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Problem

  • socket.setSession(<valid session>) after the TLS handshake has started kills the process: panic(main thread): abort() called, exit 134.
  • set_session (src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs:1182) passes the session to BoringSSL's SSL_set_session, which calls abort() once the handshake has begun (ssl/ssl_session.cc:1128).

Fix

  • patches/boringssl/set-session-return-0.patch: SSL_set_session returns 0 and leaves the SSL unchanged.
  • set_session returns undefined for that 0. The session is not offered and the connection keeps working.
  • Verified: node-tls-connect.test.ts, socket.test.ts. 12 late calls exit 134 on the released bun and return undefined here. The legal window still resumes.
  • Self-reviewed: 6 concerns raised, 4 addressed, 1 in part, 1 left for a maintainer (see Notes).

Background

  • A client offers a TLS session in its ClientHello so the server can skip the full handshake. A later offer has no effect.
  • Node v26.3.0 returns undefined from a late call, and the connection can then fail with ERR_SSL_UNEXPECTED_MESSAGE. Bun returns undefined and keeps the connection. This difference is deliberate.
  • Weighed: a state query in set_session (needs BoringSSL's debug strings), a "started" bit per socket owner (stores on every connection's path), and an info callback (this PR's first version, against tls: keep per-connection TLS state on the owner, not in SSL ex_data #43863). The patch puts the check where every caller passes.

Downsides

  • A late call is ignored with no error. Whether it must throw is open for a maintainer.
  • SSL_set_session legal path: 34 -> 36 instructions per call. Release binary: 0 B change.
  • One BoringSSL patch to carry (+5/-2). A --local-deps=boringssl build keeps the abort.
Notes

Two questions for a maintainer. The PR stays in draft until they are answered.

  1. Ignore or throw. This diff ignores the late call, which is Node's return value and what node:tls: make client-side new TLSSocket(socket) upgrade the socket it wraps #37664 does on a client-side wrap. The alternative needs no Rust change: with the patch alone, the existing != 1 branch throws SSL_set_session error on every late call. REVIEW.md:45 ("never swallow a failure") points that way.
  2. Patch file or fork commit. Every other BoringSSL divergence lives on oven-sh/boringssl. The pin bump Bump BoringSSL (oven-sh/boringssl#13 preview): CRYPTO_memcmp keeps an 8-bit accumulator under clang 23 #43885 is open and does not carry this patch. The alternative is a commit on the fork plus a BORINGSSL_COMMIT bump here, with the patch file deleted.

Proof, three states (debug + ASAN, linux x64):

  • released bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9: both test files fail, the process exits 134.
  • src/ and packages/ at the base, patch applied: both fail. Every late call reports threw: "SSL_set_session error".
  • this branch: both pass. node-tls-connect.test.ts 122 pass, socket.test.ts 104 pass. Its one failure needs www.example.com and fails on the released bun too.

What the tests assert. The fixture runs each entry point in one process and prints one JSON object.

  • finished is what setServername() reports, which throws once the handshake has finished. It separates the two states BoringSSL refuses: initial_handshake_complete (10 entry points) and hs->state != 0 with the handshake in flight (bun-connect-failed-handshake, bun-connect-open-after-write).
  • reused is isSessionReused(). The legal entry point expects true. With the offer removed it reports false and the test fails.
  • The fixture server is TLS 1.2. A TLS 1.3 getSession() blob taken at secureConnect has no ticket, so it is never offered.
  • Not covered: a renegotiation in flight at the call.

Measurements (release builds, base faac63e against this branch):

  • release binary: 0 B (size text 80,705,363 both). SSL_set_session 189 -> 183 B, TLSSocketPrototype__setSession 1112 -> 1058 B (llvm-nm).
  • SSL_set_session legal path: 34 -> 36 instructions per call (gdb stepi, 3 runs each).
  • legal setSession() call: 88,334 -> 88,334 instructions in 1 of 3 runs and 88,413 in 2, 119 -> 119 allocations.
  • TLS connection without setSession: 0 changed instructions in us_internal_ssl_attach, _on_data, _on_writable, _writev (objdump diff). SSL_set_session reached 0 times in 30 connections.
  • fetch, which also calls SSL_set_session: session_cache::install with a cached session 582 -> 584 instructions. A pooled request is unchanged at 5,150.
  • a refused call returns after 13 instructions in SSL_set_session. The whole late setSession() costs 99,144, because the session is parsed first.
  • vendor patch: 49 lines, +5/-2 in 2 files. BoringSSL rebuilt once per builder: 422 objects.

Split out. fetch() reaches the same abort when it reuses a pooled socket that the server renegotiates. That fix shares no file with this one and is tracked separately.

Same lines in other open PRs. #37664 states that this PR throws Already started.. That is no longer true. #40236 and #40385 rewrite the set_session lines and still carry the throw branch.

Not run. Windows and macOS. The named-pipe SSL owner is Windows-only.


no test proof · iteration 0 · 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

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TLS session guard

Layer / File(s) Summary
Handshake state tracking
packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/libusockets.h
SSL contexts record when the handshake starts. us_ssl_handshake_started reports recorded or completed handshakes.
Session replacement guard
src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs, packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts
set_session rejects late session replacement with "Already started.". The API documentation describes valid timing and handler ordering.
TLS regression coverage
test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts, test/js/node/tls/*
Tests cover Bun and Node client, server, duplex, handshake, and open paths. They verify exceptions and normal process exit.

Suggested reviewers: cirospaciari, jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 072df

This change prevents late TLS session replacement from terminating Bun and adds regression coverage, but the new parameterized tests need to follow the repository's required suite structure before merge.

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Title check ⚠️ Warning The title addresses the correct TLS behavior but incorrectly states that late setSession() calls are ignored. The changes make them throw "Already started." instead of aborting. Rename the title to describe the implemented behavior, for example: "tls: throw on late setSession() instead of aborting".
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The description is detailed and includes verification evidence, but it does not match the changeset or stated objective. It describes a BoringSSL patch that returns 0 and silently ignores late calls, while the PR adds handshake-state tracking and throws "Already started." The required template headings are also missing.

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Rewrite the description under "### What does this PR do?" and "### How did you verify your code works?". Describe the SSL handshake-start tracking, the late-call exception, the valid pre-handshake behavior, the regression tests, and the known CI failure.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 9f78f7f has 1 failures in Build #111606 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 41671

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-41671 executable, so you can run:

bun-41671 --bun

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

Beyond the inline findings, I checked that the new SSL_CTX_set_info_callback in us_ssl_ctx_build_raw doesn't collide with an existing info callback — it's the only SSL_(CTX_)set_info_callback call outside vendor/, so no handler is being clobbered. I also checked the other SSL_set_session call site at src/http/session_cache.rs:219 — it's the internal HTTP client cache applied pre-handshake and isn't user-reachable, so it doesn't need the same guard.

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The two inline findings cover the substantive concerns (Node-compat error contract and the misleading open handler JSDoc). Two adjacent questions the diff raised were checked and ruled out: SSL_CTX_set_info_callback has a single slot per context, and installing us_ssl_info_cb unconditionally would silently displace any prior handler — a grep across the repo (excluding vendor/) shows this is the only call, so nothing is overwritten. Separately, SSL_set_session is also called from the internal HTTP client's session cache (src/http/session_cache.rs:219); that path applies the session before the handshake starts and is not driven by user JS, so the abort is not reachable there and the guard is correctly scoped to the user-facing set_session host function.

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Reworked on top of main and pushed as 7b00a05. The earlier version of this PR (an info callback and an ex_data slot, throwing Already started.) is gone. The PR stays in draft: two questions in the PR body need a maintainer.

How it was reproduced, linux x64:

  • released bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9: bun test/js/node/tls/node-tls-set-session-after-start.fixture.ts node-client exits 134 with panic(main thread): abort() called. The same holds for each of the 12 late entry points in that fixture.
  • this branch, debug + ASAN: every late entry point returns undefined, the connection still echoes, and the legal entry point still resumes the session.

What changed since the first version:

  • The fix moved into BoringSSL's SSL_set_session (a patch file), so no TLS connection pays for it.
  • A late call is now ignored, as Node's return value is, and no longer throws.
  • The fetch() crash found on the way (a pooled socket that the server renegotiates) is split out. It shares no file with this change.

CI on 7b00a05: build 122884 passed, 181 of 181 jobs, on every platform lane. All review threads are resolved. What is left is the two maintainer questions in the PR body: ignore or throw, and patch file or fork commit.

BoringSSL's SSL_set_session calls abort() once the handshake has begun.
patches/boringssl/set-session-return-0.patch makes it return 0 and leave
the SSL unchanged. The setSession() host function returns undefined for
that result, as it does for a session that does not parse.
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@robobun robobun changed the title node:tls: throw from setSession() after the handshake starts instead of aborting tls: ignore a late setSession() instead of aborting (SSL_set_session returns 0) Oct 2, 2026
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The walkthrough and the two pre-merge warnings above describe the previous revision of this PR (072dfc5). The title and the description are correct for the current head.

The current head is 7b00a05 (2 commits, 9 files):

  • It has no handshake tracking. packages/bun-usockets/ is not in the diff and us_ssl_handshake_started does not exist.
  • A late setSession() does not throw. set_session discards the 0 that the patched SSL_set_session returns, and the tests assert threw: null.
  • The only Already started. text in the diff is a test comment about setServername().

So the title stays as it is.

cirospaciari pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
…t wraps (#37664)

### Problem
- `new tls.TLSSocket(socket)` on the client side (STARTTLS) does nothing
on main. A write throws `TypeError: socket.@Write is not a function`.
`_start()` throws `ERR_MISSING_ARGS`.
- Since #42181 (not released), `end()` throws an uncaught `TypeError:
socket.shutdown is not a function` at `endNT (node:net)`.
- Cause: the constructor stored the wrapped stream as `_handle`
(`src/js/node/tls.ts`). Nothing replaced it with a TLS handle.

### Fix
- The constructor runs the upgrade of `tls.connect({ socket })`
(`kUpgradeClientTLS`, `src/js/node/net.ts`). `_handle` is never the
stream. `_start()` is a no-op.
- The wrap completes like node's `_finishInit`: `'secure'` and
`ssl.verifyError()`. It gets no hostname check and no `'secureConnect'`,
and `authorized` stays `false`.
- Verified: `test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts`. 16 of its 21
new tests fail on main. Also `test/js/node/tls/` and 657 vendored node
tests.

### Background
- STARTTLS changes a plaintext connection to TLS in place. The `mysql`
driver 2.18.1 does it with this constructor. No user filed an issue for
it.
- In `node:net`, `_write`, `_final` and `_destroy` call into `_handle`
as a native handle.
- Only `tls.connect()` adds node's `onConnectSecure` (hostname check,
`authorized`, `'secureConnect'`). A wrap gets `_finishInit` only.
- Considered a start on `_start()`, as in node. Each handle call then
needs a guard.

### Downsides
- An unused wrap now sends a ClientHello of 1450 bytes (main and node:
0). `setServername()` and `setSession()` after construction have no
effect on that handshake.
- Unlike node, a wrap rejects an untrusted certificate unless the caller
passes `rejectUnauthorized: false`. An app that does its own check must
pass `false`.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

**Scope.** This head is the core only, as the review of 2026-09-24
asked. The same review decided that a wrap rejects an untrusted
certificate by default. Two parts of the earlier head are gone, because
other changes own them. #42235 landed the forwarding of the `'error'` of
a `Duplex`, and #43791 owns it for a `net.Socket`. #38028 owns the
destroy of a wrapped socket that has not connected yet. The
`UpgradedDuplex.rs` hunk landed with #36909. The review of 2026-09-25
asked for three more changes: commits 6657bc3 and ae669bf, and
this body. The review of 2026-09-30 asked for one more: commit
a460a9d.

**Changes since the earlier head that the review did not list.**
- The `open` handler of an upgraded socket applies the `session` option
on the native socket. See "Sessions" below.
- A wrap gives the `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0` warning of
`tls.connect()`.
- `authorized` and `authorizationError` keep their initial values on a
wrap, as in node. The earlier head set `authorized = true` for a good
chain. The wrap checks no host name, so that value accepted a
certificate of any host. The verdict is `ssl.verifyError()`.
- A wrap does not get `onConnectEnd`. A peer that closes during the
handshake gives `'end'`, `'finish'`, `'close'` and no `ECONNRESET`, as
in node. `tls.connect({ socket })` keeps its `ECONNRESET`.
- `servername` is passed into the upgrade. Before, it reached the
ClientHello only when the caller gave no `secureContext`.
- `kStandaloneWrap` is initialised in the `Socket` constructor.

**Differences from node v26.3.0 that stay.** The review kept the start
of the handshake in the constructor. The `mysql` driver, the main user
of this API, calls `_start()` right after the constructor, so it sees no
difference.

| shape | node | this PR |
| --- | --- | --- |
| wrap that is never used | sends nothing | sends a ClientHello (1450
bytes) |
| `setServername()` after the constructor | applies, the handshake
starts later | too late. Pass `servername` as an option. |
| `setSession()` after the constructor | applies | no effect. Pass
`session` as an option. |
| untrusted certificate, `rejectUnauthorized` absent or `true` |
`'secure'`, the caller must read `ssl.verifyError()` | destroy with the
verify error, `'_tlsError'`, no `'secure'` |
| untrusted certificate, `rejectUnauthorized: false` | `'secure'`, data
flows | the same |
| `new TLSSocket(raw)`, then `tls.connect({ socket: raw })` | `EALREADY`
on the wrap | `Invalid socket` on the `tls.connect` client (main: works,
because its wrap does nothing) |

Node never rejects a certificate on a wrap. It leaves the check to the
app, so an app that forgets the check accepts any certificate. Here the
wrap uses the rule of `tls.connect()`: it rejects unless the caller
passes `rejectUnauthorized: false`, or `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED` is
`0`. Before commit 4d8b9e5, only `rejectUnauthorized: true` rejected,
and a wrap with default options accepted each certificate, as in node.

The `mysql` driver listens to `'secure'` and to `'_tlsError'`. If the
wrap emitted `'secure'` and then destroyed itself, the driver would
report a bad chain two times. The replay test asserts one report.

**Sessions.** BoringSSL's `SSL_set_session` calls `abort()` when the
handshake has started, in release builds too.
`TLSSocket.prototype.setSession()` calls the native function at once, on
main and on this head. #41671 puts the guard in the native function, for
each caller: a late `setSession()` then throws `Already started.`. An
earlier head of this PR made `setSession()` only store the session. The
review asked to take that rule out, and commit ae669bf did. For a
client-side wrap the review then asked for one narrow rule, in commit
a460a9d: the `TLSSocket` constructor sets `kStandaloneWrap`, and
`setSession()` returns at once when it is set.

| shape | node | main | this PR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `new TLSSocket(raw)`, `setSession()`, `_start()` | resumes | throws
`ERR_MISSING_ARGS` | no effect, full handshake |
| `tls.connect({ socket })`, then `setSession()` | no effect | process
aborted | process aborted |
| `setSession()` inside `'secureConnect'` | no effect | process aborted
| process aborted |
| `tls.connect({ port })`, then `setSession()` before it connects |
resumes | resumes | resumes |
| `tls.connect({ port })`, then `setSession()` in the `'connect'`
listener | full handshake | resumes | resumes |
| `tls.connect({ socket, session })` | resumes | full handshake |
resumes |
| `new TLSSocket(raw, { session })` | resumes | throws
`ERR_MISSING_ARGS` | resumes |

In the first row, the wrap has sent its ClientHello when `setSession()`
runs. Without the check in `setSession()`, that row aborts the process
(exit 134). The rule also holds for a wrap over a socket that is still
connecting: node resumes there, and this PR runs a full handshake.

The last two rows come from one hunk that stays. `SocketHandlers2.open`
applies the `session` option on the native socket. An fd upgrade assigns
`_handle` after `open`, so `self.setSession()` dropped the option there.

**Two bugs of main that this PR does not fix. An open PR owns each.**
- The native `setSession()` has no check of the handshake state.
`socket.setSession()` in the `handshake` callback of a `Bun.connect`
socket aborts the process (exit 134, release build of main). #41671
fixes it in `set_session` in
`src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs`, for each caller. It makes
a late `setSession()` throw `Already started.`.
- Over a `Duplex`, TLS inside TLS, or a named pipe, a handshake that
fails is reported as success. A peer that answers the ClientHello with
plaintext gives `'secureConnect'` for `tls.connect({ socket: duplex,
rejectUnauthorized: false })` on main, and `'secure'` for a wrap with
`rejectUnauthorized: false` here. Node gives
`ERR_SSL_WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER`. Over a TCP socket the result is correct.
The stream engine in `src/uws/lib.rs` reports no protocol error. #32929
fixes it there. One more door of the same bug: with `rejectUnauthorized:
true` and the `session` of an earlier verified connection,
`tls.connect({ socket: duplex })` emits `'secureConnect'` with
`authorized` true on main, and a wrap emits `'secure'` with
`ssl.verifyError()` null here. A write after that fails with
`ERR_SOCKET_CLOSED`, and no byte reaches the transport.

Reproduction for the first one (needs a key and a certificate, for
example `test/js/node/tls/fixtures/agent1-*.pem`):

```ts
const server = Bun.listen({ hostname: "127.0.0.1", port: 0, tls: { key, cert }, socket: { data() {}, open() {}, error() {} } });
await Bun.connect({
  hostname: "127.0.0.1", port: server.port, tls: { rejectUnauthorized: false },
  socket: { data() {}, error() {}, handshake(socket) { socket.setSession(socket.getSession()); /* the process aborts here */ } },
});
```

Reproduction for the second one:

```js
const tls = require("tls"), { Duplex } = require("stream");
let answered = false;
const raw = new Duplex({
  read() {},
  write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
    callback();
    if (!answered) { answered = true; setImmediate(() => this.push(Buffer.from("HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request\r\n\r\n"))); }
  },
});
const socket = tls.connect({ socket: raw, rejectUnauthorized: false });
socket.on("secureConnect", () => console.log("secureConnect")); // main prints this
socket.on("error", error => console.log(error.code)); // node prints ERR_SSL_WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER
```

**Gaps that this PR does not close.** Each one also exists on main for
`tls.connect({ socket })`, with the same result.

| shape | node | this PR | owner |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `end()` or `destroySoon()` before the socket connects | waits for
`'connect'`, then sends the FIN | `'finish'` at once, no FIN | #42339 |
| refused connection under a wrap | `'_tlsError'`, `'close'` | uncaught
`ECONNREFUSED`, the wrap stays open | #38122 |
| `end()` over a `Duplex` before the handshake completes | runs the
`final()` of the `Duplex` | `'finish'`, no `final()` | #42350 |

A wrapped `Duplex` that fails when it is read was in this list. #42235
landed, and the wrap now reports `'_tlsError'` and then `'close'`, as
node does (measured on d31efd7).

**Inherited options.** `kUpgradeClientTLS` passed a plain `{ socket,
servername }` object to `Socket.prototype.connect`, and that function
reads `rejectUnauthorized` through the prototype chain. With
`Object.prototype.rejectUnauthorized = false`, the wrap accepted an
untrusted certificate, also with an explicit `rejectUnauthorized: true`.
Commit 6657bc3 passes the decision of the constructor as an own
property, as `tls.connect()` does. Measured on this head under that
pollution: a wrap with default options, with `{}` and with an explicit
`true` rejects, and an own `false` accepts. `new TLSSocket(raw, {
rejectUnauthorized: undefined })` with `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`
rejects.

**`'finish'`.** `new TLSSocket(new PassThrough()).end()` emits
`'finish'` and `'close'` on this head. The shutdown cells do not assert
`'finish'`. A separate check reports that `'finish'` is lost there when
#43962 is applied on top of this PR. This session did not build that
combination.

Cell by cell for the 21-cell matrix of #42330 on the earlier head:
#37664 (comment)

**Releases.** Earlier comments in this thread measured the same failures
on Bun 1.4.0 and 1.4.3. This session measured main only.

**User.** `Connection.prototype._startTLS` in mysql 2.18.1
(`lib/Connection.js`) is the known caller of the client-side
constructor. The replay test matches that function line by line, and
`lib/protocol/sequences/Handshake.js` sends the SSLRequest and starts
TLS with no reply in between. The xmpp report in this thread is for
`tls.connect({ socket })`, a different path. A search of the open and
closed issues finds no report for the constructor.

**Guard design.** #42330 kept the stream as `_handle` and added a guard
at 2 of the 6 places that call it as a native handle.

**Signatures on main.** `destroy()` on the wrap fails with `handle.close
is not a function`. `end()`, `end(cb)` and `destroySoon()` throw
`socket.shutdown is not a function` from `process.nextTick`.

**Tests.** All are in `test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts`, block
`new tls.TLSSocket(socket) on the client side`.
- Four reports come from `node-tls-client-wrap-fixture.mjs`. Bun calls
its functions in the test process. Node runs the same file as a script.
The expected report is the same for both.
- `shutdown`: 16 cells. The methods are `end()`, `end(cb)`,
`destroySoon()` and `destroy()`. The streams are a connected, a
connecting and a never-connected `net.Socket`, and a `Duplex`. Each cell
calls the method and then `destroy()`. It asserts no throw, no `'error'`
and `'close'`. The cells run together. On main each cell fails with
`socket.shutdown is not a function` or `handle.close is not a function`.
- `mysql`: the calls of `Connection.prototype._startTLS` in mysql
2.18.1, in the driver's order and at its time. The driver writes the
SSLRequest and starts TLS in the same turn, and the server sends no
reply in between. Three configurations: `rejectUnauthorized: false`, the
CA of the server, no CA. `onSecure` runs one time in each.
  - `peerCloses`: the peer closes when the ClientHello arrives.
- `session`: the `session` option on the three paths, and `setSession()`
before the socket connects. Each one resumes.
- Both sides of `rejectUnauthorized` run in the test process only,
because node accepts in each case. `unlike node, an untrusted
certificate destroys the wrap with the verify error` has one case for
default options and one for `true`. `with rejectUnauthorized: false,
'secure' fires for an untrusted certificate and a write goes out over
TLS` is the other side. `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 turns the
default off, as for tls.connect()` pins the environment variable.
- `an inherited rejectUnauthorized cannot turn the check of a wrap off`
runs in a child process with `Object.prototype.rejectUnauthorized =
false`: default options and an own `true` reject, an own `false`
accepts. It fails on d31efd7. ``an own `rejectUnauthorized:
undefined` still rejects with NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0, as for
tls.connect()`` pins that rule.
- `setSession() on a wrap has no effect: it does not abort the process
and does not throw` runs in a child process, because the failure is a
process abort. Without the check it gets exit code 134. No test covers a
late `setSession()` on a `tls.connect()` socket: it aborts the process
until #41671 lands.
- On main (canary 367d939, release build), 16 of the 21 tests in the
block fail. 8 fail at once, and 8 fail by the timeout, because main
starts no handshake. The 5 that pass are the http2-wrapper guard and the
4 rows that run node.
- The SNI test fails when only the `servername` argument is reverted
(`Expected: "sni.example"`, `Received: undefined`).

**Cost for callers that never wrap a socket,** from the diff:
- per `net.Socket`: one more property store in the constructor.
- per TLS `connect()`, per client handshake and per `setSession()`: one
more property read and branch.
- per `internalConnect` and `internalConnectMultiple`: two property
reads and branches fewer. Each `[buntls]` options object has one
property fewer.
- `tls.connect({ socket })` puts the same bytes on the wire as on main
(1452).
- This session did not measure instructions, syscalls or binary size:
`perf`, `valgrind`, `strace` and `bloaty` are not in the test container.
A separate differential check of d31efd7 merged onto main reports
equal instruction counts: 10,162,756 (main) and 10,159,922 (this PR) for
each TLS connection, and 2,195 and 2,200 for `new net.Socket()`.

**Suites run with a debug build of this head.**
- On the head a460a9d: `test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts`
gives 107 pass, 18 skip, 0 fail with a 30 s limit, in 2 of 2 runs. With
the default 5 s limit, 4 to 8 tests reach the timeout in each run on
this machine, and the set differs from run to run. Most of them came
from main. The load average was 450 to 970 on 16 cores.
- One of those tests from main (`server write() and end(data) from
inside ALPNCallback`) takes the same time with the source of main and
with this PR: 3.9 to 6.4 s and 3.8 to 6.0 s, 10 runs each.
- `tsc --noEmit -p src/js/tsconfig.json` and `bun lint` pass on
a460a9d.
- The suites below ran on the head c81cee3, before the merge of main.
- `test/js/node/tls/` (28 files): 2 failures in each run, and this
change causes neither. `SNICallback runs even when the requested
servername matches the bind hostname` fails on the release build of main
too. `concurrent Workers all see the same CA certificate lists` fails 5
of 5 times with the `net.ts` and `tls.ts` of main on the same debug
build. In the last run the machine was overloaded, and 2 more tests
reached the 5 s timeout. Both pass alone in 3 of 3 runs, and neither
builds a client-side wrap.
- `test-tls-*`, `test-https-*`, `test-net-*`, `test-http2-*` in
`test/js/node/test/parallel` (657 files): no failure from this change.
10 files fail on main too (`test-https-proxy-request*.mjs`,
`test-https-request-proxy-post.mjs`,
`test-tls-client-allow-partial-trust-chain.js`). `test-https-timeout.js`
hangs on a debug build, with the source of main too.
- `test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts`: 94 pass, 1 fail. The failure needs
DNS for `www.example.com` and fails on main too.

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**[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 0 · 5 files touched

<details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN without fix: 16 failed, 18 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [3.32ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [351.98ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [9.71ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [175.18ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [18.49ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [114.28ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [269.78ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port 
... (truncated)

release without fix: 34 failed, 18 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [20.95ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [48.67ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [0.39ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [5.88ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [0.30ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [5.44ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [24.26ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port and host correctly
(skip) tls.connect > should process port, host, and callback correctly
(skip) tls.connect > should handle the absence of a callback gracefully
(skip) tl
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN with fix: 18 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939)

test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts:
(pass) should have checkServerIdentity [3.27ms]
(pass) should thow ECONNRESET if FIN is received before handshake [394.13ms]
(pass) initializes authorizationError to null in the TLSSocket constructor [8.43ms]
(pass) setMaxSendFragment mirrors OpenSSL's [512, 16384] acceptance without throwing [196.56ms]
(pass) should be able to grab the JSStreamSocket constructor [33.22ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should work with alpnProtocols
(pass) tls.connect > Bun.serve() should work with tls and Bun.file() [298.86ms]
(pass) tls.connect > should have peer certificate when using self asign certificate [101.96ms]
(skip) tls.connect > should have peer certificate
(skip) tls.connect > getCipher, getProtocol, getEphemeralKeyInfo, getSharedSigalgs, getSession, exportKeyingMaterial and isSessionReused should work
(skip) tls.connect > should process options correctly when connect is called with only options
(skip) tls.connect > should process port 
... (truncated)

release with fix: 18 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     d31efd7
  features     lto, baseline

23 deps, 136 codegen, 1176 objects in 6018ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/4] fetch lolhtml
[lolhtml] up to date
[2/4] fetch rust-argon2
[rust-argon2] up to date
[2/4] cargo plan → /workspace/bun/build/release/rust-target/plan.json
244 units: 172 lib, 16 proc-macro (host), 19 custom-build (host), 15 run custom-build, 17 lib (host), 4 run custom-build (host), 1 rlib
[3/4] reconfigure
[1/1499] mkdir stamps
[2/1499] mkdir codegen
[3/1499] install /workspace/bun
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939)

Checked 26 installs across 65 packages (no changes) [231.00ms]
[4/1499] rustc unicode_xid 
[5/1499] rustc heck 
[6/1499] rustc build_script_build 
[7/1499] rustc build_script_build 
[8/1499] rustc unicode_ident 
[9/1499] rustc build_script_build 
[10/1499] rustc build_script_build 
[11/1499] install /workspace/bun/packages/bun-error
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939)

Checked 1 install across 2 packages (no changes
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
src/js/internal/net/symbols.ts                    |   2 +
 src/js/node/net.ts                                |  68 ++--
 src/js/node/tls.ts                                |  47 +--
 test/js/node/tls/node-tls-client-wrap-fixture.mjs | 387 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts         | 356 +++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 806 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                               reads  edits  tests
src/js/internal/net/symbols.ts                         0      0     72
src/js/node/net.ts                                     8      0     73
src/js/node/tls.ts                                     1      0     74
test/js/node/tls/node-tls-client-wrap-fixture.mjs      2      3     77
test/js/node/tls/node-tls-connect.test.ts              0      0     69
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
Jarred-Sumner pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
### Problem
- A TLS 1.2 server can kill a bun process that calls `fetch()` twice. It
renegotiates on the idle keep-alive connection, and the next request
that takes the pooled socket dies: `panic: abort() called`, stack
`SSL_set_session` <- `session_cache::install` <- `HTTPClient::on_open`.
Regression in 1.4.0.
- `on_open` (`src/http/lib.rs`) runs per request. Its TLS setup was
guarded by `SSL_is_init_finished(ssl) == 0`, also true during a
renegotiation, so it offered the cached session again. BoringSSL aborts
on that.

### Fix
- The TLS setup (SNI, ALPN, inline reject, session offer) becomes
`configure_tls`. Only `on_connect` calls it, the open callback of a new
connection. The guard is gone.
- Correct because uSockets starts the handshake after that callback
returns, and only a new connection takes that path.
- Verified: `test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts` (new test, fails on
1.4.3-canary). Also ran the fetch-keepalive, fetch-session, proxy and
tls renegotiation suites.

### Background
- fetch parks idle connections in a pool and caches one TLS session per
origin (#36598). `SSL_set_session` offers it, legal only before a
handshake starts.
- A renegotiation is a second handshake on a live TLS 1.2 connection,
started by the server.
- Considered a guard in `session_cache::install` and a check at pool
pickup. Both leave per-connection work on the per-request path.

### Downsides
- A request that takes a socket mid-renegotiation still stalls until its
timeout: uSockets does not retry the parked write (#37094). A `todo`
test records it.
- Cost, release builds: a new TLS connection goes from 1,427 to 1,415
instructions, a pooled request from 5,146 to 5,123. Text grows by 1,024
bytes. The stripped binary keeps its size.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

**How to reach it.** No user code is needed beyond two `fetch()` calls
to one HTTPS origin with verification on (the default). The server
decides the rest. It does not have to withhold anything: a server that
answers and then calls `renegotiate()` is enough when the second request
starts inside the renegotiation. A server that never finishes the
renegotiation keeps the window open for as long as it likes.

**Why the guard was wrong.** `SSL_in_init()` is true whenever a
handshake object exists and is not finalized. That covers the time
before the first handshake step and the whole of a renegotiation.
uSockets allows a client renegotiation (`ssl_renegotiate_explicit`) and
runs it from its `SSL_read` loop, so the pool's idle data handler never
sees the HelloRequest and the socket stays parked while it renegotiates.

**What else the old block did to a renegotiating pooled socket.** It set
SNI and ALPN again. `session_cache::install` took the cached session out
of the cache before it offered it, so the next new connection could not
resume. It replaced the armed session sink with an unarmed one. The new
test checks the second point: after the pooled pickup, a new connection
still resumes the cached session.

**The test.** `fetch.tls.renegotiation-peer-fixture.mjs` runs under
Node, because BoringSSL cannot send a HelloRequest. It is a TLS 1.2
keep-alive origin behind a TCP relay that can hold the client's bytes,
plus a plain HTTP control server. The client fixture parks a connection,
asks the origin to renegotiate, and gets the answer only when the relay
holds the client's renegotiation ClientHello. Then it starts the request
that takes the pooled socket. A control request queued behind it on the
HTTP thread proves that the pickup ran. The test uses no timer.

**Measured, linux x64.**
- 1.4.3-canary.1 (`367d939d9`), release: the new test fails. The client
prints `panic: abort() called` at the pooled pickup.
- Debug build with ASAN of main `468efacace` without the change: the
client exits with SIGABRT at the pooled pickup.
- This branch, debug build with ASAN: the new test passes.
`fetch.tls.test.ts` (62 pass, 1 todo), `fetch-keepalive.test.ts` (49),
`fetch-session.test.ts` (34), `test/js/bun/http/proxy.test.ts` (97) and
`test/js/node/tls/renegotiation.test.ts` (21) pass. With `--todo`, the
todo test times out, as expected. `fetch-keepalive.test.ts` needed a
second run with a longer per-test timeout: four tests hit the 5 s limit
on the loaded build machine.
- Without a relay (the origin answers, then renegotiates, and the client
waits 1, 2 or 3 ms and fetches again), release builds, 5 runs per wait:
main `80de08a1db` aborts in 13 of 15 runs. This branch aborts in 0 of
15.

**What stays.** In 12 of those 15 runs on this branch the second request
does not get an answer. The server reports that the renegotiation ended,
and the request ends in a timeout. (Of the other 3, one got its answer
and two failed with `EPROTO`, which main also shows in this cell.) The
request write parks while the handshake runs, and uSockets dispatches
the writable event only in its `HANDSHAKE_COMPLETED` state, which a
renegotiation leaves until application data arrives. That is a separate
defect in `packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c`, and #37094 has a
fix for it. It does not come from the session cache: it also occurs with
`BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_FETCH_TLS_SESSION_CACHE=1`. The todo test next
to the new test awaits that request, so it flips when the write is
retried.

**Cost numbers.** Release builds of main `80de08a1db` and of this
branch's source on the same commit.
- Instructions from entry to return, nested calls included, counted with
gdb single-steps. 3 runs, 3 consecutive calls per run.
- Open callback of a new TLS connection
(`Trampolines<uws_handlers::HTTPClient<true>>::on_open`): 1,427 on main,
1,415 here. All 9 calls of each build agree.
- `HTTPContext<true>::connect` for a pooled TLS request, sixth request
of the process: 5,146, 5,160, 5,146 on main and 5,123, 5,118, 5,123
here. Later requests vary more from run to run: 6,617 to 6,762 on main,
6,585 to 6,723 here.
- `session_cache::install` calls: 1 per 1,000 keep-alive requests and
100 per 100 new connections, on both builds.
- Size: `bun-profile` text is 80,727,274 bytes on main and 80,728,298
here (+1,024). The stripped `bun` is 80,868,936 bytes on both. Symbols:
`HTTPClient::on_open::<true>` 1,474 to 280 bytes,
`HTTPContext<true>::connect` 5,283 to 5,798, the open callback 375 to
1,582. The TLS block is now part of the open callback, and the compiler
inlines the smaller `on_open` at the three pool reuse sites.
- Tools: gdb 16.3, `llvm-nm`, `llvm-size`. `perf`, `valgrind` and
`bloaty` are not installed on the machine.

**Related.** #41671 covers the other way into the same BoringSSL abort,
`socket.setSession()` after the handshake started. This change does not
depend on it.

**Other designs.**
- A guard in `session_cache::install`: it stops the abort, but the
cached session is still taken out of the cache and the sink is still
replaced.
- A stricter check in `on_open`: BoringSSL has no query for "the
handshake has not started", so it needs a uSockets accessor or new
per-socket state, and one branch stays on every pooled request.
- Skip a socket that is mid-handshake at pool pickup: the abort stops
only because `on_open` is not reached with such a socket. It also
changes which requests reuse a connection.
- Pass SNI, ALPN and the session to uSockets at connect time: a larger
change across every TLS client. It is not needed to remove this defect.

**Not run locally.** Windows and macOS.

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