node:http2: check WINDOW_UPDATE against the sender's own window, drop the per-frame send list by robobun · Pull Request #44383 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-10-01T11:52:41Z

Problem

Concurrent node:http2 uploads cost CPU that grows with the square of the DATA frames: a peer with a 1-byte window makes 2 x 32 KiB cost 6 s.
note_engine_send_consumed (src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:3527, node:http2: rewritten inbound engine, batched write path, server push, +290 node v26.3.0 tests (79% passing) #31584) queues one record per DATA frame. rewrite_read (:3598) visits them all at every read.
After lowering initialWindowSize, bun answers an empty END_STREAM frame with GOAWAY stream flow-control window exceeded.

Fix

Delete the record list. Sink::credit_send_window checks the 2^31-1 cap against the sender's window, which ends a false RST_STREAM(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR).
A SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE change moves open streams' send windows (RFC 9113 6.9.2). The lowering side returns window at half of the value it sent. Empty DATA frames take no window (6.9.1).
Verified: test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts (23 new, 19 fail on main), test/js/node/http2/, node's 261 test-http2-* files.
Self-reviewed: 16 concerns, 2 rejected (Notes).

Background

Connection (the engine) parses frames and kept a copy of each send window. A bun-opened stream has no entry there before the peer's first frame, so its records stayed.
Considered a counter per stream (reads still visit them) and an engine entry at request() (every GET pays).

Downsides

A sender on this branch waits on a bun 1.4.3 receiver that lowers initialWindowSize mid-stream, like a node sender. Its other streams' later writes wait too (node:http2: do not hold a stream's DATA behind another stream's queued frames #43422).
An over-cap WINDOW_UPDATE on a bun-opened stream always gets RST_STREAM (main accepted 3 of 4 orders).
Other callers: one compare per open stream per read, two per DATA frame.

Notes

Numbers. Release builds of main (8e6cc91, no http2 change since) and of 69f54e6 (this branch before the receive-side rule), node v26.3.0 for reference. perf, valgrind and strace are not in the build container, so there are no instruction counts. The numbers are CPU time from interleaved runs, map lookups counted with gdb breakpoints, and bytes from size, nm and DWARF.

8 uploads at once on one session, default windows, server in the same process (wall seconds, 2 runs):

8 x	main	this PR	node
64 MiB	1.8 to 2.3	1.4 to 1.8	0.7
128 MiB	3.8 to 4.1	1.6 to 1.8	1.2 to 1.3
256 MiB	11.8 to 11.9	2.8 to 3.3	2.5
512 MiB	40.6 to 40.8	6.1 to 6.3	3.4 to 4.6

2 uploads at once, peer stream window 1, node server in its own process (client user CPU seconds, 3 runs):

body per stream	main	this PR	node
8 KiB	0.39 to 0.50	0.037 to 0.042	0.036 to 0.038
16 KiB	1.40 to 1.47	0.052 to 0.082	0.075 to 0.104
32 KiB	5.5 to 6.2	0.10 to 0.12	0.13 to 0.15

Per doubling of the body: main x3.4 to x4.2, this PR x1.4 to x2.1.

Callers that never hit the bug:

size of the release binary: text 80,666,326 to 80,665,302 bytes. data and bss do not change.
H2FrameParser: 1496 to 1464 bytes. The sender Stream (104), the engine Stream (56) and Connection (448) do not change.
Map lookups per accepted stream WINDOW_UPDATE: 2 to 1. Per connection WINDOW_UPDATE: 0 and 0. Per GET on a bun client: 28 and 28. Per request on a bun server that answers "ok": 21 to 20.
CPU per accepted WINDOW_UPDATE (100,000 in one write, 5 interleaved runs): stream 28 to 36 ns on main, 29 to 35 ns here. Connection 23 to 29 ns and 22 to 31 ns.
Server CPU for 50 rounds of 8 responses of 1 MiB (5 interleaved runs): 616 to 707 ms on main, 612 to 746 ms here. The spread within one build is larger than the difference. The same holds for 16 KiB bodies and for 1 stream.
The receive-side changes (7bd31a3, e966f47, 2fb20f3) are not in these builds. From the diff, they add one compare per open stream at the end of a read (min(size, advertised)), one read of the last SETTINGS sent per read, and two compares per DATA frame (n > 0, for the connection window and for the stream window). A session that never lowers initialWindowSize and never calls setLocalWindowSize() sends the same frames as before.

Frames a raw peer gets back. "accepted" means that a PING sent after the frames is answered and no RST_STREAM or GOAWAY comes.

the peer sends to a bun client with a POST open	node	main	this PR
after a 1000-byte upload: response HEADERS and WINDOW_UPDATE to exactly 2^31-1, one write	accepted	RST_STREAM(3)	accepted
the same after a 60000-byte upload	accepted	RST_STREAM(3)	accepted
INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE 2^31-1, 60000-byte upload, then HEADERS and WINDOW_UPDATE(60000), one write	accepted	RST_STREAM(3)	accepted
200000-byte upload granted back, then HEADERS and WINDOW_UPDATE to exactly 2^31-1	accepted	accepted	accepted
1000-byte upload, INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE lowered to 1, then grants to exactly 2^31-1	accepted	accepted	accepted
the same with one byte more	GOAWAY(2)	accepted	RST_STREAM(3)
WINDOW_UPDATE(2^31-1) with no response HEADERS	GOAWAY(2)	accepted	RST_STREAM(3)
HEADERS and WINDOW_UPDATE(2^31-1), one write	GOAWAY(2)	RST_STREAM(3)	RST_STREAM(3)
upload granted back, HEADERS, then WINDOW_UPDATE(2^31-1) in a later read	GOAWAY(2)	accepted	RST_STREAM(3)
INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE lowered to 0, then the client writes 100000 bytes: DATA bytes sent	0	65535	0
10000 bytes of credit used, then INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE raised to 100000: DATA bytes sent	110000	100000	110000

A stream-level overflow stays a stream error here, as the stream-reset flood tests pin it. Node ends the session.

the peer sends to a bun server: request HEADERS and a WINDOW_UPDATE on that stream, one write	node	main	this PR
the handler writes 1000 bytes, the increment takes the window to exactly 2^31-1	GOAWAY(2)	RST_STREAM(3)	accepted
the handler writes 70000 bytes (65535 go out), WINDOW_UPDATE(2^31-1)	GOAWAY(2)	RST_STREAM(3)	accepted
the handler writes 0, 1 or 1000 bytes, WINDOW_UPDATE(2^31-1)	GOAWAY(2)	RST_STREAM(3)	RST_STREAM(3)
the first row with the WINDOW_UPDATE in a later write	accepted	accepted	accepted

The first two rows change on a server. Bun writes the DATA of the handler while it parses the read, so its window has lost those bytes when it reads the WINDOW_UPDATE. Node sends DATA after the read. Only a peer that grants window for bytes it did not receive yet can send these frames.

Transfers of 1 MiB while one side lowers initialWindowSize to 1024 at the first DATA. Debug build of this branch, bun 1.4.3 for main.

upload, the server lowers	client on main	client on this PR	node client
server on this PR	finishes	finishes	finishes
bun 1.4.3 server	finishes	waits	waits
node server	`ERR_HTTP2_SESSION_ERROR`	finishes
bun or node server created with `initialWindowSize: 1024`	`ERR_HTTP2_SESSION_ERROR`	finishes	finishes

download, the client lowers	client on main	client on this PR	node client
server on this PR	waits	finishes	finishes
bun 1.4.3 server	finishes	finishes	`ERR_HTTP2_ERROR`
node server	waits	finishes	finishes

The two "waits" cells with a peer on this PR are the first Downsides bullet. The old side keeps the window size an open stream started with. It sends WINDOW_UPDATE only after half of that size, and a sender that obeys the lower value never sends that much.

While such a stream waits, a later write() on another stream of that session waits too: send_data queues a frame when any stream of the session has queued frames, and nothing flushes it until the peer sends a frame (#43422 is open for it). Checked with a second stream that writes 100 bytes 1.5 s and 2.5 s after the first stream stalled: it waits with a client on this branch and finishes with a node client.

setLocalWindowSize() and the lowered window. setLocalWindowSize(n) raises the initialWindowSize that the session keeps and sends no SETTINGS frame. Until 2fb20f3 the rule above read that value, so a call after the lowering switched the rule off. It now reads the lower of that value and the INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE of the last SETTINGS frame sent. 1 MiB upload, the server lowers to 1024 at the first DATA and then calls setLocalWindowSize(1 << 20):

	client on main	client on this PR	node client
server on main	finishes	waits	waits
server on this PR before `2fb20f3`	finishes	waits	waits
server on this PR	finishes	finishes	finishes

The same read ends an older stall. After setLocalWindowSize(131072) alone, a client on main stops a 200,000 byte download at 65,535 bytes: the stream returns window only after half of 131072, and the peer can send 65,535. This branch and node finish it. #40180 removes the raise itself and corrects state.localWindowSize. The stall comes back here if a later settings() call copies the raised value, until #40180 lands.

Empty DATA frame after a lowered window. A raw client uploads 100 bytes on stream 1, and the server lowers initialWindowSize to 1 at that DATA. Before the client reads that SETTINGS frame, it sends one write: HEADERS and 2000 bytes of DATA on stream 3, the SETTINGS ACK, and an empty DATA frame with END_STREAM.

	main	this PR before `e966f47`	this PR	node v26.3.0
the server	`GOAWAY(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR)` `stream flow-control window exceeded`, session error `ERR_HTTP2_ERROR`	the same	stream 3 ends with 2000 bytes	stream 3 ends with 2000 bytes

Stream 3 opens after the settings() call, so its window size is already 1. Its 2000 bytes pass, because the limit is still the acknowledged 65,535. The ACK makes 1 the limit. handle_data then compared the count (still 2000, no WINDOW_UPDATE went out inside the read) with that limit for the next DATA frame, an empty one too. RFC 9113 6.9.1 lets a sender send an empty DATA frame with END_STREAM when no window is left, so that frame cannot exceed a window. nghttp2 counts and checks both receive windows only for payload bytes that it read (if (readlen > 0) in the NGHTTP2_IB_READ_DATA state of nghttp2_session.c). RecvWindow::on_data now says whether the frame has bytes, and the four overflow checks (connection and stream, whole frame and streamed frame) run only then.

A DATA frame with bytes from a peer that obeys its window never takes the count past the limit after the ACK: the peer cannot send before the counted bytes come back. Considered a return of the counted bytes at the ACK: a paused stream cannot return them and still needs this rule. From its diff, #41329 shrinks the window size of every open stream at the ACK, which puts every open stream with counted bytes in this state.

#41329. The on_remote_settings hunk is the send half of #41329 (which is stacked on #40180). The user reports behind it are #30342 and #30319 (both closed): a grpc-js upload hangs when the peer raises INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE after the request started. Main handles a raise with max(granted, new), which drops WINDOW_UPDATE credit: a sender with 10,000 bytes of credit stops 10,000 bytes short after a raise to 100,000, on a client and on a server. The cap check needs it: with the old code a peer that lowers INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE and then grants up to the cap gets a false reset. The receive-side rule here changes only when a stream WINDOW_UPDATE goes out. #41329 also moves the receive window size when the peer acknowledges the SETTINGS frame. With that, bun resets a peer that ignores the lower value, and bun 1.4.3 ignores it. That decision stays in #41329. Since e966f47, #41329 and #40180 conflict with this branch in two hunks of h2/connection.rs: #40180 adds self.note_recv_window(sink) between on_data and the connection-level overflow check, and e966f47 joins those two lines into one condition. The resolution keeps both: take the result of on_data, call note_recv_window, then check.

Not changed.

pending_recv_window_growth, pending_engine_stream_closes and pending_settings_window_submissions still go to the engine at the start of a read.
The engine keeps its send_window fields. credit_send_window returns NotOwned by default, and the engine then uses them. When the outbound half moves to the engine, remove the override in h2_frame_parser.rs.
A SETTINGS frame that raises a stream window past 2^31-1 is not an error, on main and here. Node sends GOAWAY.
The engine still has no entry for a stream that bun opened until the peer's first frame on it.
Two WINDOW_UPDATE frames past the cap in one read get two RST_STREAM frames. The request emits one error. Main does the same on a server stream. node:http2: drop DATA and WINDOW_UPDATE on a closed stream like nghttp2 #42467 is open for frames on a closed stream.
setLocalWindowSize(n) still raises the initialWindowSize that the session keeps (node:http2: keep setLocalWindowSize() off SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE #40180). New streams take it as their window size, so a peer is not held to 65,535 on them.
replenish_windows still visits every open stream of the engine at the end of every read, and the grant for a lowered window goes through that visit.
rewrite_read still copies nine other values into the engine at the start of a read, local_settings among them. A settings() call inside a frame callback reaches the engine at the next read.
The flow-control rows of the Bun.serve HTTP/2 suite are not run against http2.createServer().
An empty DATA frame without END_STREAM is not checked against a window either. It still counts toward maxSessionInvalidFrames.

Other open PRs. By git merge-tree against main aa83076 and 2fb20f3: #40180 and #41329 (above), #41344 and #44317 (h2/connection.rs, h2_frame_parser.rs), #42410 and #42519 (h2_frame_parser.rs) and #43575 (the test file) conflict with this branch and not with main. Whichever lands second needs a rebase. #42467 conflicts with main already. #42357, #37563, #43422 and #43498 merge clean.

Tests. The new block is flow-control windows after WINDOW_UPDATE and SETTINGS (RFC 9113 §6.9.1, §6.9.2), 23 tests:

8 use a raw TCP peer for the 2^31-1 cap.
6 pin the sender's side of an INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE change, 3 with a bun client that uploads to a raw server and the same 3 with a bun server that responds to a raw client: no DATA past a lowered window, WINDOW_UPDATE credit kept at a raise, and three changes in a row (the second starts from 100,000, not from 65,535).
4 pin the WINDOW_UPDATE of the side that lowered its window: a server, a server that then calls setLocalWindowSize(), a client, and a paused stream at resume.
1 pins the stream WINDOW_UPDATE after setLocalWindowSize() alone.
2 send the empty END_STREAM frame described above: in one write with the ACK, and on a paused stream in a later write.
2 transfer 128 KiB between a bun client and a bun server while one side lowers initialWindowSize.

4 of the 23 pass on main: the cap on a response stream, the cap on the connection, and the 2 transfers (main ignores the lower value on both sides).

The whole file passes on the debug build (107 tests). Node's 261 test-http2-* files exit 0 on it. On a loaded machine the stream-reset flood tests and the stream-release tests of this file exceed 5 s with and without this change (#42357 is open for the second group).

Self-review. 16 concerns. 9 of the 10 marked "should fix" are addressed: the setLocalWindowSize() case above (code), the tests for a server as the sender, a second INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE change, a client that lowers its window, a paused stream and the resume path, the wider effect of the first Downsides bullet, and the wording of the Problem. 4 of the 6 marked "consider" are under "Not changed" or "#41329". 1 asked for nothing. Rejected:

A test that pins the CPU cost. An earlier commit compared thread CPU time before and after two uploads, with a limit of 4 (this branch: 0.4 to 1.6, main: 8 to 30). In CI it read 0 for a short phase on Linux (NaN) and gave 4.3 once on darwin aarch64. The doubling tables above and the script of the report are the evidence.
A run of the Bun.serve flow-control rows against http2.createServer(). It is a change of that suite, not of this fix.

Not run: Windows, macOS, TLS transports, a gRPC library.

…nst it The outbound encoder counts what the peer granted and what it sent, per stream and for the connection. The inbound engine kept a second copy of each send window for the RFC 9113 6.9.1 check. The encoder reported each DATA frame to that copy through a list that rewrite_read applied at the next socket read. A record of a stream with no engine entry stayed in the list, and every read visited every record. Two streams that sent in turn made one record per DATA frame, so the cost of an upload grew with the square of the frames sent. The engine now asks the sender. Sink::credit_send_window checks the increment against the window the encoder sends with, adds it, and resumes queued sends. The list, its producer and both drains are gone. An embedder that owns no send window returns NotOwned, and the engine uses its own window as before. The check needs the exact window, so on_remote_settings now moves the send window of each open stream by the change of the peer's SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE (RFC 9113 6.9.2). Before, a decrease was ignored and an increase replaced the WINDOW_UPDATE credit. This also ends a false RST_STREAM(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR): response HEADERS and a WINDOW_UPDATE to exactly 2^31-1 in one read were checked against a window that did not have the bytes the request had sent. A sender that obeys a lowered window needs the receiver to grant it again. A bun server that lowers its own initialWindowSize on an open stream does not do that yet, so a bun client now waits there, as other clients do.

robobun · 2026-10-01T11:53:27Z

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How I reproduced it (linux-x64, release builds of main and of this branch, node v26.3.0 for reference):

The script from the report: 8 uploads at once on one http2.connect() session, 1 MiB chunks, to a server that answers when the body has ended. 8 x 512 MiB takes 40.7 s on main, 6.2 s with this change, and 3.4 to 4.6 s on node.
2 uploads at once to a node server with initialWindowSize: 1. The client's user CPU for 8 / 16 / 32 KiB bodies is 0.4 / 1.4 / 5.8 s on main and 0.04 / 0.06 / 0.11 s with this change.
A raw peer that sends response HEADERS and a WINDOW_UPDATE to exactly 2^31-1 in one write, after a 1000-byte upload. Main answers RST_STREAM(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR). This change and node accept it.
A server that lowers initialWindowSize to 1024 at the first DATA of a 1 MiB upload. With the first commit alone a bun client waited on a bun server. With 7bd31a3 the upload finishes for clients on this branch, on bun 1.4.3 and on node.
A server that lowers initialWindowSize to 1 while a raw client has 2000 bytes of a new stream in flight, then gets the SETTINGS ACK and an empty END_STREAM frame in the same read. Main answers GOAWAY(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR) stream flow-control window exceeded. With e966f47 the stream ends with 2000 bytes, as on node.
The same server, when it also calls setLocalWindowSize(1 << 20) after the lowering. Up to e966f47 a client on this branch and a node client waited. With 2fb20f3 both finish.

The new tests are in test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts, block flow-control windows after WINDOW_UPDATE and SETTINGS (RFC 9113 §6.9.1, §6.9.2). 19 of the 23 fail on main.

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The change updates HTTP/2 send-window credit handling, applies remote INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE changes to existing streams, and limits receive-window replenishment using the locally advertised initial window size. New conformance tests cover credit limits, overflow, and window changes during transfers.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
WINDOW_UPDATE credit handling `src/runtime/api/bun/h2/connection.rs`, `src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs`	The `Sink` contract returns `NotOwned`, `Applied`, or `Overflow`. The connection engine applies engine-owned credit and handles overflow. The parser checks and applies credit for owned windows.
Send-window and receive-window updates `src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs`, `src/runtime/api/bun/h2/connection.rs`, `src/runtime/api/bun/h2/flow_control.rs`	The parser removes deferred outbound DATA accounting and applies signed `INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE` changes to existing stream windows. Receive-window accounting checks for overflow, and replenishment uses the locally advertised initial window size.
Flow-control conformance tests `test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts`	Tests cover send-window limits and overflow, `INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE` changes, paused streams, and uploads and downloads during window changes.

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claude

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things in the new credit_send_window fallback and ruled them out: the engine's own send_window path (NotOwned) no longer sees legacy DATA consumption, but every stream the parser sends DATA on has a parser Stream entry, so the engine window only governs ids the parser never writes to; and the lost flush() on the NotOwned return only affects ids with no parser stream, where there is nothing queued to resume.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces the engine's mirrored send-window bookkeeping with a Sink callback (credit_send_window) that performs the RFC 9113 §6.9.1 overflow check against the legacy encoder's window cells in h2_frame_parser.rs, and switches on_settings to apply the signed INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE delta per §6.9.2. It touches peer-controlled flow-control arithmetic (WINDOW_UPDATE increments and SETTINGS values), which is network-facing but not auth or credential surface. Two confirmed findings (a mid-upload hang when a bun server lowers initialWindowSize, and duplicate RST_STREAM/onStreamError on repeated over-cap WINDOW_UPDATEs) are posted inline; this note only records the adjacent paths examined and ruled out.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

…tialWindowSize A side that lowers its own SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE kept the old receive window size for the streams that were open. It sent WINDOW_UPDATE only after half of that size was consumed. A sender that applies the change (RFC 9113 6.9.2) can never send that much, so it waited forever. The threshold is now half of the smaller of the stream's window size and the advertised value. Remove the thread CPU time test. Thread CPU time advances in scheduler ticks on Linux, so a short phase reads 0 and the ratio is NaN.

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

The second commit (needs_update_within in flow_control.rs plus the two replenish call sites in connection.rs) covers the receive-side stall from my earlier comment, and the new raw-peer test pins the WINDOW_UPDATE(1000) after the lowered SETTINGS.

Beyond the inline finding, I also looked at the removed threadCpuUsage() ratio test: it only ever existed in this PR's first commit (not on the base branch), the reason is stated in the commit message, and the §6.9.1/§6.9.2 behavioral changes still have raw-TCP coverage — so it is not a weakened existing test.

Extended reasoning...

The PR reworks node:http2 send-window ownership across the Rust h2 engine and the H2FrameParser bridge, deleting the per-frame send record list and adding a credit_send_window Sink hook; the second push adds a receive-side threshold against a lowered local SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE. It touches peer-controlled flow-control arithmetic and an unsafe *mut Stream deref, so a human look remains worthwhile, and the posted inline finding (a pre-existing setLocalWindowSize hang) plus the optional double-RST thread from the prior run are still open.

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Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

An endpoint that lowers its own SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE still counts the bytes that were in flight. After the peer's SETTINGS ACK the lower value is the limit, so the next DATA frame of that stream, even an empty END_STREAM frame, ended the session with GOAWAY(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR) "stream flow-control window exceeded". An empty DATA frame takes no window (RFC 9113 6.9.1). RecvWindow::on_data now returns false for it, and the overflow checks run only for a frame that has bytes.

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The replenish rule for a lowered initialWindowSize read the value from local_settings. setLocalWindowSize() raises that value and sends no SETTINGS frame. A call after the lowering switched the rule off for the streams that were open, and the sender waited again. The rule now takes the lower of that value and the last INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE this side sent. The same read ends an older stall: after setLocalWindowSize(n) with n >= 131072, a stream returned window only after n / 2 bytes, and the peer can send 65535. New tests: a bun server as the DATA sender, three INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE changes in a row, a client that lowers its window, and a paused stream at resume and at an empty END_STREAM frame.

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🟡 Minor · Reject SETTINGS deltas that can exceed the stream-window limit. · h2_frame_parser.rs:3761-3790

src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:3761-3790
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Reject SETTINGS deltas that can exceed the stream-window limit.

If a stream has used its default 65,535-byte window and a WINDOW_UPDATE raises its available credit to MAX_WINDOW_SIZE, a valid one-byte SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE increase can make remote_window_size - remote_used_window_size exceed the limit. This callback stores the larger grant and can flush queued DATA using the excess credit. SendWindow::apply_initial_delta only caps its remaining value; it does not report an error. RFC 9113 §6.9.2 requires a connection FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR when the adjustment exceeds the maximum. Detect this in SETTINGS handling and send GOAWAY(FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR) instead of acknowledging the update.
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Update on_remote_settings to validate each stream’s adjusted send-window credit
against MAX_WINDOW_SIZE before applying the SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE delta
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- Around line 3761-3790: Update on_remote_settings to validate each stream’s
adjusted send-window credit against MAX_WINDOW_SIZE before applying the
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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.

One part of this review's analysis that stopped early was run once more. It finished.

The helper filled the readable buffer with 65535 bytes, one below the 64 KiB high-water mark. On Windows the default is 16 KiB, so the stream paused inside the filler, no window came back, and the next DATA frame exceeded the stream window.

robobun · 2026-10-03T09:49:28Z

On the CodeRabbit finding about on_remote_settings (a SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE raise that takes a stream send window past 2^31-1 must end the session, RFC 9113 6.9.2):

The finding is correct, and the gap is older than this PR. I ran it: a raw server grants a POST stream to exactly 2^31-1 with WINDOW_UPDATE and then raises INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE by 1.

	answer
node v26.3.0	GOAWAY
bun 1.4.3	accepted
this branch	accepted

It is not in this PR. It adds a session error on a path that works today, and that is a separate change from the fixes here. The Notes list it under "Not changed".

After this PR the check has one place to go. The sender's own window is remote_window_size - remote_used_window_size, and on_remote_settings can report an overflow to the engine before the SETTINGS ACK, the way credit_send_window does for WINDOW_UPDATE.

claude

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

claude · 2026-10-03T09:50:54Z

+        let delta = settings.initial_window_size as i64 - old_initial_window as i64;
+        if delta != 0 {
+            for (_, item) in self.streams.get().iter() {
+                // SAFETY: item is &*mut Stream from streams.iter(); the boxed Stream outlives the iteration
+                let stream = unsafe { &mut **item };
+                stream.remote_window_size = stream.remote_window_size.saturating_add_signed(delta);


🟡 (optional) A peer whose INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE raise pushes a stream's send window past 2^31-1 is now silently given that over-cap window; node answers with GOAWAY FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR. The delta at h2_frame_parser.rs:3785 is applied with saturating_add_signed and no upper-bound check, so after a WINDOW_UPDATE that took the stream to exactly 2^31-1 a SETTINGS raise of n leaves remote_window_size at 2^31-1+n. Fix: when (remote_window_size - remote_used_window_size) + delta exceeds MAX_WINDOW_SIZE for any stream, treat it as a connection error (GOAWAY FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR, RFC 9113 §6.9.2) instead of applying it, matching nghttp2's stream_update_remote_initial_window_size; the engine's apply_initial_delta at flow_control.rs:66 caps instead, so the two windows also disagree.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: a raw peer grants WINDOW_UPDATE(1, 2^31-1 - 65535) on a bun-opened stream with nothing sent (window exactly 2^31-1, accepted by credit_send_window at h2_frame_parser.rs:3886-3890), then sends SETTINGS INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE = 66535. The engine's handle_settings (connection.rs:843-850) caps its own copy via apply_initial_delta (flow_control.rs:66, .min(MAX_WINDOW_SIZE)) and calls on_remote_settings; the parser computes delta = 1000 at h2_frame_parser.rs:3780 and sets stream.remote_window_size = 2^31-1 + 1000 at :3785 with no check. On the base branch the parser only ever raised the window to the new initial value (never above 2^31-1) and the engine capped, so neither side exceeded the cap; the GOAWAY was already missing there (pre-existing), but the over-cap window is new. Consequence: bun keeps the session and will send DATA against a window above 2^31-1, and the next WINDOW_UPDATE of any size on that stream returns Overflow at :3887 and resets the stream rather than the SETTINGS being rejected. No safeguard applies: credit_send_window only checks WINDOW_UPDATE increments, not the SETTINGS delta.

Verification: In the PR, on_remote_settings at src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:3780-3786 applies stream.remote_window_size = stream.remote_window_size.saturating_add_signed(delta) with no comparison against MAX_WINDOW_SIZE and no error path. So after the SETTINGS raise of n the parser's available stream window is 2^31-1+n and no GOAWAY is sent. The absent GOAWAY is pre-existing.

claude · 2026-10-03T09:50:54Z

+    const ended = Promise.withResolvers<number>();
+    stream.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => (bytes += chunk.length));
+    stream.on("end", () => ended.resolve(bytes));
+    expect(await ended.promise).toBe(sent);
+  });


🟡 nit (optional): a maintainer whose regression breaks this test gets a bare per-test timeout instead of the failing event, because the awaited promise is never rejected. The ended promise at h2-conformance.test.ts:1411 only resolves on "end"; the stream's "error" and "close" events are swallowed by the () => {} handler installed in pausedUpload at :1344. Fix: wire every failure event of the awaited stream to ended.reject (as the "an upload finishes" test does with received.reject at :1455), covering the stream "error"/"close" events and the raw socket close, so the test fails fast with the cause.

Why this was flagged

The test "an empty END_STREAM frame is accepted on a paused stream that holds more than a lowered initialWindowSize" waits on ended.promise at test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts:1411, which is resolved only from the stream's "end" listener at :1410. The ServerHttp2Stream came from pausedUpload, which installs stream.on("error", () => {}) at :1344, so a stream error, an RST_STREAM from the engine, or a session teardown produces no rejection; nothing listens for "close" either. If a regression makes the server reset or destroy the stream after the empty END_STREAM frame, the test hangs until the harness per-test timeout and reports only "timed out", not the error code or event that fired. REVIEW.md asks that every failure event be wired to reject the awaited promise; the sibling test at :1455-1459 does this with received.reject, so this one is inconsistent with the file's own convention. This is test-quality only; the base branch does not have this test.

Verification: nit. Triggering condition: a regression in which the ServerHttp2Stream errors or closes without emitting "end". In /home/claude/bun/test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts, ended (:1407) is resolved only from "end" at :1409 and awaited at :1410; nothing ever calls ended.reject. pausedUpload installs stream.on("error", () => {}) at :1346, so the test only dies by per-test timeout.

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