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Fix Bun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8") aborting on heaps past ~15M objects (WebKit#529) - #40749

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Problem

  • Bun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8") and node:v8.writeHeapSnapshot() abort the process (SIGABRT, EXC_BREAKPOINT on macOS) once the heap passes about 15M live cells. The crash is in BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder::Node vector growth. Issue Bun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8") crashes on large heaps #40686, reproduced with 16M small objects.
  • The builder stores one 96-byte Node per heap cell in a contiguous WTF::Vector. A WTF::Vector caps one allocation at about 2GiB and CRASH()es past it. The 16M-object heap needs a 23M-node growth step, which is 2.2GiB.

Fix

  • BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder: survive heaps past the Vector allocation cap WebKit#529, pinned here: shrink Node to 40 bytes (the removed fields were written but never read), store nodes in a SegmentedVector (no contiguous allocation, so no cap), and record overflow from the still-contiguous containers (edges, strings, serialized output) instead of crashing.
  • Bun side consumes the new overflow signal: Bun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8") throws, worker.getHeapSnapshot() rejects, and the --heap-prof writer prints an error instead of silently writing nothing.
  • Verified: the 16M repro completes on a debug ASAN build of this branch and aborts bun 1.4.1 in seconds. New test in test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts runs the repro on release lanes. It is skipped under debug/ASAN, where the heap walk takes over an hour. Existing v8 snapshot, worker snapshot, and node:v8 suites pass.

Background

  • BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder is a JSC HeapAnalyzer in the oven-sh/WebKit fork. A full GC walks the heap and calls it back for every live cell and edge. The builder records them, then serializes the V8 .heapsnapshot JSON.
  • Snapshot storage is proportional to the heap. Node storage was the first structure to hit the Vector cap. Edge storage and the serialized output can pass 2GiB on still larger heaps. Those cases now raise a catchable "Heap snapshot is too large to serialize" error instead of crashing.
  • Do not merge before BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder: survive heaps past the Vector allocation cap WebKit#529 merges. WEBKIT_VERSION must then be swapped from the preview tag to the merged sha.
Notes

Reproduction (bun 1.4.1, linux x64 and the reporter's macOS arm64):

const items = Array.from({ length: 16_000_000 }, (_, i) => ({ i }));
const snapshot = Bun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8");
console.log(items.length, snapshot.length);

bun repro.ts exits 134 (SIGABRT) after ~14s at ~3.9GB peak RSS. The trap fires in Vector::allocateBuffer via isValidCapacityForVector<Node>: capacity growth 15,354,379 -> 23,031,568 at 96 bytes per node exceeds (UINT_MAX >> 1) bytes, matching the registers in the report.

Fail-before note for the mechanical gate: the fix lives in prebuilt WebKit, which git stash push -- src/ packages/ does not revert, and the crash threshold (about 15M live cells) makes the walk take over an hour under a debug ASAN build. The new test therefore proves the fix on release builds only: with USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 (1.4.1) it fails in ~10s, with this branch it passes.

Local verification against WebKit#529 (debug ASAN, local WebKit build):

  • 16M repro prints 16000000 825993840 (an 826M-char snapshot) and exits cleanly.
  • test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts: 7 pass.
  • test/js/node/worker_threads/worker_heap_snapshot_gc.test.ts: pass.
  • test/js/node/test/parallel/test-v8-getheapsnapshot-twice.js, test-worker-heap-snapshot.js: pass.
  • String, arraybuffer, and writeHeapSnapshot outputs agree on node/edge counts at 200k objects.
  • test/js/bun/util/heap-snapshot.test.ts has two pre-existing 5s timeouts on debug builds (URL, Headers), identical on an unmodified build; tracked by test: keep the URL and Headers heap-snapshot tests under the default timeout on debug builds #37835.

The removed Node fields (edges, traceLocation, parentNodeId, childrenVectorIndex) were write-only. trace_function_infos is always serialized empty, so dropping traceLocation changes no output.


[decide:webkit] gate passed · iteration 2 · 5 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 1 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" "test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.1 (65362b53b)

test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts:
(pass) v8 heap snapshot [2694.04ms]
(pass) v8 heap snapshot arraybuffer [2169.53ms]
(pass) v8 heap snapshot arraybuffer matches string output [1221.69ms]
(pass) v8.getHeapSnapshot() [2954.60ms]
(pass) v8.writeHeapSnapshot() [2792.66ms]
(pass) v8.writeHeapSnapshot() with path [1841.81ms]
(skip) v8 heap snapshot of a 16M-object heap does not crash
(pass) v8 heap snapshot labels Web Streams internal edges [1131.49ms]

 7 pass
 1 skip
 0 fail
 18 expect() calls
Ran 8 tests across 1 file. [16.75s]
__F:0:S:1

release without fix: 1 FAILED
bun test v1.4.1-canary.1 (65362b53b)

test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts:
(pass) v8 heap snapshot [41.11ms]
(pass) v8 heap snapshot arraybuffer [44.21ms]
(pass) v8 heap snapshot arraybuffer matches string output [22.16ms]
(pass) v8.getHeapSnapshot() [40.35ms]
(pass) v8.writeHeapSnapshot() [41.30ms]
(pass) v8.writeHeapSnapshot() with path [24.52ms]
110 |       stdout: "pipe",
111 |       stderr: "pipe",
112 |     });
113 | 
114 |     const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
115 |     expect(stderr).toBe("");
                         ^
error: expect(received).toBe(expected)

- ""
+ "============================================================
+ Bun Canary v1.4.1-canary.1 (65362b53b) Linux x64
+ Linux Kernel v6.17.0 | glibc v2.41
+ CPU: sse42 popcnt avx avx2 avx512
+ Args: "/workspace/bun/build/release/bun" "-e" "const items = Array.from({ length: 16_000_000 }, (_, i) => ({ i }));\n         const snapshot = Bun.generateHeapSnapshot(\"v8\");\n         console.log(items.length, "...
+ Features: bunfig jsc tsconfig heap_snapshot 
+ Builtins: "bun:main" 
+ 
+ Elapsed: 8756ms | User: 5672ms | Sys: 34
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: 1 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" "test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.1 (65362b53b)

test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts:
(pass) v8 heap snapshot [2754.89ms]
(pass) v8 heap snapshot arraybuffer [2166.30ms]
(pass) v8 heap snapshot arraybuffer matches string output [1149.58ms]
(pass) v8.getHeapSnapshot() [2935.39ms]
(pass) v8.writeHeapSnapshot() [2794.55ms]
(pass) v8.writeHeapSnapshot() with path [1863.41ms]
(skip) v8 heap snapshot of a 16M-object heap does not crash
(pass) v8 heap snapshot labels Web Streams internal edges [1123.54ms]

 7 pass
 1 skip
 0 fail
 18 expect() calls
Ran 8 tests across 1 file. [16.78s]
__F:0:S:1

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     4245901227
  features     baseline

23 deps, 131 codegen, 1172 objects in 677ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/1244] install /workspace/bun
bun install v1.4.1-canary.1 (65362b53b)

Checked 26 installs across 63 packages (no changes) [11.00ms]
[2/1244] gen bindgenv2
[3/1244] fetch tinycc
[tinycc] up to date
[4/1243] gen ErrorCode+*.h
[5/1243] install /workspace/bun/packages/bun-error
bun install v1.4.1-canary.1 (65362b53b)

Checked 1 install across 2 packages (no changes) [1.00ms]
[6/1243] fetch libjpeg-turbo
[libjpeg-turbo] up to date
[7/1216] fetch zlib
[zlib] up to date
[8/1216] install /workspace/bun/src/node-fallbacks
bun install v1.4.1-canary.1 (65362b53b)

Checked 111 installs across 104 packages (no changes) [7.00ms]
[9/1216] gen bake.{client,server,error}.js
-> bake.client.js, bake.server.js, bake.error.js
[10/1216] gen .bind.ts → GeneratedBindings.cpp
[11/1216] gen node-fallbacks/react-refresh.js
Bundled 1 module in 5ms

  react-refresh.js  4.81 
... (truncated)
diff hotspot
scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts              |  2 +-
 src/jsc/BunHeapProfiler.rs                |  8 +++++++-
 src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp            |  8 ++++++++
 src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSWorker.cpp     | 13 ++++++++++++-
 test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

gate history · 3 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 2

evidence per changed file
file                                       reads  edits  tests
scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts                   6      8      0
src/jsc/BunHeapProfiler.rs                     2      3      0
src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp                 1      2      0
src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSWorker.cpp          1      2      0
test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts      1      6      0

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The change updates the WebKit preview identifier and adds explicit oversized heap snapshot errors across serialization and worker paths. A release-only stress test validates large snapshot generation.

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Heap snapshot serialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Serialization overflow handling
src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp, src/jsc/BunHeapProfiler.rs
ArrayBuffer and string serialization now detect oversized output. The profiler reports and flushes the V8 error.
Worker propagation and large snapshot validation
src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSWorker.cpp, test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts
Worker snapshot requests reject serialization failures. A release-only stress test covers 16 million objects.

WebKit preview update

Layer / File(s) Summary
WebKit preview version
scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts
WEBKIT_VERSION now uses preview-pr-529-6373bfc9.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner, cirospaciari

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✅ @robobun, your commit f373c287d33ec28d779889e4daeb9bbd523017b6 passed in Build #107716! 🎉


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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the inlined resolve/reject path in JSWorker.cpp preserves the takeCrossVMRequest + isJSExecutionForbidden() guards from the original resolveCrossVMRequest helper — it does, so the null-handle and stopped-parent-VM cases still short-circuit correctly. The --heap-prof empty-string branch in BunHeapProfiler.rs now printing an overflow message on the text-format path too was looked at and judged acceptable.

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Two inline findings are being posted (the preview-PR WebKit pin and the discarded stderr in the new regression test), and additional verified findings were pruned from the posted set, so approval is off the table. I confirmed the JSWorker.cpp inlining is a faithful expansion of resolveCrossVMRequest with an added reject branch — same takeCrossVMRequest(reqId) draw, same isJSExecutionForbidden() bail, and the .isolatedCopy() still happens at capture time before the cross-thread hop. The PR description itself flags that the WebKit pin must be swapped to a merged sha before landing, which aligns with the inline finding.

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CI status for the current head (4245901): the red lanes are unrelated. Every failing test except one passed on retry or when run alone. The one repeat failure, test/js/web/url/url.test.ts on macOS x64, also fails on main and is reported to triage. The new large-heap test passes on all release lanes.

This PR stays blocked on oven-sh/WebKit#529. After that merges, I will swap WEBKIT_VERSION to the merged sha, which reruns CI.

A heap with more than about 15M live cells aborted the process: the V8
snapshot builder stored one 96-byte Node per cell in a contiguous
WTF::Vector, and vector growth past the ~2GiB single-allocation cap is a
CRASH(). WebKit#529 shrinks the node record to 40 bytes, moves node
storage to a SegmentedVector, and turns the remaining container limits
into a recorded overflow instead of an abort.

On the bun side, consume that overflow signal: Bun.generateHeapSnapshot
and worker.getHeapSnapshot() now throw or reject a catchable error when
a snapshot is too large to serialize, and the --heap-prof writer prints
an error instead of silently writing nothing.

Fixes #40686
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