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Bun.serve(http3): reset the stream when lsquic refuses the response headers or a body write - #42895

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Problem

  • Over HTTP/3, a Bun.serve response whose header block encodes to more than 64 KB never arrives, and the server spins at 100% CPU (canary 09bb54630: 5.1 s CPU in a 5.0 s timeout). Debug builds abort: lsxpack_header_set_offset2: Assertion 'val_offset <= LSXPACK_MAX_STRLEN' failed.
  • packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h:206 ignored the -1 from us_quic_stream_send_headers and took each -1 from us_quic_stream_write for backpressure. After a client's STOP_SENDING: an unbounded buffer, no abort.
  • us_quic_stream_send_headers (packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c:1136) did not check the 16-bit lengths of lsxpack_header: a 70000-byte value went out as 4464 bytes, also from fetch().

Fix

Background

  • An HTTP/3 response is HEADERS (the QPACK-encoded block), DATA and FIN on one QUIC stream. RESET_STREAM aborts that stream. STOP_SENDING asks the peer for one.
  • lsquic encodes a block into a fixed 64 KB buffer (MAX_HEADERS_SIZE). A larger one fails (QWH_ENOBUF) with nothing written.
  • lsxpack_header is one field for lsquic: a buffer, two offsets, two uint16_t lengths.
  • want_write asks lsquic for an on_write callback, where Http3Response retries queued bytes.
Notes

How this was found. No user reported it. It came up during work on #33082, where the same ignored return value is involved. This PR does not change #33082 (see below).

Sibling PRs. Two PRs that came after this one change what the tests here can see. #42905 (for #42887) patches lsquic so that a header block over 64 KB goes out. #42901 (for #42889) aborts the request at the STOP_SENDING itself. This PR is still needed with both: a name or value over 65535 bytes stays refused, and a -1 from lsquic is still not backpressure. The send-side hunks of #42905 in quic.c and node_quic_shim.c are the same lines as here, and Http2Context.h already gives each field its own base pointer in the same way. The tests hold in either merge order. The response-shape test and the fetch() test use a value over 65535 bytes, which both PRs refuse. The test of the 64 KB block accepts reset 258 or the complete response. Checked on a local merge of this branch with #42905 and #42901: the three test files pass (154 tests, the new tests of both siblings included). With the first form of the tests, two of them failed on that merge, because they expected a reset for the 64 KB block. git reports these conflicts against this branch, all in plain sight: #42905 in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts and #42913 in test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts (each side adds tests at the same place, keep both), and #42805 in Http3Response.h and quic.h (see below). #42901 and #42892 merge clean. #42905 and #42901 conflict with each other in scripts/build/deps/lsquic.ts, where both append a patch to the list.

Repro 1, header block over 64 KB (canary 09bb54630): new Response("body:" + (await req.bytes()).length, { headers }) with 100 headers of 700 ~ bytes each, requested with fetch(url, { protocol: "http3" }). Result: The operation timed out. after 5002 ms wall and 5149 ms CPU. With 92 headers (65044 bytes): 200 body:15 in 7 ms. With this change: HTTP3StreamReset in about 80 ms on the debug build, and the next request succeeds. The same response arrives over HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 (curl sees all 100 fields).

Repro 2, write after STOP_SENDING (canary): a type: "direct" response stream that writes 64 KB every 2 ms. A node:quic client sends a POST, does not end it, reads 64 KB, and sends STOP_SENDING. Canary: 727 more writes in 2 s, RSS +42 MB, pendingRequests 1, no abort event. This branch: 1 more write, the abort event after 54 ms, pendingRequests 0. lsquic takes a reset stream off its write queue, so the server only sees the -1 when the response writes again. With the request already ended (a GET) lsquic finishes the stream by itself and both builds abort. The second form is a response that ends with a buffered tail after the STOP_SENDING: the sink hands the tail to end(), the canary keeps the lsquic stream (the client's upload stays open), and this branch closes it.

Repro 3, truncation (canary): a response with one x-one value of 70000 bytes arrives as status 200 with x-one length 4464. 65536 bytes arrive as length 0. A fetch() request header does the same: the handler sees length 4464. node_quic_shim.c already refused such a field with -1.

Wire, after (BUN_DEBUG_lsquic=1, repro 1):

stream: not enough room for header block
stream: reset, error code 258
stream: scheduled calling on_close
stream: Attempt to write to stream before sending HTTP headers
stream: calling on_close
event: generated RESET_STREAM: stream 0; offset 0; error code 258

What -1 means. For us_quic_stream_write: no header block was sent (EILSEQ), the send half is reset by either side (ECONNRESET), it is finished (EBADF), or lsquic aborted the connection. lsquic reports flow control and congestion with a short or zero write. When the peer sent STOP_SENDING, lsquic has queued its own RESET_STREAM with the peer's code, so lsquic_stream_maybe_reset sends nothing more and the new call only closes the stream. RFC 9114 section 4.1.1 asks for exactly that on a cancelled request: terminate every direction that is still open.

State after a failure. write() returns false with 0 bytes written and tryEnd() returns false, so the response stays pending and the close reports an abort (req.signal fires). end() and endWithoutBody() mark the response done, as uWS does for HTTP/1 when the socket fails inside end(), so that case has no abort event. failStream only resets and closes the lsquic stream. lsquic schedules on_close and never calls it from inside lsquic_stream_close, so no Http3Response method runs on a freed stream.

Bytes queued before the STOP_SENDING. lsquic takes a reset stream off its write queue, so no writable callback comes by itself and drain() does not spin (measured: 0 refused writes, idle process, 8 MB queued). But with bytes queued, write() only appends and asks for a writable callback, so no write reaches lsquic. lsquic refuses that request once its RESET_STREAM is out (lsquic_stream_wantwrite returns -1 for a finished send half), and us_quic_stream_want_write dropped the refusal. The first version of this PR still buffered such a response without bound (300 of 300 writes accepted, no abort). Now us_quic_stream_want_write returns -1 on a refusal, and Http3Response::wantWrite() fails the stream. drain() treats -1 as fatal too: when the write comes in the flight that carried the STOP_SENDING, the RESET_STREAM is not out yet, the callback is granted, and its write gets the -1. The two review bots asked for the drain() part.

Mutations. With the refusal from want_write ignored, the later flight test fails with no abort within 3 s. With the drain() hunk reverted, the same flight test fails the same way. In both tests the response writes once after the STOP_SENDING, so a build that misses its case gets no second write that could rescue it. With only the write() hunk back at w = 0, aborts the request when the response writes again fails (Received: "the source wrote every chunk"). With only the internalEnd() hunk back, closes the stream when the response ends after the STOP_SENDING fails (upload: "still open"). With both back and the header hunk kept, the three header tests still pass, which is why these two tests exist. With only the header hunk back (the -1 from us_quic_stream_send_headers ignored again), the response-shape test fails: the 204 shape has no body write that could catch it.

The limits stay in this PR. More than 64 KB of encoded response headers still cannot go out over HTTP/3 (#42887, which #42905 fixes). HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 have no such limit. #35763 and #35741 are about the receive side and do not change MAX_HEADERS_SIZE. They build with LSXPACK_MAX_STRLEN=UINT32_MAX. With that flag the length check here is a no-op and lsquic's 64 KB limit refuses the 70000-byte value, so the new tests use ~ values (literals in QPACK), which fail the same way with either flag. With that flag and #42905 together, nothing refuses a header block for its size any more. The response-shape test then needs another refusal, and the PR that lands last sees that in its CI run.

Sites not changed, on purpose.

  • node:quic (src/runtime/node/quic/stream.rs, drain_outbound) also takes -1 for "blocked". After a refused sendHeaders() a body write is retried on every engine tick: 260 ms of CPU in 3 s against 12 ms, 348 broke suspected infinite loop lines. It has its own JS-visible contract (sendHeaders() returns false), so it needs a separate change. node:quic: a body write after a refused sendHeaders() is retried on every engine tick #42888 tracks it, and this PR does not close it.
  • The HTTP/3 fetch() client (src/http/h3_client/encode.rs, drain_send_body) stops on w <= 0 and arms want_write again. I could not make it loop: it fails the request when its header block is refused, and it resets the stream itself when the response ends before the upload (measured: 28 ms of CPU for a 32 MB upload that the server stops).
  • The receive side (us_quic_hsi_prepare in quic.c) uses offsets into one buffer too, so a debug build asserts when it decodes more than 64 KB of fields. A release build is correct (lsxpack_offset_t is int32_t). Bun.serve(http3): lift the 64 KB QPACK prepare_decode cap so a large request header does not abort the connection #35763 covers that function. The new positive tests read the large header set with node:quic, which decodes each field at offset 0.
  • A response that is buffered in full and only waits to drain does not write again, so it still learns nothing from a STOP_SENDING while the request is open. Bun.serve(http3): STOP_SENDING does not abort the request while the request side is open #42889 tracks that. Same on the canary.

Landing order. The fetch client sends a request again once, on a fresh session, when a stream closes before the response headers. So under fetch() the handler of a request that ends in this new pre-header reset runs twice, also for a POST. Before this change that request hung. #42579 stops the replay of a non-idempotent request, and #40598 limits the replay to H3_REQUEST_REJECTED. One of them should land first or together with this. The new server tests use a node:quic client for the matrix: one connection, no second attempt, and the reset code is visible (258).

Reset codes. 0x102 and 0x10C live in quic.c only, behind us_quic_stream_reset_internal_error and the unchanged us_quic_stream_reset. Neither crosses the FFI, and Stream.rs is untouched. #40598 and #32678 give us_quic_stream_reset an error-code parameter and a Rust enum. Whichever lands second folds the two entry points into that.

#33082 and #42805. A cold Expect: 100-continue also gets -1 from us_quic_stream_send_headers today (lsquic EAGAIN, previous block pending). Measured before and after this change: 0 of 10 cold requests succeed, all HTTP3StreamReset. 10 of 10 warm requests succeed. #42805 adds a separate retry return value for that case and returns before the r < 0 branch here. The two PRs touch the same lines of sendBufferedHeaders, so the second one needs a rebase.

Fail-before. A release build without the fix (1.4.2) fails 8 of the 10 new tests. The test of the 64 KB block times out on the spin. The response shapes arrive as 200 with the value cut to 4464 bytes, and fetch() gets status 200. The others end with never aborted, no abort within 3 s (twice), still open after 3 s, and too long: the server saw 4464 bytes. The other two (fields over 64 KB in total that encode smaller, for Bun.serve and for node:quic) pass there, because only the debug assertion fires. A debug build with the src/ and packages/ of main fails 10 of 10: the header tests on that assertion, the STOP_SENDING tests like the release build. The side that can abort runs in a subprocess (the servers through withCustomServer, the fetch() client and the node:quic pair through bun -e), so the test runner stays alive and each test fails with the child's stderr.

How the tests wait. They wait for the abort event or for the client's stream to close, with a 3 s deadline (settledWithin). The deadline is needed: the idle timeout of the connection ends every stream, so a build without the fix reports the abort and the close after it too, and the CI runner's test timeout (90 s, 270 s under ASAN) is far above it. The same holds for fetch(), which rejects with HTTP3StreamReset after an idle close as well. An earlier form gave up after a fixed number of event loop turns: on a fast release build (macOS aarch64) 500 turns passed in 20 ms, before the close reached the client. All of this is checked with --timeout=90000: a release build without the fix still fails, and each of the two mutations above is still caught.

Probes (debug ASAN build). 11 response shapes with the oversized block (string, after a task hop, 2 MB body, 204, pull stream, direct stream, small file, 3 MB file, file stream, static route, file route), 5 rounds on one node:quic connection: every stream reset 258, server.pendingRequests 0, idle afterwards. 5 rounds of 40 concurrent fetch() requests: 150 resets, 50 successes, pendingRequests 0, no ASAN report.

Self-review. What it raised, and what changed:

  1. us_nq_stream_send_headers has the same whole-buffer offsets and aborts a debug build. Fixed here with the same two lines, with a test.
  2. The receive side has them too. Not changed, Bun.serve(http3): lift the 64 KB QPACK prepare_decode cap so a large request header does not abort the connection #35763 owns that function (see above).
  3. No test failed without the three w < 0 hunks, and the drain() branch never ran. Two tests added, one mutation per hunk run, and the drain() hunk removed because nothing reaches it.
  4. 0x102 and 0x10C were in a C enum and in a Rust constant. They are in quic.c only now, and Stream.rs is back to what main has.
  5. The other places that take -1 for backpressure need a tracker: node:quic: a body write after a refused sendHeaders() is retried on every engine tick #42888, plus the measurement for the fetch() client above.
  6. The 64 KB limit stays and needs a tracker: Bun.serve(http3): a response with more than 64 KB of encoded headers cannot be sent #42887.
  7. The new pre-header reset makes the fetch() client send a POST twice: landing order above.
  8. Nobody reported this bug: said at the top of these notes.
  9. An in-process server or client would take the test runner down on a debug build without the fix: subprocess fixtures.

Suites run with the debug build: test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts, test/js/node/quic/, fetch-http3-adversarial, fetch-http3-cold-post, fetch-http3-syscall-fault: 199 pass, 0 fail.


[human-review] gate passed · iteration 1 · 8 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 10 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts" test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts "test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:690202) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [1870.67ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [1827.18ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [1531.68ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [1525.78ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [2082.71ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [1736.14ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [1627.30ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [1655.21ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [2832.02
... (truncated)

release without fix: 1 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (5b2aa93ca)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:691183) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [147.63ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [145.65ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [135.99ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [144.76ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [141.70ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [131.33ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [132.32ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [132.87ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [1042.62ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxRequestBodySize is enforced for H3 bodies without Content-Length [131.54ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > unknown route returns 404 [135.08ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > routes: handler with :params [134.19ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts" test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts "test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:696868) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [1388.62ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [1306.13ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [1404.04ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [1286.65ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [1402.99ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [1311.89ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [1329.33ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [1315.55ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [2240.19
... (truncated)

release with fix: 1 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 838ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
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... (truncated)
diff hotspot
packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c   |   8 +-
 packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c             |  40 ++-
 packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h             |  16 +-
 packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h         |  55 +++-
 src/uws_sys/quic/Stream.rs                   |   4 +-
 test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts         | 387 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts        |  68 +++++
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts |  36 +++
 8 files changed, 585 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

evidence per changed file
file                                          reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c        1      1    112
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c                  3      2    114
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h                  2      5    112
packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h              4      7    116
src/uws_sys/quic/Stream.rs                        1      3    112
test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts              8      7     94
test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts             1      1     25
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts      3      3     39

…eaders or a body write

A response whose header block is over lsquic's 64 KB limit made
us_quic_stream_send_headers return -1. Http3Response ignored it, then took
every -1 from us_quic_stream_write for backpressure and armed want_write
again. lsquic called on_write on every tick and the server spun at 100% CPU
while the client waited. The same -1 follows a client's STOP_SENDING: with the
request side still open, the response was buffered without bound and the
request never aborted.

Http3Response now resets the stream with H3_INTERNAL_ERROR on a -1 from
either call. on_stream_close reports the abort to the request context.

us_quic_stream_send_headers refuses a name or value over 65535 bytes, which
lsxpack_header would store truncated. It and us_nq_stream_send_headers give
each field its own base pointer, so the offsets stay inside 16 bits when the
fields total more than 64 KB and a debug build no longer asserts.

The reset codes stay in quic.c: us_quic_stream_reset keeps its signature and
us_quic_stream_reset_internal_error is the server's form.
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✅ @robobun, your commit fef8594f303552d70f418cc3e8dcd873a3b0594b passed in Build #116513! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

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That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-42895 executable, so you can run:

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Status: ready for review.

How I reproduced it, on 1.4.3-canary.1+09bb54630 with Bun.serve({ http3: true }):

  • A response with 100 headers of 700 ~ bytes each, requested with fetch(url, { protocol: "http3" }). The client times out after 5.0 s and the server uses 5.1 s of CPU in that time.
  • A type: "direct" response that keeps writing after a node:quic client sent STOP_SENDING with its request still open. RSS grows by 42 MB in 2 s and req.signal does not fire. The same happens when 8 MB are already queued at that moment: 300 of 300 later writes are accepted.
  • One response header value of 70000 bytes. It arrives as 4464 bytes with status 200. A fetch() request header does the same.

This PR (#42895) has 10 new tests. All 10 fail on a debug build with the src/ and packages/ of main. 8 fail on a release build without the fix (1.4.2), and the other two cover a debug-only assertion. The tests also pass on a local merge of this branch with #42905 and #42901, which change the same area.

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Walkthrough

HTTP/3 header senders now enforce field and encoded-block limits with relative offsets. Stream reset handling distinguishes cancellation from internal errors. HTTP/3 responses handle write failures, and tests cover stream cancellation and connection reuse.

Changes

HTTP/3 stream handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Header encoding limits and offsets
packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h, test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts
Header names and values exceeding LSXPACK_MAX_STRLEN are rejected. Header offsets are relative to each header pair. Tests cover oversized values and aggregate headers over 64 KB.
Stream reset and response failure propagation
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h, packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h, src/uws_sys/quic/Stream.rs
Write and header-send failures reset streams with H3_INTERNAL_ERROR. Client cancellation retains its cancellation reset behavior. The write-interest result is exposed through the QUIC FFI.
Stream isolation and cancellation coverage
test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts
Tests cover stream isolation, STOP_SENDING, abort handling, follow-up requests, and cleanup of pending requests.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fef85

The previously identified stalled-write path now resets the affected HTTP/3 stream rather than retaining and retrying response data, so no merge-blocking risk remains.

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🟠 Major · Reset the stream for a terminal buffered write.

packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h:189
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Reset the stream for a terminal buffered write.

If a partial write buffers bytes and the peer then resets or stops the send half, us_quic_stream_write can return -1 in drain. The w <= 0 branch retains the buffered state without calling failStream, so the writable path can retry a terminal write. Split the error case from zero-byte backpressure and reset the stream when w < 0.

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-            if (w <= 0) return false;
+            if (w < 0) {
+                failStream();
+                return false;
+            }
+            if (w == 0) return false;
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In `@packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h` at line 189, Update the write-result
handling around the w <= 0 check in Http3Response so negative writes call
failStream to reset the stream, while zero-byte writes retain the existing
buffered backpressure behavior. Keep successful writes unchanged.
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…eued write

With bytes already queued when the client's STOP_SENDING arrives, a later write
is only appended to them, so no write reaches lsquic and the response was still
buffered without bound. lsquic refuses the request for a writable callback once
its RESET_STREAM is out: us_quic_stream_want_write now reports that, and
Http3Response fails the stream. When the write comes in the flight that carried
the STOP_SENDING, the callback is still granted and its write in drain() gets
the -1, so drain() fails the stream too.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟣 packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h — A server whose response is under flow-control backpressure when the client sends STOP_SENDING still never fails the stream: the drain path keeps the old -1-is-backpressure reading the PR removes elsewhere. In drain() at Http3Response.h:189, w <= 0 returns false, and Http3Context.h:53 re-arms want_write, so a -1 is never turned into a RESET_STREAM/close and the pending response with its buffered bytes stays until the connection idles out. Fix: treat w < 0 in drain() the same way write() and internalEnd() now do (call failStream() and return false, leaving w == 0 as the backpressure case), so every us_quic_stream_write site in this file handles -1 as terminal.

    Extended reasoning...

    The PR says drain() cannot see -1 because lsquic takes a reset stream off its write queue; this checkout has no vendor/lsquic source to confirm that, and lsquic's stream_writeable() is documented as returning true for a write-reset stream so the caller can collect the error, in which case the callback fires and drain() spins at 100% CPU exactly like the write() case the PR fixes. Even if the callback does not repeat, the stream is left unfailed. Trace: a response writes more than the client's flow-control window, so Http3Response.h:90-93 stores the tail in d->backpressure and arms want_write. The client (a browser closing a tab, or any reader that stalled and then cancelled) sends STOP_SENDING. lsquic queues its own RESET_STREAM and every later lsquic_stream_write returns -1. If on_stream_writable fires, Http3Context.h:53 calls drain(); us_quic_stream_write at Http3Response.h:187 returns -1; line 189 returns false; line 53 calls us_quic_stream_want_write(s, 1) again. failStream() is never called, the stream is never closed by the server, on_stream_close never fires while the client's…

    Verification: pre-existing (base has the identical drain(); the PR fixes write()/internalEnd()/sendBufferedHeaders() but leaves this sibling site, and says so). acknowledged in diff: the PR description's "drain() is unchanged. It still stops on w <= 0. It cannot see the -1 today ... So the PR adds no branch there" and the truncated note "A response that is buffered in full and only waits to drain does n[ot…

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Both review bots raised the same point about drain() (Http3Response.h:189). There was a real gap, but in a different place than described, so here is what I measured and what 0c85938 changes.

drain() does not spin. After a client's STOP_SENDING, lsquic takes the stream off its write queue: stream_reset calls drop_buffered_data, which clears SMQF_WANT_WRITE. No writable callback comes by itself. With 8 MB queued and the request side open, I measured 0 refused writes and an idle process.

The gap was one step earlier. With bytes already queued, write() only appends and asks for a writable callback, so no write reaches lsquic. lsquic refuses that request once its RESET_STREAM is out (lsquic_stream_wantwrite returns -1 for a finished send half), and us_quic_stream_want_write dropped the refusal. So the first version of this PR still buffered such a response without bound: 300 of 300 later writes accepted, no abort. That is the symptom the PR claims to fix.

The change. us_quic_stream_want_write returns -1 on a refusal, and Http3Response fails the stream. drain() treats -1 as fatal too, as suggested. It does see the -1 in one case: when the write comes in the flight that carried the STOP_SENDING, the RESET_STREAM is not out yet, the callback is granted, and its write is refused. It returns true there, not false, because a new want_write on a closed stream does nothing.

Tests. Two new tests, one per branch, both in serve-http3.test.ts. With the refusal ignored, the later flight test fails with never aborted. With the drain() hunk reverted, the same flight test fails with aborted after 2 write. Both fail on the canary.

The "Linked Issues" warning came from my wording. "its own fix: #42888" in the notes is a closing keyword for GitHub, so the PR was linked to the node:quic tracker that it leaves alone on purpose. I reworded the body. The PR now closes no issue.

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On the "Merge Risk" line in the bot summary above (a terminal write failure that keeps buffered output and retries a closed stream): that describes the state before 0c85938, and the same review reports no actionable comment for this commit.

In the current Http3Response.h, each of the three us_quic_stream_write sites (write, drain, internalEnd) calls failStream() on -1, and failStream() clears the queue. Each place that queues bytes then calls wantWrite(), which fails the stream when lsquic refuses the writable callback. After that a write finds an empty queue, goes to lsquic, gets -1, and returns. Nothing is queued again and nothing arms want_write on the closed stream.

The two bytes were queued before the STOP_SENDING tests cover this: the build without these branches accepts 300 of 300 later writes, and this build aborts the request after 1.

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No new blocking issues. 1 optional suggestion (a nit or a note on pre-existing code) was found and not posted. Nothing in this review needs a push before merging.

The STOP_SENDING tests gave up after a fixed number of event loop turns. On a
fast release build 500 turns pass in 20 ms, before the close reaches the
client, so one of them failed once on macOS aarch64. They now wait for the
event itself. The writer that checks the queued-bytes cases writes once, so the
result does not depend on how many writes fit before the abort.
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…4 KB

lsquic's send_headers_ietf encoded the header block into a fixed 64 KB
stack buffer and failed with QWH_ENOBUF for a larger block, so the
response never went out. A new lsquic patch sizes the buffer from the
header list and uses the heap above 64 KB.

The lsxpack offsets are 16-bit. The send and decode paths in quic.c and
the send path in node_quic_shim.c addressed every field from the start
of one shared buffer, so more than 64 KB of fields tripped the offset
assertion in debug builds. Each field now points at its own slice of
the buffer. The send-side hunks are the same as in #42895.
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The idle timeout of the connection ends every stream, so a build without the
fix reports an abort and a closed stream after it too. The CI runner's test
timeout is far above that, so an unbounded wait for the event passed there on
such a build. The waits now give up after 3 s with a message. fetch() had the
same weakness: it rejects with HTTP3StreamReset after an idle close as well.

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The latest push (5b2aa93) addresses my earlier comment: the abort/close waits in serve-http3.test.ts are now bounded at 3 s via settledWithin, below the client's 5 s idle timeout, so a build that never resets the stream fails with a message instead of passing on the idle close. I found no new bugs this round, but since this changes RESET_STREAM behavior and header encoding in the native QUIC path, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • quic.c / node_quic_shim.c: per-pair base pointers keep every lsxpack offset at most name_len, and the length check runs before the flatten buffer is allocated (no leak on the -1 path).
  • Http3Response.h: every -1 from write/send_headers/want_write now reaches failStream(); drain() returning true after a failure stops Http3Context.h:53 from re-arming want_write on a closed stream.
  • The ignored want_write return in Stream.rs (node:quic) matches the PR's stated exclusion (#42888) and is not reachable from Bun.serve.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR touches the HTTP/3 server response path (packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h), the usockets QUIC shim (packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c, quic.h, node_quic_shim.c), the Rust extern signature in src/uws_sys/quic/Stream.rs, and adds tests in serve-http3.test.ts, quic-stream.test.ts, and fetch-http3-client.test.ts. The native change has three parts: a 16-bit length guard plus per-pair base pointers in us_quic_stream_send_headers (and the node:quic shim), us_quic_stream_want_write now surfacing lsquic's refusal, and Http3Response treating -1 from write/send_headers/want_write as fatal (RESET_STREAM(H3_INTERNAL_ERROR) via the new us_quic_stream_reset_internal_error).

Security risks

The header-length guard is the security-relevant piece: previously a name or value over 65535 bytes was silently truncated at the 16-bit field (the PR reports a 70000-byte value arriving as 4464 bytes), which is a data-integrity issue in both server and fetch() directions. The guard now runs before any allocation and survives release builds (it is a plain if, not an assert). The per-pair base pointer removes the debug-only lsxpack_header_set_offset2 assertion path that, in release, would have produced a wrapped 16-bit offset. The unbounded-buffer-after-STOP_SENDING fix removes a memory-growth path a client could trigger. I did not find new injection or memory-safety issues: the flatten buffer is freed on the existing paths and the new early return happens before us_malloc.

Level of scrutiny

This is native protocol code with new reset semantics, so it warrants a human look rather than an automated approve. The logic is small and each hunk is defensible, but questions such as whether end() marking the response done after a failed write (no abort event in that case) is the desired contract, and whether the drain() polarity change interacts with any other Http3Context caller, are judgment calls a maintainer should confirm. The prior inline finding about the unbounded test waits has been addressed in the last commit; the earlier optional note on the fetch() client's replay-on-reset behavior was self-resolved by the author and remains a design question rather than a blocker.

Other factors

The test coverage is substantial (nine new tests across three files, with the PR describing mutation checks for each hunk), and the final commit made the STOP_SENDING and header tests fail with a message on a build without the fix. The node:quic wrapper in Stream.rs still discards the new return value, which matches the PR's stated exclusion (#42888) and does not affect the Bun.serve path. The bug hunt exited on dry_streak with no findings.

…block over 64 KB

The response shapes and the fetch() case now use a value over 65535
bytes, which us_quic_stream_send_headers refuses by itself. The case of
the 64 KB block is one test, and it accepts a reset or the response.

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