Bun.serve: finish a Bun.file() response after the client half-closes - #38107
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HttpContext::onEnd only kept a connection open past a peer FIN for a tryEnd tail or a completed-but-buffered response. A file body is delivered by FileResponseStream (sendfile, or read()+write() chunks) under a Content-Length that has already been sent, but neither of those states applies to it, so the FIN closed the socket mid-transfer and the client received a short body under the advertised Content-Length. Add HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODY, set by FileResponseStream::start() when the body length is known, and have onEnd treat it like a tryEnd tail. The zero-progress close in onWritable is scoped to tryEnd tails, the only deferred shape whose progress is visible in the write offset; a file body detects a dead peer through the failed sendfile()/write().
WalkthroughThe change tracks fixed-length file responses after peer FIN. It updates uWS bindings, response teardown handling, file response setup, and half-close regression tests for TCP and HTTPS. ChangesFixed-length file response draining
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Status: reproduced on the released build with the script from the report ( Build 94387 (first revision) was green on every lane that exercises this change, including both darwin shards and Windows; its only red was three unrelated leak tests timing out on the x64-asan shards, reported separately. Since then: the comment threads were addressed (comments trimmed, 720b191 / 142b495) and the half-close tests also assert the advertised Content-Length. Waiting on CI for 142b495. |
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the peer-FIN close/defer logic in HttpContext::onEnd/onWritable — core connection-lifecycle code with platform-sensitive edge cases — a human look would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
- Confirmed
HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODYis per-response (not inHTTP_CONNECTION_SCOPED, soresetResponseState()clears it). - Verified the added
HTTP_END_CALLEDgate inonWritable's zero-progress close is a no-op for pre-existing defer shapes (before this PR,HTTP_NODE_RECEIVED_FIN && HTTP_RESPONSE_PENDINGimpliedHTTP_END_CALLED), so it only affects the new file-body case. - Traced completion: sendfile path (
end_send_file→markDone→close_if_done_and_marked) and reader path (resp.end→internalEnd) both reach ashouldCloseConnection()gate that acts onHTTP_NODE_RECEIVED_FIN. - H3 no-op is appropriate;
length: None(pipe/socket) correctly skips the mark.
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Overview
Adds a new per-response state bit HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODY so HttpContext::onEnd<false> treats an in-flight file body (delivered by FileResponseStream via sendfile or read+write) the same as a tryEnd tail when the client half-closes: defer teardown until the body finishes, instead of closing mid-transfer under an already-sent Content-Length. Also scopes onWritable's zero-progress-after-FIN close to tryEnd tails only (adds HTTP_END_CALLED), since a file body never advances the uWS write offset and would otherwise be misread as stalled. Plumbing: C shim uws_res_mark_fixed_length_file_body, Rust Response/AnyResponse wrappers, H3 no-op, and FileResponseStream::start() sets the bit when length.is_some(). Four new tests in the existing half-close describe block.
Security risks
None identified. This widens the set of cases in which the server keeps writing after a peer FIN, but only to a fully-determined file body of known length; open-ended streams (length: None) still abort on FIN so request.signal fires. The peer-gone case is covered by kernel RST → onClose/onAborted, sendfile() failure → force_close, or write() spill → the existing flushed == 0 check, and there's a test asserting pendingRequests drains within 4s.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is core Bun.serve connection-lifecycle logic — the exact code that decides whether a socket stays open past a peer FIN, and the writable-stall detection that guards against spinning. It interacts with platform-specific behavior (sendfile on Linux only, libuv's stalled-write semantics called out in the existing comment) and with the completion gates that were introduced in #35088. The change is small and well-argued, but it's the kind of edge-case-heavy path where a mistake manifests as a hang or a leaked connection under specific network conditions rather than a test failure.
Other factors
The reasoning in the PR description is thorough and matches the code. The new bit is correctly excluded from HTTP_CONNECTION_SCOPED so it resets per response. The onWritable gate change is provably no-op for existing paths (only tryEnd tails and doneButBuffered set HTTP_NODE_RECEIVED_FIN before this PR, and doneButBuffered clears HTTP_RESPONSE_PENDING). Test coverage spans both backends (sendfile via plain TCP, read+write via TLS), the route path, and the peer-destroy case. Given the subtlety of half-close handling and the follow-up nature of this change relative to #35088, deferring to a human reviewer familiar with that earlier work.
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Content-Lengthfor fixed-length file bodies.The helper discards the response headers. The new
Bun.file()tests can pass if the response falls back to chunked framing, even though the fixed-length marker requires a sentContent-Length.Parse
Content-LengthincountBody(). Assert that it equalsBODYin the three new file-body cases.As per coding guidelines, “Every assertion must be able to fail and must assert the strongest meaningful invariant” and tests must exercise actual production guards.
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Content-Length header, then assert that it equals BODY in each of the three new
Bun.file() fixed-length response cases. Keep the existing body and
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Content-Length sent by the server rather than only the received body size.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the onEnd/onWritable connection-lifecycle gates in HttpContext.h — where a wrong condition means either a leaked/spinning connection or a truncated body — a human look would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
- New
HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODYbit is per-response (not inHTTP_CONNECTION_SCOPED), soresetResponseState()clears it for the next request on the keep-alive socket. - The added
HTTP_END_CALLEDguard on theonWritablezero-progress close: traced that a file body whose peer is gone still tears down via kernel reset →onClose/onAborted, a failedsendfile()→fail_with/force_close, or a failedwrite()landing in the buffer and tripping theflushed == 0check. mark_fixed_length_file_bodyis only set whenopts.length.is_some(), so pipe/socket bodies (chunked, no Content-Length) still abort on FIN as before; the H3 arm is a no-op.
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Overview
Adds a new per-response state bit HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODY (bit 18) in HttpResponseData, plumbed through a new C shim uws_res_mark_fixed_length_file_body and Rust wrappers on Response<SSL>, AnyResponse, and the H3 stub. FileResponseStream::start() sets it when opts.length is Some. HttpContext::onEnd<false> now defers close for this bit the same way it does for a tryEnd tail, and onWritable<false>'s post-FIN zero-progress close now additionally requires HTTP_END_CALLED so a file body (which never advances the uWS offset) is not killed on its first writable event. Four new test cases in the existing half-close describe block cover the sendfile path, the file-route path, the TLS read+write path, and the peer-gone-mid-transfer path.
Security risks
None identified. The change relaxes when a server closes a connection after a peer FIN, but only for a response whose body length is already committed via Content-Length; there is no new user-controlled input reaching a parser or allocator. The concern would be a resource-exhaustion vector (a client that half-closes and then stops ACKing to keep the connection open), but the existing idle timeout and the failure paths described in the PR (kernel reset, failed sendfile/write) still apply, and the new peer-gone test asserts pendingRequests reaches 0 within 4s.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is production-critical HTTP server code — the onEnd/onWritable handlers in HttpContext.h decide whether every Bun.serve connection lives or dies after a peer FIN. The change is small in line count but the correctness argument is subtle: it depends on the file-body pump noticing a dead peer through a different channel than the offset-comparison check it is being excluded from. The PR description makes that argument carefully and the added test exercises the peer-gone case, but a mistake here would either leak connections or spin the writable dispatch, and the reasoning spans three layers (uWS C++ state machine, the Rust FileResponseStream, and the OS's sendfile/write error reporting).
Other factors
- The new bit is correctly excluded from
HTTP_CONNECTION_SCOPED, so it is cleared byresetResponseState()and cannot leak into the next pipelined request. - The
onWritablegate change is scoped toif constexpr (!IsNodeHttp), so node:http compat is unaffected. - There are four outstanding
comment-copinline comments from github-actions flagging the new doc comments as paragraph-length; these are automated lint hits on doc comments (not workaround justifications) and the author may want to trim or dismiss them, but they don't affect correctness. - Tests look solid: they assert exact byte counts against Content-Length, wire failure via the
closeevent, cover both transports and both file-body entry points, and the peer-gone case pollspendingRequestswith a bounded deadline rather than sleeping.
…in the half-close tests The bit is documented once, on the enum in HttpResponseData.h; the Rust wrappers now just point there. The half-close tests also check the advertised Content-Length, so they fail on a framing change as well as on a short body.
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I reviewed this PR and the automated bug-hunt found no issues. Since it changes the uWS onEnd/onWritable half-close state machine (adding a new deferred-close shape and narrowing the zero-progress close gate), a look from someone who owns this path would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODYis per-response (not inHTTP_CONNECTION_SCOPED), soresetResponseState()clears it and it can't leak into a later keep-alive request.- The narrowed
onWritablezero-progress close (now gated onHTTP_END_CALLED): traced that a deferred file body whose peer resets is still torn down viasendfileerrno →force_close, or via theflushed == 0buffer check on the read+write path; the new "peer goes away mid-transfer" test covers this. - All three
FileResponseStream::startcallers passlength: Some(_)only for regular files where Content-Length has already been written; pipe/socket bodies stayNoneand keep the abort-on-FIN semantics.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
This PR fixes truncated Bun.file() responses when the client half-closes (FIN) after sending its request. It adds a new per-response state bit HTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODY (bit 18) to HttpResponseData, plumbs it through the C shim / Rust bindings / H3 no-op, sets it from FileResponseStream::start() when length.is_some(), and reads it in two places in HttpContext.h: onEnd<false> now defers the close for a file body the same way it does for a tryEnd tail, and onWritable<false>'s zero-progress close-after-FIN check is narrowed to require HTTP_END_CALLED so a file body (whose progress never shows in the uWS offset) isn't misread as stalled on its first writable. Four new test cases plus a strengthened Content-Length assertion on the existing half-close cases.
Security risks
None identified. The change only widens the set of responses that survive a peer FIN to include file bodies with a known length; it does not weaken any validation, and pipe/socket bodies (length: None) still close on FIN so request.signal/onAborted semantics are preserved.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is the uWS connection-lifecycle state machine — onEnd and onWritable decide when a half-open socket is kept writing versus torn down. A wrong widening of the defer condition could leave sockets open until idle-timeout; a wrong narrowing of the zero-progress close could spin the writable dispatch. The reasoning in the PR description and comments is thorough (each deferred shape's dead-peer detection path is named), and there is a targeted test that pendingRequests returns to 0 within 4s when the peer destroys mid-transfer, but this is exactly the kind of change where the maintainers who own uWS half-close semantics should confirm the invariants hold on all platforms (libuv/Windows in particular, given the us_socket_stalled_write_means_peer_gone carve-out).
Other factors
- The new bit is not in
HTTP_CONNECTION_SCOPED, soresetResponseState()clears it between keep-alive requests;markDone()clearingHTTP_RESPONSE_PENDINGalso makes it moot for thedeterminedTailpredicate. - All three
FileResponseStream::startcallers (RequestContext,FileRoute,DirectoryRoute) were checked:Some(len)is only passed for regular files after Content-Length has been written; the RequestContext caller passesNonefor non-regular fds. - The comment-cop threads on the earlier revision are all resolved (comments trimmed in 720b191 / 142b495).
- CodeRabbit suggested cirospaciari / Jarred as reviewers, which matches who should look at this path.
- CI on the first revision (build 94387) was green on the lanes exercising this change; 142b495 only trimmed comments and added a Content-Length assertion.
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Problem
Bun.serveansweringnew Response(Bun.file(f))(8 MiB) to a client that half-closes right after its request sendsContent-Length: 8388608, then 2 to 6 MiB of body, then FIN: a short body under the advertised Content-Length. Same for aBun.file()route, over TLS, and overunix:(cut at one socket buffer, ~196 KiB here). Every in-memory body type (string, Buffer, Blob, static route) reaches the same client whole.HttpContext::onEnd<false>(packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h) keeps a connection open past a peer FIN only for a tryEnd tail (HTTP_END_CALLED+HTTP_RESPONSE_PENDING) or a completed response that has not drained (Bun.serve: drain a tryEnd response tail before closing on peer FIN #35088). A file body is delivered byFileResponseStream(src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs): it writes the Content-Length and then moves the bytes itself withsendfile()orread()+write()chunks, so neither state applies while it is in flight and the FIN closes the socket as if the application were still producing the body. Bun.serve: drain a tryEnd response tail before closing on peer FIN #35088 listed this path as a follow-up needing a new state bit.nc -N,socat, GoCloseWrite, HTTP/1.0-style fetchers, some health checkers. Browsers andfetchnever do this.Fix
HttpResponseData: new per-response bitHTTP_FIXED_LENGTH_FILE_BODY, exposed asuws_res_mark_fixed_length_file_body/AnyResponse::mark_fixed_length_file_body(no-op for HTTP/3, which has no TCP FIN).FileResponseStream::start()sets it when the body length is known; every caller (RequestContext,FileRoute,DirectoryRoute) has written that length as the Content-Length by then. Pipe and socket bodies (length: None, chunked, open-ended) do not set it and still close on FIN like any other stream.onEnd<false>defers the close for this bit exactly as for a tryEnd tail; the existingshouldCloseConnection()gates (close_if_done_and_markedafterend_send_file,internalEndafter the last chunk) shut the connection down once the file has been sent, sinceHTTP_NODE_RECEIVED_FINis set.onWritable's zero-progress close after a FIN now also requiresHTTP_END_CALLED. It compares the uWS write offset before and after the callback, and only a tryEnd tail advances that offset; a deferred file body never touches it and would have been closed on its first writable event. A file body whose peer is actually gone is still torn down: the kernel reports the reset (onClose, onAborted), or the nextsendfile()fails andFileResponseStreamforce-closes, or the failedwrite()lands in the buffer and trips the existingflushed == 0check.Bun.file()(sendfile on Linux),Bun.file()route, https fetch handler returningBun.file()(read+write path), and a file body whose peer destroys the connection mid-transfer (pendingRequestsreaches 0). Every completion case (these and the existing tryEnd ones) now asserts the advertised Content-Length as well as the bytes delivered; the three file cases receive 2691072 / 2691072 / 2752512 of an advertised 8388608 bytes on the released build and the full body with this change./filehalf-close 10/10 complete, was 0/10), a unix-socket variant (5/5, was 0/5), serve.test.ts (remaining failures are this container's IPv6, root-port and egress-proxy environment, same without the change), bun-serve-file, bun-serve-static, bun-serve-routes, serve-directory-routes, bun-serve-ssl, node-http-backpressure, node-http-halfclose-midupload.Background
shutdown(SHUT_WR),socket.end()) and keep reading. The server sees EOF on reads; writes still work. uSockets delivers that EOF ason_end, and HTTP server sockets opt into half-open (allow_half_open, Bun.serve: drain a tryEnd response tail before closing on peer FIN #35088) soonEndgets to decide between closing at once and letting output finish.onWritable, tracked asHTTP_END_CALLEDset withHTTP_RESPONSE_PENDINGstill set andoffset < total.FileResponseStream: the runtime's file body pump. On Linux over plain TCP (files of at least 1 MiB) it callssendfile()on the socket fd directly, asking uWS only for writable notifications; elsewhere (TLS, macOS, Windows, smaller files) it reads chunks and hands them towrite(), ending withend(). Either way uWS never holds the remaining body, which is why the response needs an explicit marker to be recognized as already determined.ReadableStreambody the application is producing data, and closing on the FIN is what makesrequest.signal/onAbortedfire on client disconnect (Bun.serve: drain a tryEnd response tail before closing on peer FIN #35088). The existing test for that case is unchanged.no test proof · iteration 2 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts