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Bun.serve: copy the request head out of the receive buffer before the event loop runs again - #42791

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Problem

  • A fetch handler that runs the event loop inside itself reads another request's req.url and req.headers. Handler 1 gets the second client's url, Authorization and Cookie.
  • The head is read lazily from the uWS::HttpRequest, whose views point into the one per-loop receive buffer (loop->data.recv_buf, packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c:730). The next socket read on any connection overwrites those bytes in place.
  • server.upgrade(req) then reads the wrong Sec-WebSocket-Key, so a valid handshake gets a 400. The development error page prints the path of the other request.

Fix

  • A dispatch frame registers its lazily-read head as a borrow of the receive buffer (borrow_request_head, src/runtime/server/mod.rs).
  • Every entry point that runs this thread's loop (Loop::tick, tick_without_idle, tick_with_timeout, run) releases those borrows first. A release copies the url and the headers into the Request and detaches the uWS::HttpRequest, as to_async already did after the handler returned.
  • Correct because the copy runs before anything can read a socket again. The fast path is one thread-local load per loop turn.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-nested-event-loop.test.ts (4 cases, all fail on stock bun). Also serve.test.ts, bun-server.test.ts, node-http.test.ts and the websocket server suites.

Background

  • uSockets reads every socket on a loop into one buffer. uWS::HttpRequest stores only std::string_views into it.
  • Bun.serve keeps that uWS::HttpRequest* on its RequestContext and reads url and headers on first use, so a handler that ignores them pays nothing.
  • A handler re-enters the loop through Bun.build with a pending plugin setup(), an async macro, or the resolver's auto-install wait. All of them end in one of those four entry points.
Notes

Reproduction, on 1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb546) and on this branch's debug build:

// handler 1 runs the loop, then reads its own head
second.write(head("2222222222222222"));
Bun.build({ entrypoints: [entry], plugins: [{ name: "p", setup: () => pending }] });
console.log(req.url, req.headers.get("authorization"));
  • stock: http://h-2222222222222222.example/u-2222222222222222 Bearer au-2222222222222222
  • fixed: http://h-1111111111111111.example/u-1111111111111111 Bearer au-1111111111111111

Shape of the registry (src/uws_sys/Loop.rs). RecvBufferBorrow is a stack node on an intrusive thread-local list. unsafe fn register(&mut self) links it and returns a guard that unlinks it. The &mut stops a second registration of the same node at compile time. The unsafe contract is that release(owner) stays sound to call until the guard drops, and that guards drop in reverse order. Every caller registers a frame-local guard, and dispatch frames nest, so the guard unlinks with a plain pop.

Entry points checked by reading the code, all of which reach one of the four Loop methods:

  • EventLoop::wait_for_promise (src/jsc/event_loop.rs) runs tick() then auto_tick(), and auto_tick (src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs) calls Loop::tick_with_timeout or Loop::tick_without_idle. This covers Bun.build plugin setup (JSBundler.rs:589), async macros (Macro.rs:846) and expect().resolves.
  • AnyEventLoop::tick_raw (src/event_loop/AnyEventLoop.rs:138), which the resolver's auto-install wait uses, runs the same tick() plus auto_tick() pair.
  • MiniEventLoop::tick_once / tick_without_idle call Loop::tick / Loop::tick_without_idle.
  • The raw us_loop_run re-export is used only by BundleThread's waker, which has its own loop and its own buffer. On Windows the only other direct uv_run callers are the Worker teardown drain and the thread-exit loop close.

The hook is on the Rust wrappers and not on the loop's pre callback because on Windows uv_run processes completed requests, which includes socket reads, before it invokes prepare handles.

The auto-install entry was also checked with a running build. A handler that require()s an uninstalled package reads /1.1 200 OK\nconten as its url on stock bun: the clobbering read was the HTTP response to another request on the same loop. On this branch it reads its own url.

A head pipelined on the same connection overwrites the buffer the same way, and the fix covers it (checked with a script). It is not in the test file because uWS does not dispatch that second request inside the nested run, so there is no event to wait for and the test would need a sleep.

to_async_without_abort_handler now calls Request::detach_uws_request_head instead of repeating the copy inline, so one function owns the copy. RequestContext::set_pathname carries the development-mode gate that to_async had inline. The early release calls it too, because the uWS request that the error-page formatter falls back to is detached by then.

Pre-existing failures in the suites above, unrelated to this change (they fail the same way on 1.4.3-canary.1): serve.test.ts "should use correct error when using a root range port(#7187)" and "only serves /bun:info to loopback clients in development mode", bun-server.test.ts "allows listen on IPV6". Several websocket-server.test.ts cases time out at 10 s when the whole file runs on a debug + ASAN build in this container and pass in about 1.4 s each in isolation.

… event loop runs again

`req.url` and `req.headers` are read lazily from the `uWS::HttpRequest`,
whose `std::string_view`s point into the one per-loop receive buffer. A
`fetch` handler that runs the event loop inside itself lets the next
socket read overwrite those bytes in place, so the handler reads another
request's url, headers and cookies.

Each dispatch frame now registers the lazily-read head as a borrow of the
receive buffer. Every entry point that runs this thread's loop releases
the registered borrows first, which copies the url and the headers into
the `Request` and detaches the `uWS::HttpRequest`.
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The change tracks borrowed uWS receive-buffer data, detaches request URLs and headers before nested loop execution, wires this behavior into HTTP and WebSocket handlers, and adds regression tests.

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Request-head preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Receive-buffer borrow tracking
src/uws_sys/Loop.rs
Adds nested receive-buffer borrow registration and releases active borrows before POSIX and Windows loop operations.
Request-head detachment and dispatch wiring
src/runtime/webcore/Request.rs, src/runtime/server/AnyRequestContext.rs, src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs, src/runtime/server/mod.rs, src/runtime/server/server_body.rs
Copies request URL and headers before detaching the uWS request head. HTTP and WebSocket dispatch paths register the borrow around handler execution.
Nested event-loop regression coverage
test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-nested-event-loop.test.ts
Tests URL, header, handshake, and error-output preservation during nested event-loop execution.

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Status: fix pushed, waiting for CI.

Reproduction (1.4.3-canary.1, 09bb546, Linux x64):

  1. Start Bun.serve with a fetch handler.
  2. In the handler for request 1, write a second request head to another open connection.
  3. Call Bun.build with a plugin whose setup() returns a pending promise. The call runs the event loop until the promise settles. The handler for request 2 settles it.
  4. Read req.url and req.headers in the handler for request 1.

Stock bun prints the url, Authorization and Cookie of request 2. This branch prints those of request 1.

USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-nested-event-loop.test.ts   # 0 pass, 4 fail
bun bd test test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-nested-event-loop.test.ts                 # 4 pass, 0 fail

The third case covers server.upgrade(req) after the nested run. Stock bun reads the wrong Sec-WebSocket-Key and the client gets a 400. The fourth case covers the development error page, which prints the path of request 2 on stock bun.

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In `@src/uws_sys/Loop.rs`:
- Line 82: Update RecvBufferBorrowGuard::drop to permit out-of-order guard
unlinking in debug builds; remove or revise the unconditional debug_assert that
panics when the guard is not the most recently registered, while preserving the
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Verified this branch against the other nested-run entry point, the resolver's auto-install wait (PackageManager::sleep_until then AnyEventLoop::tick_raw). It is fixed.

Reproduction: a fetch handler in a directory with no node_modules that does try { require("optional-plugin-" + n) } catch {}, with 12 pairs of simultaneous clients.

  • released bun 1.4.3: 11 of 24 requests answered with another client's url and Authorization, 2 more with a 500.
  • this branch, debug build: 24 of 24 answered with their own head.

Control, so the result is not the debug build being too slow to interleave. The second client's head is written from inside the first handler, before the require():

bun 1.4.3:   {"secondDispatchedInsideRequire":true,"path":"INVALID-URL","auth":null}
this branch: {"secondDispatchedInsideRequire":true,"path":"/u-aaaa","auth":"Bearer secret-of-aaaa"}

The nested dispatch still happens on the fixed build. Only the cross-request read is gone.

The test file here covers the Bun.build entry point. The auto-install entry has no test. I pushed one commit on top of this branch that adds it: robobun/cda9d2b6/serve-nested-autoinstall-head-test (compare). It is test-only, 107 lines, and hermetic: a local Bun.serve stands in for the registry and answers 404 only after the second connection's head has been read. The fixture runs in its own process because the test runner's directory has node_modules.

Result of the whole file:

  • bun bd test: 4 pass.
  • USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test: 4 fail. The new case reads /1.1 200 OK\nconten as its url, which is the registry's response bytes.

Cherry-pick it if you want it. Nothing else to change here.

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`register` now takes `&mut self`, so one borrow cannot be registered
twice, and it is `unsafe`: the caller vouches that `release(owner)` stays
sound to call and that guards drop in reverse order. With that contract
the guard unlinks with a plain pop again.

`RequestContext::set_pathname` carries the development-mode gate that
`to_async` had inline, and the early release of a head goes through it.
A test covers the development error page, which printed the path of the
other request.

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Bad PR. Not the right fix. The right fix is to not re enter the event loop.

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Understood. This approach copied the head when a handler re-entered the event loop. It did not remove the re-entry. I will look at the entry points that run the loop from inside a handler, and start with Bun.build waiting on a pending plugin setup() (src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs:589), which is the one in the reproduction.

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This review covers commit 6f8e46d, which is no longer the latest commit on this pull request; later commits are not covered by it.

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