bun test: exit through the VM teardown path when --bail stops a run

[robobun]

Fixes #32183

Problem

• bun test --bail on a file whose test fails exits 134 under the environment the sanitizer lane gives every child (BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, ASAN_OPTIONS=...:detect_leaks=1:abort_on_error=1, LSAN_OPTIONS=suppressions=test/leaksan.supp), instead of 1. stderr ends with ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks / SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 796 byte(s) leaked in 8 allocation(s): the Expect box from Expect::to_js, the file's ScopeFunctions boxes, a RefData from Expect::call, and a SavedSourceMap::get_with_content entry.
• Cause: the bail taken from CommandLineReporter::handle_test_completed (src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:1519) was a bare Global::exit(1). Under ASAN that is libc exit(), so LSan's atexit scan runs, but VirtualMachine::on_exit() / global_exit() never do, and the BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT teardown that frees those objects (destructOnExit -> ~VM -> lastChanceToFinalize, plus the VM's source map table) is skipped. Every other exit bun test takes once tests have run (end of run in exec, --parallel workers, and the other bail site, the failed module evaluation in TestCommand::run) already goes through global_exit() and is clean under the same environment.
• Without --bail the same failing file exits 1 with no report. Existing bail tests did not notice because they assert not.toBe(0) or only look at stderr, or are listed in test/no-validate-leaksan.txt. Under the lane's environment the leak report also takes several seconds to symbolize, which is what put test/regression/issue/12250.test.ts on that list (its bail child hits the 5s test timeout).

Fix

• Both bail sites now call one CommandLineReporter::bail_out(vm) -> !. It prints the summary and bail message and writes the junit/timings files exactly as before, then exits the same way exec's tail does: exit_code = 1, skip_exit_listeners from the same gate (bun test: only run process.on('exit') listeners when node:test APIs were used #38442), on_exit(), bun_test_root.deinit_for_exit(), RUNNER cleared, global_exit(). The module-evaluation bail site loses its hand-rolled copy of that sequence.
• Why exiting from inside the test-completion callback is fine: process.exit() called inside a test reaches on_exit() + global_exit() from exactly this state (runner published, file mid-execution, JS frames possibly on the stack), and that is exercised on the sanitizer lane today. destroyVM clears vm.entryScope and drops the outstanding JSLockHolder refs for that reason. The file's BunTest stays allocated because TestCommand::run still holds its strong ref; deinit_for_exit() only drops the root's ref, and the test-runner finalizers that run during teardown (Expect, DoneCallback, ScopeFunctions) release a RefData/drop a box and do not touch RUNNER. So no unwinding of the step loops is needed; the bail still stops synchronously at the same point, and the output is byte-identical to before (checked both sites against an unfixed build).
• Visible differences outside leak checking: the bail exit now runs the end-of-run on_exit() (exit listeners stay skipped for bun:test files, and run once a node:test API was used, as at the end of a normal run), and global_exit() checkpoints and closes the test's sqlite databases like a normal exit does.
• Verified with a debug (ASAN) build:
  • test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts: new --bail > exits cleanly under LeakSanitizer cases (sync failure, failure delivered from a promise reaction with a timer pending, a later file failing with preload hooks registered, a file failing to load) spawn bun test --bail with the lane's environment and assert exit 1, no signal, no LeakSanitizer output, and that nothing after the failure ran; the two existing bail tests now assert exit code 1; new process.on('exit') cases check listeners stay skipped for a bun:test file on bail and run for a node:test file on bail. Without the src change the three in-test leak cases and the node:test listener case fail; the whole file passes with it (95 pass, 6 todo).
  • Also in bun-test.test.ts: a failing run exits 1 cleanly under LeakSanitizer (serial and --parallel=2, carried over from bun test: exit 1 cleanly on failing runs under LeakSanitizer #32187) pins down the non-bail exit paths, which are already clean on main; both cases report the leak if the teardown is skipped (checked by running them with BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT removed), and the --parallel case relies on the inherited worker stderr since a worker abort does not change the coordinator's exit code.
  • test/regression/issue/12250.test.ts removed from test/no-validate-leaksan.txt; it passes under the lane's environment with this change and times out without it.
  • test/js/bun/test/test-test.test.ts, test/regression/issue/12250.test.ts, test/regression/issue/26851.test.ts, the --parallel --bail tests in test/cli/test/parallel.test.ts pass.
  • Under the lane's environment, bails reached from a test timeout, a throwing beforeEach, done(err), concurrent tests with a 30s sibling and a 60s timer pending, an open bun:sqlite database, --isolate, --rerun-each=3, --bail=2 across files and --watch all exit 1 promptly with no report.
  • This commit cherry-picked onto current main (5448c1e): the bun test exits after failures are not LSan-clean (bail and failing runs abort under detect_leaks=1) #32183 repro and the leak-check cases from bun test: free test-runner finalizer-owned allocations before exit so LSan lanes don't abort green runs #32180 and bun test: exit 1 cleanly on failing runs under LeakSanitizer #32187, run with the lane's environment, all pass (green serial/--isolate/--parallel, failing serial/--parallel, --bail mid-file, --bail on a module evaluation failure); on main itself only the --bail mid-file case fails.
• Superseded PRs: bun test: exit 1 cleanly on failing runs under LeakSanitizer #32187 fixed the same bail exit with a bailed flag that unwinds the run loops, plus a SavedSourceMap::clear() for the source map entry a failing run caches; it was stacked on bun test: free test-runner finalizer-owned allocations before exit so LSan lanes don't abort green runs #32180. Both were written against a June main where bun test's exit did not tear the VM down even with BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 (destructOnExit released only two VM refs, so ~VM never ran under exec's API lock; fixed by serve: trace every server-level callback from the JS wrapper instead of rooting them as Strong #34346) and did not run on_exit() (added by node:test: run(), expectFailure, and Node v26.3.0 skip/todo semantics #34444, extended to --parallel workers by bun test: only run process.on('exit') listeners when node:test APIs were used #38442). On current main every bun test exit that goes through global_exit() frees those objects and the source map table, so the only remaining case under the lane's environment is the bare exit this PR replaces. bun test: exit 1 cleanly on failing runs under LeakSanitizer #32187 and bun test: free test-runner finalizer-owned allocations before exit so LSan lanes don't abort green runs #32180 are closed in favor of this PR; their extra scenario, leak checking without BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT, is not one the lane uses (a passing run is not clean under it either).
• Other open bail PRs: bun test: run afterAll hooks when --bail stops a run #35504, test: keep --watch alive when --bail stops a run #35094, bun test: write coverage reports when --bail stops the run #38265 and bun test: stop truncating .snap files on open, write them per file and on --bail #38974 change other things about bail and keep the hard exit; bun test: stop truncating .snap files on open, write them per file and on --bail #38974 works around this bug by passing detect_leaks=0 to its bail children, which becomes unnecessary with this change. They are independent of this PR apart from textual conflicts at the same lines.

Background

• BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT: opt-in (set by scripts/runner.node.mjs on the ASAN lane) that makes VirtualMachine::global_exit() tear the JSC VM down before exiting instead of just calling exit(). Destroying the VM runs lastChanceToFinalize, which runs every live cell's finalizer; that is how the native boxes behind bun:test wrapper objects (Expect, ScopeFunctions, ...) get freed. Without it a bare exit is the normal, fast path, and leak checking is not meaningful in any bun test exit (a passing run also reports these objects).
• LeakSanitizer reports a malloc'd block as leaked when no pointer to it is found in its roots (stacks, globals, other malloc'd blocks). Pointers held only inside JSC heap cells are invisible to it, so anything owned solely by a JS wrapper is reported unless its finalizer ran. The test runner's own state (CommandLineReporter, BunTest) is reachable from exec's stack frame and is not reported either way.
• on_exit() is the end-of-process sequence (profilers, process.on('exit') dispatch gated by exit_handler.skip_exit_listeners, napi cleanup hooks); it also sets is_shutting_down, which global_exit() asserts. bun test runs it at the end of every run and in --parallel workers since bun test: only run process.on('exit') listeners when node:test APIs were used #38442.
• BunTestRoot::deinit_for_exit() drops the active file's root reference, the preload hook scope and the orphaned pending_then_refs; exec runs it and clears Jest::RUNNER right before global_exit() so nothing that runs during teardown can see a half-torn-down runner. Its doc comment already describes the bail path as a caller.

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[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The change centralizes --bail shutdown through VM-managed teardown. Tests now verify exit codes, sanitizer-clean termination, execution stopping, serial and parallel failures, and exit-listener behavior.

Changes

Test bail-out lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Centralize bail-out teardown src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/runner.rs	Both bail-out paths call CommandLineReporter::bail_out, which performs reporting, exit handling, root release, runner cleanup, and VM teardown. The worker argument comment is clarified.
Validate sanitizer-safe bail-out behavior test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts	ASAN subprocess settings and tests verify exit code 1, clean LeakSanitizer output, stopped execution, and serial and parallel failure behavior.
Validate exit-listener behavior test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts	Tests verify exit-listener suppression for failing bun:test files and listener execution for files that register node:test tests.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38241: Centralizes VM exit and teardown handling for another command path.
• oven-sh/bun#38442: Covers related bail-out, VM teardown, and exit-listener handling.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

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[robobun]

Status: diff is ready. All review threads are resolved (CodeRabbit withdrew its one finding after verification). CI on 162a842 is red only from lanes this PR does not touch: a dev server deinitialization segfault on Windows that also reproduces without this diff (reported separately), plus flaky tests that passed on retry. Needs a maintainer to merge.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the VM teardown sequence on the --bail path (unsafe raw-pointer reborrow across run_with_api_lock, on_exit now running mid-file where it didn't before at the module-evaluation bail site), a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• bail_out matches exec's tail order (on_exit → deinit_for_exit → RUNNER cleared → global_exit); the dropped explicit is_shutting_down = true is set by on_exit().
• The module-evaluation bail site now additionally runs on_exit(), Output::flush(), and write_junit_report_if_needed() — deliberate, and covered by the new node:test exit-listener test.
• New LSan tests are gated on isASAN, drain both pipes concurrently, and assert {exitCode: 1, signalCode: null} plus no LeakSanitizer output.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Consolidates two --bail exit sites in src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs into a single CommandLineReporter::bail_out(vm) -> !. The handle_test_completed site was a bare Global::exit(1) (the bug — skipped BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT teardown, so LSan reported the JSC-owned bun:test wrapper boxes); the TestCommand::run module-evaluation site had a hand-rolled copy of most of the sequence. Both now print the summary/bail message, write junit/timings, then run on_exit() → bun_test_root.deinit_for_exit() → clear Jest::RUNNER → global_exit(), exactly mirroring exec's tail (lines ~3072–3099). Also: comment tweak in parallel/runner.rs, test/regression/issue/12250.test.ts removed from no-validate-leaksan.txt, and six new test cases in bun-test.test.ts.

Security risks

None. This is process-exit sequencing in the test runner; no untrusted input parsing, auth, or network paths.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The code path is small but sits at the intersection of unsafe raw-pointer reborrow (*mut VirtualMachine inside a run_with_api_lock closure), JSC VM teardown, and GC finalizer ordering. The pattern is copied verbatim from exec and from run_as_worker, and the PR description convincingly argues that process.exit() inside a test already exercises exactly this state on the sanitizer lane. Still, it is not a mechanical change: the module-evaluation bail site gains an on_exit() call it did not have before (a deliberate, tested behavior change — exit listeners now run on bail once node:test was used, and sqlite checkpoints happen), and the correctness of calling on_exit() from inside handle_test_completed (mid-file, JS frames possibly on the stack, BunTest still held by TestCommand::run) rests on the analysis in the description.

Other factors

The test coverage is thorough: four LSan-gated bail scenarios (sync, async-with-pending-timer, later-file-with-preload-hooks, module-load-failure — the last covering the second call site), two exit-listener bail cases pinning the skip_exit_listeners gate, and the existing bail tests strengthened to assert exitCode: 1. The author verified the negative case (USE_SYSTEM_BUN-equivalent: fails without the src change). I checked that bail_out's ordering matches exec's and that the removed vm.is_shutting_down = true at the second call site is set inside on_exit() (per the comment at exec line 3081). Given the subtlety of the teardown path and the intentional behavior change, this warrants a maintainer's confirmation rather than auto-approval.

[robobun]

On the two points flagged for a human:

• The raw-pointer reborrow inside run_with_api_lock is the same shape as the existing exit sequences in exec and the --parallel worker; both bail sites are reached inside run_all_tests's API lock already, so the lock here is re-entrant and only there to keep bail_out correct on its own.
• At the module-evaluation bail site the only additions are on_exit() and the Output::flush() before the junit write; that site already wrote the junit and timings files. on_exit() is intentional: it is what the end of a run and --parallel workers do since bun test: only run process.on('exit') listeners when node:test APIs were used #38442, and it is what sets is_shutting_down in place of the manual assignment this removes. The exit-listener gate it applies is covered by the two new process.on('exit') bail cases.

[robobun]

Pushed d130806 (test only): the non-bail failing-run cases from #32187 (serial and --parallel=2, under the lane's environment) now live next to the --bail cases here, sharing one leakCheckEnv. Both pass on this branch and on main, and both report the leak when BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT is removed, so they guard the two exit paths this PR does not touch.

Consolidation, verified with a debug build of main (5448c1e) under the environment the lane gives children (BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 plus detect_leaks=1:abort_on_error=1):

• green serial / --isolate / --parallel runs (the bun test: free test-runner finalizer-owned allocations before exit so LSan lanes don't abort green runs #32180 repro), the napi scenario in test/regression/issue/30205.test.ts (6/6 runs), failing serial and --parallel runs, and --bail on a module evaluation failure all exit cleanly already
• --bail after a test failure is the one case that still exits 134, and it exits 1 with this commit cherry-picked onto main

So #32187 and #32180 are closed in favor of this PR, and the body now carries Fixes #32183 and the reasoning.

[robobun]

Pushed 162a842 (comments only): trimmed the comments the review flagged. The SAFETY comments on the unsafe blocks and the teardown-ordering notes stay; they carry the rationale for exiting through VM teardown on bail. All review threads replied to and resolved.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 2:05 PM PT - Aug 15th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 162a842 has 1 failures in Build #98629 (All Failures):

• test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts - pid 3360 segmentation fault at address 0x0 on 🪟 2019 x64

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the process-exit / VM-teardown sequence for --bail (unsafe raw-pointer reborrows, GC-root release ordering, and a user-visible on_exit() call at the mid-test bail site), a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• bail_out mirrors exec's teardown (lines ~3066–3093) step-for-step: exit_code → skip_exit_listeners → on_exit → deinit_for_exit → RUNNER.write(None) → global_exit; the missing drop(reporter) is fine since the reporter stays stack-rooted.
• The vm_ptr reborrow + run_with_api_lock closure pattern matches the 5+ existing uses in the same file.
• Module-evaluation bail site: confirmed the removed manual is_shutting_down = true is now covered by on_exit(), and that this site already wrote junit/timings and cleared RUNNER, so no regression there.
• Tests follow harness conventions (tempDir, bunEnv spread, concurrent pipe drain, using, signalCode asserted); the two tightened bail tests now assert exit code 1.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR routes both --bail exit sites through a new CommandLineReporter::bail_out(vm) -> ! that performs the same VM-teardown sequence as exec's end-of-run tail: print summary/bail message, write junit/timings, set exit_code=1 and skip_exit_listeners, run on_exit() under the API lock, release bun_test_root GC roots, clear Jest::RUNNER, then global_exit(). Previously the mid-test bail site (handle_test_completed) called bare Global::exit(1), which under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 detect_leaks=1 skipped ~VM's lastChanceToFinalize and left JSC-finalizer-owned boxes for LSan to report (exit 134). The module-evaluation bail site had a hand-rolled copy of most of the sequence; it now delegates to the shared helper, gaining on_exit() (which replaces its manual is_shutting_down = true) and an Output::flush().

Tests: 4 new ASAN-gated LeakSanitizer bail cases, 2 non-bail LeakSanitizer cases (serial + --parallel=2), 2 process.on('exit') bail cases (bun:test skips, node:test runs), 2 existing bail tests tightened to assert exit code 1, and test/regression/issue/12250.test.ts removed from the leaksan exemption list. A comment in parallel/runner.rs was updated to reference the new function name.

Security risks

None. This is process-exit/teardown logic in the test runner; no untrusted input, auth, crypto, or network surface.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. VM teardown ordering is exactly where UAF/leak/assert-at-exit bugs live, and the change adds a user-visible behavior difference: on_exit() now runs on the mid-test bail path, so process.on('exit') listeners are dispatched (gated by skip_exit_listeners) where they previously weren't. The PR description argues this is safe by analogy to process.exit() called inside a test (same state: runner published, file mid-execution, JS frames on stack), and the two new exit-listener tests pin the gate down. That reasoning looks sound and the sequence is a byte-level match of the established exec teardown, but a maintainer familiar with #34346/#34444/#38442 should confirm the mid-test on_exit() addition and the reentrant run_with_api_lock at both call sites.

Other factors

• The unsafe raw-pointer reborrow pattern (let vm_ptr: *mut VirtualMachine = vm; vm.run_with_api_lock(|| unsafe { (*vm_ptr).op() })) is copied verbatim from 5+ existing sites in the same file, including the exec teardown this mirrors.
• Test coverage is thorough and follows repo conventions; the leak tests skipIf(!isASAN) and assert { exitCode: 1, signalCode: null } plus absence of "LeakSanitizer" in stderr, which is the right observable for this bug class.
• All comment-cop threads are resolved (comments trimmed in 162a842); the CodeRabbit thread about deinit_for_exit and the active-file clone is resolved with a reasoned reply (destructOnExit's ~VM runs last-chance finalization regardless of outstanding Strong handles; the Rc stays stack-rooted so LSan doesn't flag it).
• No prior claude[bot] review on this PR.

[robobun]

Two things from a review pass over this PR against the other open bail PRs, for whoever sequences them (the shape question is a maintainer call; nothing here changes the test coverage, which holds under any of the shapes below):

• bun test: write coverage reports when --bail stops the run #38265 (coverage on bail) adds a CommandLineReporter::bail_out(&mut self, vm: &VirtualMachine) that returns, called from the same two sites this PR's diverging bail_out(&mut self, vm: &mut VirtualMachine) -> ! replaces. That is a semantic conflict, not just a textual one: whichever lands second has to fold the two into one helper (report, coverage, then the teardown exit).
• test: keep --watch alive when --bail stops a run #35094 (--watch) and bun test: run afterAll hooks when --bail stops a run #35504 (afterAll on bail) both latch the bail and unwind, but each still ends in a bare Global::exit(1) (test: keep --watch alive when --bail stops a run #35094 when not watching, bun test: run afterAll hooks when --bail stops a run #35504 in TestCommand::run after the unwind), so they do not fix bun test exits after failures are not LSan-clean (bail and failing runs abort under detect_leaks=1) #32183 by themselves; with this PR in, those exits become a bail_out call. The alternative shape is to unwind all the way back to exec's tail, the way the --parallel coordinator's StopReason::Bail already does, in which case the serial tail this PR reuses runs on its own and bail_out reduces to printing the bail message. No open PR does that today; the closed bun test: exit 1 cleanly on failing runs under LeakSanitizer #32187 (branch farm/53b39076/fail-exit-lsan) has a version of it if that is the preferred direction, and the tests here carry over unchanged either way.
• Smaller point in the same vein: bail_out's teardown sequence is a second copy of exec's (and the --parallel worker has a third); if this lands as is, having exec call the same helper would keep it to one.