[robobun]

Problem

• Bun.spawn({ stdin: stream }) writes to a stream that it failed to lock. The reader that holds it then crashes with panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0xF0 or never settles.
• Cause: readStreamIntoSink (BunStreamSource.cpp) built its operation before it acquired the reader, so its abrupt teardown cleared the controller of a stream it never locked.
• materializeIfNeeded also started a native source under the sink that held it (262,144 bytes lost), and wire_native_sink took one from a reader.

Fix

• The pump builds its operation after the acquire. Without the stream it leaves through rsisRefuse, which leaves a held stream alone.
• materializeIfNeeded skips a natively held stream. wire_native_sink locks first (ReadableStream__tryLockNative) and refuses a started or held stream.
• Unchanged: what Bun.spawn does when its stdin pump fails (spawn: throw from Bun.spawn when the stdin ReadableStream pump fails before it returns #41532, spawn: a direct stdin stream whose pull() throws no longer throws out of Bun.spawn() #42157).
• Verified: 21 new cases (spawn-stdin-readable-stream.test.ts, s3-upload-abort.test.ts) fail on main. wpt-streams and streams.test.js pass. Self-reviewed: 14 concerns raised, 12 addressed, 2 in part (Notes).

Background

• A native sink (spawn stdin, Bun.write, fetch, S3) reads a stream through the pump with a reader, or wires its native source with wire_native_sink.
• A native stream is lazy: its source starts when a consumer materializes it.
• Considered: guard the clear, delete the clear (webstreams: stop clearing the controller slot in the native-sink pump teardown #33785), re-check stdin in spawn. Each leaves failing inputs (Notes).

Downsides

• +8 instructions per pump start (133, main 125), +2 per lazy start. Release text: -1,536 B.
• Not fixed: Bun.serve sends a short 200 for a fetch body that a reader started and released (Stop treating a locked body stream as a consumed one #33461, Bun.serve: reject disturbed ReadableStream response bodies with ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED #36110).

Notes

Reach

• Found by fuzzing. There is no user issue. spawn: throw synchronously when the stdin ReadableStream is locked #38421 (closed) and the "out of scope" note in streams: keep a ReadableStream locked after a native sink pumps it #42609 describe the same controller clear.
• The 0xF0 crash is in 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. A debug build stops at ASSERTION FAILED: stream->m_controllerKind == ControllerKind::Byte (JSReadableStreamBYOBReader.cpp(45), byteControllerOf). stream.text() as the holder crashes at 0x18 (== ControllerKind::Default, JSReadableStreamDefaultReader.cpp(46)).
• Without an option getter, only Bun.spawn reaches the refused pump. It is the one owner that checks is_disturbed alone (stdio.rs:376, :525). Bun.write, fetch, Bun.serve and HTMLRewriter check the lock first.
• The other inputs need an option getter that takes the stream after that check: a spawn option that is read after stdin, or s3file.write(stream, options) (the same 0xF0 crash, no S3 code changed).
• A lock check at the stdin option (spawn: throw from Bun.spawn when the stdin ReadableStream pump fails before it returns #41532) stops the 7 pre-locked spawn cases in the new tests. It does not stop the 8 option-getter cases, the S3 case or the 5 lazy-source cases.
• What stays for these inputs: Bun.spawn forks a child with an empty stdin that exits 0, and the lock error arrives as an unhandled rejection.

The three changes

1. Pump (BunStreamSource.cpp). rsisBegin acquires the reader and only then creates the JSReadStreamIntoSinkOperation. The deliver arm calls rsisAbrupt when an operation exists and rsisRefuse when it does not. rsisRefuse rejects the result and closes the sink. For a held stream it also empties the sink controller's pipe slot, so FileSink::on_close and handle_reject_stream do not end that stream. rsisAbrupt loses its pumpHoldsLock tie-breaker: every operation held the reader.
2. Lazy start (JSReadableStream.cpp). A stream that a native sink took stays lazy and is locked without a reader. materializeIfNeeded returns early for it. The callers that reach it with such a stream are the pump, getReader(), values(), tee() and the ReadableStreamDefaultReader constructor. The last four need no option getter. The plainest input: a process runs Bun.write(Bun.stdout, Bun.stdin.stream()) and then process.stdin.resume(). With a 1 MiB file on stdin, main writes 786,432 bytes in 9 of 10 runs and exits 0.
3. Fast path (ReadableStream.rs, WebStreamsExports.cpp). Both arms of wire_native_sink take the native lock before they touch the source. The lock call refuses a stream that is locked or no longer NativePending, and the caller falls back to the pump. A stream that a reader started and released then goes through its controller: on main the child got 6,291,456 of 8,388,608 bytes for that input. This change is reachable only in the window between spawn's stdin check and its attach.

Why this shape

• A guard on the clear in rsisAbrupt fixes the JS-pump cases. It leaves the lazy start (with the pump change alone, a nested Bun.spawn that holds a child's stdout came up 262,144 bytes short in 2 of 4 runs) and the sink close that ends the holder's source.
• Deleting the clear from the pump teardown (webstreams: stop clearing the controller slot in the native-sink pump teardown #33785) changes every successful pump. streams.test.js pins desiredSize returned:null after a teardown, and the clear is what releases the controller of a stream that is kept. It is a possible follow-up.
• A second stdin check in Bun.spawn after the option getters covers spawn only. The S3 input and the four lazy-start callers stay, and it takes a side on spawn: throw from Bun.spawn when the stdin ReadableStream pump fails before it returns #41532.

Not fixed here

• Bun.serve (RequestContext.rs:3248) and the S3 upload (s3/client.rs:1011) attach to a fetch body inline and call lock_native after their own checks. S3 rejects a disturbed stream first (client.rs:820), so it cannot see a started or held one today. Bun.serve can: const r = await fetch(url); r.body.getReader().releaseLock(); return r sends 524,442 of 1,048,576 bytes with status 200, on 1.4.2 and on this branch. Stop treating a locked body stream as a consumed one #33461 and Bun.serve: reject disturbed ReadableStream response bodies with ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED #36110 propose different contracts for that site.
• An owner that gives up before it attaches still cancels a stream that another consumer holds (ReadableStream__cancelWithReason has no lock check). fetch(url, { body: a.stdout, signal }), then Bun.spawn({ stdin: a.stdout }), then abort(): the child gets 0 of 8,388,608 bytes. Reported separately.
• fetch("s3://...", { body }) does not settle when the upload refuses the stream at its entry. Reported separately. The S3 case tested here is S3File.write.
• directStreamOnClose is untouched. It removes a controller that readDirectStream installed, and it is not reached for a stream that the direct pump does not own.
• Open PRs on the same code: Stop treating a locked body stream as a consumed one #33461 and node:stream: take the native handle in Readable.fromWeb only from a stream no consumer has started #42281 each add their own test for "this native source can still be taken". streams: error a Bun.file() stream whose open fails instead of throwing from its first consumer #42196 turns a failed lazy start into an errored stream. By reading, the unlocked arm of rsisRefuse then has no input, so whichever lands second deletes that arm. spawn: a direct stdin stream whose pull() throws no longer throws out of Bun.spawn() #42157 edits readDirectStream in the same file.

Measurements

Release builds of 71d0d43 (main) and of this diff on it. Call and hit counts are gdb breakpoint counts on debug builds of the same two trees.

	main	this PR
cells per successful pump: operation / reader / sink controller / promises (heapStats diff, 2,000 pumps)	1 / 1 / 1 / 4	1 / 1 / 1 / 4
ReadStreamIntoSinkOperation cells per refused attach (200 refused S3File.write)	1	0
instructions, pump entry to first readMany, Default-mode stream (gdb nexti)	125	133
the same when the cell allocation takes the slow case	140	147
abrupt or refused exits in 20,000 valid pumps	0	0
instructions, getReader() entry to the acquire, Default-mode stream	18	18
instructions, getReader() entry to materializeNativeSource, lazy stream	20	22
isLocked / isDisturbed / native lock calls per attach: spawn with a JS stream	1 / 2 / 0	1 / 2 / 0
spawn with a native stream	5 / 5 / 1	5 / 5 / 1
fetch upload	7 / 7 / 1	7 / 7 / 1
HTMLRewriter	6 / 5 / 1	6 / 5 / 1
Bun.write	5 / 4 / 1	5 / 4 / 1
controller-slot clears in 2,000 owning pumps	2,000	2,000
controller-slot clears in 200 refused attaches	200	0
release text (size)	89,129,525 B	89,127,989 B
readStreamIntoSink / rsisAbrupt / rsisFinally (nm -S)	2,683 / 726 / 506 B	2,704 / 694 / 506 B
refused exit (the deliver lambda, not inlined)	none	647 B
ReadableStream__lockNative / ReadableStream__tryLockNative	163 B / none	161 / 219 B
nested Bun.spawn on a child's stdout, 64 MiB: bytes the first child got (20 runs)	2,097,152 in 20 of 20	67,108,864 in 20 of 20

• The lock call counts include the checks that the test's own fetch() makes. The native lock call is lockNative on main and tryLockNative here, one per attach on both.
• One new extern (ReadableStream__tryLockNative). No new host function, codegen entry or startup work.
• A stream that a reader started and released in a spawn option getter now takes the pump. For 64 MiB the parent used 22 to 34 ms of user CPU and 49 to 52 MB peak RSS, against 8 to 17 ms and 30 to 31 MB for an untouched stream on the fast path (3 runs each, release).

Tests

• spawn-stdin-readable-stream.test.ts: 15 spawned fixtures (the holder is a BYOB reader, a default reader, tee() of a Response body, an async iterator with stdio[0], a reader on a type: "direct" stream, text() in a later option getter, a reader that cancels, a reader that releases, a nested Bun.spawn, a reader or a node:stream Readable on a child's stdout, a reader on a fetch body). Each fixture prints what the holder read and how the refusal arrived (threw or unhandledRejection, with ERR_INVALID_STATE), so it passes under either rule of spawn: throw from Bun.spawn when the stdin ReadableStream pump fails before it returns #41532. Then 4 lazy-source cases and the process.stdin case.
• s3-upload-abort.test.ts: the option-getter case, and a case for a file stream that fails to open. The second one passes on main too. It guards the arm of rsisRefuse for a stream that nobody holds.
• On a debug build of main, 21 of the 22 new cases fail (2 runs). Each change has cases that fail when only that change is removed. Without the pipe-slot store: the five refused attaches on a child's stdout or a fetch body. Without the materializeIfNeeded change: the nested Bun.spawn on a child's stdout, the four lazy-source cases and the process.stdin case. Without the wire_native_sink change: the three reader fixtures on a native stream and the released-reader fixture.
• The lazy-source cases and the process.stdin case are skipped on Windows. The lazy start of a pipe reads nothing there, so no byte can be lost, and the producer in the setup does not report while its pipe is full. The 15 fixtures and the S3 cases run on every platform. The process.stdin case fails on main in 9 of 10 runs.
• Self-review, addressed in part: the four lazy-source cases are not repeated with a fetch body (the two new fetch-body fixtures pin the ByteStream arm, and the repeat pins no other line). The owner-side cancel sites have no test.todo here (they are reported separately with their repros).
• Also run on the debug build: streams.test.js (624), wpt-streams (1,175), web-stream-state.test.ts (46), spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts (17), html-rewriter.test.js (198), body-stream.test.ts (9,086), serve-reused-response.test.ts (11). Timeouts in bun-write.test.js, fetch-backpressure.test.ts and fetch-abort-stream-body.test.ts also occur on the unmodified debug build on the same machine.

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^{Updated 7:46 PM PT - Oct 14th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 4e923175b9930bfe5143545538c346e73141eadd passed in Build #125674! 🎉

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Status: ready for review.

How it was reproduced (Linux x64, official 1.4.3 and a build of main):

const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode("hello");
const stream = new ReadableStream({ type: "bytes", pull(c) { c.enqueue(bytes.slice()); c.close(); } });
const reader = stream.getReader({ mode: "byob" });
Bun.spawn({ cmd: [process.execPath, "-e", ""], stdin: stream, stdout: "ignore" });
await reader.read(new Uint8Array(16)); // panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0xF0

• A debug build stops at ASSERTION FAILED: stream->m_controllerKind == ControllerKind::Byte (JSReadableStreamBYOBReader.cpp(45)).
• With stream.text() started in a later option getter, the crash is at 0x18. A default reader and tee() never settle.
• With this change the reader reads hello in each case. The 21 new cases fail on a debug build of main and pass on this branch.

PR: #45004

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Walkthrough

Native sink attachment now checks whether a stream can be locked before installing a sink. The JavaScript pump acquires a reader before creating its operation and handles startup failures based on whether creation succeeded. Regression tests cover cleanup and preservation of existing stream consumers.

Changes

Readable stream attachment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native sink lock preflight src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/WebStreamsExports.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSReadableStream.cpp, src/runtime/webcore/ReadableStream.rs	Native sink wiring uses a try-lock preflight. If a stream is already started or held, the wiring path returns NotNative without installing the sink. Lazy materialization also leaves a stream locked without a reader unchanged.
Pump startup and failure handling src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamSource.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSReadStreamIntoSinkOperation.h	The pump acquires a reader before creating its operation and initializes the operation with the stream, reader, sink, and result promise. Startup errors use refusal cleanup before operation creation and abrupt cleanup afterward.
Attachment and consumer-preservation tests test/js/bun/s3/s3-upload-abort.test.ts, test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdin-readable-stream.test.ts	Regression tests cover upload startup failures, refused attachments, existing stream consumers, and preservation of stream data across later reads and attachments.

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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the rsisAbrupt cancel-condition change (pumpHoldsLock || !isReadableStreamLocked(stream) to reader && stream) for lost behavior: markConsumedAsBody() runs before the operation is created, so isReadableStreamLocked is always true for any op that exists and the only input that reached the old unlocked arm is now routed to rsisRefuse. The held-stream arm of rsisRefuse was also checked against FileSink::on_close for a double end of the owner's stream; clearing the pipe slot before rsisSinkClose keeps on_close from reaching it.

Extended reasoning...

The PR reshapes ownership in the native stream pump (BunStreamSource.cpp), adds a guard in materializeIfNeeded, introduces ReadableStream__tryLockNative, and makes wire_native_sink lock before wiring in both the ByteStream and FileReader arms, with new spawn and S3 tests. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it is lifecycle-sensitive native code where a wrong ownership call corrupts or hangs a stream. Two inline findings exist (a pre-existing Bun.serve short-response path the author lists as not fixed, and a test-concurrency nit), and the refactor's condition change in rsisAbrupt was traced to be behavior-preserving; the complexity of the stream ownership model still warrants a human look.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the rewritten push (bd61727..4e92317) and did not find any bugs, but this changes who owns a stream across three teardown paths in the native-sink pump, so a human look at the streams code is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• rsisRefuse in src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/BunStreamSource.cpp: both arms settle result first and close the sink last; the unlocked arm's readableStreamCancel on a stream whose lazy start threw hits the ControllerKind::None / mode-Default branch in ReadableStreamOperations.cpp, which fulfills and closes it (matches the new S3 ENOENT test).
• Dropping pumpHoldsLock from rsisAbrupt: every site that reaches it now holds an op created after acquireReadableStreamDefaultReader, so the only case that lost a cancel is a second abrupt after rsisFinally already released the reader, where the stream is already closed or closing.
• The m_lockedWithoutReader early return in materializeIfNeeded: all nine callers go on to acquire a reader (or tee), so the only behavior change is that a call about to throw ERR_INVALID_STATE no longer starts the native source.
• ReadableStream__tryLockNative and the three wire_native_sink callers (FetchTasklet, FileSink x2, html_rewriter): each handles NotNative by falling through to the pump with no state written before the lock check, and the extern "C" bool signature matches on the Rust side.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the native-sink pump teardown in BunStreamSource.cpp, the lazy-start gate in JSReadableStream.cpp, a new tryLockNative FFI export in WebStreamsExports.cpp, and the fast-path lock ordering in ReadableStream.rs, plus 21 new subprocess tests; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. It is a rebased rewrite pushed after my earlier review, with no CHANGES_REQUESTED from a human and no bug-hunter findings this run. Deferring rather than approving because the fix re-orders ownership of the stream across several error paths in JSC-bound C++ and Rust FFI code, which is complex enough that a maintainer familiar with the streams subsystem should confirm the teardown invariants.

[Jarred-Sumner]

This is Claude (an AI assistant) commenting on Jarred's behalf.

This fix went in with #46021, which is merged. Closing.