test(serve): report the retainer chain when an aborted response body stream survives GC

[robobun]

Problem

• test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts, test client abort of a streaming Response releases the body stream it held (sync handler), fails in CI with expect(received).toBe(expected) Expected: 0 Received: 1: one of the eight body streams is still alive after 20 rounds of Bun.gc(true). Seen in build 110257 (alpine 3.23 x64, parallel batch) and build 109108 (debian 13 x64-asan, solo run, where the async variant failed the same way). The file is not in test/flaky-tests.txt, so the failure is final for the PR.
• The cause is not known. The test landed in e5a18d5 (Bun.serve: release the body stream of a Response whose client aborted mid-stream #41080). The teardown it covers (on_abort to finalize_without_deinit to release_body_stream in src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs) releases every native root on the stream and the Response on every path I could trace, and the failure does not reproduce here: about 25,000 aborts across release, debug and ASAN builds, the CI GC environment, CPU load, bun test --parallel batches, and six abort orderings all pass.

Fix

• A test-only change. When a stream survives, the assertion now carries a report instead of the count 1: whether the stream and its Response are native roots (jsc.getProtectedObjects()), every object that points at the stream, and the shortest path from a GC root, read from generateHeapSnapshotForDebugging(). The next CI failure then names the retainer.
• The file is listed in test/flaky-tests.txt with the symptom, so the runner retries it. The first attempt's output, with the report, still lands in the annotation.
• The assertion is unchanged when no stream survives: the report is the empty string.
• Verified: bun bd test test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts (27 pass). With a deliberate globalThis.__keep = stream the report reads GlobalObject [ROOT: ProtectedValues] -Property:__keep-> ReadableStream.

Background

• A streaming Response is sent by a pump (readStreamIntoSink) whose promise the request context subscribes to. on_abort tears the context down at once; the pump's settle reaction runs later as a no-op.
• Until the abort, the stream is a native root twice: a bun_jsc::Strong in Body::Value::Locked and the protect() on the Response. finalize_without_deinit drops both.
• The test keeps a WeakMap from the stream to its Response, so a stream that stays rooted also keeps the Response: this is the hono streamSSE shape Bun.serve: release the body stream of a Response whose client aborted mid-stream #41080 fixed.

Notes

Sightings. Build 110257 (PR #38955, base d296efb): sync variant, alpine 3.23 x64, parallel batch. Build 109108 (PR #40423, base 4057f64, 2026-09-01): sync and async variants, debian 13 x64-asan, solo run, each with exactly 1 of 8 alive, 77 ms per test. The other failures of this file in the window (108932, 109387, 109462) are timeouts of other tests in parallel batches.

What was ruled out by code reading: release_body_stream is skipped only when response_mut() is None, which needs the Response wrapper finalized while it is protected. The JS stream slot is cleared unless js_ref() is None, which needs isPendingDestruction() true for a live cell. response_body_readable_stream_ref holds the downgraded Weak, not a Strong. StrongRootBlock::clear empties the slot at once. The pump cluster (op, reader, sink controller, bound handlers, result promise, NativePromiseContext cell) has no root after the abort in the cancel path, the skipped-cancel path, and the null m_weakReadableStream path. vm.lastException pins a caught throw's callees only until the VM entry ends. WeakRef.deref() keep-alive is released by Bun.gc(true) through finalizeSynchronousJSExecution.

Local runs that passed: the file 15 times under the debug ASAN build and 80 more times in the background with BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=1 BUN_JSC_randomIntegrityAuditRate=1.0; the file 160 times under the release build, 8 at a time; bun test --parallel=2 with six sibling files, 5 rounds; a standalone probe with 200 to 500 aborts per run, 72 runs under 14 busy-loop processes, single-CPU pinned runs, and variants that open all eight first, do not await reader.closed, call server.stop() before the aborts, abort from a microtask, or run Bun.gc(false) and Bun.gc(true) around each abort.

The report format comes from the GCDebugging snapshot: nodes are 7-tuples, edges 4-tuples, roots 3-tuples. Weak containers are skipped in the path search because they reach an object only once it is alive.

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Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (e0a2b82fd)

test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts:
(pass) RequestContext is freed when client aborts before Promise<Response> settles (http2: false) [2533.80ms]
(pass) RequestContext is freed when client aborts before Promise<Response> settles (http2: true) [2037.13ms]
(pass) Promise<Response> still works normally when not aborted [31.27ms]
(pass) resolve() inside abort handler is handled safely [30.59ms]
(pass) streaming 413 detaches the response so a late resolve/reject is a no-op [7095.24ms]
(pass) chunked request body consumed as a ReadableStream is capped at maxRequestBodySize [447.82ms]
(pass) client abort frees the context even while the resolve function stays reachable [34.73ms]
(pass) client abort while a direct stream pull() is parked frees the context and rejects a pending req.text() read [45.00ms]
(pass) client abort while a direct stream pull() is parked frees the context and rejects a pending for await (req.body) read [37.75ms]
(pass) client abort while a direct stream pull() is parked frees the context and rejects a pending req.textStream() read [38.22ms]
(pass) pendingRequests drops when the client aborts a parked direct-stream pull(), and the late pull() settle is a no-op [96.74ms]
(pass) client abort of a streaming Response releases the body stream it held (sync handler) [110.87ms]
(pass) client abort of a streaming Response releases the body stream it held (async handler) [89.02ms]
(pass) releasing a parked pull() after the abort tore down the context and the server is a no-op (stop-then-abort) [332.76ms]
(pass) releasing a parked pull() after the abort tore down the context and the server is a no-op (abort-then-stop) [320.74ms]
(pass) async server.upgrade() frees the context while the handler promise stays parked [37.02ms]
(pass) 413 on a chunked upload frees the 
... (truncated)
Exit: 0

diff hotspot

test/flaky-tests.txt                               |   1 +
 .../http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts  | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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evidence per changed file

file                                                      reads  edits  tests
test/flaky-tests.txt                                          1      2     21
…st/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts      4      6     19

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The underlying retainer of the surviving aborted response body stream was not identified, so the root cause of the leak itself remains open rather than fixed. The change instead instruments the test so that when a WeakRef'd stream outlives the post-abort garbage collection cycles, it captures a heap snapshot through bun:jsc and reports the retained stream, its incoming references, and its path to a GC root, including the case where the stream is directly rooted. The test is also listed as retryable so the intermittent failure no longer blocks unrelated work while the diagnostics gather the …

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Walkthrough

The streaming-response abort-leak test now reports GC retention details through bun:jsc. The test is also added to the retryable flaky-test list with failure and environment details.

Changes

Abort-leak diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retained stream diagnostics test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts	The test uses bun:jsc and heap snapshots to report retained streams, native roots, incoming references, and GC-root paths.
Flaky-test tracking test/flaky-tests.txt	The pending-promise abort-leak test is added to the retryable flaky-test list with observed failure details.

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The test now provides retention diagnostics only when an aborted response stream survives GC, including direct reporting for root survivors. No remaining merge-blocking risk is identified.

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In `@test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts`:
- Around line 510-518: Update the heap-snapshot diagnostic around the
protectedObjects tagging loop to clear its diagnostic-owned strong references
before generateHeapSnapshotForDebugging runs. Move native-root line computation
into a separate helper or otherwise ensure protectedObjects, stream, and
response are no longer live in the snapshot caller frame, while preserving the
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- Line 562: Guard the Property-edge name lookup before calling startsWith in the
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Addressed both review comments in cae4b7b: the survivor tagging and the protected-object check run in their own function so the snapshot does not see the diagnostic's references, and a missing edge name no longer throws. The file still passes (27 tests) and a forced survivor still reports its root path.

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557-575: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle a survivor that is already a snapshot root.

If id exists in rootReason, chainToRoot starts at a root. The loop only recognizes a root on an incoming edge. A directly rooted stream or response can therefore report "(no path from a root outside weak containers)".

Return fmt(id) before the breadth-first search when rootReason.has(id) is true.

Proposed fix

   const chainToRoot = (id: number): string => {
+    if (rootReason.has(id)) return `  ${fmt(id)}`;
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     const prev: Map<number, Edge | null> = new Map([[id, null]]);

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In `@test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts` around lines 557 -
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48d544d also covers the outside-diff note: a survivor that is itself a snapshot root (for example in ProtectedValues) is now reported as that root instead of "no path". The file still passes (27 tests).

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^{Updated 8:16 PM PT - Sep 4th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 4e19fea has 2 failures in Build #110328 (All Failures):

• test/napi/node-napi-tests/test/js-native-api/test_object/do.test.ts - stalled in the parallel batch on 🐧 25.04 x64
• test/cli/install/isolated-install.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 3.23 aarch64

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Status: ready for review. The diff is test-only and the file passed on every lane in builds 110327 and 110328. The remaining red lanes are unrelated to it: test-http-agent-keepalive.js (x64-asan, 110327), isolated-install.test.ts (alpine aarch64, Verdaccio exited with code 2, 110328) and the napi test_object batch stall (ubuntu x64, also on main, 110328). All three are reported for main-break triage. The rest are listed flakes that passed on retry.

[robobun]

The survivor this report was meant to catch is identified in #42190. It is not a retained reference: a heap snapshot taken while the stream is alive shows the cell with no incoming edge and no roots entry, and at conservative root gathering its address sits at rbp-0xa60 in the live JSC::runInternalMicrotask frame that runs the test's own await continuation (x64 ASAN frame layout, always the last of the 8 streams). #42190 changes the assertion to alive <= 1 instead. If that lands, the report and the flaky-list entry here are not needed.

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Closing in favor of #42190. Both PRs change the same assertion for the same failure (expect(alive).toBe(0), Received: 1).

#42190 identifies the survivor that this report was built to catch. It is not a retained reference. The heap snapshot there shows the stream's cell with no incoming edge and no roots entry. The gdb session finds the address once on the main thread stack, at rbp-0xa60 in the live JSC::runInternalMicrotask frame.

#42190 changes the assertion to alive <= 1, so the retry entry in test/flaky-tests.txt is not needed. Build 113727 failed both cases on debian 13 x64-asan. Build 113789, on the head of #42190, passed every shard of that lane with no retry.

The report is not carried over to #42190. The leak that #41080 fixed keeps all 8 streams on a local build (recorded in #42190), so a plain local run finds it. The report code stays available in this PR's diff. If #42190 does not land, reopen this PR.