sql: close a TLS socket at once instead of waiting for the peer's close_notify

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Problem

• Every Bun.SQL teardown over TLS (postgres, mysql) sends close_notify, then keeps the socket and the pool slot until the server closes.
• A peer that never answers leaves close() pending and the process alive. A server busy with a query answers late: the next reserve() or query waits, then rejects (ERR_POSTGRES_EXPECTED_REQUEST).
• Cause: both adapters close with CloseCode::Normal. On TLS, us_internal_ssl_close (packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c) defers the fd close and on_close until the peer replies.

Fix

• close_now (src/sql_jsc/shared/socket_teardown.rs) replaces that close in both adapters: close_notify through shutdown() after a completed handshake, then FastShutdown. libpq's PQfinish does the same.
• usockets defers a FastShutdown once behind unsent ciphertext. A second one drops that ciphertext and closes with a FIN. The peer keeps every byte the kernel accepted.
• Verified: test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts (9 new tests, all fail on main), PostgreSQL 17 over TLS (Notes), all of test/js/sql.

Background

• Close codes: on TLS Normal waits for the peer's close_notify. FastShutdown closes the fd with a FIN. Failure resets.
• shutdown() on a TLS socket sends close_notify and SHUT_WR.
• on_close now runs inside the close call, as on plain TCP.

Downsides

• A close under send backpressure drops ciphertext the kernel had not accepted. The peer sees a FIN with no close_notify.
• A server that writes after the close gets a reset, as on plain TCP. PostgreSQL then logs could not send data to client.

Notes

• Every path: sql.close(), close({ timeout }), a reserved connection's close(), idleTimeout and maxLifetime eviction, a connection timeout after the handshake, and a protocol violation. The close sites are PostgresSQLConnection::ref_and_close and MySQLConnection::close.
• Why a late answer rejects other callers. A reserved connection's close() does not release its pool slot. The slot is released from the connection's close event. On TLS that event waited for the server, so the slot stayed connected and reserved, and every later reserve(), begin() and query queued behind it. When the old connection closed at last, release() (src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts) handed its error to every caller in the queue. With close_now the close event runs inside close(), the slot is free at once, and the next caller dials a new connection. Plain TCP always did this.
• A PostgreSQL 17.11 server with ssl=on, debug builds of main 2722608 and of this branch, sslmode=require:
  • max: 2, two reserved connections closed while select pg_sleep(5) runs on each, then a query, a begin() and a reserve(). main: all three rejected with ERR_POSTGRES_EXPECTED_REQUEST "Failed to read data" after 4.9 s. This branch: all three resolved after 430 to 449 ms (a new TLS connection on a debug build). sslmode=disable on both builds: 180 to 300 ms.
  • max: 1, 50 rounds of reserve(), an awaited query, close(). main: 25 rounds rejected with ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_CLOSED. This branch: 0. sslmode=disable on both builds: 0.
  • close({ timeout: 1 }) with select pg_sleep(5) in flight, time from close() resolved to the process exit event. main: 3,920 to 4,135 ms in 12 of 12 runs, until the query ended on the server. This branch: 6 to 20 ms in 40 of 40 runs. sslmode=disable: 6 to 16 ms on both builds, with one run of 269 ms.
• The rejected-certificate path is no longer part of this PR. When the PR was opened, the close after a failed verify-full check also waited for the peer. Since tls: reject a bad server chain before the client certificate goes out in fetch, SQL, Redis and WebSocket clients #43694 the client rejects a bad chain inside the handshake and closes with a bare FIN, and main now checks the name there too (us_cert_verify_cb). The test for that path passed on main, so it is removed.
• The two new scenarios use a TLS peer that behaves like a server. It answers the client's close_notify with its own close. In the busy case it first writes the answer of the query that was running.
• Adds is_ssl_handshake_finished to bun_uws_sys (binds the existing us_socket_is_ssl_handshake_finished). shutdown() before the handshake is finished does a raw SHUT_WR, then ssl_update_handshake sees a shut-down socket and reports the pending handshake as failed with no reason, which trips !message.isEmpty() in JSC::createError (seen in sql-mysql-tls-plaintext-injection.test.ts). Hence the handshake check.
• The fallback, measured. Peer: python ssl server with SO_RCVBUF=4096 that stops reading after the startup. Client: one 32 MiB simple query, then close({ timeout: "0" }) 300 ms later. The client consumed 1,835,008 bytes before the wire blocked, so a spill is pending at close. With a Failure fallback (the first version of this PR, and what the valkey client does) the peer got 0 bytes and ECONNRESET, 2 of 2 runs. With a second FastShutdown the peer got 1,785,856 bytes (every whole record the kernel had accepted) and then a FIN without close_notify, 2 of 2 runs. close() settled in 49 ms both ways. The second call is not deferred because us_internal_ssl_close checks !s->ssl_close_after_spill, which the first call set. It then runs ssl_release_spill and us_internal_socket_close_raw with no SO_LINGER.
• That case has no test in the repo. It needs a peer with a fixed, small receive buffer, and Bun has no API to set SO_RCVBUF. With the default buffers the spill drains inside shutdown() and the peer gets a clean close_notify (also measured: 2,621,440 bytes, then clean TLS EOF).
• The only other way a FastShutdown leaves the socket open is a close from inside a BoringSSL callback (ssl_in_use), which these adapters never do.
• The test peers are Bun.listen({ allowHalfOpen: true }) servers that upgradeTLS({ isServer: true }) after the plaintext SSL request. A node:tls TLSSocket wrapped over a net.Socket forces allowHalfOpen: false and always answers the client's close_notify at once, so it can neither stay silent nor answer late.
• The silent peer proves the client fd is gone with a probe write after the client's close_notify: the write only fails (and closes the peer's side) once the kernel answers it with a reset.
• Not in this PR: the client sends no Terminate (postgres) or COM_QUIT (mysql) before it closes. That is true on plain TCP too and is a separate change.
• Other open PRs that edit the same lines: sql: implement Query.cancel() for postgres #33370 (ref_and_close), and sql: close({ timeout: 0 }) closes at once (gate on presence, not truthiness) #33740, sql: a later close() waits for the pending close, for at most its timeout #43959, sql: close() gives the queries that started before it to the pool first #44040 (the same test file). Whichever lands second needs a merge.
• Supersedes sql: close the socket at once when postgres or mysql fail a TLS connection whose peer stopped responding #39015 (closed), which switched only the fail() path to Failure (an RST) and left the user close() path waiting on the peer. Its protocol-violation scenario is folded into the test file here.
• Suites run on the branch merged with main 2722608: all of test/js/sql (922 pass, 51 fail, none from this diff). 46 failures are MySQL tests that need a real server: the local MariaDB rejects root, and they fail the same way on main. The other 5 are subprocess tests that go over the 5 s default on a debug build in the full run. They pass alone on this branch and on main with the same durations. cargo check -p bun_sql_jsc --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc passes.

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fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 9 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts:
(pass) postgres: forced close() resolves while a connection is mid-handshake [958.80ms]
(pass) postgres: close() does not fire onclose for slots that never connected [226.78ms]
(pass) postgres: forced close() resolves when called before the native handle is stored [84.96ms]
(pass) mysql: forced close() resolves while a connection is mid-handshake [85.41ms]
(pass) mysql: close() does not fire onclose for slots that never connected [53.47ms]
(pass) mysql: forced close() resolves when called before the native handle is stored [20.70ms]
(pass) postgres: close() mid-reconnect does not fire onclose for the unfinished cycle [219.73ms]
(pass) pool scans tolerate unassigned connection slots during pool start [52.03ms]
204 |   return `{${values.map(arrayValueSerializer.bind(this, type, isPostgresNumericType(type), isPostgresJsonType(type))).join(delimiter)}}`;
205 | }
206 | function wrapPostgresError(error) {
207 |   if 
... (truncated)

release without fix: 9 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939d9)

test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts:
(pass) postgres: forced close() resolves while a connection is mid-handshake [7.51ms]
(pass) postgres: close() does not fire onclose for slots that never connected [2.62ms]
(pass) postgres: forced close() resolves when called before the native handle is stored [0.72ms]
(pass) mysql: forced close() resolves while a connection is mid-handshake [1.65ms]
(pass) mysql: close() does not fire onclose for slots that never connected [1.01ms]
(pass) mysql: forced close() resolves when called before the native handle is stored [0.40ms]
(pass) postgres: close() mid-reconnect does not fire onclose for the unfinished cycle [3.84ms]
(pass) pool scans tolerate unassigned connection slots during pool start [1.07ms]
171 |   let delimiter = type === "BOX" ? ";" : ",";
172 |   return `{${values.map(arrayValueSerializer.bind(this, type, isPostgresNumericType(type), isPostgresJsonType(type))).join(delimiter)}}`;
173 | }
174 | function wrapPostgresError(error) {
175 |   if (Error.isError(error))
176 |   return new PostgresError(error.message, error);
               ^
PostgresError: Connection closed
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... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts:
(pass) postgres: forced close() resolves while a connection is mid-handshake [689.44ms]
(pass) postgres: close() does not fire onclose for slots that never connected [219.40ms]
(pass) postgres: forced close() resolves when called before the native handle is stored [39.14ms]
(pass) mysql: forced close() resolves while a connection is mid-handshake [93.79ms]
(pass) mysql: close() does not fire onclose for slots that never connected [112.90ms]
(pass) mysql: forced close() resolves when called before the native handle is stored [25.26ms]
(pass) postgres: close() mid-reconnect does not fire onclose for the unfinished cycle [695.19ms]
(pass) pool scans tolerate unassigned connection slots during pool start [47.94ms]
(pass) postgres: close() settles against a TLS peer that never answers close_notify [360.74ms]
(pass) mysql: close() settles against a TLS peer that never answers close_notify [210.35ms]
(pass) postgres: 
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 11471ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/157] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[2/156] rustc bun_uws_sys 
[3/156] rustc bun_uws 
[4/156] rustc bun_io 
[5/156] rustc bun_crash_handler 
[6/156] rustc bun_event_loop 
[7/156] rustc bun_sourcemap 
[8/156] rustc bun_spawn 
[9/156] rustc bun_ini 
[10/156] rustc bun_js_printer 
[11/156] rustc bun_patch 
[12/156] rustc bun_http 
[13/156] pch pch/root-pch.h.hxx.pch
[14/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-packages_bun_usockets_src_crypto-0.cpp.o
[15/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node_http-0.cpp.o
[16/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node_crypto-0.cpp.o
[17/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node_crypto-1.cpp.o
[18/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node-0.cpp.o
[19/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-0.cpp.o
[20/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-1.cpp.o
[21/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-5.cpp.o
[22/156] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-4.cpp.o
[23/156] cxx obj/unified/Unif
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

src/sql_jsc/lib.rs                               |   2 +
 src/sql_jsc/mysql/MySQLConnection.rs             |   5 +-
 src/sql_jsc/postgres/PostgresSQLConnection.rs    |   7 +-
 src/sql_jsc/shared/socket_teardown.rs            |  17 ++
 src/uws_sys/socket.rs                            |  11 +
 src/uws_sys/us_socket_t.rs                       |   6 +
 test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts | 321 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 364 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

gate history · 3 passed · 1 rejected · iteration 4

evidence per changed file

file                                              reads  edits  tests
src/sql_jsc/lib.rs                                    0      0     14
src/sql_jsc/mysql/MySQLConnection.rs                  0      0     14
src/sql_jsc/postgres/PostgresSQLConnection.rs         1      0     14
src/sql_jsc/shared/socket_teardown.rs                 2      3     14
src/uws_sys/socket.rs                                 1      1     14
src/uws_sys/us_socket_t.rs                            0      0     14
test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts      4      4     14

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When a TLS SQL connection was closed, the client sent close_notify and then kept the file descriptor and its pool slot until the peer answered, so a silent or slow peer left the pool's close() pending and kept the process alive. The fix routes MySQL and PostgreSQL shutdown through a shared close_now helper that sends close_notify only when the TLS handshake has completed, then immediately applies a FastShutdown close and falls back to a Failure close if the socket is still open. Teardown therefore completes on the client's side without waiting on the peer, freeing the socket and pool slot p…

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MySQL and PostgreSQL connection shutdown now uses a shared helper that checks TLS handshake completion and applies fast socket teardown. Tests cover TLS peers that do not respond to close_notify, connection reuse, protocol violations, and PostgreSQL reservation behavior.

Changes

SQL socket teardown

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose TLS handshake state src/uws_sys/socket.rs, src/uws_sys/us_socket_t.rs	Socket bindings and wrappers expose whether an SSL handshake has completed.
Apply handshake-aware teardown src/sql_jsc/shared/socket_teardown.rs, src/sql_jsc/lib.rs, src/sql_jsc/mysql/MySQLConnection.rs, src/sql_jsc/postgres/PostgresSQLConnection.rs	MySQL and PostgreSQL shutdown paths call socket_teardown::close_now. The helper shuts down completed TLS handshakes, uses FastShutdown, and retries if the socket remains open.
Validate pending connection closure test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts	Tests cover pending TLS peers, idle-timeout eviction, connection reuse, protocol violations, and a busy PostgreSQL reservation.

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The change prevents SQL teardown from waiting indefinitely on silent TLS peers. Inspected shutdown and ownership paths support merging after normal checks.

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Ready for review at 18fd201, merged with main 2722608.

Reproduce with bun bd test test/js/sql/sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts on main: the 9 TLS tests fail (6 wait for a peer that never answers the close_notify, 3 get ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_CLOSED, ERR_MYSQL_CONNECTION_CLOSED or ERR_POSTGRES_EXPECTED_REQUEST from a server that answers it late). All 17 tests in the file pass on this branch.

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• Two new scenarios that need no silent peer: reserve() after close() of a reserved connection (postgres and mysql), and a query after close() of a reserved connection whose query still runs on the server.
• The rejected-certificate test is removed. Since tls: reject a bad server chain before the client certificate goes out in fetch, SQL, Redis and WebSocket clients #43694 the client rejects a bad chain inside the handshake, so that test passed on main.
• The PR body has the numbers from a PostgreSQL 17 server over TLS.

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A review of #39617 ran into the deferred close from the pool's side. reserved.close() relies on the connection's close handler to return the pool slot (#33743). Over TLS with a peer that does not answer the close, that handler does not run, so the slot stays out until the peer does. I checked it with a postgres TLS mock frozen by SIGSTOP: close({ timeout }) resolves, onclose fires only once the peer runs again. With this PR on_close runs inside the close call, so the slot comes back inside close(). The TLS versions of the two mocks in test/js/sql/sql-pool-transaction-isolation.test.ts on #39617's branch (secure option) could host a case for that path if you want one.

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Beyond the inline finding, I also checked close_now against usockets: us_internal_ssl_close defers a FastShutdown at most once (gated on !ssl_close_after_spill), so the second call cannot be parked again, and us_socket_is_ssl_handshake_finished returns 1 for a non-SSL socket. Querying is_closed() on the copied handle after the first close is safe because a closed us_socket_t stays allocated until the loop's end-of-iteration sweep.

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The change replaces CloseKind::Normal with a shared close_now helper in the Postgres and MySQL adapters, adds an is_ssl_handshake_finished FFI binding through uws_sys, and adds TLS-peer fixtures and tests; it touches the TLS teardown path but no auth or crypto decisions. One confirmed test-cleanup nit is posted inline, so this note only records the usockets semantics verified this run.

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