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What does this PR do?

Adds server.adopt(fd) to the server Bun.serve() returns. It takes a TCP connection that some other process accepted (for example a hostname router that read the TLS ClientHello with MSG_PEEK and passed the descriptor on with SCM_RIGHTS) and serves it exactly as if the server's own listener had accepted it.

Why: running several apps on one IP:443 needs something to route by hostname. Today, for Bun.serve apps, that router has to stay in the path and copy every byte, because Bun.serve cannot take a connection it didn't accept. node:http can (server.emit("connection", socket)), but in Bun that means giving up Bun.serve's native HTTP stack. #44015 notes the same limit for cluster: a Bun HTTP server "cannot take connections that the primary accepted". #17247 is a hand-off proxy blocked on Bun for the same reason. #44013 (Bun.serve({ fd })) covers a listening socket and rejects a connected one, so this is complementary.

Changes:

  • uSockets: the per-connection part of the accept loop moves into a helper. The new us_listen_socket_adopt_fd(listener, fd) uses it, so an adopted socket gets the same group, kind, ext size, TLS context and open callback as an accepted one, then reads at once (the ClientHello is already in the kernel buffer). The accept loop's behavior is unchanged.
  • server.adopt(fd): boolean: returns false if the server has no listener (for example, it has stopped) or the descriptor can't be registered. In that case the descriptor is closed.
  • IPC: a NODE_HANDLE message with type: "fd" hands the raw descriptor to process.on("message", (msg, fd) => …) without wrapping it in a net.Socket, which would start reading and consume the ClientHello. Happy to split this into its own PR if you prefer.
  • Types and docs in serve.d.ts.
const server = Bun.serve({ port: 0, tls, fetch: () => new Response("hi") });
process.on("message", (msg, fd) => {
  if (msg === "connection" && typeof fd === "number") server.adopt(fd);
});

How did you verify your code works?

  • New tests in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts: a connection accepted with raw libc calls is adopted and served, over plain HTTP and over TLS. adopt returns false after stop(). They fail on main and pass with this change.
  • Ran serve.test.ts, node-net-server.test.ts, node-tls-server.test.ts, cluster.test.ts and node-http.test.ts with a release build of main and with this branch. The failing tests are identical in both, apart from the three new tests. The remaining failures come from my environment: no IPv6, and bun:internal-for-testing is absent in release builds.
  • End to end: a Rust router peeks the hostname, then sends the fd over each worker's IPC channel as type: "fd", to two Bun.serve TLS + HTTP/2 workers. Requests reached the right app, requestIP() showed the real client address, and the router held no connections afterwards.
  • Benchmark: 2 cores for router and workers, h2load on 2 other cores, loopback, 3 runs each.
HTTP/2 small HTTP/2 64 KB HTTP/1.1 server CPU per new TLS connection
Bun.serve direct (reusePort) 218k / 304k / 302k 41k / 39k / 36k 94k / 96k / 116k ~340 µs
router + server.adopt 333k / 303k / 317k 39k / 37k / 34k 103k / 118k / 90k ~400 µs
router copying bytes (splice) 217k / 237k / 231k 22k / 26k / 28k 65k / 63k / 65k ~515 µs

On open connections an adopted socket is the same as a directly accepted one. The extra cost per new connection is the router's accept, peek and sendmsg plus the IPC message.

A hostname router can read a TLS ClientHello with MSG_PEEK, pick the
server for that hostname, and pass the descriptor on (SCM_RIGHTS) so it
leaves the path. node:http can take such a socket through
emit("connection"); Bun.serve had no way to.

server.adopt(fd) registers an already-connected socket on the server's
listener exactly as if the listener had accepted it (same group, TLS
context and open callback) and reads at once, so the ClientHello still
in the kernel buffer is handled by the normal path. The accept loop and
adopt share one helper in uSockets.

IPC: a NODE_HANDLE message with type "fd" delivers the raw descriptor
to process.on("message") without wrapping it in a net.Socket, which
would start reading and consume the ClientHello.
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Walkthrough

The change adds server.adopt(fd) to register an externally accepted TCP connection with a Bun server. It adds socket setup and registration in uSockets, forwards the API through Rust, supports passing raw descriptors through IPC, and adds tests for socket adoption and descriptor cleanup.

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Socket adoption and descriptor IPC

Layer / File(s) Summary
Register adopted sockets
packages/bun-usockets/src/libusockets.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c
A shared helper initializes and registers accepted sockets. The listener accept loop now uses it, and a new uSockets API adopts connected descriptors through the same setup path.
Expose adoption through the server API
src/uws_sys/ListenSocket.rs, src/uws_sys/App.rs, src/runtime/server/server_body.rs, src/runtime/server/server.classes.ts, packages/bun-types/serve.d.ts, test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts
The server exposes adopt(fd), and the Rust and FFI layers forward the descriptor to uSockets. The documentation describes descriptor ownership. POSIX tests cover HTTP and TLS requests, adoption after shutdown, and invalid descriptor values.
Pass and clean up descriptors through IPC
src/js/builtins/Ipc.ts, src/js/node/child_process.ts, test/js/node/child_process/child_process_ipc_handle.test.ts, test/js/node/child_process/fixtures/raw-fd-ipc.js
IPC parsing emits raw descriptors directly. Child-process handling closes a numeric handle when no listener handles the message. Linux tests check descriptor cleanup in parent and child processes.

Suggested reviewers: robobun

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 32e4c

The adoption tests need a poll-error guard and a valid-descriptor ownership check, but the established risks are bounded. The change is mergeable with those follow-ups.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 32e4c

Adopted connections retain the receiving server’s normal HTTP and TLS handling. The main identified risk is inconsistent descriptor cleanup on Windows when the server has stopped. Broader failure-path behavior remains partially verified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new ownership contract promises descriptor closure when adoption returns false, but the no-listener branch omits closure on Windows. Repeated handoffs during shutdown can therefore retain connection resources unless callers compensate for an undocumented platform difference, weakening failure containment.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected failure domain is the receiving process and its connections. The extracted native helper also handles normal listener accepts, so changes there propagate beyond callers of the new API.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Repeated valid Windows handoffs after listener shutdown could retain sockets contrary to the transfer contract. This is a conditional resource-exhaustion path requiring application handoff behavior, not a demonstrated unauthenticated remote exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — On POSIX, NODE_HANDLE delivery requires an available OS-received descriptor; otherwise it is negatively acknowledged. The new raw-fd branch receives that descriptor rather than selecting a descriptor number from the message payload.
  • inferred — Adoption admits a connection independently of the receiving listener’s bound endpoint. Choosing the receiving application therefore belongs to the descriptor-holding caller or router, while the receiving server retains control of TLS processing.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The new IPC paths close unhandled raw descriptors. Once a message listener receives the descriptor, consumer code owns its disposition; listener presence does not prove successful adoption or eventual cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make supported platforms and terminal ownership explicit. Verify closure using valid transferred descriptors, and define single-consumer behavior for repeated adoption and exceptions after handoff.
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- Around line 80-81: Update the IPC message delivery path around emit(target,
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observable wait confirming the fetch client has established its TCP connection
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adopt() now takes fd through validateInt32 (an integer >= 0), so NaN,
fractions, negatives and values past int32 throw instead of being
coerced to another descriptor. With no listener it closes the
descriptor before returning false, as documented. An IPC fd that
arrives with no "message" listener is closed rather than leaked.

The test imports bun:ffi at module scope and waits for a pending
connection with poll() instead of a sleep.

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A parent that receives a raw descriptor (NODE_HANDLE type "fd") from a
forked child with no "message" listener now closes it, as the child
side already does.

Tests send the descriptor the way a router does (a JSON line with
SCM_RIGHTS over the channel) in both directions and check the receiver
closed it. Both fail without the close.

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keeping the existing fd inputs and expected error codes.
- Line 5608: Update the readiness loop around libc.poll so it calls accept only
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@alii Can you please review this PR.

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