valkey: reject connect() and call onclose with the real failure reason

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Stacked on #39579, which carries the uSockets and errno changes this client uses.

The problem

connect() and onclose always got ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED with the message "Connection closed". This was true for every failure. A wrong password, a refused port, a missing unix socket path, a rejected TLS certificate and an idle timeout all looked the same to the caller. Only the commands queued behind the dial were rejected with the real error. Users could not tell WRONGPASS from a server that is down (#23467).

The cause is in on_valkey_close. It built a new generic error for the promise and for onclose, even though the code that closed the socket already had the real one.

What changed

• flags.failed (a bool) is gone. ValkeyClient now has failure: Option. It holds the JS error the queued commands were rejected with. fail_with_js_value sets it once. connect() and on_open clear it. Every reader of the old bool reads is_some() instead.
• on_valkey_close rejects the connect() promise and calls onclose with that recorded error. The same object reaches the commands, the promise and onclose.
• ValkeyClient::on_close now takes a CloseReason. Every close origin supplies one. The socket close callback passes SocketClosed ("Connection closed"). on_connect_error passes the errno or resolver text, in the shape of node:net: "connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6379" or "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND host". A dial that fails inside connect() passes the errno it left, for example "connect ENOENT /run/redis.sock". The errno comes from net: report the real connect errno #39579: uSockets returns it, and both ConnectError and the connect error callback carry it already mapped.
• The message prints the real errno (mapped once in net: report the real connect errno #39579), so an unreachable host prints EHOSTUNREACH, not ECONNREFUSED. On Windows a refused connect prints ECONNREFUSED because net: report the real connect errno #39579 reads SO_ERROR instead of the recv() probe's WSAENOTCONN.
• IPv6 literals are printed without the URL brackets: "connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:6379".
• A Strong holds the error because it must stay alive from fail_with_js_value, through the socket close dispatch, to on_valkey_close. That chain allocates and can collect, the error may have no other referent when no command was queued, and a plain JSValue in the boxed client is not scanned. It is dropped with the client and cleared on the next connect() or on_open, so a client that failed once does not root its error for good.
• The TLS context failure in connect() no longer calls fail() early and no longer turns off the client's autoReconnect option. It hands the deferred close a terminal CloseReason::DialFailed. on_close() skips the retry policy for a terminal dial, so the message is "Failed to create TLS context", there is no retry, and a later connect() keeps autoReconnect.
• A close() while a dial is pending is reported as "Connection closed". uSockets reports an aborted dial as a connect error (ECONNABORTED). disconnect() marks the dial it interrupted and that dial's on_close() drops the errno text. A dial started later, for example by a duplicate() of a closed client, reports its own errno.
• When retries are used up, "Max reconnection attempts reached" is the message and the last attempt's error is its cause, non-enumerable like new Error(message, { cause }), so err.cause.message is "connect ECONNREFUSED host:port" under the default options. The outcome is the same whether the last dial failed inside connect() or from the event loop.

Error codes are unchanged. Authentication failures keep ERR_REDIS_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED, timeouts keep ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT and ERR_REDIS_IDLE_TIMEOUT, TLS verify errors keep their OpenSSL code, and every other close keeps ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED.

Visible changes

connect() rejections and the onclose argument now carry the specific reason. Existing tests that pinned the generic one were updated on purpose:

• "an idle timeout over redis:// (rediss://) closes the connection and rejects what was in flight": onclose code is ERR_REDIS_IDLE_TIMEOUT, not ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED.
• "a connection that stays silent after the handshake is closed by its idle timeout": onclose code is ERR_REDIS_IDLE_TIMEOUT.
• "a connect() issued from onclose after a refused connection rejects instead of hanging": the message is "connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:", not "Connection closed".
• "a connect() issued from onclose is not fed the replies left over from the failed connection": connect() rejects with ERR_REDIS_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED and the WRONGPASS text.
• "a rejected SELECT after an accepted HELLO fails the connection once": onclose gets the server's "ERR DB index is out of range".
• "a connect() issued from onclose after a failed TLS handshake gets to dial again": connect() rejects with the TLS error (code ECONNRESET, "Client network socket disconnected before secure TLS connection was established").
• valkey-gc.test.ts, "connection timeout while a dial to an IP literal is pending" (from valkey: release the socket keep-alive ref at the close-event entry #39543, which landed while this was open): connect() now rejects with the same ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT error as the queued command, not ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED.

Tests

All in test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts, against net and tls stubs on port 0. Each one asserts that the queued command, connect() and onclose received the same error object.

• WRONGPASS and NOAUTH replies to HELLO.
• connectionTimeout expiry.
• A refused TCP port.
• A unix socket path that does not exist (ENOENT, not on Windows).
• A self signed certificate with rejectUnauthorized.
• Retries used up, with the last dial refused (async) and with the last dial failing inside connect() (sync); the cause carries the errno text.
• A second connect() after an authentication failure gets its own rejection, and a third one connects once the stub accepts.
• A refused IPv6 literal prints "::1:" (skipped without IPv6).
• A TLS context that cannot be built, with autoReconnect on: one onclose, "Failed to create TLS context".
• close() while a dial is pending, to a hostname (connecting socket, run in a fresh process so the resolver cache is cold) and to a literal IP (half-open socket): "Connection closed" to connect(), the queued command and onclose, one onclose. The same for close() right after a dial failed inside connect().
• The peer dropping an established connection, and close() on a connected client: onclose and the in-flight command get the same "Connection closed" error.
• A later connect() keeps autoReconnect after a TLS context failure.

The first four tests come from #35509. This PR supersedes that one. It fixes the same bug without a second field next to flags.failed, and it covers the failures that never went through fail(): TLS verify errors, dial errors and the terminal retry message.

Not in this PR

• No new error code for a refused connection. postgres has ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_REFUSED; redis keeps ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED with the errno in the message.
• The docs list of error codes is unchanged.
• redis+unix:// cannot dial a Windows path. The path comes from the URL pathname, so redis+unix:///C:/dir/r.sock reaches connect(2) as /C:/dir/r.sock and Winsock rejects it with EINVAL (that EINVAL is now what connect() reports; before it was "Connection closed"). The unix socket tests stay skipped on Windows for that reason. The ENOENT check in bun_sys::unix_connect_errno (net: report the real connect errno #39579) is still reached through Bun.connect, whose Windows test pins it.

Fixes #23467

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Valkey connection failure propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Failure state and close-reason contract src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs, src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs	Valkey retains JavaScript failure errors and adds typed close reasons. Successful connections clear the retained failure.
Dial error capture and normalization src/uws_sys/socket.rs, src/errno/lib.rs, src/runtime/socket/..., packages/bun-usockets/..., src/sys/lib.rs	Dial paths capture, normalize, and preserve socket, DNS, and Unix-socket errors.
Deferred closure and error delivery src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs, src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs	Deferred closures carry failure reasons. Close reasons reach pending commands, connect(), and onclose. Retry exhaustion creates a terminal error with the prior failure as its cause.
Connection failure coverage test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts	Tests cover error identity and messages across authentication, timeout, TCP, IPv6, Unix sockets, TLS, retries, repeated attempts, peer closes, and idle timeouts.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#37993: Modifies related Valkey failure, deferred-close, reconnect, and callback handling.
• oven-sh/bun#39193: Modifies ValkeyClient::on_close() and close error delivery.
• oven-sh/bun#39547: Modifies Valkey failure tracking and command rejection.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, robobun, dylan-conway

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The changes improve failure reporting, but they do not show that the production RedisLabs connection can connect successfully as required by #23467.	Add or reference a fix and test that establishes the affected RedisLabs connection, or update the linked issue to reflect the narrower error-reporting objective.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes support Valkey connection-failure propagation, errno normalization, platform handling, or tests for the stated behavior.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the problem, implementation, behavior changes, test coverage, and platform-specific verification limitations.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: propagating real connection failure reasons to connect() and onclose.

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs`:
- Around line 1432-1442: Update the error selection before on_close.call() to
retain the selected value in a local Strong root for the callback’s lifetime,
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The container-gated test assertions I flagged earlier are now updated in e8dba28 — thanks. This run found no further issues. Given the scope (replacing flags.failed with a GC-rooted Option<Strong>, threading CloseReason through every close path, errno capture in ConnectError, and the user-visible change to connect()/onclose error text), a human look is still worthwhile.

Checked: Strong has Drop so failure = None and struct drop release the root; every c_ares::Error::code() variant starts with DNS_ so the [4..] slice in on_connect_error cannot panic; the ConnectError shape change is confined to valkey callers (the From<ConnectError> for uws::Error impl still discards the payload for everyone else).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Replaces the boolean ConnectionFlags::failed with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> on ValkeyClient, so the same JS error object that rejects queued commands is also handed to the connect() promise and onclose. Adds CloseReason<'a> and threads it through every on_close() caller (SocketHandler::on_close, on_connect_error, the semi-socket branch of close(), and ValkeyDeferredClose). on_connect_error now formats connect ECONNREFUSED host:port / getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND host in the shape of node:net. uws::ConnectError::FailedToOpenSocket gains an errno field captured from last_os_error(). DeferredClose::WithoutSocket now carries the reason as Box<[u8]> (dropping Copy). ~190 lines of new always-on tests plus updates to six existing assertions that pinned the old generic text.

Previous review

My earlier inline comment flagged four assertions in the describe.skipIf(!isEnabled) block that would fail on Docker-enabled CI lanes because they still matched the old "Connection closed" text. Commit e8dba28 updated all four (three regexes now include |connect E[A-Z]+, and the inline snapshot at ~line 292 became toThrow(/connection closed|connect ECONNREFUSED/i)), so that concern is resolved.

Security risks

None identified. Error-message formatting only; no new parsing of untrusted input, no auth/permission changes.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. This is production runtime code with GC lifetime implications: a Strong handle is now stored on a long-lived native struct and cleared at connect()/on_open, and one path (TLS-context failure) holds it across an event-loop turn — the PR description correctly identifies this as the reason Strong is used rather than a bare JSValue. The errno capture in ConnectError::failed_to_open_socket() relies on uSockets not clobbering errno between the failing syscall and the Rust return; the PR description states uSockets preserves it, and the ENOENT unix-socket test exercises exactly that path. The &dns_err.code()[4..] slice is safe because every arm of c_ares::Error::code() returns a string with the DNS_ prefix. User-visible error messages and, in some existing tests, error codes (e.g. onclose now getting ERR_REDIS_IDLE_TIMEOUT instead of ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED) change — intentional per the description, but worth a maintainer sign-off.

Other factors

Comprehensive new test coverage (WRONGPASS, NOAUTH, connection timeout, ECONNREFUSED, ENOENT unix socket, self-signed TLS, exhausted retries via both sync and async dial-failure paths, and repeated connect() after auth failure), each asserting object identity across the queued command, the connect() promise, and onclose. The getaddrinfo branch is not directly tested (CodeRabbit noted this), but that is a coverage gap rather than a defect. Not approving because this is a non-trivial state-machine and GC-lifetime change with visible behavior changes, not because a specific problem was found.

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I re-reviewed after e8dba28 and 5a80b78 — the container-gated tests I flagged now accept the new connect E[A-Z]+ text, so that finding is resolved, and I didn't find anything new. Given this replaces flags.failed with a Strong-rooted error value and rethreads the close-reason contract through every dial/close path, a human look is still worthwhile.

Checked the Strong lifecycle — created only in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, read in on_valkey_close; Strong::Drop releases when overwritten with None, and the TLS-context deferred-close path that motivated the Strong no longer calls fail() early so there's no premature root.
Checked that the connect_errno extraction preserves the socket_body.rs whitelist verbatim (7 codes + WSA≥10000 remap → ECONNREFUSED fallback) and that code_ now derives from the enum's IntoStaticStr, which yields the same strings.
Checked ConnectError::failed_to_open_socket() captures errno at both call sites (connect_group / connect_unix_group) immediately after the failing uSockets call.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the generic "Connection closed" error that connect() and onclose always received with the specific failure reason (WRONGPASS, ECONNREFUSED, ENOENT, TLS verify errors, timeouts). It touches five Rust files and one test file: ValkeyClient gains failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> in place of flags.failed: bool; on_close now takes a CloseReason enum; on_connect_error builds a node:net-style errno/getaddrinfo message; connect_errno is extracted from socket_body.rs into errno/lib.rs and shared with the redis client; ConnectError::FailedToOpenSocket now carries the captured errno. ~180 lines of new tests cover WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, connectionTimeout, refused TCP, missing unix socket, self-signed TLS, exhausted retries (both sync and async dial failures), and repeated connect() after auth failure.

Prior review

My earlier run flagged that four container-gated tests inside describe.skipIf(!isEnabled) still asserted the old "Connection closed" text and would fail on Docker CI lanes. Commit e8dba28 addressed this by adding connect E[A-Z]+ to those regexes and replacing the inline snapshot at ~line 292 with toThrow(/connection closed|connect ECONNREFUSED/i). That thread is now resolved. Commit 5a80b78 then extracted the errno normalisation into bun_errno::connect_errno so socket_body.rs and the new valkey message builder share one source of truth.

Security risks

None identified. No auth, crypto, or permission logic changes; error messages echo the host/port/path the user themselves supplied.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-high. The change is well-scoped and thoroughly tested, but it's not mechanical: it introduces a GC root (Strong) on ValkeyClient, changes the close-path state machine, and touches cross-platform errno mapping (Windows WSA-code remap). The Strong is justified — the PR description explains one path (TLS context failure) crosses an event-loop turn before on_valkey_close reads it — and its lifecycle is bounded by do_connect/on_open clearing it. But per REVIEW.md, adding a Strong and rethreading error-path ownership across native/JS is exactly the class of change reviewers scrutinize by hand.

Other factors

The PR description is unusually thorough, enumerates every existing test whose expected value changed on purpose, and the new test suite asserts error-object identity (expect(await get).toBe(err)) across the queued command, connect() promise, and onclose — the strongest invariant. The strum::IntoStaticStr change in socket_body.rs is a strict simplification of the hand-written if-chain. CodeRabbit's suggestion to add a getaddrinfo test case for the DNS branch is reasonable additional coverage but not blocking.

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src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs (1)

1540-1543: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve the TLS context creation cause.

Line 1542 discards the failure captured through cache.get_or_create(custom, &mut err). Queued commands, connect(), and onclose then receive only "Failed to create TLS context" for invalid TLS configuration.

Convert err, and the BoringSSL error when err is none, into the deferred close reason. Add coverage for a TLS context creation failure. This conflicts with the PR objective to preserve TLS failure reasons.

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs` around lines 1540 - 1543, Update the TLS
context failure branch in the surrounding connection method to preserve the
error captured by cache.get_or_create(custom, &mut err): convert err, and use
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[claude]

Thanks for updating the container-gated tests — the four assertions I flagged now accept the new connect E<CODE> text. This run found no bugs. Given the scope (a new Strong GC root on ValkeyClient, the shared connect_errno refactor now used by Bun.connect, and the reworked close-reason plumbing across on_close/on_connect_error/the deferred-close task), a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• bun_errno::connect_errno vs. the deleted inline chain in socket_body.rs — same 7 kept codes, same WSA mapping; <&str>::from(SystemErrno) yields the same "ENOENT"/etc. strings via the strum derive.
• Strong lifetime — has Drop; cleared in do_connect/on_open, dropped with the client in deinit.
• dns_err.code()[4..] — every c_ares::Error::code() arm returns a "DNS_"-prefixed literal, so the slice cannot panic.
• TLS-context-failure path now goes through the deferred close instead of an early fail(); on_close still records the failure via self.fail(message, …).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the boolean flags.failed on ValkeyClient with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> holding the actual JS error object, and threads a CloseReason through every path that reaches on_close() so that connect()'s rejection, onclose, and queued-command rejections all receive the same specific error instead of a generic "Connection closed". It also lifts the connect-errno normalisation (WSA→POSIX mapping on Windows, the 7-code keep-list) out of Bun.connect's socket_body.rs into a shared bun_errno::connect_errno, and extends uws::ConnectError to carry the errno left by the failed socket(2)/connect(2). Six files touched; ~200 lines of new tests against local net/tls stubs.

Security risks

None identified. The change is error-message plumbing; no new input parsing, no auth/crypto logic changes. The errno read via std::io::Error::last_os_error() in ConnectError::failed_to_open_socket() reads thread-local errno immediately after uSockets returns null and is only used to format a message.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The change is well-scoped and thoroughly tested, but it: (1) adds a Strong GC root to a long-lived struct, which must be released on every lifecycle exit — I verified Strong has Drop, and the field is cleared in do_connect, on_open, and dropped with the box in JSValkeyClient::deinit; (2) refactors errno normalisation that Bun.connect also depends on — I diffed the old inline chain against the new connect_errno and they are behaviour-equivalent (same 7 kept codes, same Windows WSA→SystemErrno mapping, and the strum IntoStaticStr derive produces the same "ENOENT"/"ECONNREFUSED"/etc. literals the old code hard-coded); (3) reorders the TLS-context-failure path to go through the deferred close instead of an immediate fail(), which changes when the failure is recorded relative to the event-loop turn.

Other factors

My previous inline finding (four container-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) was addressed in commit e8dba28e and the thread is resolved. The [4..] slice on dns_err.code() is safe — every arm of c_ares::Error::code() returns a "DNS_"-prefixed literal. CodeRabbit's suggestion to add a getaddrinfo test for the DNS branch is reasonable but non-blocking. The user-visible message changes are intentional and documented in the PR description. Given the cross-subsystem reach and the GC-root addition, I'm deferring rather than auto-approving.

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Adopted. This PR is the one being maintained (#39569 is closed). It is stacked on #39579 and rebased onto the valkey changes that landed on main this week. On the current head ffb5d24 (build 101143) every lane passed except macOS, where node-tls-server.test.ts timed out; that test fails on main too and is reported separately. Everything this PR touches passes. Ready for a maintainer once #39579 lands.

[claude]

Thanks — commit e8dba28 addresses the container-gated test assertions I flagged, and 44dfadb/ef6741aa cover the bsd.c errno restore and the getaddrinfo test. I re-reviewed and didn't find any new issues. Given the scope — a new Strong-rooted field on ValkeyClient, reworked close/fail lifecycle, cross-platform errno capture in uSockets, and the shared connect_errno refactor touching Bun.connect — a human look is still worthwhile.

Checked: failure is cleared at both reset points (do_connect, on_open) and read-only elsewhere, so no stale error survives a reconnect; on_valkey_close reads failure.get() before user code can clear it via connect() from onclose; the socket_body.rs refactor preserves the exact errno whitelist and the Windows libuv negation that follows it.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the flags.failed bool on ValkeyClient with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> holding the actual JS error, threads a CloseReason through every on_close call site, and makes on_valkey_close reject the connect() promise and call onclose with the recorded error instead of a generic "Connection closed". Supporting changes: ConnectError now captures errno at the failed-dial site (with bsd.c preserving it across the cleanup close on all platforms, not just Windows), bun_errno::connect_errno extracts the errno-normalisation logic Bun.connect already had so both clients share it, and on_connect_error formats the errno/resolver text in node:net's shape. ~200 lines of new always-on tests against local net/tls stubs cover WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, timeout, ECONNREFUSED, ENOENT unix path, ENOTFOUND resolver, self-signed cert, exhausted retries (both sync and async last-dial), and repeated connect() after failure. Six existing tests were updated to expect the specific error instead of the generic one, and the container-gated tests I flagged were widened to accept the new format.

Security risks

None identified. The change is error-message plumbing; no new input parsing, no auth/crypto logic changes. The errno whitelist in connect_errno is byte-identical to what socket_body.rs already used.

Level of scrutiny

High. This touches GC-rooted state on a long-lived native object (the new Strong field), the socket close/fail state machine that has historically been fragile (multiple prior PRs on re-entrancy from onclose), cross-platform errno capture in vendored C, and a shared helper that Bun.connect also depends on. The reasoning about why no extra root is needed in on_valkey_close and why the Strong drop is JS-thread-only is sound (the struct already held JSPromiseStrong values under the same constraint), but this is exactly the class of change where a maintainer's eye on the lifecycle is valuable.

Other factors

• My previous inline finding (four container-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) was addressed in e8dba28; all four regexes and the inline snapshot were widened.
• The two CodeRabbit findings that had substance (bsd.c errno clobbered by close() on POSIX; missing getaddrinfo test) were addressed in 44dfadb and ef6741a. The GC-rooting concerns CodeRabbit raised were correctly refuted.
• CI passed on e99cc42 per the robobun comment; the two later commits are additive (C errno restore + one test).
• robobun noted this was adopted as #39569; the same commits appear here now, so the two PRs look to be on the same branch.

[claude]

Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

• 🟡 src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs:632 — Nit: the inline comment a few lines below (~line 643) still says "on_close reads failed and skips the retry policy", but this PR removed flags.failed — on_close now checks self.failure.is_some(). The doc comment on the new failure field (line 296) was updated correctly; this one was missed. Consider s/failed/failure/ so the comment matches the field it now describes.

  Extended reasoning...

  What is stale

  Inside fail_with_js_value (src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs:641-645), the comment above self.close(uws::CloseCode::Failure) reads:

  "A failure the client detected itself (idle timeout, protocol or handshake error) has always been a deliberate close; on_close reads failed and skips the retry policy. It is not is_manually_closed: …"

  This PR removed the boolean flags.failed and replaced it with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong>. on_close (line 707) now checks self.failure.is_some(), and this function itself sets self.failure = Some(bun_jsc::Strong::create(...)) at line 632 rather than self.flags.failed = true. The comment therefore names a field that no longer exists.

  Why it was missed

  The PR author did update the parallel prose. The doc comment on the new failure field (line 292-297) says "…on_close reads this to skip the retry policy…", and the doc comment on do_connect was updated from "clear the sticky failed flag" to "clear the sticky failure". The comment inside fail_with_js_value was pre-existing text that isn't in the diff hunk (it sits between two changed hunks), so a search-and-replace on failed in the diff wouldn't have caught it, and flags.failed grep wouldn't match a bare backticked failed.

  Step-by-step proof

  1. Before this PR: ConnectionFlags had failed: bool; fail_with_js_value set self.flags.failed = true; on_close checked self.flags.failed. The comment "on_close reads failed" was accurate.
  2. This PR removes failed: bool from ConnectionFlags (diff hunk at valkey.rs:35-40) and adds pub(crate) failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> to ValkeyClient (diff hunk at valkey.rs:289-298).
  3. fail_with_js_value now writes self.failure = Some(bun_jsc::Strong::create(jsvalue, global_this)) (line 632).
  4. on_close now branches on self.failure.is_some() (line 707: if self.flags.is_manually_closed || self.failure.is_some()).
  5. The comment at line 643 still references the removed failed name.

  Impact

  None on behavior — this is documentation only. A future reader grepping for failed to understand the retry-skip mechanism will find nothing; grepping for failure will find the field doc at line 296 which already explains it correctly, so the drift is cosmetic and mildly confusing at worst.

  Fix

  One-word change on line 643:

  // handshake error) has always been a deliberate close; `on_close` reads
  // `failure` and skips the retry policy. It is not `is_manually_closed`:

  Alternatively, since the field's own doc comment (line 292-297) already carries the same explanation, this inline comment could be trimmed to just the is_manually_closed distinction, but the minimal fix is the rename.

[robobun]

Pushed 84f7cb3 for the stale comment in fail_with_js_value (it named the removed flag). I also ran the suite on a debug build at f5bd42f: connection-failures.test.ts 44 pass, 13 skipped (container gated), and the Bun.connect error code tests in socket.test.ts and node-net.test.ts still pass with connect_errno_code.

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src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs (1)

1517-1526: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider rejecting with the retained failure instead of a generic message.

The PR exposes the real failure reason to connect(), queued commands, and onclose. Commands issued after the failure still receive a new generic "Connection has failed" error. self.failure holds the recorded cause at this point, so the same reason can be reported here.

If you keep the generic error, the reason is available only to callers that observed the original close.

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs` around lines 1517 - 1526, Update the
self.failure rejection path to reuse the retained failure cause instead of
constructing the generic “Connection has failed” error, ensuring commands issued
after failure receive the same reason exposed by connect(), queued commands, and
onclose.

src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs (1)

1955-1971: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the fixed [4..] slice with strip_prefix.

dns_err.code() is sliced at a hard-coded offset to drop the DNS_ prefix. If any code is shorter than 4 bytes, this panics inside a socket callback. A resolver failure is user-reachable, so it must not panic.

strip_prefix produces the same text for well-formed codes and falls back safely otherwise.

🐛 Proposed fix for the prefix slice

                     let _ = write!(
                         message,
                         "getaddrinfo {} {}",
-                        &dns_err.code()[4..],
+                        dns_err.code().strip_prefix("DNS_").unwrap_or(dns_err.code()),
                         bstr::BStr::new(address.hostname())
                     );

As per coding guidelines: "use real parsers instead of prefix stripping or regex heuristics for user input" and "User-reachable failures must be recoverable errors rather than panics or unreachable assertions".

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs` around lines 1955 - 1971, Update the
error-message construction in the dns_err branch of the connect callback to
replace the unchecked dns_err.code()[4..] slice with safe DNS_ prefix removal
using strip_prefix and a fallback for codes without that prefix, preserving the
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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs`:
- Around line 1955-1971: Update the error-message construction in the dns_err
branch of the connect callback to replace the unchecked dns_err.code()[4..]
slice with safe DNS_ prefix removal using strip_prefix and a fallback for codes
without that prefix, preserving the existing getaddrinfo message for well-formed
codes without allowing resolver failures to panic.

In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs`:
- Around line 1517-1526: Update the self.failure rejection path to reuse the
retained failure cause instead of constructing the generic “Connection has
failed” error, ensuring commands issued after failure receive the same reason
exposed by connect(), queued commands, and onclose.

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[robobun]

On the "unsafe fixed slice" merge risk in the summary above: the slice is &dns_err.code()[4..] in on_connect_error. c_ares::Error::code() (src/cares_sys/c_ares.rs:1726) has one arm per variant, 26 of 26, and every arm returns a literal that starts with DNS_, so the slice cannot panic. src/runtime/dns_jsc/cares_jsc.rs:769 and :801 slice the same way for node:dns, fetch and Bun.connect. No change needed.

[robobun]

Build 100666 failed on both Windows lanes: the three refused connection tests got "connect ENOTCONN" instead of "connect ECONNREFUSED". Cause: uSockets detects a failed dial on Windows with a recv probe, and the probe fails with WSAENOTCONN whatever the reason, so that is the code on_connect_error received. Before f5bd42f the whitelist hid this by mapping it to ECONNREFUSED. Fixed at the source in e61e121: after the probe fails, us_internal_socket_after_open reads SO_ERROR and reports that code. Reproduced and verified on a Windows x64 debug build (this file 34 pass, the Bun.connect and node:net connect error tests still pass). Bun.connect is unaffected since connect_errno_code mapped both codes to ECONNREFUSED already.

[claude]

I re-reviewed after the fixes and didn't find any bugs this run. The Docker-gated test assertions I flagged earlier are now updated. Given the scope — a new Strong root on ValkeyClient, the Windows SO_ERROR change in us_internal_socket_after_open (which affects every connecting socket, not just redis), and the errno-preservation edits in bsd.c — a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• failure: Option<Strong> lifetime — set in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, dropped with the client; on_valkey_close reads it before user JS can clear it.
• connect_errno_code refactor in socket_body.rs preserves the same seven-code whitelist and ECONNREFUSED fallback Bun.connect had.
• close_aborted_dial is per-dial (taken via mem::take in on_close), so a later dial's real errno is not masked.
• &dns_err.code()[4..] slice cannot panic — every c_ares::Error::code() arm returns a DNS_-prefixed literal.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the generic "Connection closed" error that RedisClient.connect() and onclose reported with the specific failure reason (WRONGPASS text, connect ECONNREFUSED host:port, getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND host, TLS verify errors, timeout messages). It touches ten files across five layers: uSockets C (bsd.c errno preservation across cleanup; context.c Windows SO_ERROR read after the recv probe), the bun_errno crate (new connect_errno/connect_errno_code helpers), bun_sys (unix_connect_errno for the Windows ENOENT-vs-ECONNREFUSED distinction), uws_sys (ConnectError now carries the errno), Bun.connect (socket_body.rs/Listener.rs refactored onto the shared helpers), and the valkey client itself (flags.failed: bool → failure: Option<Strong>, on_close(CloseReason), close_aborted_dial flag, terminal-dial handling, cause on the max-retries error). ~280 lines of new tests plus updates to seven existing assertions that pinned the old generic text.

Security risks

None identified. The change is error-message plumbing; no auth, crypto, or permission surfaces are touched. The unix_connect_errno exists() probe on Windows is the same check Bun.connect already did, moved into a shared helper.

Level of scrutiny

High. The context.c change alters what error code on_connect_error receives for every failed non-blocking connect on Windows — that reaches Bun.connect, node:net, fetch, and every other socket consumer, not just redis. The bsd.c errno-restore edits are on the POSIX and Windows connect paths shared by all callers. Adding a Strong GC root to a heap-boxed client requires the release-thread invariant to hold (robobun argued it does, and in_flight already holds JSPromiseStrongs, so no new constraint). The Bun.connect refactor onto connect_errno_code must preserve the exact seven-code whitelist behavior, which it does by construction.

Other factors

My earlier inline finding (four Docker-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) has been addressed in the diff. Robobun reports connection-failures.test.ts passes 44/44 on a debug build and 34 on a Windows debug build after e61e121, and that the Bun.connect/node:net error-code tests still pass. All CodeRabbit threads are resolved. CI build #100692 is in progress at ce1357a. The breadth of the native changes and the cross-consumer impact of the Windows uSockets fix put this beyond what I'd approve without a human reviewer.

[robobun]

Build 100692 (ce1357a) failed on Windows in three files. Two of them your 12b2d75 covers (the probe error kept in context.c, and the redis+unix tests skipped again). The third was test-net-client-bind-twice: since ce1357a connect_errno_code ran its input through the Win32 table, but Listener.rs (and the named pipe context and the TLS upgrade path) pass SystemErrno values, so EADDRINUSE came out as ECONNREFUSED. Only the uSockets callback receives a raw code. ac38b80 maps it there, in NewSocket::on_connect_error, and connect_errno_code takes SystemErrno numbering from every caller. Verified 12b2d75 plus ac38b80 on a Windows x64 debug build: test-net-client-bind-twice and test-net-server-reset exit 0, the "connect() error codes on Windows" block in node-net.test.ts passes, connection-failures.test.ts 35 pass, socket.test.ts connect error tests pass. On Linux connection-failures.test.ts is 45 pass and the same node tests pass.

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs`:
- Around line 1950-1967: Update the DNS error formatting in the c-ares error
branch of the connection logic to replace the unchecked four-byte slice on
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[robobun]

Merged main into the branch (6fe7c97) to clear the conflict with #39570, which moved readCommands to module scope at the spot where this branch adds the "connect() error identity" describe. The resolution keeps both. The Rust side merged cleanly. On the merged tree connection-failures.test.ts is 48 pass, 0 fail, and valkey-gc.test.ts and the redis regression tests pass. I merged instead of rebasing so that the history you have locally stays valid.

[claude]

The Docker-gated test assertions I flagged earlier are now updated (the connect E[A-Z]+ regex and the localhost:12345 snapshot), and this pass found no further issues. Given the scope — a new Strong root on ValkeyClient, the connect_errno/connect_errno_code refactor shared with Bun.connect, and the uSockets SO_ERROR/errno-preservation changes in bsd.c/context.c — a human look is still worthwhile.

Checked: failure: Option<Strong> is cleared on connect()/on_open and dropped with the client; on_valkey_close reads it before user JS can clear it. The handle_connect_error refactor keeps Bun.connect's .code whitelist (ENOENT/ENOTSOCK/EACCES/EINVAL/ECONNRESET/EADDRINUSE/EADDRNOTAVAIL) intact, and Listener.rs/named-pipe callers pass SystemErrno values so the Win32 remap only runs at the uSockets callback. The close_aborted_dial flag is taken (not just read) in on_close, so a later dial reports its own errno.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the generic "Connection closed" that RedisClient.connect() and onclose reported for every failure with the specific reason (WRONGPASS text, connect ECONNREFUSED host:port, getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND host, TLS verify errors, etc.). It touches ten files: the valkey client state machine (valkey.rs, js_valkey.rs), shared errno helpers (src/errno/lib.rs, src/sys/lib.rs), Bun.connect's error path (socket_body.rs, Listener.rs), uSockets errno preservation (bsd.c, context.c), the ConnectError enum (uws_sys/socket.rs), and ~400 lines of new tests in connection-failures.test.ts.

The core mechanism: flags.failed: bool becomes failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> holding the actual JS error object; on_close now takes a CloseReason enum so every close origin supplies its own message; on_valkey_close reads the recorded failure instead of building a fresh generic one.

Security risks

None identified. No auth, crypto, or permission logic is touched. Error messages now include hostnames/paths from the client's own connection URL, which the caller already supplied.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is a ~500-line native change spanning:

• A new GC root (Strong) on a refcounted struct with a non-trivial lifecycle (socket callbacks, timers, deferred close tasks, finalizer). The PR description and a resolved review thread argue the drop is always JS-thread and the value stays rooted until on_close.call; I traced the same and agree, but this is exactly the class of change REVIEW.md calls out for careful review.
• A refactor of Bun.connect's connect-error .code mapping into shared bun_errno helpers, with the Win32→SystemErrno mapping moved to the one uSockets callback that receives raw OS codes. An earlier revision of this branch got this wrong (turned EADDRINUSE into ECONNREFUSED on Windows via double-mapping), fixed in ac38b80; the current split looks correct but is subtle.
• Vendored C changes in uSockets: Windows now reads SO_ERROR after the recv probe, and both platforms re-arm errno/WSASetLastError after bsd_close_socket in the connect-failure paths.
• User-visible behavior: six existing tests were updated to expect the new specific messages, which is documented in the PR body.

Other factors

• My earlier finding (four Docker-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) was addressed — the regexes now include connect E[A-Z]+ and the inline snapshot at ~line 292 was replaced with toThrow("connect ECONNREFUSED localhost:12345").
• All CodeRabbit threads are resolved (getaddrinfo test coverage added, [4..] slice justified against c_ares::Error::code()'s exhaustive match, errno-preservation in bsd.c done, Strong lifetime discussion closed).
• The branch went through two rounds of Windows CI failures (ENOTCONN vs ECONNREFUSED, and the double-mapping regression) that were fixed and verified on a Windows debug build per the robobun comments.
• Test coverage is thorough: WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, connectionTimeout, refused TCP, missing unix socket (ENOENT), unresolvable hostname (ENOTFOUND), self-signed cert, exhausted retries with cause, IPv6 literal formatting, TLS-context-build failure being terminal, and close() during a pending dial — each asserting the same error object reaches the queued command, connect(), and onclose.
• A human maintainer (alii) has adopted the PR.

Not auto-approving: the change is large, crosses native/GC/cross-platform boundaries, and had two Windows-specific regressions during development that were only caught by CI. Deferring to the human reviewer who has already adopted it.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR again after the Docker-gated test assertions were updated and the Windows errno-mapping fixes landed; no bugs were found this pass. Given the scope — a new Strong-held JS value on ValkeyClient, the CloseReason threading through every close path, the connect_errno/connect_errno_code refactor shared with Bun.connect, and the uSockets SO_ERROR change on Windows — a human look is still worthwhile before merge.

What was reviewed:

• failure: Option<Strong> lifetime — set in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, dropped with the client; rooted across the promise reject and onclose.call.
• connect_errno_code vs. the old inline whitelist in handle_connect_error — same seven codes kept, WSA mapping moved to on_connect_error so Listener.rs callers stay in SystemErrno numbering.
• close_aborted_dial is taken (not read) in on_close, so a later dial after close() reports its own errno.
• bsd.c errno restoration after bsd_close_socket and the Windows SO_ERROR fallback in context.c — both keep the existing WSAENOTCONN→ECONNREFUSED mapping for Bun.connect.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the generic "Connection closed" error that RedisClient.connect() and onclose received with the specific failure (WRONGPASS, connect ECONNREFUSED host:port, TLS verify errors, etc.), and threads that error as a single JS object to queued commands, the connect promise, and onclose. It touches ten files across four layers: uSockets C (bsd.c, context.c), the errno crate (connect_errno, connect_errno_code, and unix_connect_errno helpers), the shared socket layer (Listener.rs, socket_body.rs, uws_sys/socket.rs), and the valkey client (valkey.rs, js_valkey.rs). The test file gains ~400 lines of coverage across auth, timeout, TCP/unix/IPv6 dial failures, TLS, retries, and close()-during-dial.

Security risks

None identified. The change surfaces existing error information more precisely; no new user input reaches parsing or path handling. The unix_connect_errno helper reads exists(path) on Windows only when the errno is already ECONNREFUSED, matching what Listener.rs did before.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is a large, cross-cutting behavioural change:

• A new Option<bun_jsc::Strong> field on ValkeyClient roots a JS error across a socket close dispatch — GC-sensitive. The field is cleared on connect()/on_open and dropped with the boxed client (which already holds JSPromiseStrong values, so the JS-thread destruction constraint is not new).
• The connect_errno/connect_errno_code split moves logic that Bun.connect's .code depends on; the branch already had one Windows regression here (EADDRINUSE→ECONNREFUSED) that was caught in CI and fixed by mapping the raw code once in NewSocket::on_connect_error.
• The uSockets context.c change alters what every Windows connect-error callback receives (SO_ERROR instead of the recv-probe's WSAENOTCONN); connect_errno_code maps both to ECONNREFUSED, so Bun.connect is unchanged, but this is shared infrastructure.
• bsd.c now restores errno after close() on POSIX so ConnectError::failed_to_open_socket() reads the connect failure, not whatever close() left.

Other factors

My prior finding (four Docker-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) was addressed. All CodeRabbit threads are resolved, including the Strong rooting and [4..] slice concerns (the latter matches the existing idiom in cares_jsc.rs). The branch went through two rounds of Windows CI failures (ENOTCONN vs ECONNREFUSED, then the Listener.rs EADDRINUSE regression), both fixed and verified on a Windows debug build per the timeline. Test coverage is thorough. This is a well-engineered change, but its scope and the number of platform-specific iterations it took to stabilize argue for a maintainer sign-off.

[claude]

I re-ran the automated review after the fixes and found no bugs; the four Docker-gated assertions I flagged earlier now accept the new errno text. Because this reworks the connection-close state machine and adds a Strong-rooted failure value with a lifecycle that spans the socket close dispatch, a maintainer look is still worthwhile before merge.

Checked: the failure Strong is set before any rejection can collect and cleared on do_connect/on_open, so a reconnected client does not root a stale error; every path into on_valkey_close records a failure first (the finalized-client exception is guarded by the this_value early return). close_aborted_dial is consumed via mem::take in on_close and defaulted in clone_without_connecting, so it cannot leak into a later dial or a duplicate. The &dns_err.code()[4..] slice matches the existing idiom in cares_jsc.rs and all 26 c_ares::Error::code() arms are DNS_-prefixed.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the boolean flags.failed with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> on ValkeyClient, threads a CloseReason through every on_close call site, and rewrites on_valkey_close to reject the connect() promise and call onclose with the recorded error instead of a fresh generic "Connection closed". It adds errno/resolver-text formatting (connect_error_message, dial_error_message, the getaddrinfo branch in on_connect_error), a close_aborted_dial flag so a user-initiated close during a pending dial reports "Connection closed" rather than the aborted dial's ECONNABORTED, a cause on the max-retries error, and reworks the TLS-context-failure path to be terminal without mutating enable_auto_reconnect. ~140 lines of Rust changed across js_valkey.rs and valkey.rs, plus ~400 lines of new tests and updated assertions in connection-failures.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. The new code formats error messages from the client's own configured address and from errno/c-ares codes; nothing user-tampered flows into a security-relevant sink. The IPv6 bracket-strip and DNS_ prefix-strip operate on values the client itself produced.

Level of scrutiny

High. This touches the valkey connection lifecycle state machine — a subsystem the code itself calls "incredibly fragile" — and adds a GC root (Strong) whose lifetime spans a chain that allocates and can collect (fail → socket close dispatch → on_valkey_close). It also changes user-visible error messages and codes that callers may pattern-match, and adds a new cause property to the max-retries error. These are the kinds of design and API-shape decisions a maintainer should sign off on. The PR is also stacked on another PR carrying uSockets/errno changes.

Other factors

All prior review threads (CodeRabbit's Strong-lifetime, thread-affinity, and prefix-slice concerns; my Docker-gated-test finding) are resolved with fixes in the branch. robobun reports CI green on build 100728 (179/179) and on Windows after the SO_ERROR fix. Test coverage is thorough: WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, connection timeout, refused TCP, missing unix socket, unresolvable hostname, self-signed cert, exhausted retries (both sync and async last dial), IPv6 bracket stripping, terminal TLS context failure, close() during a pending dial (both connecting-socket and semi-socket), peer-initiated close, and autoReconnect preservation after a TLS context failure. The changes are internally consistent and well-commented, but the combination of GC-rooting, state-machine edges, and user-facing behavior change places this outside the "simple/mechanical" bar for auto-approval.

[robobun]

Build 100757 failed only in fs.test.ts "append with flag a+" on Windows. The cause is in the base branch: 52123d8 in #39579 resolved src/sys/lib.rs against an old copy and undid the a+ fix from #39355. Fixed there (4ee2506, verified on a Windows debug build) and this branch is rebased onto it (7c623c9). The redis side is unchanged; connection-failures.test.ts is still 48 pass locally.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs (my earlier note about the Docker-gated assertions has been addressed). Because it reworks the Valkey close/fail state machine and adds a Strong-rooted JS value on the native client, and is stacked on #39579's uSockets/errno changes, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• failure: Option<Strong> lifecycle — set once in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, read in on_valkey_close; the finalized-client path that can't record is guarded by the this_value check.
• CloseReason threading through every on_close() caller (socket close, on_connect_error, deferred close, half-open close in close()), and close_aborted_dial scoping the ECONNABORTED override to the dial disconnect() interrupted.
• The terminal TLS-context path no longer mutates enable_auto_reconnect; reason.is_terminal() skips retry instead.
• The &dns_err.code()[4..] slice — matches the existing idiom in cares_jsc.rs and every code() arm returns a DNS_-prefixed literal.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Three files: src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs (~110 lines changed), src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs (~110 lines changed), and test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts (~430 lines added/changed). The Rust side replaces the flags.failed bool with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> holding the actual JS error, adds a CloseReason enum threaded through every on_close() call site, adds close_aborted_dial to keep a user's close() from being reported as ECONNABORTED, makes the TLS-context failure terminal without permanently disabling autoReconnect, and attaches the last dial's error as a non-enumerable cause on the max-retries error. The test file gains a new always-on "connect() error identity" describe block with ~15 tests plus updates to existing tests whose assertions pinned the old generic message.

Security risks

None identified. Error messages are built from the client's own configured address (host/port/path from the constructor URL) and errno constants; no untrusted server data is echoed into a new sink. The [4..] slice on c_ares::Error::code() was verified against the exhaustive match in src/cares_sys/c_ares.rs — every arm returns a DNS_-prefixed literal, and the same idiom is already used in cares_jsc.rs.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is production runtime code in the Valkey client's connect/close/fail state machine, and it introduces a GC-rooted Strong on a boxed native struct — exactly the category REVIEW.md flags as most-blocked. The Strong's clear points (explicit connect(), on_open, and Drop with the client) look correct, and the client already holds JSPromiseStrong values in in_flight under the same JS-thread destruction constraint, so no new thread-affinity requirement is introduced. The on_valkey_close read of failure.get() before on_close.call() is safe because the Strong roots it until the call, the call argument keeps it live during user code, and nothing reads it after. The interaction between is_manually_closed, close_aborted_dial, failure.is_some(), and reason.is_terminal() in on_close() is subtle enough that a maintainer familiar with this state machine should confirm the ordering.

Other factors

The PR is stacked on #39579, which carries the uSockets SO_ERROR fix and the bun_errno::connect_errno/unix_connect_errno helpers this code uses; the two need to land together. It went through several CI iterations (Windows ENOTCONN vs ECONNREFUSED, an EADDRINUSE regression from the errno-mapping change, an a+ fs regression in the base branch) and the timeline shows those were fixed. My earlier inline finding about the four Docker-gated tests still asserting "Connection closed" was addressed — the regexes now include connect E[A-Z]+ and the inline snapshot was replaced with the ECONNREFUSED text. All CodeRabbit threads are resolved. Test coverage is thorough (WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, ECONNREFUSED, ENOENT, ENOTFOUND, TLS verify, retries-exhausted with cause, IPv6 bracket stripping, close-during-dial for both connecting and half-open sockets, autoReconnect preserved after TLS-context failure). Given the scope and the GC/lifecycle surface, I'm deferring rather than approving.

[claude]

I re-reviewed after the Docker-gated test assertions were updated — that fix looks right, and this pass found no further issues. Given the scope (Strong-rooted failure state on the boxed client, the CloseReason threading through the reconnect state machine, and the new user-visible .cause shape), a maintainer look is still worthwhile, and this is stacked on #39579.

What was reviewed:

• The failure: Option<Strong> lifecycle — set once in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, read in on_valkey_close; the finalized-client path that cannot record is guarded by the this_value check.
• close_aborted_dial: set only while Connecting, taken by mem::take in the very next on_close, and not copied by clone_without_connecting — a duplicate of a closed client reports its own errno.
• The max-retries cause attachment and its finalized branch; put_non_enumerable matches new Error(m, { cause }).
• The four describe.skipIf(!isEnabled) assertions I flagged earlier now accept connect E[A-Z]+ / the ECONNREFUSED text.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reworks how the Valkey/Redis client surfaces connection-failure reasons. flags.failed: bool becomes failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> holding the actual JS error; ValkeyClient::on_close gains a CloseReason<'a> enum so every close origin (socket close, connect error, deferred dial failure) supplies its own message; on_connect_error now formats errno/resolver text in the node:net shape (connect ECONNREFUSED host:port, getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND host); the max-retries path attaches the last attempt as a non-enumerable .cause; and the TLS-context-failure path becomes a terminal DialFailed instead of mutating the client's enable_auto_reconnect option. A new close_aborted_dial flag distinguishes a user close() during a pending dial from a real connect error. ~290 lines of new tests cover WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, ECONNREFUSED, ENOENT, ENOTFOUND, self-signed cert, IPv6 bracket stripping, exhausted retries with cause, TLS context failure, and close-during-dial for both connecting-socket and half-open-socket cases.

Security risks

None identified. The change is confined to error-message formatting and error-object identity threading; no new input parsing of untrusted data (the errno/DNS codes come from uSockets/c-ares, and the [4..] slice on c_ares::Error::code() was verified against the exhaustive 26-arm match returning DNS_-prefixed literals). No auth, permissions, or crypto logic is altered.

Level of scrutiny

High. The Valkey client's connection lifecycle is a hand-rolled state machine with intrusive refcounting, deferred-close tasks, and re-entrancy from onclose/rejection handlers back into connect(). The new Strong root lives on a heap-boxed struct that is not itself GC-scanned, so its clear/drop points matter (they were traced: do_connect, on_open, and the client's own drop). The PR also changes user-visible error text and adds .cause, which is API surface. It is stacked on #39579 (uSockets errno / connect_errno / SO_ERROR-on-Windows changes) and went through several CI iterations for Windows-specific errno mapping. All of this argues for a maintainer sign-off rather than an automated approve.

Other factors

My previous finding (the four describe.skipIf(!isEnabled) tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) has been addressed — the regexes now include connect E[A-Z]+ and the inline snapshot was replaced with toThrow("connect ECONNREFUSED localhost:12345"). All CodeRabbit threads are resolved (the Strong-rooting and [4..]-slice concerns were withdrawn after verification). robobun reports 48/48 passing locally on the merged tree and that the only CI red is an unrelated Windows dev-server segfault. The test coverage is thorough and each new case asserts error-object identity across the queued command, connect() promise, and onclose. Still, the combination of GC-rooting changes, state-machine edits across multiple close origins, a stacked base PR, and user-visible error-shape changes puts this outside "simple and obvious enough that no human needs to look."

[claude]

I re-reviewed after the container-gated test assertions were updated — that earlier concern is addressed and no new issues were found. Given the scope (replacing flags.failed with a GC-rooted Option<Strong>, threading CloseReason through every close origin, the new close_aborted_dial flag, and user-visible error-message changes) plus the stacking on #39579, a maintainer look is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

• The Strong lifetime: set once in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, read in on_valkey_close before user code can clear it — rooting looks sound.
• close_aborted_dial: set only while Connecting, taken via mem::take in on_close, so it cannot leak into a later dial's close.
• on_valkey_close's debug_assert fallback when failure is None: the finalized-client path returns early on the this_value guard, so the else arm is unreachable in practice.
• The [4..] slice on dns_err.code() matches the existing idiom in cares_jsc.rs and cannot panic (all 26 arms return DNS_-prefixed literals).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reworks how Valkey/Redis connection failures are surfaced to JavaScript. It replaces the boolean flags.failed with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> on ValkeyClient, so the exact JS error object that rejected queued commands is also what connect() rejects with and what onclose receives. It introduces CloseReason (SocketClosed / DialFailed{message, terminal}) and threads it through every on_close() call site, adds close_aborted_dial so a user-initiated close() during a pending dial reports "Connection closed" rather than ECONNABORTED, builds node:net-shaped errno/getaddrinfo messages in on_connect_error and dial_error_message, attaches the last attempt's error as a non-enumerable cause on the "Max reconnection attempts reached" error, and stops the TLS-context-failure path from mutating enable_auto_reconnect. The test file gains a ~290-line connect() error identity describe covering WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, ECONNREFUSED, ENOENT, ENOTFOUND, TLS verify, exhausted retries, IPv6 bracket-stripping, terminal TLS-context failure, and close()-during-dial, plus updates to ~15 existing assertions that pinned the old generic text.

Security risks

None identified. The change is error-message plumbing; it does not touch auth logic, TLS verification decisions, or trust boundaries. The IPv6 bracket-strip is presentation-only. No user input reaches a parser or an allocation-size calculation.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native Rust touching JSC GC rooting (a new Strong field on a boxed struct that is dropped on the JS thread), intrusive refcounting (DeferredClose now carries an owned Box<[u8]>), the socket-close/reconnect state machine, and cross-platform errno mapping that depends on the stacked #39579. It also changes user-visible error messages and codes on established paths — an API-surface change. Per REVIEW.md's memory-safety and "fix at the layer that owns the invariant" guidance, this warrants a maintainer's eye on the Strong lifetime, the on_valkey_close invariant that failure is always Some, and the interaction between close_aborted_dial and the deferred-close task ordering.

Other factors

My earlier finding (four container-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text) has been addressed — the regexes now include connect E[A-Z]+ and the inline snapshot was replaced with an ECONNREFUSED assertion. All CodeRabbit threads are resolved. The PR is stacked on #39579, so it cannot merge independently. robobun reports 48 pass locally and has iterated through several Windows CI failures with fixes landed in the base branch. Test coverage for the new behavior is thorough (identity assertions across all three delivery points, error-object cause shape, negative cases for close()-during-dial). The debug_assert!(false) in on_valkey_close when failure is None returns Ok(()) in release, which is safe (no promise/onclose delivery) but worth a maintainer confirming the invariant holds on every path.

[robobun]

Build 101138 on 760704c failed in valkey-gc.test.ts: the teardown test from #39543 pins connect() rejecting with ERR_REDIS_CONNECTION_CLOSED while the queued command gets the timeout, and on this branch both get the one timeout error. Pushed ffb5d24 updating that expectation (and its comment), listed under visible changes in the description. I had rebased the series onto the new base in parallel and it came out identical to your squash, so nothing else was needed. test/js/valkey/ is 170 pass locally on this head.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. My earlier note about the four Docker-gated tests still asserting the old "Connection closed" text has been addressed (the regexes now accept connect E[A-Z]+ and the inline snapshot at ~292 was updated). Because this changes user-visible error messages, adds a Strong-rooted failure field with lifecycle across dial/close/reconnect, and is stacked on #39579, a maintainer look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• failure: Option<Strong> lifecycle — set once in fail_with_js_value, cleared in do_connect/on_open, dropped with the client; on_valkey_close reads it after the this_value guard so the finalized-client path (which cannot record) is unreachable there.
• close_aborted_dial — set only when status == Connecting and consumed via mem::take in the very next on_close, so it cannot leak into a later dial.
• on_connect_error's &dns_err.code()[4..] slice — every c_ares::Error::code() arm returns a DNS_-prefixed literal, matching the existing idiom in cares_jsc.rs.
• The DeferredClose change from Copy to owning a Box<[u8]> — the boxed task is reclaimed in both run and release_unrun.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the boolean flags.failed with failure: Option<bun_jsc::Strong> on ValkeyClient, so the specific JS error object that rejected queued commands is also delivered to the connect() promise and onclose. on_close now takes a CloseReason enum whose DialFailed variant carries the errno/resolver text formatted like node:net (connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6379, getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND host). A new close_aborted_dial flag suppresses the ECONNABORTED text when the user's own close() aborted the dial. The TLS-context-failure branch no longer mutates enable_auto_reconnect and instead passes a terminal CloseReason. The max-retries branch now attaches the last attempt's error as a non-enumerable cause. Roughly 230 lines of Rust across js_valkey.rs and valkey.rs, plus ~450 lines of test additions/updates in connection-failures.test.ts and one expectation update in valkey-gc.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. The change is error-message plumbing inside the Redis client; no new inputs are parsed, no auth or crypto paths are touched, and the errno text is derived from the client's own address (not peer-supplied bytes).

Level of scrutiny

This warrants maintainer review rather than auto-approval:

• It introduces a Strong GC root with a non-trivial lifecycle (set in fail_with_js_value, cleared on the next dial, read after a socket-close dispatch that allocates). The PR body and the resolved CodeRabbit thread argue the rooting is correct, and the invariant that on_valkey_close always sees Some(failure) (guarded by debug_assert! with an Ok(()) release fallback) checks out against every arm of on_close, but this is exactly the kind of memory-safety reasoning REVIEW.md flags for careful review.
• User-visible error messages and codes change for several existing tests (documented under "Visible changes"); a maintainer should confirm the new messages are the ones Bun wants to commit to.
• The PR is stacked on #39579 and went through several CI iterations for Windows-specific errno mapping — the fixes landed in the base PR, but the coupling means this shouldn't merge independently.

Other factors

• My earlier finding (four Docker-gated tests in connection-failures.test.ts still pinning "Connection closed") was addressed: the three regexes now include |connect E[A-Z]+ and the inline snapshot became toThrow("connect ECONNREFUSED localhost:12345").
• All CodeRabbit threads are resolved; the [4..] slice concern was verified against c_ares::Error::code()'s exhaustive match (every arm is a DNS_-prefixed literal, matching cares_jsc.rs:769/801).
• Test coverage is thorough: every close origin (WRONGPASS/NOAUTH, connection timeout, refused TCP, ENOENT unix socket, ENOTFOUND resolver, self-signed cert, exhausted retries sync and async, IPv6 literal formatting, TLS context failure, close() during a pending dial to both a hostname and a literal IP, peer-dropped connection) asserts identity of the error object across the queued command, connect() and onclose.
• robobun reports 170 pass locally on the head commit and noted the PR is ready for a maintainer once #39579 lands.