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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/js/node/http2.ts
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Expand Up @@ -4051,8 +4051,8 @@ class ServerHttp2Session extends Http2Session {
// SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS. nghttp2 answers with RST_STREAM REFUSED_STREAM and never
// surfaces the stream to the JS layer.
if (stream_id % 2 === 1 && self.#peerInitiatedStreams >= self.#advertisedMaxConcurrentStreams) {
self.#parser?.rstStream(stream_id, constants.NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM);
return;
// Native counts this against maxSessionRejectedStreams and resets the stream while budget remains.
return constants.NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM;
}
self.#connections++;
if (stream_id % 2 === 1) self.#peerInitiatedStreams++;
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52 changes: 21 additions & 31 deletions src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs
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Expand Up @@ -3452,10 +3452,30 @@ impl H2FrameParser {
});
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.

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.

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

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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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Review comment at @src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs at line 3471:
Track the last peer-initiated stream delivered for processing separately from
`last_stream_id`, which can include refused streams and locally initiated
pushes. Use that tracked ID in the rejection GOAWAY, and assert its
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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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🟣 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.

true,
);
return false;
}
true
}

fn to_writer(&self) -> DirectWriterStruct {
DirectWriterStruct {
writer: bun_ptr::BackRef::new(self),
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}

fn on_stream_rejected(&self, stream_id: u32) {
// maxSessionRejectedStreams: counts only locally-initiated rejections (oversized or
// malformed header blocks) - peer-sent RST_STREAM frames must not consume the budget.
self.rejected_streams.set(self.rejected_streams.get() + 1);
if self.max_rejected_streams.get() <= self.rejected_streams.get() {
self.send_go_away(
stream_id,
ErrorCode::ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM,
b"ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM",
self.last_stream_id.get(),
true,
);
}
self.count_rejected_stream(stream_id);
}

fn on_stream_reset(&self, stream_id: u32, code: u32) {
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}
let error_code = error_arg.to_u32();

// maxSessionRejectedStreams: a REFUSED_STREAM reset from the JS layer (the
// max-concurrent-streams refusal in streamStart) is the same rejection class the engine
// counts; budget it identically so a flood of refused streams still tears the session
// down. Server-side only: a client's GOAWAY sweep resets its own unprocessed streams
// with REFUSED_STREAM and must not consume the budget.
if error_code == ErrorCode::REFUSED_STREAM.0 && this.is_server.get() {
this.rejected_streams.set(this.rejected_streams.get() + 1);
if this.max_rejected_streams.get() <= this.rejected_streams.get() {
this.send_go_away(
stream_id,
ErrorCode::ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM,
b"ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM",
this.last_stream_id.get(),
true,
);
return Ok(JSValue::UNDEFINED);
}
}

let Some(stream) = this.streams.get().get(&stream_id).copied() else {
// Streams the legacy bookkeeping never registered (e.g. peer-initiated pushed streams
// surfaced by the rewrite engine) get the RST_STREAM written directly. The frame is
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