Bump WebKit: worker.terminate() stops a worker blocked in Atomics.wait() - #38447
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…it for a cross-thread termination Pins oven-sh/WebKit#432 (preview build) and adds regression tests for the two JSC fixes it carries: - worker.terminate() now stops a worker parked in Atomics.wait() with no timeout (WaiterListManager only re-checked a flag the parked thread itself would have had to set, so it went back to sleep and terminate() never completed). - Host code that runs after a worker's process.exit()/terminate() unwound script and initialises a lazy structure (building an error object for a connect failure landing in the same tick) no longer trips VMTraps::deferTerminationSlow's ASSERT(vm.hasTerminationRequest()) in debug / silently drops the pending termination in release. No-Verification-Needed: dependency pin + tests; verified against a local build of the pinned WebKit
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…tion-fixes # Conflicts: # test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts
WalkthroughThe change updates the default WebKit commit and adds a regression test for terminating a worker blocked in ChangesWebKit version update
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In `@test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts`:
- Around line 699-712: Make the worker setup in the Worker eval script
deterministic by sharing the SharedArrayBuffer through workerData, polling
Atomics.notify() until it reports an active waiter with a deadline, and having
the worker re-enter Atomics.wait() after being notified. Replace the arbitrary
Bun.sleep delay in the message handler, keep the re-parking wait bounded, and
avoid unbounded notification loops.
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scripts/build/deps/webkit.tstest/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts
| const w = new Worker( | ||
| "const { parentPort } = require('node:worker_threads');" + | ||
| "const i32 = new Int32Array(new SharedArrayBuffer(4));" + | ||
| "parentPort.postMessage('parking');" + | ||
| "Atomics.wait(i32, 0, 0);" + | ||
| "parentPort.postMessage('woke ' + Atomics.load(i32, 0));", | ||
| { eval: true }, | ||
| ); | ||
| w.on("message", async (m) => { | ||
| if (m !== "parking") { console.log("unexpected", m); process.exit(1); } | ||
| // The case of interest is terminate() landing once the worker is parked, for which there | ||
| // is no observable signal, so give it a moment; landing before it parks must pass too. | ||
| await Bun.sleep(100); | ||
| const code = await w.terminate(); |
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const { Worker } = require("node:worker_threads");
const shared = new SharedArrayBuffer(4);
const parent = new Int32Array(shared);
const source = `
const { parentPort, workerData } = require("node:worker_threads");
const i32 = new Int32Array(workerData);
parentPort.postMessage(["parking", i32.byteLength]);
while (true) Atomics.wait(i32, 0, 0);
`;
const worker = new Worker(source, { eval: true, workerData: shared });
let sawParking = false;
let notified = false;
let terminated = false;
const deadline = Date.now() + 2000;
const poll = setInterval(() => {
if (Date.now() >= deadline) {
clearInterval(poll);
worker.terminate().finally(() => process.exit(2));
return;
}
const count = Atomics.notify(parent, 0);
if (count > 0) {
notified = true;
clearInterval(poll);
setTimeout(async () => {
const code = await worker.terminate();
terminated = true;
console.log(JSON.stringify({ sawParking, notified, code, terminated }));
process.exit(code === 1 ? 0 : 3);
}, 50);
}
}, 0);
worker.on("message", ([kind, byteLength]) => {
if (kind !== "parking" || byteLength !== 4) process.exit(4);
sawParking = true;
});
worker.on("error", error => {
console.error(error);
process.exit(5);
});
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Make the parked-worker setup deterministic.
parentPort.postMessage("parking") runs before Atomics.wait(), so await Bun.sleep(100) does not prove that the worker entered the futex. An unfixed implementation can terminate during this window and still pass. Pass a SharedArrayBuffer through workerData, poll Atomics.notify() with a deadline until it reports a waiter, and make the worker re-enter Atomics.wait() after the notification wakes it. Keep the re-parking wait bounded. Do not use an unbounded notify loop or an arbitrary sleep.
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In `@test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts` around lines 699 -
712, Make the worker setup in the Worker eval script deterministic by sharing
the SharedArrayBuffer through workerData, polling Atomics.notify() until it
reports an active waiter with a deadline, and having the worker re-enter
Atomics.wait() after being notified. Replace the arbitrary Bun.sleep delay in
the message handler, keep the re-parking wait bounded, and avoid unbounded
notification loops.
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LGTM — a one-line WebKit pin bump plus a regression test that follows the file's existing conventions.
What was reviewed:
- The pin change is mechanical; the JSC-side fix itself lives in oven-sh/WebKit#432.
- The new test drains pipes concurrently, asserts stderr/stdout before exitCode, and
.sort()s stdout lines so the non-deterministic ordering of theexitevent vs.terminate()resolution can't flake it. - The
Bun.sleep(100)carries the required comment explaining there's no observable park signal and that terminate-before-park must also pass. - Checked that a post-wait
'woke ...'message would fail the test via them !== 'parking'guard — it never fires because termination unwinds the worker, so the assertion set is complete.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
Two files: scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts bumps WEBKIT_VERSION from 687eb8e… to f0f60fd… (the merge commit of oven-sh/WebKit#432), and test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts gains one appended test proving worker.terminate() now stops a worker parked in Atomics.wait(). The behavioral change is entirely in the WebKit fork; this PR just pins it and adds the regression test.
Security risks
None. This is a version-string change to a vendored dependency built from oven-sh's own fork, plus a hermetic test that spawns a subprocess with no network, no filesystem writes outside the process, and no external hosts.
Level of scrutiny
Low-to-medium. WebKit pin bumps are routine here and the substantive change was reviewed in the fork PR. The test is where the review effort goes, and it copies the surrounding file's patterns exactly: await using spawn, bunEnv, concurrent pipe drain, stderr/stdout asserted before exitCode. The Bun.sleep(100) is the one thing REVIEW.md would flag, and it carries the required justification comment (no observable signal for "worker is now parked"; the terminate-before-park race is stated to also pass, so the sleep isn't load-bearing for correctness — only for exercising the interesting path). The .sort() on stdout lines makes the test insensitive to whether 'exit' fires before or after terminate() resolves.
Other factors
The fail-before behavior is a hang (terminate() never settles → subprocess never exits → test-framework timeout), which is a valid fail mode for a hang-regression test. The PR description reports the preview-build CI was already green cross-platform, and the recent main-branch history shows this landed and only had a comment reword follow-up. No outstanding reviewer comments; no prior claude[bot] reviews on this PR.
…tion-fixes # Conflicts: # scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts
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I reviewed this and didn't find any bugs. Since it's a WebKit/JSC engine pin bump — the one-line diff here pulls in a behavioral change to WaiterListManager::waitSyncImpl that affects every parked worker — a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
- The new test follows the file's conventions (spawned subprocess, concurrent pipe drain, stderr/stdout/exitCode order, sorted-line assertion for the two unordered log lines).
- The
Bun.sleep(100)beforeterminate()was examined: the SAB is worker-private so the parent has no observable parked signal, and the inline comment says so — this satisfies the REVIEW.md rule for ≥50ms sleeps. The 100ms window vastly exceeds the postMessage→wait gap, so a false pass on the old pin is not a practical concern; the CodeRabbit suggestion to pollAtomics.notifyon a shared SAB is a valid alternative but not required. - A spurious wake (worker posts "woke …") would trip the
unexpectedbranch and fail the test, so the assertion is not vacuous.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
Two files: scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts bumps WEBKIT_VERSION to a new oven-sh/WebKit commit that fixes worker.terminate() for workers parked in Atomics.wait(), and test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts gains a regression test that spawns a worker which parks in an untimed Atomics.wait on a private SAB, then asserts terminate() resolves with exit code 1 and the exit event fires.
Security risks
None. No user-facing API surface, no auth/crypto/permission code. The engine change makes a wake-up predicate also consult the cross-thread termination flag; it does not relax any check.
Level of scrutiny
The in-repo diff is mechanical (a hash constant + a test), but the pinned artifact is the JS engine — a WebKit bump can affect anything that touches Atomics, VMTraps, or worker termination across all platforms. That is not the kind of change I should approve without a human glance, even though the PR description reports a green all-platform CI run against this JSC build. Per the repo's own guidance, dependency/vendor bumps are a situational category that gets its own review checklist.
Other factors
- The
Bun.sleep(100)was flagged by CodeRabbit and by finder agents; verifiers refuted it, and I agree: the worker's SAB is not shared with the parent, soAtomics.notifypolling is not available in this design, and the comment naming why no observable signal exists is present (commit d3fc0de added it). Terminate landing before the park "must pass too" per the comment, so the test is correct on the fixed build regardless of timing; on the unfixed build the 100ms delay makes the hang effectively deterministic. - The test guards against a spurious wake: a second "woke …" message hits the
m !== 'parking'branch, printsunexpected …, and exits 1, so the sorted-stdout assertion and theexitCode === 0assertion both fail. - CodeRabbit's inline comment (posted after the clarifying commit) suggests redesigning around a shared SAB + notify poll. That is a reasonable alternative but a stylistic call, not a correctness bug — leaving it for the author/human reviewer to decide.
…ifetimes; WebKit bump for Atomics.wait (#38457) ### What does this PR do? Follow-up to #38436 with further fixes for stopping a worker (`worker.terminate()`, or `process.exit()` inside it) while it still has native work in flight. **`terminate()` during the `'beforeExit'` re-run of the loop is acted on.** After a worker's loop drains it emits `'beforeExit'` and, if the listeners scheduled more work, re-runs the loop until idle. That inner drain only watched for idleness: a `terminate()` arriving during it closed the VM's gate and woke the loop, but nothing there checked for the stop, so the loop went back to sleep — and because a stopped VM no longer has completions delivered to it, the in-flight work (e.g. a `fetch`) never released it. The worker slept forever and `terminate()` never settled (Node exits the worker within milliseconds). The drain now ends as soon as the stop is requested, as the worker's main loop already does; teardown cancels what is left in flight. **`node:path`'s binding creator checks for an exception before storing each `createPath()` result.** `createNodePathBinding()` passed `Zig::createPath()`'s result straight into `putDirectIndex()` and checked the scope only afterwards; `createPath()` returns `nullptr` when its own `RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION` fires (a worker terminated while its entry point is materialising `node:path`), and `putDirectIndex()` then inspected a null cell. The other object-building lazy binding creators were audited for the same pattern; this was the only instance. **JSC's termination-request flag is kept set for as long as a stopped worker's TerminationException is kept pending.** Bun deliberately leaves the TerminationException that unwound a stopped worker's script pending until teardown, while it finishes draining the current loop tick. JSC resets `VM::hasTerminationRequest()` when the outermost `VMEntryScope` exits and expects the two to agree while the exception is pending — its own clients never keep the exception past that point without also ceasing to touch the VM (WebCore's worker run loop runs no further task once terminating). Host code that ran in the rest of the tick and initialised a lazy structure (building an error or result object) therefore tripped `VMTraps::deferTerminationSlow()`'s `ASSERT(vm.hasTerminationRequest())` on debug builds and had the pending termination silently dropped on release builds. The invariant is now kept on our side, next to where it was already maintained for teardown (`Zig__GlobalObject__forbidExecution` / `Bun__GlobalObject__clearExceptionsForExit`): when a call into JSC comes back with the TerminationException pending and the request already reset, it is set again — on the cold error arm of every Rust→JSC exception-check boundary (the generated `*_is_throw` wrappers and the C++ shim behind `return_if_exception()`), in the timer callback landing frame, and in the microtask drain. **WebKit bump: `worker.terminate()` stops a worker blocked in `Atomics.wait()`** (oven-sh/WebKit@f0f60fd23248, oven-sh/WebKit#432). A worker parked in `Atomics.wait()` / wasm `memory.atomic.wait` with no timeout could not be terminated — the terminate promise never settled and the thread leaked; Node stops such a worker immediately. `WaiterListManager::waitSyncImpl`'s wake-up predicate only looked at `VM::hasTerminationRequest()`, which since the last upstream merge is only ever set by the parked thread itself, so the notify woke it and it parked again; the wake-up is also delivered under the waiter's lock now so it cannot be lost where VM traps are polled (Windows). Sync-over-async worker pools (synckit, Prettier/eslint plugins, piscina's Atomics mode) park exactly there. Fixes #32802. **Errors built for a stopped worker are always objects.** Every `ERR::*` helper, `Bun__createErrorWithCode` and the WebStreams code throw or reject with what `Bun::createError()` returns; it built the error through `ErrorInstance::create(JSGlobalObject*, …)`, which converts the message first and hands back `nullptr` when that conversion is interrupted — and now that a stopped worker keeps draining its tick with its TerminationException pending, sites like `ERR::OUT_OF_RANGE` (zlib option validation), `writableStreamDefaultWriterRelease`'s "released" error and the `Response`/`Request` body readers passed that null to `ThrowScope::throwException` / `JSPromise::rejectedPromise` (SEGV inspecting a null cell). `ErrorCodeCache::createError` now converts message/`cause` itself and constructs through the infallible `VM&` overload (the termination stays pending for the caller; anything else thrown while building the message becomes the error, as before), and `JSC__JSPromise__rejectedPromise` returns an inert promise if it is ever handed an empty value. **Prime generation gives up once its worker has been asked to stop.** `crypto.generatePrime()`/`generatePrimeSync()`/`checkPrime()`/`checkPrimeSync()` with `safe: true` or awkward `add`/`rem` constraints can run for minutes; a worker's teardown waits for its pool jobs and the sync forms cannot observe a termination at all, so `terminate()` / `process.exit()` hung for as long as BoringSSL took. The `BN_GENCB` progress callback (a `return true` stub with a TODO) now returns whether the VM the work is for may still run script, aborting the generation as soon as the stop is requested — where Node checks `is_stopping()`. A failed/aborted generation is reported as `ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED` rather than converting a half-made BIGNUM (`checkPrimeSync` previously returned `true` for `BN_is_prime_ex`'s -1). Key-pair generation goes through `EVP_PKEY_keygen`, which has no progress hook in BoringSSL, and pbkdf2/scrypt/argon2 with extreme parameters have none either (as in Node); those still make the teardown wait. **A streaming fetch's teardown no longer writes into a freed response stream source** (worker exit; heap-use-after-free WRITE under ASAN). With both a streaming request body (its sink cell holds the FetchTasklet) and a JS-touched `response.body` (a ByteStream source owned by the stream's source cell) alive at exit, the VM's last sweep destroys cells in no particular order and the tasklet unhooked itself as the stream's producer through the ReadableStream wrapper into a source that sweep had already freed. The tasklet now holds a counted ref on the source while it is its producer and unhooks through that, touching no JS cell (which also lets the Response weak-finalizer path unhook instead of skipping it). **Subprocess: no pending-activity bookkeeping once the wrapper is finalized.** A worker exiting while a spawned child still had a pending pipe-backed stdin (a Blob the child never read — the default stdin path on Windows) finalized the Subprocess in the last sweep; `finalize()` marks the wrapper finalized and then closes stdio, whose close path re-evaluated pending activity and tried to re-root the dead wrapper (debug assert). **valkey: `close()` returns what a half-open socket's `onclose` left pending instead of folding it.** `close()` runs the close event itself for a half-open socket and folded the result on the spot, but it is also reached beneath frames that go on to return their own `Err` (`fail_with_js_value`, the HELLO-failure path, `fail_handshake`); a dispatcher fold beneath a frame that still propagates can take the exception that frame's `Err` refers to, and the timer fold above then finds nothing pending. Callers now sequence the result with their own and only the deferred-close task folds. ### How did you verify your code works? New tests in `test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts`: a worker whose `'beforeExit'` listener starts a `fetch()` to a server that never answers and tells the parent, which then calls `terminate()`; it must settle with exit code 1. Times out without the change, passes with it (release and debug). Also checked that the natural `'beforeExit'` cycle (listener re-scheduling work N times, then `'exit'`) and `process.exit()` from a `'beforeExit'` listener behave as before and as in Node. The `node:path` change has no dedicated test (termination-timing window only); `node:path` in the main thread and in a worker still behaves. For the termination flag: (debug only) workers that start a refused redis connect in the same immediate tick as `process.exit()` must exit cleanly — asserts in `deferTerminationSlow` 3/3 without the change, passes with it; the earlier `Bun.serve`-in-a-stopped-worker repro from #38436 also stays clean with that PR's server-side gate disabled, i.e. the flag maintenance alone covers it. For the WebKit bump: `terminate()` of a worker blocked in `Atomics.wait(i32, 0, 0)` must complete with exit code 1 — times out on the previous pin, passes now (this ran green on every platform, Windows included, as #38447 before being folded in here). Prime generation: `terminate()` of workers grinding `generatePrimeSync(2048, {safe})`, `generatePrime(2048, {safe})` and a 200-round `checkPrime` of a 4423-bit Mersenne prime resolves promptly (times out on the current release binary). Streaming-request-body fetches with touched `response.body` at worker exit: heap-use-after-free 3/3 before, clean after (new test). Blob-stdin child at worker exit with `BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_MEMFD`: asserts before, clean after (new test). --------- Co-authored-by: autofix-ci[bot] <114827586+autofix-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
What does this PR do?
Bumps WebKit to oven-sh/WebKit@f0f60fd23248 (oven-sh/WebKit#432):
worker.terminate()could not stop a worker parked inAtomics.wait()/ wasmmemory.atomic.waitwith no timeout — the terminate promise never settled and the thread leaked; Node stops such a worker immediately.WaiterListManager::waitSyncImpl's wake-up predicate only looked atVM::hasTerminationRequest(), which since the last upstream merge is only ever set by the parked thread itself, so the notify woke it and it parked again. Sync-over-async worker pools (synckit, Prettier/eslint plugins, piscina's Atomics mode) park exactly there. The wake-up is also delivered under the waiter's lock now, so it cannot be lost on platforms that poll VM traps (Windows).Fixes #32802
How did you verify your code works?
New test in
test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts:terminate()of a worker blocked inAtomics.wait(i32, 0, 0)must complete with exit code 1 — times out on the previous pin, passes with this one; the branch's earlier CI run against the same JSC change (as a preview build) was green on every platform including Windows.