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Problem

  • server.stop(true) on a dev server kills the process when a request waits for a pending [serve.static] plugin load. Release: Segmentation fault at address 0x0 (1.4.0 regression). ASAN: use-after-poison in <SinglyLinkedList<DeferredRequest> as Drop>::drop.
  • SinglyLinkedList::drop (src/collections/pool.rs:67, Fix effectively every native-code memory leak in Bun #30875) frees each linked node as a heap box, but the dev server links its own pool slots there.
  • A plugin load that settles later calls into the freed DevServer (also on 1.3.14).

Fix

  • The node-freeing Drop moves to DataStruct, the object pool's storage. Drop for DevServer unlinks each waiting request, ends its response, then releases it.
  • ServePlugins stores the server and looks up its DevServer when the load settles (as Bun.serve: remove unsafe from server/mod.rs and server_body.rs #40214).
  • Verified: six new cases in test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts fail on main under ASAN and pass here. Also Miri, bake and HTML serve suites.
  • Self-reviewed: 8 concerns raised, 7 addressed. Open: hold or detach.

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Origin

Script from the report (bun stop-early.mjs, expected exit 0 after "alive")

import fs from "node:fs"; import os from "node:os"; import path from "node:path";
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "dev-")), w = (f, s) => fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, f), s);
w("index.html", `<!DOCTYPE html><script type="module" src="./app.js"></script>`); w("app.js", "console.log(1)");
w("bunfig.toml", `[serve.static]\nplugins = ["./plugin.ts"]\n`);
w("plugin.ts", `await Bun.sleep(5000); export default { name: "p", setup() {} };`);
w("server.mjs", `import page from "./index.html";
const server = Bun.serve({ port: 0, development: true, routes: { "/": page } });
fetch(server.url).catch(() => {});
await Bun.sleep(300);
server.stop(true);
console.log("stop(true) returned");
await Bun.sleep(200);
console.log("alive");
process.exit(0);`);
const child = Bun.spawn({ cmd: [process.execPath, "server.mjs"], cwd: dir, stdout: "pipe", stderr: "ignore" });
const out = await new Response(child.stdout).text(); await child.exited;
console.log(child.signalCode ? `DIED by ${child.signalCode} after "${out.trim().split("\n").pop()}"` : `exit ${child.exitCode} after "${out.trim().split("\n").pop()}"`);
fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
build (linux-x64) script as posted plugin settles 300 ms after the stop, process lives on
1.3.14 exit 0, 5 of 5 SIGILL, 5 of 5
1.4.2 SIGSEGV, 5 of 5 SIGSEGV, 5 of 5
main 4b02e10, release SIGSEGV, 10 of 10 not run
this PR, release exit 0, 10 of 10 exit 0, 5 of 5
this PR, ASAN debug exit 0, 3 of 3 exit 0, 3 of 3

ASAN report on main

AddressSanitizer: use-after-poison, READ of size 8
#0 bun_collections::pool::Node<DeferredRequest>::next_of          src/collections/pool.rs:38
#1 <SinglyLinkedList<DeferredRequest> as Drop>::drop              src/collections/pool.rs:75
#2..#6 drop_glue NextBundle / DevServer / Box<DevServer>
#7 NewServer::deinit_if_we_can                                     src/runtime/server/mod.rs (drop(dev))
#8 NewServer::stop   #9 stop_from_js

The address is inside the Box<DevServer>: the inline part of deferred_request_pool. With 17 waiting requests the report is heap-use-after-free at the same frames, because the 17th node is a heap box.

The three doors

  • stop(true), server[Symbol.dispose](), or a client abort and then stop(true), with a plugin load pending. DevServer::drop returned the nodes to the pool and left them linked. The list's Drop freed them again.
  • Graceful stop(), then the last client disconnects. uWS runs the connection filter (which drops the DevServer) before the response's abort callback. On main this is the same double free. With only the list fixed, uWS then calls the abort callback of a released node (heap-use-after-free in DeferredRequest::abort). Drop for DevServer now ends the response first, which clears the callback.
  • A request that waits after a rejected plugin load, then stop(true). No load is pending, and the list is still not empty at drop. Release builds of main die with Segmentation fault at address 0x0 (5 of 5 with 1 request, 5 of 5 with 17). This PR: exit 0, 5 of 5 each. A debug build cannot reach this door: debug_assert!(dev.next_bundle.route_queue.get(&route_bundle_index).is_some()) in ensure_route_is_bundled fires first (Bun.serve: return before a pending app.plugins setup() settles #42862 covers that), so there is no test row for it.

Tests

  • One fixture with promise gates. Rows: stop(true) with the load never settling; stop(true) with 17 requests and a late resolve; Symbol.dispose with a late reject; client abort, then stop(true); stop(), then client disconnect, with 17 requests; stop(true), then the server object is collected before the load settles.
  • The last row runs forget_server. With forget_server made a no-op, that row fails 3 of 3 with heap-use-after-free in AnyServer::dev_server_mut under ServePlugins::handle_on_resolve.
  • New rows that fail: unfixed ASAN debug build 6 of 6, release build of main 4b02e10 2 of 6, 1.4.2 3 of 6 (the heap damage is silent in the other rows), this PR 0 of 6 (ASAN debug and release).
  • Each row asserts pendingRequests 0 after the stop, one DevServer freed by the teardown, and that a new server still answers.
  • Also ran: cargo test -p bun_collections pool:: (6 passed), bun run rust:miri -p bun_collections (39 passed, 0 errors), test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts, test/bake/hmr-socket-protocol.test.ts, test/bake/dev/plugins.test.ts, test/bake/dev/html.test.ts, test/bake/dev-and-prod.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts, bun-serve-html-entry.test.ts, bun-serve-html-build-holds-server.test.ts, test/regression/issue/29181.test.ts (76 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail).

Measurements (release builds of 4b02e10 and of this diff on it, same toolchain)

  • .text (size -A bun): 58,161,589 to 58,164,405. .rodata and the file size (80,848,456) do not change. 473 of the bytes are the new DeferredRequest::abort_and_deref.
  • drop_glue::<DevServer>: 8,927 to 8,749 bytes. DevServer::start_async_bundle: 4,338 to 4,039.
  • NewServer::deinit_if_we_can (4 instances), both EnsureRouteCtx::on_defer, DeferredRequest::deref_: 0 instructions changed (llvm-objdump, addresses masked).
  • ObjectPool::get_node: 62 to 65 instructions for one pool (the thread-local init block is now inline, the hot path is 31 to 30), 51 to 51 and 114 to 114 for two others. ObjectPool::release: 73 to 61, 73 to 61, 73 to 54, 72 to 56. The assignment d.list = ... no longer drops the old list.
  • drop_glue::<Box<NewServer>>: 884 to 916 bytes each (forget_server). AnyServer::get_or_load_plugins: 169 to 317 bytes. Both run once per server.

Self-review

…er when a plugin load settles

`SinglyLinkedList` no longer frees the nodes linked on it. The node-freeing
`Drop` moves to `DataStruct`, the storage of the object pool, which is the
only owner of heap nodes. The dev server links slots of its own hive on the
same list type. When `server.stop(true)` dropped a `DevServer` with a
request parked behind a pending `[serve.static]` plugin load, the list's
`Drop` freed those slots a second time.

`Drop for DevServer` unlinks each parked request, ends its response and
then releases it, so uWS does not run the abort callback of a released
request.

`ServePlugins` stores the server that waits for the load, not a pointer to
its `DevServer`, and looks the `DevServer` up when the load settles. A
server that was stopped in the meantime has none. `Drop for NewServer`
tells `ServePlugins` to forget the server.

Co-authored-by: Jarred Sumner <jarred@jarredsumner.com>
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Status: reproduced on a release build of main (4b02e10) with the script in the Notes of the description. It prints DIED by SIGSEGV after "stop(true) returned" in 10 of 10 runs. An ASAN debug build of main reports use-after-poison in <SinglyLinkedList<DeferredRequest> as Drop>::drop inside stop(true). With this branch the script prints exit 0 after "alive" in 10 of 10 runs, and the six new cases in test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts pass on the ASAN debug build and on a release build.

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The changes update node cleanup in pool storage and server teardown during pending plugin loads. They add regression tests for queued requests when plugin loading remains pending, resolves, or rejects.

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Pool Node Ownership

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pool node cleanup
src/collections/pool.rs
SinglyLinkedList is documented as non-owning, and its Drop implementation is removed. DataStruct now drops and frees nodes on its free list. Tests verify both cleanup behaviors.

Server Plugin-Load Teardown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pending plugin-load server tracking
src/runtime/server/server_body.rs, src/runtime/server/mod.rs, src/runtime/bake/DevServer.rs
Pending plugin loads store an AnyServer handle instead of a raw DevServer pointer. Resolution and rejection look up the current DevServer before notifying it. Server drop clears the matching pending handle.
Deferred request cleanup
src/runtime/bake/DevServer.rs, test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts
DevServer teardown and plugin-rejection cleanup abort queued requests before releasing their references. Regression tests cover teardown with pending, resolved, and rejected plugin loads.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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// Passes in about a second; the ceiling is for the failure path, where ASAN
// symbolizes the report against the debug binary before the child exits.
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Remove the explicit test timeout.

Line 298 passes 30_000 as a per-test timeout. The repository testing rules forbid explicit test timeouts. Remove the argument and the comment above it.

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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 every NewServer free path (deinit_if_we_can, the listen() bind-failure path, and the unrun stop task's release_unrun) reclaims the box via heap::take, so Drop for NewServer and therefore forget_server run on each — no free path bypasses the stale-pointer guard that on_plugins_resolved/on_plugins_rejected now rely on.

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The change moves node ownership from SinglyLinkedList to DataStruct, has Drop for DevServer abort-then-deref parked requests, and replaces the raw NonNull<DevServer> back-reference in ServePlugins with an AnyServer lookup cleared from Drop for NewServer. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface; the sensitive surface is memory safety in unsafe Rust teardown paths. The inline nits already signal a human look; this note only records the free-path audit that was ruled out.

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// SAFETY: intrusive refcount permits mutation through any owner. A
// server is freed from an event-loop task or a finalizer, never
// under a `ServePlugins` frame.
unsafe { &mut *plugins.as_ptr() }

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🟡 nit (optional): maintainers reading the new SAFETY comment at src/runtime/server/mod.rs:338-341 get a justification that is not true as written. It says a server is freed only from an event-loop task or a finalizer, never under a ServePlugins frame, but listen() frees a server synchronously on bind failure via Self::deinit(this) (mod.rs:2822 and the other arms), and Bun.serve() can run inside a plugin setup() or inside the run_error_handler call of handle_on_reject. Fix: state the invariant that actually makes the &mut sound, which is that every server owns its own ServePlugins (mod.rs:2641) so the object mutated here is never the one whose frame is on the stack, or route listen-failure teardown through the same deferred path.

Why this was flagged

A [serve.static] plugin's setup() or a rejection error handler calls Bun.serve({ port: <busy> }). That runs under ServePlugins::get_or_start_load or ServePlugins::handle_on_reject (src/runtime/server/server_body.rs:959, :1146), both holding &mut ServePlugins for the outer server. The new server's listen() fails and calls Self::deinit(this) synchronously (src/runtime/server/mod.rs:2822), which runs Drop for NewServer and the new forget_server call at mod.rs:338-341. So a server is freed under a ServePlugins frame, contradicting the SAFETY comment. The code is still sound only because the server being freed has its own ServePlugins (created at mod.rs:2641) in Unqueued state, which the comment does not say. On the base branch there is no unsafe here, so no inaccurate SAFETY claim existed. Root CLAUDE.md and REVIEW.md require SAFETY comments to be accurate.

Verification: nit — the comment's justification is false as written, though the unsafe block is sound. Plugin setup() or run_error_handler (server_body.rs:1028-1034, 1146) runs under a ServePlugins frame and can call Bun.serve() whose bind fails; listen frees the server synchronously (Self::deinit(this), mod.rs:2897), running forget_server at mod.rs:337-341. Sound because ServePlugins is per-server (mod.rs:2641).

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// Passes in about a second; the ceiling is for the failure path, where ASAN
// symbolizes the report against the debug binary before the child exits.
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🟡 nit (optional): maintainers get a per-test 30_000 ms timeout on all six new matrix rows, which test/CLAUDE.md forbids ("Do not set a timeout on tests") and root CLAUDE.md allows only for a rare outlier. The comment at test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:296 justifies it by the ASAN failure path, not by the passing path. Fix: drop the third argument to test.concurrent.each(...) and rely on the runner default, or shrink the per-row workload (e.g. the 17-request rows) so the default suffices. [also at: test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:299 - nit: the new matrix passes a per-test timeout of 30_000, which test/CLAUDE.md forbids ("Do not set a timeout on tests. Bun already has timeouts."). The comment at test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:297 says the ceiling is…]

Why this was flagged

The new test.concurrent.each block at test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:270-298 passes 30_000 as the per-test timeout for every row. test/CLAUDE.md says "CRITICAL: Do not set a timeout on tests. Bun already has timeouts." and the root CLAUDE.md says to "pass a per-test timeout only for the rare outlier". Applying it to all six rows is a blanket raise, not an outlier. The consequence is only review-convention drift (a hung row holds a CI worker for 30 s instead of the default); no runtime behaviour changes, so this is a nit.

Verification: The new test.concurrent.each([...])(name, fn, 30_000) call at test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:270-298 passes 30_000 as the third argument, so all six matrix rows get a 30 s per-test timeout. test/CLAUDE.md:118-120 says "Do not set a timeout on tests. Bun already has timeouts." and CLAUDE.md:105 says "Leave the default and pass a per-test timeout only for the rare outlier".

Comment on lines +199 to +202
await turn();
// Each later request is parked on arrival: one more node in the dev server's memory cost.
while (requests.length < count) {
const before = estimateShallowMemoryUsageOf(server);

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🟡 nit (optional): a regression that stops parking a request makes every row hang until the test ceiling instead of failing with a message. The loop at test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:202 polls estimateShallowMemoryUsageOf(server) with no deadline, so if a fetch is answered or rejected without being parked the fixture spins forever and the only output is a timeout. Fix: bound the poll (iteration or time budget) and throw a named error when the parked count does not grow, so the row reports which request failed to park.

Why this was flagged

In the fixture at test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:199-203, each extra request is issued and then while (estimateShallowMemoryUsageOf(server) <= before) await turn(); waits for the DevServer's parked-request list to grow (memory_cost.rs:229 counts next_bundle.requests nodes). Nothing bounds that loop. If the request is routed to the fetch fallback, rejected early, or the DevServer stops parking it, the condition never becomes true and the subprocess loops on setImmediate until the 30_000 ceiling at line 299 kills the test. The root CLAUDE.md asks to poll with a deadline; the failure surfaces as a bare timeout with none of the fixture's JSON output, so the maintainer cannot see which of the 17 requests did not park. The base branch has no such loop.

Verification: nit. Trigger: any regression in which a request to the dev route is answered or rejected instead of being parked behind the pending plugin load. At test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:201-205 the inner poll has no iteration or time bound, so the fixture spins on setImmediate forever. The only outcome is the 30_000 ms per-test ceiling (line 298) firing with no diagnostic line.

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Updated 2:31 AM PT - Oct 2nd, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 2066c16655d5ff9d890c7ec9e405818a1f9f291b passed in Build #122782! 🎉


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Review round on 2066c16. The four threads are marked optional, and I agree with all of them. The fixes are written and tested. They are not pushed yet, because CI is green on this head and a push moves it. I can push them here, or open a follow-up after the merge.

  • src/runtime/server/mod.rs:338, the SAFETY comment. The finding is correct: listen() frees a server at once when it fails (Self::deinit(this)), and Bun.serve() can run in the plugin code of another server. The &mut is sound for a different reason. set_routes makes one ServePlugins per server, so a ServePlugins frame that is on the stack belongs to another server. The new comment states that.
  • test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:298, the 30_000 argument (two threads). It is removed, with its comment.
  • test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts:202, the poll. The fixture throws request N was answered before it was parked: <result> when the request settles first, and request N was not parked when a deadline passes.

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