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Problem

  • tls.createServer() with a falsy key, cert, ca or crl ("", false, 0) cannot listen. listen() emits 'error', for example ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED (Failed to parse CRL). Node v26.3.0 and bun 1.3.14 listen.
  • Cause: Server#setSecureContext (src/js/node/tls.ts:1297-1374) stores each falsy value as it is. The native TLS config rejects it.

Fix

  • Store undefined for a falsy key, cert, ca or crl, as Node does in the same function (wrap.js L1431-L1474).
  • Correct because these lines are the only writers of the four server fields. The other entry points still reject a falsy crl, as in Node.
  • Verified: 28 new tests in test/js/node/tls/ fail on main. Also ran 214 Node TLS and http2 test files.
  • Self-reviewed: 22 concerns raised, 14 addressed, 6 in part, 2 rejected (Notes).

Background

Downsides

  • On a listening server, setSecureContext() with a falsy crl now drops the CRL (no revocation check), as in Node. On main the call threw.
  • Cost: +56 bytes of built-in JS, 8 to 12 bytecode instructions per setSecureContext() call. No allocation.
  • Other falsy options still throw (ciphers, ticketKeys, SNICallback and more). See Notes.
Notes

Origin. A comparison with Node found this, after #41641. No issue reports it. On bun 1.4.x the workaround is to pass undefined, for example crl: crl || undefined. The change adds 0 passing Node tests: no file in Node's suite listens with one of these values.

Repro. The same file under node v26.3.0 and bun, with agent1-key.pem and agent1-cert.pem from test/js/node/test/fixtures/keys:

for (const name of ["key", "cert", "ca", "crl"]) {
  for (const value of ["", false, 0]) {
    const s = tls.createServer({ key, cert, [name]: value }, () => {});
    s.on("error", e => console.log(name, e.code));
    s.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => console.log(name, "listens"));
  }
}
12 cells listen
node v26.3.0 12
bun 1.3.14 12
bun 1.4.0, 1.4.2, 1.4.3-canary 367d939d9, main 5749c31290 0
this branch 12

The 'error' codes on main: ERR_OSSL_PEM_NO_START_LINE (key or cert ""), ERR_BORINGSSL (ca ""), ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED with Failed to parse CRL (crl ""), and ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE with TLSOptions.crl must be of type string, ArrayBuffer, Blob, array of <string, ArrayBuffer, or Blob>, or null (false and 0, with the name of the option).

With a falsy key or cert the server has no certificate. Node listens, and the handshake then fails. It is the same here.

History. tls.Server started to apply crl in #32630 (first in v1.4.0), and that release also started to reject these values. bun 1.3.14 listens in all 12 cells. A server with a falsy default key and cert that serves its certificate from addContext() works on Node and on 1.3.14. It fails at listen() on 1.4.0, 1.4.2 and main.

#44618. Measured on its head d42b055caf (debug build):

  • Its tls.Server#setSecureContext stores these four values as main does. It builds the context in the constructor, so tls.createServer({ key, cert, crl: "" | false | 0 }) and http2.createSecureServer() throw from the constructor. Its https.createServer() listens.
  • key, cert and ca with false or 0 fail at listen() there (6 cells). "" listens.
  • With this commit on top: 28 of 28 new tests pass. 26 fail without it.
  • git merge-file against that head: tls.ts 1 conflict, the three test files 0. The conflict is the line let ca = options.ca;, next to a comment tls: consolidate the open TLS fixes (both engines, node:tls, node:https, WebSocket, SQL) #44618 rewrites. Keep that comment and add || undefined.

What the four lines reach. Each field has one writer and two readers. Server[buntls] feeds listen(), the cluster worker listen and the swap in setSecureContext() on a listening server. buildSharedCreds feeds sockets from server.emit('connection') and the http2 raw-socket upgrade. On main, an http2.createSecureServer({ crl: "" }) that gets a raw socket raises an uncaught ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED.

Other behaviour that moves to Node's.

  • server.key, server.cert, server.ca and server.crl read undefined for each falsy input, null included. On main they kept the raw value.
  • A falsy ca counts as no ca: the default roots apply, and so does a tls.setDefaultCACertificates() list. That is why the ca drop sits where the option is read.
  • A socket from server.emit('connection') no longer raises a server 'error'.
  • setSecureContext() on a listening server returns for each of the 12 cells, as on Node. On main it throws for each one and keeps the earlier context. With a falsy key or cert the new context has no certificate, so the next handshakes fail, as on Node. With a falsy ca the clients of the earlier CA are no longer authorized.

Probe against Node. 217 lines: 8 entry points, 8 falsy spellings of crl, the 12 cells above at construction and on a listening server, revocation with a real CRL, a server that serves from addContext() only, ca with and without tls.setDefaultCACertificates(), re-listen, sockets from emit('connection'), a unix socket path, a worker thread and a cluster worker.

  • Probe lines that differ from node v26.3.0: main 166 of 217, this branch 32 of 217. Lines that moved away from Node: 0.
  • The 32 lines that still differ are not about these four options being falsy:
    • 12: the alert a server with no certificate sends. Node's client reports ERR_SSL_SSL/TLS_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE, Bun's reports ERR_SSL_TLSV1_ALERT_INTERNAL_ERROR. A server with key: undefined does the same on main.
    • 6: a truthy crl that does not parse. Node throws from the constructor. Bun reports it at listen().
    • 2: setSecureContext() with an invalid crl on a listening server. Node changes server.crl before it throws. Bun keeps the earlier value.
    • 2: the message text of tls.createSecureContext({ crl: false | 0 }). The code is the same.
    • 6: server.crl = x assigned after construction. Bun reads the field again at listen(). Node does not.
    • 4: setSecureContext(undefined | null | "x" | 1). Node throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE. Bun returns.

Measurements.

  • Embedded built-in JS: node:tls +56 bytes (51,273 to 51,329), internal-module blob +56 bytes (2,629,755 to 2,629,811). bundle-modules.ts --debug=OFF, main 5749c31290 against this branch.
  • Server#setSecureContext bytecode: +12 instructions (396 to 408) and +36 bytes (1952 to 1988) static. Each of the four sites runs 3 more instructions when its option is falsy and 2 more when it is set. JSC bytecode dump, debug build, main against this branch.
  • Allocating or calling opcodes added to Server#setSecureContext: 0. The opcode histogram differs only in jtrue (+4) and mov (+8).
  • Files changed outside src/js/node/tls.ts and test/: 0. No host function, no codegen entry, no native code.
  • Falsy values handed to the native TLS config (4 options, 3 values): 0 of 12 (main: 12 of 12).

Falsy options this PR leaves alone. Node's tls.Server counts more options as absent when they are falsy. Measured with tls.createServer({ key, cert, [name]: value }) for "", false, 0. Node v26.3.0 constructs and listens in every cell.

  • ciphers, minVersion, maxVersion, secureProtocol, sessionTimeout, ticketKeys, passphrase, clientCertEngine, pfx: the constructor throws in 24 of 27 cells (ciphers: "", passphrase: "" and sessionTimeout: 0 pass). ciphers: null throws too. The validators at the head of setSecureContext reject the value before any per-option line. tls: consolidate the open TLS fixes (both engines, node:tls, node:https, WebSocket, SQL) #44618 adds a block there that drops a falsy minVersion, maxVersion and secureProtocol. The rest belong in that block, so they wait for it.
  • SNICallback and ALPNCallback: the constructor throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE in 6 of 6 cells. The Server constructor tests != null (tls.ts:1223, :1228), Node tests truthiness (wrap.js L868-L869, L1393-L1395).
  • pfx together with a falsy key or cert: processPfxOptions puts the falsy value into an array before this function reads it. That helper is shared with tls.createSecureContext and https.
  • https.createServer(): it has its own copy of this code in _http_server.ts. On main a falsy key, cert or ca next to a real one fails at listen(), and with all of them falsy the server answers plain HTTP. tls: consolidate the open TLS fixes (both engines, node:tls, node:https, WebSocket, SQL) #44618 changes that path.
  • honorCipherOrder null or 0 and secureOptions with bit 31 set: separate changes with another owner.
  • server.key = x (or cert, ca, crl) assigned after construction: Bun reads the fields again at listen().

Tests.

  • node-tls-server.test.ts, describe("a falsy key, cert, ca or crl counts as absent, like Node"), 26 tests: the 12 cells listen and store undefined. -0, NaN, 0n, null. 4 more entry points (new tls.Server, tls.Server() without new, a subclass, http2.createSecureServer). A server with a falsy key and cert serves its addContext() certificate. A falsy ca judges a client as no ca does. setSecureContext() before listen(). setSecureContext() on a listening server: each cell returns, a falsy crl stops revocation until a real CRL comes back, a falsy ca drops the CA until one comes back. A socket from server.emit('connection').
  • node-tls-context.test.ts, 1 test: createSecureContext, addContext and tls.connect throw for a crl of "", false, 0. tls.createServer stores undefined. crl: [] stays.
  • ssl-ctx-cache.test.ts, 1 test: a falsy ca takes the tls.setDefaultCACertificates() list.
  • With main's src/ on the debug build all 28 fail. The crl: "" cell fails with Failed to parse CRL from listen().
  • Node tests: 214 files (test-tls-*, and the test-http2-* files that call createSecureServer). 213 exit 0. test-tls-client-allow-partial-trust-chain.js uses node:test and passes under bun test.
  • Each file of test/js/node/tls/ in its own process on the debug build: 24 of 28 files pass. The other 4 fail the same tests with main's src/ in my container: 5 s timeouts (node-tls-server: the cluster worker fixture and the destroySoon stream test in every run, connectionListener ... alpnProtocol and the paused-socket reset test in some runs. node-tls-connect: 4 to 7 tests. node-tls-cert: 1. node-tls-root-certs-concurrent-init: 1) and the 4 bun.sh:443 network tests.

Self-review. 22 concerns, from the unit of the change to the text of this body.

Not run. Windows. The named-pipe listener reads the same Server[buntls] result. I checked it by reading only.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts

tls.Server#setSecureContext() stored a falsy key, cert, ca or crl ("",
false, 0) as it was. The native TLS config then rejected the value. The
server failed at listen(), and setSecureContext() on a listening server
threw. Node stores undefined for each of the four in the same function.
Do the same.

tls.createSecureContext(), tls.connect() and server.addContext() keep
rejecting a falsy crl, as in Node.
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Status: closed. #44618 carries this change as b6119ad: the four lines in tls.Server#setSecureContext and the 28 tests.

How it reproduces: tls.createServer({ key, cert, [name]: value }) with name one of key, cert, ca, crl and value one of "", false, 0, then listen(). The fixtures are agent1-key.pem and agent1-cert.pem from test/js/node/test/fixtures/keys.

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bun 1.3.14 12
bun 1.4.0, 1.4.2, canary 367d939d9, main 5749c31290 0
this branch 12

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Included in #44618 as b6119ad, author kept, with the one conflict at let ca = options.ca; resolved as you described. Checked there: tls.createServer() and http2.createSecureServer() listen for "", false and 0 in crl and ca, as Node v26.3.0 does; 26 of the 28 tests fail on the commit before it.

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Confirmed on #44618 at abf5515. tls.Server#setSecureContext has the four || undefined lines there, and the 28 tests are in.

Bun v1.4.3 (c6da4a4) does not have the change, so it ships with #44618.

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…ps, WebSocket, SQL) (#44618)

### What does this PR do?

Consolidates the open TLS pull requests into one. Each was reproduced on
`main` and, for `node:*` behavior, on Node v26.3.0 first. About a third
are ported as written, the rest are rewritten smaller or merged into one
fix where several PRs patched the same cause. One commit per fix, so it
can be read commit by commit.

Fixes #43520, fixes #31396, fixes #43635, fixes #37193, fixes #43846,
fixes #17932, fixes #41061, fixes #36887, fixes #31810, fixes #35240,
fixes #32234, fixes #44365, fixes #43807, fixes #42280, fixes #44517.
Addresses #41856 (SNI and `servername`; not `checkServerIdentity` for
SQL), #24845 (the spin is gone, shown with fault injection on Linux; not
run on macOS), #19754 (node-fetch forwards the agent's TLS options; the
Kubernetes client itself was not run).

#### The ones that matter most

| | On `main` | PRs |
|---|---|---|
| Client certificate disclosure | `https.request()` with a client
certificate sends it to a server it then refuses (wrong name,
`checkServerIdentity`, `destroy()` in `'secureConnect'`, `terminate()`
in `handshake`). A server can force it with a junk record behind its
Finished | #43946 |
| False `authorized` | Over a Duplex, `secureConnect` with `authorized
=== true` for a peer that failed the key proof; `secureConnect` for a
plaintext peer with `rejectUnauthorized: false` | #44422, #32929 |
| Cleartext https | `https.createServer()` without a usable key/cert
answers plain HTTP | #41672, #33539 |
| Revoked client certificates | An https mTLS server never sees `crl`,
so a revoked client is `authorized` | #41641 |
| Pooled sockets | Requests with different client certificates or CAs
share an `https.Agent` socket and session | #42498 |
| Silent plaintext | `tls: [...]` given to `Bun.listen` / `Bun.connect`
is plain TCP | #41490 |
| Server weakened by a client knob | `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`
turns off a server's client-certificate enforcement | #35245 |
| Pins never checked | `WebSocket` never calls `tls.checkServerIdentity`
and ignores `tls.serverName` | #41648 |
| `verify-full` dropped | `PGSSLMODE=verify-*` is lost next to a `TLS_*`
URL variable; `tls: true` sends no SNI | #44498 |
| Crashes | use-after-free from `destroy()` in `ALPNCallback` over a
Duplex; `abort()` on a late `setSession()`; SIGABRT in `fetch` with an
https proxy from the environment and a `Bun.file()` body | #44462,
#41671, #44458 |
| Stream corruption | A TLS `write()` can lose 16 KiB it reported as
written while another socket on the loop is stalled | #44529 |
| Hangs and spins | 100% CPU on a failing `send()`; a fatal `SSL_write`
leaves the socket open forever; `idleTimeout` never sheds a TLS client
that ignores `close_notify` | #34510, #38176, #42336 |
| Wrong certificate (regression since 1.3.14) | Connections accepted
before `stop()` / `close()` get the default certificate and skip their
entry's `requestCert` / `ca` | #42355 |
| Quadratic Duplex / proxy tunnel | Reading one chunk over a Duplex,
CPU: 8 MB 0.88 s → 0.14 s, 16 MB 3.18 s → 0.23 s, 32 MB 11.75 s → 0.39
s; `fetch` upload through CONNECT: 1.7 s → 0.18 s (debug build) | #44464
|

#### By area

- **fd engine, write path** (`openssl.c`, `socket.c`): #42352, #34510 +
#38176 + #42336 as one change, #44529, #44458, #44192. A rejected
`send()` ends the write side only and closes at the next writable event
unless the peer's bytes are still queued (a 413 sent before a reset is
still read). No new per-socket state. Also, on kqueue, **a FIN no longer
ends a socket that waits in the low-priority queue** (`loop.c`): with
more than 5 TLS handshakes at once, a client that ended right after its
handshake could be reset and its server socket report `socket hang up`,
because the eof that the sentinel read knote reports was acted on ahead
of the unread Finished. That is on `main` too (the macOS entry for
`node-tls-server.test.ts` in `test/flaky-tests.txt`: 7 of 48 recent
builds of other branches), and this branch made it likelier (6 of 8
builds), since Finished now leaves in one segment with the close_notify.
- **Error reporting, both engines**: #44422, #32929, #44516, #37094,
#41272 + #42324 + #44223 as one change, #44021, #37472, #43946, #33630.
One channel: a fatal error on an established session is reported, then
**the engine closes the connection itself**, whatever the owner does
with the report. `test/js/bun/net/tls-fatal-error-closes.test.ts`
asserts closed-and-nothing-delivered for every owner (node:tls,
`Bun.connect`, `Bun.listen`, `fetch` direct and through CONNECT,
`Bun.serve`, `WebSocket` direct and through a proxy, Postgres, MySQL,
Valkey, Duplex).
- **Duplex engine** (`SSLWrapper`, `UpgradedDuplex`): #44462, #43529,
#42332, #44464. #43877 + #44394 were in and are **out again**, see
"Worth a look" 5.
- **node:tls wrap lifecycle** (`net.ts`, `tls.ts`): #38007, #38058,
#38028 + #38122 + #38076 as one change (six copies of the attach code
become two helpers), #38311, #39008, #38154, #42340 + #42343 + #42339 +
#42453 as one change, #43791, #42425, #44085, #42683, #39088, #39040,
#40375, and what was still real of #36534.
- **SNI, ALPN, server contexts**: #43080, #42050, #37195 + #43849 as one
change (**one** SNI matcher for TCP and HTTP/3), #42355, #42285, #33253,
part of #37896, part of #37013. A `tls.Server` has one `SSL_CTX`.
- **Verification and options**: #44738, #41490, #37005 + the cwd pin of
#40984, #31811, #43982, #33483 + #35245, #41810, #32235, #44441, #38092.
- **node:tls API and CA store**: #41671, #38145, #32824, #43594, #39997,
#41696, #33534, #34748, #42991, #42996, #42970.
- **node:https, Agent, `ws`, node-fetch**: #41672 (https half), #41641,
#38261, #42498, #44346, #35609, #31397, #42325.
- **WebSocket client**: #41648, #37487 + #43048 as one change.
- **SQL, Redis**: #33666, #41711, #44498, part of #42054.
- **Tests only**: #41426, #40040, #44395, #44016, #37860, #40591,
#44440, #41424.

Found on the way and fixed here: an upload that a TLS 1.2 server
interrupts with a renegotiation never completes on `main` (0 of 32 runs
over `https.request`, `fetch`, `node:tls` and `Bun.connect`: the
renegotiation ClientHello lands inside an application record that is
still unsent, or the socket gets no `drain` again) and completes here,
with two tests from robobun; the fix for #40653 (final flight and first
write in one segment) stopped working whenever another TLS socket on the
loop was stalled, on `main` too; the `tls.Server` prototype pinned the
last server constructed and every `SSL_CTX` it owned;
`Object.create(process.env).NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0"` turned
verification off process-wide once a `SHARE_ENV` worker existed; two
debug panics when wrapping a shut-down or still-connecting socket; a
`fetch` POST through a proxy sent its headers twice when the origin
renegotiated; `BlockList` ignored IPv6 zone ids; a test now ties
`root_certs.der` to `certdata.txt`.

#### Behavior changes

- **A server's `ca` without `requestCert` no longer asks for a client
certificate** (`Bun.serve`, `Bun.listen`, HTTP/3, node:tls). It matches
the docs and Node. On `main` such a server refused clients with no
certificate but served any unrelated self-signed one, so it was never
authentication. **Set `requestCert: true` to require a certificate.** A
matrix test pins that `requestCert: true` still refuses no certificate
and an untrusted one on 8 kinds of server, TLS 1.2 and 1.3, with
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED` unset and `0`.
- `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0` no longer relaxes a server.
- `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` hear of a fatal TLS error after the
handshake through `error(socket, err)`. With no `error` handler the
socket just closes.
- HTTP/3 server names match like TCP: `*.` covers exactly one label,
case is ignored, a trailing dot is ignored, the last registration of a
name wins.
- `requestCert` on node:https is `=== true`, as in Node.
- An array where a generated options dictionary is expected throws
(`tls: []`, `jest.useFakeTimers([])`).
- `key` / `cert` arrays serve every identity. A client that can use both
gets ECDSA, where `main` served whichever pair came last.
- `ecdhCurve` is forwarded by node:https, `ws` and node-fetch now, so a
group BoringSSL lacks (`X448`) throws there as it already does in
`tls.createServer`.
- A wrapped socket's error is re-emitted on the TLS socket as in Node,
so `raw.destroy(err)` with a listener on `raw` only is uncaught, as in
Node.
- `sql.options.tls` is always an object, never `true`. `RedisClient`
sends SNI.
- `tls: { secureContext }` alone asks for TLS on `Bun.listen` /
`Bun.connect` (it was plain TCP), and a value that is not a
`SecureContext` throws. The context is served as it is: the
`requestCert` / `rejectUnauthorized` it was created with hold whatever
the options next to it say, and `requestCert` in the options over a
context that does not ask throws at `listen()`.
- `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` reaches every client once assigned (`fetch`,
`WebSocket`, `Bun.connect`, `RedisClient`, `Bun.SQL`, `S3Client`, proxy
tunnels) and servers again. A list that selects no cipher throws
`ERR_SSL_NO_CIPHER_MATCH` at the assignment. `fetch.preconnect()` dials
nothing after an assignment.
- The warning for an unreadable `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` is Node's one
line, without the `warn:` prefix.
- `BUN_CONFIG_WS_CLOSE_TIMEOUT` (default 30 s): how long a `WebSocket`
client waits for the server to close the connection after the closing
handshake.

#### Worth a look in review

1. **#44529**: the kernel-refused remainder of a TLS write moves from
the loop's one slot onto the connection (in the existing rare struct),
so the write BIO never refuses a sealed record. Nothing is allocated on
an unstalled path (200 writes: 0 appends, same `send()` count as
`main`), memory with 16 stalled writers is lower than on `main` (276 KB
vs 340 KB, which `main` holds inside BoringSSL's buffers), `us_socket_t`
stays 80 bytes. It needs a bound on how long a deferred close waits, or
a peer that stops reading pins the fd past `destroy()`:
`US_SSL_CLOSE_AFTER_SPILL_TIMEOUT` is a fixed 10 s, not re-armed on
progress. Separate commits, but the fix that keeps the client
certificate off the wire beside a stalled socket builds on them.
2. **The default name check of node:tls also runs inside the
handshake**, so a wrong-name server gets no client certificate on TLS
1.2 either. JS still runs it after every successful handshake, so a
difference between the two matchers can only refuse. Error objects are
byte-identical.
3. **#44441** widens trust by design: a self-issued leaf whose
`keyUsage` lacks `keyCertSign` (`dotnet dev-certs`) is its own anchor
when the store holds a byte-identical copy. No BoringSSL change. Expired
pin, same subject with another key, wrong EKU and a pinned intermediate
are tested to fail.
4. **#32235** only adds Ed25519 and ECDSA P-521 to the verify list. A
captured ClientHello shows `main`'s list with the two inserted;
`rsa_pkcs1_sha1` stays.

5. **A stream that a TLS socket wraps, when that TLS socket closes.** An
earlier state of this branch lost data here while CI was green (found by
#44709's report): with the peer closing first, 4 of 8 MiB arrived with
TLS in TLS, 4 of 32 MiB on the http2 `emit("connection")` path, and a
`write()` with no `'error'` listener ended the process. Three
Node-parity changes only hold together: destroying the wrapped stream at
the close (#38028 + #38122 + #38076, #38154) is safe only if every write
has really completed (#43877), which in turn needs Node's handling of
the peer's close_notify, which needs half-open sockets that the GC can
collect. So:
- #43877 + #44394 are reverted and reopened. A write over a stream
completes once the stream has taken the ciphertext, as on `main`.
- Until the verdict on the peer lets the session through, the
application cannot have written over it. There the wrapped stream is
destroyed as in Node, with the sessions below it. That keeps the release
of the connection after a failed handshake, a rejected certificate and
an early `destroy()`. The same for an http2 socket the application never
got, and for `resetAndDestroy()`.
- After that it is `main`'s teardown: a `net.Socket` only gets the
engine's `end()`, closes at its peer's FIN, keeps its own timeout and
reports its own errors. Any other stream is destroyed with the TLS
socket.

The regular suites cannot see any of this (999 files were green on every
broken variant), so it was steered by eleven seeded differential fuzzers
run on this build, `main`, Node v26.3.0 and the earlier state: close,
`end()`, `destroy()`, `destroySoon()`, resets, hung and half-open peers,
paused writers, timeouts, two and three sessions deep, over TCP and over
Duplexes, before, at and after the handshake, and http2 requests. See
"How did you verify".

#### Known limits

- `fetch` with a `checkServerIdentity` function still sends the client
certificate (not the request) to a server the function refuses. On TLS
1.2 any verdict a JS callback gives is too late, as in Node.
- `addContext()` / `SNICallback` still do not apply to a server-side
socket on the stream engine (`emit("connection", duplex)`, TLS in TLS,
unflushed writes, named pipes), as on `main`.
- A CA bundled in a pfx extends an explicit `ca` only, for `ws` /
node-fetch / `WebSocket`: the native `ca` can only replace the default
store, and that store keeps `SSL_CERT_FILE` / `SSL_CERT_DIR`.
- P-521 leaves work on TLS 1.3 only. TLS 1.2 needs secp521r1 in every
ClientHello (`it.todo`).
- Once `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` is assigned, `fetch(url, { protocol:
"http3" })` is `HTTP3Unsupported`, as with an explicit `ciphers`.
- `addCACert()` by hand does not extend the chains of a context with
several identities.
- A throwing `ALPNCallback` sends `no_application_protocol` on both
engines. Node sends nothing and its client sees `ECONNRESET`.
- TLS in TLS, peer FIN while the outer handshake runs: the inner socket
gets one `write EPIPE`, where Node gives `ECONNRESET` (`main` gives it
no error at all).
- `@SECLEVEL` in `ciphers` is dropped by the `ws` / node-fetch shims,
which used to ignore `ciphers`. node:tls keeps throwing
`ERR_SSL_INVALID_COMMAND`.
- Beside a stalled TLS socket only the first record (16 KiB) of the
first write leaves with the handshake flight. The rest goes record by
record, which is what bounds the memory of stalled writers.
- After a fatal error on an established session the socket emits
`'error'` and then `'close'`. Node emits `'error'` and leaves the socket
open.
- A paused reader whose own write the kernel rejects loses what it had
not read yet, with an `EPIPE`, as on Node. `main` reports no error there
and delivers it.
- On `main` too: a `Bun.listen` socket without `allowHalfOpen` that has
unsent ciphertext when the client's `shutdown()` arrives loses that
ciphertext (32 KiB), and over plain TCP `end()` with the peer still
sending is a close over unread input, so a reset.
- Differences from both `main` and Node that the differential runs below
found and that stay, all with a peer that aborts: `ECONNRESET` instead
of a clean `'end'` after the socket's own `'finish'` when the peer
destroyed with unread data; under TLS 1.2, a zero-length `write()`
followed by `destroy()` in `'secureConnection'` leaves the client
without `'secureConnect'` (a plain `destroy()` there matches Node); a
TLS 1.2 client that destroys in `'secureConnect'` gets no `'session'`; a
`ClientRequest` whose handshake fails with an alert emits `'error'` and
`'close'` but no `'finish'` (`writableFinished` is true).
- Once `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` is assigned, `fetch.preconnect()` opens
nothing: `fetch()` then uses a context of its own, and a socket warmed
under the default one would never be picked up.
- A TLS `send()` that the kernel refuses outside a `write()` call (the
drain of unsent ciphertext) is reported with the close, as `read EPIPE`
/ `read ECONNRESET`. Node says `write EPIPE`. `main` does not report it
at all.
- Once the application has a session over a `net.Socket` (TLS in TLS,
http2 `emit("connection")`), a peer that never sends its FIN holds that
socket after the TLS socket closed, as on `main`. Node destroys it. Two
tests of #38154 are `todo` for this. Closing it any earlier (at its
`'finish'`, say) makes the kernel drop what it has not sent yet as soon
as the peer's close_notify arrives.
- Plaintext that was queued on a socket before it was wrapped (STARTTLS
with a backlog) is dropped when the TLS socket is destroyed, or its
handshake fails, before the session is accepted. Node drops it too,
except on `destroySoon()`. `main` sends it.
- Over a stream that is no `net.Socket`, `end()` can still cut what that
stream has buffered, and there is no backpressure, both as on `main`
(#43877).
- `tls.secureContext` (the undocumented door node:tls uses) is not read
by a Windows named pipe listener, which builds its context from the
options. On `upgradeTLS({ isServer: true })` the options next to it are
the policy, as with Node's `SetVerifyMode`.
- `selectServerName()` rebuilds the name tree per ClientHello for
injected sockets of a server with `addContext()` entries: 0.4 µs for 1
entry, 3.7 µs for 10, 41 µs for 100, against 631–1111 µs for a
handshake.

#### Not included

Left open, because they need a decision or are not TLS: #43877 + #44394
(see "Worth a look" 5; #43874 stays open with them), #38548, #38591
(both shrink who is trusted), #41589 (`verify-full` vs
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`), #37197, #41706, #43216, #33487,
#33545, #36707, #32435, #37255, #28691, #40275, #30314 (features),
#38120 (needs the BoringSSL fork, as did #33517, which the stale bot has
closed since), #38529 (needs a Windows measurement), #34342, #38232,
#43089, #44454, #40451, #42710, #44527, #38088, #38093, #41898. #37896,
#42054 and #37013 stay open for the halves not taken.
`http.createServer({ key, cert })` keeps serving TLS on purpose.

One open question: `tls: {}` (an object that names no TLS option) is
plain TCP on `Bun.listen` / `Bun.connect`, here and on `main`. It is the
same trap as `tls: []`, but changing it changes a Bun default, so it is
left alone.

### How did you verify your code works?

- Every new test fails on `main` for the stated reason and passes here,
except guards that pin existing behavior, each shown to fail when its
clause is removed. `node:*` tests also pass on Node v26.3.0; the few
that cannot say which Node version has the behavior.
- 212 test files that touch TLS, sockets, http, http2, fetch, WebSocket,
SQL, Valkey and workers: 6154 pass, 2 fail. Both are seen on `main` too:
`serve.test.ts` "root range port" (the box runs as root), and
`worker_threads.test.ts` "terminate(): nothing of the worker's runs
after the request", which is flaky there and passed in the run below.
- 58 of those files the way the ASAN lane runs them (LeakSanitizer +
`BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks`): 58 files, 48 of them with leak
checking, 4132 pass, 3 fail. All three also fail on `main`:
`serve.test.ts` "root range port", `node-net.test.ts` "should not leak
when connect({path}) fails synchronously on a reused handle" (times out
under this environment), `worker_threads.test.ts` "process.exit() with a
shell cp in flight" (a `ShellCpTask` leak).
- 647 vendored `test-tls-*`, `test-https-*`, `test-net-*`,
`test-http2-*`: the only two failures also fail on `main`.
- The SNI matcher was diffed against both old matchers: 3 seeds × 1.23 M
lookups × 3 registration flavours, every difference in one of the
intended classes, TCP and HTTP/3 identical on every lookup.
- The headline rows were also driven by hand with scripts against this
build, `main` and Node v26.3.0: cleartext https, `crl`, `tls: []` / `{
secureContext }`, the `ca` / `requestCert` matrix, the client
certificate on a wrong-name server, late `setSession()`, `destroy()` in
`ALPNCallback`, `[rsa, ec]` identities with an intermediate from `ca`,
`WebSocket` `checkServerIdentity`, a corrupted record, the Duplex read
above, `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS`.
- The `setSession()` guard was checked against the real `abort()` at 43
handshake states.
- `bun run rust:check-all`: 12 of 12 targets. `tsc`, oxlint, source
lints, prettier, rustfmt, mordant clean.
- usockets' `_Nonnull` is compiled out of debug builds, so 105 of those
files were also run on a local release ASAN build with the CI runner's
environment (92 with leak checking): 4595 pass, 1 fail,
`child_process.test.ts` "spawn reports EPERM after dropping privileges",
which cannot pass as root and fails on `main` too.
- The close of a TLS socket over another stream ("Worth a look" 5):
eleven seeded differential fuzzers, 8,424 scenarios compared, each run
on a release ASAN build of this branch, on `main`, on Node v26.3.0 and
on the earlier state of the branch. Against `main`:
- Data that `main` delivers in full is cut in 5 scenarios, and about 150
that `main` cuts arrive in full. Of the 5, in 2 `main` never notices the
peer's close and keeps the socket for good, 2 call `end()` on the middle
one of three sessions over an in-memory Duplex, and 1 does the same on
Node.
- No dead timeout, no silent reset and no uncaught error that `main`
does not have (4 uncaught errors fewer).
- A socket stays open where `main` closes it in 109, and closes where
`main` keeps it in 295. 92 of the 109 do the same on Node or on the
earlier state (a `destroy()` that an in-memory Duplex does not show its
peer, half-open peers). 14 wait for a peer that paused reading and so
does not read the FIN (#42332's backpressure, as in Node); the socket's
own timeout fires there. 3 are left: one on a 5 ms timer, two with three
sessions over an in-memory Duplex.
- The earlier state of the branch cut data in 173 of the 400 scenarios
of one of them, where `main` cuts none and this cuts none.
- 23 new tests pin what they found. Each earlier attempt at this fix
fails the ones that describe it, the earlier state of the branch fails
7, and all pass on Node.
- After that change: 999 test files on the release ASAN build (20,246
pass; the 11 files that fail need a database, Docker, DNS or a non-root
user, or share a temp directory with a parallel run and pass alone), 61
on the debug build.
- TLS over a file descriptor (`openssl.c`, the path of `fetch`,
`Bun.serve`, `tls.connect`, `Bun.connect`) got the same treatment after
the rebase: seeded differential fuzzers on CI's release build of this
branch, on `main` and, for `node:*`, on Node v26.3.0. Every runtime also
against itself for the noise floor, injected faults and known bugs of
`main` as positive controls, and a difference counts only if it shows in
5 of 5 fresh processes.
- `node:tls` over TCP: 11,500 scenarios (one connection with Node as the
oracle line by line; 2 to 60 connections beside stalled neighbours; raw
peers that break the handshake). HTTPS: about 136,000 runs over
`Bun.serve` + `fetch`, `node:https`, `node:http2` and `wss://`, also
with the two ends in different runtimes. `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` /
`upgradeTLS`: 11,500 scenarios and 720 slow connections, with writers
driven by what `write()` returns, beside up to 6 stalled, dripping,
closing or resetting neighbours, and plain TCP as a second oracle. No
crash, hang, duplication, reordering or silent truncation, and no change
in time or in connection reuse.
- They found six things that `main` does better, none of which any test
showed. All are fixed, each with a test that fails on the build before:
what the peer sent lost behind a rejected `send()` (23 scenarios, and an
early HTTPS response lost with only `EPIPE`), the same silently for a
paused reader, `server.close()` never calling back on a half-open server
after a ClientHello and a reset (17), `closeAllConnections()` taking 12
s with a stalled client, `end()` losing up to 1.3 of 4 MiB that
`write()` had reported while the peer still uploads, and `end()` a
little after a stall never closing beside other stalled TLS sockets. The
last two fixes also deliver the 1 to 2 MiB that `main` loses there, and
close the socket that `main` keeps for good without such neighbours.
- All of them again after every fix, on CI's release build of it. That
caught one regression of a fix itself (a reader stopped for backpressure
lost 86,385 bytes, 1 of 6,000 scenarios), fixed too. On the last build:
scenarios that lose data where `main` does not 23 → 2, and Node loses it
in both, with the same `EPIPE`; `server.close()` that never calls back
17 → 0; connections held 4 → 0; requests that end in an error only where
`main` has a response 6 → 0. With a Node server in another process, a
request ends in an error only in 8 and 10 of 1,500 scenarios here, 5 and
3 on `main`, 10 with Node as the client.
- `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` on the last build against `main`, in
scenarios: hangs 0 against 1,031, sockets and fds never released 0
against 965, corrupted data 0 against 345, `abort()` 0 against 26
(`setSession()` after the handshake), writers that never close 0 against
101 of 720 connections. No kind of failure shows here and not on `main`.
About a third of the slow connections close later than on `main`, in 1
to 16 s instead of at once, waiting for unsent ciphertext or for the
peer's close_notify, and 79 more of them deliver all that `write()`
reported. RSS and time with 16 to 256 stalled writers are the same.
- What they found that `main` does worse: a `WebSocket` that calls
`close()` with sends pending loses messages in 81 of 999 scenarios (0
here), 37 server sockets left open, 10 `server.close()` that never call
back, 20 write callbacks that never run.
- The kqueue fix cannot be run on Linux. The `connectionListener` count
test now says what became of a missing connection, which is how the
cause was found (`'tlsClientError'` "socket hang up", then `read
ECONNRESET` at the client of the same port, after its
`'secureConnect'`). On macOS x64 it failed every attempt of the three
builds before the fix and passed at the first attempt of the build with
it.
- Windows and macOS were only run by CI. Four new tests asserted what
only the Linux kernel does (a FIN read ahead of a reset, unread bytes
surviving a reset, loopback buffer sizes, `fstat()` on a socket) and now
say so per platform.

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