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js_printer: resolve string ropes into a local copy instead of the shared AST node - #40168
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…red AST node The printer flattened folded string ropes in place through the StoreRef (resolve_rope_if_needed writes data and next = None into the node). The bundler prints a module shared by several entry points into every chunk that includes it, in parallel, from the same AST. One thread's write raced the other threads' reads of the same node: the tail printed twice, the tail dropped, or a torn read of the next pointer crashed the printer. Resolve into a shallow copy at the four sites (string literal, computed index, object property key, binding property key), as the template arm already does.
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ChangesRead-only rope flattening
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Updated 10:48 PM PT - Aug 22nd, 2026
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Status: CI green on the final head ( Reproduced with the release 1.4.0 binary on Linux x64: The new test in Later commits: the printer and linker read ropes through |
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LGTM — replaces *storeref with shallow_clone() at the four rope-flattening sites so resolve_rope_if_needed writes into a stack local instead of the shared arena node.
What was reviewed:
- Confirmed
shallow_clone()returns an ownedEString(src/ast/e.rs:1984) andresolve_rope_if_neededonly reads thenextchain, writing solely toself.data/self.next— so the local copy is sufficient and the shared chain is walked read-only by all threads. - Checked all six
resolve_rope_if_neededcalls in the printer: the four fixed sites went throughStoreRef::DerefMut; the two template sites (lines 3942, 3961) already operate on a localE::Template/EStringand were correctly left alone. - Test follows harness conventions (subprocess-isolated so a crash fails the test, drains all pipes, asserts stderr/stdout before exitCode, explicit timeout justified in the comment).
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Overview
Four one-line substitutions in src/js_printer/lib.rs, each changing let mut x = *storeref to let mut x = storeref.shallow_clone() before x.resolve_rope_if_needed(self.bump). StoreRef<EString> is Copy and implements DerefMut, so the old form copied the pointer wrapper and then mutated the arena node in place; the new form copies the EString fields into a stack local so the write of data/next = None never touches the shared AST. A new test in test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts builds 64 entry points over one shared module with 400 folded ropes and asserts every folded string appears intact in every output.
Security risks
None. No user-controlled data flows into new code paths; the change removes a write, it does not add one. The rope chain is still read from the shared arena, which was always the case.
Level of scrutiny
Moderate: this is concurrent-print code in the bundler and a memory-safety fix, but the change is purely mechanical — it swaps a pointer copy for a value copy, matching the pattern already used at the two template sites in the same function (lines ~3800, 3960). I read EString::shallow_clone (pure field-literal copy) and resolve_rope_if_needed (reads the chain, writes only self.data and self.next) to confirm the local copy is sufficient and the shared chain nodes are only ever read.
Other factors
The PR description demonstrates a clear root cause (torn 8-byte next at offset 12 of a packed(4) struct producing 4 GiB-aligned fault addresses inside mimalloc's hint range) and lists five additional test suites run. The bug-hunting system found nothing. All six resolve_rope_if_needed sites in the printer are now covered — the four that wrote through StoreRef are fixed, and the two template sites were already local. The related Template::fold / EString::push issue is explicitly scoped out with a tracking issue reference.
…s through it resolve_rope_if_needed takes &mut self and writes the flattened bytes back into the node. Through a copied StoreRef that compiles and mutates the shared arena node, which is what the printer did. flattened(&self, bump) returns a local copy with the rope flattened into bump and never writes to the node or its chain. The printer and the linker's chunk generation now only call flattened. A source lint (test/internal/source-lints/printer-rope-in-place.test.ts) rejects the &mut self rope methods and e_string_mut in src/js_printer and the linker, so the in-place form cannot come back there.
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In `@src/js_printer/lib.rs`:
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EString::string in src/js_printer/lib.rs lines 4955-4956 and
src/bundler/linker_context/generateCodeForFileInChunkJS.rs lines 427-430 with
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Automated review ran and found no bugs. This is a data-race fix in the bundler's parallel print path (shared-AST mutation via StoreRef::DerefMut), so a human look is still worthwhile before merge.
What was reviewed:
flattened()is a pure extraction of the existing rope-walk into a&selfmethod +shallow_clone(); verifiedstring()'s returned slice points into arena memory (bump or AST), so the temporaryEStringdropping mid-expression at the linker call sites is sound.- Confirmed the source-lint regexes have no false positives across
src/js_printer/andsrc/bundler/linker_context/at HEAD, andscripts/glob-sources.tsexists. - Checked the property-key site's reordering (
flattened()now runs beforeadd_source_mappingand outside theis_utf8()guard) —flattened()internally guards onis_utf8(), so behavior is unchanged.
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Overview
Fixes a data race in Bun.build: when multiple entry points share a module (no splitting), the linker prints that module once per chunk in parallel from the same AST. The printer flattened EString ropes in place via StoreRef::DerefMut, so concurrent threads raced on data/next writes — producing corrupted strings or a bus error on a torn packed(4) pointer. The fix adds EString::flattened(&self, bump) -> EString (read-only copy with rope concatenated into bump), migrates 6 printer sites and 2 linker sites to it, adds a 64-entry-point regression test, and adds a source lint that bans the &mut self rope methods from src/js_printer/ and the linker.
Security risks
None. No user-controlled input handling changes; this is an internal thread-safety fix.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is a memory-safety / concurrency fix in the bundler's hot path — exactly the category REVIEW.md flags as most-blocked. The reasoning about StoreRef DerefMut semantics, packed(4) tearing, and per-worker bump arenas is subtle. While the change is mechanically simple (extract existing code into a &self helper, swap 8 call sites), a maintainer familiar with the AST arena model should confirm that (a) no other shared-AST writer remains reachable from the parallel print phase, and (b) the printer's self.bump is indeed the per-worker arena in every configuration. The source lint helps here but is regex-based over Rust source, which is inherently approximate.
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- All prior bot feedback (comment-cop long-comment warnings, CodeRabbit's
expect("OOM")note) was addressed in follow-up commits and marked resolved. - CI (#103900) was still building at review time.
- The regression test is well-constructed (fails 3/3 unfixed, subprocess-isolated, drains pipes concurrently, asserts stdout before exit code) but carries a 180s timeout — reasonable for two 64-entry debug builds, but worth a maintainer's eye on CI wall-clock.
- The PR notes acknowledge a related unfixed issue (
Template::foldlinking onto shared rope chains, tracked in #38998) that is intentionally out of scope.
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Can we avoid the clone if it's not a rope string?
Return Flattened<'_>, which derefs to EString and only holds an owned copy when there was a rope to flatten. Non-rope strings, the common case, are printed straight from the arena node with no copy.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it's a concurrency fix in the printer and linker's shared-AST read path — introducing a new Flattened deref type and relying on Str's lifetime-erased arena contract for the flattened(bump).string(bump) temporaries — a human look would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
flattened()vs.resolve_rope_if_needed: same early-return guard, same rope walk via the extractedflatten_rope, and the owned copy leavesend/rope_lenset exactly as the old in-place resolve did, solen()/is_present()are unchanged.- The
s.flattened(arena).string(arena)sites in both linker files: the temporaryFlatteneddrops, but the returned&[u8]points into the arena (Owned) or the AST store (Borrowed), not into the temporary. - The source lint's
.slice(arg)/.is_identifier(arg)patterns have no false positives in the scoped directories, and the file follows the establishedglobAllSources().rustpattern used by a dozen sibling lints.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
Fixes a data race where js_printer and the linker's chunk generation flattened EString ropes in place through a StoreRef<EString>'s DerefMut, mutating a shared AST node while other pool threads printed the same module concurrently. Adds EString::flattened(&self, bump) -> Flattened<'_> (a Deref<Target=EString> enum: Borrowed for non-ropes, Owned for a bump-flattened copy), extracts the rope walk into flatten_rope, and switches five printer sites and two linker sites to the read-only form. Adds a 64-entry-point race regression test and a source-lint test that bans the &mut self rope methods in the printer/linker.
Security risks
None. No user-input parsing, no auth/crypto, no network. This is an internal concurrency-safety change to how the bundler reads its own AST.
Level of scrutiny
High. The printer and linker are production-critical hot paths that run on every bun build, and the repo's review guide calls out thread affinity and shared-node mutation as the most-blocked category. The fix is well-scoped and the mechanism is clearly explained (torn next pointer at a packed(4) offset explains the 4 GiB-aligned fault addresses), but it introduces a new Deref-carrying type, relies on StoreStr's lifetime-erased arena contract for the flattened(temp_arena).string(temp_arena) pattern (the returned slice outlives the Flattened temporary because it points into the arena, not the temporary), and reorders add_source_mapping relative to the flatten at one site. None of these look wrong, but they are the sort of subtlety a maintainer should sign off on.
Other factors
- All bot feedback (comment-cop verbosity, CodeRabbit's
expect("OOM")→handle_oom) has been addressed and the threads are resolved. - The
Flattened::Ownedcopy leavesendandrope_lenuntouched, which matches the pre-existingresolve_rope_if_neededbehavior exactly, solen()and downstream checks are unchanged. - The regression test is a real repro (fails on the unfixed debug build per the PR body), and the source lint follows the established
test/internal/source-lints/pattern with no false positives in the scoped directories. - The PR notes but does not address the related
Template::foldshared-rope link (#38998); that is out of scope here.
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Problem
Bun.buildwith several entry points and no splitting can crash while printing a shared module:Bus error at address 0x56700000000inBabyVec::extend_from_sliceunderEString::resolve_rope_if_needed(Sentry BUN-4Q7C; BUN-4TEP is the same crash with 11 events in one day,Segmentation fault at 0x27B00000000, the top Rust-frame crash group on 1.4.0 this week; both macOS arm64). More often it silently emits wrong code: a folded string prints as"abcbc"or"a"instead of"abc".print_expr(src/js_printer/lib.rs:3768) didlet mut e = *e; e.resolve_rope_if_needed(self.bump).eis aStoreRef<EString>, so the call goes throughDerefMutand writesdataandnext = Noneinto the shared AST node. Every chunk that includes the module prints it from the same AST, on its own pool thread, at the same time. Three more printer sites and two linker sites did the same.Fix
EString::flattened(&self, bump) -> Flattened<'_>: the node itself when it is not a rope, else a local copy with the rope flattened intobump(Flattenedderefs toEString). It only reads the node and its chain. The printer and the linker's chunk generation now use it everywhere;resolve_rope_if_needed(&mut self)stays for the parser, which owns its nodes.test/internal/source-lints/printer-rope-in-place.test.ts) rejects the&mut selfrope methods (resolve_rope_if_needed,slice(bump),is_identifier(bump),to_utf8(bump)) ande_string_mutinsrc/js_printerand the linker, so the in-place form cannot return there.datawith the oldnext(tail twice), the olddatawithnext = None(tail dropped), or a tornnext: an 8-byte field at offset 12 of apacked(4)struct, so the store ofNoneis not atomic and the reader gets the old pointer with its low half zeroed. That is the 4 GiB aligned fault address. With no write, every reader sees the parsed rope.test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts(new test, fails 3/3 on the unfixed debug build with 1200+ corrupted strings per run), the new lint,bundler_string,bundler_minify,bundler_edgecase,bundler_loader,bundler_cjs2esm,bundler_bun,bundler_splitting,css-modules,transpiler/transpiler.test.js,transpiler/macro-test.test.ts.Background
minify.syntax,"a" + "b" + "c"becomes oneEStringwhosenextchain holds the other parts. The printer flattens it on output.StoreRef<T>is the AST's arena pointer. It isCopyand implementsDerefMut, so a&mut selfmethod on a copiedStoreRefmutates the arena node, not a local.Notes
macrostag on the Sentry event was a coincidence. The repro has no macros. The user's build used them, which is why the report pointed there.helper(q, "alpha-" + "beta-" + "gamma-" + "delta")inside arrow bodies,minify: { syntax: true }. Release 1.4.0 on Linux x64:Segmentation fault at address 0x3DE00000000in 1 of 5 runs, 200 to 2000 corrupted strings in the others. The debug build corrupts every run.nextpointer with the low 32 bits cleared (the writer's store ofNonelanded half way).0x3DE_0000_0000,0x567_0000_0000and0x27B_0000_0000all sit inside mimalloc's hint range (2 to 6 TiB), where the worker arenas live.js_printer.zig). Its pointers were 8-byte aligned, so the null store could not tear: Zig could misprint, not crash. Thepacked(4)StoreRefadded the crash.nextmoved to an 8-byte aligned offset anddata+nextpublished together (a separate slot behind one Release store, or a 16-byte CAS). It saves one memcpy of the parts per extra chunk that prints the node. The read-only copy keeps the AST immutable during printing, which the template arm already relied on, and needs no layout change.Template::foldcan still link onto a shared rope chain throughEString::push(print time via the mangled-props path, and parse time with inlined enums). That is theTemplate::foldbug tracked in js_parser: store string enum members flat so template folding cannot append to them #38998 and is not changed here.Response.json(...)or aBlobwithtype: "application/json"is inlined as a base64 data URL string, not as an object, because the content type arrives asapplication/json;charset=utf-8andexpr_from_blobmatches the mime type exactly.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts