streams: deliver a direct stream's chunk to read() before reader.closed settles

[robobun]

Problem

• On a type: "direct" stream, reader.read() settles two microtasks after the chunk is delivered. If the source ends the stream right after the chunk, reader.closed settles first. Duplex.fromWeb destroys on that rejection and drops the chunk: it emits only ["error:source failed"].
• The cause: readableStreamDefaultReaderRead (src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSReadableStreamDefaultReader.cpp:139) resolved the read promise with the promise that onPull allocated. That adoption costs two microtasks. handleError rejects reader.closed directly.

Fix

• JSDirectStreamController::onPull takes the caller's read promise and settles it on every path. m_pendingRead holds that promise. readMany() passes its own inner promise and keeps its timing.
• Correct because the JS implementation before webstreams: rewrite ReadableStream, WritableStream, and TransformStream in C++ (zero JS builtins) #33193 did the same: read() returned the pump's promise.
• Verified: test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js. The 10 new tests fail without the fix. All 624 pass with it.
• Self-reviewed: 17 concerns raised, 3 survived, all 3 addressed with tests.

Background

• A direct stream has no queue. pull(controller) writes bytes and hands them to the reader with flush(), end() or close().
• The controller keeps the head-of-line read() in m_pendingRead, not in the reader's [[readRequests]] list. pipeTo, tee and for await use that list and do not change.

Downsides

• A read loop calls pull() again two microtasks sooner. A sync pull() that keeps the controller and is not idempotent can run twice when its close() lands within two microtasks of its last flush(). With chunks paced by the event loop it already ran twice.
• A read loop sees one chunk for each flush(). Before, two flushes could arrive as one chunk. The bytes are the same.

Notes

Repro (order). Bun 1.4.3-canary (367d939) and main a2b69f7 print the direct line reversed.

async function order(rs) {
  const log = [];
  const reader = rs.getReader();
  reader.closed.catch(() => log.push("closed rejected"));
  await reader.read().then(() => log.push("read #1 fulfilled"));
  await new Promise(r => setImmediate(r));
  return log;
}
const def = new ReadableStream({ async pull(c) { c.enqueue(new TextEncoder().encode("a")); await undefined; c.error(new Error("source failed")); } }, { highWaterMark: 0 });
const direct = new ReadableStream({ type: "direct", async pull(c) { c.write("a"); await c.flush(); c.close(new Error("source failed")); } });
console.log("default:", JSON.stringify(await order(def)));   // ["read #1 fulfilled","closed rejected"]
console.log("direct: ", JSON.stringify(await order(direct))); // before: ["closed rejected","read #1 fulfilled"]

The order is also reversed when the chunk arrives later and close(error) follows flush() in the same tick, with error() in place of close(error), when pull() rejects after the flush, and when reader.closed fulfils (flush() then close(), or end() with a pending read). The test.each covers these six producers.

Overlapping reads. The delay also let a later read pass an earlier one. With pull(c) { c.write("a"); c.close(); } and two read() calls, read 2 reported done before read 1 delivered a. The same happened when end() armed a final chunk with nobody reading: the read after it reported done first. A consumer that stops at the first done lost the chunk. Three tests under "overlapping read()s are observed in the order they were issued" cover this, and the path where read 2 waits in [[readRequests]] until onFlush makes it the pending read.

What a reader observes differently. I ran one probe script of 22 reader scenarios on the build before and after. Seven lines differ. No scenario loses or gains data.

scenario	before	after
microtasks from read() to its reaction, chunk ready	2	0
flush, then close() in the same tick	closed, a, done	a, closed, done
async pull: flush a, b, c, then close()	a, closed, bc, done	a, b, c, closed, done
4 concurrent reads, 3 chunks, then close()	..., closed, read3 done	..., read3 done, closed
3 concurrent reads, close(error) after chunk 1	closed, read0 a, read1 rejects, read2 rejects	read0 a, read1 rejects, closed, read2 rejects
second pull() throws with read0 pending	closed, read0 rejects, read1 rejects	read0 rejects, closed, read1 rejects
cancel() with a pending read	closed, cancel resolves, read done	closed, read done, cancel resolves

The last row now matches the order of the spec (ReadableStreamCancel closes the stream and runs the close steps before the cancel promise resolves). Unhandled-rejection reports, for await, pipeTo, Response.text() and the readMany() result shapes are the same on both builds.

The first Downsides bullet, measured. Source: pull(c) { pulls++; queueMicrotask(() => { c.write("a"); c.flush(); /* close() N microtasks later */ }); }, read with a read() loop.

close() lands after	before	after
0 microtasks	a, 1 pull	a, 1 pull
1	a, 1 pull	a, 2 pulls
2	a, 1 pull	aa, 2 pulls
3	a, 2 pulls	aa, 3 pulls
4	aa, 2 pulls	aaa, 3 pulls

A reader calls pull() again for each read() once a sync pull() has returned. That contract does not change. Only the moment of the next read() does. An async pull() is not affected: the controller does not call it again while its promise is pending. An idempotent source that keeps the controller gets extra calls that do nothing. A sync pull() that starts an async loop over x, y and does not return its promise gives xyx on both builds when setImmediate paces the chunks. With microtask pacing it gave xy before and gives xyx now.

readMany(). It maps the pump's {value, done} through one internal reaction, for every controller kind. A reader.closed handler still runs before a readMany() result, on a started default stream too. A read() issued behind a pending readMany() can now settle first, as on a default stream. This PR leaves readMany() as it is.

No then lookup in the pump. The pump settles the read with JSPromise::fulfill, as it did for its own promise. Before, the last adoption step resolved the read promise with the {value, done} object, so a patched Object.prototype.then ran for it. Now it does not. I kept fulfill: a then getter would run user code in the middle of finishClose and cancelSteps. A patched Promise.prototype.then also no longer receives the pump's internal promise.

Removed branch. onPull returned m_pendingRead when pull() left the stream not readable. handleError, finishClose and cancelSteps all clear m_pendingRead before the stream leaves the readable state, so that branch could not run. The new read settles from the stream state.

Review concerns I did not act on.

• If a source hook throws after the read was registered, read() returns a promise rejected with that error, and the registered promise is dropped. Before, the pump's promise was dropped the same way.
• A review proposed a timing window that delays the next sync pull(), to hide the first Downsides bullet. That window would put back the delay that this PR removes.

Found outside this PR. Both builds do these. No open PR covers them.

• A sync pull() that calls write("a"), flush() and then fails before it returns (close(error), error() or a throw) loses a for read(), Readable.fromWeb and Duplex.fromWeb. for await and pipeTo get a and then the error. Their read request is queued before pull() runs, so flush() delivers at once. A read() promise is registered after pull() returns, and the failure frees the buffer first. The same producer with an await before the failure delivers a to every consumer.
• If pull() calls reader.releaseLock() before it returns, the read() that started it stays registered on the controller. It then takes the first chunk of the next reader, and that reader's read() stays pending.

Related to #43748, which makes Readable.fromWeb watch reader.closed.

Local runs (debug + ASAN build). streams.test.js 624 pass, also with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1. The 10 new tests fail on 1.4.3-canary and on a debug build with src/ from main. They pass 100 of 100 with --rerun-each 10. serve-direct-readable-stream 169, async-iterator-stream 95, body.test.ts 774, body-async-iterator 6, body-stream-excess 4, node-stream 104, web-stream-state 46, spawn-stdin-readable-stream 37, html-rewriter 186, sync-pull-fast-path 7, streams-string-limit 8, and test-stream-duplex-from.js, test-whatwg-webstreams-adapters-to-streamduplex.js, test-whatwg-webstreams-adapters-to-readablewritablepair.js, test-webstreams-finished.js, test-webstreams-pipeline.js, test-whatwg-readablestream.mjs, test-readable-from-web-enqueue-then-close.js, test-stream-readable-from-web-termination.js. Three tests time out at 5 s on this debug build with and without the change: fetch.stream.test.ts "Content-Length response works (multiple parts)", AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts "re-entering a storage inside run() does not grow the context", bun-write.test.js "on large files". None of them reads a direct stream through a reader.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js

[robobun]

^{Updated 9:53 PM PT - Sep 21st, 2026}

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[robobun]

Status: the fix is pushed, CI runs now.

How I reproduced it, on Bun 1.4.3-canary (367d939) and on main:

import { Duplex } from "node:stream";
const readable = new ReadableStream({
  type: "direct",
  async pull(c) {
    c.write("a");
    await c.flush();
    c.close(new Error("source failed"));
  },
});
const d = Duplex.fromWeb({ readable, writable: new WritableStream() });
const events = [];
d.on("data", c => events.push("data:" + c));
await new Promise(resolve => d.on("error", e => (events.push("error:" + e.message), resolve())));
console.log(JSON.stringify(events)); // before: ["error:source failed"], with this PR: ["data:a","error:source failed"]

The 10 new tests in test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js fail without the change in src/ and pass with it.

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Walkthrough

The direct stream pull contract now accepts caller-provided promises and returns completion status. Reader methods use this contract for direct reads. Tests cover settlement ordering, closure, errors, final chunks, and Duplex.fromWeb behavior.

Changes

Direct stream pull handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Controller promise settlement src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSDirectStreamController.*	onPull accepts an optional read promise and returns a boolean. The controller settles direct-read promises for chunks, closure, errors, and synchronous pull failures.
Reader pull integration src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSReadableStreamDefaultReader.cpp	read() and readMany() pass their promises to onPull. Refused pulls resolve as completed reads.
Stream behavior tests test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js	Tests cover read ordering, overlapping reads, closure and errors, final chunks, and Duplex.fromWeb interoperability.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSDirectStreamController.cpp — Consumers of a direct stream whose synchronous pull() schedules its write/flush/close on microtasks now receive duplicated chunks (the PR's own table: a becomes aa) and pull() runs an extra time per read. The read loop resumes 0 microtasks after onFlush fulfills the read promise (JSDirectStreamController.cpp:992) instead of 2, so the next read() reaches the !m_pullInFlight gate at JSDirectStreamController.cpp:782 before the source's close() lands and pull() is invoked again. Fix: keep the re-pull from racing a close the source already scheduled, e.g. defer the second sync pull() by the microtask window the adoption used to provide, or document and test the duplicate-pull contract for sync pull() sources.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: a source shaped like pull(c) { doAsync().then(async d => { c.write(d); await c.flush(); c.close(); }) } read through a read() loop or Readable.fromWeb; pull() returns undefined so callDirectPull clears m_pullInFlight at JSDirectStreamController.cpp:725. onFlush fulfills the caller's promise directly at JSDirectStreamController.cpp:992, so the loop's continuation runs one microtask later, before the await c.flush() continuation that calls close(). The next read() passes the gate at JSDirectStreamController.cpp:782 and calls pull() again, running doAsync() a second time and, when its write lands before close(), delivering a second copy of the chunk. On the base branch the read promise adopted the pump's promise (two extra microtasks), so close() landed first and the loop saw Closed at JSReadableStreamDefaultReader.cpp:110; the PR's measurements show a/1 pull becoming aa/2 pulls when close() lands 2 microtasks after flush. The dismissal argued this already happened with event-loop pacing, but the microtask-paced population is new and gets duplicated bytes and…

  Verification: nit, acknowledged in diff: the PR description's "Downsides" bullet and its measured table state exactly this ("A sync pull() that keeps the controller and is not idempotent can run twice when its close() lands within two microtasks of its last flush()"; close after 2 microtasks: a -> aa), and the stated two-microtask bound is accurate per the code trace below. Trigger: a `type:… | nit —…

[robobun]

On the finding outside the diff (a sync pull() that keeps the controller gets its next call sooner): I keep this behavior.

• The contract does not change. A reader calls pull() again for each read() once a sync pull() has returned without close(). streams.test.js pins it ("a reader still pulls again after each pull() resolves"), and direct-stream-contract.ts keeps such sources away from the reader consumers for this reason.
• Only the moment of the next read() changes. It is no longer two microtasks late.
• A fixed delay before the next sync pull() only moves the boundary. On main, the same source already gets the second call when its close() lands three microtasks after the flush (2 pulls in the table in the Notes), and duplicate bytes at four.
• A source that returns its promise from pull() is not affected. The controller does not call pull() again while that promise is pending.

The cost is the first Downsides bullet of the PR body.

I answered the three inline comments in their threads. The test comment is fixed in b863958.

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