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Fixes #32212

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import jsc from "bun:jsc";
jsc.startSamplingProfiler("/tmp/profdir");

Segfaults 100% of the time on every platform:

panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0x45D4BD8

ASAN (debug build):

==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV ... The signal is caused by a WRITE memory access.
    #0 functionStartSamplingProfiler(JSC::JSGlobalObject*, JSC::CallFrame*) src/jsc/modules/BunJSCModule.h:459:45

Cause

functionStartSamplingProfiler assigned Options::samplingProfilerPath() at runtime. JSC option storage lives in the Config pages that Config::permanentlyFreeze() mprotects read-only during startup (which runs at first VM creation, before any user JS), so the assignment is a write to a read-only page. Two further defects sat behind the crash: the stored const char* pointed into a function-local CString (it would dangle by exit), and registerForReportAtExit() uses libc atexit, which never fires on Linux because Bun exits through quick_exit.

Fix

The directory is per-VM state, so it lives on VirtualMachine next to the existing cpu_profiler_config / heap_profiler_config, and VirtualMachine::on_exit writes the report beside the CPU and heap profile writes. on_exit already runs exactly once per VM, for the main thread and for workers, on the VM's own thread with the VM alive and the API lock held, so no new lifecycle machinery is needed.

  • functionStartSamplingProfiler validates the directory (rejects embedded null bytes), creates it, and hands it to Bun__VirtualMachine__setSamplingProfilerDirectory. The setter resolves a relative directory against the working directory immediately, because the report is written at exit when the CWD may have changed.
  • on_exit takes the stored directory and calls Bun__SamplingProfiler__reportToDirectory (C++), which renders reportTopFunctions + reportTopBytecodes into <directory>/samplingProfile.<pid>.<thread-uid>.txt via FileSystem::overwriteEntireFile. A SuspendExceptionScope parks a terminated worker's pending termination exception during the report (the profiler's DeferTermination scope asserts on that state otherwise).

Verification

Three tests in test/js/bun/jsc/bun-jsc.test.ts; the first two fail on the unfixed build (the spawned child segfaults) and pass with the fix:

  • startSamplingProfiler with a directory writes a report at exit: clean exit and a non-empty samplingProfile.* file in the directory.
  • startSamplingProfiler with a directory in a worker writes a report at worker teardown: same inside a Worker that is then terminated; the report exists by the worker's close event and every report is non-empty.
  • startSamplingProfiler resolves a relative directory against the working directory at call time: a relative directory plus a later process.chdir() still lands the report in the original location, and a directory containing a null byte throws.

Manually verified on the debug (ASAN) build: a worker still alive at process.exit(0) writes no report and does not hang, and BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 writes exactly one report. bun-types test passes for the jsc.d.ts doc update.

Earlier design (superseded)

Earlier revisions of this PR kept a process-global registry (BunSamplingProfilerReporter) of (Ref<SamplingProfiler>, Ref<VM>, directory) entries, reported from VM-teardown hooks plus a Bun__atexit callback gated on currentThreadIsHoldingAPILock(). It worked, but reconstructed from the outside the invariant on_exit already provides, pinned the VM refcount across teardown (which main's destroyVM rework then force-releases), and needed a paragraph of justification per mechanism. Review converged on the per-VM shape, which is also the repository convention for per-VM state.


no test proof · iteration 12 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/jsc/bun-jsc.test.ts

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Updated 2:54 PM PT - Aug 16th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit d8c9e157d24e2cd75841ca1308403aed42f56626 passed in Build #99607! 🎉


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Sampling Profiler Exit Reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Core exit-reporting API and singleton
src/jsc/bindings/BunSamplingProfilerReporter.*
Adds thread-safe registration, report generation, process-exit handling, and VM-teardown cleanup.
Profiler startup and VM teardown integration
src/jsc/modules/BunJSCModule.h, src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp
Routes profiler output through the Bun reporter and flushes reports before VM destruction.
Process-exit and worker-teardown validation
test/js/bun/jsc/bun-jsc.test.ts
Verifies that process exit and worker teardown each produce one non-empty report.

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- Around line 361-431: Tests "startSamplingProfiler with a directory writes a
report at exit" and "startSamplingProfiler with a directory in a worker writes a
report at worker teardown" run subprocesses sequentially; make them run
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tests and keeps the assertion order consistent.
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report at exit" drains proc pipes into stdout/stderr/exitCode; add the missing
stderr assertion to match file convention by inserting expect(stderr).toBe("")
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I didn't find any bugs, but this adds ~150 lines of new C++ touching VM lifecycle, cross-thread lock ownership, and exit-time teardown ordering in both the main global object and Worker paths — worth a human pass to confirm the threading/lifetime invariants hold.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a 100% reproducible segfault in jsc.startSamplingProfiler(directory) by replacing a write to JSC's frozen Options::samplingProfilerPath() with a new Bun-side singleton (BunSamplingProfilerReporter.{h,cpp}) that stores (Ref<SamplingProfiler>, Ref<VM>, CString directory) entries and writes the report either at VM teardown (WebWorker__teardownJSCVM, Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit) or at process exit via Bun__atexit. It also hooks the new reportSamplingProfilerBeforeVMTeardown call into ZigGlobalObject.cpp and Worker.cpp, swaps the crashing line in BunJSCModule.h, and adds two subprocess-based tests plus a small workload reduction in an adjacent test.

Security risks

None apparent. The directory path comes from the calling JS and is used only to fopen a report file under it — no new privilege boundaries, network, or auth surfaces. The change is in a debugging/profiling utility.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. While the feature itself (bun:jsc sampling profiler report-at-exit) is a niche debugging tool, the implementation reaches into critical paths: it holds a Ref<VM> that affects when ~VM runs, inserts a call into WebWorker__teardownJSCVM with a documented ordering constraint relative to setHasTerminationRequest() and the final deref, and relies on the invariant that a Bun VM's API lock is held by its owner thread for that thread's whole lifetime to decide which entries are safe to report at process exit without deadlocking. The comments are thorough and the reasoning is plausible, but these are exactly the kind of cross-thread lifetime invariants a maintainer familiar with web_worker.rs / VM teardown should sanity-check.

Other factors

The bug-hunting system found no issues, CodeRabbit's nits were addressed in 899cc11, and the new tests cover both the main-thread exit path and the worker-teardown path. The CI failures on musl builds look like unrelated LTO/linker infrastructure problems ("Linking two modules of different data layouts ... regular-lto-flag-stub.bc"), not something this change caused. Still, ~150 lines of new lock-guarded C++ with VM-ref lifetime effects in teardown paths is beyond what I'd auto-approve.

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I didn't find any bugs, but this adds new C++ that holds Ref<VM> in a process-global singleton and hooks into both VM-teardown and process-exit paths with non-trivial lock/ordering constraints — worth a human look at the lifecycle reasoning.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes a 100% segfault in jsc.startSamplingProfiler(directory) caused by writing to JSC's frozen Options::samplingProfilerPath() at runtime. Replaces it with a new Bun-side SamplingProfilerExitReporter singleton (src/jsc/bindings/BunSamplingProfilerReporter.{h,cpp}, ~150 lines new C++) that stores (Ref<SamplingProfiler>, Ref<VM>, CString directory) entries and writes reports either at VM teardown or at process exit via Bun__atexit. Hooks the teardown call into Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit and WebWorker__teardownJSCVM. Also adds two subprocess tests and shrinks an adjacent test's fib workload.

Security risks

None. This is a developer-tooling/profiling code path with no untrusted input beyond a directory path that was already accepted before; the only file write goes to a path the caller explicitly supplied.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The change itself is well-scoped and exhaustively commented, but it touches core VM lifecycle: it holds a strong Ref<VM> in a NeverDestroyed global, relies on reportSamplingProfilerBeforeVMTeardown being called on every teardown path to release that ref so ~VM can run and shut the sampling thread down, takes JSLockHolder while holding the singleton's Lock, and gates the atexit path on currentThreadIsHoldingAPILock() to avoid deadlocking on a live worker's VM. The ordering constraints in WebWorker__teardownJSCVM (after setHasTerminationRequest(), before the final deref) are subtle and only documented in comments. Several lifecycle combinations (natural worker exit, worker alive at process.exit, BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1) were verified manually rather than by automated tests.

Other factors

The bug-hunting system found nothing; CodeRabbit's three minor test-style comments were all addressed in 899cc11. The one CI failure (test/regression/issue/30205.test.ts on x64-asan) is in an unrelated file. The implementation looks correct to me on reading — the lock-ordering argument (singleton lock → recursive JSLock only for VMs the caller already owns) holds up — but VM-refcount/exit-path changes are exactly where a second pair of eyes pays off.

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CI status (build 72312 at 47a133b, post-rebase): 283 jobs passed; the 3 red lanes are unrelated flake.

  • test-worker-message-port-transfer-terminate.js (x64-asan): JSC exception-scope assertion in getOwnPropertyDescriptor racing worker termination. Passes 5/5 locally under the same debug+ASAN build at this exact commit; this PR's teardown hook is a lock over an empty registry that runs after the worker event loop stops and performs no JS operations.
  • net-mongodb-pattern-leak.test.ts (debian aarch64): RSS round-over-round bound of 8 MB measured at 10 MB; the test's own comment calls this metric a weak signal subject to mimalloc segment noise.
  • fetch-leak.test.ts (darwin aarch64): 32 MB compress-leak thresholds measured at 35 and 36 MB (a real leak would be hundreds of MB per the test's comments); the same file flaked on the same lane before the rebase too.

None of these touch the sampling profiler path, and no process in them ever registers the exit callback. The two new tests for this fix pass on the x64-asan lane. Ready for review.

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This crash was re-reported today by fuzzing against current main (d816daf): require("bun:jsc").startSamplingProfiler("/tmp/prof") is still an instant SIGSEGV from the Options::samplingProfilerPath() write, with the same ASAN signature (functionStartSamplingProfiler, BunJSCModule.h:459). This PR already covers it, so I am not opening a second one.

I had fixed it independently before finding this PR. In case it is useful to the review, that variant is on farm/d8f786e6/jsc-sampling-profiler-segv. It takes a smaller route to the same end: the directory is stored on the per-VM VirtualMachine next to the --cpu-prof and heap profiler configs, and the report is written from VirtualMachine::on_exit, which already runs once per VM (main thread and workers) with the VM alive. That removes the need for a process-wide registry, Ref<VM> pinning, and the teardown/atexit hooks, and it keeps the new test out of bun-jsc.test.ts, whose profile can be called multiple times test is over the debug-ASAN time budget on slower machines.

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Rebased onto current main (force-pushed a0b42aa). The only conflict was an append collision in test/js/bun/jsc/bun-jsc.test.ts: main added four deserialize/CryptoKey tests at the end of the file while this PR added two startSamplingProfiler tests there. Resolved by keeping both sets; no semantic merge. Rebuilt and the full file passes (37 tests, including main's four new ones and this PR's two).

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I didn't find any bugs, but this introduces a new cross-thread singleton that pins Ref<VM> and hooks into both VM-teardown paths — subtle enough lifetime/ordering territory that a maintainer should sign off, and the July 1 comment proposes a simpler per-VM alternative that's worth a human deciding on before merge.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes a 100%-repro segfault in jsc.startSamplingProfiler(directory) caused by writing to JSC's frozen Options::samplingProfilerPath() at runtime. It replaces that with a new Bun-side mechanism: BunSamplingProfilerReporter.{h,cpp} implements a process-global NeverDestroyed singleton holding (Ref<SamplingProfiler>, Ref<VM>, CString) entries under a lock, wired into three lifecycle points — Bun__atexit for process exit, WebWorker__teardownJSCVM for worker VM teardown, and Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit for the main VM under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT. Two subprocess tests cover the main-thread and worker cases.

Security risks

None. The feature is a diagnostics/profiling API; the only external input is a directory path already handled by the pre-existing Bun__mkdirp call. No auth, crypto, network, or untrusted-parsing surface is touched.

Level of scrutiny

High. The core fix (stop writing to frozen config) is straightforward, but the replacement design is not: it pins Ref<VM> in a process-global registry, relies on precise ordering relative to setHasTerminationRequest() and the teardown deref (comments explain a hang if the VM outlives its owner thread), gates the atexit path on currentThreadIsHoldingAPILock() to avoid deadlocking on live workers, and deliberately leaks entries at exit to avoid triggering ~VM inside the exit callback. These are exactly the memory-safety/threading invariants CLAUDE.md flags as most-blocked in review, and the hooks land in shared teardown paths that affect every VM regardless of whether profiling was used (no-op when the registry is empty, but still on the path).

Other factors

  • The July 1 timeline comment (from the same automated author) describes an independently-written alternative on farm/d8f786e6/jsc-sampling-profiler-segv that stores the directory on the per-VM VirtualMachine next to existing --cpu-prof config and writes from VirtualMachine::on_exit, avoiding the global registry, Ref<VM> pinning, and teardown hooks entirely. That's a material architectural alternative a maintainer should weigh — CLAUDE.md's "simplest mechanism the invariants allow" and "store state on the object whose lifetime matches it" both point toward the per-VM approach.
  • The PR also shrinks an adjacent test's fib(30)→fib(26) workload; the description justifies it, but it's a change to an existing test's coverage that wasn't visible in the diff I reviewed (the diff shows only additions to the test file, so this may already be on main or was mis-described).
  • Bug-hunting found nothing; CodeRabbit's minor test-style comments were addressed. CI is reported green with unrelated flakes.

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Good catch on the fib workload. That fib(30) -> fib(26) reduction in the "profile can be called multiple times" test already landed on main independently (with its own comment), so after the rebase it is correctly absent from this PR's diff. I removed the now-stale paragraph about it from the PR description; this PR is purely the sampling-profiler fix plus its two tests now.

On the architecture: the per-VM alternative on farm/d8f786e6/jsc-sampling-profiler-segv (store the directory on VirtualMachine next to the --cpu-prof/heap-profiler config, write from VirtualMachine::on_exit) is the simpler shape and avoids the global registry, the Ref<VM> pin, and the teardown/atexit hooks. I'm happy to switch this PR to that approach if preferred. Leaving the choice to a maintainer since both reach the same end and this one is already tested and reviewed.

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Rebased onto current main again (force-pushed 47a133b). One conflict in WebWorker__teardownJSCVM (Worker.cpp): main added a ctx->markTerminating() call at the same insertion point where this PR adds the sampling-profiler teardown hook. Resolved by keeping both, main's markTerminating() first, then the profiler report (its only ordering constraints are after setHasTerminationRequest() and before the final VM deref, both still satisfied). Rebuilt, the full jsc test file passes (38 tests), and the worker terminate scenario was re-verified manually on the debug build.

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No bugs found, but this introduces a new C++ subsystem (process-global SamplingProfilerExitReporter singleton holding Ref<VM>/Ref<SamplingProfiler>) with hooks into both VM teardown paths, and you've explicitly flagged an open architectural choice (this global-registry approach vs. the per-VM VirtualMachine::on_exit variant on farm/d8f786e6) for a maintainer to decide — so this should get a human look.

What was reviewed:

  • Checked the Ref<VM> pin is released on the teardown path before the final deref so ~VM still runs and shuts the sampling thread down.
  • Checked reportStillRegisteredAtExit skips VMs whose API lock the exiting thread doesn't hold, so it can't deadlock on a live worker.
  • Verified the Worker.cpp hook ordering after the rebase (after setHasTerminationRequest()/markTerminating(), before the deref) matches the constraints in the comment.
  • Tests: both new subprocess tests use tempDir/bunEnv, drain pipes concurrently, and assert stderr/stdout/exitCode in the right order.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes a 100%-repro segfault in jsc.startSamplingProfiler(directory) caused by writing to Options::samplingProfilerPath() after JSC's Config pages are mprotected read-only. It replaces that write with a new Bun-side mechanism: BunSamplingProfilerReporter.{h,cpp} implements a NeverDestroyed process-global singleton holding (Ref<SamplingProfiler>, Ref<VM>, CString directory) entries, guarded by a WTF::Lock. Reports are written either at process exit via Bun__atexit (only for VMs whose API lock the exiting thread already holds) or at explicit VM teardown via new reportSamplingProfilerBeforeVMTeardown calls inserted into WebWorker__teardownJSCVM and Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit. Two subprocess tests exercise the main-VM-exit and worker-teardown paths.

Security risks

None identified. The directory path is user-supplied but only reaches Bun__mkdirp and FilePrintStream::open for writing; there's no injection surface, and this is a debugging/profiling API in bun:jsc, not production-facing.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native C++ touching JSC VM lifecycle and reference counting across threads:

  • Holding a Ref<VM> in a process-global keeps the VM alive; releasing it at the wrong time relative to teardown could either leak the VM (blocking ~VM → sampling thread never shuts down → process hang) or race with destruction. The PR handles this by removing the entry in reportAndRemove before the caller's final deref, and by deliberately never releasing entries in the atexit path (NeverDestroyed).
  • The atexit callback's currentThreadIsHoldingAPILock() gate relies on the invariant that a Bun VM's owner thread holds the API lock for its whole lifetime — a subtle cross-subsystem assumption documented in the comment but worth a maintainer's eye.
  • The Worker.cpp insertion point has two ordering constraints (after setHasTerminationRequest() because of the profiler's DeferTermination assertion; before the deref so ~VM can run). The recent rebase re-resolved a conflict at exactly this insertion point.

Other factors

The decisive factor is that the PR author explicitly surfaced an architectural alternative (store the directory on the per-VM VirtualMachine next to --cpu-prof config and write from VirtualMachine::on_exit, avoiding the global registry, Ref<VM> pin, and teardown hooks) and stated they are "leaving the choice to a maintainer." That is a design decision a human should make, not an automated approver. The bug-hunting system found no correctness issues, and CI was reported green on the last pre-rebase build with only unrelated flakes; the current build (#72312) is in progress.

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This crash was handed to me again today from another session. Still reproduces on current main (9805144, Bun 1.4.0-canary.1):

bun -e 'require("bun:jsc").startSamplingProfiler("/tmp/prof")'
# panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0x4BEEC10

This PR already covers it (same Options::samplingProfilerPath() write in functionStartSamplingProfiler, now at BunJSCModule.h:473), so I am not opening a second one.

One thing for whoever picks this up next: the branch currently conflicts with main in src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/Worker.cpp and src/jsc/modules/BunJSCModule.h (git merge-tree origin/main <head>), so it needs another rebase before it can land.

startSamplingProfiler with a directory argument assigned
Options::samplingProfilerPath() at runtime. JSC option storage lives in
the Config pages that Config::permanentlyFreeze() mprotects read-only
during startup, so the assignment was a write to a read-only page and
crashed every time. The stored pointer would also have dangled (it
pointed into a function-local CString), and the atexit-based report
mechanism never fires on Linux because Bun exits through quick_exit.

Keep the directory on the Bun side instead: a registry of
(profiler, vm, directory) entries writes the same report as
SamplingProfiler::reportDataToOptionFile() through Bun__atexit for VMs
still alive at process exit, and through the VM teardown paths
(WebWorker__teardownJSCVM, Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit) for VMs
torn down earlier. Reporting at worker teardown, on the worker thread,
matters twice over: holding the VM past teardown would keep ~VM from
shutting the sampling thread down (it then wedges trying to suspend the
dead worker thread), and a VM's API lock is held by its owner thread
for that thread's whole lifetime, so the exit callback can only safely
report VMs whose lock the exiting thread already holds.

Also shrinks the fib workload in the adjacent "profile can be called
multiple times" test (fib(30) -> fib(26), three calls) so the file fits
the debug ASAN time budget; all assertions are unchanged and the 50us
sample interval still guarantees multiple samples per call.
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Rebased onto current main (force-pushed, now at 4ea355f). This one was a structural conflict, not an append collision: main moved WebWorker__teardownJSCVM out of Worker.cpp into ZigGlobalObject.cpp and funneled it plus Zig__GlobalObject__destructOnExit into a shared destroyVM() helper whose deref loop force-releases every outstanding VM ref. Resolution: Worker.cpp is no longer touched by this PR, and the teardown hook now lives once at the top of destroyVM(), before the deref loop (so the registry entry is written and dropped before its Ref<VM> is force-released). The test-file append collision was resolved by keeping main's new tests plus this PR's two. Re-verified the full lifecycle matrix on the debug build: worker terminate, natural worker exit, worker alive at process.exit(0) (skipped, no hang), plain main exit, and BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 (exactly one report). Full jsc test file passes (39 tests).

A follow-up commit also condensed the comments in the reporter to address the comment-length lint; the remaining short comments document cross-thread lifetime invariants (why the Ref<VM> exists, why the hook precedes the deref loop, why the exit path skips other threads' VMs) rather than workaround justifications, so they stay.

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In `@src/jsc/bindings/BunSamplingProfilerReporter.cpp`:
- Around line 62-65: Update startSamplingProfiler to reject directory strings
containing embedded NUL characters, normalize accepted relative directories to
absolute paths, and store the normalized value before calling
registerSamplingProfilerReportAtExit. Ensure writeReport uses this normalized
directory consistently.

In `@test/js/bun/jsc/bun-jsc.test.ts`:
- Around line 630-650: Strengthen the assertions in the startSamplingProfiler
worker test so it verifies the generated report contains data, not just that one
report exists. After locating the report in the parent test, inspect its file
size and assert it is greater than zero while preserving the existing
reports.length check.
- Around line 636-646: Update the Worker test’s message promise to register the
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…on_exit

Replaces the process-global registry (BunSamplingProfilerReporter) with
per-VM state, matching REVIEW.md's rule and the cpu/heap profiler
precedent: the directory lives on VirtualMachine next to
cpu_profiler_config, and VirtualMachine::on_exit writes the report,
which already runs once per VM (main thread and workers) on the VM's
own thread with the VM alive and the API lock held. This removes the
singleton, the Ref<VM> pin, the Bun__atexit hook, and the destroyVM
ordering constraint.

Also from review: the directory is resolved to an absolute path when
the profiler starts (the report is written at exit, when the working
directory may have changed), directories with embedded null bytes are
rejected, and the worker test now rejects on early close and asserts
the report is non-empty.
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Reworked to the per-VM design in 51efccc, as the review converged on: the directory now lives on VirtualMachine next to cpu_profiler_config/heap_profiler_config, and VirtualMachine::on_exit writes the report beside the CPU and heap profile writes (it already runs once per VM, main thread and workers, on the VM's own thread). This deletes BunSamplingProfilerReporter.{h,cpp}, the teardown hooks, the Bun__atexit callback, and the Ref<VM> pin; net diff is now +170/-148 against main with no new file pair.

Also folded in the remaining review items: the directory is resolved to an absolute path at start (report is written at exit, when the CWD may differ; covered by a new test that chdirs after starting), embedded null bytes are rejected with a TypeError, and the worker test now rejects on early close and asserts the report is non-empty.

Verified: all 40 tests in bun-jsc.test.ts pass on the debug ASAN build; worker terminate, natural worker exit, worker-alive-at-process.exit (no report, no hang), and BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 (exactly one report) checked manually; bun-types test passes for the jsc.d.ts update.

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WTF::FileSystem::pathByAppendingComponent goes through libstdc++'s
std::filesystem, whose internal string frees bypass mimalloc; on musl
that frees a mimalloc allocation with mallocng and segfaults at exit
(glibc builds masked it because mimalloc interposes malloc there).
Join the report path with makeString instead, like JSC's own
reportDataToOptionFile.

Also mirror the sampling profiler flush into
Bun__writeProfilesBeforeSelfKill so process.kill(process.pid) with no
handler writes the report like the CPU and heap profiles, and assert
the null-byte rejection throws specifically a TypeError in the test.
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Root-caused and fixed the alpine segfault from build 99551 in d53133f. The core dump showed musl's free (mallocng/get_meta) crashing on the report path string inside std::filesystem::path::operator/=, reached via WTF::FileSystem::pathByAppendingComponent: libstdc++'s string frees bypass mimalloc, which glibc builds mask because mimalloc interposes malloc there. The report path is now joined with makeString (pure WTF, same shape as JSC's reportDataToOptionFile), and I verified a local release build writes reports on normal exit and on the newly covered process.kill(process.pid) self-kill path (the flush now also runs in Bun__writeProfilesBeforeSelfKill, mirroring the CPU/heap profiles). The null-byte test now asserts the specific TypeError. All 40 tests in bun-jsc.test.ts pass on the debug ASAN build.

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stopCPUProfiler clears the shared per-VM SamplingProfiler's traces, so
a run using both --cpu-prof and startSamplingProfiler(directory) got a
header-only report; the report only reads the traces, so writing it
first leaves the .cpuprofile unchanged.
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I reviewed the latest revision and found no further issues — every earlier finding (per-VM storage, self-kill flush, sampling-before-CPU ordering, worker-close rejection, TypeError assertion) is addressed and all comment-cop flags are resolved. Because this touches native VM-lifecycle code across the C++/Rust FFI boundary (worker termination + SuspendExceptionScope, on_exit / Bun__writeProfilesBeforeSelfKill), a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Both flush sites now write the sampling report before stop_and_write_profile clears the shared SamplingProfiler traces.
  • Bun__SamplingProfiler__reportToDirectory: JSLockHolder + SuspendExceptionScope around reportTop*; makeString path join (musl fix); '/' separator is fine on Windows via FileSystem::overwriteEntireFile.
  • set_sampling_profiler_directory resolves relative paths at call time via bun_sys::getcwd_z + bun_paths join; NUL-byte check precedes Bun__mkdirp.
  • Tests: worker fixture rejects on early close and asserts reports 1 true (count guards the vacuous .every); NUL check pins TypeError.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes a 100%-reproducible segfault in bun:jsc's startSamplingProfiler(directory) (issue #32212): the old code assigned Options::samplingProfilerPath() at runtime, which is a write to an mprotect'd read-only Config page. The fix stores the directory as per-VM state on VirtualMachine (next to the existing cpu_profiler_config / heap_profiler_config), and VirtualMachine::on_exit plus Bun__writeProfilesBeforeSelfKill write the report via a new C++ helper Bun__SamplingProfiler__reportToDirectory. Six files touched: BunJSCModule.h (C++), BunCPUProfiler.rs / VirtualMachine.rs / virtual_machine_exports.rs (Rust FFI + VM state), jsc.d.ts (doc tweak), and three new subprocess tests in bun-jsc.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. The directory string is user-controlled but is validated (embedded NUL rejected before it reaches the C string passed to Bun__mkdirp), created via the existing Bun__mkdirp helper, and written under an explicit filename (samplingProfile.<pid>.<tid>.txt) via FileSystem::overwriteEntireFile. No untrusted length arithmetic, no network, no privilege boundary.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native code across a C++/Rust FFI boundary that runs during VM teardown (main-thread on_exit, worker termination with a pending JSC termination exception, and the process.kill(self) fast path). It integrates with JSC internals (SamplingProfiler, JSLockHolder, SuspendExceptionScope, DeferTermination interaction) and shares state with --cpu-prof. That said, the shape now exactly mirrors the two existing profiler flushes at both call sites, and the earlier process-global-singleton design was replaced with the repository-conventional per-VM approach after review.

Other factors

This PR has been through five rounds of my own review; every finding was addressed in a follow-up commit (per-VM redesign in 51efccc, self-kill flush + makeString musl fix in d53133f, sampling-before-CPU ordering in d8c9e15). All CodeRabbit and comment-cop threads are resolved. The bug-hunting pass on this revision found nothing. Three subprocess tests cover main thread, worker teardown, and relative-path + chdir + NUL rejection. Given the native/lifecycle surface, I'm deferring rather than approving so a maintainer can confirm the SuspendExceptionScope-around-reportTop* handling for terminated workers and the Windows path-join behavior.

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Closing: superseded by #41137, which carries this diff rebased onto main and also routes BUN_JSC_samplingProfilerPath through the same per-VM report (the env var path still reached JSC's atexit reporter, which segfaults on macOS when it cannot open the output file: Sentry BUN-4TKX).

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