Bun.serve: refuse a pending Response body that a consumer already reads

[Jarred-Sumner]

What does this PR do?

Fixes #43969.

A handler that calls response.text() on a fetch() Response, does not await it, and returns that Response crashes the process with a stack overflow. The server now calls error() with ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED, the same as for await response.text().

Cause. The upstream body has not arrived, so the body is Locked with no stream. text() sets promise on it.

1. do_render_with_body finds no stream and sees lock.task (the fetch task).
2. It calls to_readable_stream and expects that call to store a stream on the body.
3. to_readable_stream sees the promise. It returns a locked stand-in stream and stores nothing.
4. do_render_with_body drops the return value and calls itself with the same body. Go to 1.

Fix. PendingValue::has_consumer() is the one rule for "somebody already reads this pending body". A body with a consumer belongs to that consumer:

• do_render_with_body refuses it.
• cancel_unread_body and release_body_stream leave it alone. Before, they set it to Used and dropped the promise.
• Bun.write() rejects it. Before, it replaced the consumer.
• clone(), bodyUsed and to_readable_stream ask the same helper.

Pending fetch() Response with response.text() not awaited:

Then	Before	After
returned for GET	crash	error(), 500
returned for HEAD	200, text() never settles	200, text() resolves
Bun.write(path, response)	text() never settles	write rejects, text() resolves

How did you verify your code works?

• 3 new tests: 2 in serve-reused-response.test.ts, 1 in bun-write.test.js. All fail with USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test and pass with bun bd test (macOS arm64).
• These pass on the debug build: serve-pending-promise-abort-leak, bun-server, serve-body-leak, body, body-stream, body-clone, response, html-rewriter.
• Not verified locally: 204/304 and client abort. They use the same cancel_unread_body.

[robobun]

^{Updated 6:06 PM PT - Sep 25th, 2026}

@Jarred-Sumner, your commit 7914c98 is building: #120804

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Walkthrough

The server now detects when a response body has a consumer. It preserves the pending read and reports BODY_ALREADY_USED when rendering or writing the same body. Tests cover server GET and HEAD handling and Bun.write rejection.

Changes

Response body handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect pending body consumers src/runtime/webcore/Body.rs	PendingValue::has_consumer checks for a promise, a non-None action, or a callback. Body disturbance checks, native stream conversion, and tee use this check.
Preserve and refuse consumed response bodies src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs, test/js/bun/http/serve-reused-response.test.ts	Stream release and cancellation leave locked bodies with consumers untouched. Rendering reports BODY_ALREADY_USED through the error handler. Integration tests check GET and HEAD responses and confirm that the pending read completes.
Reject writes of consumed bodies src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js	Bun.write rejects a locked body with a consumer as already used. The test confirms that the pending text() read still completes.

Suggested reviewers: robobun

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7914c

Handlers returning a response already being read can receive the wrong error. Move the consumer check ahead of stream selection before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy [#43969]. do_render_with_body now refuses a locked body with a registered consumer instead of recursing. The GET regression test verifies ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED, a 500 error res…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes support [#43969]. PendingValue::has_consumer provides shared consumer detection for server rendering, teardown, stream conversion, and Bun.write(). The added tests cover the reported G…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: Bun.serve now refuses a pending Response body that is already being consumed.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes both required sections. It explains the bug, cause, fix, expected behavior, tests, and verification results. It also identifies unverified cases.

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[claude]

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 whether the new has_consumer() refusal in the Locked arm could be tripped by the server's own render-wait (the on_receive_value registered at src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:3281): Value::resolve invokes that callback with the already-resolved replacement value and to_error_instance switches the body to Error before invoking it, so do_render_with_body never re-enters the Locked arm on its own consumer. I also checked that refuse_used_body running the user error() handler while lock is borrowed is followed by an immediate return with no further use of lock, matching the existing Used arm's shape.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the Bun.serve response-render path (RequestContext.rs) and the shared PendingValue consumer predicate (Body.rs), replacing an infinite-recursion crash with an ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED error() call, plus one spawned regression test. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Findings were reported inline and further verified findings remain unposted, so approval is not appropriate; this note only records the re-entrancy paths examined and ruled out.

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

• 🟣 src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs — pre-existing sibling of this fix: a handler that returns a pending fetch() Response while its own text() is still waiting gets that promise hung forever on HEAD, 204/304 and client-abort paths. cancel_unread_body at src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:747 overwrites a Locked body with Used without asking has_consumer(), dropping the protected promise unsettled. Fix: every site that discards a handler Response body must leave a body that has_consumer() alone (or settle its consumer), so the producer can still resolve it; this covers the 3 discard sites. Same pattern at 3 sites (RequestContext.rs:2655, RequestContext.rs:3468, RequestContext.rs:762). The PR text says HEAD still answers 200 for this handler; it does, but the pending text() never resolves. [also at: src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:3259 - pre-existing: a HEAD request to the same handler still leaves the pending response.text() promise unsettled forever, unlike the GET path this PR fixes.]

  Why this was flagged

  A HEAD request reaches a handler like the new test's: const response = await fetch(upstream); consumed = response.text(); return response; while the upstream body is still in flight. The body is Locked with promise set (Body.rs:457, protected at Body.rs:458). The HEAD render path at src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:2647-2658 calls cancel_unread_body, which at RequestContext.rs:747 does *response.get_body_value() = Body::Value::Used. Drop for Value (Body.rs:1432-1437) only deinits readable; the promise is neither settled nor unprotected. When the upstream body later arrives, FetchTasklet on_body_received at src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs:874-876 finds the body is no longer Locked and returns, so consumed never settles and the protected promise leaks for the process lifetime. The same overwrite runs for null-body statuses at RequestContext.rs:3464-3469 and for a client…

  Verification: pre-existing (the base already fails this way on these routes; the PR fixes only the GET do_render_with_body Locked arm and does not reach the HEAD / null-body-status / abort discard sites, which REVIEW.md's "fix the whole class — parallel switch arms" check makes reportable). Trigger: a handler returns a pending fetch() Response after calling response.text() without awaiting it, on a…

[Jarred-Sumner]

The finding in the review body (HEAD, 204/304 and abort leave a pending text() unsettled) is fixed in 7914c98. cancel_unread_body leaves a body that has a consumer alone. release_body_stream had the same overwrite at request teardown, so it has the same guard. The HEAD case has a test.

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🟠 Major · Refuse a consumer before selecting its stream. · RequestContext.rs:3266

src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:3266
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Refuse a consumer before selecting its stream.

If a handler starts response.text() on a Response with an existing stream, get_text attaches a reader and sets Action::GetText. The earlier stream branch then handles the Response before Line 3266. It reports ERR_STREAM_CANNOT_PIPE instead of the required ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED. Check lock.has_consumer() before selecting lock.readable or owned_readable, so error() receives the same body-used error for both pending-body forms. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs` at line 3266, Move the
`lock.has_consumer()` check ahead of selecting `lock.readable` or
`owned_readable`, so an already-consumed body reaches `error()` with
`ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED` for either pending-body form.

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In `@src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs`:
- Line 3266: Move the `lock.has_consumer()` check ahead of selecting
`lock.readable` or `owned_readable`, so an already-consumed body reaches
`error()` with `ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED` for either pending-body form.

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• src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs
• src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs
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• test/js/bun/http/serve-reused-response.test.ts
• test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js

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Code review found no issues

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