valkey: use VecDeque for the command queues; LinearFifo rejects droppable items

[alii]

Replaces #39545.

The problem

The Valkey client keeps two queues: the offline queue of serialized commands and the in-flight queue of promises. Both were LinearFifo rings. LinearFifo never drops its items. Every consumer of that ring except these two holds bytes, raw pointers or Copy structs, so that was fine there. Here each item owns a JS promise handle and a boxed byte buffer.

That leaks on main today. reject_all_pending_commands moves both queues into locals and rejects each item with ?. When a reject throws, for example during a worker teardown, the function returns early and both locals are dropped with items still inside. Those promises and boxes are never freed. The ASAN tests in #39543 observe exactly this leak.

There was a second bug. Two places read the queue with readable_slice(0), which only returns the first contiguous half of a wrapped ring. The auto-pipeline count and the memory estimate both under-counted once the ring had wrapped.

What changed

The two queue aliases are now std::collections::VecDeque. Every call site is a mechanical rename: init to new, readable_length to len or is_empty, readable_slice(0)[0] to front, write_item to push_back, read_item to pop_front, the two whole-queue scans to iter. Control flow is unchanged. VecDeque drops what is left inside it, so any early return now frees the remaining items. #39543 still fixes the drain loop itself so every promise gets rejected; this PR only makes the early return leak-free.

LinearFifo now requires T: Copy on all of its impl blocks. The ring never runs item destructors, and the bound states that where cargo check and rust-analyzer see it, before monomorphization. Two consumers needed a derive: FillItem in the lockfile tree builder and RefDataValue in the test runner. Both hold only integers, raw pointers and Copy structs. Every other consumer was already Copy. The per-method T: Copy clauses that read, write, unget and peek_item carried are gone with the impl-level bound, and the memmove helper is now slice::copy_within. The header comment states the contract.

Visible changes

Two, both fixes.

Before, the flush wrote the pre-wrap segment of the ring, stayed registered, and wrote the rest only when the event loop woke again. Nothing about the pending flush shortens the poll, so that wake was whatever else happened to fire: a reply, a timer, other I/O. Measured with nothing else live, the tail of a burst left about 80 ms after its head. Now every pipelineable command goes out in one write.

estimateShallowMemoryUsageOf counts every queued command's bytes. Before, it counted only the pre-wrap segment.

Tests

Three new tests in test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts. One drains and refills the queue so the old ring wrapped, then checks the memory estimate covers all queued bytes. It fails on main (2244 bytes reported for 5000 queued). The other queues 40 commands against a stub that never finishes the handshake, closes, and checks all 40 reject. That one passes on main too and is there to pin the behaviour. The third runs the client in a child process with nothing else live and has a stub count the GETs in the first read after the ring wrapped: main writes 2 of 5 there and the other 3 on a later wake, this branch writes all 5.

Not in this PR

The drain loop in reject_all_pending_commands still stops at the first throwing reject. #39543 fixes that. The DeferredFailure path when the VM is already stopping still does not settle its promises; that is a gap for the state machine rewrite.

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Two follow-ups outside this PR. #37618 puts an OwnedRef into the MySQL request queue's LinearFifo; with the Copy bound that no longer compiles, and the queue should become a VecDeque the same way, which also removes its manual Drop drain. The Postgres request queue holds raw pointers today and is the next candidate for the same change.

[alii]

@robobun adopt

[robobun]

Adopted. Head 9186d64 is green: Buildkite build 100698 passed all 179 jobs, and every GitHub check passes. All review threads are resolved. Without the fix the memory test reports 2244 of 5000 bytes and the one-write test sees 2 of 5 GETs in the first read. Ready for a maintainer.

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Walkthrough

The PR replaces Valkey’s custom LinearFifo queues with VecDeque, updates queue operations and memory accounting, requires Copy elements in LinearFifo, removes redundant clones, and adds reliability tests for queue reuse and connection-close rejection.

Changes

Valkey queue migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Queue storage contracts src/collections/linear_fifo.rs, src/runtime/valkey_jsc/ValkeyCommand.rs	LinearFifo now requires Copy elements and uses copy_within. Valkey command and promise-pair queues now use VecDeque.
Queue initialization and accounting src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs	Client construction uses Queue::new(). Memory accounting uses queue lengths and direct iteration.
Valkey queue operations and validation src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs	Queue operations cover shutdown, rejection, failure handling, pipelining, dispatch, response routing, draining, and enqueueing.
Copy call sites and reliability validation src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs, test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts	Copy derives remove redundant clones. Tests cover memory accounting, queue wraparound, and rejection while the connection is unready.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#39193: Both changes modify Valkey connection-close and finalization handling.

Suggested reviewers: robobun, jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9186d

The change improves queue cleanup and wrapped-queue accounting, but a rejection during connection teardown can still leave later command promises unsettled, and the reliability test stub may accept mismatched stream responses. Merge should wait for the cleanup behavior to be fixed or explicitly accepted, with test validity addressed.

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528-534: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Transfer the offline queue into DeferredFailure when the client is finalized.

When flags.finalized is true, this code moves in_flight into DeferredFailure but assigns an empty queue at Line 533. Any queued Entry remains in self.queue, so the deferred task cannot reject it. Those promise handles can remain pending during the finalized close path.

Move self.queue into DeferredFailure, or explicitly reject and clear it before scheduling the task. Add a regression test with both queues populated before finalization.

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs` around lines 528 - 534, When constructing
DeferredFailure in the finalized-client path, transfer self.queue instead of
creating a new empty Queue so queued entries are rejected with in_flight. Add a
regression test that populates both queues before finalization and verifies
neither queue leaves promise handles pending.

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509-517: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Drain both queues before returning an error.

At Line 510 and Line 516, ? returns on the first rejection failure. The remaining promises are then dropped without settlement. User promises can remain pending forever.

Store the first error, continue draining both queues, and return the stored error after cleanup.

As per coding guidelines, every error path must complete the operation: settle promises, invoke completion callbacks, cancel protocols, clear timers, and mirror success-path cleanup.

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs` around lines 509 - 517, Update the
queue-draining logic around pending and offline command rejection to record the
first rejection error while continuing to reject every remaining command in both
queues. Return the stored error only after both loops finish, preserving cleanup
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- Around line 509-517: Update the queue-draining logic around pending and
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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

• 🟡 src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs:360-370 — The else (finalizing) branch of shutdown() now pops each item and immediately drop()s it — exactly what happens automatically when the local VecDeques go out of scope. Before this PR the loops were load-bearing because LinearFifo never ran item destructors; the VecDeque migration makes them (and the explicit drop(pending); drop(commands); a few lines down) dead. Per REVIEW.md "Delete dead code in the same PR that makes it dead", the else { … } body and the two trailing drop(...)s can go.

  Extended reasoning...

  What the issue is

  ValkeyClient::shutdown() moves both queues into locals and then branches on whether it may call into JS. The else arm — the finalizing path where no global object is available — now reads:

  } else {
      // finalizing. we can't call into JS.
      while let Some(pair) = pending.pop_front() {
          // Note: `pair.promise.deinit()` — JSPromiseStrong drops automatically.
          drop(pair);
      }
      while let Some(offline_cmd) = commands.pop_front() {
          // Note: `offline_cmd.promise.deinit()` / `offline_cmd.deinit()` —
          // JSPromiseStrong / Box<[u8]> drop automatically.
          drop(offline_cmd);
      }
  }
  …
  drop(pending);
  drop(commands);

  After this PR, command::promise_pair::Queue and command::entry::Queue are std::collections::VecDeque<…>. VecDeque<T>'s Drop impl drops every remaining element (front-to-back). So popping each item and immediately drop()ing it is behaviorally identical to letting the local pending/commands fall out of scope at the end of the function. The comments inside the loops themselves say "JSPromiseStrong / Box<[u8]> drop automatically" — which is precisely why the explicit loops are no longer needed.

  Why it was load-bearing before, and why it isn't now

  Before this PR the queue types were LinearFifo<T, DynamicBuffer<T>>. As this PR's own change to linear_fifo.rs documents ("Items are never dropped: the ring is for POD/pointer payloads only"), LinearFifo's Drop freed the backing buffer but never ran destructors on the contained items. So without these explicit pop-and-drop loops, every JSPromiseStrong and every Box<[u8]> still in the queue at finalize time would leak. The loops existed solely to compensate for that.

  The VecDeque migration removes exactly that gap — the PR description says as much: "VecDeque drops what is left inside it, so any early return now frees the remaining items." The same reasoning applies to the finalize branch: the explicit drain is now redundant with what happens for free at scope end.

  Step-by-step proof

  1. On the finalize path, shutdown(None) is called (from JSValkeyClient::deinit).
  2. core::mem::take(&mut self.in_flight) moves the VecDeque<PromisePair> into local pending; likewise commands gets the VecDeque<Entry>.
  3. global_object_or_finalizing is None, so the else arm runs.
  4. The two while let Some(x) = q.pop_front() { drop(x); } loops empty each deque one item at a time, running each item's destructor (JSPromiseStrong::drop, Box<[u8]>::drop) in FIFO order.
  5. After the if/else, drop(pending); drop(commands); drops two now-empty VecDeques (frees their buffer allocations).
  6. self.unregister_auto_flusher() runs.

  Compare with the else body deleted:

  1–2. Same.
  3. global_object_or_finalizing is None, so nothing runs.
  4. self.unregister_auto_flusher() runs.
  5. Function returns; commands then pending drop at scope end. <VecDeque<T> as Drop>::drop iterates the live elements front-to-back and drops each (running JSPromiseStrong::drop / Box<[u8]>::drop), then frees the buffer.

  Same destructors run on the same items; the only differences are (a) the two locals drop after unregister_auto_flusher() instead of before, and (b) reverse relative order between the two deques — neither matters, since unregister_auto_flusher doesn't touch the locals and there's no ordering dependency between distinct promise handles / boxed byte buffers.

  Why existing code doesn't prevent it

  Nothing lints for "pop-and-drop equivalent to letting a container drop"; the else branch was left as a mechanical read_item → pop_front rename per the PR's stated intent to keep control flow unchanged. But REVIEW.md's rule is explicit that dead code created by a PR is that PR's responsibility to delete — "guards a new validator makes redundant" is exactly this shape (the VecDeque Drop impl is the new validator/mechanism that makes the manual drain redundant).

  Impact

  None functional — the loops are a harmless no-op relative to letting the locals drop. No leak, no crash, no behavior change. This is purely code cleanliness plus adherence to the repo's stated dead-code rule.

  Fix

  Delete the else { … } body (leaving the branch empty, or removing the else arm entirely) and delete the two explicit drop(pending); drop(commands); lines. If it helps future readers, the "// finalizing. we can't call into JS." comment can stay on an empty else arm noting that VecDeque's Drop releases the queued items.

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[claude]

All three rounds of feedback have been addressed (the last one in 019f6ef — the write_item_assume_capacity SAFETY note now reflects the T: Copy bound). I re-reviewed and found no further issues. Because this touches GC-rooted promise lifetimes in the Valkey client plus adds a T: Copy constraint that fans out to the test runner and lockfile builder, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• VecDeque swap: verified every readable_slice(0) / read_item / write_item call site maps to the equivalent VecDeque method with unchanged control flow; push_back OOM behavior (abort) matches the prior .unwrap_or_oom() / ? paths.
• T: Copy bound: FillItem (three u32s) and RefDataValue (NonNull + integers, non-owning) are bitwise-copy-safe; the dropped .clone() calls in bun_test.rs/jest.rs are now redundant copies.
• shutdown() finalizing branch: dropping the manual pop loop is correct since VecDeque<PromisePair> runs JSPromiseStrong's Drop on the remaining items.
• Checked that no other LinearFifo consumer in-tree stores a non-Copy element type after this change.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR swaps the Valkey client's two command queues (in_flight: Queue<PromisePair> and queue: Queue<Entry>) from LinearFifo to std::collections::VecDeque, and hardens LinearFifo by requiring T: Copy on every impl block so it can never again hold a type with drop glue. The fan-out touches 8 files: the collections crate, the Valkey client (3 files), the test runner (2 files, to derive Copy on RefDataValue), the lockfile tree builder (derive Copy on FillItem), and one test file with two new tests.

Security risks

None identified. No parsing of untrusted input changes, no auth/crypto/permission code touched. The RESP framer added to the test file is test-only and reuses the existing readCommands helper hoisted to module scope.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The core motivation is a memory-safety fix (LinearFifo silently leaked JSPromiseStrong GC roots and Box<[u8]> on early return), and the change touches four distinct subsystems. However, the actual edits are almost entirely mechanical: method renames (init→new, readable_length→len, read_item→pop_front, write_item→push_back, readable_slice(0)→iter()/front()), a trait-bound tightening that the compiler enforces, and two #[derive(Copy)] additions on POD structs. The only non-mechanical logic change is deleting the finalizing else branch in shutdown(), which is correct because VecDeque runs item destructors where LinearFifo did not.

Other factors

• This PR has been through three review rounds (CodeRabbit + two of mine); every comment was addressed with a follow-up commit, most recently 019f6ef fixing the stale write_item_assume_capacity SAFETY note.
• The PR description is thorough and explicitly scopes out what it does not fix (the ?-on-reject early-return in reject_all_pending_commands is left to #39543; this PR only makes that early return leak-free).
• The memory-estimate test demonstrably fails on main (2244 vs 5000 bytes) per robobun's verification.
• The push_back OOM semantics change from Result<_, AllocError> propagation to Rust's default handle_alloc_error abort; both terminate the process on OOM, consistent with the repo's unwrap_or_oom() convention at the replaced call sites.

Given the cross-subsystem reach and the GC-lifetime-adjacent nature of JSPromiseStrong, I'm deferring rather than auto-approving, though I found nothing blocking.

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487-500: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve rejection errors while draining every queue.

These paths do not both complete cleanup and preserve errors. Retain the first rejection error, drain all entries, and propagate it through the correct caller error channel.

• src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs#L487-L500: Continue both rejection loops after an error, then return the first error.
• src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs#L350-L358: Stop discarding rejection errors; propagate the first error after both queues drain.

As per coding guidelines, “Never swallow failures or signal success after failure; propagate ... cleanup ... errors explicitly.”

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In `@src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs` around lines 487 - 500, Update the
queue-draining logic around the rejection loops at
src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs lines 487-500 to retain the first rejection
error, continue draining both pending and offline queues, and return that error
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[claude]

I reviewed this PR across three passes and all inline feedback (stale doc comments, harness conventions, the deadline race in the wrapped-queue test, stderr draining) has been addressed; this run found no new issues. The VecDeque swap and call-site renames look correct, and the T: Copy bound on LinearFifo is a sound tightening. Given the scope — a new type constraint on a shared collection that ripples into the test runner and lockfile builder, plus a change in queue drop semantics for the Valkey client — a maintainer look before merge would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• VecDeque method mappings in valkey.rs (front/pop_front/push_back/iter/is_empty) preserve control flow; shutdown()'s removed finalizing-branch drain is covered by VecDeque's Drop.
• FillItem and RefDataValue hold only integers/raw pointers, so the added Copy derives are sound; the .clone() → copy sites are mechanical.
• The three new tests: memory-estimate test fails on main (2244/5000), one-write test fails on main (2/5 GETs), close()-rejects-all test pins existing behaviour; the stub now frames RESP via the shared readCommands and answers GETs from its data handler with no timing race.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR swaps the Valkey client's two command queues (in_flight: PromisePair and queue: Entry) from LinearFifo to std::collections::VecDeque, and adds a T: Copy bound to every LinearFifo impl so droppable element types are rejected at compile time going forward. The queue call sites in valkey.rs and js_valkey.rs are mechanically renamed (init→new, readable_length→len/is_empty, readable_slice(0)[0]→front, read_item→pop_front, write_item→push_back, whole-queue scans → iter). To satisfy the new bound, FillItem (lockfile tree builder) and RefDataValue (test runner) gain #[derive(Copy)], and four .clone() sites on the now-Copy RefDataValue become plain copies. Three tests are added to connection-failures.test.ts, and readCommands is hoisted to module scope for reuse.

Security risks

None identified. This is internal queue management; no parsing of untrusted input, no auth/crypto/permissions surface. The RESP stub in the tests is test-only.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The VecDeque swap itself is mechanical, but it changes memory ownership semantics (queue items now drop on queue drop) in a client that holds JS promise handles across async boundaries — the sort of change where a subtle double-free or leak-on-error-path is easy to miss. The T: Copy bound on LinearFifo is a cross-cutting constraint on a shared collection type; while it's purely a tightening (compiles ⇒ at least as safe as before), it required touching the test runner and lockfile builder, and the PR description notes it will break #37618 (MySQL queue). The shutdown() simplification removes an explicit drain loop in favour of implicit Drop, which is correct for VecDeque but is exactly the kind of "looks like a deletion" a maintainer should eyeball.

Other factors

All four rounds of prior inline feedback (mine and CodeRabbit's) were addressed and the threads are resolved: stale PromisePair doc mentions removed, the write_item SAFETY note reworded, "k".repeat → Buffer.alloc, the stub server now frames RESP via the shared readCommands helper, stderr is drained/asserted, and the wrapped-queue test's 2s deadline race was replaced with a data-handler-driven reply so nothing races the child spawn. robobun verified locally that the two behaviour-pinning tests fail on the released binary and pass on the debug build across ten reruns. CI build #100698 is running. The remaining reject_all_pending_commands early-return-on-throw is explicitly deferred to #39543 and is called out in the description. Given the multi-subsystem reach and the ownership-semantics change, deferring to a maintainer rather than auto-approving.