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Fixes #15035

Problem

  • With bun --inspect, a LF or a CR in a module's absolute path runs the rest of the path as code. Importing a\nglobalThis.INJECTED='ran';var y={js:1};y.js sets globalThis.INJECTED, through import and require.
  • The cause is on_source_map_chunk (src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:3365). It appends //# sourceURL=<source.path.text> to each transpiled module and writes the path bytes raw. The line break ends the // comment.
  • The same comment mangles a non-ASCII path (español becomes español). A breakpoint set by URL then never binds (Problems with debugging Bun in VScode: UTF-8 unicode folders with the letter "Ñ" cause errors in breakpoints. #15035), and error.stack shows the mangled path and an unmapped position.

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Background

  • //# sourceURL= is a comment that names a script. JSC stores its value on the source provider as sourceURLDirective().
  • A source provider (Zig::SourceProvider) is the JSC object that holds one module's source text and its own sourceURL().
  • Bun gives the printed module to JSC as a Latin-1 string, so JSC reads raw UTF-8 path bytes as Latin-1.
Notes

Not fixed here.

This is not the last place where path bytes are written raw into program text. The others need an escape, not a removal, so they are separate changes:

What Debugger.scriptParsed and error.stack report, before and after (linux-x64, --inspect-wait=127.0.0.1:0, release 1.4.3 against this branch):

directory name before: sourceURL param before: stack frame after
plain same as url correct no sourceURL param, same frame
with space, it's, a<U+00A0>b absent (JSC discards it) correct no change
sub-é-中 sub-é-中 mangled path, position not remapped absent, real path, position remapped
name with LF or CR n/a rest of the path runs as code absent, nothing runs
name with U+2028 or U+2029 absent correct no change

U+2028 and U+2029 do not end the comment today, because the UTF-8 bytes are read as three Latin-1 characters. Only LF and CR do. A Windows file name cannot contain either, so the two line break tests skip on Windows. The two non-ASCII tests run on every platform.

Why the directive is redundant. ResolvedSource.source_url is built from path.text next to each print call: src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:3277, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerStore.rs:534, src/jsc/AsyncModule.rs:1212. Zig::SourceProvider::create (src/jsc/bindings/ZigSourceProvider.cpp:79) passes it to JSC as the provider's sourceURL().

Readers of the directive, all with a fallback to the provider URL:

  • JSC InspectorDebuggerAgent::didParseSource: hasSourceURL ? script.sourceURL : script.url for breakpoints. scriptParsed always sends url.
  • Zig::sourceURL (src/jsc/bindings/ErrorStackTrace.cpp:364): directive, then sourceURL(), then the SourceOrigin.
  • src/jsc/bindings/JSInspectorProfiler.cpp:130: coverage url.
  • JSC SamplingProfiler.cpp:964 and :1172.
  • src/js/internal/inspector/cdp.ts:567: params.sourceURL || params.url.
  • Web Inspector UI Models/Script.js: contentIdentifier, displayName, and displayURL all read url first.
  • packages/bun-debug-adapter-protocol reads only url and sourceMapURL.

BUN_INSPECT_CONNECT_TO mode writes no trailer at all (SourceMapHandlerGetter::get), and that debugger works from url alone.

JSC's directive parser (Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/Lexer.cpp, parseCommentDirectiveValue): the value stops at whitespace (0x09 to 0x0D, 0x20, 0xA0), ", or '. If anything but a line terminator follows, the directive is a null string.

Loaders that reach this printer path: js, jsx, ts, tsx, text, and md. json, jsonc, toml, yaml, json5 return an object without a print, which is why a .json import does not reproduce.

History. #4213 added the directive together with the inline source map, with a TODO: do we need to %-encode the path? comment and no stated reason.

Overlap with open PRs.

Alternatives considered.

Test file. The existing test's socket setup moved into an inspect() helper so the breakpoint test can share it. The assertions of the existing test are unchanged.

Local run note. compile-bytecode-tooling.test.ts "heap snapshots label never-called bytecode-cached functions" exceeds the 5 s default under the debug ASAN build and passes in 9.5 s with a longer timeout. It does not enable the inspector.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/inspect/inspect-inline-sourcemap.test.ts

With the inspector on, the runtime transpiler appended
`//# sourceURL=<module path>` after the inline source map comment, with the
path bytes written raw. A line feed or a carriage return in the path ended
the comment, and the rest of the path ran as code in that module.

The source provider already carries the same path as its sourceURL(), and
every reader of the directive falls back to it. JSC already discards the
directive when the path has a space or a quote. For a non-ASCII path the
directive was the UTF-8 bytes read as Latin-1, so stack traces showed a
mangled path and a position that was not remapped.

The debugger matches a breakpoint set by URL against the directive when
there is one, so a breakpoint in a module under a non-ASCII directory never
bound (#15035). It binds now.
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Reproduced on 1.4.3-canary.1+b99371011 (linux-x64): USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/cli/inspect/inspect-inline-sourcemap.test.ts fails the four new tests (LF, CR, non-ASCII stack frame, non-ASCII breakpoint by URL) and passes the existing one. With this branch, bun bd test on the same file passes 5 of 5.

The breakpoint test is the case from #15035: script_español/index.js, breakpoint set by URL before the script is parsed. On the release build the breakpoint never binds and the script runs to process.exit(0). On this branch the debuggee pauses on line 2 with reason Breakpoint.

Self-reviewed. Two things came out of it and both are in:

One more item from the self-review was lost before I could read it, so it is not addressed. If it shows up in CI or in review, I will handle it then.

Overlap: #33866 drops the same lines as a side effect, and #40383 rewrites this function and keeps the raw write. Whichever lands second leaves the two appended slices out. The new tests fail if the write comes back.

Review: CodeRabbit asked for describe.each on the LF and CR cases. I kept test.concurrent.each with the reason in the thread, and CodeRabbit withdrew the finding. No review thread is open.

The automated code review found no bugs. It asks a maintainer who knows the debugger tooling to confirm removal over escaping. The evidence for that choice is in the Notes block of the PR body: the list of every reader of the directive with its fallback, and the two alternatives considered.

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Inline sourcemap debugging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inline sourcemap output
src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs
Inline sourcemap output no longer emits a module sourceURL comment. The length calculation reserves space for the source-map prefix and encoded data, plus the trailing newline.
Inspector sourcemap validation
test/cli/inspect/inspect-inline-sourcemap.test.ts
The test adds an inspector helper and covers line breaks, non-ASCII paths, and URL-based breakpoints.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to aed67

No functional debugger regression is established. The parameterized test should be aligned with the repository’s required test convention.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #15035 requires debugger breakpoints to bind for Bun projects in folders with UTF-8 characters. The PR removes the redundant //# sourceURL= directive, which could misread UTF-8 paths and termi…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The source change directly supports issue #15035 by preventing incorrect source-path interpretation. The inspector helper refactor supports the new breakpoint and path tests. The line-break and stack-…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: removing the sourceURL comment from transpiled modules when the inspector is enabled.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it fixes a code-injection path and changes inspector-visible output (dropping the sourceURL directive from Debugger.scriptParsed), a human familiar with the debugger tooling should confirm the removal-over-escaping call.

What was reviewed

  • on_source_map_chunk capacity math: grow_if_needed(encode_len + prefix_len + 2) still covers the leading \n + prefix + base64; the trailing \n uses fallible append, so no append_assume_capacity overrun.
  • New inspect() helper: socket error/close and inspectee exit all reject the raced promise; dispose runs on both the setup-failure path and via await using; existing test's assertions are unchanged.
  • Tests follow harness conventions — 127.0.0.1:0, tempDir/using, Promise.all pipe draining, test.concurrent, combined { stdout, exitCode } assertions, Windows skip narrowly scoped to the LF/CR filename cases with a stated reason.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The Rust change removes the //# sourceURL=<path> trailer that SourceMapHandlerGetter::on_source_map_chunk appends to every transpiled module when the inspector is enabled. The path was written as raw bytes into a single-line comment, so an LF or CR in the module's absolute path terminated the comment and executed the remainder as code; non-ASCII paths were also mangled (UTF-8 bytes read as Latin-1), which broke Debugger.setBreakpointByUrl matching (#15035). The prefix_len reservation is shrunk to match, and the two append_assume_capacity calls for the sourceURL trailer are deleted. The test file gains a reusable inspect() helper (refactor of the existing test's plumbing) plus three new tests: LF/CR injection (ESM + CJS), non-ASCII stack-frame path/position, and the #15035 breakpoint-by-URL regression.

Security risks

The change removes an injection surface — raw path bytes are no longer written into program text on this path. I checked that no new user-controlled bytes are introduced into the printed output; only the base64 sourcemap and fixed literals remain. The residual risk is behavioral: dropping the sourceURL directive changes what Debugger.scriptParsed reports (the sourceURL param disappears). The PR argues every reader falls back to the provider's sourceURL()/url, and JSC already discards the directive for paths containing whitespace or quotes, so many users run without it today — but I did not independently trace every debugger-frontend consumer.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The native diff is mechanically trivial and the capacity/append_assume_capacity invariant is preserved (over-reservation only, never under). But this is a security fix whose correctness depends on the design claim that the directive is fully redundant across all inspector consumers (JSC breakpoint matching, Zig::sourceURL stack frames, sampling profiler, CDP shim, VS Code adapter, Web Inspector UI). That enumeration is well-researched in the PR body, and the new tests exercise stack frames and breakpoint binding directly, but a maintainer who owns the debugger integration should sign off on remove-vs-escape.

Other factors

Test quality is strong: failure events are wired to reject awaited promises (no sleeps), resources are released via using/await using registered before assertions, subprocess pipes are drained concurrently, test.concurrent is used for independent spawns, the Windows skip is scoped to the two cases where the OS forbids LF/CR in filenames, and the variant matrix covers ESM + CJS × LF + CR. The refactor of the existing test preserves its assertions verbatim. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed paths. Bug-hunt exit reason was dry_streak with no findings.

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