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Worker teardown: more fixes from fuzzing terminate()/process.exit() lifetimes; WebKit bump for Atomics.wait - #38457

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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.

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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).

…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
…y 'beforeExit'

After a worker's loop drains naturally it emits 'beforeExit' and, if the
listeners scheduled more work, re-runs the loop until it is idle again.
That inner drain only watched for idleness. A worker.terminate() (or a
process.exit() from a listener) arriving during it closed the VM's gate
and woke the loop, but nothing there looked at the stop: the loop went
back to sleep, and since a stopped VM no longer has completions delivered
to it, the in-flight work never released it — the worker slept forever and
terminate() never settled. The drain now ends as soon as the stop is
requested, like the worker's main loop does; teardown cancels what is
still in flight.
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Worker termination now preserves VM termination requests across exception paths. Exit draining and crypto operations stop when script execution is forbidden. Native stream and subprocess lifetime handling, Valkey error propagation, binding checks, and regression tests were updated.

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Termination handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Termination request preservation
src/jsc/TopExceptionScope.rs, src/jsc/bindings/..., src/codegen/cppbind.ts
Exception, callback, microtask, promise, and generated-wrapper paths preserve VM termination requests.
Exit-drain termination guard and stream cleanup
src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs
Exit draining stops when script_allowed() is false. Fetch tasklets retain and release native ByteStream sources during cleanup.
Crypto operation termination
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoPrimes.*
Synchronous and asynchronous prime operations use VM-aware cancellation and report ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED after termination.
Worker lifetime and binding guards
test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts, src/runtime/api/bun/subprocess.rs, src/jsc/JSRef.rs, src/jsc/bindings/Path.cpp
Worker lifetime tests cover shutdown during asynchronous, native, Atomics, crypto, subprocess, and fetch activity. Finalized wrappers skip activity updates, and path binding construction checks exceptions.
Error conversion and WebKit pin
src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp, scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts
Error conversion handles pending exceptions before construction. The WebKit version pin changes to commit f0f60fd2324817dae9656d8bf2fcae25ceaccc37.

Valkey error propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Valkey close and disconnect results
src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs
close and disconnect now return JsResult<()> and propagate cleanup errors.
Valkey failure and deferred cleanup
src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs
Handshake, TLS failure, deferred close, and JavaScript disconnect paths combine and forward close results.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #32802 by enabling termination of workers blocked in Atomics.wait and preserving normal worker exit behavior.
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LGTM — small, well-scoped follow-up to #38436.

What was reviewed:

  • The new !script_allowed() guard in on_before_exit's inner drain mirrors the worker main loop's has_requested_terminate() checks (web_worker.rs:935/943) and the guard already in dispatch_on_before_exit (VirtualMachine.rs:613).
  • Checked the other on_before_exit callers (run/repl/test on the main thread): script_allowed() only goes false there via process.exit(), where returning early is correct; the outer re-dispatch path is also covered since dispatch_on_before_exit itself guards on the same flag.
  • Test is hermetic (local never-answering Bun.serve), drains pipes concurrently, sorts output for order-independence between the exit event and terminate() resolution, and the m !== 'draining' branch doubles as a negative check that the worker's own process.on('exit') does not fire on terminate.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Single 7-line addition to VirtualMachine::on_before_exit() in src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs: a !self.script_allowed() early-return at the top of the inner while self.is_event_loop_alive() drain loop. One new ~35-line test in test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts exercising worker.terminate() landing while the worker is re-running its loop for work scheduled by a 'beforeExit' listener.

Security risks

None. This is a shutdown/liveness fix — it makes a stuck drain loop bail out sooner when the VM has already been stopped. No new inputs are parsed, no security checks are relaxed.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. on_before_exit is shared by the main-thread bun run/bun -e/repl/test paths and the worker path, so I checked all callers. On the main thread script_allowed() only flips via process.exit(), at which point returning early is correct (and dispatch_on_before_exit at line 613 already applies the same guard, so the re-dispatch arm was already a no-op in that state — this only shortens the path). On the worker path this is exactly the missing symmetry with the main worker loop at web_worker.rs:933-945, which checks has_requested_terminate() after each tick()/auto_tick_active(). The check's placement at the top of the iteration is sufficient: terminate() wakes auto_tick_active(), the loop iterates, and either this guard or the fall-through to the already-guarded dispatch_on_before_exit ends the drain.

Other factors

The test follows the file's established conventions (spawned subprocess, bunEnv, concurrent pipe drain, exact output assertion). It's hermetic — the hanging fetch targets a local Bun.serve({port:0}) that never responds, so no external network and no fixed sleep. The mechanism traced in the PR description matches the code: a stopped VM's completions are refused (job.rs:455), so the in-flight fetch would never release the loop, and the pre-fix inner drain had no other exit condition. Direct follow-up to #38436 by the same pattern; no outstanding reviewer comments.

…ath() result

createNodePathBinding() passed Zig::createPath()'s result straight into
putDirectIndex() and only checked the scope afterwards. createPath()
returns nullptr when its own RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION fires — reachable when a
worker is terminated while its entry point is materialising node:path —
and putDirectIndex() then inspected a null cell. Hoist both results and
check before storing. The other object-building lazy binding creators
were audited for the same pattern; this was the only instance. No
dedicated test: the window is only reachable by termination timing.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Both native changes are small and follow established patterns, but since they sit in the VM teardown / on_before_exit path (shared by the main thread and workers), a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • on_before_exit guard mirrors the same script_allowed() check already used by dispatch_on_before_exit and the worker main loop; request_termination()stop() flips state to Stopping, so the guard fires as described.
  • createNodePathBinding now checks the scope between createPath() and putDirectIndex(); createPath does return {} under RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION, so the null-cell hazard was real.
  • New test is hermetic (local Bun.serve({port:0})), drains pipes concurrently, and sorts the two output lines; the missing per-test timeout was considered and looks fine for a single-worker case.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Two small native fixes plus one regression test, following up on #38436's worker-teardown fuzzing:

  • src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs: adds an if !self.script_allowed() { return; } bail inside the on_before_exit inner drain loop so a terminate() (or process.exit() from a listener) that lands while the loop is re-running for beforeExit-scheduled work actually ends the drain instead of sleeping forever on completions that will never be delivered.
  • src/jsc/bindings/Path.cpp: splits putDirectIndex(..., Zig::createPath(...)) into a stored result + RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION before the store, for both posix and win32, so a termination-thrown createPath can't hand nullptr to putDirectIndex.
  • test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts: a new test where a worker's beforeExit starts a never-answered fetch, signals the parent, and the parent terminate()s; asserts terminate() settles with code 1 and the worker's exit event fires.

Security risks

None. No untrusted-input parsing, auth, crypto, or permission surfaces are touched. The Path.cpp change tightens exception handling; the VM change only adds an early return on an existing state predicate.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The diff is tiny and both changes follow patterns already present a few lines away (the script_allowed() guard at dispatch_on_before_exit and in the worker main loop; standard RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION sequencing). But on_before_exit runs on every VM's shutdown path — main thread and workers alike — so any behavior change there is worth a maintainer's eyes even when it looks obviously correct. I traced WebWorker::request_terminationVmHandle::stop() → state Open→Stopping, which is exactly what script_allowed() reads, and confirmed createPath has its own RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION returning {}, so the mechanisms match the PR description.

Other factors

The regression test follows the file's conventions (subprocess spawn, concurrent pipe drain, hermetic local server, exact stdout assertion). It omits the file's shared timeout third arg used by the heavier sibling tests; since it spawns a single worker rather than dozens, the default timeout should hold under debug/ASAN — this was raised as a candidate concern and ruled out. Given the area's recent churn (#38436 and predecessors) and its history of subtle races, I'm deferring rather than approving so someone familiar with the ongoing worker-teardown work can confirm the early return doesn't skip anything the caller of on_before_exit still expects to have happened.

…er's TerminationException is kept pending

A worker that is stopped (terminate(), or its own process.exit()) keeps
draining the current loop tick, and Bun deliberately leaves the
TerminationException that unwound its script pending until teardown
clears or re-arms it, so that nothing re-enters JS meanwhile. JSC, on the
other hand, resets VM::hasTerminationRequest() when the outermost
VMEntryScope exits and expects "TerminationException pending =>
termination request set" — 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.

Keep the invariant on our side, where we already maintain it for teardown
(Zig__GlobalObject__forbidExecution / Bun__GlobalObject__clearExceptionsForExit):
when a call into JSC comes back with the TerminationException pending and
the request already reset, set it again. Done on the (cold) error arm of
the FFI exception wrappers every Rust->JSC call goes through, in the timer
callback landing frame, and in the microtask drain.
…tion-fixes

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it touches the JSC termination-exception invariant at every Rust→JSC FFI error boundary and the worker VM's beforeExit drain, a human look would still be worthwhile.

Checked: script_allowed() stays true on the main thread so the new on_before_exit guard only affects stopped workers/process.exit(); the Path.cpp reorder correctly gates putDirectIndex behind the createPath exception check; thrown() is on the cold arm only so the added FFI hop is exception-path-only; the new C++ helper is idempotent (only sets the flag when the exception is pending and the flag was cleared).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Follow-up to #38436 with three worker-termination fixes: (1) VirtualMachine::on_before_exit's inner drain now bails when script_allowed() goes false, so terminate() landing during work scheduled by a 'beforeExit' listener no longer sleeps forever; (2) createNodePathBinding splits the createPath() result out and RETURN_IF_EXCEPTIONs before putDirectIndex, avoiding a null-cell store when termination fires mid-materialisation; (3) a new Bun__VM__keepTerminationRequestWithPendingException re-arms JSC's hasTerminationRequest flag whenever a call comes back with the TerminationException still pending — wired into the cold error arm of every call_*_is_throw* FFI wrapper in TopExceptionScope.rs, the timer callback landing frame, and all three termination-exception branches of GlobalObject::drainMicrotasks. Two new tests cover the beforeExit hang and the DeferTermination assert.

Security risks

None. Purely internal VM/exception-handling lifecycle; no user-controlled input, parsing, auth, or network surface.

Level of scrutiny

High. The termination-flag maintenance changes the error path of every generated Rust→JSC FFI wrapper and encodes an assumption about how JSC's VMEntryScope / VMTraps::deferTerminationSlow invariant should be kept when Bun deliberately holds a TerminationException past the entry that raised it. The PR description is thorough and the mechanism is plausible, but whether these three call sites (FFI wrappers, timer landing, microtask drain) are the complete set of "entry has just returned with an exception" points — versus, say, EventLoop::run_callback or other C++ landing frames — is the kind of judgment that benefits from someone who knows the prior #38436 work and JSC's termination model. The on_before_exit guard also runs on the main thread; I confirmed script_allowed() stays true there in normal operation, so no regression, but the interaction with process.exit() from a beforeExit listener (mentioned in the comment) is worth a second set of eyes.

Other factors

The Path.cpp change is a mechanical exception-check reorder matching the repo's "RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION before using the result" rule — that piece alone would be auto-approvable. The new thrown() helper is #[cold] #[inline(never)] and only reached when the FFI callee already threw, so no hot-path cost. Tests follow harness conventions (subprocess spawn, drain all pipes concurrently, local Bun.serve({ port: 0 }) for the never-answering server, skipIf(!isDebug) for the assert-only repro). No prior human review comments to address; CI build still in progress at time of review.

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1599-1605: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Check script_allowed() again after self.tick().

self.tick() can run a listener that starts worker termination or calls process.exit(). If that happens, self.auto_tick_active() still runs once before the next loop guard. This can dispatch queued native completions after termination begins.

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                 }
                 self.tick();
+                if !self.script_allowed() {
+                    return;
+                }
                 self.auto_tick_active();
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In `@src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs` around lines 1599 - 1605, Update the drain loop
around self.tick() to recheck self.script_allowed() immediately after ticking
and return before calling self.auto_tick_active() when termination has begun;
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In `@src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs`:
- Around line 1599-1605: Update the drain loop around self.tick() to recheck
self.script_allowed() immediately after ticking and return before calling
self.auto_tick_active() when termination has begun; preserve the existing loop
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  • src/jsc/bindings/NodeTimerObject.cpp
  • src/jsc/bindings/Path.cpp
  • src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp
  • src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp
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…fter tick() in the beforeExit drain

- JSC__JSPromise__rejectedPromise: an empty value means building the
  rejection value threw — in practice a stopped worker's pending
  TerminationException cutting error creation short (Response body
  readers rejecting with a body's stored error, `.err(...).reject()`).
  That exception is what the caller's frame reports; return an inert
  promise instead of handing JSPromise::reject a null cell.
- on_before_exit: a listener run by tick() can itself request the stop;
  check again before auto_tick_active() so nothing more is dispatched in
  that turn, as the worker's main loop does.
… into claude/worker-thread-fixes-2

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@dylan-conway dylan-conway changed the title Worker teardown: more fixes from fuzzing terminate()/process.exit() lifetimes Worker teardown: more fixes from fuzzing terminate()/process.exit() lifetimes; WebKit bump for Atomics.wait Aug 14, 2026
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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
JSValue first and hands back nullptr when that conversion is interrupted —
now that a stopped worker keeps draining its tick with its
TerminationException pending, any of those sites could be handed nothing
and pass it to ThrowScope::throwException / JSPromise::rejectedPromise
(SEGV inspecting a null cell: ERR::OUT_OF_RANGE from zlib option
validation, writableStreamDefaultWriterRelease's "released" error, body
readers).

Convert the message and `cause` in ErrorCodeCache::createError itself and
construct through the VM& overload, which cannot fail: a pending
TerminationException stays pending for the caller's frame and the
(message-less) error is still made; anything else thrown while building
the message becomes the error, as before.
…sked to stop

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 worker.terminate() / process.exit() in the worker
hung for as long as BoringSSL took. The BN_GENCB progress callback (a
`return true` stub until now) returns whether the VM the work is for may
still run script, which aborts the generation as soon as the stop is
requested — Node checks is_stopping() at the same point. A failed or
aborted generation/check is reported as ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED
instead of converting a half-made BIGNUM (checkPrimeSync previously
returned `true` for BN_is_prime_ex's -1).
Comment thread src/jsc/TopExceptionScope.rs
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dylan-conway and others added 2 commits August 14, 2026 13:58
…not just the four call_*_at helpers

The generated `zero/false/null_is_throw` wrappers inline their bodies and
returned Err(JsError::Thrown) directly, and every `check_slow` wrapper and
hand-written `top_scope!` site goes through return_if_exception(), so most
Rust->JSC boundaries still came back from a TerminationException without
re-marking VM::hasTerminationRequest(). The generated wrappers now return
through top_exception_scope::thrown(), and the C++ shim behind
exception_including_traps()/return_if_exception() re-marks the request when
the exception it observes is the termination. Also give the beforeExit
drain test the file's timeout like its siblings.

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In `@src/codegen/cppbind.ts`:
- Line 742: Update the generated check_slow wrapper flow around
__scope.return_if_exception? so termination exceptions are converted through
top_exception_scope::thrown(${gname}) rather than returned directly as
JsError::Thrown. Preserve the existing Err/Ok branching and ensure termination
requests retain the VM termination-request flag.

In `@src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs`:
- Around line 1607-1609: Recheck script_allowed() immediately after the inner
drain/auto_tick_active() loop becomes inactive and before the beforeExit
redispatch; return early when it is false, while preserving the existing
dispatch behavior when scripts remain allowed.
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  • scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts
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  • src/jsc/bindings/TopExceptionScopeBinding.cpp
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…ized

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,
BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_MEMFD elsewhere) finalized the Subprocess during
the VM's last sweep; finalize() marks `this_value` finalized and then
closes stdio, and the stdin writer's close path re-evaluated pending
activity and tried to re-root the dead wrapper (JsRef::upgrade on
Finalized: debug assert; a no-op in release). update_has_pending_activity()
now returns once the JsRef is finalized — there is nothing left to keep
alive or release.
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…equest too (assert_no_exception_except_termination, promise wrap/then boundaries)

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I reviewed this PR across three rounds and the earlier findings (codegen'd *_is_throw wrappers bypassing thrown(), return_if_exception()/pureException not re-marking the termination request, two tests missing the file's timeout) have all been addressed; this run found nothing new. Because the change spans the Rust↔C++ exception-check boundary that every generated FFI wrapper goes through, alters ErrorCodeCache::createError's construction path, captures clientData for a cross-thread BoringSSL progress callback, and bumps WebKit, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Termination-request maintenance now covers every Rust exception observer: thrown(), exceptionIncludingTraps, pureException, the codegen'd *_is_throw arm, drainMicrotasks, and the timer-callback landing frame.
  • ErrorCodeCache::createError still leaves a TerminationException pending and still surfaces a non-termination throw (OOM / throwing cause getter) as the error, now via the infallible VM& overload so callers always get an object.
  • whileScriptAllowed() reads only clientData->scriptAllowed() from the pool thread; the four call sites (sync/async × generate/check) all report failure as ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED instead of a half-made result.
  • update_has_pending_activity early-returns once this_value is Finalized, so finalize()'s stdio close no longer trips JsRef::upgrade's debug assert.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Follow-up to #38436 with six independent worker-teardown fixes found by fuzzing terminate()/process.exit(), plus a WebKit bump. Fifteen files: the 'beforeExit' re-drain now checks script_allowed() (VirtualMachine.rs); createNodePathBinding checks the scope between createPath() and putDirectIndex() (Path.cpp); JSC's hasTerminationRequest() flag is kept set for as long as Bun keeps the TerminationException pending, at every Rust exception-check boundary and in drainMicrotasks/timer landing (TopExceptionScope.rs, TopExceptionScopeBinding.cpp, cppbind.ts, ZigGlobalObject.cpp, NodeTimerObject.cpp, bindings.cpp); ErrorCodeCache::createError and the non-Zig createError overload always return an object (ErrorCode.cpp); JSC__JSPromise__rejectedPromise returns an inert promise for an empty value (bindings.cpp); prime generation/checking aborts once the VM is asked to stop and reports -1 as ERR_CRYPTO_OPERATION_FAILED (CryptoPrimes.cpp/h); Subprocess::update_has_pending_activity bails once this_value is finalized (subprocess.rs, JSRef.rs); WebKit is bumped for the Atomics.wait termination fix (webkit.ts). Five new subprocess-spawning tests cover each behaviour.

Security risks

None identified. The crypto change touches prime generation's progress callback, not any verification, key, or TLS path — it only makes an unbounded computation abortable. The lambda captures WebCore::clientData(vm) (a per-VM pointer) and reads scriptAllowed() from a pool thread; the comment asserts that read is thread-safe, which matches how Node checks is_stopping() in the same callback, but the lifetime of clientData relative to the pool job is the kind of claim a maintainer should confirm.

Level of scrutiny

High. The termination-request maintenance is threaded through the shared FFI exception-check machinery (TopExceptionScope__pureException/exceptionIncludingTraps, the codegen'd *_is_throw wrappers, the four call_*_at bodies) — a mistake there affects every Rust→C++ call site. ErrorCodeCache::createError is called by every ERR::* helper and Bun__createErrorWithCode; its construction path is rewritten to convert message/cause manually and use the VM& overload. The WebKit bump changes WaiterListManager::waitSyncImpl's wake-up predicate and locking. These are all core-runtime, cross-thread, GC-adjacent paths.

Other factors

I left three rounds of inline findings on earlier revisions (the codegen'd wrappers bypassing thrown(); return_if_exception() and then pureException not re-marking the termination request; two tests missing the file's timeout). Each was addressed in a follow-up commit (06a36ca, 0743d0e, 3f9e935, 9fcb814) and every thread is resolved. The bug-hunting pass on the current head (8baa168) found nothing further. The PR is well-tested for the class of bug it fixes (each behaviour has a subprocess-spawning test that hangs/asserts on the previous build), but the breadth — six distinct mechanisms plus a dependency bump — and the sensitivity of the shared exception-scope path put it outside what I would approve without a maintainer's read.

…ducing into it

A worker exiting with a fetch that had 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) hit a
heap-use-after-free WRITE: the VM's last sweep destroys cells in no
particular order, and the tasklet's teardown unhooked itself as the
stream's producer by going through the ReadableStream wrapper to a source
that sweep had already freed. The tasklet now takes a counted ref on the
source when it becomes its producer and unhooks/releases through that,
touching no JS cell — which also lets the Response weak-finalizer path
unhook instead of skipping it.
…g instead of folding it

For a half-open socket close() runs the close event itself, and folded the
result on the spot — but close() 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 ("exception cleared before it could be read",
seen from the connection-timeout/reconnect timer arms on an exiting
worker). close()/disconnect() now return the result; callers sequence it
with their own (Result::and) and only the deferred-close task folds.
…_call)

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In `@test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts`:
- Around line 927-929: Update the worker fetch setup around the promise chain
that accesses r.body so each worker reports readiness only after successfully
obtaining and reading the response body, and propagate pre-ready fetch errors
instead of swallowing them. Track readiness for every worker and accept the “all
exited” result only after all workers have reported ready, ensuring the fixture
exercises the response-stream lifetime path.
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I reviewed this revision and the automated pass found no further issues — the earlier findings (termination-request preservation across all Rust exception-check boundaries including pureException, test timeouts, dead _from_finalizer parameter, streaming-fetch test proof-of-state) are all addressed. Given the scope — eight distinct lifetime/teardown fixes across JSC exception machinery, FetchTasklet/ByteStream refcounting, VirtualMachine drain, valkey close() propagation, plus a WebKit bump — a human look is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

  • keepTerminationRequest now covers both exceptionIncludingTraps and pureException, so codegen'd wrappers, return_if_exception(), and assert_no_exception_except_termination() callers all re-mark the flag.
  • FetchTasklet's new counted ref on the ByteStream Source: on_readable_stream_available clears any prior handlers first, and clear_stream_handlers is the sole release site — no double-decrement path found.
  • ErrorCodeCache::createError's reworked termination handling: non-object thrown values now fall through to the infallible VM& overload rather than uncheckedDowncast<JSObject> on a non-object.
  • valkey close()JsResult refactor: checked that every caller either propagates via .and() or folds at a trampoline; fail_with_js_value's not-ready branch closes unconditionally regardless of the reject result.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR bundles eight distinct worker-teardown fixes discovered by fuzzing terminate()/process.exit() lifetimes, plus a WebKit pin bump. It touches 18 files across the JSC exception-check codegen (cppbind.ts, TopExceptionScope.rs, TopExceptionScopeBinding.cpp), the VM event loop (VirtualMachine.rs beforeExit drain), error construction (ErrorCode.cpp, bindings.cpp), fetch streaming lifetime (FetchTasklet.rs — new counted ref on the response ByteStream Source), subprocess finalize (subprocess.rs, JSRef.rs), crypto prime cancellation (CryptoPrimes.cpp/.h), valkey close-result propagation (js_valkey.rs, valkey.rs), node:path binding exception ordering, timer/microtask termination-flag maintenance (NodeTimerObject.cpp, ZigGlobalObject.cpp), and ~270 lines of new tests.

Security risks

None identified. The changes are teardown/lifetime correctness, not input validation or auth. CryptoPrimes gains a cancellation hook and proper -1 handling for BN_is_prime_ex (previously returned true on error), which is a correctness improvement, not a new attack surface.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is exactly the category REVIEW.md calls out as most-blocked: GC-visible refcounting (response_stream_source in FetchTasklet), finalizer-path guards (Subprocess is_finalized()), exception-state invariants maintained across every Rust→C++ boundary via a codegen change, and a WebKit engine bump. Each fix individually is small and well-reasoned in the PR description, but the interaction surface (a stopped worker's TerminationException now kept pending with the request flag re-set at every observation point) is broad and subtle. The valkey close() signature change from () to JsResult<()> reorders error propagation through .and() chains at four call sites — the kind of refactor where a missed ? vs .and() silently swallows an error.

Other factors

Four prior review rounds (mine and CodeRabbit's) surfaced real gaps — the termination-request flag was initially only maintained in one of several exception-check paths, and each round found another. All threads are now resolved and this run's bug hunt found nothing further. The PR has thorough test coverage (six new tests, each with a stated fails-before/passes-after claim), but several fixes are debug-assert-only or timing-window-only and rely on the author's fuzzing verification. The WebKit bump alone warrants a maintainer sanity check. Not a candidate for auto-approval.

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GeneratePrimeJobCtx::runFromJS asserted `result.isEmpty() == !!scope.exception()`
and converted whatever was pending into the callback's `err`. A stopped
worker's termination can be raised by a trap anywhere inside result() —
including after the ArrayBuffer was made — so both sides can be true at
once (seen as that EXCEPTION_ASSERT firing on a worker erroring out ~10 ms
in with prime jobs completing). Now: a pending termination is left for
then() to propagate; any other pending exception is the job's own failure
and becomes `err`, as before.
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While closing out #32802 I checked main at 97a4363 against both shapes from that PR. Besides the direct terminate() case tested here, process.exit() in a worker whose own child worker is parked in Atomics.wait() (the exiting worker's teardown joining the parked child, which also hung before this) now completes as well, with the same output as Node.

That second shape is not covered by the tests added here. The second test in #32802's diff (worker_threads.test.ts hunk) passes unchanged on main if you want to pick it up; it takes about 8 s on a debug build because of the two nested worker boots, so it fits the timeout used in worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts but not the default one.

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…e-at-landing termination; exit/streams/serve/valkey/Bun.build fixes (#38660)

### What does this PR do?

Third batch of fixes from fuzzing `Worker` / `node:worker_threads`
termination and exit lifetimes (after #38436 and #38457), using
oven-sh/WebKit#440's embedder-scoped termination deadlines (already in
main's WebKit pin) for the node:vm change below.

**`process.exit()` unwinds a termination that became pending while
dispatching `'exit'`.** `Process_functionExit` dispatched the `'exit'`
listeners (which handles VM traps) and then looked up
`process.reallyExit` with no exception check in between; a worker whose
termination had been requested meanwhile carried a pending
TerminationException into `JSObject::get()`, where the first-ever lookup
of the static `reallyExit` reified it (a structure transition) and
reported "not found" because an exception was pending, and the prototype
walk asserted on the stale structure. Checking after the dispatch is
also Node's behaviour for a throwing `'exit'` listener.

**Re-tagging a held `ReadableStream` is pure.**
`readable_stream::Strong::get()` rebuilt the handle by sending the held
value through `ReadableStream::from_js` (the arbitrary-value converter)
via the throwing FFI path, whose exception check polls VM traps like
`RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION` — so "give me the stream I hold" could materialise
a worker's TerminationException right there and drop it
(`.ok().flatten()`), returning `None`/carrying on with the termination
pending. ~20 callers do that; two observed faces: `fetch()`'s
`has()`-then-`get().unwrap()` panicking (`Option::unwrap()` on `None`),
and `new Response(stream)` returning its object with an exception
pending ("allocated memory without checking for exceptions") when a
`terminate()` landed mid-construction. A `JSReadableStream`'s tag lookup
needs no scope at all, so it gets its own pure entry
(`ReadableStreamTag__taggedStream` / `ReadableStream::from_js_direct`,
the same split the generated classes' `from_js`/`from_js_direct` make)
and `Strong::get()` uses it; `fetch.rs`/`Body.rs` are unchanged from
main.


**valkey: a close event's result reaches `close()`'s caller.** On an
established socket uSockets dispatches the close event synchronously
from inside `close()`, and that event's trampoline folded whatever was
pending — including the exception a frame above `close()` was still
holding an `Err` for (`fail_with_js_value()`: reject queued commands,
then close). The timer drain's fold then hit "A JavaScript exception was
thrown, but it was cleared before it could be read" — deterministic with
a connection timeout firing in the tick where the worker's own
`process.exit()` was pending. `close()` now returns `Err` when the close
event left a termination pending (an ordinary `onclose` throw is folded
by the trampoline as any top-level callback's), `onclose` is not entered
on top of a pending exception, and the `in_close`/`close_event_threw`
handshake that laundered the result through the parent is gone.

**node:vm: wall-clock `timeout` on JSC's `TerminationDeadline`; a run's
termination is withdrawn when it ends** (supersedes #38495). `timeout`
used JSC's per-VM `Watchdog` — a CPU-time budget for a whole VM entry
whose timer and deadlines outlived the run that armed them — so a fire
landing after a short run terminated whatever the thread ran next:
main-thread code stopped silently, a worker's entry body was cut short
and its start never completed (a hang), an untimed nested run hit
`RELEASE_ASSERT_NOT_REACHED` in `checkForTermination`, JSC's
`Watchdog::startTimer` asserted when re-armed under a cleared limit, and
once instantiated every later VM entry paid the Watchdog entry-scope
service. Now one `NodeVMRunTermination` per run arms a wall-clock
`VM::addTerminationDeadline()` and, for `breakOnSigint`, holds
`SigintWatcher` as the run's own receiver; `finish()` unregisters, then
classifies: not cut short → nothing touched; the VM being stopped as a
whole (worker `terminate()`/`process.exit()`) → left pending to
propagate; ours → `VM::cancelTermination()`, the context's queued
microtasks discarded, `ERR_SCRIPT_EXECUTION_TIMEOUT` (before SIGINT, as
in Node) or `_INTERRUPTED` thrown, and an enclosing run whose own limit
passed meanwhile re-requested. Along the way: nested runs each keep
their own deadline; a context-less `SourceTextModule`'s `breakOnSigint`
registers a realm at all; a termination that unwound a module's
evaluation but isn't that run's is no longer recorded as the module's
error; `runInThisContext` no longer drops the caller realm's whole
microtask queue on timeout; the timeout is wall-clock like Node's (time
spent blocked counts). The hang half of #31885 is covered by a test here
(its crash half no longer reproduces on main). `SigintWatcher` now keeps
a single receiver list under one lock and records a SIGINT on each
receiver and requests its VM's termination in one step (two lists
signalled in two steps could terminate a run that had no SIGINT
recorded, letting a raw TerminationException escape `vm.runInContext`);
`GlobalObjectHolder` and realm registration are gone. On an
`afterEvaluate` context, microtasks a script left when its synchronous
part timed out run at the next evaluation's checkpoint under that run's
timeout, and a checkpoint that is itself cut short discards the rest —
both as in Node. `Bun.spawnSync`'s blocking fast path is no longer
conditional on a vm timeout: the old guard keyed off JSC's Watchdog,
which nothing arms any more (its bindings are deleted), and neither
spawnSync path is interruptible by the deadline — both throw the timeout
once the child exits, as Node does.

**A TerminationException that has left script is taken at the native/JS
boundary, as WebCore takes it; above that, "the VM has stopped" is a
flag and a `JsError::Terminated`, never a pending exception.** JSC
treats the TerminationException as an unwinding device for the script
frames above it: `VM::m_hasTerminationRequest` is reset when the
outermost `VMEntryScope` exits, `m_exception` is not, and JSC asserts
(`VMTraps::deferTerminationSlow`, `VM::setException`,
`Interpreter::executeCall`'s `assertNoException`) if the embedder is
still holding the exception under the next `DeferTermination` or entry.
WebCore therefore either takes it in the frame that called JS
(`JSExecState::profiledCall`'s `NakedPtr<Exception>` +
`forbidExecution()`) or leaves it pending and stops driving the VM. Bun
did neither: it kept a stopped worker's TerminationException pending
across the rest of the loop turn and all of teardown while continuing to
allocate, convert and call into JSC, re-asserted JSC's request bit
wherever it noticed (`keepTerminationRequest…`), and carved "is what's
pending the termination?" exceptions into every fold and gate that could
meet it — the source of the recurring `deferTerminationSlow` asserts,
"cleared before it could be read" panics and re-entry crashes in the two
previous batches. Now:
- Every Rust read of a pending exception at the FFI layer
(`TopExceptionScope::thrown()` / `return_if_exception()`, i.e. the
throwing FFI wrappers) and the C++ leaves that return to native code
without one (`GlobalObject::drainMicrotasks`, the timer trampoline,
`assignToStream`) apply one policy, `Bun::takeTerminationOutsideScript`:
a TerminationException with no script beneath it (`!vm.isEntered()`) is
the VM's stop arriving at native code — clear it, reset JSC's request
flag as an entry-scope exit would, `setExecutionForbidden()` (WebCore's
`forbidExecution()` at the same point) — and the caller learns
`JsError::Terminated`; beneath script (a host function, a nested tick)
it stays pending as `Thrown` for JSC to unwind, and the frame it lands
in takes it. `keepTerminationRequest…` and the carve-outs are gone.
- `JsError` gains `Terminated` ("already taken; nothing pending; stand
down"). The fold (`report_error_or_terminate` / `dispatch::fold`)
returns `Stopped` for it; `take_exception()` is total (a `Terminated`, a
termination still pending beneath script, or a `Thrown` that lost its
name through an error enum on an execution-forbidden VM all yield the
inert termination cell, which every reporter drops); host-function
trampolines handed `Terminated` rethrow only when there is script above
to unwind; loop level uses `Stopped` / `Stopped::throw`. `tick_turn`
propagates a stop out of every phase instead of probing
`has_exception()`.
- No script is entered on a VM whose stop was requested (any thread: the
script gate) or carried out (this thread: `executionForbidden`):
`clientData(vm)->isJSExecutionForbidden(vm)` gates `Bun__JSValue__call`,
`AsyncContextFrame::call`, EventEmitter's listener loop, the timer
trampoline, `NAPI_PREAMBLE` (Node's `can_call_into_js`,
`napi_cannot_run_js` for module API ≥ 10) and the microtask drain;
`uncaught_exception` / `unhandled_rejection` / socket, ServerWebSocket
and `Bun.serve` error handlers stand down on a stopped VM. A termination
is never turned into a value: `JSC__AnyPromise__wrap` /
`JSC__JSPromise__wrap` no longer reject a promise with a still-pending
TerminationException's string, `JSValue::toError` does not unwrap the
termination cell, `HTMLRewriter`'s handler thunk does not record it as
the handler's error, `NodeVMRunTermination::finish()` re-checks the gate
after `cancelTermination()` so a `terminate()` landing in that window
still wins, and the REPL no longer uses `executionForbidden` (one-way in
JSC) as a Ctrl-C flag.
- `ReadableStream::cancel`/`error` (which enter script) are
exception-checked FFI now and their callers propagate;
`test/internal/source-lints/jsresult-swallow.test.ts` ratchets the
shapes that got us here (discarding the result of a call that enters
script, collapsing a `JsResult` off the call, dropping a taken
exception): 21 grandfathered sites, new ones fail.

**Bun.build plugin requests: one owner, one answer.** An
`onResolve`/`onLoad` request handed to the plugins' VM was co-owned —
linked in the bundle thread's outstanding list and held by the JS side
at once — and when that VM shut down the *bundle* thread fabricated
answers for everything still linked while the JS thread could be
answering the same request; an answer already in flight was failed and
then delivered again (`unreachable!()` in `on_resolve` under a
terminate-during-`Bun.build` stress). Ownership is now linear: once
dispatched, a request belongs to the plugins' thread until that thread
hands it back with its one answer through the bundle thread's queue.
`BundlerPlugin` records what it holds;
`onResolveAsync`/`onLoadAsync`/`addError` forward only for a request
still held (a plugin answering twice is dropped there too);
`tombstone()` — the VM's stop phase — answers everything still held as
cancelled; a hop arriving after that, or released unrun by the dying VM,
is answered as cancelled on that same thread. The bundle thread never
answers a handed-over request: on cancellation it marks the pass, stops
handing requests over (answering later dispatches itself, through its
own queue) and consumes answers until none is pending.
`fail_outstanding_plugin_requests` and the per-request arbitration are
gone. `args.defer()` is refused (`ERR_INVALID_STATE`) once the request
is no longer held — after the callback settled it re-counted the load as
deferred (a build that never finished), and after the build it touched
freed memory.

**`Bun.build` `.defer()`: its notification gets its own queue node, and
the pass waits for the defer hop to come back.** With an `onLoad` that
calls `defer()` without awaiting it and answers straight away: the
deferral notification and the load's answer both used the Load's single
intrusive Mini-queue node, so a second enqueue rewrote/re-linked it (the
notification ran as a second answer — `unreachable` in `on_load` — or
was lost); and the `DeferredBatchTask` hop that resolves the `.defer()`
promises on the plugins' thread is embedded in `BundleV2` with nothing
ordering the pass's completion after it, so the pass finished and freed
`BundleV2` while the hop was still queued (**heap-use-after-free** in
`run_on_js_thread`, on main; in release builds the same accounting error
also surfaced as `panic: int cast: TryFromIntError(NegOverflow)` in
`on_parse_task_complete` on the bundle thread, and — the pass declaring
itself done one ParseTask early — as use-after-frees on the shared parse
pool: reading the freed `BundleV2` in `ParseTask::run_from_thread_pool`,
cloning freed options in `Transpiler::for_worker`, and parsing
plugin-provided contents freed by `deinit_without_freeing_arena`). The
notification now has its own node, and the pass marks the hop
outstanding and is not done until it posts itself back (also from
`release_unrun`).

**Requesting a VM's termination from its own thread no longer releases
the API lock.** `JSC__VM__notifyNeedTermination` dropped and retook the
JS API lock around `VM::notifyNeedTermination()` when the caller held
it; from the VM's own thread inside a host call (a worker terminating
itself on an unhandled rejection reported from within
`process.nextTick`'s drain) the release ran `JSLock::willReleaseLock`'s
microtask checkpoint mid-host-call under a pending exception
(`ExceptionScope::assertNoException`, arbitrary script re-entered).
`VMTraps::fireTrap` is `CONCURRENT_SAFE`; the lock juggling is gone.

**Bun.serve: a request context's microtask checkpoint lands the VM's
termination.** `RequestContext` drains microtasks after calling into
script and then keeps rendering — for a promise/stream body, attaching
its continuation with `then`. When that checkpoint met a worker's
TerminationException the render went on with it pending and JSC asserted
in the reaction setup (`assertNoException` via `JSC__JSValue___then`; on
main too). The drain — a uWS callback's frame — now takes it and reports
the VM stopped, and
`on_response`/`do_render_stream`/`do_render_with_body` leave the request
to the stop's connection close.

**Nothing queued runs after a worker's VM stops.** A worker that called
`process.exit()` (or was terminated) inside a callback still ran that
turn's remaining `process.nextTick` queue and microtasks — script after
`exit()`, which Node never runs — because the stop only closed the gate
for *new* entries while `GlobalObject::drainMicrotasks` kept draining.
The drain now runs nothing once the VM's stop was requested (JSC
discards its own queue the same way under `executionForbidden`), and
HTMLRewriter's shutdown release, which had keyed on "is the VM shutting
down", keys on the closed task queue so parked pipes are still freed.

**HTMLRewriter: a handler promise's reactions report a pending
exception.** `on_handler_resolve`/`on_handler_reject` resume the rewrite
(more handlers, sink writes, stream delivery) or fail the output stream
and then returned `Ok(undefined)` unconditionally; a termination met in
there stayed pending under a returned value ("host fn return/exception
state mismatch" in a worker terminated mid-transform; on main). They
return `Err` when the scope has an exception. And a transform parked on
a handler promise no longer leaks in a worker torn down mid-transform:
its pipe's ref was only ever released from the promise context's GC
destructor, which bails once the VM is shutting down ("the queue won't
drain"), so every parked pipe and its lol-html state leaked (2.2 MB /
9.6k allocations after six terminated workers under LSAN); on a
shutting-down VM the destructor now abandons the pipe inline,
script-free.

**Bun.serve counts a connection from accept, not from the end of the TLS
handshake.** A server keeps its JS wrapper — the handler shadows' only
GC root — Strong until it is drained, then downgrades it to a bare
`Weak` value on the premise that nothing reaches a dispatch trampoline
afterwards. But a TLS connection counted only once its handshake
completed (uWS fires its filter `+1` post-handshake for SSL) so a
handshake in flight when the listener closed could still reach
`onConnection`/request dispatch through whatever the wrapper and shadow
cells had become (UBSAN "member call on null `ClassInfo`" in
`on_connection_callback`; reproducibly on main under
`BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=1`, `JSObject::realm()` assert / SEGV in
`NodeHTTPServer__onRequest` for a TLS request reaching a drained
node:https server in a worker; observable without GC as a graceful
`stop()` answering a mid-handshake TLS client 503). uWS now also fires
an "accepted" filter event pair (`+2` at TCP accept for both transports,
`-2` on close/upgrade) and `NewServer` counts those, so `is_drained()` —
and with it the Strong hold — covers every HTTP/1 socket that can still
reach a handler; `js_value_for_dispatch()` is the script gate alone plus
a debug assertion of that invariant. (HTTP/3 connections are still not
counted; that is left as it is on main.)

**Async-iterable stream sources stand down on a termination.** When the
pump's abrupt completion is the TerminationException,
`takeAbruptCompletion` leaves it pending and returns nothing — "return,
run nothing" everywhere else in the streams port — but the
async-iterable source substituted `undefined` and ran its error tail
(`errorCodeIs` lookups, `iterator.throw(undefined)`) over the pending
termination, walking objects mid-teardown (JSC `object->structure() ==
this` assert with `new Response(gen())` from a worker's `Bun.serve`
handler / async-iterable `fetch()` bodies when `terminate()` lands; on
main). It now drops the iterator and pull promise and lets the
termination propagate.

**Streams tee tolerates a tee whose construction was cut short.** A
branch's start reaction is queued by the branch's construction, before
the tee records it; if construction stops after that (the second branch
throwing, a worker terminated in between), the reaction ran its
pull/close steps against unset branch slots (UBSAN null
`JSReadableStream` in `teeBranchDefaultController`; main's streams
code). The branch-controller helpers now treat a missing branch like a
torn-down one.

### How did you verify your code works?

`worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts`: terminate() workers whose
Bun.serve() renders promise/stream bodies stuck in a microtask (asserted
before); terminate() during HTMLRewriter transforms with async element
handlers (panicked intermittently on release+ASAN before; also the LSAN
check for the parked-pipe leak); terminate() while async-iterable
Response/request bodies are pumped (asserted 4/4 on release+ASAN before,
and printed the termination as an unhandled rejection ~50% of the time
until the wrap/toError changes). `worker-terminate-funnels.test.ts`
(terminate() at every native→JS entry point) passes throughout.
`worker_threads.test.ts`: "nothing queued runs after the worker's VM
stops" (nextTick / microtask / nested shapes; releases run them) and "no
JS entry after a worker's termination has been thrown" — a worker stuck
in a MessagePort or socket-data callback with due timers, immediates,
nextTicks, microtasks, socket data, port deliveries, an interval and an
`'exit'` listener queued sees none of them run after `terminate()`
(releases run the nextTicks/microtasks). `serve.test.ts`: a TLS
connection whose ServerHello is held back until after a graceful
`stop()` is served (503 before the accept accounting).
`test/bundler/bundler_defer.test.ts`: 24 concurrent builds in a busy
worker (and on the main thread) with an un-awaited `defer()` + immediate
answer all succeed (ASAN reported the use-after-free before); `defer()`
after the build settled is refused. `test/js/node/vm/vm.test.ts`:
timeout is wall-clock and leaves nothing armed against the caller; a
timeout that never fires does not accrue over 100 runs; nested runs each
keep their own deadline (inner fires / outer fires / both fired); a
module whose evaluation times out is `errored` and re-`evaluate()`
rethrows; a real SIGINT interrupts only the innermost stuck
`breakOnSigint` run and a listener still sees the next SIGINT; a
throwing option getter surfaces as-is. vm.test.ts (257), Node's
`test-vm-timeout*`/`test-vm-sigint*` (7) and the SourceTextModule
leak/gc tests pass; the fuzz cases behind the watchdog findings (worker
never online after a timed vm run; later code cut short) run clean, as
do the fuzz seeds behind each termination-model signature
(`deferTerminationSlow` assert, "cleared before it could be read",
"Couldn't convert a JavaScript exception", "Expected an exception to be
thrown") on debug and release-ASAN.

The `process.exit()` and fetch changes come from fuzz signatures that
only reproduce under release-ASAN timing; fetch stream/body suites and
the worker fetch tests are unchanged locally.

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### What

`process.report.getReport()` builds its object with `putDirect(vm, name,
constructX(), 0)`. Each `constructX()` helper contains
`RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION`, which services VM traps — so a pending
`worker.terminate()` (or a `node:vm` timeout) is delivered *inside* the
helper and it returns an empty `JSValue`. That empty value was then
handed to `putDirect`, which dereferences it (`SEGV at 0x5` on release,
`member call on null pointer of type 'JSC::JSCell'` under UBSan).

This hoists every helper result into a local, checks the scope, and only
then stores it — in `BunProcess.cpp` (`constructReportObjectComplete`),
`BunProcessReportObjectWindows.cpp`, and the same shape in
`NodeVMModule.cpp` `getModuleRequests`. A source lint
(`test/internal/source-lints/putdirect-unchecked-helper.test.ts`) keeps
new `putDirect(..., helper(), ...)` sites from reappearing in these
files.

(The `node:path` binding half of the original PR has since landed on
main via #38457; after rebasing only the report/vm-module sites remain,
hence the retitle.)

### Repro (before)

```js
const { Worker } = require("worker_threads");
const source = 'require("worker_threads").parentPort.postMessage("busy"); for (;;) process.report.getReport();';
let exited = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
  const worker = new Worker(source, { eval: true });
  worker.on("message", () => worker.terminate());
  worker.on("exit", () => { if (++exited === 3) console.log("exited", exited); });
}
```

ASan release build: `AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address
0x000000000005`; debug build: UBSan null `JSCell` member call. After:
prints `exited 3`.

### Tests

- `test/js/node/process/process.test.js` — "process.report.getReport()
interrupted by worker.terminate()" (fails on main, passes here)
- `test/internal/source-lints/putdirect-unchecked-helper.test.ts`

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**no test proof** · iteration 1 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/js/node/process/process.test.js

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