[thatdoogieguy]

Fixes #42398
Fixes #41133

What does this PR do?

Fixes socket.setTimeout() never firing while a socket is still connecting, when a write was queued before the handshake completed.

Cause. Socket.prototype._onTimeout suppresses the idle timeout whenever _pendingData is set, so a timeout never fires mid-write. But _write() populates _pendingData precisely while the socket is still connecting — those bytes are queued for after the handshake, not a write in flight — and this[kTimeout] is one-shot with no refresh() on the suppression path. The timer fires once, sees _pendingData, returns, and is gone. Node suppresses on the same idea but calls this._unrefTimer() before returning and compares write-queue progress rather than mere non-emptiness, so it reschedules instead of dying.

The fixing line is the new if (!this.connecting) gate in src/js/node/net.ts; connected sockets run the original two guards unchanged.

Not a 1.4 regression in net — _onTimeout is byte-identical from bun-v1.3.14 through main. #31587 made it reachable by deleting ClientRequest's own kTimeoutTimer and delegating to the socket's timer, so 1.4's http.request({ timeout }) no longer bounds the connect phase (end() has already queued the request head). 1.3.x was routing around the latent bug.

Repro (no deps; RFC 5737 TEST-NET-1 drops packets rather than refusing):

import net from 'node:net'
const socket = net.connect({ host: '192.0.2.1', port: 80 })
socket.setTimeout(1000)
socket.on('error', () => {})
socket.write('hello')          // remove this line and the timeout fires
socket.on('timeout', () => console.log('timeout'))

before:  (nothing, ever)
after:   timeout        @1024ms
node 25: timeout        @1001ms

How did you verify your code works?

Built bun-debug from main (511ddb3) and measured every combination against node 25.3.0. Every cell now matches node, including the two that should not fire:

still connecting	before	after	node 25
socket.setTimeout, no pending write	fires	fires	fires
socket.setTimeout, with pending write	never	fires	fires
http.request({timeout})	never	fires	fires
http.request + on('socket') socket.setTimeout	never	fires	fires
http.request + req.setTimeout()	never	never	never
http.request + AbortSignal	aborts	aborts	aborts

req.setTimeout() deliberately still does not fire during connect — node does not either, and setSocketTimeout already mirrors node by deferring to sock.once("connect").

Connected-socket behaviour is unchanged: with a server that accepts then never responds, all four mechanisms fired before and after.

Tests added

• test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts — the defect itself, two cases: timeout fires with no write queued (control), and with a write queued before connect. Both assert socket.connecting === true at the moment it fires, so they cannot degrade into idle-path tests.
• test/js/node/http/client-timeout-error.test.ts — the http symptom, alongside the existing timeout cases.

The tests are network-free: a lookup callback that never answers keeps the socket in connecting without sending a packet (thanks @robobun — 192.0.2.1 fails immediately on a host with no default route). Checked against Bun 1.4.2 and node 25 that this reproduces the same state.

Each test was run against the fix, against this branch with only the !this.connecting gate removed, and against released 1.4.2 (two runs each):

	fix	gate removed	released 1.4.2
net: no write queued (control)	passes	passes	passes
net: write queued before connect	passes	fails	fails
http: timeout while connecting	passes	fails	fails

Other suites run locally (debug build, macOS arm64), a build of main (511ddb3) against this branch, compared by test name:

• test/js/node/net/ — no new failures. Both fail only server.address() > when listening on a specified host and port, ….
• test/js/node/http/ — no new failures. Both fail the same three (Should be compatible with node.js ×2, should not crash on abort (node-http-uaf-fixture.ts)).

Cross-platform. The defect reproduces identically on Linux, so it is not macOS-specific: oven/bun:1.4.2 (glibc) and oven/bun:1.4.2-alpine (musl) both never fire with a write queued, where node:24-slim fires at 1002ms. Applying this fix's logic to a released bun from userland (replacing Socket.prototype._onTimeout, public bufferSize standing in for the internal getBufferedAmount) makes both fire at ~1002ms on glibc and musl. That exercises the algorithm on real Linux socket behaviour rather than the compiled patch — the build itself I have only run on macOS arm64.

Not included

The stalled-write-queue timeout (a connected socket whose peer stops reading) is a separate defect in the same function, fixed in #42404. The two PRs touch adjacent lines of _onTimeout, the bun:test import in node-net.test.ts, and both append a describe at the end of that file, so whichever lands second needs a trivial rebase — happy to do it.

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Walkthrough

The socket timeout handler now emits timeouts during TCP connection establishment. Regression tests cover direct sockets with and without queued writes, plus HTTP client requests that remain connecting.

Changes

Socket timeout behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gate write suppression during connection src/js/node/net.ts	Socket.prototype._onTimeout checks pending-write state only after the socket stops connecting, allowing connect-phase timeout events.
Validate connecting-socket timeouts test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts, test/js/node/http/client-timeout-error.test.ts	Regression tests verify timeout events for connecting sockets with and without queued data, including HTTP client requests. The tests clean up sockets and requests after execution.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, robobun

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The connect-phase timeout fix and its net and HTTP coverage have no remaining concrete merge-blocking risk.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#42398] and [#41133]. Socket.prototype._onTimeout applies pending-data suppression only when connecting is false. A connecting socket can therefore emi…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation change directly fixes the linked socket timeout defect. The added net and HTTP tests directly cover [#42398] and [#41133]. No unrelated change is established by the reviewed PR summ…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: firing socket timeouts while the socket is still connecting.
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Good catch — fixed in e568178. The net test already asserted socket.connecting at the moment it fired, but the http one did not, so it could have degraded to the idle path and still passed. It now captures the socket from the "socket" event and asserts:

expect(outcome).toEqual({ outcome: "timeout", stillConnecting: true });

Still fails on released 1.4.2 and passes here, with the stillConnecting field doing the work in the failure diff.

Also squashed to a single commit.

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Thank you for this PR, and for the careful measurements.

I had an older PR, #35813, that changes the same two guards in _onTimeout. I am closing it in favour of this PR and #42404. They split the work per defect and link the issues. Here is what #35813 established, so that it is not lost.

• 1.4.0: http.ClientRequest timeout never arms while socket is connecting to an unreachable host (regression) #41133 is the same defect as socket.setTimeout() never fires while the socket is still connecting if a write was queued #42398. The reporter hits it through @opentelemetry/otlp-exporter-base, with http.request({ timeout }) against a host that drops the SYN. Consider adding Fixes #41133 to the description.
• Cross-check. I built main (a749e0a) with this PR and net: fire socket.setTimeout() when the write queue stalls #42404 merged by hand. The four tests of net: emit socket 'timeout' while still connecting (node:http dead-host guard) #35813 pass on that build. Your tests from both PRs pass on net: emit socket 'timeout' while still connecting (node:http dead-host guard) #35813. Node's own timeout tests for net, http, https, tls and http2, plus a few write-path tests (82 files), give the same result on both builds, with no new failure against main. A tls.connect({ socket }) on a socket that is still connecting also fires now, because connecting is true on the wrapper.
• The two PRs conflict in _onTimeout. The merged function that I tested is below. It can save you a rebase.
• Test portability. The new tests need 192.0.2.1 to drop the SYN. My test machine has no default route, so connect() fails at once (ENETUNREACH in Node, ECONNREFUSED in Bun). All three tests then fail with and without the fix, the control case too. For the cross-check I pointed them at an unused address on the local subnet. Other tests in this repo use 192.0.2.1, so I do not think that this blocks the PR. net: emit socket 'timeout' while still connecting (node:http dead-host guard) #35813 used a lookup callback that never calls back. The socket then stays in connecting, and no packet leaves the machine. The change is one line per test (below). With it, the two affected tests fail on main and pass on the merge.

Merged _onTimeout (this PR + #42404), as tested

Socket.prototype._onTimeout = function () {
  // While still connecting, _pendingData holds bytes queued by _write() for
  // after the handshake, not a write in flight. Suppressing here drops the
  // connect-phase timeout entirely, because this[kTimeout] is one-shot and is
  // never refreshed on the suppression path.
  if (!this.connecting) {
    // if there is pending data, write is in progress
    // so we suppress the timeout
    if (this._pendingData) {
      return;
    }

    const handle = this._handle;
    if (handle) {
      // Suppress only while the write queue is actually DRAINING. Comparing
      // against the previous tick's size rather than merely checking for a
      // non-empty queue matters twice over: a queue that has not moved since the
      // last tick is a stalled peer, which is precisely what the timeout exists
      // to surface, and this[kTimeout] is one-shot, so returning without
      // _unrefTimer() consumed the timer and no later tick ever ran.
      const writeQueueSize = getBufferedAmount(handle);
      if (writeQueueSize > 0 && writeQueueSize !== this[kLastWriteQueueSize]) {
        this[kLastWriteQueueSize] = writeQueueSize;
        this._unrefTimer();
        return;
      }
    }
  }
  this.emit("timeout");
};

Network-free variant of the tests

test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts:

-    const socket = connect({ host: NON_ROUTABLE, port: 80 });
+    const socket = connect({ host: "stalled.invalid", port: 80, lookup: () => {} });

test/js/node/http/client-timeout-error.test.ts:

     const req = request({
-      host: "192.0.2.1", // TEST-NET-1: no route, connect never completes
+      host: "stalled.invalid",
       port: 80,
       path: "/",
       timeout: 100,
+      lookup: () => {},
     });

lookup is never answered, so the socket has no address to dial and socket.connecting stays true. To the timer this is the same state as a SYN that nobody acknowledges.

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Both addressed, squashed into the single commit 0001f0b.

• Assert the socket is still connecting. Done — the request's socket is captured from the "socket" event and its state sampled at the moment timeout fires:

  expect(outcome).toEqual({ outcome: "timeout", stillConnecting: true });

  Without it the case could have regressed onto the idle path (the first test in this file) and still passed.

• Regression-context comments in the test body. Trimmed. The bug mechanism lives in the commit message and PR description; what remains above the test is the part that explains why the assertion exists at all — timeout is emitted on the idle path too — plus the reason TEST-NET-1 is used.

Still 3 pass here, and the connect-phase case still fails on released 1.4.2.

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Thanks @robobun — this was very useful. Updated in b36471a (still one commit).

• 1.4.0: http.ClientRequest timeout never arms while socket is connecting to an unreachable host (regression) #41133. Linked in the description.
• Network-free tests. Adopted your lookup: () => {} approach in both the net and http tests, which also covers CodeRabbit's point about 192.0.2.1 failing on a host without a default route. I checked on Bun 1.4.2 and node 25 that it reproduces the same state: connecting stays true, the queued-write case never fires on 1.4.2 and fires on node.
• Merged _onTimeout. Thanks for testing the merge. Please don't take the function from that comment as-is, though: net: fire socket.setTimeout() when the write queue stalls #42404's half of it has since changed. Its first predicate (writeQueueSize > 0 && …) fired early once the queue emptied, and it also needed a refresh on write completion — details on net: fire socket.setTimeout() when the write queue stalls #42404. I'll do the rebase for whichever PR lands second.

Tests now also clean up in afterEach(). Each was checked against the fix, against this branch with only the !this.connecting gate removed, and against released 1.4.2; the two queued-write/http cases fail on both unfixed arms, and the no-write control passes on all three. test/js/node/net/ and test/js/node/http/ show the same failures by name on a fresh build of main and on this branch.

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Rebased onto main (511ddb3) and force-pushed — 480e3159, still one commit.

On build #115898. I don't think any of it is this PR, and I'd rather show why than just re-run it. Two of 33 steps failed:

• 📦 binary-size — flags bun-freebsd-aarch64 +1.54 MB and bun-windows-aarch64 +1.93 MB. The branch was based 182 commits behind main, so it was being compared against a much newer canary; the same annotation on main's own build #117538 reports no canary comparison (… 403). Twenty lines of JS can't move a binary by 1.9 MB.
• 13 x64-asan - test-bun — serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts.

None of the failures name the tests this PR adds or the files it touches. Of the rest in that annotation, bun-lock, bun-patch, require-cache, color, s3 and node-http-uaf are all listed in test/flaky-tests.txt, and main's own newest build (#117538) is red on node-http-uaf and dev-server-ssr-100 too. So the rebase is the fix here: CI now measures against a current base.

Re-verified on the new base, since 182 commits of drift is not nothing — _onTimeout is unchanged upstream, and #32088 moved buffered writes but not the blocks #42404 touches:

	fix	with the !this.connecting gate removed	released 1.4.2
net: no write queued (control)	passes	passes	passes
net: write queued before connect	passes	fails	fails
http: timeout while connecting	passes	fails	fails

test/js/node/net/ and test/js/node/http/ show no new failures by name against a build of main (511ddb3); both fail the same four tests.

Unrelated, but may be worth a look: main at 511ddb3 does not compile for me with the toolchain CONTRIBUTING.md now pins (brew llvm@23, clang 23.1.1) on the macOS 27 SDK. Two spots need a nudge — src/jsc/bindings/napi.h uses std::vector without including <vector> (clang 23's libc++ no longer provides it transitively), and AbortSignal.cpp:285 trips -Werror,-Wunused-result on a discarded std::exchange. Both are one-liners; I kept them local and out of this PR. Happy to file an issue if that's useful rather than noise.