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Problem

  • Bun.listen({ tls: [{ key, cert }], ... }) starts a plaintext TCP listener. No error, no warning. A raw client is served in the clear, and a TLS client fails with ERR_SSL_WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER because its ClientHello lands in the app's data handler. Bun.connect with the same shape opens a plaintext connection.
  • The tls option is a union of null, boolean, and the TLSOptions dictionary (src/runtime/socket/SocketConfig.bindv2.ts:38). The generated dictionary conversion accepts any object, so an array lands in the dictionary arm with none of the named members set. SSLConfig::from_generated (src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs:148) then returns None, and SocketConfig::from_generated (src/runtime/socket/Handlers.rs:500) builds the socket with ssl: None.

Fix

  • The generated convertDictionary (src/codegen/bindgenv2/internal/dictionary.ts) now rejects an array with the same TypeError it throws for a non-object: TLSOptions must be an object. It uses JSC::isArray, the ECMAScript IsArray predicate, so a Proxy around an array and an Array subclass are rejected too. A bindgen dictionary is an options bag, and an array has none of its named members, so it is never a valid input.
  • This is the shape the types already declare (tls?: TLSOptions | boolean for listen and connect). Only Bun.serve accepts an array of TLS options (SNI), and it checks for an array before it reaches the dictionary, so its array form is unchanged.
  • tls: {} keeps its current meaning (no TLS). Bun.serve treats an empty object the same way for backwards compatibility, so this change does not touch it.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts (new describe.each "tls option is an array": five shapes, each for Bun.listen and Bun.connect, fails on the released bun; plus a TLS round trip with a plain object). Also ran tcp-server.test.ts, bun-server.test.ts, test/js/bun/tls/, test/js/bun/test/fake-timers/, node-net-server.test.ts, node-tls-server.test.ts, and node-tls-connect.test.ts.

Background

  • SocketConfig is the parsed form of the options object for Bun.listen and Bun.connect. Its tls field is generated by bindgen from SocketConfig.bindv2.ts as an ordered union: the converter tries null, then boolean, then the TLSOptions dictionary.
  • bindgen (src/codegen/bindgenv2/) generates the C++ that converts a JS options object into a typed struct for Rust. Three dictionaries use it today: SocketConfig, SSLConfig (TLSOptions), and FakeTimersConfig.
  • An SSLConfig is the native TLS configuration (key, cert, ca, ciphers, ...). SSLConfig::from_generated returns None when no member of the dictionary was present, which callers read as "no TLS".
Notes
  • Repro on the released bun (1.4.3 canary): a listener with tls: [entry] served SECRET to a plain Bun.connect client with no tls option.
  • The first revision checked for an array in SocketConfig::from_js after the generated parse. That read the tls property twice and needed a comment to explain itself. The dictionary-level check reads the value once and also covers the other TLSOptions consumers (fetch, SecureContext, upgradeTLS, valkey).
  • Three tests in the suites above fail on this container regardless of the change: should not call drain before handshake (no outbound DNS for www.example.com), allows listen on IPV6 (no IPv6 here), and SNICallback runs even when the requested servername matches the bind hostname (localhost resolves to ::1 only). All fail the same way with USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1.
  • The empty-array case tls: [] also throws. Bun.serve treats [] as no TLS, but Bun.listen never accepted an array, so there is no compatibility to keep.

no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts

An array passed as the tls option parsed as an empty TLSOptions
dictionary, so the socket was created without TLS. Bun.listen and
Bun.connect have no SNI array form. Throw a TypeError instead.
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TLS options validation

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Options validation and regression coverage
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Dictionary conversion rejects arrays as TLS options. Socket tests cover rejection through Bun.listen and Bun.connect, and verify valid TLS options establish an encrypted connection and exchange data.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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Addressed the test comment in 9d1ac3d: both socket handler objects now wire error (and connectError on the client) to reject, so a handshake failure rejects the awaited promise with the real error.

On the double read of tls: the observation is right, the guard reads the property a second time after the generated parse. The generated SocketConfigTls::Object arm holds only the parsed dictionary, not the raw value, so a single read needs a bindgen change (a new union arm that matches arrays before the dictionary arm). The case where a getter returns an array first and an object second is contrived, and the cost of the extra lookup is one property get per Bun.listen or Bun.connect call. I left the check as is. If a maintainer prefers the bindgen route, I can do that in a follow-up.

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Updated 1:32 AM PT - Sep 6th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit fea0d55 has 1 failures in Build #110800 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 41490

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-41490 executable, so you can run:

bun-41490 --bun

A generated dictionary is an options bag. An array has none of its
named members, so it parsed as an empty dictionary. Throw the same
TypeError as for a non-object instead. This replaces the tls-specific
array check in SocketConfig::from_js.
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Moved the check into the generated dictionary conversion in aa2b87f. The Rust guard and its comment are gone. An array now fails in convertDictionary with the existing TLSOptions must be an object error, and the tls property is read once. This also covers the other TLSOptions consumers (fetch, SecureContext, upgradeTLS). The PR body is updated.

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In `@src/codegen/bindgenv2/internal/dictionary.ts`:
- Line 221: Update the dictionary conversion guard in the generated converter
around JSC::isJSArray to use an ECMAScript-compliant IsArray predicate that
recognizes non-revoked proxies targeting arrays, while preserving rejection of
arrays and invalid objects. Add regression coverage for proxied-array tls values
through Bun.listen and Bun.connect if no existing coverage exercises this path.

In `@test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts`:
- Around line 1053-1056: Replace the parameterized for-loop around the invalid
TLS assertions with describe.each(), defining the three TLS inputs as separate
named cases. Keep both Bun.listen and Bun.connect expectations in each case so
failures identify the specific TLS input.
- Line 1071: Update the Promise callback wiring around SocketHandler.error and
SocketHandler.connectError so each handler receives both socket and error, then
explicitly calls reject with the error argument rather than passing reject
directly. Preserve the existing rejection behavior while ensuring the socket
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LGTM — both earlier concerns are addressed: the array check now lives in the generated dictionary conversion so tls is read once, and the round-trip test wires error/connectError to reject.

What was reviewed: the isJSArray guard in dictionary.ts sits on the single value.getObject() read, so no double getter invocation; enumerated all *.bindv2.ts consumers (SocketConfig, SSLConfig, FakeTimersConfig) — none legitimately accept an array; the test covers [], [tls], and multi-entry arrays for both listen and connect plus a positive TLS round-trip.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR now consists of a one-line guard in the bindgenv2 dictionary code generator (src/codegen/bindgenv2/internal/dictionary.ts) that makes generated convertDictionary C++ reject JS arrays with the existing "must be an object" TypeError, plus a test in test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts. The earlier revision that re-read opts.get(global_object, "tls") in Handlers.rs after the generated parse is gone — commit aa2b87f moved the check into the generator, so the value is inspected exactly once at value.getObject(). Commit 9d1ac3d wired error: reject on the server socket and error: reject / connectError: reject on the client, addressing the second inline comment.

Security risks

The motivating bug is a fail-open: tls: [...] silently produced a plaintext socket. This change makes it fail closed with a TypeError, which is the direction REVIEW.md's "Security checks fail closed" asks for. The guard is additive (strictly narrows accepted inputs) and cannot itself downgrade a connection. I confirmed via glob that only three .bindv2.ts dictionaries exist — SocketConfig, SSLConfig/TLSOptions, and FakeTimersConfig — matching the PR description's enumeration; none of these has a legitimate array-shaped input, so the shared-generator change does not break other consumers. Bun.serve's SNI array path does not go through bindgenv2.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. The codegen edit is shared infrastructure, so I enumerated consumers rather than trusting the description. The actual code delta is a single boolean disjunct on an existing guard, reusing the existing throw path and error message — low surface for regression. The test asserts the specific message, exercises both Bun.listen and Bun.connect across three array shapes, and includes a positive control that a plain-object tls still yields a working TLS handshake.

Other factors

Both inline comments from the prior review round were acted on in follow-up commits, and no third-party CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews are outstanding. The test uses port: 0, using for the server, Promise.withResolvers, and now rejects on every failure event. The added codegen comment is one line and states the non-obvious invariant (an array has none of the named members), which clears the src/CLAUDE.md comment bar.

…n the test

JSC::isArray follows a Proxy to its array target and also matches an
Array subclass, where isJSArray matched the plain JSArray type only.

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All earlier feedback is addressed — the array check now lives in the generated convertDictionary (single property read), uses JSC::isArray with RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION so Proxy-wrapped arrays and Array subclasses are caught, and the round-trip test forwards the actual error object from error/connectError to reject. I didn't find any remaining bugs. Because this is an intentional breaking change applied at the bindgenv2 dictionary layer (so it affects every current and future .bindv2.ts options bag, not just TLSOptions) on a TLS-config path, a human sign-off on that scope decision is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Generated C++: JSC::isArray(&globalObject, value) is guarded by RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION(throwScope, {}) before the result is read; the non-object branch was split back out so getObject() failure and array rejection both go through ctx.throwNotObject.
  • Blast radius: only three *.bindv2.ts dictionaries exist (SocketConfig, SSLConfig, FakeTimersConfig), matching the PR description; none legitimately accepts an array.
  • Tests: describe.each covers plain/SNI/empty/Proxy/subclass arrays for both Bun.listen and Bun.connect with the exact message asserted; the positive-control TLS round-trip uses port: 0, using, and rejects on error/connectError with the error argument (not the socket).
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR changes the bindgenv2 dictionary code generator (src/codegen/bindgenv2/internal/dictionary.ts) so the generated C++ convertDictionary<T> rejects JS arrays with the same "must be an object" TypeError it already throws for non-objects. The motivating bug: Bun.listen({ tls: [{ key, cert }] }) silently started a plaintext listener because the array parsed as an empty TLSOptions dictionary and SSLConfig::from_generated returned None. Tests in test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts cover the array-variant matrix for both Bun.listen and Bun.connect, plus a positive control that a plain-object tls still yields a working TLS round-trip.

Over four commits the implementation moved from a post-parse re-read of opts.tls in Handlers.rs (which fired the getter twice) to a single check inside the generated converter, then from JSC::isJSArray (misses Proxy/subclass) to JSC::isArray with the required RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION. The test evolved from a for loop to describe.each with Proxy and Array-subclass cases, and the socket error/connectError handlers now destructure (_s, err) and reject with the error rather than the socket.

Security risks

The change is security-positive: it fails closed where the previous behavior silently downgraded a requested-TLS listener/connection to plaintext. There's no new parsing of untrusted input — JSC::isArray is a JSC intrinsic, and the exception it can raise (via a Proxy getPrototypeOf trap) is propagated correctly. No credential handling, no new network surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The code change is seven lines of generated C++ and mechanically simple, but it lives in shared codegen — every present and future bindgenv2 dictionary inherits this rejection. I verified only three dictionaries exist today (SocketConfig, SSLConfig, FakeTimersConfig), and none has a legitimate array input, so today's blast radius matches the PR's claim. Still, "reject arrays for every options bag at the codegen layer" is a design decision (vs. rejecting only in the TLSOptions union arm), and it's on a TLS-configuration path where the fix direction matters. That warrants a human maintainer's sign-off rather than bot approval.

Other factors

All inline feedback from the three prior review rounds has been addressed in the current diff: single getter read, JSC::isArray + RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION, describe.each variant matrix including Proxy and Array subclass, and error handlers that reject with the actual error object. The PR description states the relevant suites were run (socket, tls, fake-timers, node-tls) and that Bun.serve's SNI array path checks isArray before reaching the dictionary, so it's unaffected. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths.

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CI status: the only red lane is test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts ("stalled no consumer drains the full body") on Windows 11 aarch64, a 90s timeout. The same test times out on that lane on main builds 110791, 110352, and 110323, and the test passes no tls option. Every other failure in builds 110775 and 110800 passed on retry. The diff is ready for review.

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Superseded by #44618, which consolidates the open TLS pull requests. This fix and its tests are in there, either as written, rewritten smaller, or merged with the other PRs that patched the same cause (see the "By area" list in that PR). Closing in favor of it.

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Bun.serve takes `tls: [...]`. Given to Bun.listen, Bun.connect, upgradeTLS or
fetch, the array landed in the dictionary arm of the union with no member set,
parsed as "no TLS options", and the socket was plain TCP with no error.
convertDictionary now throws "must be an object" for an array.
Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
Bun.serve takes `tls: [...]`. Given to Bun.listen, Bun.connect, upgradeTLS or
fetch, the array landed in the dictionary arm of the union with no member set,
parsed as "no TLS options", and the socket was plain TCP with no error.
convertDictionary now throws "must be an object" for an array.
Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
Bun.serve takes `tls: [...]`. Given to Bun.listen, Bun.connect, upgradeTLS or
fetch, the array landed in the dictionary arm of the union with no member set,
parsed as "no TLS options", and the socket was plain TCP with no error.
convertDictionary now throws "must be an object" for an array.
Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2026
Bun.serve takes `tls: [...]`. Given to Bun.listen, Bun.connect, upgradeTLS or
fetch, the array landed in the dictionary arm of the union with no member set,
parsed as "no TLS options", and the socket was plain TCP with no error.
convertDictionary now throws "must be an object" for an array.
Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2026
…ps, WebSocket, SQL) (#44618)

### What does this PR do?

Consolidates the open TLS pull requests into one. Each was reproduced on
`main` and, for `node:*` behavior, on Node v26.3.0 first. About a third
are ported as written, the rest are rewritten smaller or merged into one
fix where several PRs patched the same cause. One commit per fix, so it
can be read commit by commit.

Fixes #43520, fixes #31396, fixes #43635, fixes #37193, fixes #43846,
fixes #17932, fixes #41061, fixes #36887, fixes #31810, fixes #35240,
fixes #32234, fixes #44365, fixes #43807, fixes #42280, fixes #44517.
Addresses #41856 (SNI and `servername`; not `checkServerIdentity` for
SQL), #24845 (the spin is gone, shown with fault injection on Linux; not
run on macOS), #19754 (node-fetch forwards the agent's TLS options; the
Kubernetes client itself was not run).

#### The ones that matter most

| | On `main` | PRs |
|---|---|---|
| Client certificate disclosure | `https.request()` with a client
certificate sends it to a server it then refuses (wrong name,
`checkServerIdentity`, `destroy()` in `'secureConnect'`, `terminate()`
in `handshake`). A server can force it with a junk record behind its
Finished | #43946 |
| False `authorized` | Over a Duplex, `secureConnect` with `authorized
=== true` for a peer that failed the key proof; `secureConnect` for a
plaintext peer with `rejectUnauthorized: false` | #44422, #32929 |
| Cleartext https | `https.createServer()` without a usable key/cert
answers plain HTTP | #41672, #33539 |
| Revoked client certificates | An https mTLS server never sees `crl`,
so a revoked client is `authorized` | #41641 |
| Pooled sockets | Requests with different client certificates or CAs
share an `https.Agent` socket and session | #42498 |
| Silent plaintext | `tls: [...]` given to `Bun.listen` / `Bun.connect`
is plain TCP | #41490 |
| Server weakened by a client knob | `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`
turns off a server's client-certificate enforcement | #35245 |
| Pins never checked | `WebSocket` never calls `tls.checkServerIdentity`
and ignores `tls.serverName` | #41648 |
| `verify-full` dropped | `PGSSLMODE=verify-*` is lost next to a `TLS_*`
URL variable; `tls: true` sends no SNI | #44498 |
| Crashes | use-after-free from `destroy()` in `ALPNCallback` over a
Duplex; `abort()` on a late `setSession()`; SIGABRT in `fetch` with an
https proxy from the environment and a `Bun.file()` body | #44462,
#41671, #44458 |
| Stream corruption | A TLS `write()` can lose 16 KiB it reported as
written while another socket on the loop is stalled | #44529 |
| Hangs and spins | 100% CPU on a failing `send()`; a fatal `SSL_write`
leaves the socket open forever; `idleTimeout` never sheds a TLS client
that ignores `close_notify` | #34510, #38176, #42336 |
| Wrong certificate (regression since 1.3.14) | Connections accepted
before `stop()` / `close()` get the default certificate and skip their
entry's `requestCert` / `ca` | #42355 |
| Quadratic Duplex / proxy tunnel | Reading one chunk over a Duplex,
CPU: 8 MB 0.88 s → 0.14 s, 16 MB 3.18 s → 0.23 s, 32 MB 11.75 s → 0.39
s; `fetch` upload through CONNECT: 1.7 s → 0.18 s (debug build) | #44464
|

#### By area

- **fd engine, write path** (`openssl.c`, `socket.c`): #42352, #34510 +
#38176 + #42336 as one change, #44529, #44458, #44192. A rejected
`send()` ends the write side only and closes at the next writable event
unless the peer's bytes are still queued (a 413 sent before a reset is
still read). No new per-socket state. Also, on kqueue, **a FIN no longer
ends a socket that waits in the low-priority queue** (`loop.c`): with
more than 5 TLS handshakes at once, a client that ended right after its
handshake could be reset and its server socket report `socket hang up`,
because the eof that the sentinel read knote reports was acted on ahead
of the unread Finished. That is on `main` too (the macOS entry for
`node-tls-server.test.ts` in `test/flaky-tests.txt`: 7 of 48 recent
builds of other branches), and this branch made it likelier (6 of 8
builds), since Finished now leaves in one segment with the close_notify.
- **Error reporting, both engines**: #44422, #32929, #44516, #37094,
#41272 + #42324 + #44223 as one change, #44021, #37472, #43946, #33630.
One channel: a fatal error on an established session is reported, then
**the engine closes the connection itself**, whatever the owner does
with the report. `test/js/bun/net/tls-fatal-error-closes.test.ts`
asserts closed-and-nothing-delivered for every owner (node:tls,
`Bun.connect`, `Bun.listen`, `fetch` direct and through CONNECT,
`Bun.serve`, `WebSocket` direct and through a proxy, Postgres, MySQL,
Valkey, Duplex).
- **Duplex engine** (`SSLWrapper`, `UpgradedDuplex`): #44462, #43529,
#42332, #44464. #43877 + #44394 were in and are **out again**, see
"Worth a look" 5.
- **node:tls wrap lifecycle** (`net.ts`, `tls.ts`): #38007, #38058,
#38028 + #38122 + #38076 as one change (six copies of the attach code
become two helpers), #38311, #39008, #38154, #42340 + #42343 + #42339 +
#42453 as one change, #43791, #42425, #44085, #42683, #39088, #39040,
#40375, and what was still real of #36534.
- **SNI, ALPN, server contexts**: #43080, #42050, #37195 + #43849 as one
change (**one** SNI matcher for TCP and HTTP/3), #42355, #42285, #33253,
part of #37896, part of #37013. A `tls.Server` has one `SSL_CTX`.
- **Verification and options**: #44738, #41490, #37005 + the cwd pin of
#40984, #31811, #43982, #33483 + #35245, #41810, #32235, #44441, #38092.
- **node:tls API and CA store**: #41671, #38145, #32824, #43594, #39997,
#41696, #33534, #34748, #42991, #42996, #42970.
- **node:https, Agent, `ws`, node-fetch**: #41672 (https half), #41641,
#38261, #42498, #44346, #35609, #31397, #42325.
- **WebSocket client**: #41648, #37487 + #43048 as one change.
- **SQL, Redis**: #33666, #41711, #44498, part of #42054.
- **Tests only**: #41426, #40040, #44395, #44016, #37860, #40591,
#44440, #41424.

Found on the way and fixed here: an upload that a TLS 1.2 server
interrupts with a renegotiation never completes on `main` (0 of 32 runs
over `https.request`, `fetch`, `node:tls` and `Bun.connect`: the
renegotiation ClientHello lands inside an application record that is
still unsent, or the socket gets no `drain` again) and completes here,
with two tests from robobun; the fix for #40653 (final flight and first
write in one segment) stopped working whenever another TLS socket on the
loop was stalled, on `main` too; the `tls.Server` prototype pinned the
last server constructed and every `SSL_CTX` it owned;
`Object.create(process.env).NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0"` turned
verification off process-wide once a `SHARE_ENV` worker existed; two
debug panics when wrapping a shut-down or still-connecting socket; a
`fetch` POST through a proxy sent its headers twice when the origin
renegotiated; `BlockList` ignored IPv6 zone ids; a test now ties
`root_certs.der` to `certdata.txt`.

#### Behavior changes

- **A server's `ca` without `requestCert` no longer asks for a client
certificate** (`Bun.serve`, `Bun.listen`, HTTP/3, node:tls). It matches
the docs and Node. On `main` such a server refused clients with no
certificate but served any unrelated self-signed one, so it was never
authentication. **Set `requestCert: true` to require a certificate.** A
matrix test pins that `requestCert: true` still refuses no certificate
and an untrusted one on 8 kinds of server, TLS 1.2 and 1.3, with
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED` unset and `0`.
- `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0` no longer relaxes a server.
- `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` hear of a fatal TLS error after the
handshake through `error(socket, err)`. With no `error` handler the
socket just closes.
- HTTP/3 server names match like TCP: `*.` covers exactly one label,
case is ignored, a trailing dot is ignored, the last registration of a
name wins.
- `requestCert` on node:https is `=== true`, as in Node.
- An array where a generated options dictionary is expected throws
(`tls: []`, `jest.useFakeTimers([])`).
- `key` / `cert` arrays serve every identity. A client that can use both
gets ECDSA, where `main` served whichever pair came last.
- `ecdhCurve` is forwarded by node:https, `ws` and node-fetch now, so a
group BoringSSL lacks (`X448`) throws there as it already does in
`tls.createServer`.
- A wrapped socket's error is re-emitted on the TLS socket as in Node,
so `raw.destroy(err)` with a listener on `raw` only is uncaught, as in
Node.
- `sql.options.tls` is always an object, never `true`. `RedisClient`
sends SNI.
- `tls: { secureContext }` alone asks for TLS on `Bun.listen` /
`Bun.connect` (it was plain TCP), and a value that is not a
`SecureContext` throws. The context is served as it is: the
`requestCert` / `rejectUnauthorized` it was created with hold whatever
the options next to it say, and `requestCert` in the options over a
context that does not ask throws at `listen()`.
- `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` reaches every client once assigned (`fetch`,
`WebSocket`, `Bun.connect`, `RedisClient`, `Bun.SQL`, `S3Client`, proxy
tunnels) and servers again. A list that selects no cipher throws
`ERR_SSL_NO_CIPHER_MATCH` at the assignment. `fetch.preconnect()` dials
nothing after an assignment.
- The warning for an unreadable `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` is Node's one
line, without the `warn:` prefix.
- `BUN_CONFIG_WS_CLOSE_TIMEOUT` (default 30 s): how long a `WebSocket`
client waits for the server to close the connection after the closing
handshake.

#### Worth a look in review

1. **#44529**: the kernel-refused remainder of a TLS write moves from
the loop's one slot onto the connection (in the existing rare struct),
so the write BIO never refuses a sealed record. Nothing is allocated on
an unstalled path (200 writes: 0 appends, same `send()` count as
`main`), memory with 16 stalled writers is lower than on `main` (276 KB
vs 340 KB, which `main` holds inside BoringSSL's buffers), `us_socket_t`
stays 80 bytes. It needs a bound on how long a deferred close waits, or
a peer that stops reading pins the fd past `destroy()`:
`US_SSL_CLOSE_AFTER_SPILL_TIMEOUT` is a fixed 10 s, not re-armed on
progress. Separate commits, but the fix that keeps the client
certificate off the wire beside a stalled socket builds on them.
2. **The default name check of node:tls also runs inside the
handshake**, so a wrong-name server gets no client certificate on TLS
1.2 either. JS still runs it after every successful handshake, so a
difference between the two matchers can only refuse. Error objects are
byte-identical.
3. **#44441** widens trust by design: a self-issued leaf whose
`keyUsage` lacks `keyCertSign` (`dotnet dev-certs`) is its own anchor
when the store holds a byte-identical copy. No BoringSSL change. Expired
pin, same subject with another key, wrong EKU and a pinned intermediate
are tested to fail.
4. **#32235** only adds Ed25519 and ECDSA P-521 to the verify list. A
captured ClientHello shows `main`'s list with the two inserted;
`rsa_pkcs1_sha1` stays.

5. **A stream that a TLS socket wraps, when that TLS socket closes.** An
earlier state of this branch lost data here while CI was green (found by
#44709's report): with the peer closing first, 4 of 8 MiB arrived with
TLS in TLS, 4 of 32 MiB on the http2 `emit("connection")` path, and a
`write()` with no `'error'` listener ended the process. Three
Node-parity changes only hold together: destroying the wrapped stream at
the close (#38028 + #38122 + #38076, #38154) is safe only if every write
has really completed (#43877), which in turn needs Node's handling of
the peer's close_notify, which needs half-open sockets that the GC can
collect. So:
- #43877 + #44394 are reverted and reopened. A write over a stream
completes once the stream has taken the ciphertext, as on `main`.
- Until the verdict on the peer lets the session through, the
application cannot have written over it. There the wrapped stream is
destroyed as in Node, with the sessions below it. That keeps the release
of the connection after a failed handshake, a rejected certificate and
an early `destroy()`. The same for an http2 socket the application never
got, and for `resetAndDestroy()`.
- After that it is `main`'s teardown: a `net.Socket` only gets the
engine's `end()`, closes at its peer's FIN, keeps its own timeout and
reports its own errors. Any other stream is destroyed with the TLS
socket.

The regular suites cannot see any of this (999 files were green on every
broken variant), so it was steered by eleven seeded differential fuzzers
run on this build, `main`, Node v26.3.0 and the earlier state: close,
`end()`, `destroy()`, `destroySoon()`, resets, hung and half-open peers,
paused writers, timeouts, two and three sessions deep, over TCP and over
Duplexes, before, at and after the handshake, and http2 requests. See
"How did you verify".

#### Known limits

- `fetch` with a `checkServerIdentity` function still sends the client
certificate (not the request) to a server the function refuses. On TLS
1.2 any verdict a JS callback gives is too late, as in Node.
- `addContext()` / `SNICallback` still do not apply to a server-side
socket on the stream engine (`emit("connection", duplex)`, TLS in TLS,
unflushed writes, named pipes), as on `main`.
- A CA bundled in a pfx extends an explicit `ca` only, for `ws` /
node-fetch / `WebSocket`: the native `ca` can only replace the default
store, and that store keeps `SSL_CERT_FILE` / `SSL_CERT_DIR`.
- P-521 leaves work on TLS 1.3 only. TLS 1.2 needs secp521r1 in every
ClientHello (`it.todo`).
- Once `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` is assigned, `fetch(url, { protocol:
"http3" })` is `HTTP3Unsupported`, as with an explicit `ciphers`.
- `addCACert()` by hand does not extend the chains of a context with
several identities.
- A throwing `ALPNCallback` sends `no_application_protocol` on both
engines. Node sends nothing and its client sees `ECONNRESET`.
- TLS in TLS, peer FIN while the outer handshake runs: the inner socket
gets one `write EPIPE`, where Node gives `ECONNRESET` (`main` gives it
no error at all).
- `@SECLEVEL` in `ciphers` is dropped by the `ws` / node-fetch shims,
which used to ignore `ciphers`. node:tls keeps throwing
`ERR_SSL_INVALID_COMMAND`.
- Beside a stalled TLS socket only the first record (16 KiB) of the
first write leaves with the handshake flight. The rest goes record by
record, which is what bounds the memory of stalled writers.
- After a fatal error on an established session the socket emits
`'error'` and then `'close'`. Node emits `'error'` and leaves the socket
open.
- A paused reader whose own write the kernel rejects loses what it had
not read yet, with an `EPIPE`, as on Node. `main` reports no error there
and delivers it.
- On `main` too: a `Bun.listen` socket without `allowHalfOpen` that has
unsent ciphertext when the client's `shutdown()` arrives loses that
ciphertext (32 KiB), and over plain TCP `end()` with the peer still
sending is a close over unread input, so a reset.
- Differences from both `main` and Node that the differential runs below
found and that stay, all with a peer that aborts: `ECONNRESET` instead
of a clean `'end'` after the socket's own `'finish'` when the peer
destroyed with unread data; under TLS 1.2, a zero-length `write()`
followed by `destroy()` in `'secureConnection'` leaves the client
without `'secureConnect'` (a plain `destroy()` there matches Node); a
TLS 1.2 client that destroys in `'secureConnect'` gets no `'session'`; a
`ClientRequest` whose handshake fails with an alert emits `'error'` and
`'close'` but no `'finish'` (`writableFinished` is true).
- Once `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` is assigned, `fetch.preconnect()` opens
nothing: `fetch()` then uses a context of its own, and a socket warmed
under the default one would never be picked up.
- A TLS `send()` that the kernel refuses outside a `write()` call (the
drain of unsent ciphertext) is reported with the close, as `read EPIPE`
/ `read ECONNRESET`. Node says `write EPIPE`. `main` does not report it
at all.
- Once the application has a session over a `net.Socket` (TLS in TLS,
http2 `emit("connection")`), a peer that never sends its FIN holds that
socket after the TLS socket closed, as on `main`. Node destroys it. Two
tests of #38154 are `todo` for this. Closing it any earlier (at its
`'finish'`, say) makes the kernel drop what it has not sent yet as soon
as the peer's close_notify arrives.
- Plaintext that was queued on a socket before it was wrapped (STARTTLS
with a backlog) is dropped when the TLS socket is destroyed, or its
handshake fails, before the session is accepted. Node drops it too,
except on `destroySoon()`. `main` sends it.
- Over a stream that is no `net.Socket`, `end()` can still cut what that
stream has buffered, and there is no backpressure, both as on `main`
(#43877).
- `tls.secureContext` (the undocumented door node:tls uses) is not read
by a Windows named pipe listener, which builds its context from the
options. On `upgradeTLS({ isServer: true })` the options next to it are
the policy, as with Node's `SetVerifyMode`.
- `selectServerName()` rebuilds the name tree per ClientHello for
injected sockets of a server with `addContext()` entries: 0.4 µs for 1
entry, 3.7 µs for 10, 41 µs for 100, against 631–1111 µs for a
handshake.

#### Not included

Left open, because they need a decision or are not TLS: #43877 + #44394
(see "Worth a look" 5; #43874 stays open with them), #38548, #38591
(both shrink who is trusted), #41589 (`verify-full` vs
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`), #37197, #41706, #43216, #33487,
#33545, #36707, #32435, #37255, #28691, #40275, #30314 (features),
#38120 (needs the BoringSSL fork, as did #33517, which the stale bot has
closed since), #38529 (needs a Windows measurement), #34342, #38232,
#43089, #44454, #40451, #42710, #44527, #38088, #38093, #41898. #37896,
#42054 and #37013 stay open for the halves not taken.
`http.createServer({ key, cert })` keeps serving TLS on purpose.

One open question: `tls: {}` (an object that names no TLS option) is
plain TCP on `Bun.listen` / `Bun.connect`, here and on `main`. It is the
same trap as `tls: []`, but changing it changes a Bun default, so it is
left alone.

### How did you verify your code works?

- Every new test fails on `main` for the stated reason and passes here,
except guards that pin existing behavior, each shown to fail when its
clause is removed. `node:*` tests also pass on Node v26.3.0; the few
that cannot say which Node version has the behavior.
- 212 test files that touch TLS, sockets, http, http2, fetch, WebSocket,
SQL, Valkey and workers: 6154 pass, 2 fail. Both are seen on `main` too:
`serve.test.ts` "root range port" (the box runs as root), and
`worker_threads.test.ts` "terminate(): nothing of the worker's runs
after the request", which is flaky there and passed in the run below.
- 58 of those files the way the ASAN lane runs them (LeakSanitizer +
`BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks`): 58 files, 48 of them with leak
checking, 4132 pass, 3 fail. All three also fail on `main`:
`serve.test.ts` "root range port", `node-net.test.ts` "should not leak
when connect({path}) fails synchronously on a reused handle" (times out
under this environment), `worker_threads.test.ts` "process.exit() with a
shell cp in flight" (a `ShellCpTask` leak).
- 647 vendored `test-tls-*`, `test-https-*`, `test-net-*`,
`test-http2-*`: the only two failures also fail on `main`.
- The SNI matcher was diffed against both old matchers: 3 seeds × 1.23 M
lookups × 3 registration flavours, every difference in one of the
intended classes, TCP and HTTP/3 identical on every lookup.
- The headline rows were also driven by hand with scripts against this
build, `main` and Node v26.3.0: cleartext https, `crl`, `tls: []` / `{
secureContext }`, the `ca` / `requestCert` matrix, the client
certificate on a wrong-name server, late `setSession()`, `destroy()` in
`ALPNCallback`, `[rsa, ec]` identities with an intermediate from `ca`,
`WebSocket` `checkServerIdentity`, a corrupted record, the Duplex read
above, `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS`.
- The `setSession()` guard was checked against the real `abort()` at 43
handshake states.
- `bun run rust:check-all`: 12 of 12 targets. `tsc`, oxlint, source
lints, prettier, rustfmt, mordant clean.
- usockets' `_Nonnull` is compiled out of debug builds, so 105 of those
files were also run on a local release ASAN build with the CI runner's
environment (92 with leak checking): 4595 pass, 1 fail,
`child_process.test.ts` "spawn reports EPERM after dropping privileges",
which cannot pass as root and fails on `main` too.
- The close of a TLS socket over another stream ("Worth a look" 5):
eleven seeded differential fuzzers, 8,424 scenarios compared, each run
on a release ASAN build of this branch, on `main`, on Node v26.3.0 and
on the earlier state of the branch. Against `main`:
- Data that `main` delivers in full is cut in 5 scenarios, and about 150
that `main` cuts arrive in full. Of the 5, in 2 `main` never notices the
peer's close and keeps the socket for good, 2 call `end()` on the middle
one of three sessions over an in-memory Duplex, and 1 does the same on
Node.
- No dead timeout, no silent reset and no uncaught error that `main`
does not have (4 uncaught errors fewer).
- A socket stays open where `main` closes it in 109, and closes where
`main` keeps it in 295. 92 of the 109 do the same on Node or on the
earlier state (a `destroy()` that an in-memory Duplex does not show its
peer, half-open peers). 14 wait for a peer that paused reading and so
does not read the FIN (#42332's backpressure, as in Node); the socket's
own timeout fires there. 3 are left: one on a 5 ms timer, two with three
sessions over an in-memory Duplex.
- The earlier state of the branch cut data in 173 of the 400 scenarios
of one of them, where `main` cuts none and this cuts none.
- 23 new tests pin what they found. Each earlier attempt at this fix
fails the ones that describe it, the earlier state of the branch fails
7, and all pass on Node.
- After that change: 999 test files on the release ASAN build (20,246
pass; the 11 files that fail need a database, Docker, DNS or a non-root
user, or share a temp directory with a parallel run and pass alone), 61
on the debug build.
- TLS over a file descriptor (`openssl.c`, the path of `fetch`,
`Bun.serve`, `tls.connect`, `Bun.connect`) got the same treatment after
the rebase: seeded differential fuzzers on CI's release build of this
branch, on `main` and, for `node:*`, on Node v26.3.0. Every runtime also
against itself for the noise floor, injected faults and known bugs of
`main` as positive controls, and a difference counts only if it shows in
5 of 5 fresh processes.
- `node:tls` over TCP: 11,500 scenarios (one connection with Node as the
oracle line by line; 2 to 60 connections beside stalled neighbours; raw
peers that break the handshake). HTTPS: about 136,000 runs over
`Bun.serve` + `fetch`, `node:https`, `node:http2` and `wss://`, also
with the two ends in different runtimes. `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` /
`upgradeTLS`: 11,500 scenarios and 720 slow connections, with writers
driven by what `write()` returns, beside up to 6 stalled, dripping,
closing or resetting neighbours, and plain TCP as a second oracle. No
crash, hang, duplication, reordering or silent truncation, and no change
in time or in connection reuse.
- They found six things that `main` does better, none of which any test
showed. All are fixed, each with a test that fails on the build before:
what the peer sent lost behind a rejected `send()` (23 scenarios, and an
early HTTPS response lost with only `EPIPE`), the same silently for a
paused reader, `server.close()` never calling back on a half-open server
after a ClientHello and a reset (17), `closeAllConnections()` taking 12
s with a stalled client, `end()` losing up to 1.3 of 4 MiB that
`write()` had reported while the peer still uploads, and `end()` a
little after a stall never closing beside other stalled TLS sockets. The
last two fixes also deliver the 1 to 2 MiB that `main` loses there, and
close the socket that `main` keeps for good without such neighbours.
- All of them again after every fix, on CI's release build of it. That
caught one regression of a fix itself (a reader stopped for backpressure
lost 86,385 bytes, 1 of 6,000 scenarios), fixed too. On the last build:
scenarios that lose data where `main` does not 23 → 2, and Node loses it
in both, with the same `EPIPE`; `server.close()` that never calls back
17 → 0; connections held 4 → 0; requests that end in an error only where
`main` has a response 6 → 0. With a Node server in another process, a
request ends in an error only in 8 and 10 of 1,500 scenarios here, 5 and
3 on `main`, 10 with Node as the client.
- `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` on the last build against `main`, in
scenarios: hangs 0 against 1,031, sockets and fds never released 0
against 965, corrupted data 0 against 345, `abort()` 0 against 26
(`setSession()` after the handshake), writers that never close 0 against
101 of 720 connections. No kind of failure shows here and not on `main`.
About a third of the slow connections close later than on `main`, in 1
to 16 s instead of at once, waiting for unsent ciphertext or for the
peer's close_notify, and 79 more of them deliver all that `write()`
reported. RSS and time with 16 to 256 stalled writers are the same.
- What they found that `main` does worse: a `WebSocket` that calls
`close()` with sends pending loses messages in 81 of 999 scenarios (0
here), 37 server sockets left open, 10 `server.close()` that never call
back, 20 write callbacks that never run.
- The kqueue fix cannot be run on Linux. The `connectionListener` count
test now says what became of a missing connection, which is how the
cause was found (`'tlsClientError'` "socket hang up", then `read
ECONNRESET` at the client of the same port, after its
`'secureConnect'`). On macOS x64 it failed every attempt of the three
builds before the fix and passed at the first attempt of the build with
it.
- Windows and macOS were only run by CI. Four new tests asserted what
only the Linux kernel does (a FIN read ahead of a reset, unread bytes
surviving a reset, loopback buffer sizes, `fstat()` on a socket) and now
say so per platform.

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