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… decoder Both HPACK tables took the local headerTableSize when the session was created and never changed. The outbound encoder now starts at the 4096 default, follows every SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE entry the peer sends (capped at 4096, node's default maxDeflateDynamicTableSize), and opens the next header block with the RFC 7541 6.3 size update: the smallest size since the last block first, then the final size. The update stays pending until a block that carries it is written. The decoder now starts at the 4096 default and takes the local value when the peer ACKs the SETTINGS frame that carried it.
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Status Reproduced on bun 1.4.3 (canary) on linux-x64, with node v26.3.0 as the other peer:
Node v26.3.0 passes all four in both roles. With this PR bun passes them too.
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WalkthroughThe HTTP/2 implementation now tracks HPACK table-size changes through settings acknowledgements and peer updates. It emits pending updates for all header-block types, applies decoder limits at the correct time, and adds conformance tests for dynamic-table behavior. ChangesHPACK capacity negotiation
Suggested reviewers: Priority: ➖ Normal Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Re-entrant HTTP/2 settings processing can produce response headers that peers reject with COMPRESSION_ERROR, terminating affected sessions. Fix the header-block lifecycle ordering before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked: the new lshpack_wrapper_dec_set_max_capacity extern matches the C definition parameter-by-parameter (same shape as the existing enc sibling); the write_table_size_update prefixed-integer output for 4096 (3f e1 1f) is correct per RFC 7541 §5.1; all five outbound header-block producers (three legacy in h2_frame_parser.rs, two engine-side in connection.rs) received the begin/sent pairing; and Coder still owns the HpackHandle, so lshpack teardown runs on drop as before.
Extended reasoning...
Findings were reported inline; this note only records the adjacent concerns examined and ruled out from reading the diff: FFI signature parity for the new decoder-capacity binding, the hand-written HPACK integer encoding, completeness of the begin_header_block/header_block_sent pairing across every header-block producer (request/response, PUSH_PROMISE, trailers, plus the engine's own two paths), and that replacing lshpack::HpackHandle with hpack::Coder in H2FrameParser preserves the RAII teardown of the lshpack encoder/decoder.
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src/runtime/api/bun/h2/connection.rs— A bun session whose peer changes HEADER_TABLE_SIZE and then sends a header block containing only the §6.3 size update gets torn down with GOAWAY COMPRESSION_ERROR, a block the base never had to decode because bun never emitted size updates before. connection.rs:1121 calls hpack.decode on the block; lshpack_wrapper_decode (c-bindings.cpp:500) returns 0 when lshpack_dec_decode yields no field, and lshpack.rs:63 maps that to UnableToDecode, which the Err arm at connection.rs:1220 treats as a connection error. Fix: recognise a block that consumes only size-update opcodes as valid (apply the update, produce no field) instead of a decode failure, at every decode call site.Extended reasoning...
The decoder is fed one block at a time by the loop at connection.rs:1120
while off < block.len(). A block that is a bare size update (bun's own producers now write one at the start of every block via begin_header_block at h2_frame_parser.rs:2027, so a bun peer withheaderTableSize!= 4096 that then sends a header block with zero encoded fields, e.g. trailers whose every value is skipped, produces exactly [TSU]) enters the loop once. ls-hpack's lshpack_dec_decode handles the 0x20 opcode by updating hpd_cur_max_capacity and then, with no bytes left, returns LSHPACK_ERR_BAD_DATA (the vendored source is not in this checkout to cite the line; the wrapper at c-bindings.cpp:501 maps any nonzero rc to 0). lshpack.rs:62-64 turns 0 into HpackError::UnableToDecode. connection.rs:1220-1224 sends GOAWAY CompressionError and marks the block fatal. The same applies to nghttp2 peers after bun changes its own setting: nghttp2 prepends the update to whatever block comes next, so an empty trailer block from such a peer is also update-only. The base never produced a size update on the bun side, so the…Verification: pre-existing (nit for the bun-to-bun route). Triggering condition: a peer sends a header block consisting only of RFC 7541 §6.3 size update(s) (zero fields) after a SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE change. Mechanism verified:
/home/claude/bun/src/jsc/bindings/c-bindings.cpp:500-514returnss - srconly whenlshpack_dec_decodereturned 0 (a field was produced), else returns 0;… | nit — triggers… -
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src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs— Users reading session.state.deflateDynamicTableSize now get a value that can be 16x the real encoder capacity; on the base the number matched the encoder. h2_frame_parser.rs:4697 still reports local_settings.header_table_size, but after this PR the encoder no longer takes that value: Coder::new() at h2_frame_parser.rs:7692 starts it at 4096 and set_peer_header_table_size caps it at MAX_ENCODER_TABLE_SIZE. Fix: report the encoder's enc_capacity (peer-driven, capped) for deflateDynamicTableSize and the acked dec_capacity for inflateDynamicTableSize, matching what each table actually holds.Extended reasoning...
On the base, HpackHandle::new(local_settings.header_table_size) at 7658 sized the encoder with the same value 4683 reads, so deflateDynamicTableSize was the true encoder capacity. After the diff the encoder starts at DEFAULT_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE (hpack.rs:41) and only moves with set_peer_header_table_size, capped at 4096 (hpack.rs:63). A server with headerTableSize: 65536 (one of the PR's own interop cases) now reports deflateDynamicTableSize 65536 while the encoder is at 4096; a server whose peer sent 0 reports its local value while the encoder is at 0. inflateDynamicTableSize at 4702 also reports the local value before the peer's ACK, when the decoder is still at 4096. Anyone using this state field to debug the exact class of COMPRESSION_ERROR the PR fixes (#19152) is misled. Node reports the live table values here. The dismissing finders called it untouched code, but the diff changes what the number was supposed to describe. Remedy: expose enc_capacity/dec_capacity from Coder and read them in getState.
Verification: nit. Trigger: any session whose local headerTableSize differs from the peer-driven, 4096-capped encoder capacity (e.g.
headerTableSize: 65536, or a peer that sent SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0) and a user readingsession.state.deflateDynamicTableSize. Mechanism verified.get_current_stateat /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:4683 reads `let local_hts =… | nit (largely… -
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src/runtime/api/bun/h2/connection.rs— Sessions on a JS-backed synchronous transport that callsession.settings({ headerTableSize })from inside an event handler never move the decoder, and a peer that then announces the new size gets GOAWAY COMPRESSION_ERROR. connection.rs:671 drops the ACK when pending_local_settings_acks is empty and local_settings_acked is set, so line 688 set_acked_header_table_size never runs. The queue is only refilled at h2_frame_parser.rs:3627, which the re-entrant drain loop at 3695 bypasses. Fix: drain pending_settings_window_submissions into the engine queue before every receive() call, including the rewrite_tail loop, so each ACK maps to its submission.Extended reasoning...
When a user's http2 session runs over a Duplex whose write() synchronously produces the peer's reply (in-process duplexPair, a JS proxy transport that loops back), the following happens. Inside a dispatch (e.g. the 'stream' handler) the app calls session.settings({headerTableSize: 8192}). set_settings at h2_frame_parser.rs:2119 pushes the snapshot to pending_settings_window_submissions and writes the frame. The transport delivers the peer's SETTINGS ACK synchronously; rewrite_read at 3578 finds the engine borrowed and appends the bytes to rewrite_tail. The outer receive() returns; the loop at 3695 feeds rewrite_tail straight into engine.receive() without executing 3627, so engine.pending_local_settings_acks is still empty. handle_settings at connection.rs:671: local_settings_acked is true from the preface ACK and the queue is empty, so it returns false; line 688 is skipped and dec_capacity stays at the old value. The peer's encoder, which applied 8192 on receipt, opens its next block with a size update of 8192; hpack.rs decode → lshpack rejects an update above hpd_max_capacity →…
Verification: pre-existing (the base's decoder never moved at all, so a raised headerTableSize already failed on every path; this PR fixes it on the ordinary socket path but not on the synchronous re-entrant one, so merging leaves nothing worse than base). Trigger: an http2 session over a JS Duplex that loops back synchronously (duplexPair / generic-stream
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… size updates in step A header block that holds RFC 7541 6.3 size updates and no field is valid. lshpack applies the updates and then reports an error because no field follows, so the session died with COMPRESSION_ERROR. The engine now ends such a block cleanly. An update above the acknowledged limit is still an error. A pending size update can be written into more than one block. Each time, the encoder now evicts down to the announced minimum, as the peer does when the update arrives. session.state reports the real size of each table: the peer's value (capped) for the encoder, the acknowledged local value for the decoder. The conformance tests no longer tear down a raw client while a pushed stream is open without an error listener. On Windows that reset the stream and failed the run.
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One wire difference from node that this PR adds After the peer ACKs a larger Probe: the server raises the size to 8192 mid-session and the client ACKs. The client sends no size update, inserts two 3000-byte entries, and then refers to index 63. node and bun 1.4.3 answer if (max_capacity < self->dec.hpd_cur_max_capacity)
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The encoder evicted again each time it wrote a pending size update. No test covers a second write, so the encoder writes the update and does nothing else, as in the first commit.
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🟠 Major · Preserve size updates that arrive after a block starts. · hpack.rs:89-104
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPreserve size updates that arrive after a block starts.
write_pending_size_update()records no identity for the state written into the block, whilesize_update_sent()clearsunannounced_minunconditionally. Both outbound header paths call the completion method after transport writes. The JS-backed transport write can re-enterread(), allowing peer SETTINGS processing to callset_peer_header_table_size()before completion. The older block then clears the newer pending update. The next block can use the new encoder capacity without its required size update, and the peer can terminate the session withCOMPRESSION_ERROR.Track a generation when
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In `@test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts`:
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In `@src/runtime/api/bun/h2/hpack.rs`:
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header block. Update size_update_sent to clear unannounced_min only when the
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I re-reviewed after the second push and found no new bugs; the commit 712803e3 resolves the nested-block concern I raised earlier (the encoder now evicts to the announced minimum each time the pending update is written, so a repeated TSU(min) no longer leaves the encoder indexing entries the peer evicted). Because this is a protocol-level change in node:http2 that alters wire behavior for every session and adds a new hand-parsed path over peer bytes, a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed this pass:
Coder::is_size_update_only(src/runtime/api/bun/h2/hpack.rs): the 5-bit-prefix integer decode is bounded (at most 4 continuation bytes,u64accumulator), and an update above the ACKeddec_capacitystill falls through to COMPRESSION_ERROR; theoff == 0gate inconnection.rskeeps a mid-block size update on the error path.- Decoder capacity moving on the SETTINGS ACK (oldest outstanding frame), and the raise/lower ordering against the peer's encoder — no index skew found in either direction.
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deflateDynamicTableSize/inflateDynamicTableSizesources and thetest.eachtrailers cases — the assertions are awaited viaPromise.raceagainst GOAWAY and cannot pass vacuously.
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Overview
The PR reworks HPACK dynamic-table sizing for node:http2: hpack::Coder now starts both tables at 4096, follows the peer's SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE for the encoder (capped at MAX_ENCODER_TABLE_SIZE), tracks an unannounced minimum for the RFC 7541 §4.2 double size update, and moves the decoder's limit only when the peer ACKs our SETTINGS via a new lshpack_wrapper_dec_set_max_capacity binding. connection.rs calls the encoder update per SETTINGS entry (wire order) and adds a decode arm that accepts a block consisting solely of size updates. h2_frame_parser.rs switches its outbound encoder to the shared Coder, brackets the three outbound header-block paths with begin_header_block/header_block_sent, and reports table sizes on session.state. The second commit (712803e3) is what changed since my prior review: it addresses the nested/repeated-block finding by evicting the encoder to the minimum each time the pending update is written, adds is_size_update_only, and fixes the Windows test teardown.
Security risks
The new code paths consume peer-controlled bytes. is_size_update_only is a hand-written integer parser over the header block; I traced it: it only runs after lshpack has already rejected the block, the continuation loop is bounded (shift > 21 returns false after 4 continuation bytes), the accumulator is u64 so no overflow, and any value above the ACKed decoder limit returns false so the existing COMPRESSION_ERROR path still fires. set_acked_header_table_size applies a locally-chosen value, not a peer value, so it cannot be driven by the peer. MAX_ENCODER_TABLE_SIZE bounds how much header history a peer can make this side retain. No injection, auth, or data-exposure surface is introduced.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is a wire-protocol behavior change that affects every node:http2 session (both client and server), and correctness depends on ordering invariants between SETTINGS, SETTINGS ACK, and header blocks on both sides. I reasoned through the lower and raise cases in both directions and found the ordering sound (peer applies its encoder change before ACKing; our decoder moves at the ACK; index-from-newest semantics make a temporarily larger decoder table harmless), but this is the kind of reasoning a maintainer familiar with the h2 engine should confirm, and the vendored lshpack source is not present in this checkout so the claim that lshpack applies size updates before returning the no-field error rests on the PR's tests rather than my own reading of the C.
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The multi-agent hunt ran to a dry streak with no findings. My earlier yellow inline finding is addressed by the second commit; my earlier pre-existing note about a peer raising above 4096 is unchanged in the code and remains an open inline thread, which I have not restated. The test additions in this push wire failure events (error listeners on pushed streams, GOAWAY race) and avoid sleeps. Given the scope (six files, ~700 lines, protocol semantics) approval without a human is not appropriate; a defer with the concrete areas checked adds information beyond the prior review.
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Two more commits are on the branch. This comment says what each review finding led to, and what I did not verify. The red Windows lanes on the first push were caused by my own test. The new PUSH_PROMISE test destroyed the raw client and closed the server in one tick, while the pushed stream was open and had no Findings from the first review:
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🟡 Minor · Accept fifth-octet HPACK table-size updates. · hpack.rs:117-125
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAccept fifth-octet HPACK table-size updates.
LS-HPACK accepts valid 32-bit HPACK integers with a fifth continuation octet. However,
is_size_update_onlyrejects every integer that needs one. A valid update-only block above268435486therefore fails this check after decoding and reaches theCOMPRESSION_ERRORbranch inconnection.rs.Allow a fifth continuation octet when the decoded value fits
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Correction to my comment above. I wrote that I could not reproduce CodeRabbit's finding (a SETTINGS frame that arrives while a header block is written loses its size update). That was wrong. The finding is real, and I can reproduce it now. Why my earlier runs missed it: they did not test the window at all. On a JS transport, the first request of a session reaches the transport after The run that shows it: a raw peer on a I am working on the fix and a test that fails on the current head. The fix consumes the pending update before the block's first frame byte is written, not after, so that a SETTINGS frame which arrives during the write belongs to the next block. A block that is dropped before the write still keeps the update pending. The same window is where the open thread on |
…ck is written A JS transport gets a header block that is larger than the cork buffer from inside request(). A peer that answers inside that write can deliver a SETTINGS frame with a new header table size before request() is done with the block. The pending size update was cleared after the write, so that new size was never announced. A header block that user code sent from inside the same write repeated the size update of the outer block, and the peer evicted the entries the outer block had just inserted. The update is now consumed once nothing can drop the block any more, before its first frame byte is written. A block that is dropped before that point keeps the update pending, as before.
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In `@src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs`:
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begin_header_block writes the pending update once. If JavaScript re-entry delivers SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE before commit_header_block, set_peer_header_table_size immediately changes the encoder capacity and records unannounced_min. The current block then uses the new capacity, but commit_header_block only clears unannounced_min; it does not add the update to the already-built block. A later dynamic-table index can therefore make the peer reject the block with COMPRESSION_ERROR.
Materialize and validate all JavaScript-derived values first. Then begin, encode, commit, and write the block without JavaScript-capable operations between these steps.
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In `@src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs` around lines 2028 - 2043, Ensure the
header-block flow around begin_header_block and commit_header_block materializes
and validates all JavaScript-derived values before opening the HPACK block, then
begins, encodes, commits, and writes it without JavaScript-capable operations
between those steps. Prevent re-entrant SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE handling from
changing the encoder state after begin_header_block has emitted the pending
update.
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✅ Addressed in commit 3fa9b98
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This thread was marked as addressed by 3fa9b98 and resolved. That is only half right, so I reopen it.
What 3fa9b98 fixes: a table size that arrives while user code runs between the fields of a block is no longer lost. The block consumes only what was pending when it was opened, and the next block announces the change. The test a table size that arrives while user code builds a block is announced in the next block fails on 41d2673 and passes on 3fa9b98. It checks that the SETTINGS frame really arrives while request() is on the stack.
What it does not fix, and what this finding is about: the block that is open at that moment. I reproduced it with a header value whose toString() pushes HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0 into a Duplex transport. On 3fa9b98 that block still goes out as 84 82 be 86. be is dynamic index 62. The ACK for size 0 is written while the block is still being built, so it is ahead of the block on the wire. A strict peer rejects that block. After a growth the open block can insert entries that the peer does not store. I reasoned that case and did not run it. Node v26.3.0 sends 20 84 82 01 for the same block, because nghttp2 encodes a block after all user code has run.
I did not implement the recommendation (read and validate every value first, then begin, encode, commit and write with no user code in between). That is the restructure of request, send_trailers and push_promise that #41520 and #37568 carry, and a third version here would collide with both. On reach: it needs a JS transport and user code that feeds that transport from inside a header getter or toString(). A socket never delivers data in the middle of a synchronous call. I do not know a real program that does this, but that is a judgment, not a measurement.
So a maintainer has a decision here: merge with this limit, which is in the PR notes under "Not handled", or land the restructure first.
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@robobun, thank you for the detailed reproduction and distinction.
The original finding remains valid. Commit 3fa9b98 preserves a size update that arrives during block construction for the next header block. It does not make the open header block safe after the SETTINGS ACK is serialized before that block.
In the reported Duplex case, the peer applies HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0 before it receives 84 82 be 86. The be dynamic-table index is then invalid for the peer state. The same risk exists after a growth if the open block inserts entries that the peer does not retain.
The required fix is still to complete JavaScript-derived header materialization and validation before begin_header_block. The code must then encode, commit, and serialize the header block without JavaScript-capable work between those steps. This affects request, send_trailers, and push_promise.
Keeping this thread open is correct until maintainers explicitly accept the documented JS-transport limitation or land that restructure.
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Learning: In Bun’s `src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs`, a JS-backed `Duplex` transport can re-enter `request()` during header value coercion and deliver a `SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE` update. If its ACK is serialized before the currently built header block, that block must not use dynamic-table entries that the newly acknowledged peer limit invalidates. Preserving the update for the next block is insufficient; `request`, `send_trailers`, and `push_promise` must materialize and validate JavaScript-derived values before opening the HPACK block, then encode and serialize without JavaScript-capable operations in between.
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Learning: When reviewing Bun’s HTTP/2 HPACK outbound encoding code (e.g., header-block assembly that mutates a connection-scoped encoder state and “eager-takes” pending dynamic-table size updates), don’t treat the eager consumption/re-arming of the size update as a standalone correctness issue if the only relevant encode() failure path already aborts the entire header block after that mutation. In that situation, re-arming only the size update isn’t a sufficient fix; the real problem to check/fix is the broader pre-existing error-handling path where outbound deflate failure should be treated as a connection-level fatal error (consistent with in-tree engine behavior and nghttp2).
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…uilt User code runs between the fields of an outbound header block: header value coercion, getters, the options object. On a JS transport that code can deliver a peer SETTINGS frame. The new table size was recorded as pending, and then the block that was open consumed it, although the block was opened before the change and does not announce it. A block now consumes only what was pending when it was opened. A change that arrives later stays pending for the next block. The block that is open when the change arrives can still be inconsistent with the peer's table. That needs the header values to be read before the encoder starts.
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Fixes #19152
Problem
node:http2peer that sendsSETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0rejects bun's header blocks. nginx does this for every upstream and logsupstream sent invalid http2 table index: 67. A node peer sends GOAWAY 9 (ERR_HTTP2_SESSION_ERROR - Session closed with error code 9). A localheaderTableSizeother than 4096 fails the same way.headerTableSizeat construction and never changed: the encoder inH2FrameParser(src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:7658), the decoder inConnection::new(src/runtime/api/bun/h2/connection.rs:320). No header block carried a size update.Fix
maxDeflateDynamicTableSize). The next header block opens with the size update: the minimum since the last block, then the final size (RFC 7541 4.2).test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts(bun 1.4.3 fails 17). Also all oftest/js/node/http2/(598 pass), the upstreamtest-http2-*.jsfiles, Windows x64, and node v26.3.0 as peer.Background
SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE. The value binds once the other side ACKs it. The next header block must start with a Dynamic Table Size Update.H2FrameParseris the native object behind onenode:http2session. Its engine (src/runtime/api/bun/h2/) parses inbound frames, andh2_frame_parser.rsencodes outbound header blocks.Notes
headerTableSizeother than 4096 still failed without it.hpack::Coder::new()takes no size now. Before,lshpack_wrapper_initgave one number to the encoder and the decoder.Coder::set_peer_header_table_sizemoves the encoder andCoder::set_acked_header_table_sizemoves the decoder. The second one uses the newlshpack_wrapper_dec_set_max_capacitybinding.SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZEentry through the newSink::on_remote_header_table_size, per entry and not once per frame. One SETTINGS frame can carryHEADER_TABLE_SIZEtwice (RFC 9113 6.5.3 says to process the values in order), and nghttp2's decoder then expects the minimum first. One of the new tests sends0, 4096in one frame.nghttp2_hd_deflate_change_table_size). The SETTINGS ACK leaves in the same call, before any later header block.begin_header_blockwrites the pending size update at the start of a block, andcommit_header_blockconsumes it.request,send_trailersandpush_promisecall both. Arespond()that throws in the middle of a block does not lose the update. New tests cover the dropped block, trailers and PUSH_PROMISE.Connection::handle_settings. It uses the per-frame snapshot that branch already pops forinitialWindowSizeandmaxHeaderListSize, so an ACK applies the oldest outstanding SETTINGS frame, not the latest.lshpack_dec_set_max_capacitysets the limit and the current table size together. After a raise the decoder's table can be larger than the peer encoder's table until the peer sends its size update. That is harmless: an index counts from the newest entry, and the encoder only names entries it still has.headerTableSizeno longer sizes the encoder. Some users setheaderTableSize: 0on a bun server as a workaround for Bun's HTTP/2 server potentially ignores Nginx's HPACK for header compression settingSETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0#19152. That still works, because the encoder now takes 0 from nginx itself.maxDeflateDynamicTableSizeis still accepted and ignored. The cap is the constantMAX_ENCODER_TABLE_SIZE. On main the encoder never followed the peer, so the cap keeps a peer from making bun hold more than 4096 bytes of header history.HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0in its connection preface to a gRPC upstream and rejects every index above 61. The new tests assert that no header block uses such an index after a peer sends 0.headerTableSize: 65536, node clientheaderTableSize: 0, bun clientheaderTableSize: 0, bun serverheaderTableSize: 0, node client that sends 4 requests in one tickheaderTableSizefrom 1024 to 8192 after the first request, node clienttest-http2-*.jsfiles pass on the first, second and fourth commit. The third commit only shortens comments and removes three lines that no upstream test reaches. For the fifth commit I do not have my own result: the run reached 142 of 261 files with no failure, and then the test machine was reset and the rest was lost. The CI run for that commit (Buildkite build 117976, 181 jobs, none failed) ran those files and this PR's test file on every platform, Windows included. Each of my runs used a private copy of the debug binary, because a rebuild of the shared one during an earlier run made that run useless.headerTableSizefrom 1024 to 4096. They pass on 1.4.3 because neither half works there, and they fail when only the encoder half is applied.Coder::is_size_update_onlylets the engine tell that case from a real error. It accepts only a block that is size updates from start to end, each within the acknowledged limit, so an update above the limit is still COMPRESSION_ERROR (node does the same). ThefetchHTTP/2 client uses the same lshpack wrapper and probably rejects update-only response trailers too. I did not test or change it.commit_header_block, which runs when nothing can drop the block any more and before its first frame byte is written. The first three commits consumed it after the write. On a JS transport a header block larger than the 16 KB cork reaches the transport'swrite()from insiderequest(), and a peer that answers inside that write made two things go wrong: a SETTINGS frame with a new table size lost its size update (CodeRabbit found this), and a header block that user code sent from inside that write repeated the update of the outer block, so the peer evicted what the outer block had just inserted (the first review found this). I reported both as not reproducible at first. My runs did not reach that window. Two tests now reach it, and they check that they do. Both fail on the third commit.AnnouncedAt), so the next block announces the change. A test reaches this and fails on the fourth commit. This needs user code that feeds the transport from inside a header getter, so I do not expect it in real programs.be, index 62, after the peer set 0). After a growth it can insert entries that the peer does not store. I did not run that one. Node does not have this problem, because nghttp2 encodes a block after all user code has run. node:http2: encode each header block in one call, all fields or none #41520 and node:http2: coerce outbound header values before taking a stream id #37568 give bun the same order.toString()sends another block. Those blocks reach the peer in a different order than they were encoded, which breaks HPACK state on main without any size update. node:http2: coerce outbound header values before taking a stream id #37568 covers that. A header block that is dropped after some of its fields were encoded also leaves those entries in the encoder's table, as on main. node:http2: encode each header block in one call, all fields or none #41520 covers that.session.state.deflateDynamicTableSizenow reports the encoder's capacity andinflateDynamicTableSizethe acknowledged decoder limit. Both reported the localheaderTableSize, which on main was also the encoder's size. Node reports the bytes in use. Bun reports the capacity, as before.read ECONNRESET. The cause was the new PUSH_PROMISE test: it destroyed the raw client and closed the server while the pushed stream was open and had noerrorlistener. The tests now give each stream a listener, and the push test waits for both responses to end. On Windows, bun reports that reset on the session and on the open pushed stream. Node reports it only on the socket. Bun 1.4.3 does the same as this branch, so this PR does not change it.Bun.serve(packages/bun-uws/src/Http2Context.h) and of thefetchHTTP/2 client (src/http/h2_client/dispatch.rs). Both already follow the peer's value. Thefetchone has no 4096 cap.begin_header_blockgoes before the first encoded field, andcommit_header_blockgoes before the first frame byte is written.