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Fixes #42403

Independent of #42399, which fixes a different defect in the same function (connect-phase timeouts). This branch is based on main and contains only the write-queue change. The two 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 that.

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Makes socket.setTimeout() fire when a connected peer stops reading and the write queue stops draining.

Cause. _onTimeout suppressed the timeout whenever the handle had any buffered bytes, and returned without refreshing the timer. this[kTimeout] is one-shot, so that return consumed it — no later tick ever ran, and a stalled peer silenced the socket's timeout permanently. A non-empty queue is not the same as a write in progress: a stalled peer leaves bytes queued too, and that is precisely the condition the timeout exists to surface.

Fix, matching node in two places:

  • _onTimeout compares the queue size against the previous tick's. A queue that moved is draining (record it, _unrefTimer(), reschedule); one that has not moved is stalled (fire). The recorded size defaults to 0, so an ordinary idle socket still fires on its first period. This is why a stalled write fires after two idle periods, as in node.
  • When a queued write completes, both drain handlers now reset the recorded size to 0 and call _unrefTimer() — node's kAfterAsyncWrite and kUpdateTimer in onWriteComplete. Without the refresh, a write that drained within the first period read as 0 === 0 at the next tick and fired almost immediately after completing; without the reset, a stale size from mid-drain cost an extra period.

Repro (peer accepts and never reads, queue backed up until write() returns false, setTimeout(400)):

before:  (nothing, ever)
after:   timeout @803ms   bufferSize=33554432

How did you verify your code works?

Built bun-debug from main (511ddb3) and measured against node 25.3.0:

connected socket, setTimeout(ms) before after node 25
write queue stalled (peer not reading), 400ms never 803–805ms 801–802ms
gap from a queued write completing to timeout, 400ms never 401–404ms 400–401ms
plain idle socket, 500ms 501ms 502–503ms 501ms

The write-completion row comes from @robobun's probe. On the first revision of this PR it measured 0–46ms — the timeout fired almost as soon as a write finished — which is what the drain handler change fixes.

Tests added to test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts. Every test writes until write() returns false and asserts socket.bufferSize > 0 before setTimeout() (winsock can take a small send whole — thanks @robobun for the Windows trace), and issues no write afterwards, because _write() refreshes the timer. The peer stays paused until the test resumes it, which places the drain before or after the timer's first tick deterministically rather than depending on read speed.

  • fires when the peer stops reading and the queue stops draining
  • fires one idle period after the queue drains before the first tick
  • fires one idle period after the queue drains after one tick has sampled the queue

Each was run against the fix, against the fix with parts removed, and against released 1.4.2 (two runs each, identical):

fix no drain refresh refresh without size reset released 1.4.2
stalled queue fires passes passes passes fails
drain before first tick passes fails passes fails
drain after one tick passes fails fails fails

So each test pins a distinct defect rather than only failing on an old release. An earlier revision's draining test did not: its peer read slowly, so the drain always spanned several ticks and the missing refresh made the timeout late rather than early, which that test did not check.

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. Reproduces identically on Linux: oven/bun:1.4.2 (glibc) and oven/bun:1.4.2-alpine (musl) both never fire with a stalled queue, where node:24-slim does. I have only built and run this patch on macOS arm64. @robobun reports that it also resolves the hang of test/js/node/test/parallel/test-https-timeout.js on the x64-asan lane (the timer fires mid-handshake with the request bytes still buffered) and fixes the node:http streamed-request-body case over TCP, socketPath and tls.connect; I have not reproduced those myself.

Not included

The _pendingData branch above also returns without refreshing the timer. On a connected socket _write() only sets _pendingData in the TLS-upgrade path awaiting fd adoption, and that window closes on a microtask hop: with setTimeout(1) armed on the TLSSocket at the moment _pendingData is set, _onTimeout never runs inside it. Left alone rather than changed without a way to test it.

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The socket timeout handler now tracks native write-queue progress. It refreshes the timer when the queue changes and emits "timeout" when the queue stalls. Tests cover stalled and draining write queues.

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Socket timeout behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeout suppression and queue progress
src/js/node/net.ts
Socket.prototype._onTimeout stores the previous native write-queue size, refreshes the timer when the queue changes, and emits "timeout" when the queue remains unchanged. Drain handlers reset the stored size after successful flushing.
Timeout regression coverage
test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts
Tests verify timeout emission for a paused peer with a backed-up queue and timeout suppression while writes drain, including cleanup for sockets and servers.

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The socket timeout behavior now detects stalled writes while preserving normal timeout behavior for draining and idle sockets. No actionable risk remains.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #42403. src/js/node/net.ts tracks the previous buffered queue size, refreshes the one-shot timer while the queue changes, and emits timeout when the …
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: firing socket.setTimeout() when the write queue stalls.
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- Around line 1830-1831: Update the _pendingData branch in
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Both points addressed — thanks.

Out of scope. Correct, and now fixed: this branch was stacked on #42399, so its diff carried the connect-phase change too. Rebuilt from main with only the stalled-queue fix, as a single commit. The connect-phase case is still broken on this branch, which I verified deliberately as a check that the separation is real rather than cosmetic:

connecting, WITH pending write : NEVER FIRED (cap 3000ms)   <- still broken here, belongs to #42399
connected, stalled queue       : FIRED @2023ms              <- fixed here
connected, draining queue      : silent (correct)

The two PRs do touch adjacent lines of _onTimeout, so whichever lands second needs a trivial rebase.

Timeout still lost for upgraded pending writes. Also correct, and deliberately not fixed here. The _pendingData branch does return without _unrefTimer(), so it has the same one-shot-timer death. On a connected socket the only way to reach it is _write()'s TLS-upgrade path awaiting kUpgradeAttached, and I have no failing reproduction for that case. Adding _unrefTimer() there looks strictly better on paper — a stuck upgrade would reschedule instead of consuming the timer — but it changes behaviour I cannot demonstrate, and every other claim in this PR is measured. I would rather leave it called out in the description than widen the diff on a plausible-sounding argument. Happy to do it as a follow-up if someone can point me at a way to reach that state.

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Followed up on the _pendingData branch properly rather than leaving it at "no repro". Short version: the state is reachable, but no timeout can be observed inside it, so I am leaving it alone.

Using the shape of your own test (node-tls-server.test.ts → "delivers a write issued in the same tick as a server-side TLSSocket wrap"), instrumenting both _write and _onTimeout:

entered branch on TLSSocket (connecting=false, handle=false)   <- precondition established
_onTimeout inside the window: 0

That holds with setTimeout(1) — the minimum — armed on the TLSSocket itself at the exact moment _pendingData is set, not on the raw socket (my first attempt made that mistake and its zero was meaningless). The window between the wrap and fd adoption closes on a microtask hop, which is shorter than timer granularity, so no setTimeout value lands in it.

So the branch does carry the same one-shot-timer death in principle, but it is not observable through socket.setTimeout(). A regression test would have to force _pendingData artificially and assert on internal state, which tests the mock rather than the behaviour — I would rather not add that. If a scheduler stall between wrap and attach can hold the window open long enough in practice, that would change the answer, but I could not construct it.

Leaving the branch untouched and documented under "Not included".

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3185-3186: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major

Test queue progress without recurring writes.

Line 3185 writes every 10 ms. Each native _write refreshes the 200 ms timer. The test can therefore pass with the previous unconditional non-empty-queue suppression, without sampling queue progress.

Queue one finite write. Drain it slowly at the peer. Keep the native queue nonempty across timeout checks without issuing more writes.

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In `@test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts` around lines 3185 - 3186, Update the test
around the socket.write and pump flow to queue one finite write only, then drain
it slowly from the peer so the native queue remains nonempty across timeout
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In `@src/js/node/net.ts`:
- Around line 1838-1841: Update the write-queue progress check in the
surrounding timer logic to initialize kLastWriteQueueSize to 0 and detect every
queue-size change, including a transition from nonzero to 0. Record the new
writeQueueSize and refresh the one-shot timer for that drain transition instead
of emitting "timeout".

In `@test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts`:
- Line 3145: Remove the explanatory comments around the stalled accepted-socket
queue scenario, including the comment near the socket setup and the comments
near the related assertions, while leaving the test name, setup, actions, and
assertions unchanged.

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- Around line 3185-3186: Update the test around the socket.write and pump flow
to queue one finite write only, then drain it slowly from the peer so the native
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const IDLE = 200;

it("fires when the peer stops reading and the queue stops draining", async () => {
// Never read from the accepted socket, so the client's queue fills and stays put.

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Remove the explanatory comments at lines 3145 and 3162-3163.

The test name, setup, and assertions already define the stalled-queue scenario. Keep the test body limited to setup, action, and assertions.

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Thank you for this one too. I am closing my older PR #35813 in favour of this PR and #42399. The reasons and the cross-check are in #42399 (comment). Three notes from #35813 apply to this PR.

  • This change also fixes the hang of test/js/node/test/parallel/test-https-timeout.js on the x64-asan lane. The test calls req.setTimeout(10). Under ASAN load the timer fires during the TLS handshake, while the request bytes wait in the native buffer. The getBufferedAmount(handle) > 0 guard drops that firing, and no timer is left. On a debug ASAN build of main (a749e0a) the test hangs when other tests run next to it. With this PR merged with net: fire socket.setTimeout() while the socket is still connecting #42399 it passes. A proxy that holds the server's handshake bytes for 200 ms reproduces it without load (script below). main hangs after secureConnect. The merge fires 'timeout' during the handshake and exits with code 0, as Node does.
  • The timer is not refreshed when a queued write completes. This is the CodeRabbit point about the transition to an empty queue. Node refreshes the timer in onWriteComplete through kUpdateTimer. The two drain handlers in net.ts do not. With this PR, a write that needs more than one period to drain gets 'timeout' less than one period after it completes. I measured 161 to 348 ms with a 400 ms period, over four runs. Node gives 400 ms. On main the timer is dead in that case, so the early firing is new. self._unrefTimer() before callback(null) in both drain handlers gives 386 to 388 ms, and all tests of the three PRs still pass. net: emit socket 'timeout' while still connecting (node:http dead-host guard) #35813 has the same gap, so this is not a difference between the two lines of work.
  • Windows. net: emit socket 'timeout' while still connecting (node:http dead-host guard) #35813 has a similar test with one 64 MiB write. On both Windows CI lanes winsock took the whole send into the kernel, so the write never went async, and the test failed. It is skipped on Windows there. Your test writes 64 chunks of 1 MiB, which can behave differently. Watch the Windows lanes when CI runs.

One more data point in favour of this PR: on a stalled write it fires after two idle periods, as Node does. #35813 fired after one.

Probe for the write-completion case
// One write that takes longer than the idle period to drain, to a peer that reads
// slowly and then goes silent. Prints the gap between the write callback and 'timeout'.
const net = require("net");
const IDLE = 400;
const server = net.createServer(s => {
  s.on("error", () => {});
  s.on("data", () => {
    s.pause();
    setTimeout(() => s.resume(), 15);
  });
});
server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => {
  const socket = net.connect(server.address().port, "127.0.0.1");
  socket.on("error", () => {});
  socket.on("connect", () => {
    let doneAt = 0;
    socket.setTimeout(IDLE);
    socket.write(Buffer.alloc(16 << 20), () => (doneAt = Date.now()));
    socket.on("timeout", () => {
      console.log(doneAt ? `'timeout' ${Date.now() - doneAt}ms after the write completed` : "'timeout' before the write completed");
      socket.destroy();
      server.close();
    });
  });
});

Tune the size so that the write takes more than IDLE to drain (16 MiB on a debug build, 48 MiB on Node here).

Proxy repro for test-https-timeout.js
// Run from the repo root. A TCP proxy holds every server-to-client chunk for 200 ms,
// so the TLS handshake is still in flight when req.setTimeout(10) fires.
const fs = require("fs");
const net = require("net");
const https = require("https");
const keys = "test/js/node/test/fixtures/keys/";
const options = { key: fs.readFileSync(keys + "agent1-key.pem"), cert: fs.readFileSync(keys + "agent1-cert.pem") };

const server = https.createServer(options, () => console.log("Got request.  Doing nothing."));
server.listen(0, () => {
  const proxy = net.createServer(client => {
    const upstream = net.connect(server.address().port, "127.0.0.1");
    client.on("error", () => {});
    upstream.on("error", () => {});
    client.on("data", d => upstream.write(d));
    upstream.on("data", d => setTimeout(() => client.destroyed || client.write(d), 200));
    client.on("close", () => upstream.destroy());
    upstream.on("close", () => client.destroy());
  });
  proxy.listen(0, () => {
    const req = https.request({ host: "localhost", port: proxy.address().port, rejectUnauthorized: false });
    req.setTimeout(10);
    req.end();
    req.on("error", e => console.log("error:", e.message));
    req.on("timeout", () => {
      console.log("timeout, secureConnecting =", req.socket.secureConnecting);
      req.destroy();
      server.close();
      proxy.close();
    });
  });
});

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A second report of this bug reached me from the node:http side (dockerode: the timeout option on a streamed request body, over a unix socket). I checked it against this PR and did not open another one. Two results that can help here.

This PR fixes the node:http case. On a debug build of main (a22b2aa) plus this PR, req.setTimeout(ms) and http.request({ timeout: ms }) both emit 'timeout' while the request body upload is stalled (the peer accepted the connection and does not read). The same holds over socketPath and with tls.connect. Without the PR none of them ever fires.

Windows x64: the first test fails. On a Windows Server 2019 x64 debug build of the same tree, fires when the peer stops reading and the queue stops draining fails 3 of 3 runs with stalled: false. Winsock takes a blocked send whole when the socket becomes writable again. So 'drain' fires about 80 ms in, all 64 MiB are in the kernel, and the 'timeout' that arrives is the plain idle one. Node on the same machine keeps 61 MiB queued. A loop that writes a large chunk until write() returns false stalls for good there:

-      const chunk = Buffer.alloc(1 << 20, "x");
-      for (let i = 0; i < 64; i++) socket.write(chunk);
+      const chunk = Buffer.alloc(32 << 20, "x");
+      while (socket.write(chunk)) {}

With that change the test passes 4 of 4 runs on Windows x64 and 3 of 3 on Linux x64. It still fails on a build without the fix on both.

buildkite/bun is still pending on this PR. A maintainer has to start CI for a fork.

Trace of the test scenario on Windows x64

The scenario of the first test, with the socket state printed at 'timeout':

main + this PR (debug):
  first write() === false at index 3, bufferSize 63963136
  drain at 78 ms
  timeout at 272 ms; bufferSize 0, writableNeedDrain false, bytesWritten 67108864

bun 1.4.3 (no fix):
  first write() === false at index 3, bufferSize 63963136
  drain at 41 ms
  timeout at 233 ms; bufferSize 0, writableNeedDrain false, bytesWritten 67108864

node v26.3.0:
  first write() === false at index 3, bufferSize 63963136
  timeout at 208 ms; bufferSize 63963136, writableNeedDrain true

How much a paused loopback peer lets the kernel take before write() returns false on that machine: 3 MiB with 1 MiB chunks, 16 MiB with 8 MiB chunks, 64 MiB with 32 MiB chunks. The send that blocks is then taken whole later, which is why small chunks do not stay stalled.

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Both findings were right, and the first one was a real defect in the fix rather than a test issue. Squashed into 7fb1f1c.

Refresh when the queue drains to zero. My predicate gated on writeQueueSize > 0, so the tick that first read an empty queue fell through and emitted. Measured on my own build: the queue emptied at 2249ms and timeout fired at 2265ms — 16ms later, inside a 150ms idle period. Now keyed off movement, as node does:

const writeQueueSize = getBufferedAmount(handle);
const lastWriteQueueSize = this[kLastWriteQueueSize] ?? 0;
if (writeQueueSize !== lastWriteQueueSize) {
  this[kLastWriteQueueSize] = writeQueueSize;
  this._unrefTimer();
  return;
}

The ?? 0 keeps an ordinary idle socket firing on its first period rather than its second — verified at 503ms for setTimeout(500) against node's 502ms. Drain-to-empty now fires a full idle period after the queue empties instead of 16ms after.

The draining test was vacuous. Also correct, and worse than you flagged. _write() calls _unrefTimer(), so the 10ms pump refreshed the 200ms timer continuously and _onTimeout never ran — the test passed on both builds because the code under test was never reached. I had cited it in the description as evidence the harness was not vacuous, which was wrong.

Rewritten: a finite burst, then no further writes at all, with the peer draining in slices so the queue shrinks across many idle periods. It also asserts a timeout does arrive after the queue empties, not merely that none arrived early — the old assertion passed for free when nothing fired.

Both tests now fail on released 1.4.2 for distinct reasons — the stalled one because no timeout is emitted, the draining one because the one-shot timer is destroyed part-way through the drain — and pass here. test/js/node/net/ shows no new failures against pristine main.

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In `@test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts`:
- Line 3175: Update the write setup in the stalled and draining timeout
assertions to continue calling socket.write until it returns false, rather than
using fixed iteration counts. Before each setTimeout call, assert that
socket.bufferSize is greater than zero so both tests begin with queued
backpressure.
- Around line 3164-3169: Refactor the two withPeer() call sites to create server
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Move per-test resources to lifecycle hooks.

test/CLAUDE.md requires lifecycle-hook setup and teardown and requires servers and clients to be tracked for afterEach() cleanup. withPeer() creates and destroys both resources in nested finally blocks at its two call sites. Move the resources to beforeEach() and afterEach() while preserving each test’s readPolicy.

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expect(outcome).toEqual({ fired: "timeout", stalled: true });
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Use describe.each() for the parameterized cases.

it.each([...]) parameterizes this test, and both applicable test-guidance files require describe.each() for parameterized tests. Move the current test into a describe.each() suite. This is a localized test-structure change, not a major refactor.

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Thanks @robobun — both findings were real, and the first uncovered a second problem. Updated in 3fb9c16 (still one commit).

Timer not refreshed when a queued write completes. Confirmed with your probe. On this PR's previous revision the gap was worse than you measured, 0–46ms after the write completed, because the predicate had changed since your run: a write that drained within the first period read as 0 === 0 at the next tick. Adding self._unrefTimer() to both drain handlers stopped the early firing, but then most runs fired 800ms after completion instead of 400: a size recorded mid-drain made the next comparison look like movement. node covers that in kAfterAsyncWrite, which resets kLastWriteQueueSize to 0, so both handlers now do both. Six runs: 401–404ms after completion, node 400–401ms. Stalled (803ms for 400) and plain idle (503ms for 500) are unchanged.

Windows. Adopted your while (socket.write(chunk)) {} with 32MiB chunks, plus the bufferSize > 0 assertion before setTimeout() that CodeRabbit asked for. I can't run Windows, so I am relying on your trace there.

Tests. The draining test is gone. Its peer read slowly, so the drain always spanned several ticks and a missing refresh only made the timeout late, which it did not check. In its place, the peer stays paused until the test resumes it, once before the timer's first tick and once after, with the timeout required within [0.9, 1.5] idle periods of drain. Each test fails with a different part of the fix removed:

fix no drain refresh refresh without reset 1.4.2
stalled queue fires passes passes passes fails
drain before first tick passes fails passes fails
drain after one tick passes fails fails fails

Resources are tracked and closed in afterEach() per test/CLAUDE.md, for CodeRabbit's other point. The test-https-timeout.js ASAN hang and the dockerode node:http case are credited to you in the description; I haven't reproduced those myself.

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Rebased onto main (511ddb3) and force-pushed — f5c333af, still one commit. CI here is still blocked pending a maintainer.

#32088 ("partial writev in buffered socket writes") landed in the same area, so I checked the two drain handlers rather than trusting a clean rebase: the else if (res) blocks this PR touches are unchanged, and the hunks sit where intended.

Re-verified on the new base, two runs each:

fix without the drain refresh + reset released 1.4.2
stalled queue fires passes passes fails
drain before first tick passes fails fails
drain after one tick passes fails fails

Timings unchanged from before the rebase: stalled 805ms for setTimeout(400) (node 801–802ms), write completion → timeout 401–403ms (node 400–401ms), plain idle 504ms for 500 (node 501ms). test/js/node/net/ and test/js/node/http/ show no new failures by name against a build of main (511ddb3).

mahendradambe added a commit to mahendradambe/bun that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
Two open PRs by @thatdoogieguy already fix this, and both are better than what
this branch carried. Measured, not assumed:

oven-sh#42399 gates the two existing guards behind `if (!this.connecting)`, so a
connected socket runs the original code untouched. Against the leak repro here it
is exactly as effective as the reverted patch -- 300/300 bounded, 601 retained
TLSSockets down to 1 -- with none of the blast radius.

The reverted patch also had a real regression the PRs do not. On a CONNECTED
socket writing to a peer that reads slowly, it fired a spurious timeout at 807ms
while the queue was still draining:

  bun unpatched     no timeout      (correct)
  node v24.5.0      no timeout      (correct)
  PR oven-sh#42399         no timeout      (correct)
  reverted patch    SPURIOUS @807ms

It missed two things oven-sh#42404 gets right: resetting the tracked queue size and
refreshing the timer in the drain handlers, and treating a drain to empty as
movement rather than as a stall.

It also conflated two independent defects that the PRs deliberately separate --
the connect phase (oven-sh#42398) and a stalled write queue (oven-sh#42403).

What stays on this branch is the regression test, which asserts something neither
issue mentions: that an unbounded request RETAINS its TLSSocket. The sockets are
pinned by a native strong root, so they are never collected -- 12,663 of them and
395 MB of live objects in one process over a 2h30m outage, every one tracing to
StrongRootBlock. That is the severity argument for those PRs, not a separate bug.
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This PR also fixes a case that needs no upload: a TLS handshake that stalls. For https.request({ timeout }) it is a regression in 1.4.0.

Case. The server accepts the TCP connection and never answers the ClientHello. The request head waits in the handle behind the handshake, so the queue is not empty and does not move. On main the handle guard in _onTimeout drops the one timer tick, and 'timeout' never comes. My comment of 09-12 above showed the same guard through test-https-timeout.js. This comment shows what a user sees.

Released builds. Linux x64, timeout of 1000 ms, 3 of 3 runs each.

https.request({ timeout }) tls.connect(), one write, setTimeout()
Node v26.3.0 2.0 s 2.0 s
Bun 1.3.14 1.0 s never
Bun 1.4.0, 1.4.2, 1.4.3-canary (367d939) never never

Debug builds of main (a4f1429), https.request({ timeout }).

build result
main never, 3 of 3 runs
main + #42399 never, 3 of 3 runs. _onTimeout runs one time and returns at the handle guard.
main + this PR 'timeout' fires, 7 of 7 runs. In the 4 runs that I traced it fires on the second tick, as in Node.

Tests. 337324c adds two tests to test/js/node/http/client-timeout-error.test.ts, one for each column of the first table. Both fail on main and on 1.4.3-canary. Both pass with this PR, and with this PR merged with #42399. If you want them in this PR:

git fetch https://github.com/oven-sh/bun robobun/3d3dcc55/https-handshake-stall-timeout-test
git cherry-pick 337324c8ef7d6309f740b0f48faebbcfc7b3f351

The commit touches only that test file, which this PR does not change. I ran everything on Linux x64 only.

Repro script
// The server accepts the TCP connection and never answers the TLS ClientHello.
import net from "node:net";
import https from "node:https";
const server = net.createServer(s => {
  s.on("error", () => {});
  s.resume();
});
await new Promise(r => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", r));
const t0 = Date.now();
const req = https.request({ host: "127.0.0.1", port: server.address().port, timeout: 1000 });
req.on("timeout", () => {
  console.log("timeout after", Date.now() - t0, "ms");
  req.destroy();
});
req.on("error", e => console.log("error", e.code));
req.on("close", () => server.close());
req.end();
setTimeout(() => {
  console.log("no timeout event in 5 s");
  process.exit(1);
}, 5000).unref();

`_onTimeout` suppressed the idle timeout whenever the handle had any buffered
bytes, and returned without refreshing the timer. `this[kTimeout]` is one-shot,
so that return consumed it and no later tick ever ran: a peer that stops reading
silenced the socket's timeout permanently, which is the condition the timeout
exists to surface.

Match node in two places:

- `_onTimeout` compares the queue size with the previous tick's. A queue that
  moved is draining, so record it, `_unrefTimer()` and reschedule; a queue that
  has not moved is stalled, so fire. The recorded size defaults to 0, so an
  ordinary idle socket still fires on its first period.
- When a queued write completes, both `drain` handlers reset the recorded size
  to 0 and call `_unrefTimer()`, as node's `kAfterAsyncWrite` and `kUpdateTimer`
  do in `onWriteComplete`. Without the refresh, a write that drained within the
  first period read as 0 === 0 at the next tick and fired almost immediately
  after completing; without the reset, a size recorded mid-drain cost an extra
  period.

Measured against node 25.3.0:

                                            before   after       node
  stalled queue, setTimeout(400)            never    803-805ms   801-802ms
  write completes -> timeout, setTimeout(400) never  401-404ms   400-401ms
  plain idle socket, setTimeout(500)        501ms    502-503ms   501ms

The tests back the queue up until write() returns false and issue no write
after setTimeout(), because _write() refreshes the timer. The peer stays paused
until the test resumes it, placing the drain before or after the timer's first
tick. Each test fails with a different part of the fix removed.

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