streams: join the string chunks of a text consumer with one allocation

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Problem

• text() and json() of a stream of string chunks abort the process, past try/catch: panic(main thread): abort() called, exit code 134. Bun 1.3.14 returns the text: a regression of 1.4.0 (webstreams: rewrite ReadableStream, WritableStream, and TransformStream in C++ (zero JS builtins) #33193).
• A gzip body of 1 MB that inflates through DecompressionStream and TextDecoderStream is enough. So is 96 MiB of string chunks under ulimit -v 1000000.
• convertChunksToText (BunStreamConsumers.cpp:607) joins the chunks in a WTF::StringBuilder that calls CRASH() when it cannot grow.

Fix

• tryJoinStringChunks makes one allocation of the length and width of the text, which the consumer knows before the join. A failure throws RangeError: Out of memory.
• The join leaves a leading BOM out, and copies a chunk that is a rope from its parts.
• Verified: 13 new tests in streams-string-limit.test.ts (12 fail with src/ of main), 14 cases in streams.test.js.
• Self-reviewed: 19 concerns raised, 19 addressed.

Background

• stream.text(), Response.text(), Bun.readableStreamToText, text() of node:stream/consumers and the json() forms all reach convertChunksToText.
• TextDecoderStream gives string chunks, 16-bit when a chunk has a non-ASCII character. A builder doubles its buffer. After 1,073,741,817 characters the double is longer than a 16-bit string.
• Considered OverflowPolicy::RecordOverflow on the builder: no abort, and the text that fits is still refused.

Downsides

• Binary: +2,560 bytes. A join of 4 chunks of 16 Latin-1 characters: 1080 to 903 instructions (gdb stepi).
• Not covered: a stream with a binary chunk. Its decode still aborts when the allocator refuses it (Stream text consumers: a failed direct stream loses its error, the string limit is learned late, and a 16-bit text that fits is refused #44270).

Notes

What I ran. Release builds, linux x64. Every call is inside try/catch or .then(ok, err). main is bf42a525d5, the merge base of this branch.

Input	1.3.14	1.4.2	main	this branch
2^30 Latin-1 characters, then "\u20AC", new Response(stream).text()	1073741825	exit 134	exit 134	1073741825
a gzip of 1,043,662 bytes of that text, through DecompressionStream and TextDecoderStream, text()	resolves	exit 134	exit 134	resolves
96 chunks of 1 MiB of Latin-1, then "\u20AC", under ulimit -v 1000000, Response.text() and text() of node:stream/consumers	resolves	exit 134	exit 134	resolves
384 chunks of 1 MiB, then "\u20AC", under ulimit -v 4194304	resolves	exit 134	exit 134	resolves
2,147,483,636 code units, the first chunk 16-bit	rejects	exit 134	exit 134	rejects, 29 MiB peak

The first reproduction:

const s = "x".repeat(2 ** 30);
const rs = new ReadableStream({
  start(c) {
    c.enqueue(s);
    c.enqueue("\u20AC");
    c.close();
  },
});
console.log((await new Response(rs).text()).length);

On main, a text of 1,073,741,817 characters resolves and a text of 1,073,741,818 aborts.

Provenance. A review of the stream code found this while it looked at the text sink of direct streams (#44181). No user has reported it.

Why the builder fails. reserveCapacity(total) on an empty builder makes an 8-bit buffer. The first 16-bit chunk converts it, and StringBuilder::expandedCapacity asks for min(2 * capacity, String::MaxLength). From a capacity of 1,073,741,818 that is more than the 2,147,483,635 characters of the longest 16-bit string, so the allocation is refused. The second cause is an allocator that refuses the buffer: the builder asks for the 8-bit buffer and then for a 16-bit buffer of twice the length. oven-sh/WebKit#631 changes the first cause in the builder for every caller. This consumer does not need a builder: it knows the length and the width before it allocates.

The BOM. main removes up to two U+FEFF code units from the start of a text of string chunks, with a copy of the text for each (String::substring). The join counts them in the first chunks and leaves them out of its allocation. The rule itself is the rule of main: this PR does not change it, and the new cases in streams.test.js pin it as it is.

The other strips of a BOM are the copies of main (withoutUTF8BOM for one string chunk, and the two in finishTextAccumulator for a stream that also has a binary chunk). An earlier commit of this PR made them share the buffer (substringSharingImpl). 59d03a0 took that back: makeThreadShareable copies a string that is a part of another string, so each structuredClone() and postMessage() of the text copied all of it. #44181 does not change them either. A copy that can fail is the fix for them, as its own change.

Chunks that are ropes. JSString::resolveToBuffer copies a rope from its fibers into the join. main makes the string of each rope first. The count of the BOM reads the first 16-bit chunk with view(), which makes the string of that chunk when it is a rope. That is one chunk, and a follow-up removes it.

Peak RSS, MiB, three runs each.

Workload	1.3.14	1.4.2	main	this branch
64 chunks of 1 MiB of Latin-1, then "y"	100	80	90	90
64 chunks of 1 MiB of Latin-1, then "\u20AC"	163	336	346	154
64 MiB of UTF-8 through TextDecoderStream, a non-ASCII character in every chunk	302	407	415	286
the same, one non-ASCII character in the document	243	345	354	226
the same as a JSON string, json()	370	346 to 443	450	354
128 chunks of 1 MiB that are ropes of two strings	342	433	442	322
a BOM, then 128 chunks of 1 MiB of Latin-1	292	687	699	283
the same, then 4 structuredClone() of the text	1317	689	699	283
one 16-bit rope of 128 MiB, then a short string (above an empty process)			392	264

Instructions of one convertChunksToText call (the third call of a process), callees included, and its allocator calls. gdb stepi, release builds with LTO.

Chunks	main	this branch
4 x 16 Latin-1	1080, 1 malloc	903, 1 malloc
3 x 16 Latin-1, 1 x 16 UTF-16	1562, 2 malloc, 1 realloc, 2 free	822, 1 malloc
4 x 16 UTF-16	1572, 2 malloc, 1 realloc, 2 free	801, 1 malloc
4 x 1024 Latin-1	1804, 1 malloc	1639, 1 malloc
3 x 1024 Latin-1, 1 x 1024 UTF-16	4248, 2 malloc, 1 realloc, 2 free	2771, 1 malloc
a BOM, 3 x 16 Latin-1	1547, 3 malloc, 1 realloc, 2 free	839, 1 malloc
4 ropes of 2 x 512 Latin-1	4244, 5 malloc	1963, 1 malloc

Binary: .text and the other loaded sections are 80,676,555 bytes on main and 80,679,115 on this branch (size).

Tests.

• streams-string-limit.test.ts, 9 tests for ASAN builds. Malloc=1 and max_allocation_size_mb=4 make the allocator refuse a buffer of 4 MiB (allocationCapEnv in the harness). Three megabytes of Latin-1 resolve before and after. Four megabytes, and three megabytes with a 16-bit character before or after them, reject with RangeError: Out of memory. One megabyte and a 16-bit character resolves: the text is 2 MiB. With src/ of main the builder asks for 4 MiB for it and the child exits with code 134, as it does in 8 of the 9.
• 1 test that every build runs: a 16-bit text of 2,147,483,636 code units rejects, and the child stays small. On main it exits with code 134. I ran the other side by hand: 2,147,483,635 code units resolve, with a peak of 4,121 MiB.
• 1 test with 16 chunks of 64 MiB of Latin-1 and a 16-bit character, on machines that report 8 GiB or more. The child holds 2.2 GB. On main it exits with code 134. It does not run in a debug build: -O0 with ASAN takes about 6 s for the copy.
• 2 tests of the peak RSS above an empty process. A BOM before 128 MiB of Latin-1, with a structuredClone() of the text: 250 MiB here, 665 MiB on main, bound 384. 128 MiB of chunks that are ropes: 127 MiB here, 254 MiB on main, bound 192. A debug build with ASAN measures 211 to 223 MiB and 94 to 104 MiB.
• streams.test.js, 14 cases for the text of a join: Latin-1 chunks, a 16-bit chunk before and after Latin-1 chunks, empty chunks, ropes, and 9 cases with a BOM. They pass before and after.
• BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 is clean for the new tests and for streams.test.js -t "multi-chunk consumers" (93 tests), in a debug build and in a release build with ASAN.

What this change does not cover.

• A stream with a binary chunk decodes its bytes with Zig::convertUTF8ToString (BunStreamConsumers.cpp:593 and :793, and JSDirectStreamController.cpp:545 for a direct stream). That allocation aborts when the allocator refuses it: 500 chunks of 1 MiB of bytes and then C3 A9, under ulimit -v 4000000, exit with code 139 on Bun 1.4.2, on main and on this branch. Bun 1.3.14 rejects with RangeError: Out of memory. The same for 500 string chunks and then those bytes.
• A stream with a binary chunk joins each run of strings in the builder of BunTextAccumulator. That builder records an overflow, so the 16-bit text that fits is refused with RangeError: Out of memory and the process continues. A byte, 512 chunks of 1 MiB of Latin-1 and "\u20AC" resolve. 513 chunks reject, on main and on this branch.
• The sink of a direct stream has the same builder, and aborts. streams: throw instead of aborting when a direct stream's text sink cannot take a string chunk #44181 is the fix for that abort.
• Stream text consumers: a failed direct stream loses its error, the string limit is learned late, and a 16-bit text that fits is refused #44270 tracks all three.
• Other builders with the default policy abort on the same kind of input. Open pull requests for them: Throw ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG from Bun.wrapAnsi instead of aborting when the output passes the string length limit #42225 (Bun.wrapAnsi), Bun.sliceAnsi: throw instead of aborting when the result passes the string length limit #42941 (Bun.sliceAnsi), Bun.Cookie: throw instead of aborting when the Set-Cookie string passes the string length limit #42237 (Bun.Cookie), Throw instead of aborting when a MIME string does not fit in a string #42226 (MIME strings), URLPattern: throw instead of aborting when a pattern string passes the string limit #42191 (URLPattern), WebSocket: bound every script-supplied value that an error message quotes #42216 (WebSocket), Headers: throw instead of aborting when a value passes the string length limit #42218 (Headers).

Self-review. 19 concerns. 6 asked for changes before a merge: this text (the regression and its triggers, the arms that are not covered), the shared substring of the BOM strip, the two strips of the arm that this PR leaves alone, a test of the longest 16-bit text, and the copy of a rope. The 13 others were about the class of these aborts, the byte arms and the tests, and they are in this text, in #44270 or in the harness helper.

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convertChunksToText joins pure string chunks into one Latin-1 or UTF-16 allocation. For UTF-16 chunks, it skips up to two leading BOM code units. Tests cover concatenation, BOM behavior, allocation failures, and large-string memory use.

Changes

Stream string chunk joining

Layer / File(s)	Summary
String chunk joining and BOM handling src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamConsumers.cpp	convertChunksToText tracks whether all chunks are 8-bit and joins pure string chunks into one Latin-1 or UTF-16 allocation. It skips up to two leading BOMs for UTF-16 chunks and throws an out-of-memory error if allocation fails.
String join validation test/harness.ts, test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js, test/js/web/streams/streams-string-limit.test.ts	Tests cover chunk ordering, empty and rope-backed chunks, BOM handling, and allocation-cap outcomes for text and JSON consumers. Additional tests check large mixed-width strings and peak RSS for large Latin-1 and rope chunks.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 78849

Large text streams can still use about twice the expected memory, or abort, when a BOM is stripped or the first chunk is a large rope. Confirm or fix these allocation paths before merging.

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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/BunStreamConsumers.cpp — Callers that mix one binary chunk into a stream of strings still get RangeError: Out of memory for a text that fits: about 1 GiB of Latin-1 strings followed by any 16-bit string chunk. The mixed arm at BunStreamConsumers.cpp:644-646 feeds textAccumulatorWrite, whose accumulator.rope.append(string) at BunStreamConsumers.cpp:686 is the same StringBuilder doubling the PR describes; its upconvert asks for min(2*capacity, MaxLength) 16-bit units, is refused, and RecordOverflow turns that into the throw at :688. Fix: give the accumulator's string run the same length-and-width-aware single allocation (or reserve the exact 16-bit length before the upconvert) at both BunStreamConsumers.cpp:686 and JSDirectStreamController.cpp:405, so a text under the limit never rejects. [also at: src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamConsumers.cpp:686 - Users still get RangeError: Out of memory for a text that fits whenever one non-string chunk is in the array, while the all-strings arm now resolves it.]

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: convertChunksToText with chunks such as [1 GiB Latin-1 string, "€", new Uint8Array(1)] (any binary chunk anywhere makes allStrings false at BunStreamConsumers.cpp:612-613), via stream.text()/json(), Response(stream).text()/json() or Bun.readableStreamToText. The mixed arm at BunStreamConsumers.cpp:644-646 appends each string to BunTextAccumulator::rope (BunStandaloneTextSink.h:36, a WTF::StringBuilder with RecordOverflow). When the 8-bit buffer holds more than 2^30 units and a 16-bit chunk arrives, StringBuilder::expandedCapacity requests min(2*capacity, String::MaxLength) char16_t units, above the 16-bit StringImpl maximum, so tryCreateUninitialized fails, the builder records overflow, and BunStreamConsumers.cpp:687-689 throws Out of memory although the final UTF-8 text is about 1 GiB and fits. The same append sits at JSDirectStreamController.cpp:405 for direct streams.

  Verification: pre-existing — the mixed arm is untouched by the diff and the base rejects the same input the same way; the PR fixes the all-strings arm only and leaves the sibling arm of the same function with the same StringBuilder-doubling refusal (REVIEW.md "fix the whole class ... if a site is intentionally excluded, say so in the PR" — the PR names #44181 for the direct-stream sink but says nothing about this function's mixed arm).

[robobun]

About the finding on the mixed arm (a binary chunk among the string chunks): it is correct. I left that arm out of this PR on purpose, and the PR body says so now.

• The arm does not abort. It rejects with RangeError: Out of memory, which script can catch. I confirmed the limit on main and on this branch: a byte, 512 chunks of 1 MiB of Latin-1 and "\u20AC" resolve, and 513 chunks reject.
• The arm joins its strings in BunTextAccumulator, which it shares with the sink of a direct stream. streams: route every read and write of the text rope through BunTextAccumulator methods #44178 and streams: throw instead of aborting when a direct stream's text sink cannot take a string chunk #44181 change that accumulator, and streams: throw instead of aborting when a direct stream's text sink cannot take a string chunk #44181 is the fix for the abort in the direct sink.
• Stream text consumers: a failed direct stream loses its error, the string limit is learned late, and a 16-bit text that fits is refused #44270 (item 3) tracks the refusal, with the two ways to remove it. The builder can limit its request (StringBuilder: cap a doubled capacity at the longest string of the buffer's character type WebKit#631). Or this consumer can join each run of string chunks with one allocation, as this PR does when every chunk is a string. A direct stream gets its chunks one at a time. Its sink can keep the chunk strings until end() and join them once, at the cost of chunk strings that stay alive until then.

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How I reproduced it, on Bun 1.4.2 (744846f84) and on a release build of main (ba3f27d1d1):

const s = "x".repeat(2 ** 30);
const rs = new ReadableStream({
  start(c) {
    c.enqueue(s);
    c.enqueue("\u20AC");
    c.close();
  },
});
console.log((await new Response(rs).text()).length);

It ends with panic(main thread): abort() called, exit code 134. With this branch it prints 1073741825, as Bun 1.3.14 does.

A debug build with ASAN gives the same abort with megabytes: Malloc=1 ASAN_OPTIONS=allocator_may_return_null=1:max_allocation_size_mb=4, and a stream of one chunk of 1 MiB of Latin-1 and "\u20AC".

• This pull request: the fix for a stream whose chunks are all strings, and its tests.
• streams: throw instead of aborting when a direct stream's text sink cannot take a string chunk #44181: the fix for the abort in the text sink of a direct stream. It is one pull request against main (it holds streams: route every read and write of the text rope through BunTextAccumulator methods #44178, which is closed). The two merge in either order, with one conflict in the import line of streams-string-limit.test.ts.
• Stream text consumers: a failed direct stream loses its error, the string limit is learned late, and a 16-bit text that fits is refused #44270: what the two pull requests leave open.

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[claude]

Thanks for the follow-up push: both points from the earlier pass (the per-test timeout on the gigabyte test, and the copying BOM strip after the join) are addressed in the current revision, and I found no bugs in it. Since the new join writes raw spans into an uninitialized buffer on a Web API hot path, a human look at that helper is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• tryJoinStringChunks: the allocation length is the checked sum of the same immutable JSString lengths later copied, each view() is followed by an exception check, and all8Bit is only updated while allStrings holds, so a Latin-1 destination never receives a 16-bit chunk.
• Zero-length join (tryCreateUninitialized(0) returns the empty impl, not null) is covered by the "only empty chunks" case.
• The three substringSharingImpl(1) sites: each source string is a local result that no other owner retains, so sharing the buffer does not extend any lifetime beyond the returned string.
• The 4 MiB ASAN cap tests and the 128 MiB RSS test fail on the old path (StringBuilder abort / 512 MiB peak vs the 384 MiB bound) and pass on the new one by construction.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces the StringBuilder join in convertChunksToText (src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamConsumers.cpp) with a single tryCreateUninitialized allocation filled via StringView::getCharacters, and switches three leading-BOM strips from substring to substringSharingImpl; tests add an ASAN-gated allocation-cap matrix, a 2^30+1 code-unit join, an RSS bound, and a join-order matrix. No security-sensitive surface (auth, crypto, injection) is touched; the risk surface is memory safety of the raw span copy, which I traced and found consistent. Both inline comments from the prior run were addressed by commit 375b421 and no CODEOWNER covers the changed files, but the raw-buffer write in native code is why a human glance is still recommended rather than an unattended approve.

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🟠 Major · Use sharing substrings for BOM removal. · BunStreamConsumers.cpp:235

src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamConsumers.cpp:235
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use sharing substrings for BOM removal.

WTF::String::substring(1) copies the remaining payload through an infallible allocation. It does not share the buffer. A large BOM-prefixed string can therefore require another full-size buffer and abort on allocation failure. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

The single-string path reaches this operation through stripTextResultBOM at Line 618. Apply substringSharingImpl(1) at all three changed BOM-removal sites.

Proposed changes

-        return string.substring(1);
+        return string.substringSharingImpl(1);

-            return rope.substring(1);
+            return rope.substringSharingImpl(1);

-            rope = rope.substring(1);
+            rope = rope.substringSharingImpl(1);

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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 nit, I checked the BOM-strip refactor in convertChunksToText against the removed stripTextResultBOM call: leadingBOMCount drops at most two U+FEFF code units like the old double withoutUTF8BOM, the all8Bit skip is sound because a Latin-1 chunk cannot contain U+FEFF, and a BOM-only input ("only a BOM" case in streams.test.js) makes a zero-length tryCreateUninitialized, which yields the empty string rather than null, so it does not throw. The view(globalObject) calls in both helpers have exception checks and resolveToBuffer copies fibers without entering JS.

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The change rewrites the all-strings join in src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamConsumers.cpp to a single exact-size allocation plus two helpers, and adds ASAN allocation-cap, string-limit, and peak-RSS tests; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. A nit about unbranched RSS thresholds is posted inline and one further verified finding is not posted, so this run records only the behaviour-preservation checks it ruled out.

[robobun]

About the strip of a leading BOM (BunStreamConsumers.cpp:235, :789, :819, and the two places in JSDirectStreamController.cpp): there is one answer now for this PR and for #44181.

• The five strips stay the copies of main (substring(1)). This PR has them so since 59d03a0. streams: throw instead of aborting when a direct stream's text sink cannot take a string chunk #44181 drops its five substringSharingImpl(1) edits.
• A shared substring is not a free strip. makeThreadShareable (BunString.cpp:345) copies a string that is a part of another string. So each structuredClone() and postMessage() of the text copied all of it. With the shared substring, RSS after 0 to 4 clones of a text of 256 MiB was 288, 544, 800, 1057 and 1313 MiB. On main and at this head it stays at 296 MiB.
• The join of this PR needs no strip: it leaves the BOM out of its one allocation. That covers a stream of two or more string chunks.
• The copy of main is still there for one string chunk that starts with a BOM, and for a stream that also has a binary chunk. It aborts when the allocator refuses it, as on main. Nothing is worse than on main.
• The fix for those copies is a copy that can fail (String::tryCreateUninitialized) and then throws RangeError: Out of memory. It is one change for all five places, and it comes as its own pull request. Stream text consumers: a failed direct stream loses its error, the string limit is learned late, and a 16-bit text that fits is refused #44270 tracks it.