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A pin stops a detach but not a shrink. ArrayBuffer::resize marks the pages
it trims PROT_NONE, so the pointer and the length that PinnedArrayBuffer
captured when the command started can name unmapped memory.
Re-read the view's byte range from the JS value before each write into a
`> ${buf}` redirect target.
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WalkthroughChangesThe change adds live ArrayBuffer extent retrieval and refreshes resizable buffers before shell output writes. Built-in and subprocess output paths now use current live slices. Tests cover zero-length, shrinking, growing, and WebAssembly memory buffers. ArrayBuffer extent and refresh
Shell output integration
Resizable-buffer tests
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The WebAssembly regression test may pass without synchronizing growth with an active redirect write, leaving the crash scenario insufficiently covered. The test should be made deterministic before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts`:
- Line 3333: Add gated tests alongside the existing ab.resize(0) cases to cover
shrinking to a nonzero length and growing the buffer. Verify shrink truncates
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Status. How I reproduced it, on released bun 1.4.3 (SEGV 3 of 3 for each): const ab = new ArrayBuffer(1 << 24, { maxByteLength: 1 << 25 });
const u8 = new Uint8Array(ab);
const p = Bun.$`yes > ${u8}`.quiet().nothrow();
const done = p.then(r => r); // Bun.$ is lazy: this starts the command and takes the pin
await Bun.sleep(0);
ab.resize(0);
await done;Replace Review feedback addressed:
A const mem = new WebAssembly.Memory({ initial: 128, maximum: 132 });
const target = new Uint8Array(mem.buffer);
const p = Bun.$`yes > ${target}`.quiet().nothrow();
const running = p.then(o => o);
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`PinnedArrayBuffer::refresh` skipped a buffer that is not resizable. A `grow()` of a bounds-checked `WebAssembly.Memory` frees the old block and detaches its fixed-length buffer, which JSC permits while the buffer is pinned, so both shell writers kept writing through the freed pointer.
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Reproduction on 1.4.3, a crash 20 of 20 runs: // BUN_JSC_useWasmFastMemory=0 Malloc=1 bun wasmgrow.js
const mem = new WebAssembly.Memory({ initial: 128, maximum: 132 });
const target = new Uint8Array(mem.buffer);
const p = Bun.$`yes > ${target}`.quiet().nothrow();
const running = p.then(o => o);
await Promise.resolve();
mem.grow(4);
console.log((await running).exitCode);It needs both settings. The new test spawns a child with those two settings, so the crash on an unfixed build cannot take the test runner with it. The ASAN frames, the subprocess door, and the reason the target view spans the whole memory are in the notes in the PR body. |
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Two adjacent faces of the same hazard, so a reviewer can see where the line falls:
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`2>&1 ${buf}` is the one spelling that sets DUPLICATE_OUT with a buffer
target. That inverts redirects_elsewhere() for stderr, so the close path
tees the target through BufferedOutput::slice(). It read the range
captured at pin time, and the whole target rather than the written
prefix: 5 bytes of output memcpy'd 8 MiB out of a resized buffer.
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In `@test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts`:
- Around line 3481-3482: Replace the Promise.resolve synchronization before
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Status after the self-review. The review found a third site that the first two commits missed, and it was right.
The memcpy length was the whole 8 MiB target for 5 bytes of output, because that arm also returned the whole range instead of the written prefix. Both are fixed in 384ee34, with a test for the Six tests now. Each one fails on released 1.4.3, five of them by crashing it. Two other review points, for the record:
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#43196 edits the same two write arms as this PR: the This PR fixes a crash, so it should merge first. #43196 then needs a small rebase. After that rebase, the two external-command tests here that |
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Problem
Bun.$crashes withpanic(main thread): Segmentation faultwhen a> ${buf}target shrinks mid-command, or when itsWebAssembly.Memorygrows.BuiltinIO::write_no_io_to(src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs:357),BufferedOutput::appendandslice(src/runtime/shell/subproc.rs:1546,:1536). A pin stops only atransfer().Fix
PinnedArrayBuffer::live_slice_mut()andlive_slice()ask JSC for the view's current range before each use. A detached view reads as empty.2>&1 ${buf}tee use them, for every kind of buffer. All run on the JS thread, so the re-read cannot race a resize.test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts, six new tests, each fails on 1.4.2 and on main. Alsotest/js/bun/shell/.Background
PinnedArrayBufferis the pin plus GC root the shell holds on a redirect target.resize()ignores the pin and makes the trimmed pages inaccessible. A bounds-checked wasm grow frees the old block and detaches the buffer, pinned or not.Downsides
result.stdoutofcmd 2>&1 ${buf}is the bytes written, not the whole target.> ${buf}redirect overflows the target buffer #43196).Notes
Cost for a caller that never changes the target. Release builds of main (
e32be5c66b) and of that commit with this branch merged, linux x64.perfandvalgrindwere not usable on the machine (perf_event_openreturnsEPERM). The counts come from a gdb script that single-steps one call from its entry to its return. Every sample of a configuration gave the same count.BuiltinIO::write_no_io_to, one 8 KiB chunk ofyesUint8Array,Buffer, view of a wasm memoryArrayBufferYes::write_no_io_loop, four chunks and the task enqueueBuiltinIO::write_no_io_to,echo helloPipeReader::on_read_chunk, 4096 bytes from an external commandThe delta does not depend on the chunk size. It is the call into JSC plus the update of the cached range.
echo > ${buf}pays it once per command.Wall clock: one process runs
yes > ${buf}32 times into a 64 MiB target (262144 chunks). Runs alternate between the two builds on one pinned core, 25 rounds, 100 runs per target kind.The machine ran other jobs at the same time, so the spread is large. Each delta is of the same order as the spread. The wall clock and the CPU time show no cost beyond the one the instruction counts give: 62 or 197 instructions for each of the 262144 chunks.
Binary size (
sizeon the stripped release binary):.textis 58300277 bytes on main and 58300789 with this PR, +512..rodata,.dataand.bssdo not change. The file is 80995912 bytes in both builds.What a program observes when it does not crash. The same two release builds.
yeswritesyes: ENOSPCyes: ENOSPCyeswritesyes: ENOSPCyes: ENOSPCsh -c 'printf OUT' 2>&1 ${buf}, 64-byte target filled with.result.stdoutis 64 bytes,OUTand 61 dotsresult.stdoutisOUTThe six tests on a build without the fix. Each was run alone on released 1.4.2 and on a release build of main
e32be5c66b. Four crash the test runner withpanic(main thread): Segmentation fault(the tworesize(0)cases, the2>&1 ${buf}case, the shrink to a shorter length). The grow case fails its assertion. In the wasm case the spawned child crashes and the test fails. All six pass on the release build and on the debug ASAN build of main with this branch merged.The branch against current main. A merge of this branch into main
e32be5c66bis clean. Eight commits on main since the branch point touch the same files. On a debug ASAN build of the merge,bunshell.test.tsgives 438 pass and 4 fail. The four are 5 s timeouts on a loaded machine:long pipeline,pathological deep nesting with long chains,&> and &>> redirect,does not modify export env of parent. Three pass when run alone, 3 of 3.long pipelinealso times out on the debug build ofe32be5c66bwithout this branch, 3 of 3. On the release build of the merge the file gives 441 pass and 1 fail, the samelong pipelinetimeout. The other 42 files intest/js/bun/shell/give 534 pass and 5 fail on both release builds. Three failures are the same on both: the twolspermission cases (the run was as root) andshell load > immediate exit, a 90 s timeout. The other two are 5 s timeouts, and the two builds differ only in which tests hit that timeout.fd leak > #11816, the pair that timed out with this branch, times out on the build of main too when run alone, 3 of 3.Details moved from the earlier description. A target that shrank, or whose buffer is gone, stops the write: the builtin path reports
ENOSPC, the subprocess path drops the rest. The binding reportsvector()andbyteLength(), which follow a resize and an auto-length view, and reports null and 0 for a detached view. Only the signaling mode of a wasm memory grows in place.Earlier notes, unchanged:
Reproduction (released 1.4.3, SEGV 3 of 3 for each):
.then()matters. Without it the pin is taken after the resize, the captured length is 0, and every write is skipped.Why the faulting address is inside the buffer:
tryAllocateResizableMemoryreservesmaxByteLengthrounded up to the page size and protects everything past the initial length.ArrayBuffer::resizeto a smaller length callsOSAllocator::protect(memory + desiredSize, bytesToSubtract, false, false). The base pointer never moves, so the stale pointer still points at the reservation, and the write lands on aPROT_NONEpage.Test shape:
yes, which writes four 8 KB chunks per event-loop turn..then()runs the first batch synchronously, theawait Promise.resolve()drains the microtask queue before the loop picks up the next batch, so theresize(0)is always between two batches.Bun.serve: the child writes, fetches, then writes again. The parent resizes while the child waits, so the second chunk always arrives after the resize.Suites run with the debug build: all of
test/js/bun/shell/. The failures there (fd leak > memleak_*,shell load > immediate exit, the twolspermission cases) reproduce without this change. The leak tests pass under a release binary, so their 100 s timeouts are debug and ASAN build speed, and thelspermission cases need a non-root user.The third site, found by review after the first two were fixed:
BufferedOutput::slice()is the tee a command's close path runs, and it read the range captured at pin time. An earlier note here claimed no reader reaches it for a buffer target. That was wrong.2>&1 ${buf}is the one spelling that setsDUPLICATE_OUTwith a buffer target, which invertsredirects_elsewhere()for stderr and reaches the tee. It also copied the whole target instead of the written prefix: 5 bytes of output memcpy'd 8 MiB. The patched build still SEGV'd on that spelling until the last commit, which re-reads the range there (live_slice) and stops at the cursor.refresh/live_extent/JSC__JSValue__arrayBufferExtentare meant to be the one place that asks JSC for a pinned value's current range. #42203 fixes the same hazard forfs.readinto a wasm-memory view and adds its ownwrite_back. Whichever lands second should call this primitive rather than add a second one.The wasm face, and why it needs two env settings. Reproduction (released 1.4.3, crash 20 of 20):
BUN_JSC_useWasmFastMemory=0picks BoundsChecking, which reallocates on a grow. The signaling mode grows in place, so the stale pointer stays valid there and the bug is invisible.Malloc=1turns off the Gigacage: the freed block is then unmapped instead of returned to a cage free list that keeps it mapped. With the default settings the same script prints1and exits 0, which is why a fuzz pass over the release binary does not see this face.The target view spans the whole memory on purpose. A 1 MiB view over an 8 MiB memory crashed only about half the time, because a stale write of 32 KB can land in a part of the freed hole that something else has taken. A view over the whole memory crashed 20 of 20.
Frames on the debug ASAN build, before the second commit (
WRITE of size 8192, the first write after the grow):yeswrites four 8 KB chunks per event-loop turn, so 32768 bytes land before thegrow()and the rest after it. That count is the same for a file and for-e.The subprocess door has the same wasm face:
sh -c 'sleep 0.3; head -c 200000 /dev/zero' > ${viewOverWasmMemory}with agrow()at 100 ms crashes 3 of 3 on 1.4.3. It is not a separate test, because both doors reach the target throughlive_slice_mut, and the subprocess door already has a resize test with a deterministic gate.Checked the other two ways a pinned target can change under a deferred writer. A
transfer()of a pinned buffer copies and leaves the source attached, so it is safe. A growableSharedArrayBuffernever detaches and keeps its reservation, and the re-read picks up the new length.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/shell/bunshell.test.ts