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Problem

  • A JSX member-expression tag with many members (x = <a.b.b.b… />) uses ~n^2 bytes of AST arena. A 92 KB source leaves the process at 2.1 GB RSS, and 131 KB is OOM-killed at a 3 GB cap (fuzz ledger: JSX member-expression tag quadratic arena allocation).
  • The member loop in JSXTag::parse (src/js_parser/parser.rs:819) allocated name.len() + 1 + member.len() arena bytes for every .member and copied the whole accumulated name into it. The arena is only reset after the parse, so all n prefixes stay live.

Fix

  • Count the joined length while parsing the chain. Then allocate the dotted name once and fill it from the end by walking back down the E::Dot chain that the loop just built.
  • The name is only used to compare the opening and closing tag and in the mismatch error, so nothing else changes. <Foo.Bar> still does exactly one allocation.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/transpiler/transpiler-jsx-member-tag-oom.test.ts (16 tags x 8000 members: 1.07 GB RSS growth on 1.4.2, 6 to 9 MB with this change). Also test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, jsx-production.test.ts, jsx-deep-nesting-stack-overflow.test.ts and test/bundler/esbuild/ts.test.ts.

Background

  • JSXTag::parse handles <Foo.Bar.Baz ...>. It builds an E::Identifier for Foo and wraps it in one E::Dot per member.
  • It also keeps the dotted name as a byte string, so that </Foo.Bar.Baz> can be checked against the opening tag.
  • The parser allocates AST data in a bump arena that is reset per file. An allocation that is replaced right away is not reclaimed until the whole parse is done.
Notes
  • Release numbers for the ledger script (transformSync("x=<a" + ".b".repeat(n) + "/>"), one process): before, n = 4096 / 8192 / 16384 / 24000 took 10 / 28 / 106 / 240 ms and left 47 / 103 / 317 / 629 MB RSS. After: 2 / 2 / 3 / 2 ms and 34 / 38 / 41 / 42 MB.
  • n >= 16384 still ends in Maximum call stack size exceeded. That is the visit/print recursion limit on a 16k-deep member chain and is the same for x = a.b.b.b… without JSX. It is not part of this change.
  • The memory test uses scanImports rather than transformSync because debug builds hit the printer's recursion limit at a chain depth of about 1000, and the quadratic needs a deep chain to show clearly. Both go through the same JSXTag::parse.

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/transpiler/transpiler-jsx-member-tag-oom.test.ts

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JSXTag::parse built the dotted name of a tag like <a.b.c> by allocating
name.len() + 1 + member.len() bytes in the AST arena and copying the
accumulated prefix for every member. The arena is only reset after the
parse, so a tag with n members held ~n^2 bytes: a 92 KB source left the
process at 2.1 GB RSS and 131 KB was OOM-killed.

Count the length while parsing the chain and join the name once at the
end, reading the members back off the E::Dot chain that was just built.
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The JSX parser defers qualified member-name allocation until parsing completes. Regression tests cover name output, whitespace, closing-tag validation, and memory use for deep member chains.

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JSX member-tag parsing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Defer qualified-name allocation
src/js_parser/parser.rs
JSXTag::parse tracks the final name length, builds the member-expression chain, and reconstructs the dotted name with one allocation.
Validate member-tag behavior
test/js/bun/transpiler/transpiler-jsx-member-tag-oom.test.ts
Tests cover dotted-name output, whitespace, mismatched closing tags, and bounded memory use for 8,000-member chains.

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The member-tag allocation change preserves parsing behavior while bounding memory use for deep JSX member chains. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Reproduced on 1.4.2 and on a debug build of main with the ledger script: new Bun.Transpiler({ loader: "tsx" }).transformSync("x=<a" + ".b".repeat(n) + "/>") left 47 / 103 / 317 / 629 MB RSS for n = 4096 / 8192 / 16384 / 24000. With this branch the same run stays at 34 to 42 MB.

The regression test (test/js/bun/transpiler/transpiler-jsx-member-tag-oom.test.ts) fails on 1.4.2 (1073 MB growth) and on a debug build of main, and passes here (6 to 9 MB, under 1 s on a debug build).

CI: the new test passes on every lane. The one red job (debian 13 x64-asan) fails only in test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts, which also fails on main and which this PR does not touch.

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

Comment thread test/js/bun/transpiler/transpiler-jsx-member-tag-oom.test.ts Outdated
The fixed parser finishes in under a second on a debug build. Also
measure with memoryFootprint on macOS, like the sibling memory tests.
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LGTM — thanks for dropping the per-test timeout.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced the back-fill in JSXTag::parse: dot.name.slice() returns the same bytes summed into name_len, so end lands exactly at name.len() and the debug_assert holds; the zero-member path is unchanged.
  • Correctness test covers the joined output and both mismatch-error shapes, so the only consumer of name (open/close tag comparison + error text) is exercised.
  • New file follows the existing transpiler-*-oom.test.ts convention alongside two siblings; the 150 MB RSS bound is ~7× headroom over ASAN's post-fix delta and ~7× below the pre-fix growth.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes an O(n²) arena-memory blowup in JSXTag::parse (src/js_parser/parser.rs). The old loop re-allocated and copied the full accumulated dotted-name prefix into the AST bump arena once per .member; the arena only resets after the parse, so all n prefixes stayed live. The fix sums the joined length during the loop, then makes a single arena allocation and fills it back-to-front by walking the E::Dot chain that was just built. A new test file adds a correctness check (joined name renders right, mismatched closing tags still error with the correct message) and a spawned-subprocess memory test asserting RSS growth stays under 150 MB for 16×8000-member tags.

Security risks

None. This is a parser-internal memory optimization; the joined name is only used to compare opening/closing JSX tags and to format the mismatch error. No new input surface, no untrusted-length arithmetic beyond summing byte lengths of identifiers the lexer already produced. The single allocation is exactly name_len bytes and every copy_from_slice is bounded by the walked slices; the debug_assert_eq!(end, name.len()) and the correctness test guard the invariant.

Level of scrutiny

Medium — it touches the JS parser, but the change is ~20 lines, mechanical (sum-then-allocate-once replacing reallocate-per-iteration), and the sole consumer of the produced string is covered by the new correctness test. I read the surrounding function to confirm E::Dot.name is populated from the same member bytes whose lengths are summed, so the back-fill cannot underflow or leave gaps. The zero-member case (name_len == name.len()) skips the new block entirely, preserving prior behavior.

Other factors

The one nit from my prior review (per-test 60_000 timeout, forbidden by test/CLAUDE.md) was removed in the follow-up commit. The new test file matches the local convention set by transpiler-enum-concat-chain-oom.test.ts and transpiler-comma-chain-oom.test.ts (one fuzz-derived OOM finding per file), so the "add to existing file" default doesn't apply here. The RSS threshold isn't branched on isASAN/isDebug, but per the PR's measurements the post-fix delta is under 10 MB even under ASAN and the pre-fix delta is ~1 GB, so 150 MB gives comfortable margin in both directions without needing a branch. PR description states the broader transpiler/bundler JSX suites were run.

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