[robobun]

Problem

• worker.terminate() never settles while the worker reads a FIFO or /dev/urandom with fs.readFileSync or fs.promises.readFile. Neither has an EOF. Node settles in a few ms. process.exit() under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 hangs the same way.
• The read loop in NodeFS::read_file_with_options (src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs:7217) checks only the caller's AbortSignal between chunks, never whether the VM is stopping. The sync form never returns to JS. The async form keeps its pool job alive, and the VM's teardown (src/jsc/VmHandle.rs:440) waits for that job.

Fix

• NodeFS carries the VmHandle of the VM it serves (the binding's own, the job ticket's via the new Ticket::handle(), the TLS cert reader's). The loop gives up before open() and between chunks once script_allowed() is false or the signal aborted. A read the stop interrupts fails with EINTR on the path.
• Past the stat size the loop reads 1 MiB at a time (Node reads 64 KiB there), so the stop is never more than one chunk away. The request used to double with the buffer: on a device one read could take seconds.
• Correct because the gate closes exactly when terminate(), process.exit() or teardown was requested, and never reopens. The async completion is released unrun. The sync errno reaches script only until the armed trap lands at the next safepoint.
• Verified: worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts (6 new cases: FIFO and /dev/urandom, both forms) and fs/promises.test.js (2 new cases), all fail on 1.4.0. Suites run are in the notes.

Background

• A VmHandle is the thread-safe handle of a VM. Its gate, script_allowed(), closes when terminate(), process.exit() or teardown calls stop(). A Ticket is the counted form that off-thread work holds. Teardown waits until none is outstanding.
• A bun_jsc::Job runs an fs.promises.* body on the work pool under a ticket and posts the completion to the JS thread. A completion that arrives under a closed gate is released unrun.

Notes

• Repro: mkfifo /tmp/p; (trap '' PIPE; while :; do echo x 2>/dev/null; sleep .02; done > /tmp/p) &, then a worker that posts a message and calls readFileSync("/tmp/p") or fs.promises.readFile("/tmp/p"), and a parent that calls terminate() 300 ms after the message. 1.4.0: never settles, both forms. With the fix: settles at the next chunk. 1.3.14 settled the async form in a few ms (it did not wait for pool jobs) and hung on the sync form too, so the async row is a 1.4 regression.
• /dev/urandom on 1.4.0: the loop reads at about 400 MB/s until the 4.7 GB typed-array cap (ENOMEM) or the OOM killer. With the fix the read stops after the chunk in flight. Before the 1 MiB chunk, that in-flight read doubled with the buffer: terminate() during fs.promises.readFile("/dev/urandom") settled after 5.5 s for a 2 GiB read (the review's probe). The sync form looked bounded only because JSC's trap signal interrupts the kernel read on the JS thread; the pool thread gets no signal. The /dev/urandom tests read /proc/self/io and assert an average read size of at most 1 MiB over a window of reading (0 where the file is absent). They run sequentially: a build without the stop reads gigabytes before the watchdog fires.
• A writer that dies of SIGPIPE between runs leaves the worker blocked in open(2) with no writer. That case cannot be interrupted without a signal, and Node hangs there too. The check before open() only spares a job that the pool dequeues after the stop. The trap '' PIPE in the repro avoids the case.
• The FIFO tests hold both ends (openSync(fifo, "r+")), so open() does not block and read() never sees EOF, and feed through a non-blocking end so the parent's loop, which has to settle terminate(), never blocks on the pipe. More bytes than the pipe holds go through only once the reader drained the rest, which proves the reader is inside the loop. The two sizes (192 KiB and 512 KiB) land in the pre-stat read (first 256 KiB) and in the tail. Both ends are closed before the parent exits, so a worker still in its loop gets EOF and the exit's VM teardown (BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 joins it) does not wait.
• The sync form throws the EINTR error into script. An earlier revision turned it into the TerminationException (Stopped::throw) so that script could not catch it. That was dropped: the trap request_termination() armed lands at the next safepoint anyway, the mapping sat in the binding for all sync ops, and throwing the termination from a host function inside a JSC DeferTermination scope (user JS under a lazy property builder) asserts in debug builds. EINTR reads as what happened: the read was interrupted.
• The limit_size_for_javascript cap (ENOMEM past the typed-array maximum) is unchanged. Node does not cap the total of an unknown-size read either (it checks kIoMaxLength once at the end).
• Other loops of the same shape: SSLConfig::read_from_blob (a Bun.file() TLS cert or key, no size bound, JS thread) carries the VM's handle too, and so does the vm.node_fs() singleton (jsc_hooks.rs), although it only serves mkdir_recursive today. Blob.rs:3916 and fetch.rs:1798 read with max_size = blob.size, which disables the growth arm, so they stop at about 256 KiB on their own. write_file's loop is bounded by the data it writes.
• Bun.file("/dev/zero").bytes() in a worker hangs terminate() the same way. That read loop is src/runtime/webcore/blob/read_file.rs (do_read_loop), a different code path, and is not covered here. Bun.file(fifo).bytes() parks on the io loop and is cancelled fine.
• Suites run on the debug build: fs.test.ts, promises.test.js, worker-late-completion, worker-terminate-funnels, worker-terminate-lifetime, worker_threads.test.ts, bun-serve-ssl.test.ts, tls-bunfile-leak.test.ts, test/internal/source-lints, cargo clippy -p bun_jsc -p bun_runtime.
• Pre-existing failures in this container, reproduced on main without this diff: the LSan report of the node:fs Binding in the dns.lookup() terminate test (node:fs: mark the per-VM Binding box as LSan-ignored (fixes worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts on main) #35159), the two debug-build timing cases in worker.test.ts (message flood, preload with an un-awaited import), and abort-signal-leak-read-write-file.test.ts, whose 100k iterations need about 410 s on a debug ASAN build.
• fs.readFile: honor AbortSignal between read chunks #36259 (AbortSignal between chunks of a regular file) and Run pool jobs that own their memory without a VM borrow so worker.terminate() does not wait on a blocked Bun.write(file, file) #38312 (pool jobs without a VM borrow) touch the same area but not this loop's stop check. Run pool jobs that own their memory without a VM borrow so worker.terminate() does not wait on a blocked Bun.write(file, file) #38312 keeps the node:fs jobs on the waited path, so this fix is needed with or without it.

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Walkthrough

NodeFS now receives VM handles and interrupts reads when abort signals fire or VMs terminate. EOF tail reads use 1 MiB chunks. New Unix-only tests cover FIFO cancellation, random-data reads, process exit, and worker termination.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
VM handle propagation src/jsc/VmHandle.rs, src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs, src/runtime/node/node_fs_binding.rs, src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs, src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs	Ticket exposes an uncounted VmHandle. NodeFS stores the handle during filesystem initialization and uses default initialization for unspecified fields.
Read interruption and tail bounds src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs	readFile checks abort signals and VM script permission before opening, after reads, and during EOF processing. Reads beyond the stat-derived size are limited to 1 MiB chunks.
FIFO and worker termination coverage test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js, test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts	Tests cover FIFO abort behavior, /dev/urandom reads, process exit during VM teardown, and synchronous or asynchronous worker termination.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 8cb0ae5 has 1 failures in Build #105346 (All Failures):

• test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts - pid 5860 segmentation fault at address 0x164 on 🪟 2019 x64

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[robobun]

Status: ready for a maintainer. Head 8cb0ae5, rebased on main, all review threads resolved.

CI (Buildkite #105346): every lane passes except test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts on Windows 2019 x64, a dev server teardown segfault at process exit in a subsystem this PR does not touch (the fixture uses Bun.serve HTML routes, a bundler plugin and WebSockets, no node:fs). It passed on this branch in #104187 and #105331, crashed at a different address in #105339 and #105346, and is reported for main triage. The new tests passed on every lane in every run.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.0 with a FIFO fed every 20 ms (mkfifo /tmp/p; (trap '' PIPE; while :; do echo x 2>/dev/null; sleep .02; done > /tmp/p) &). A worker that calls fs.readFileSync("/tmp/p") or fs.promises.readFile("/tmp/p"), and a parent that calls terminate() 300 ms later: terminate() never settles for either form. With this branch both settle at the next chunk. The eight new tests fail on 1.4.0 and pass on the debug build and in CI.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it threads VM-lifecycle state (VmHandle) into NodeFS and changes the sync-binding error path for every fs.*Sync call under a stopping VM, a human look would still be worthwhile.

Checked: Ticket::handle() is a plain Arc::clone (uncounted, so no deadlock risk on close_and_wait); script_allowed() is a SeqCst atomic read safe from the pool thread; the new vm_handle field sits after sync_error_buf so the #[repr(C)] offset-0 alignment invariant is preserved; the removed pre-fstat args.aborted() check is subsumed by the new per-chunk check in the pre-stat loop; and the abort_err() sentinel returned on VM-stop is never observed (async completion is dropped unrun, sync path is converted to Stopped::throw).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Fixes worker.terminate() hanging forever when the worker is inside fs.readFileSync / fs.promises.readFile of a FIFO or device (no EOF). Adds Ticket::handle() to mint an uncounted VmHandle from a pool job's ticket, stores an Option<VmHandle> on NodeFS, and has both read-until-EOF loops (the pre-stat 256 KiB read and the growing tail) give up at the next chunk once script_allowed() is false. The sync binding's run_sync gains an Err(_) if !vm.script_allowed() arm that throws Stopped instead of the errno. jsc_hooks.rs's create_node_fs switches to ..NodeFS::default() to pick up the new field. Five new tests: four worker-terminate FIFO cases (sync/async × 192 KiB/512 KiB) and one AbortSignal-between-chunks FIFO case.

Security risks

None. No untrusted input parsing, no auth/crypto, no boundary crossings beyond the existing thread-safe VmHandle gate read.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is worker-VM teardown interacting with a hot node:fs path. The run_sync change applies to every sync fs operation, not just readFile — any sync fs error while the VM is stopping now becomes a TerminationException rather than the errno. That's argued as correct (the script is being unwound; the trap would do the same at the next safepoint), but it's a cross-cutting behavior change a maintainer should sign off on. The choice to store VmHandle on NodeFS rather than plumb it as a parameter to read_file_with_options is a small design decision.

Other factors

The tests are well-constructed: holding both FIFO ends via openSync(fifo, "r+") avoids the open(2)-blocks-without-writer hazard; the oversized blocking write proves the reader is inside the loop before terminate()/abort() is called; the setInterval feed keeps read() returning so the stop check can fire. skipIf(isWindows) is correct. I verified Completion::ticket() exists (src/jsc/job.rs:415), VirtualMachine::script_allowed() delegates to the handle, and Stopped::throw is designed for exactly this beneath-script crossing. No prior review comments to address.

[robobun]

On the run_sync arm: it maps an errno to the termination only while the gate is closed, and the gate closes only on terminate(), process.exit(), or teardown. After that point no user script is meant to run (a terminated worker runs no exit handlers either, dispatch_on_exit reads the same gate), so the errno could only be observed by code the trap unwinds at its next safepoint. The read loop is the one producer of such an error today. The reasoning is in the PR notes.

The first CI run timed out the new worker tests on the Linux lanes. The parent process fed the FIFO with blocking writes from its event loop, which could stall the loop that has to settle terminate(). 23e4fb0 feeds through a non-blocking end and has the child report a terminate() that does not settle instead of timing out.

[robobun]

The comment lint flagged the new doc comments. b8e1b75 cuts each to one line. No code changes in 1923a12 or b8e1b75, the fix is still the first commit plus the test rework in 23e4fb0.

[claude]

Beyond the inline nit, I checked that VmHandle::script_allowed() is a plain SeqCst atomic load safe from the pool thread (Shared is Send + Sync), that Completion::ticket() already exposes the job's ticket so done.ticket().handle() is well-formed, and that Stopped::throw is the documented crossing for turning a closed gate into the TerminationException beneath script — the run_sync arm follows that contract.

Extended reasoning...

The PR wires a thread-safe VmHandle into NodeFS so the read-until-EOF loops can observe worker termination between chunks. I verified the off-thread safety of the new check (VmHandle is Arc<Shared> with Send + Sync, script_allowed() is an atomic load), the existence of Completion::ticket() in job.rs, and that Stopped::throw is the documented mechanism for this case in event_loop.rs. The one finding posted inline is a REVIEW.md-style note about sibling chunk-loops (write_file, SSLConfig.rs) sharing the class — pre-existing and non-blocking. The change touches VM-termination lifecycle and the run_sync errno→termination mapping is a design choice worth a maintainer's glance, so deferring rather than approving.

[robobun]

61f2013 gives the TLS cert/key read in SSLConfig::read_from_blob the VM's handle as well. It is the same read-until-EOF loop on the JS thread with no size bound. The other loops of this shape are bounded and are listed in the PR notes.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and found no bugs. My earlier note about sibling chunk-loops was addressed in 61f2013 (SSLConfig now carries the VM handle) and the remaining bounded siblings are named in the PR notes. Because the change threads VM-lifecycle state (VmHandle) through NodeFS and adds an errno→TerminationException arm to every sync node:fs call, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed

• Ticket::handle() and off-thread use of VmHandle in the async job — Arc-backed, script_allowed() is an atomic load, safe from the pool thread.
• run_sync's Err(_) if !vm.script_allowed() arm — the gate closes only on terminate/process.exit and never reopens, so masking the errno is unobservable.
• FIFO tests — both loop phases (pre-stat 192 KiB, tail 512 KiB), non-blocking writer end, fds released in finally, watchdog reports "hung" instead of timing out.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Adds an optional vm_handle: Option<VmHandle> to NodeFS so read_file_with_options's two chunk loops (the pre-stat 256 KiB read and the read-until-EOF tail) can bail out once the serving VM is stopping, not only when the caller's AbortSignal fires. Wired at three sites: the per-VM node:fs binding (JS thread), the async pool job via a new Ticket::handle() accessor, and SSLConfig::read_from_blob (added in 61f2013 after my earlier comment). The sync binding's run_sync gains a guard arm that maps any error returned under a closed gate to Stopped::throw, so the sync path unwinds with the TerminationException rather than a spurious ABORT_ERR. jsc_hooks.rs's create_node_fs singleton switches to ..NodeFS::default() (leaving vm_handle: None; it only serves mkdir_recursive). Five new tests: four worker-terminate FIFO cases (sync/async × pre-stat/tail) and one fs/promises case for AbortSignal between chunks in the pre-stat loop.

Security risks

None. No user-facing input handling, no auth/crypto/permissions surface. The VmHandle is an Arc<Shared> designed for any-thread access; script_allowed() is a SeqCst atomic load, so reading it from the pool thread is safe by design.

Level of scrutiny

High. Worker termination and cross-thread VM lifecycle are exactly the class of code where a subtle ordering or ownership mistake becomes a hang or UAF. The change itself is small and follows the established pattern (the generatePrime test right above the new tests documents the same "gives up once the worker is stopping" fix applied to another loop), but run_sync's new arm applies to every sync node:fs op and relies on the reasoning that nothing observes an errno once the gate is closed — a maintainer should confirm they agree with that scope.

Other factors

My earlier inline note (sibling loops not wired) was addressed: SSLConfig::read_from_blob is now wired, and the PR notes name the excluded bounded siblings (Blob.rs/fetch.rs cap at ~256 KiB via max_size; write_file is bounded by input length; the vm.node_fs() singleton only does mkdir_recursive). The tests are hermetic (own both FIFO ends, non-blocking writer, skipIf(isWindows)), assert exact stdout, and use a watchdog that fails with "hung" rather than a bare timeout. CI on the latest commit is still building.

[robobun]

State of the branch: 5699bab is the fix, 23e4fb0 reworks the worker tests (non-blocking feed, progress output, a reported hang instead of a timeout), 61f2013 adds the TLS cert/key read to the sites under the gate, the two commits in between only trim comments. All review threads are resolved. Waiting for the Buildkite run on 61f2013.

[robobun]

Review follow-up in 2c2c5d7 and 1d7b5fb:

• The sync binding no longer maps an errno under a stopped VM to the TerminationException. The armed trap lands at the next safepoint anyway, the mapping sat in the binding for every sync op, and throwing the termination from a host function inside a JSC DeferTermination scope (user JS under a lazy property builder) asserted in debug builds. A read the stop interrupts now fails with EINTR on the path.
• The tail of the loop reads 1 MiB at a time whenever the read is past the stat size. The request used to double with the buffer, so on /dev/urandom the stop was one read away and that read could take seconds (a 2 GiB read measured 5.5 s for the async form). The growth arm's continue also skipped the old phase flag for a regular file that outgrew its size; the condition is now total >= size.
• The stop check also runs before open(), for a job the pool dequeues after the stop.
• Tests: /dev/urandom for both forms (asserting at most 1 MiB per read over a window, via /proc/self/io), main-thread process.exit() under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 with a device read in flight, the FIFO abort case races its rejection with a deadline so the FIFO is always closed, and the worker FIFO cases close both ends before exiting.

[robobun]

Rebased on main (0823e50). The conflict was in run_sync: main changed the match to take the result by value, and this PR no longer touches that match, so main's version stands.

Correction: the two review follow-up commits I referred to earlier (2c2c5d7 and 1d7b5fb) never reached this branch, the push did not land before my environment was reset. Their content is 411ed42, re-applied on the rebased branch: the 1 MiB tail chunk keyed on total >= size, the stop check before open(), EINTR with the path for a read the stop interrupts, and the tests (/dev/urandom for both forms, main-thread process.exit() under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, hang-proof cleanup in the FIFO tests). The Stopped::throw arm and its DeferTermination guard are gone, as described in the PR notes. 669930c trims two comments.

Verified on the rebased debug build: the 8 new tests pass, and all fail on 1.4.0. fs.test.ts and promises.test.js pass. The worker-late-completion teardown-wait case times out at 5 s on this container right now (load average above 50, a debug worker takes 2.6 s to start), with or without this diff.

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In `@src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs`:
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[robobun]

8cb0ae5 takes both review points: the per-VM NodeFS (vm.node_fs()) now carries the VM's handle like the binding's and the TLS reader's, and the tests poll with deadlines instead of sleeping (the FIFO feed loops fail out loud if the reader stops draining, the /dev/urandom window ends once 32 MiB were read).

CI on 6e2068a: the only red tests were bun-add.test.ts (GitHub API 504, the same outage that hit bunx.test.ts in the previous run) and bake/deinitialization.test.ts on Windows (a dev server segfault on a lane this PR's tests do not run on). Both are reported for main triage. Every new test passed on every lane.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs; my earlier note on sibling chunk-loops was addressed (SSLConfig wired, the bounded siblings named in the PR notes). Because it threads VM-handle state into the readFile hot path and changes the tail-read chunking under worker-termination semantics, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• read_interrupted placement (before open, inside pre-stat loop, top of main loop) and the removed post-pre-stat abort check — no gap: the last pre-stat iteration and the main loop's first line both cover it.
• The 1 MiB tail cap: traced against buffer growth/try_reserve and confirmed regular files (total < size) still read full-capacity; only total >= size (pipe/device/grown file) is chunked.
• Ticket::handle() and the four vm_handle wiring sites; script_allowed() is an atomic load, safe from the pool thread.
• The phase variable removal is dead-code cleanup (was write-only).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes worker.terminate() hanging when a worker is inside fs.readFileSync/fs.promises.readFile of a FIFO or device that never reaches EOF. NodeFS gains an Option<VmHandle> field; a new read_interrupted() helper checks both the caller's AbortSignal and the VM's script_allowed() gate; the read loop calls it before open(), after each pre-stat read, and at the top of the main loop. Past the stat size the loop now reads in 1 MiB chunks so the stop check is never more than one chunk away. Ticket::handle() is added so the async pool job can hand its VM's uncounted handle to its NodeFS. The handle is wired at four sites (sync binding, async job, create_node_fs hook, SSLConfig::read_from_blob). Eight new Unix-only tests cover FIFO and /dev/urandom for both sync and async, at two data points (pre-stat loop vs. tail), plus process.exit() under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1.

Security risks

None identified. The change adds a stop check, does not relax any validation, and does not touch auth/crypto/permissions. EINTR is surfaced as an errno on the path when the VM stop interrupts a read, which is observable to user script only until the already-armed termination trap lands at the next safepoint.

Level of scrutiny

High. This touches three sensitive areas at once: (1) worker termination / VM teardown, which the file's own history shows is a repeated source of asserts and UAFs; (2) the readFile hot path, where the tail-chunk cap changes I/O granularity for anything past its stat size; (3) cross-thread state — VmHandle is now read from pool threads via script_allowed() (an AtomicU8 load, so thread-safe, but the propagation is new). The reasoning in the PR description is thorough and the tests are precise, but this is the kind of change where a maintainer familiar with the teardown wait (close_and_wait) and readFile perf characteristics should confirm the 1 MiB chunk choice and the EINTR-not-TerminationException decision.

Other factors

All prior review threads are resolved: my sibling-loop note (SSLConfig now wired; write_file/Blob.rs/fetch.rs named as bounded and excluded), CodeRabbit's jsc_hooks.rs handle propagation, and the bounded-polling test feedback. CI on 8cb0ae5 has one failure (bake/deinitialization.test.ts on Windows, a dev-server segfault on a lane where this PR's tests do not run and which the author reported as pre-existing on main). The phase variable removal is a correct cleanup — it was already write-only. I traced the 1 MiB cap against regular-file reads and confirmed no perf regression: files with size > 0 read full-capacity until total >= size, then take one 0-byte EOF read.