Bun.file(buffer) / async fs: hold the path buffer's backing store instead of rooting the JS object

[dylan-conway]

What does this PR do?

Bun.file() and node:fs accept Buffer/Uint8Array paths and borrow them zero-copy. Two things were wrong with how that borrow was kept alive past the call:

• Bun.file(buf): the file store protect()ed the buffer's JS object and pinned it for the Blob's lifetime. The protect was never released (every call rooted the buffer forever), and the unpin ran from the JSBlob GC destructor via the JSValue — touching a JS cell mid-sweep. Debug builds assert (validateIsNotSweeping ← JSC__JSValue__unpinArrayBuffer):

  for (let i = 0; i < 2000; i++) Bun.file(Buffer.from("/tmp/p" + i));
  Bun.gc(true); // ASSERTION FAILED ... mutatorState() != MutatorState::Sweeping

• async node:fs (fs.promises.stat(buf) etc.): PathLike::from_js protect()ed the argument through ArgumentsSlice, and the async path intentionally never dropped the slice on success, so each call leaked one protect and rooted the buffer forever (1000 calls → 1003 protected objects on 1.4.0). Fixes Async node:fs ops with Buffer path arguments leak a GC root per call #32191.

Now PathLike::to_thread_safe() turns a call-scoped Buffer into PathLike::PinnedBuffer: a ref + pin taken directly on the JSC::ArrayBuffer — the refcounted owner of the storage, not a GC cell (new JSC__JSValue__retainPinnedArrayBuffer / JSC__ArrayBuffer__releasePinned). A bufferless OversizeTypedArray view — which #38886's pinStorage merely holds, leaning on the caller's root — gets its ArrayBuffer materialized here (adopted in place, no byte copy), since a retained path has no root to lean on. Same bytes, still zero-copy; the JS wrapper stays collectable; releasing touches no JSCell, so the Blob store can drop it from its finalizer and async fs ops release it on completion. Store::init_file applies to_thread_safe() itself (as init_s3 already did). That refcount is not atomic and the owning VM's GC also touches it, while a Store can be released elsewhere — a pool thread, or another VM's thread via the object-URL registry (revokeObjectURL / a resolved dupe collected in a Worker). So PinnedArrayBuffer records the VmHandle of the VM whose thread took the ref: dropped there it releases inline; dropped anywhere else it posts the release to that VM's loop; if that VM has already closed (its heap, and the wrapper Weak the ArrayBuffer holds, are gone) the ref is deliberately left unreleased. It is not Clone — a cloned PathLike::PinnedBuffer is a non-owning view, exactly as a cloned Buffer already was — so no other thread ever bumps the count. The one pool-thread site that cloned a store's PathLike (get_fd_by_opening, just to end a borrow) now copies the bytes into its PathBuffer instead.

With nothing left that needs the argument rooted — the call frame keeps it alive for the sync part, to_thread_safe after — ArgumentsSlice's protect bookkeeping and the ManuallyDrop dance around it in the fs bindings are removed.

On the objection raised against the first version of #32199 (a toString() during argument parsing can allocate an object the call frame doesn't visit): protect_eat() only ever rooted all[index] — the argument slot itself — and its only callers were the two buffer arms of PathLike::from_js, which store exactly that argument (asArrayBuffer sets _value to the input cell; no coercion runs). The string/URL arms, which do coerce, copy into a WTF string and already used plain eat(). So no derived JS object was ever covered by that root; what outlives the call is now held by PinnedBuffer (backing-store ref), not by any GC root.

How did you verify your code works?

New tests: test/js/bun/util/bun-file.test.ts: thousands of Bun.file(Buffer | Uint8Array | ArrayBuffer), forced GC, reads through survivors, drives the threadpool read/write/copy paths on Buffer-path stores (including a >1000-byte, initially bufferless Buffer), and asserts neither protects nor Uint8Arrays accumulate; test/js/web/workers/worker_blob.test.ts resolves and revokes object URLs for Bun.file(Buffer) blobs across VMs in both directions (main-owned released by a Worker; Worker-owned released by main after the Worker is gone); and the #32191 leak test in test/js/node/fs/fs-leak.test.js (carried over from #32199: access/writeFile/readdir/aborted-writeFile/writev/readv live-object deltas over 64 calls — 64/64 leaked on main). The bun-file test fails on the current debug build (sweep assertion) and on release 1.4.0 (leak); passes with bun bd test. Also on the debug build: test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts, ~25 test-fs-* node parallel tests, and a stress of fs.promises.{stat,readFile,access,readdir,writeFile,copyFile} with Buffer/Uint8Array/ArrayBuffer/oversize paths and Bun.gc(true) while ops are in flight (ends with 3 protected objects, 1 Uint8Array).

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This change removes redundant JavaScript argument protection, adds pinned ArrayBuffer backing-store ownership, converts buffer-backed paths for thread-safe use, updates asynchronous filesystem handling, and adds regression tests.

Changes

Buffer lifetime management

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Argument protection cleanup src/jsc/CallFrame.rs, src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs, src/runtime/node/...	ArgumentsSlice no longer tracks protected arguments. Callers consume arguments without explicit protection. Async filesystem bindings use normal destruction and direct error propagation.
Pinned ArrayBuffer ownership src/jsc/array_buffer.rs, src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp, src/jsc/VmHandle.rs, src/jsc/lib.rs	JSC bindings and Rust wrappers retain, pin, expose, and release ArrayBuffer backing storage. VmHandle::is_current_thread selects direct or queued release.
Path and storage integration src/jsc/node_path.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, src/runtime/webcore/blob/Store.rs	PathLike stores pinned buffers for thread-safe use. File storage converts path descriptors before retaining them. Error paths use stored path bytes.
Filesystem lifetime regression coverage test/js/bun/util/bun-file.test.ts, test/js/node/fs/fs-leak.test.js, test/js/web/workers/worker_blob.test.ts	Subprocess tests cover garbage collection, asynchronous filesystem operations, abort paths, file reads, worker object URLs, and retained object counts.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#37944: Both PRs modify ArrayBuffer pinning and buffer lifetime handling.
• oven-sh/bun#38289: Both PRs modify JSC ArrayBuffer backing-store retention.
• oven-sh/bun#38886: Both PRs modify ArrayBuffer pinning and release behavior.

Suggested reviewers: robobun, sosukesuzuki

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #32191 by removing leaked argument protection and retaining path backing storage safely for synchronous and asynchronous operations.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation and tests remain focused on buffer-backed paths, GC-root leaks, thread-safe retention, and related cross-VM release behavior.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: retaining path-buffer backing storage instead of rooting JavaScript objects for Bun.file and async filesystem operations.
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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. The fix is well-reasoned and the test covers both the sweep-assertion and the mutated-buffer case, but since it changes GC-finalizer / JS-heap-reference semantics in native code, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• to_thread_safe now converts Buffer → owned String (dropping the discriminant); grepped callers — none match on PathLike::Buffer after to_thread_safe, and result encoding is tracked separately (args::MkdirTemp/Readdir store Encoding alongside).
• PathLike::unprotect becoming a no-op is balanced: the parse-time protect_eat() in PathLike::from_js is released by ArgumentsSlice::drop, not by PathLike::unprotect.
• The removed to_thread_safe() in Blob.rs is subsumed by the new call in Store::init_file; other init_file callers (output_file_jsc.rs) already pass owned String paths.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes a use-after-free / debug-assertion in Bun.file(Buffer): the file-backed Blob store previously held a pinned reference to the JS ArrayBuffer for its whole lifetime and unpinned it from the Blob's GC destructor, touching a JS cell mid-sweep. The fix changes PathLike::to_thread_safe() to copy a buffer-backed path into an owned CowSlice<u8> and drop the JS-backed Buffer arm immediately (which unpins on the JS thread via Drop for PathLike). Store::init_file now applies to_thread_safe() itself, mirroring init_s3. PathLike::unprotect becomes a no-op since to_thread_safe no longer takes a protect().

Security risks

None. This is a memory-safety fix; no new user-controlled input surface, no auth/crypto/permissions changes.

Level of scrutiny

High. This touches JSC GC-finalizer interaction, cross-thread lifetime of JS-heap-backed data, and changes the invariant that to_thread_safe preserved the Buffer discriminant (the old doc comment explicitly stated it did). Per REVIEW.md's memory-safety section, GC-rooting / pin-lifetime changes and "never let a pointer or slice outlive the memory it points into" fixes are the most-blocked category and warrant maintainer review.

Other factors

• I traced the discriminant change: no args::* type or async-fs path matches on PathLike::Buffer after to_thread_safe() (readdir/mkdtemp encode-to-buffer decisions use a separate encoding field parsed at from_js time). StringOrBuffer (data buffers, not paths) still keeps its own protect()-based zero-copy path.
• Checked that protect_eat() in PathLike::from_js (types.rs:1158/1175) is balanced by ArgumentsSlice::drop → unprotect() (CallFrame.rs:317-321), independent of the now-no-op PathLike::unprotect.
• Checked all other Store::init_file callers (output_file_jsc.rs) — they pass owned PathLike::String via dupe_path_like, so the added to_thread_safe() is a no-op there.
• The test follows harness conventions (subprocess, drained pipes, exact-value assertions, exit-code last) and asserts the observable snapshot semantics (fromMutated) alongside the GC-sweep repro.
• One stale comment now remains at src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs:1762-1763 ("releases the protect() taken by to_thread_safe() when src/dest are Buffers") — harmless but no longer accurate.

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This PR may be a duplicate of:

1. Copy a byte path out of the caller's buffer when creating a file or S3 store #38456 - Same fix: deletes the same path_or_fd.to_thread_safe() line in Blob.rs and makes Store::init_file/init_s3 copy the byte path so the store never holds a pinned JS buffer, with tests in the same bun-file.test.ts.
2. Run pool jobs that own their memory without a VM borrow so worker.terminate() does not wait on a blocked Bun.write(file, file) #38312 - Superset that Copy a byte path out of the caller's buffer when creating a file or S3 store #38456 was split out of; contains the same own_path() copy in blob/Store.rs, the same one-line Blob.rs deletion, and a bun-file.test.ts case.
3. Unpin ArrayBuffers without classInfo() so blob finalizers are safe during GC sweep #37008 - Alternative fix for the same mutatorState() != MutatorState::Sweeping assertion from unpinning a Bun.file(Buffer) store's ArrayBuffer in the Blob's GC finalizer, addressed in bindings.cpp instead of by removing the pin.

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. It's a memory-safety / GC-lifetime change (new JSC::ArrayBuffer ref+pin bindings, a new PathLike variant, removal of the ArgumentsSlice protect machinery, and code that runs from a GC finalizer), and there are three competing open PRs (#38456, #38312, #37008) fixing the same assertion with different approaches — a maintainer should pick which one lands.

What was reviewed:

• PinnedArrayBuffer ref/pin balance across retain/Clone/Drop and the C++ retainPinned/releasePinned pair — each path takes exactly one ref + one pin and releases both.
• Removal of protect_eat/protect_eat_next/Drop for ArgumentsSlice — grepped for remaining callers; none outside the diff.
• New PathLike::PinnedBuffer variant — every match on PathLike in node_path.rs covers it; no exhaustive matches elsewhere in the tree.
• to_thread_safe() on the Buffer arm drops the old MarkedArrayBuffer (releasing its own pin) after taking the new one — no double-pin or leaked pin.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes two related lifetime bugs where Bun.file(buffer) and async node:fs operations with Buffer paths permanently rooted the JS buffer object (never releasing protect()) and, in the Bun.file case, touched a JS cell from the Blob's GC finalizer during sweep. The fix introduces a new PinnedArrayBuffer Rust type that holds a ref + pin directly on the JSC::ArrayBuffer backing store (a refcounted C++ object, not a GC cell), so it can be safely released from a GC finalizer and doesn't root the JS wrapper. It touches 12 files across bun_jsc and bun_runtime: new C++ FFI bindings in bindings.cpp, a new enum variant on PathLike, removal of the ArgumentsSlice protect bookkeeping (protect_eat, Drop), and simplification of the ManuallyDrop dance in node_fs_binding.rs.

Security risks

None identified. This is internal memory-management plumbing; no user-controlled input reaches new parsing or validation code.

Level of scrutiny

High. Per the repo's review guidelines, native memory safety is the most-blocked category. This change involves: (1) code that runs inside a JSC GC finalizer, where touching the wrong thing is UB; (2) a new FFI surface for JSC::ArrayBuffer refcounting whose non-atomic refcount means the "JS thread only" invariant on PinnedArrayBuffer::Drop is load-bearing; (3) removal of protect infrastructure that changes the lifetime story for every async fs op with a buffer path; (4) a new enum variant on a widely-used type. The reasoning in the PR description and code comments is sound and I traced the ref/pin balance on every path, but this class of change has historically produced subtle UAF/leak regressions that only surface under GC pressure and deserves a maintainer's eyes.

Other factors

Three other open PRs address the same crash with different strategies (copying the path bytes vs. holding the backing store zero-copy vs. a bindings.cpp workaround). A maintainer needs to decide which approach is preferred before any of them lands. The new test is well-constructed (spawned subprocess, heapStats deltas, covers Buffer/Uint8Array/ArrayBuffer, verifies both the leak and the read-after-GC correctness), and the PR author reports running the full fs test suite plus stress testing.

[robobun]

Closed #38456 in favor of this PR; it changed the same Store::init_file / init_s3 site. Two notes for whoever reviews this:

• Copy a byte path out of the caller's buffer when creating a file or S3 store #38456 and Run pool jobs that own their memory without a VM borrow so worker.terminate() does not wait on a blocked Bun.write(file, file) #38312 copied the byte path instead of borrowing it because the Bun.file(path: ArrayBufferLike | Uint8Array) overload in packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts (line 4344) says the buffer is copied, while today a later write to the buffer changes the path the blob points at (on 1.4.0, const p = new TextEncoder().encode("/tmp/a.txt"); const f = Bun.file(p); p[p.length - 5] = 0x7a; gives f.name === "/tmp/z.txt", same for an s3:// byte path). PinnedBuffer keeps that behavior, so either the docs or the store need to change at some point; this PR is fine either way, it is just the one thing Copy a byte path out of the caller's buffer when creating a file or S3 store #38456 covered that this one does not.
• Run pool jobs that own their memory without a VM borrow so worker.terminate() does not wait on a blocked Bun.write(file, file) #38312 still carries the same init_file / init_s3 hunk (its branch conflicts with this one in Store.rs) and will need reconciling with this PR whichever lands first. If it ends up releasing file stores on a pool thread, a store cannot hold a PinnedBuffer (its release is JS thread only), so that variant of it would have to copy the path anyway.

Unrelated to the Store half: the async node:fs leak this PR also fixes is #32191 (robobun's #32199 was an earlier fix for it), so this PR could carry Fixes #32191.

[robobun]

Closed #32199 (the earlier fix for the node:fs half of this) in favor of this PR. Two notes from comparing them:

• The leak test from node:fs: fix GC root leak for Buffer path arguments in async ops #32199 (test/js/node/fs/fs-leak.test.js: access with Buffer and ArrayBuffer paths, writeFile with a Buffer path, pre-aborted writeFile, writev/readv element arrays, readdir with a Buffer path) passes on a debug build of this branch at 89c8e2c. Every delta is 0 to 2 objects over 64 calls; the access/writeFile/readdir segments leak 64/64 on main. Since this PR has no node:fs test for the Async node:fs ops with Buffer path arguments leak a GC root per call #32191 half, that test can be carried over as is (it takes 6 to 7 seconds on a debug build here, so it needs a per-test timeout or a smaller call count).
• The first version of node:fs: fix GC root leak for Buffer path arguments in async ops #32199 made the same protect_eat -> eat change in PathLike::from_js and removed the same ArgumentsSlice protect bookkeeping, with the same reasoning that the call frame keeps the argument alive during the call. Jarred requested changes on that version (node:fs: fix GC root leak for Buffer path arguments in async ops #32199 (review): a toString run while parsing arguments can allocate an object the call frame does not visit), and node:fs: fix GC root leak for Buffer path arguments in async ops #32199 was reworked to keep the parse-time root and release it at the end of the host call. Flagging it since this PR takes the first approach. As far as I can tell PathLike only ever holds the argument itself (the string and URL arms copy), and protect_eat only ever rooted the argument, so the objection may not apply to this site, but it is the same question.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it reworks how borrowed JS buffers are kept alive across GC (new PinnedArrayBuffer ref+pin on JSC::ArrayBuffer, removal of ArgumentsSlice's protect bookkeeping and Drop), and revisits an approach a maintainer previously requested changes on in #32199, a human sign-off is warranted.

What was reviewed:

• PinnedArrayBuffer retain/clone/drop pairing and the new C++ retainPinned/releasePinned — ref/pin balanced, isShared() guard matches the existing pinArrayBuffer pattern.
• All former protect_eat/protect_eat_next call sites updated; no remaining callers in src/.
• run_async / Binding::cp / Binding::readdir early-return paths after removing ManuallyDrop — args.unprotect() still runs before returning on the abort/exception branches; args drops normally.
• PathLike::to_thread_safe Buffer→PinnedBuffer transition drops the prior MarkedArrayBuffer (releasing its own pin) via the *self = assignment.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR changes how Bun.file(buffer) and async node:fs calls keep a borrowed Buffer/Uint8Array path alive past the host call. Instead of protect()ing the JS wrapper cell (which was never released in Bun.file and leaked one root per async fs call, and whose unpin ran mid-sweep from the Blob GC destructor), it introduces PinnedArrayBuffer: a ref + pin held directly on the refcounted JSC::ArrayBuffer backing store. The JS wrapper stays collectable, and releasing touches no JSCell, so it is safe from a GC finalizer. With that in place, ArgumentsSlice::protect_eat/unprotect/Drop and the ManuallyDrop ceremony in node_fs_binding.rs are removed. Touches 11 source files across src/jsc/ (CallFrame, array_buffer, bindings.cpp, node_path) and src/runtime/ (BunObject, node_fs, node_fs_binding, types, Blob, blob/Store), plus two test files.

Security risks

None identified. This is internal lifetime management of path buffers; no new user-facing surface, no parsing of untrusted input, no auth/crypto.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is squarely in the "Native code: memory safety" category REVIEW.md calls the most-blocked: it changes when and how a JS-owned allocation is kept alive across threads and across GC finalization, adds new C++ FFI for ref/pin on JSC::ArrayBuffer, and removes an existing rooting mechanism (ArgumentsSlice::Drop). The PR description's argument for why the removed protect_eat root was never load-bearing (it only ever rooted the argument slot itself, which the call frame already keeps alive; the buffer arms don't coerce; the string/URL arms copy) reads correctly to me and I confirmed protect_eat had no other callers, but per REVIEW.md ("Never silently weaken, skip, or delete an existing safety net" / "Before deleting odd-looking code, git-blame why it was written") and given a maintainer requested changes on #32199 for the same removal, this needs a maintainer to confirm.

Other factors

• robobun has already surfaced the two open design points on the thread: (a) the zero-copy borrow diverges from the bun.d.ts doc that says the buffer is copied, and (b) if #38312 moves store release to a pool thread, PinnedBuffer (JS-thread-only release, non-atomic refcount) can't be held by a Store. Neither blocks this PR on its own, but both are choices a human should ratify.
• Test coverage is solid: the bun-file.test.ts case exercises Buffer/Uint8Array/ArrayBuffer paths, forces GC, reads through survivors, and asserts both protected-object and Uint8Array counts don't accumulate; the fs-leak.test.js case covers the generic run_async path, the pre-aborted branch, writev/readv element roots, and the hand-written readdir binding, with per-segment error-code checks so a parse-time reject can't make a segment vacuous.
• I checked the PinnedArrayBuffer::slice() safety: for a zero-length view bytes.as_ptr() may be dangling but len == 0, so from_raw_parts is fine; for a detached buffer retain returns None and to_thread_safe falls back to PathLike::default().

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Move args.unprotect() behind the protection step. into_thread_safe() is the first call to to_thread_safe(), and Read, Write, and FdVectorIo acquire their GC protections there. The early returns call args.unprotect() before that step. JSValue::unprotect() directly calls gcUnprotect() without checking for an existing protection, which can trigger assertions or corrupt GC protection state.

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In `@src/runtime/node/node_fs_binding.rs` around lines 79 - 96, Move the
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In `@src/jsc/array_buffer.rs`:
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In `@test/js/bun/util/bun-file.test.ts`:
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In `@src/runtime/node/node_fs_binding.rs`:
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In `@src/jsc/node_path.rs`:
- Around line 144-147: Update the PathLike::clone handling for
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[claude]

I reviewed the current head (2b73b7f) and found no bugs. Given the scope — a new cross-VM/cross-thread ArrayBuffer-refcount holder released from GC finalizers, non-owning PathLike::PinnedBuffer clone semantics, and removal of the ArgumentsSlice protect bookkeeping across every async fs binding — a human look is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

• is_current_thread now compares Arc<Shared> identity, closing the VM-address-reuse ABA raised last round.
• CopyFile::reject/then reordering: the source store is dropped only after the borrowed path is read (or on the resolve arm).
• The Refused path in release_on_owning_thread: ConcurrentTask::release_refused drops the boxed Release off-thread, whose Drop re-checks is_current_thread and correctly does nothing.
• Remaining PathLike::clone() sites against the "holder outlives the Store" invariant; the one violation (spawn Stdio::Path) now owns its bytes.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces protect()-based rooting of Buffer-path arguments with a direct ref+pin on the underlying JSC::ArrayBuffer (PinnedArrayBuffer), so file-blob stores and async fs ops can hold path bytes past the call without pinning a JS cell (which was leaking permanently and asserting when unpinned mid-sweep). It touches 14 source files across bun_jsc (CallFrame, VmHandle, array_buffer, node_path, C++ bindings) and bun_runtime (BunObject, spawn/stdio, node_fs, node_fs_binding, types, Blob, Store, copy_file), plus 4 test files. The ArgumentsSlice protect/unprotect machinery and the ManuallyDrop dance in the fs bindings are removed entirely.

Security risks

None in the auth/injection sense. The risk profile is memory safety: a non-atomic WTF::RefCounted count now has holders that can drop on other threads (posted back via VmHandle), a non-owning Clone variant relies on a caller invariant, and releases run inside GC finalizers. Each of these was the subject of a prior-round finding (cross-VM release, ABA on VM address reuse, CopyFile dropping the retaining store before reading the borrowed path) and each has a targeted fix in the current head.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is squarely in REVIEW.md's most-blocked category (native memory safety, thread affinity, GC-finalizer-time release). The design choices — releasing by posting to the owning VM's loop, deliberately leaving the ref unreleased once that VM is closed, and keeping PathLike::PinnedBuffer clones non-owning — are defensible and well-documented, but they are architectural decisions a maintainer should sign off on rather than something an automated pass should approve.

Other factors

The PR has been through five automated review rounds, several of which surfaced real UAFs that were then fixed; all threads are now resolved. Test coverage is thorough (Buffer/Uint8Array/ArrayBuffer × oversize-view path, cross-VM object-URL release in both directions, the #32191 leak matrix, and the spawn Response-wrapped-file-blob case). CI status wasn't visible from here. I have not previously posted a review body on this PR — prior claude entries were inline bug-hunter findings, all addressed.