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Problem

  • A node:http2 server whose handler calls stream.close(NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM) sends GOAWAY(ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM) at the 50th refusal. Every other stream on the connection fails with ERR_HTTP2_SESSION_ERROR. Bun 1.4.0 to 1.4.2 do this. Bun 1.3.14 and node do not.
  • The cause is the count in H2FrameParser::rst_stream (src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:5052, from node:http2: rewritten inbound engine, batched write path, server push, +290 node v26.3.0 tests (79% passing) #31584). It counts every REFUSED_STREAM reset that JS submits on a server against maxSessionRejectedStreams. close() and the destroy after it each submit one.

Fix

  • rstStream counts nothing.
  • A stream that streamStart refuses over SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS stays counted. streamStart returns the code, and its native caller counts and resets the stream. The frames match 1.4.2.
  • Verified: test/js/node/http2/node-http2-rejected-streams.test.ts (16 tests, 15 fail before) and the 261 test-http2-* node tests.
  • Self-reviewed: 14 concerns raised, 14 addressed.

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Repro (the session ends at the 50th refusal on 1.4.2, node keeps it):

import http2 from "node:http2";
const server = http2.createServer();
server.on("stream", (stream, headers) => {
  stream.on("error", () => {});
  if (headers[":path"] === "/events") { stream.respond({ ":status": 200 }); stream.write("hello\n"); return; }
  stream.close(http2.constants.NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM);
});
server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", async () => {
  const client = http2.connect("http://127.0.0.1:" + server.address().port);
  client.on("error", e => console.log("client session error:", e.message));
  client.on("goaway", code => console.log("client got GOAWAY, code", code));
  const events = client.request({ ":path": "/events" });
  events.on("data", () => {});
  events.on("error", e => console.log("the long-lived stream failed:", e.code));
  let n = 0;
  for (; n < 300 && !client.closed && !client.destroyed; n++)
    await new Promise(done => { const r = client.request({ ":path": "/work" }); r.on("error", () => {}); r.on("close", done); r.end(); });
  console.log("refused requests sent:", n, n < 300 ? "then the session was gone" : "and the session is still open");
  events.close(); client.close(); server.close();
});

Which line is the fix. The deletion in rst_stream. The other source lines move the count for the over-limit refusal to the native caller of streamStart (handle_received_stream_id), so that this refusal keeps the budget it has had since 1.4.0. Sink::on_stream_rejected calls the same helper and behaves as before.

Tests. On official 1.4.2, on a release build of main and on a debug build of main, 15 of the 16 tests fail. 14 use a raw client and fail with GOAWAY code 11, twice. One uses the node:http2 client and fails with Session closed with error code 11. The 16th test passes before and after. It pins the budget of the over-limit refusal, which this change moves: limit 1, budget 3 gives RST_STREAM(7) on streams 3 and 5, then GOAWAY(11). It fails on a build that only deletes the count (120 of 120 refused, no GOAWAY). Its comment says that node differs. The body of the test with the node:http2 client also passes on node v26.3.0.

The tests have a file of their own and a raw client with no timers. h2-conformance.test.ts and node-http2.test.js each have tests that reach their 5 s timeout on a debug build under load (Client Basics > should receive goaway without debug data is one), so a run of those files does not show a clean pass for this change. The rule of the repo is to add tests to the existing file. If a maintainer prefers that, the tests go back into h2-conformance.test.ts.

Over-limit refusal, raw client, release builds. Frames are identical on 1.4.2, main b253e8afbc and this change, the Last-Stream-ID of the GOAWAY included:

maxSessionRejectedStreams frames GOAWAY Last-Stream-ID
100 99 RST_STREAM(7), GOAWAY(11) at the 100th 201, the refused stream
3 2 RST_STREAM(7), GOAWAY(11) at the 3rd 7, the refused stream
0 GOAWAY(11) at the 1st 3, the refused stream

Kept from 1.4.2 inside the moved code. Review found two defects in count_rejected_stream. Both are in 1.4.2 and main with the same values, and this PR does not change them.

  • The budget ends one rejection early. The comparison is max <= count after the increment, so a budget of N tolerates N-1 rejections and a budget of 1 tolerates none. Node compares count++ > max.
  • The GOAWAY names the refused stream as its Last-Stream-ID (table above), and that stream gets no RST_STREAM. A client that follows RFC 9113 6.8 cannot tell from the GOAWAY that the request is safe to send again.

Measured on release builds, main b253e8afbc against the first commit of this PR on that base. A JS wrapper counts the host calls. The byte numbers do not include the last commit, which borrows the refused stream through enter_stream_dispatch. It adds one increment and one decrement of the dispatch depth for a refused stream, and nothing for a stream that is accepted.

main this change
rstStream host calls, clean request 0 0
rstStream host calls, close(7) 2 2
rstStream host calls, stream refused over the limit 1 0
binary, llvm-size total 82,599,777 82,599,978 (+201)
.text 58,148,597 58,148,853 (+256)
built-in JS 2,629,961 2,629,906 (−55)
H2FrameParserPrototype__rstStream 808 bytes 690 bytes
handle_received_stream_id 1467 bytes 1541 bytes
count_rejected_stream 79 bytes

No struct field is added or removed. Instruction counts and syscall counts are not measured: perf_event_open is not permitted in the build container, and valgrind and strace are not installed there.

node v26.3.0 as the client, 60 requests:

handler main this change node server
respond() then close(7) session lost at the 50th, GOAWAY(11) 60 of 60 60 of 60
close(7) before respond() connection lost at the 1st connection lost at the 1st 60 of 60, rstCode 7

What still uses the budget after this change. h2_frame_parser.rs:7054 (request host function over maxSessionMemory. #43419 changes it for servers. A client's request() keeps it.), connection.rs:1419 (malformed header block) and connection.rs:1430 (oversized header list). The two connection.rs sites also count trailers of a delivered stream and blocks that a client session receives. Node counts none of them against this budget. The count is also cumulative here. Node sets it to 0 on every stream it creates.

Follow-up work, not in this PR. Refuse over the limit natively before a stream is created and charge maxSessionInvalidFrames like node. That needs a native stream state that stays CLOSED and an O(1) count of open streams. A first attempt that counted open streams by a scan of the stream map refused a client that cancels a request and opens the next one in the same write, so it was dropped.

Suites run. On a debug build of the head commit: the new file (16 pass in each of 3 runs), node-http2-streams-rehash.test.ts (5 pass), 7 test-http2-* node tests for the session limits (all pass), and h2-conformance.test.ts (84 pass in 2 of 3 runs. 1 run had 1 failure in stream release after a queued END_STREAM, a test that also fails on a debug build of main). On a debug build of an earlier commit of this PR (base 9f70da0741, the same change with a raw borrow of the refused stream): node-http2.test.js (1 timeout at 5 s that passes alone), the 261 test-http2-* files of test/js/node/test (261 pass), the other 9 files in test/js/node/http2/ (all pass), and grpc-js test-server, test-retry, test-server-errors (all pass). grpc-js test-client has 3 failures. A debug build of main b253e8afbc has the same 3 by name. The host had a load average above 300 during these runs.

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Status: ready for review. The change is complete. CI is red only on tests that this diff does not touch.

CI. The last run (build 121668) has 180 of 182 jobs green. The 2 failures:

  • test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts on debian 13 x64-asan (stdout reader of an unref'd child and process lifetime). The same test failed or was retried in 42 of the 68 most recent builds of other branches.
  • test/js/bun/module-graph/module-graph-workers.test.ts on darwin 27 aarch64 (a child process crashes in a worker test). It was retried on 3 builds of other branches.

The run before it (build 121662) had 1 failure: test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts on Windows 11 aarch64. None of these tests loads node:http2. The node:http2 tests, the new ones included, passed on every lane in all three runs of this PR.

How I reproduced the bug. A server whose stream handler calls stream.close(http2.constants.NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM) for every request, one long-lived stream, and 300 requests from one client (the script is in the Notes of the description).

  • Bun 1.4.2 and a release build of main: client got GOAWAY, code 11, the long-lived stream failed: ERR_HTTP2_SESSION_ERROR, refused requests sent: 51 then the session was gone.
  • node v26.3.0, Bun 1.3.13 and this branch: refused requests sent: 300 and the session is still open.

The tests. bun bd test test/js/node/http2/node-http2-rejected-streams.test.ts. On a debug build of main 15 of the 16 tests fail. With the change all 16 pass.

Open for a maintainer. Four review threads describe behaviour that is in 1.4.2 and that this PR keeps: the budget ends one rejection early, the count has no reset, and the GOAWAY names the refused stream as Last-Stream-ID. My replies there have the measurements.

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HTTP/2 refusal handling now routes excess peer-initiated streams to native handling. Native code centralizes rejected-stream counting and applies the configured limit. New raw-frame tests cover reset behavior, session usability, and GOAWAY at the limit.

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HTTP/2 rejection handling

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Native rejection accounting
src/js/node/http2.ts, src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs
Excess peer-initiated streams return NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM for native handling. Native code centralizes rejection counting and sends ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM GOAWAY at the configured limit. Server-side resets of delivered streams no longer count toward the limit.
Rejection limit conformance tests
test/js/node/http2/node-http2-rejected-streams.test.ts
Raw-frame tests cover handler-side and peer resets, pushed and request-listener streams, configured limits, active-stream behavior, and GOAWAY when concurrent-stream limits are exceeded.

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Use the last processed peer stream in the rejection GOAWAY.

last_stream_id includes refused streams and locally initiated push streams. If the server processes stream 1 and then refuses streams 3, 5, and 7, this call advertises 7 as the last processed stream. A higher-numbered pushed stream can also supply an even ID. The client can then misclassify an unprocessed request when deciding whether to retry it. Track the last peer-initiated stream delivered for processing, and use that ID in this GOAWAY. Add an assertion for the GOAWAY Last-Stream-ID alongside the new rejection-limit test. RFC 9113 defines this field in terms of peer-initiated streams that might have been processed. (rfc-editor.org)

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Confirmed, and it is not new. With settings: { maxConcurrentStreams: 1 } and a raw client, the GOAWAY at the budget limit carries the id of the refused stream as Last-Stream-ID, and that stream gets no RST_STREAM.

maxSessionRejectedStreams Last-Stream-ID of the GOAWAY
0 3
3 7
100 201

The values are the same on Bun 1.4.2, on a release build of main b253e8afbc and on this branch. The expression self.last_stream_id.get() moved here from rst_stream and on_stream_rejected without a change.

I did not change it in this PR. The PR is a fix for a patch release, and it keeps every frame of the over-limit refusal as 1.4.2 writes it. The correct value is the last stream that was delivered to the handler. That needs a new tracked id. For the callers that come through on_stream_rejected (a malformed or oversized header block) the stream exists before its block is rejected, so the point where "delivered" is recorded has to be decided for every GOAWAY that this file sends. #37588 works on the Last-Stream-ID of these frames.

The measured values are in the Notes of the description. I leave this thread open for a maintainer to decide.

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@robobun, thanks for the measurements. They show that this PR preserves the existing GOAWAY Last-Stream-ID behavior. I agree that changing it requires a separate definition of when a peer stream counts as delivered, including the on_stream_rejected path.

The finding remains valid, but I will leave this thread open for the maintainer’s scope decision. I will not ask for a Last-Stream-ID change in this patch-release fix. #37588 is the appropriate place to address that behavior.


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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 that the new numeric-return branch in handle_received_stream_id cannot fire on client sessions (ClientHttp2Session.streamStart only returns a stream object or undefined), that end_stream short-circuits on an already CLOSED stream so the refused-over-limit RST_STREAM is not duplicated, and that the deleted rst_stream budget block had no test asserting its close(REFUSED_STREAM) counting (the new conformance tests pin the opposite contract).

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The change moves the maxSessionRejectedStreams accounting from the generic rstStream host call to the native caller of streamStart via a new count_rejected_stream helper in src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs, with a one-line JS change in src/js/node/http2.ts and new conformance tests. Two confirmed findings (an off-by-one on the budget boundary and the GOAWAY last_stream_id naming the refused stream) are posted inline and are what keep this from an approve.

/// Returns false when this used up maxSessionRejectedStreams and the session sent its GOAWAY.
fn count_rejected_stream(&self, stream_id: u32) -> bool {
self.rejected_streams.set(self.rejected_streams.get() + 1);
if self.max_rejected_streams.get() <= self.rejected_streams.get() {

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: a server configured with maxSessionRejectedStreams: N tolerates only N-1 refused streams and drops the whole connection on the Nth, so N: 1 tolerates none. The comparison self.max_rejected_streams.get() <= self.rejected_streams.get() at h2_frame_parser.rs:3466 fires on the Nth rejection, and the new test at h2-conformance.test.ts:2075-2110 pins that (budget 3, RST on 3 and 5, GOAWAY on 7). Node tolerates the budget before failing. Fix: make the Nth rejection succeed and the (N+1)th send GOAWAY at both counter sites, h2_frame_parser.rs:3466 and h2_frame_parser.rs:7062, and update the two tests that pin the current boundary.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A client opens streams past SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS on a server created with maxSessionRejectedStreams: N; each over-limit HEADERS reaches handle_received_stream_id, streamStart returns NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM (http2.ts:4055) and count_rejected_stream runs (h2_frame_parser.rs:3455). count_rejected_stream increments first and then tests max_rejected_streams <= rejected_streams (h2_frame_parser.rs:3465-3466), so the Nth refusal sends GOAWAY(ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM) and the session dies; with the default 100 only 99 are tolerated, with 1 none. Node's OnBeginHeadersCallback uses rejected_stream_count_++ > max_rejected_streams, so the budget is fully tolerated there. The base branch had the same <= in rst_stream and on_stream_rejected; this PR centralizes it in the new helper and adds a test (h2-conformance.test.ts:2075-2110, budget 3 -> RST on streams 3 and 5, GOAWAY on 7) that certifies the off-by-one, and the sibling site at h2_frame_parser.rs:7062 uses >= the same way. The option is documented as the number of rejections tolerated before the session closes, which the code…

Verification: pre-existing (the base already fails by the same route, but this diff re-centralizes the comparison in a new helper and adds a test that pins the off-by-one). Trigger: a server created with maxSessionRejectedStreams: N refuses N streams over SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS (or N malformed/oversized header blocks via on_stream_rejected). Mechanism verified in… | pre-existing. Triggering…

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Confirmed, and it is not new. Budget 3 ends the session at the 3rd rejection, and budget 0 or 1 ends it at the 1st. That is the same on Bun 1.4.2, on a release build of main b253e8afbc and on this branch.

For the rejection that node counts (a stream over maxSessionMemory), node v26.3.0 with budget 3 answers 4 rejections with RST_STREAM and ends the session at the 5th: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/src/node_http2.cc#L1038-L1040

I did not change it in this PR. The comparison decides when a session ends for every producer that comes through the helper: the over-limit refusal, the refusal over maxSessionMemory, a malformed header block and an oversized header list. A change also has to re-point the test http2 client receives 'goaway' when the server rejects a stream in node-http2.test.js, which expects the teardown at the first rejection with budget 0. That is a change of policy. This PR is the fix for the count of resets only.

The new test pins the boundary as it is, and its comment says that node differs. The boundary is also in the Notes of the description. I leave this thread open for a maintainer to decide.

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self.send_go_away(
stream_id,
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b"ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM",
self.last_stream_id.get(),

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: An RFC-compliant client that retries streams above the GOAWAY's last_stream_id will never retry the request the server refused, because the GOAWAY names that refused stream as possibly processed. The new helper at h2_frame_parser.rs:3471 passes self.last_stream_id, which line 3379 already advanced to the refused stream id before streamStart ran, and no RST_STREAM is sent for it (see 3474). Fix: the GOAWAY sent for a refusal must carry the highest stream id actually delivered to JS (last_peer_stream_id of an accepted stream, or the id before this one), so the refused request is above it and retryable.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: over-limit refusal that exhausts maxSessionRejectedStreams, entering via handle_received_stream_id (h2_frame_parser.rs:3367). Line 3378-3380 sets last_stream_id = stream_identifier before the callback. streamStart refuses (http2.ts:4055), count_rejected_stream at 3464 sends GOAWAY with self.last_stream_id.get() (3471) = the refused id, and returns false so end_stream is skipped (3455). RFC 9113 §6.8: streams with ids above last_stream_id are safe to retry; ids at or below might have been processed. The refused stream therefore looks processed to the client although the server never created a JS stream for it, and it gets no RST_STREAM either. Node/nghttp2 terminate with last_proc_stream_id, the last stream handed to the application. The dismissal noted the base used the same value; but count_rejected_stream is new code that now owns this choice for both the streamStart refusal and Sink::on_stream_rejected (4188), so the fix belongs here. Remedy: pass the last accepted peer stream id rather than last_stream_id.

Verification: pre-existing — the base branch produces the identical GOAWAY by the identical route, so merging changes nothing here. Mechanism as claimed: /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:3378-3380 sets self.last_stream_id.set(stream_identifier) before onStreamStart is called (3429); when JS returns constants.NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM (http2.ts:4055) and the budget is exhausted,…

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Confirmed, and it is not new. The Last-Stream-ID is the id of the refused stream (3, 7 and 201 for budgets 0, 3 and 100) on Bun 1.4.2, on a release build of main b253e8afbc and on this branch. The refused stream gets no RST_STREAM.

The reason why this PR keeps the value is in my reply to the other comment on this line: #44248 (comment)

I leave this thread open for a maintainer to decide.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 9ac99b9 has 2 failures in Build #121668 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 44248

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-44248 executable, so you can run:

bun-44248 --bun

…in rstStream

rstStream counted every REFUSED_STREAM reset that JS submits on a server
against maxSessionRejectedStreams. close() and the destroy that follows
it each submit one, so a server whose handler calls
stream.close(NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM) sent GOAWAY(ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM) at
the 50th refusal and closed its own session. A RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM)
from the peer was counted too.

The count was written for one case: the stream that streamStart refuses
over SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS. streamStart now returns the code
for that stream, and the native caller resets the stream and counts it.
rstStream counts nothing.
The tests have their own raw client with no timers. A wait ends with a
frame or with the end of the connection.
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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 notes, I checked that the moved refusal is behavior-preserving: the new branch in handle_received_stream_id runs end_stream under the same _dispatch guard the old JS-side rstStream call ran under, and skipping the reset once count_rejected_stream has sent GOAWAY matches the early return UNDEFINED the deleted rst_stream budget block had. I also checked ClientHttp2Session.streamStart never returns a number, so client sessions cannot enter the new is_number() branch.

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The change moves maxSessionRejectedStreams accounting from the JS-callable rstStream host function into the native caller of streamStart in h2_frame_parser.rs, with a one-line change in http2.ts and a new raw-socket test file; it touches no auth or crypto surface. The inline findings (SAFETY comment wording, new test file vs. repo convention) are nits, and the native refactor was verified equivalent to the prior control flow, but this is node:http2 protocol code with a prior third-party review thread, so a human look remains appropriate.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

Comment thread src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs Outdated
Comment thread test/js/node/http2/node-http2-rejected-streams.test.ts
The helper arms the dispatch guard for the borrow, as the branch above
it does. No behaviour change.

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

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

Comment on lines 3452 to +3465
});
self.enter_stream_dispatch(stream)
.set_context(returned, &global);
} else if returned.is_number() && self.count_rejected_stream(stream_identifier) {
// streamStart refused the stream and returned the RST_STREAM code that answers it.
let mut refused = self.enter_stream_dispatch(stream);
self.end_stream(&mut refused, ErrorCode(returned.to_u32()));
}
Some(stream)
}

/// Returns false when this used up maxSessionRejectedStreams and the session sent its GOAWAY.
fn count_rejected_stream(&self, stream_id: u32) -> bool {
self.rejected_streams.set(self.rejected_streams.get() + 1);

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: a long-lived connection whose server occasionally refuses a stream is torn down after 99 refusals in total, even with thousands of accepted streams in between; node only ends a session after consecutive refusals. count_rejected_stream at h2_frame_parser.rs:3465 only ever increments rejected_streams, and the accept branch at h2_frame_parser.rs:3444 never resets it, whereas node's OnBeginHeadersCallback sets rejected_stream_count_ = 0 each time it creates a stream. Fix: reset rejected_streams to 0 whenever a peer stream is accepted (the returned.is_object() branch, and the engine's accepted-stream path that feeds on_stream_rejected's siblings), so the budget bounds consecutive rejections as in node. …
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

…The PR moves the count next to the accept branch but ports only the increment half of node's semantics.

A persistent HTTP/2 connection (proxy upstream, gRPC channel) to a server created with settings.maxConcurrentStreams or one that periodically exceeds maxSessionMemory. Each over-limit HEADERS reaches handle_received_stream_id, streamStart returns NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM (http2.ts:4055) and count_rejected_stream increments rejected_streams (h2_frame_parser.rs:3465); the same helper runs for session-memory refusals via on_stream_rejected (h2_frame_parser.rs:4188, connection.rs:1357). Nothing ever writes rejected_streams back to 0: the accept branch at h2_frame_parser.rs:3444-3454 stores the context and moves on. So after 99 refusals accumulated over the connection's lifetime, the 100th sends GOAWAY(ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM) with emit_error, killing every in-flight stream. node v26.3.0 node_http2.cc OnBeginHeadersCallback does rejected_stream_count_++ > max_rejected_streams and then session->rejected_stream_count_ = 0 when a stream is created, so interleaved accepted streams keep the…

Verification: pre-existing. acknowledged in diff: the PR description says "The count is also cumulative here. Node sets it to 0 on every stream it creates" — that statement is accurate, and nothing in the code bounds or mitigates it. Triggering condition: a long-lived server connection on which the peer occasionally opens a stream past SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS (streamStart returns… | pre-existing…

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Confirmed, and it is not new. The count has had no reset since 1.4.0, and the Notes of the description say so.

I did not add the reset in this PR, because it cannot go in alone. A request whose header block is malformed or over the header list limit is accepted by streamStart first, and finish_header_block rejects it afterwards (connection.rs:1419 and :1430). A reset in the accept branch sets the count to 0 before each of those rejections, so the count never passes 1. For an oversized header list this count is the only bound of the session, so with a budget of 2 or more a flood of them never ends the session. Node can reset at creation because it does not count those blocks against this budget.

The reset, node's comparison and the set of rejections that count have to change together. That is a change of policy for every producer of this budget. This PR is the fix for the count of resets only. I leave this thread open for a maintainer to decide.

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