then closes. No new bit; the Windows fin_deferred bit + counter + sweep + MSG_PEEK probe are removed.

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Verified 6d1ac96 on linux x64 (debug build): the issue's 2000-iteration race script is at 0 failures, test/regression/issue/39846.test.ts passes, the flipped paused-reset tests in socket.test.ts and the new node-net and node-tls-server coverage pass, and the fetch-backpressure h1 suites pass. The write-path points (zeroed timeouts, ECONNRESET swallowed as backpressure, send() consuming sk_err) explain why the deaf-until-resume model could not work here. I updated the PR body to describe this shape.

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CI on 6d1ac96 (build 102374): the only red test is bun-server.test.ts on Windows 2019 x64, which is pre-existing on main and reported separately. Every other failure passed alone or on retry. The paused-reset, node-net, node-tls-server, and regression tests are green on all lanes.

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CI (build 102374): the only non-flaky-list failure is bun-server.test.ts › handler GC tracing › server stays alive while a websocket is connected, then collects after close on windows-2019-x64 (afterClose 2 vs 1). That test is failing on 7 of the last 10 builds across unrelated branches (102373, 102372, 102370, 102368, 102355, 102350, 102340), so it's pre-existing. darwin/linux/windows socket, net, tls, fetch suites are green.

The first body chunk arrives with the headers, so the transport is already paused when fetch() resolves. The server resets with resetAndDestroy after the tail is flushed, so the tail and the reset are queued before the body is consumed.

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I reviewed the current shape (6d1ac96 + edfdcfb) and found no bugs. Because this rewrites when us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll runs the read loop — every socket in the process goes through it — and removes the Windows fin_deferred sweep/probe machinery, a human sign-off is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

  • drain_for_error in loop.c: runs the read loop on error regardless of READABLE/pause; the low-prio-queue exclusion and !error guard on the SSL low-prio parking keep parked sockets on the plain error close. My earlier batch-resume concern no longer applies — the drain keys on error, not is_paused.
  • The read-loop continue conditions now bypass is_paused only when error is set, so a mid-drain on_data pause still stops a non-error drain.
  • Windows: the merged not-reading branch in poll_cb covers both paused and post-EOF sockets via SO_ERROR / zero-byte-send probe → shared error path; the removed fin_deferred counter/sweep has no remaining reader.
  • Regression test now sequences on the write() flush callback + resetAndDestroy() (no sleeps), with try/finally around each iteration.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes #39846: a paused socket (fetch receive backpressure, net.Socket#pause) whose peer resets was closed without reading, discarding bytes the kernel still held ahead of the RST. The final shape (pushed by Jarred in 6d1ac96) runs the read loop for an error event even without READABLE interest and through a pause, so recv() delivers the queued tail before the same dispatch closes with the error. It also removes the Windows-only fin_deferred bit, its loop counter, the sweep in sweep_timer_cb, and the paused-socket MSG_PEEK probe in poll_cb — the merged not-reading branch now routes a probed reset through the shared error path (which drains) and quiesces a FIN with the ABORT-only subscription. Tests are updated across socket.test.ts (contract flip: paused socket now delivers queued data before ECONNRESET), node-net.test.ts (new subprocess test asserting bytesRead accounts for the tail), node-tls-server.test.ts (adds bytesRead assertion), and a new 39846.test.ts. edfdcfb replaced the regression test's sleeps with a write-callback + resetAndDestroy() sequence.

Security risks

None identified. The change reads more data before closing on a peer-initiated error; it does not relax validation, expose new surface, or change trust boundaries. The read loop is bounded by recv() returning 0 or the error, so no unbounded drain.

Level of scrutiny

High. us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll is the single dispatch every TCP/TLS socket event flows through. Changing when on_data fires (now on a paused socket, but only when error is set) and removing a Windows state machine both have blast radius across fetch, Bun.serve, node:http, node:net, and TLS. CI is green on all lanes (the one Windows failure is a pre-existing GC-tracing flake per Jarred's 11:09 comment), and the change has extensive targeted coverage — but this is not a mechanical change.

Other factors

  • Jarred pushed the final native shape and verified CI, so the design has maintainer endorsement; procedurally another reviewer should approve since he authored the head commit.
  • All prior review threads (mine, CodeRabbit's, comment-cop's) are resolved. My 03:53 loop.c comment targeted the earlier deferral-based shape and is superseded; the try/finally and error-swallowing feedback on the regression test is applied; the peer cleanup nit on node-net.test.ts was reasonably declined (await using proc disposal transitively resets it).
  • The unclassified_send_failures field widening from 7 bits back to a full unsigned char keeps the 32-cap semantics (US_UNCLASSIFIED_SEND_RETRY_LIMIT is 32) and stays in the pad-to-pointer gap.

dylan-conway added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 24, 2026
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### Problem
- A `TLSSocket` or `net.Socket` that `unpipe()` paused never emits
`'end'` or `'close'` when the peer closes, so `server.close(cb)` never
calls back. Node emits both. Bun 1.4.0 hangs.
- `Socket.prototype.pause` (`src/js/node/net.ts`) stopped the native
handle, so the peer's FIN was never read. Node stops the handle only for
an onread socket
([net.js#L817](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/net.js#L817-L827))
or when `push()` returns false
([stream_base_commons.js#L191](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/internal/stream_base_commons.js#L191-L198)).
Since #33974 a stopped handle holds the FIN back.
- A usockets socket comes up reading, a Node handle comes up stopped. So
`pauseOnConnect` was a pause issued from JS after the accept.

### Fix
- `pause()` uses Node's condition: a connected onread socket. The sites
where `push()` returned false still stop the handle (`readStop`).
- `pauseOnConnect` sockets are paused natively: `on_open` pauses a plain
socket, `on_handshake` a TLS socket (the handshake needs the reads),
each once (`PAUSE_ON_CONNECT`). Accepted and adopted sockets
(`LIBUS_SOCKET_OPEN_PAUSED`: cluster primary and worker) are registered
paused to begin with, so that pause is free: 2 epoll_ctl per connection
instead of 4 plus a wakeup. `net.ts` reads `server.pauseOnConnect` per
connection like Node, and its `pauseOnCreate` is Node's two lines,
`readStop()` and `readableFlowing = false`: the stop is free for a
handle that opened paused, and real for a `pauseOnConnect` set after
`listen()`.
- `afterConnect` decides where Node's `read(0)` does, after the
`'connect'` listeners ran: a plain socket whose stream is paused by then
(paused while it connected, or by one of the listeners) has its handle
stopped, unless a listener asked for a read (`_readableState.reading`),
because Node's handle reads then. A TLS socket keeps reading to
handshake, as Node's `initRead` does.
- Verified: sixteen new tests (`node-net`, `node-tls-server`,
`node-tls-connect`, `cluster`, `socket-reconnect-live`,
`renegotiation`). Also the net, tls, http, cluster, fetch and serve
suites and the vendored net, tls and cluster files on Linux, the net,
tls and cluster suites on Windows (notes).

### Background
- `kPausedUnref` (#33974) records that a stopped handle gave up its hold
on the event loop. `read()`, `_read()` and `resume()` start the handle
and take the hold back. A plain `pause()` now touches neither, as in
Node.
- A paused socket on kqueue keeps an `EV_CLEAR` read knote, so the
peer's FIN or RST still reaches the dispatcher. `us_poll_start_rc` now
gives a socket that starts paused the same knote.
- `unpipe()` pauses the source when its last destination goes away. Only
the peer's FIN can finish such a socket.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

Reproduction, from the report: a `tls.Server` pipes each accepted socket
to an upstream `net` connection and back. The upstream replies and
closes. `inner.pipe(sock)` calls `sock.end()`, the cleanup of
`sock.pipe(inner)` unpipes and pauses `sock`. The client then closes.

```
node v26.3.0 : inner close; sock.isPaused=true | client data reply | client end | client close | server sock end | server sock close || server.close(): ok
bun 1.4.0    : client data reply | client end | inner close; sock.isPaused=true | client close || server.close(): HUNG
this branch  : client data reply | client end | inner close; sock.isPaused=true | client close | server sock end | server sock close || server.close(): ok
```

The same with plain `net` hangs on 1.4.0 as well, and so does a socket
that is only `pause()`d on a later tick (no `end()`) whose peer then
ends, for both transports. Data that arrives while paused stays in the
buffer and holds `'end'` back until it is read, in Node and here alike.

Loop hold, against Node v26.3.0: a socket paused after it started to
read keeps the process alive (1.4.0 exited). `tls.connect(...).pause()`
completes the handshake and keeps the process alive until then, with and
without `onread` (1.4.0 exited after 18 ms without a handshake, the case
of #35151). A plain socket paused while connecting lets the process exit
(vendored `test-net-connect-paused-connection.js`, which fails without
the `afterConnect` stop), and one paused by a `'connect'` listener reads
nothing until `resume()` (`pause() in a 'connect' listener`, `bytesRead`
0 in node too). An onread client paused after `'connect'` but before the
handshake completes it in both: the `_read()` queued at connect time
starts the handle again.

`pauseOnConnect` natively. Before, `pauseOnCreate` (and on main,
`self.pause()`) issued `us_socket_pause` on an accepted socket that had
just been registered readable, and `us_socket_pause` arms writable
interest, which fires once (#37099 is the open fix for that). Measured
with an `epoll_ctl` interposer on a cluster primary, per accepted
connection: before `ADD IN`, `MOD OUT`, a wakeup, `MOD HUP|ERR`, `DEL`;
now `ADD HUP|ERR`, `DEL`. The accept loop and `us_socket_from_fd`
register the socket that way (epoll: HUP/ERR only, the state a paused
socket reaches anyway. kqueue: the `EV_CLEAR` read knote a paused socket
keeps, added in `us_poll_start_rc` for a socket poll that starts without
read interest; listen and connect polls are semi-sockets there, so
nothing else changes. libuv: `UV_DISCONNECT` only, the same call a pause
makes). Both ignore the bit for a TLS socket. A dialed socket does not
use the bit: `on_open` pauses it through the ordinary pause path, which
is one `us_socket_pause` on a rare path and keeps the connect code
untouched. For a Windows named pipe the `on_open` pause is the real
`read_stop`. The option is a `SocketConfig` dictionary field
(`SocketConfig.bindv2.ts`, coerced like `Boolean()`), so `Bun.listen`
and `Bun.connect` accept it; it is not added to `bun.d.ts` in this PR.
Node's TLS `pauseOnConnect` reads ahead into TLSWrap (`bytesRead` is 5
in the tls test under Node), ours stops reading once the handshake
completed, so bytes sent after it stay in the kernel (application data
in the same segment as the client's Finished is still decrypted and
buffered); both deliver nothing before `resume()`.

Two states that span connections, found in review. `IS_PAUSED` lived on
the wrapper, so a socket that was left paused and then reconnected
(`socket.connect()` again) started its new connection, which usockets
opened reading, with the flag still set: `pause()` was a no-op and for
TLS the post handshake pause was skipped. `on_open` now clears it, which
is the one entry point all paths (TCP, TLS, named pipe, upgrades) go
through for a new connection. `PAUSE_ON_CONNECT` is consumed the first
time it acts, because a TLS 1.2 client gets a second `on_handshake`
after a renegotiation (which Bun dispatches together with the next
application data) and paused itself again there.
`socket-reconnect-live.test.ts` and `renegotiation.test.ts` pin the two.
Each fails with its line removed (the reconnect test resumes only after
the server's `end()` callback ran, so the data is queued, and after one
more poll of the loop: 12 of 12 runs fail without the reset, 12 of 12
pass with it).

Rebased onto main at 8fce1d2 (after #39856, #39949, #39860 landed).
#39856 added the same `IS_PAUSED` reset to `on_open` and now applies a
pre-connect `ref()`/`unref()` there; the conflict resolution keeps
main's lines and adds the `pause_on_connect_once()` call after them.
#39856 also made `pause_stream` a no-op on a socket that is not
established yet, which the `on_open` pause satisfies (the socket is
installed first). Its new `unref()/pause() around connect()` tests and
`s.pause() survives an autoSelectFamily retry` pass on this branch.
#39949 gave the paused read knote on kqueue a `NOTE_LOWAT` sentinel and
uses the same transition trick in `us_poll_resize` that
`us_poll_start_rc` uses here, so an open-paused socket gets the sentinel
knote too. The first version of the post-listener stop fired whenever
`isPaused()` was true after the listeners and broke https over an http
proxy on every Linux lane (build 104296): `establishTunnel` calls
`socket.read()` and `once('readable')` in the connect listener, a
`'readable'` listener sets `flowing` to false as well, and the handle
was stopped with the CONNECT response unread. c49c87e skips the stop
while `_readableState.reading` is set, pinned by `read() and
once('readable') in a 'connect' listener still receive the peer's
bytes`; the 48 vendored `test-http*-proxy*` files pass again. Rebased
again at 0dc653c: the only conflict was
`LIBUS_LISTEN_DISALLOW_REUSE_PORT_FAILURE`, which #37181 removed from
`uws_sys` next to the new constant; this branch keeps only
`LIBUS_SOCKET_OPEN_PAUSED`.

Review pass over the whole diff (asked for by the reporter), what it
checked and what changed. Every in-tree caller of `socket.pause()` was
compared with its Node counterpart: `_http_incoming` readStart/readStop
and `internal/http.ts` are Node's lines (stream level flow control,
kernel backpressure once the socket buffer fills), `_http2_upgrade.ts`
feeds TLS from `'data'` events so its pause loses nothing, the in-place
tls upgrade swaps native handlers synchronously and never pauses,
`Ipc.ts` adopts a received socket reading like Node's `got()`, tty and
stdin build on `fs.ReadStream`. The remaining behavior change is
therefore the Node one: after `pause()` bytes may land in the JS buffer,
which is why Node documents `pauseOnConnect` for handoffs. Event order
for a paused socket whose peer sends FIN or RST was traced for node,
main and this branch (plain, tls, unix, shut down first, with a pending
write): identical to main apart from the fixed hang; an RST while paused
is reported at once by main and by this branch (Node only notices it on
resume). Changes from the pass: (1) on kqueue the open-paused
registration had no read knote, so an RST before `resume()` went
unnoticed until then on macOS only; fixed in `us_poll_start_rc` and the
dial path dropped from the bit, see above, pinned by `still reports a
peer reset before resume()` (passes on epoll either way, the darwin
lanes exercise the fix). (2) `onconnection` read the raw options while
the tls site read the live property and the cluster worker path read the
live property too; both now read `server.pauseOnConnect` like Node's
`onconnection`, pinned by `reads server.pauseOnConnect per connection`
(fails before: `bytesRead` 5, `paused` false; node prints `paused` true,
0). Setting the property after `listen()` works as well: the native
listener keeps the value it was created with and `pauseOnCreate` stops
the handle from JS (the same test sets it after `listen()`). (3)
`onconnection` wrote a `pauseOnConnect` expando onto every accepted
handle object that nothing reads, removed. (4) `pauseOnCreate` is Node's
`readStop()` plus `readableFlowing = false` instead of `pause()`, which
also emitted `'pause'`. Left alone on purpose: an in-place tls upgrade
of a socket that already has bytes in its JS buffer ignores them (Node
does the same, pre-existing), `us_socket_pause` arming writable interest
on every pause (#37099), and the typed option question above.

What pins what: the four end/close tests and the two
paused-while-connecting tests fail on main (`pause()` and its
`connecting` check). `test-net-server-pause-on-connect.js` (`bytesRead
=== 0`) pins the accepted socket being paused natively now that JS no
longer pauses it, the cluster early-bytes test pins the primary's
accept, the strengthened cluster pauseOnConnect test (write barrier,
`bytesRead`) pins the worker's `from_fd` adoption, `applies to a dialed
socket` pins the dial path, the tls test pins the post-handshake pause,
`node-net-paused-unix-hangup-fixture.js` pins the AF_UNIX accept with a
peer hangup while paused. The cluster test's barrier is the client's
write callback (on loopback the bytes are in the peer's receive queue
when `send(2)` returns, the IPC message follows it) plus one poll of the
worker's loop before it samples `bytesRead`, since the IPC message can
be dispatched in the same poll as, and ahead of, the socket's readable
event; with a reading socket the same fixture reports `bytesRead` 5.
Existing tests are left as they were, with one exception:
`socket-syscall-fault.test.ts`'s parked-socket test reached the parked
state through a plain `pause()` after `end()`, which this PR removes
(the reply is read instead of staying in the kernel, so the original now
prints an extra `data` line); it uses onread mode to reach the same
stopped handle, and its expected output is unchanged. The stricter
variants of the node-net paused-RST test and of the cluster RR
pauseOnConnect test are separate new tests next to the originals.

Suites. Linux, debug build, every remaining failure is unrelated and was
matched against the released binary or a debug build of main:
`test/js/node/net/` (10 `localhost` resolves to `::1` here, `unref
survives an autoSelectFamily retry` also fails on main's debug build),
`test/js/node/tls/` (1 `localhost`), `test/js/node/http/` (1
`localhost`, 3 subprocess tests that pass with a longer timeout),
`test/js/node/http2/`, `cluster.test.ts`, `bun-serve-file.test.ts`,
`websocket-server-backpressure-buffer`, `sql-mariadb-json`, the valkey
tests that pause a peer: clean. `test/js/node/child_process/` (a GC test
that passes with a longer timeout, a shell test that fails on the
released binary too). `test/js/bun/net/` (13 `localhost` failures, same
on the released binary). `serve.test.ts` and `bun-server.test.ts` (4 and
3, same on the released binary). `fetch.test.ts` and
`websocket-server.test.ts`: the extra failures against the released
binary are all timeouts at load average 40 on this host and pass alone.
Vendored: 139 `test-net-*`, 80 `test-cluster-*`, 16 sequential
net/cluster, 186 `test-tls-*` (one needs `bun test`) pass; earlier
rounds also ran 445 `test-http*`/`test-https-*` and 179
`test-child-process-*` with only the failures noted in the review
thread. After the last round (80a1cea): `node-net`,
`socket-reconnect-live`, `renegotiation`, `node-tls-server`,
`node-tls-connect` and `cluster.test.ts` (238 pass, the 12 failures
above), `bun/net/socket.test.ts` (the same 9 failures as the released
binary), 40 vendored cluster handoff tests and the 4 vendored pause
tests. Windows x64 (debug build of the first native head): the two
vendored pause tests, the cluster, tls and net selections above (27 + 7
+ 2 + 2 tests), `node-net.test.ts` + `allowHalfOpen` +
`bun/net/socket.test.ts` (168 pass, 0 fail), and a pauseOnConnect server
on a named pipe (`bytesRead` 0 until `resume()`, like node). The Windows
code did not change after that.

Socket instances had a `pauseOnConnect` field that only
`SocketHandlers2.open` read. Both are gone. Node's `net.Socket` has no
such field.

</details>

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**no test proof** · iteration 8 · platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts,
test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts, test/js/node/cluster.test.ts,
test/js/bun/net/socket-syscall-fault.test.ts

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Co-authored-by: autofix-ci[bot] <114827586+autofix-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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