bake: check for exceptions in the production build's module helpers

[robobun]

Problem

• Every bun build --app run, with a valid config, aborts under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 right after "Loading configuration":

  ERROR: Unchecked JS exception:
      This scope can throw a JS exception: getModuleNamespaceObject @ JSModuleLoader.cpp:572
      But the exception was unchecked as of this scope: get @ JSObjectInlines.h:133
  ASSERTION FAILED: exception check validation failed
  

• Cause: BakeGetDefaultExportFromModule (src/runtime/bake/BakeSourceProvider.cpp) calls getModuleNamespaceObject() and then JSObject::get() with no throw scope and no exception check in between. BakeGetModuleNamespace, BakeGetOnModuleNamespace and BakeLoadModuleByKey have the same shape (a throwing JSC call, no scope, no check), and their callers in src/runtime/bake/production.rs used the returned value without checking for a pending exception either.
• Once that is fixed, a build whose bundled modules call import() (any page rendering a "use client" component) aborts the same way in bakeModuleLoaderImportModule (src/runtime/bake/BakeGlobalObject.cpp): it returns JSC::importModule(...) from inside a throw scope it never releases. The other two hooks in that file have the same shape where they hand off to Zig::GlobalObject's implementation: bakeModuleLoaderResolve aborts when a config import fails to resolve (instead of printing "Cannot find module"), and bakeModuleLoaderFetch aborts when a route import()s a file the bundler never saw (the escape hatch its own comment documents).
• BakeLoadInitialServerCode (same file, dev server) returns whatever the runtime's init function returned even when it threw. JSC::call returns undefined in that case, so the Rust caller (DevServer::init_server_runtime), which treats an empty return as "threw", never reaches its error-reporting branch and instead panics on "expected interface ... to be an object" with the real error left unprinted.
• The only test running bun build --app, test/bake/dev/production.test.ts, is on test/no-validate-exceptions.txt, which is why the ASAN lane never caught this (it surfaced when bake: require app.plugins and framework.plugins to be arrays #38902 briefly added a build to a validated file).

Fix

• Each helper in BakeSourceProvider.cpp declares a throw scope, checks after every throwing call, and returns an empty value if and only if an exception is pending. BakeGetModuleNamespace and BakeGetDefaultExportFromModule share a static getModuleNamespace() that returns null on exception. The parameters that were typed as JSString* / JSModuleNamespaceObject* but receive JSValues from Rust are now EncodedJSValue and decoded.
• production.rs wraps the four externs in jsc::from_js_host_call (a mod c, the shape DevServer.rs already uses for this file's other entry points) and propagates Err through js_err, so a real exception is printed by build_command's existing JSError arm instead of continuing with an empty value. The prerender / getParams lookups keep their "missing export" messages; only the never-produced None case is gone.
• bakeModuleLoaderImportModule owns one scope, reads the key once (with a check), and leaves through RELEASE_AND_RETURN on every exit. Returning null with an exception pending is what JSModuleLoader::importModule itself does; globalFuncImportModule rejects the import() promise with it. The fallthrough to Zig::GlobalObject::moduleLoaderImportModule was already clean and is only released because the function now has a scope. The old if (!keyString) rejection is deleted: a JSString's value is only null when reading it threw, which now returns at the top. bakeModuleLoaderResolve and bakeModuleLoaderFetch get the same RELEASE_AND_RETURN at their hand-offs to Zig::GlobalObject; their other exits already checked.
• BakeLoadInitialServerCode checks the call result before returning it, which makes it honor the empty-iff-threw contract its Rust caller assumes. This one is reachable only if Bun's own server runtime fails to initialize, so it has no test; it is included because it is the same contract as the rest of the file. BakeRegisterProductionChunk, the one other function in the file, had no callers anywhere in the tree and is deleted, so the contract comment at the top of the file covers everything below it.
• Why this is right: these are the exception-discipline rules JSC's verifier encodes (every throwing call is checked under a scope, tail calls are released) plus the contract from_js_host_call documents (empty return iff exception). Nothing about the success path changes; the existing nine production tests pass unchanged, now under validation too.
• Tests: test/bake/dev/production.test.ts gains an "exception checks" group that runs bun build --app with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 explicitly (so it is enforced by any debug/ASAN run, not only the CI runner). "loading the config file" is a hermetic build with no routes and covers the config path; "loading the server entry point and prerendering routes" is a react build with a static page, a "use client" component and a getStaticPaths route, covering BakeLoadModuleByKey, BakeGetModuleNamespace, both BakeGetOnModuleNamespace reads and both bake:/ branches of the import hook; "a config import that fails to resolve" is hermetic and covers the resolve hook's hand-off (expects exit 1 and the "Cannot find module" message); "a route importing a file outside the bundle while rendering" is a react build whose page import()s a computed path and covers the fetch hook's hand-off (it is skipped on Windows, where that import fails before reaching the loader regardless of this change, see below). The file also comes off test/no-validate-exceptions.txt, so the other nine builds are validated on the ASAN lane.
• Verified: each new test fails on a tree without the fix it targets and passes with it. The config and prerender tests abort on the unfixed tree naming the getModuleNamespaceObject / get pair above; with only the import-hook change reverted, the prerender test fails naming requestImportModule / bakeModuleLoaderImportModule; on the tree before the last two hook changes, the unresolved-import test fails naming moduleLoaderResolve / bakeModuleLoaderResolve and the out-of-bundle test fails naming moduleLoaderFetch / bakeModuleLoaderFetch. BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 bun bd test test/bake/dev/production.test.ts: 13 pass. On Windows (canary build) the group passes with the one test skipped. test/bake/dev/{request-cookies,vfile,server-sourcemap}.test.ts (dev server, goes through BakeLoadInitialServerCode) pass under validation. cargo clippy -p bun_runtime and cargo fmt are clean.
• Not changed here, each reported separately: the second new test uses the file's existing react fixture helper (tempDirWithBakeDeps) because a custom framework cannot currently complete a bun build --app at all (it panics with "Runtime file not found" at production.rs:787); the BakeProdResolve result string that bakeModuleLoaderResolve / ImportModule never deref (this PR does not touch string ownership); BakeLoadServerHmrPatch / WithSourceMap declaring a Bake::GlobalObject* parameter while the dev server passes a plain Zig::GlobalObject (their signatures are untouched here); and, on Windows, import(join(import.meta.dir, ...)) of a non-bundled file failing with EINVAL reading "\\" because BakeProdResolve joins the drive path as if it were relative (reproduced with the canary build, which is why the out-of-bundle test is Windows-skipped).

Background

• JSC exception discipline: a native function that calls anything that can throw declares a ThrowScope and must either check for an exception after each such call (RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION) or hand the obligation to its caller for a tail call (RELEASE_AND_RETURN). With BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 (set by the CI runner on the ASAN lane for every test file not listed in test/no-validate-exceptions.txt), debug builds simulate a throw after every such call and abort the process the next time a scope is created or destroyed while one is still unchecked. Release builds compile this out, so the bug is invisible there, but the same missing checks also mean a real exception would have been carried into unrelated code.
• jsc::from_js_host_call is the Rust side of that discipline for hand-written externs: it opens a scope around the FFI call, asserts (in debug/ASAN) that the callee returned an empty JSValue exactly when it left an exception pending, and converts that into JsResult. It only works if the C++ side actually returns empty on throw, which is the contract each changed function now implements.
• bun build --app (Bake's static production build) loads the user's config module and the framework's server entry point into a dedicated VM whose global object is Bake::GlobalObject; the helpers in BakeSourceProvider.cpp read exports off those modules, and BakeGlobalObject.cpp's module loader hooks resolve and load the bake:/... keys the bundler assigned to the output chunks. Bake::GlobalObject is only used by this command, so BakeGlobalObject.cpp changes do not affect the dev server.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

Bake JSC bridges now use encoded values and propagate pending exceptions. Rust production paths convert JavaScript failures to JSError. Production tests validate exception handling during configuration loading, server loading, and prerendering.

Bake exception propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Encoded JSC bridge contracts src/runtime/bake/BakeGlobalObject.cpp, src/runtime/bake/BakeSourceProvider.cpp	Bake module-loading and namespace functions decode encoded values, check exceptions, and return encoded results.
Fallible Rust host calls src/runtime/bake/production.rs	Production calls use fallible wrappers and propagate JavaScript failures as JSError.
Production exception validation test/bake/dev/production.test.ts, test/no-validate-exceptions.txt	Production tests enable JSC exception validation and cover configuration, server loading, prerendering, and generated HTML.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38241: Shares production build execution and validation test paths.
• oven-sh/bun#38273: Shares JSC module-loading and rejected-promise paths.
• oven-sh/bun#38463: Shares explicit JavaScript exception propagation and validation.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review at 77dc183.

Reproduced on an unfixed debug build with the handoff's repro (a bun.app.ts with a custom framework and no routes directory): BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 bun build --app aborts after "Loading configuration" naming getModuleNamespaceObject / JSObject::get. Running the existing react builds in test/bake/dev/production.test.ts under the same option, with only the BakeSourceProvider.cpp part applied, showed the same abort in bakeModuleLoaderImportModule for every page that renders a "use client" component, and the resolve and fetch hooks in the same file have the same unreleased hand-off (hit by a config import that fails to resolve, and by a route import()ing a file outside the bundle), so all three hooks are fixed here.

Proof: each of the four tests in the new "exception checks" group fails on a tree without the change it targets (SIGABRT, with the assertion diff naming the unchecked scope pair) and passes with it; the whole file passes under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 (13 tests) and is removed from test/no-validate-exceptions.txt. On Windows the group passes with the out-of-bundle import test skipped, because that import fails there even on the current canary build.

CI on 77dc183 (build 98124): production.test.ts passed on every lane, including the ASAN lane that now validates it. The only non-flaky failure, test/js/node/test/parallel/test-cluster-shared-leak.js timing out on Windows aarch64, also fails on main and is unrelated to this change (reported to main-break triage, as was the node:http ASAN failure on the previous build).

Found while here and reported separately (not changed in this PR): bun build --app with any non-react framework panics with "Runtime file not found" (production.rs:787); the BakeProdResolve result string is never deref'd by the BakeGlobalObject.cpp hooks; BakeLoadServerHmrPatch* declare a Bake::GlobalObject* parameter but receive the dev server's regular global; and the Windows import(join(import.meta.dir, ...)) failure above.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/runtime/bake/BakeSourceProvider.cpp`:
- Around line 126-150: Update getModuleNamespace in
src/runtime/bake/BakeSourceProvider.cpp lines 126-150 to throw when the registry
entry or namespace object is absent, preserving its contract that nullptr is
returned only with a pending exception. In
src/runtime/bake/BakeSourceProvider.cpp lines 152-165, add an explicit
namespaceObject null guard before get so release builds never dereference null,
and propagate the pending exception consistently through BakeGetModuleNamespace.

In `@src/runtime/bake/production.rs`:
- Around line 1243-1258: Update the server HMR FFI declarations and
implementations for BakeLoadServerHmrPatch and
BakeLoadServerHmrPatchWithSourceMap to accept JSC::JSGlobalObject* consistently,
matching DevServer’s regular VM global; alternatively, change DevServer to
supply Bake::GlobalObject and keep the existing signatures. Ensure the C++ and
Rust declarations use the same global-object type.

In `@test/bake/dev/production.test.ts`:
- Around line 635-640: Update the stdout assertion in the test expectation to
use normalizeBunSnapshot with an inline snapshot, or assert only the meaningful
output substring. Keep the strict checks for exitCode, signalCode, and
uncheckedScopes unchanged.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 5:59 AM PT - Aug 15th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit 61d75e9 is building: #98110

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. The exception-discipline changes look correct and all prior feedback has been addressed, but since this touches C++/Rust FFI signatures and JSC throw-scope handling in the Bake module loader, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Each modified helper in BakeSourceProvider.cpp and bakeModuleLoaderImportModule now declares a throw scope, checks after every throwing call, and exits via RELEASE_AND_RETURN — matching the from_js_host_call empty-iff-threw contract.
• FFI parameter/return types moved to EncodedJSValue; verified Rust's JSValue is ABI-compatible and JSValue::encode(nullptr) yields the empty value on the exception path.
• The prerender/getParams refactor preserves the missing-export error path (get on a namespace returns undefined, which fails is_callable()).
• The dead if (!keyString) branch flagged in the earlier run was removed in 2861fed.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes JSC exception-check validation failures in bun build --app by adding proper throw-scope discipline to five C++ helpers in src/runtime/bake/BakeSourceProvider.cpp and bakeModuleLoaderImportModule in src/runtime/bake/BakeGlobalObject.cpp, and by wrapping the four Rust-side extern calls in src/runtime/bake/production.rs with jsc::from_js_host_call so pending exceptions propagate as JSError instead of continuing with empty values. Two new tests run the production build under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1, and the test file is removed from test/no-validate-exceptions.txt.

Security risks

None. This is exception-handling plumbing in a build-time code path (bun build --app); no user input parsing, auth, or crypto is touched. The FFI parameter-type changes (JSC::JSValue/JSString*/JSModuleNamespaceObject* → EncodedJSValue) tighten ABI correctness rather than loosen it.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. REVIEW.md flags "exception checks after every call that can enter JS" as one of the most-blocked native-code categories, and this PR edits both sides of an FFI boundary (C++ signatures and Rust extern declarations) plus the module-loader hook table for the Bake global object. The success path is unchanged and the fix is mechanically the standard DECLARE_THROW_SCOPE / RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION / RELEASE_AND_RETURN pattern, but the FFI-contract subtleties (empty-iff-threw, JSValue::encode of a null cell pointer producing the empty value, Bake::GlobalObject* vs &JSGlobalObject at the boundary) are exactly the kind of thing a maintainer familiar with the JSC bindings should sanity-check.

Other factors

All earlier review threads are resolved: the comment-cop long-comment warnings (fixed in 62666f4), my prior inline note that the if (!keyString) block in bakeModuleLoaderImportModule had become dead (removed in 2861fed), and CodeRabbit's snapshot-normalization nit (addressed in 2861fed). CodeRabbit's concern that getModuleNamespace could return nullptr without a pending exception in release builds was correctly rebutted — the registry entry existing is a caller-established precondition (they just awaited the module's evaluation promise), same as before this PR, and the comment now states the contract conditionally. The PR description documents that both new tests fail on the unfixed tree and pass with the fix, and that the whole file (11 tests) passes under validation. This is well-executed; I'm deferring only because native JSC/FFI changes fall outside "simple, mechanical, or obvious."

[claude]

LGTM — both prior findings (the dead if (!keyString) branch and the Windows-unsafe out-of-bundle test) are addressed, and this pass found nothing new.

What was reviewed:

• Each C++ helper now declares a ThrowScope, checks after every throwing call, and returns empty iff an exception is pending — matches the from_js_host_call contract.
• FFI signatures: the JSString*/JSModuleNamespaceObject* params that received encoded JSValues from Rust are now EncodedJSValue on both sides; JSValue::encode(nullptr) produces the empty value the Rust wrapper expects.
• bake_get_on_module_namespace's old Option wrapper never returned None, so replacing it with JsResult and a direct is_callable() check preserves the missing-export error path.
• BakeRegisterProductionChunk has no remaining references anywhere in the tree.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Adds JSC exception discipline (ThrowScope + RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION + RELEASE_AND_RETURN) to the bun build --app production helpers in BakeSourceProvider.cpp and the three module-loader hooks in BakeGlobalObject.cpp, wraps the Rust-side externs in jsc::from_js_host_call via a new mod c, corrects the C++ parameter types that were declared as cell pointers but received encoded JSValues, deletes the now-uncalled BakeRegisterProductionChunk, adds four targeted tests under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1, and removes production.test.ts from the ASAN exclusion list.

Security risks

None. This is exception-check plumbing in a build-time (bun build --app) code path with no user-input parsing, auth, or crypto.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high — cross-language FFI and JSC ThrowScope discipline are unforgiving, but every change here is a textbook application of the pattern REVIEW.md documents. I traced the empty-iff-threw contract end to end: getModuleNamespace returning nullptr encodes to the empty JSValue (JSValue(JSCell* = nullptr) → asInt64 == 0), which call_zero_is_throw on the Rust side maps to Err. The three module-loader hooks each own one scope and exit through RELEASE_AND_RETURN on every tail call. The old bake_get_on_module_namespace Option wrapper unconditionally returned Some, so the callers' None arms were dead and the new is_callable() check preserves the user-facing "missing export" message for both prerender and getParams.

Other factors

This is my third pass on the PR. Both earlier findings (dead !keyString branch after the hoisted getString check; Windows CI failure on the out-of-bundle import test) were fixed in 2861fed and 61d75e9 respectively — the test now has .skipIf(isWindows) with a comment naming the pre-existing BakeProdResolve bug it works around. The comment-cop and CodeRabbit threads are all resolved with reasonable answers (the registry-entry ASSERT is a caller precondition, not a runtime validation). BakeRegisterProductionChunk has zero references in the tree. The tests spawn with bunEnv spread, drain both pipes concurrently, assert signalCode === null, and surface the validator's diagnostic lines on failure — they follow the harness conventions.