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Problem

  • test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts takes 18.97 s on debian 13 x64-asan in the parallel batch (build 121810).
  • It starts one child for each of its 11 rows. An ASAN build runs 5 tests at a time (src/options_types/context.rs:525).

Fix

  • The fixture runs a list of rows in order. Ten rows share one child, and each test reads its row when the child prints it.
  • The TLS spill row keeps its own child. In the shared child it crashed in 1 of 20 runs with the on_read_parsed guard of node:http: the close of a tunnel does not end a request body twice #44205 removed, against 10 of 20 alone.
  • Rows use toEqual. A new test checks the exit, stdout and stderr of the shared child.
  • Verified on debian 13 x64-asan, file run alone: 15.87 and 16.25 s before, 7.86 and 10.27 s after (builds in Notes). Local debug build, 20 runs each: median 27.6 s, then 18.6 s.

Background

Downsides

  • With the default 5 s, a debug build on a busy machine times out while a child starts: 9 of 10 runs, against 10 of 10 on main.
  • A red run is slower: each row that crashes gets a new child. With the onClose condition removed: 38 to 54 s, against 20 to 31 s.
  • Not changed: with the on_read_parsed guard removed, the file passes half of its runs (10 of 20, as on main).
Notes

Where the numbers are from

  • CI, in the parallel batch: bun run ci:slowest data of build 121810. debian 13 x64-asan 18.97 s. Linux release lanes 0.14 to 0.25 s, Windows 0.29 and 0.31 s, macOS 0.06 to 0.25 s. There is no number for this PR in the batch: the CI runner runs a test file that the PR changes first and alone (scripts/runner.node.ts:1330).
  • CI, file run alone on debian 13 x64-asan. Before: 15.87 s and 16.25 s, from the two builds of node:http: the close of a tunnel does not end a request body twice #44205, which added the file (121544 and 121575, 11 pass and 2 skip). After: 7.86 s and 10.27 s, from builds 121927 and 121933 of this PR (12 pass and 2 skip). Two runs on each side, so the lane itself moves by about 2 s between runs.
  • CI, the other lanes of builds 121927 and 121933, file run alone: Linux release 75 to 117 ms, Windows 139 to 172 ms, macOS 81 to 240 ms. The file has 12 pass, 2 skip and 0 fail on every lane of both builds.
  • Local: one Linux x64 machine with 16 cores and a load average of 500 to 800 during every run. A debug build (bun bd), which has ASAN. Wall times on this machine vary by a factor of 2 between runs, so each comparison interleaves the two files.
  • Every number below is from the current head, e88133e, unless a line says otherwise.
  • Children for each run of the file. CI lanes: 11 before, 2 after. Debug build: 13 before, 4 after (the two debug log rows keep a child each).

Local times, fixed build

File Flag Runs Wall time Result
main --timeout 60000 20 22.2 to 40.0 s, median 27.6 s 20 green
this PR --timeout 60000 20 15.0 to 25.7 s, median 18.6 s 20 green
main none 10 18.8 to 21.5 s 0 green, 120 test timeouts
this PR none 10 14.4 to 50.1 s 1 green, 25 test timeouts

About 4 s of each run is the start of the test runner. An empty test file takes 3.6 to 4.0 s on this machine.

The runs with no flag show the default 5 s on a machine this busy. A debug child needed 3.5 to 6.2 s to start and run its first row, so a test that waits for one can time out. In this PR that is the first row of the shared child and the two debug log rows. When the first row times out, the runner ends every child that is alive, so the spill test failed in 4 of the 10 runs with a child that SIGTERM ended, and a new child ran the rows after the first. The slowest run (50.1 s) had 8 timeouts and 6 kills: six rows, one after the other, each waited for a new child. No CI lane runs a debug build, and the CI runner passes 90 s (270 s on the ASAN lane).

Each part of #44205 removed alone

Debug build, both files interleaved, both with --timeout 60000. A cell is the number of runs in which the test failed. No failure in these runs was a timeout.

Part removed Runs main This PR
All three 3 13 of 13 tests fail, 3 of 3 the same 13 fail, 3 of 3
The condition in onClose 10 10 rows and debug row 1: 10 of 10. Spill row: 3 of 10 the same 11: 10 of 10. Spill row: 2 of 10
The clear in the shut-down branch 10 debug row 2: 10 of 10 debug row 2: 10 of 10
The test in on_read_parsed 20 spill row: 10 of 20 spill row: 10 of 20
  • With all three removed, both files show the same reasons: 7 tests die with JSCast.h:182:38: runtime error: member call on null pointer of type 'JSC::JSCell', 5 count 2 EOFs, and debug row 2 shows the extra onData lines. The new exit test passes there, because the last rows of the shared child do not crash.
  • The spill row with the onClose condition removed is a race in both files. An earlier sample, on the first commit of this PR, had 1 of 10 for main and 7 of 10 for this PR. This sample has 3 and 2. The rate moves between samples in both files, so I read nothing into the difference.
  • The sample for the on_read_parsed test on the first commit was 12 of 20 for main and 15 of 20 for this PR.

The first version of this change was wrong

The first version ran all 11 rows in one child. With all three parts removed it failed every test, so it looked correct. With only the on_read_parsed test removed, it passed all 14 tests.

The crash that this guard prevents is a race. Fixture alone, 20 runs each, guard removed:

Layout Crash
Fixture of main, spill row, new process 9 of 20
Fixture of this PR, spill row alone 10 of 20
Fixture of this PR, spill row as row 11 of one child 1 of 20

So the fixture changes do not move the rate, and the position in a used child does. The spill row went back to a child of its own. That child starts with the block, so it runs next to the shared child.

One more finding from these runs. #44205 lists the spill row as the test for the on_read_parsed guard, from 1 run. On this machine the file on main passes half of its runs with that guard removed. This PR does not change that. A test that fails every time would need a change to the row or a new row.

Changes after review

  • The first commit gave every test a 30 s timeout on debug builds. That is removed. It also made a debug build ignore --timeout: a run with --timeout 20000 timed out at 30000 ms. The cost is the "none" rows of the table above.
  • A hook-spawned child that hangs, with its test left out by a filter, outlived the runner: one fixture process was still alive after the run. A debug log row that hangs did the same. Now every child gets one AbortSignal and an afterAll aborts it. Both cases leave no process.
  • A Bun.spawn that throws once failed 11 tests in the first commit. Now the row that waited for that child gets the error, and a new child runs the rows after it: 1 test fails and 13 pass.
  • A retry of a test (bun test --retry) reads the same result again. It does not run the row again. The comment above result() says so. CI retries a whole file in a new process.
  • The spill child starts with the block. That is a third of the time of the first describe: 11.1 s against 16.2 s (median of 10 interleaved runs). The price is the case in the first Downsides bullet.

Assertions

  • Rows: toEqual in place of toMatchObject, so a result with an extra key fails.
  • The end of each child: { native: [], stdout: "", stderr: "", exitCode: 0, signalCode: null }, exact. For the shared child this is the new test. For the spill row and the debug rows it is part of the row's test.
  • New: a row ends when its server has emitted 'close', plus one turn of the event loop. Before, the fixture took the result one turn after it called server.close().
  • Not changed: the expected events and EOF counts of all 13 rows, and the names of the 13 tests.

How a failure shows

  • A row with wrong events fails alone.
  • A row that kills the child gets the output and exit of that child as its result. The rows after it run in a new child.
  • A row that hangs times out. The runner kills the child, and the rows after it run in a new child. That run also prints one Unhandled error between tests: the test that timed out continues when its child is killed.
  • With -t, a test still takes its own row. Checked for socket.destroySoon() and for the spill row.

Not run

  • macOS and Windows locally. CI ran them: see the first section.
  • A release ASAN build locally. The CI number above is from that lane.
  • node test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body-fixture.js '[...]' with Node.js v26.3.0 prints all 13 rows and exits with 0.

node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts started one child for each of its 11 rows.
The fixture now takes a list of rows and runs them in order, each with its
own server, and waits for the 'close' of that server before the next row.

Ten rows share one child. The test reads each row when the child prints
it, so the tests stay one for each row and run in order. A row that the
child does not print gets how the child ended, and a new child runs the
rows after it.

The TLS spill row keeps a child of its own. Without the on_read_parsed
test for a closed response it crashes in only some runs, and in almost
none after other rows in the same child.

Each row is compared with toEqual. One more test checks that the shared
child exits on its own with nothing on stdout or stderr. A debug build
gets a 30 s timeout for each test. No CI lane runs a debug build.
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Status: ready for review. The diff is green in CI. The red jobs are two tests that this PR does not touch.

CI, builds 121927 and 121933:

  • This file has 12 pass, 2 skip and 0 fail on every lane of both builds (Linux glibc and musl, ASAN, macOS, Windows).
  • debian 13 x64-asan, file run alone: 7.86 s and 10.27 s. The file on main took 15.87 s and 16.25 s in the same position (builds 121544 and 121575).
  • Red, and not related to this PR: test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts on debian 13 x64-asan (both builds, 4 of 4 attempts each) and test/cli/install/migration/complex-workspace.test.ts on darwin aarch64 (build 121933, 4 of 4 attempts). Build 121899 of the first commit of this PR passed every job.

Checked locally, on one Linux x64 machine with a debug build:

  • Fixed build, --timeout 60000: 20 runs of this file, 20 green. Median 18.6 s, against 27.6 s for the file on main (20 interleaved runs).
  • Each of the three parts of node:http: the close of a tunnel does not end a request body twice #44205 removed alone, both files, 3 to 20 runs each. The table is in the Notes of the description. This file fails the same tests as the file on main, equally often in these runs.
  • Fixed build, default timeout: 9 of 10 runs have a test that times out while a debug child starts (10 of 10 for the file on main). The machine had a load average of 550 to 800.

One optional review suggestion is open for a maintainer: start the child of the spill row in its own test. The thread has the numbers.

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The fixture processes multiple option rows sequentially, with a separate server for each row. Tests consume results from shared or isolated child processes and check row output, child exits, and filtered native logs.

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HTTP Upgrade Body Tests

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Per-row fixture execution
test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body-fixture.js
The fixture creates a server for each option row, records events and EOF counts, waits for socket and server closure, and prints each result.
Shared child runner and main cases
test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts
A row-based runner reads ordered results from a child process. The main cases use one shared child and check each result and the child exit.
TLS and native-log cases
test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts
The TLS/readable/spill case uses a separate child. Debug-only cases run in one-row children and compare filtered native logs with exact expectations.

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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 the shared child's pipe handling — stderr.text() starts before the stdout loop and proc.exited is awaited only after stdout ends, so the child cannot deadlock on a full pipe — and the fixture's per-row uncaughtException handler swap, which keeps a row's own async error inside that row's events rather than leaking into the next row.

Extended reasoning...

Test-only change to test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts and its fixture: the fixture becomes a per-row run() loop over a JSON array, and the test shares one spawned child across ten sequential rows via an async generator, with the TLS spill row in its own child. No production code or security-sensitive surface is touched. The inline findings (spawn-failure cascade, cross-child kill on timeout, retry no-op, debug-only per-test timeout) are the reason a human should still weigh the sequential shared-child design against the repo's concurrency and timeout conventions.

Comment thread test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +133 to +137
beforeAll(() => {
alone = Array.fromAsync(run([{ act: "req.destroy()", read: "readable", secure: true, spill: true }]));
// The test below is what reports a failure.
alone.catch(() => {});
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🟡 (optional) When a row of the shared child hangs, the TLS spill test can also fail with a killed child, which never happened on the base branch. bun test's timeout handler kills every subprocess it tracks, not only the timed-out test's (src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs:324 via ProcessAutoKiller.rs:35). The alone child spawned in beforeAll at node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts:134 is tracked, so if it is still running when a row test times out it gets SIGKILL and alone becomes two exit records. Fix: start the spill child where a row timeout cannot reach it, e.g. inside its own test or only after result(rows.length) has resolved, so the spill row fails only for its own reason.

Why this was flagged

A row in the shared child hangs (the author saw socket.resetAndDestroy() not finish on a canary build) while the spill child started in beforeAll at test.ts:133-134 is still alive, which is realistic on the ASAN lane or a debug build where the PR notes a child took up to 8.1 s to start. The row's test times out, src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs:871 calls handle_timeout, and Execution.rs:308-324 runs auto_killer.kill() because the group has one sequence. ProcessAutoKiller.rs:35-43 pops every tracked process and kills each one that has not exited; the spill child was registered by on_subprocess_spawn during the beforeAll group, and on_group_completed at Execution.rs:579 only disables tracking, it does not clear the set. The spill child dies with SIGKILL, the generator at test.ts:48-54 yields its exit record twice, and the test at test.ts:138-142 fails with a toEqual diff that blames the TLS spill row, the row tied to the on_read_parsed guard.

Verification: nit — when any sequential row test in this file times out while the alone spill child spawned in beforeAll is still running, bun test SIGKILLs that child too and the spill test fails spuriously with two SIGKILL exit records; this could not happen on the base branch. Mechanism verified: /home/claude/bun/src/jsc/ProcessAutoKiller.rs:35 while let Some(entry) = self.processes.pop() kills every tracked process, and disable() (line 23) never clears the set, so a process stays tracked until it exits (line 83-90).

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The mechanism is right, and I measured it. It needs a test timeout that is shorter than the life of the spill child.

  • With the default 5 s, on a debug build under heavy load, it happens. In 10 runs the spill test failed 4 times. Each time the first row had timed out, and the spill test received a child that SIGTERM ended.
  • On CI the timeout is 90 s, and 270 s on the ASAN lane. The spill child lives for a few seconds, so a row that hangs cannot reach it there.

I kept the early start because it is a third of the time of the block: 11.1 s against 16.2 s (median of 10 interleaved runs, debug build, the first describe only). With the child started in its own test, that test alone takes 3.7 to 6.7 s on the same machine, so it is the test that then times out at 5 s.

The comment on the row now states this behavior. I leave this thread open for a maintainer. The independent form is a 4-line change if that is preferred.

Comment thread test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts
Comment thread test/js/node/http/node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts Outdated
…nner timeout

Every child of node-http-upgrade-body.test.ts gets one AbortSignal, and an
afterAll aborts it. A child whose test a filter left out, or that never
printed its row, no longer outlives the runner.

A spawn that throws, or a line of output that does not parse, is now the
result of the row that waited for it, and a new child runs the rows after
that row. Before, it ended the generator and every later row failed.

The tests no longer pass a timeout. The runner default, or --timeout,
applies on every build.
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Changes after review, in e88133e:

  • The debug-only test timeout is removed. The runner default or --timeout applies on every build.
  • Every child gets one AbortSignal, which an afterAll aborts. Before, a child that hangs while a filter leaves its test out stayed alive after the run.
  • A Bun.spawn that throws now costs one row. Before, it failed every later row of the shared child.
  • A comment states that bun test --retry does not run a row again.
  • Not changed: the child of the spill row still starts with the block. The open thread has the measurement and the one case where it matters.

The description has the numbers of the current head.

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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 nit, I checked two things e88133e removed: dropping alone.catch(() => {}) is safe because run() now catches spawn and read errors and yields them as the row's result, so Array.fromAsync(run(...)) can no longer reject; and the leftover abort signal covers what the removed afterAll(() => child.return(undefined)) did, since a generator parked inside for await on the child's stdout would not have honored return() until the child printed anyway.

Extended reasoning...

Test-only change under test/js/node/http/: the fixture becomes a sequential row runner and the test file drives ten rows through one shared child plus a separate child for the TLS spill row, with no security-sensitive surface. The second commit addressed the four points from the prior review (spawn errors caught, fixed 30 s timeout removed, retry and spill-child kill behavior documented), so this note only records what was newly ruled out.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

  • Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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