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Problem

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  • A graceful destroy() calls parser.detach(true): the parser keeps those frames, ignores inbound frames, and stays attached until writable events have written them.
  • NewSocket::shutdown leaves the FIN to that parser. After a graceful close the session 'close' follows the socket's 'close', as in node.
  • Self-reviewed: 27 concerns raised, 20 addressed, 3 need no change, 4 not done (Notes).
  • Verified: test/js/node/http2/node-http2-graceful-close.test.ts (19 of 22 fail on main), test/js/node/http2/, vendored node tests.

Background

  • H2FrameParser is a session's native HTTP/2 engine. What the socket refuses stays in its write_buffer.
  • A stream counts frames as sent once serialized, so it can close with its body still in write_buffer.
  • Considered node's kMaybeDestroy gate in close(): destroy() after close() would still free the buffer.

Downsides

  • gdb stepi: shutdown() +3 instructions (114 to 117), a writable event on an HTTP/2 socket +2, an HTTP/2 read event +4. Text +812 bytes.
  • A graceful close now reports 'close' after the socket's 'close', as in node. A peer that stops reading holds it, and the queued frames.
  • Still cut: destroy() without close(), a peer's half-close, process.exit() from a stream's 'finish' (Notes).
Notes

Repro. A raw HTTP/2 peer opens the largest window (2^31-1), sends one request and reads everything. The server runs stream.respond(), stream.end(Buffer.alloc(16 MiB)), stream.session.close(). The kernel takes about 2.6 MB, the rest waits in write_buffer. The trigger is the part the kernel has not taken, not the size of the body: with the default 64 KiB window the stream stays open until the peer's WINDOW_UPDATEs have let every frame out.

Regression. bun 1.3.14 delivers the body, 1.4.0 to 1.4.3 and main cut it. 1.3.14 wrote a body frame by frame and kept the stream open behind a full socket. The batched write path of #31584 serializes the whole payload, flushes once, and reports the write complete (send_data), so the stream closes with most of the body unwritten. This PR does not change send_data. It makes the end of the session safe for whatever is unwritten.

Related open PRs.

Not in this PR.

Self-review. 27 concerns. 20 are addressed in this shape. The largest: a first version also parked net.Socket's _final for the half-close case. That was a second shutdown() protocol beside #43877, and it made a client report EPIPE in one teardown order, so it is out. Others: a draining parser ignores inbound frames from the moment of the destroy, also under a frame dispatch (it answered PINGs before). The 'close' wait no longer depends on which buffer holds the tail, so a TLS tail in the uSockets spill is covered. shutdown() does not run the parser's cork, so a TLS-over-Duplex transport keeps main's order. 3 concerns asked for no change. 4 are not done: 3 ask for the send_data bound in this PR. It is a separate change: with it the delivery cases pass on main over loopback, and this PR is still needed for the last slice. 1 asks for a socket-owned tail, which needs #44219.

What the test file covers. 22 cases and 2 it.todo. 19 cases fail on main: server.close(), session.close() (TCP and TLS), close() from the stream's 'close', close() then destroy() (from the stream's 'close', and in the 'stream' event with PING frames behind the request), write() calls in one turn and in a later turn of the loop, trailers, compat res.addTrailers(), the peer's GOAWAY, the close() callbacks (TCP and TLS), process.exit() in the close() callback, a client upload (TCP, TLS, TLS over a Duplex), and the order of the two 'close' events (TCP and TLS). 3 guard cases pass on main too: the peer resets or destroys its socket, and a PING flood from a peer that does not read. The delivery cases need a kernel that refuses part of the body. Where it takes all of it, they pass on main too, and the 'close' order cases still fail there.

Node v26.3.0. A port of the delivery cases delivers the whole body in each. Node answers no PING while the closed session drains, and neither does this change.

Measurements (release builds, base 5866b5f, linux-x64, taken at the first commit of this PR. The later commits change comments, the declared length of detach and the layout of detach() only).

base PR
shutdown() host call, TCP socket without HTTP/2 114 instructions 117
shutdown() host call, TLS socket without HTTP/2 2,509 2,512
writable event, socket without HTTP/2: on_writable and its native callees 49 + 48 + 21 + 69 same
writable event, HTTP/2 socket, nothing to write 401 403
read event, HTTP/2 socket, one PING frame 4,288 4,292
writeStream host call that serializes DATA 1,183 1,183
1,000 h2 requests: flush calls / writable events 8,009 / 0 8,009 / 0
100 h2 requests: send / recv / shutdown / setsockopt / epoll_ctl 206 / 205 / 2 / 4 / 9 same
1,000 node:net connections: send / recv / shutdown / epoll_ctl 2,000 / 4,000 / 2,000 / 5,004 same
text 106,331,459 106,332,271
host functions on the parser 29 29
one graceful close: shutdown(SHUT_WR) after 2,654,310 bytes 16,786,594 bytes

13 functions on the h2 write path (send_data, _write, write, flush, flush_stream_queue, flush_batch_buffer, cork and others) have the same instructions in both builds (objdump, only field displacements differ). One graceful close makes the same shutdown, setsockopt, close and epoll_ctl calls in both builds (2 / 4 / 5 / 13). net.ts and the socket's on_writable are not edited.

Leak check (debug + ASAN). 1,000 closes with a pending tail: 1,000 whole, 1 H2FrameParser object after GC (same as main), RSS flat. The test file passes with detect_leaks=1 and BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, and a process that exits with a tail pending reports no leak.

Suites run. Debug + ASAN: test/js/node/http2/ (638 pass, 0 fail), test/js/node/net/. Release, against a build of main: 663 vendored test-http2-*, test-net-*, test-tls-*, test-https-* files (same result per file), test/js/third_party/grpc-js/. cargo check -p bun_runtime for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin. Only linux-x64 was run locally.

A stream counts its frames as sent when they are serialized. On a
graceful close the session was destroyed while part of a body was still
in the parser's write buffer: detach() freed it, and the socket's FIN
followed the bytes the kernel already had.

parser.detach(true) keeps that output. The parser stays in the socket's
native-callback slot, ignores inbound frames, writes the output from
writable events and then lets go of the socket. A shutdown() of the
socket in that time is held back, and the parser issues it after the
last byte.

The session 'close' event of a graceful close now follows the socket's
'close', as in node.
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Status: ready for review.

How it was reproduced (main 5866b5f, linux-x64):

  • A raw HTTP/2 peer opens the largest window and sends one request.
  • The server runs stream.respond(), stream.end(Buffer.alloc(16 * 1024 * 1024)) and stream.session.close().
  • On main the peer gets 2,652,707 of 16,777,216 bytes and then a clean FIN. Node v26.3.0 and bun 1.3.14 deliver all of it.
  • With this PR the peer gets all of it, and the session 'close' follows the socket's 'close'.

The test is test/js/node/http2/node-http2-graceful-close.test.ts: 19 of 22 cases fail on main, all pass with the change.

PR: #45673

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HTTP/2 teardown now retains pending output during graceful close. Session close events can follow socket closure. The changes add parser drain states, socket shutdown coordination, client and server session wiring, and TCP and TLS tests.

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HTTP/2 graceful close

Layer / File(s) Summary
Drain parser output during teardown
src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs, src/runtime/socket/socket_body.rs, src/runtime/api/h2.classes.ts
The parser retains owed output when requested, stops inbound processing while draining, and detaches after output completes. Socket shutdown can be deferred during draining. The parser binding now accepts the retention argument.
Connect graceful session teardown
src/js/node/http2.ts
Client and server teardown pass output-retention state to the parser. When a graceful-close socket remains open, the session close event is emitted after the socket close event.
Validate graceful close behavior
test/js/node/http2/node-http2-graceful-close.test.ts
Tests cover frame delivery, close callbacks and event ordering, client and server sessions, TCP and TLS, peer shutdown, and PING-flood behavior.

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Graceful close can still truncate responses, and a peer that stops reading can hold a connection and buffered output indefinitely. Resolve both paths before merging.

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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 parser's lifetime while it drains from inside on_native_writable: the call holds its own keepalive before finish_draining drops the socket slot's ref, so Drop cannot run mid-call. I also traced a fatal drain write and a peer that closes mid-drain: transport_write_fatal makes owes_output() false so finish_draining frees the kept buffer and detaches, and on_native_close frees it on the close path, so neither leaks write_buffer or leaves the parser attached.

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Findings-present ruled-out note only: the inline comments already flag what needs a human look on this native socket/parser lifecycle change, and the paths named here were checked against the keepalive in on_native_writable and the three release sites of the kept write_buffer.

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defer_shutdown runs no JS, so it does not need the pointer copied out first.

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🟠 Major · Keep the parser attached until its output drains. · http2.ts:4810-4830

src/js/node/http2.ts:4810-4830
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Keep the parser attached until its output drains.

On the graceful path, socket.end() synchronously runs internal_flush(), which calls close_and_detach(Normal). That detaches the HTTP/2 native callback before parser.detach(true). The parser then has no native socket, so owes_output() is false and detach(true) clears pending frames.

Keep the socket attached, call parser.detach(true) first, then invoke the native handle's shutdown(). The HTTP/2 shutdown callback can then defer the FIN until the pending output drains.

Suggested fix
-          socket.end();
-          if (this.#closeCalled) closingSocket = socket;
+          if (this.#closeCalled && this.#parser) {
+            closingSocket = socket;
+          } else {
+            socket.end();
+          }
...
         // A graceful close keeps the frames the socket has not taken yet: the parser writes them.
         parser.detach(closingSocket !== undefined);
+        if (closingSocket) closingSocket._handle?.shutdown();
         this.#parser = null;

Apply the same change in the client session destroy path.

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Review comment at @src/js/node/http2.ts around lines 4810 - 4830:
Update the graceful session-destroy path so it does not call socket.end() before
parser.detach(true), which can detach the native callback and discard pending
frames. Keep the socket attached, detach the parser with graceful output
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- Around line 7852-7869: Update the graceful-close path in destroy() so a
retained native drain has a bounded lifetime even after the session timeout is
cleared; keep the bound active until finish_draining() or on_native_close()
completes, then release the timer and retained socket/output. Preserve the
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- Around line 4810-4830: Update the graceful session-destroy path so it does not
call socket.end() before parser.detach(true), which can detach the native
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Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

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On the review finding for src/js/node/http2.ts:4810-4830 (outside the diff, "Keep the parser attached until its output drains"): it does not hold, and the code stays as it is.

  • socket in destroy() is the net.Socket, not the native handle. socket.end() is Duplex.prototype.end. Its _final queues endNT with process.nextTick (src/js/node/net.ts:2576), and endNT calls the native shutdown() one tick later (src/js/node/net.ts:439).
  • parser.detach(true) runs before that tick, in the same call of destroy(). The parser is still attached, so owes_output() sees the socket and the frames stay. shutdown() then finds the draining parser and leaves the FIN to it.
  • The native end() that reaches internal_flush and close_and_detach is a different method. This path does not call it.
  • The delivery cases in test/js/node/http2/node-http2-graceful-close.test.ts run this path over TCP and TLS. On main the peer gets 2,652,707 of 16,777,216 bytes. With this change it gets all of them.

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@coderabbitai The outside-diff finding on src/js/node/http2.ts:4810-4830 does not hold. The reasons are in #45673 (comment): socket.end() there is the stream method of net.Socket, which calls the native shutdown() one tick later (src/js/node/net.ts:2576 and :439). It never calls the native end(). The merge risk in the summary still cites this finding and the one that you withdrew.

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@robobun, you are correct. I confused net.Socket.end() with the native end() method.

The inspected code confirms that Socket.prototype._final schedules endNT with process.nextTick. endNT calls native shutdown(), not native end(). The session calls parser.detach(true) before that tick, so the parser can retain pending output and defer the FIN.

I withdraw the outside-diff finding. No code change is needed for that finding. The merge-risk summary should not cite either withdrawn finding. I will trigger summary regeneration with that correction.

Thanks for the clarification.


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Timestamp: 2026-10-18T15:07:10.534Z
Learning: In oven-sh/bun, the graceful session-destruction path in src/js/node/http2.ts calls net.Socket.end(), not the native socket end() method. Socket.prototype._final in src/js/node/net.ts schedules endNT through process.nextTick, and endNT calls native shutdown(). The synchronous parser.detach(true) therefore runs before native shutdown(), allowing the HTTP/2 parser to retain queued output and defer the FIN. Do not flag this ordering on the assumption that socket.end() synchronously calls native end(), internal_flush, or close_and_detach.

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