test: keep the accepted socket's buffer empty in the paused peer-reset tests

[robobun]

Problem

• After usockets: report a peer reset on a paused socket on kqueue #39610 the tls "reports the reset that arrives while the socket is paused" test in test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts was still red on darwin (main builds 101148 and 101169). The cause is the kernel: whether macOS delivers a peer's RST to a socket that holds unread bytes depends on timing. The tests filled the buffers first, a shape that loses the reset nearly every time. A packet capture shows the RST arrive and macOS answer it with an ACK.
• tls: send a bare RST from terminate(), no close_notify #39632 shrank the data to one 64 KiB chunk, and that shape passes (0 failures in 320 runs on the CI machines, notes). But the two paused tests still receive the chunk without needing it, and nearby timings lose the reset (64 KiB unread, RST 5 ms later: delivered 6 of 40 times on macOS 14).
• The paused tests also pin usockets: report a peer reset on a paused socket on kqueue #39610 only by timing: pause() arms a one-shot writable event right before terminate(), and a reset that lands before the next poll is reported through it even on an unfixed build.

Fix

• The paused tests receive nothing before the reset. With an empty buffer the reset was delivered in 80 of 80 kernel-level attempts on macOS 14 and 26, at any timing. The chunk moves into the one test that is about it, which keeps tls: send a bare RST from terminate(), no close_notify #39632's shape and now also asserts the Windows outcome (no data).
• After the pause the accepted socket writes to the peer and the test waits for the peer to receive it. The process has polled by then, so the reset has to reach the paused socket on its own. That pins usockets: report a peer reset on a paused socket on kqueue #39610 by construction.
• socket.test.ts is left as it is: its paused tests already have such a round trip, and its current shape passed 40 of 40 runs on both machines. Only a comment that tls: send a bare RST from terminate(), no close_notify #39632 made stale is updated. The landing notes get the macOS rule, since this family has had several incidents.
• Verified: with the binary of main build 101241, 40 runs of the block on a macOS 26 arm64 and a macOS 14 x64 machine, 0 failures. With the darwin binary from before usockets: report a peer reset on a paused socket on kqueue #39610 both paused tests time out, and the tls "delivers" test fails (it pins tls: send a bare RST from terminate(), no close_notify #39632 now). A Linux debug build passes, a release binary from before usockets: report a peer reset behind unread data as ECONNRESET, not 'end' #39600 still fails all four tests, and the block passes 10 of 10 on a Windows machine.

Background

• A TCP receiver may answer an in-window RST with an ACK instead of resetting (RFC 5961). Linux resets whenever the sequence number is exact. macOS also drops exact ones while unread bytes sit in the buffer, and a receiver that never reads gives the peer no second chance.
• A paused usockets socket polls for nothing. On kqueue the pause registers a one-shot writable event that the next poll consumes. usockets: report a peer reset on a paused socket on kqueue #39610 is about the reset that lands after that poll.

Notes

This PR does not fix a failure that is visible on main today: with the 101241 binary, main's current node-tls-server block and main's socket.test.ts paused block each passed 40 of 40 runs on both machines. It removes the timing dependence from the two paused tests and makes their #39610 pin structural.

Measurements, C programs on darwin-arm64 (macOS 26.6) and darwin-x64 (macOS 14.8), receiver never reads, linger-0 close on the sender, SO_ERROR checked after 300 ms, 40 attempts per shape unless noted:

• nothing sent, or 1.5 KiB each way all read: delivered 40/40 on both machines.
• 296 bytes unread, RST 5 ms later: 39/40 on macOS 26, 23/40 on macOS 14. 24 bytes then RST back to back: 37/40 on both.
• 64 KiB unread, RST at once (tls: send a bare RST from terminate(), no close_notify #39632's shape): 36/40 on macOS 26, 40/40 on macOS 14. The same with the RST 5 ms later: 39/40 on macOS 26, 6/40 on macOS 14.
• bursts of 8 full segments: mostly lost on both, and waiting until the sender's SO_NWRITE reached 0 (everything acknowledged) still lost it in 1/8 to 4/8 attempts. Linux: 15/15 in every shape.
• The C numbers are a proxy: Bun's own 64 KiB shape did better than the C row for it, which is why the socket.test.ts block was measured rather than changed.
• The failing tls test replicated with a packet capture on macOS 26: [R.] seq 394055 arrives, the server answers [.] ack 394055 and stays ESTABLISHED. After resume the server reads 384 KiB and still never gets the error.

Pre-#39610 darwin binary (e878e03, main build 100959) running this PR's block: both paused tests time out, tls "delivers" fails, net "delivers" passes.

The self-review of #39610 raised a theoretical kqueue-only concern: a FIN that arrives while a TLS handshake is parked in the low-priority queue could be acted on before the buffered bytes are read. Probed with 8 to 128 clients that send Finished, a request, close_notify and FIN in one flight against a tls.createServer, on macOS 26 with the 101241 binary: every request was served in 12 of 12 runs. Nothing in the runtime is changed here.

Other tests that reset behind unread bytes were left alone. "a socket closed by data() while its peer's reset is being dispatched" (#39621) only gets weaker on macOS when the reset is lost. fetch-backpressure.test.ts "peer terminate (RST) while receive is paused" holds unread body bytes when the peer resets; it has not failed in the builds I looked at, and the new landing note covers it if it ever does.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 12:28 PM PT - Aug 19th, 2026}

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Walkthrough

Changes

The pull request expands TCP and TLS peer-reset regression coverage. It tests paused and unpaused sockets, buffered data, ECONNRESET, close errors, missing end events, and macOS-specific behavior.

TCP/TLS peer-reset tests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bun TCP reset scenarios test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts	Reworks the child-peer fixture and adds shared assertions for paused and unpaused accepted sockets. The tests verify read/ECONNRESET and close hadError=true behavior.
Node TLS and net reset scenarios test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts	Adds shared TLS/net event recording and separate child-process and in-process reset cases. The tests verify queued-byte delivery, reset errors, close state, missing end, and macOS skips.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#34659: The tests validate kqueue EOF and hangup behavior changed by this PR.
• oven-sh/bun#39632: Both PRs update paused-socket and unread-data reset tests in the TLS test file.
• oven-sh/bun#39610: The PR expands paused-peer-reset regression coverage for the related kqueue fix.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The description references relevant issues and prior changes that support the stated peer-reset test objective.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to peer-reset tests and align with the stated objective of removing intermittent macOS failures.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change to paused peer-reset tests and the accepted socket buffer state.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, fix, test scope, and verification results, although it uses different headings from the template.

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[claude]

LGTM — test-only de-flake with a well-documented kernel-level root cause.

What was reviewed:

• Verified the removed socket.test.ts paused block is subsumed by the new { paused: true } case of the child-peer test; the dropped dataCalls: 0 assertion is intentionally replaced (accepted socket's buffer is now empty by design, and the read-loop property moves to the non-macOS test).
• Checked the stdio round-trip replaces the old greeting round-trip as the "process has polled since pause" proof, so the kqueue fix from #39610 stays pinned without a sleep.
• Confirmed the skipIf(isMacOS) on the queued-data test is documented with measured loss rates and that the test still runs on Linux/Windows where it pins #39600.
• Resource cleanup: await using peer, try/finally server.close(), and peer.exited racing the connection promise cover early-exit and hang paths.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reshapes four peer-reset tests across test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts and test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts to fix macOS-only flakiness that persisted after #39610. The root cause is kernel behavior (RFC 5961 challenge-ACK handling): macOS drops an RST aimed at a socket that holds unread bytes some of the time, and the previous test shape deliberately filled the receive buffer before the reset. The fix moves the paused tests to a child-process peer that is SIGKILLed while it holds unread bytes (so the kernel emits a bare RST with the accepted side's buffer empty), and gates the one test that genuinely needs unread bytes on the accepted side behind skipIf(isMacOS). No production code is touched.

Security risks

None. Test-only changes to socket/TLS reset-handling coverage; no auth, crypto, or permission surfaces involved.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate for a test-only change, because the review guidance is strict about not silently weakening or vacating existing assertions during de-flaking. I traced each removed/changed assertion:

• The old standalone paused block in socket.test.ts asserted { syscall: 'read', code: 'ECONNRESET', dataCalls: 0 }. The replacement asserts { closeError: readReset, received: 'ready' } via the shared child-peer helper. The dataCalls: 0 property is dropped by design — the accepted buffer is now empty before the RST — and the read-loop-drains-then-errors property it guarded is still covered by the second node-tls-server test on Linux/Windows.
• The stdin/stdout ping-pong after accepted.pause() proves the parent process has polled since the pause, replacing the old socket-level greeting round-trip. This keeps the #39610 kqueue-read-knote fix pinned (author verified all four paused tests time out on the pre-#39610 binary).
• The skipIf(isMacOS) is accompanied by an in-code comment citing measured loss rates, satisfying the "every skip needs a stated reason" rule.

Other factors

The PR description documents extensive verification: 25×0-failure runs on macOS 14 and 26 with CI binaries, packet captures, C-program measurements, and confirmation that the reshaped tests still fail on pre-#39600 and pre-#39610 binaries — i.e., the tests are not vacuous. Resource management follows harness conventions (await using on the spawned peer, try/finally on the server, Promise.race against peer.exited so an early child death rejects instead of hanging, framed stdout reads instead of sleeps). The refactor also reduces duplication by folding the paused case into the existing child-peer helper. This is a careful, well-evidenced de-flake.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. It's a test-only de-flake, but it reshapes ~200 lines of platform-sensitive reset tests (child-process RST peer, stdio round-trip as a poll witness, skipIf(isMacOS) on the queued-data case), so a human look at the macOS/Windows reasoning is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed

• socket.test.ts: the removed standalone paused block is fully covered by the new acceptedSocketReset({ paused }) case; peer's socket.pause() before write("ready") keeps received === "ready" in both variants.
• node-tls-server.test.ts: record() re-pauses after attaching 'data', and once(socket, "data") drains the child's "ready" before the pause, so the receive buffer is empty when the RST lands as intended.
• Cleanup: await using peer / try/finally server.close() cover early failures; isMacOS exists in harness; the Windows dataDelivered: !isWindows assertion is now falsifiable both ways.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only PR reshaping the peer-reset regression tests in test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts and test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts to avoid a macOS kernel behavior (RFC 5961 challenge ACK dropping an RST aimed at a socket with unread bytes). The paused-socket tests now use a SIGKILL'd child process as the peer so the accepted socket's receive buffer is empty when the RST arrives; the queued-data test keeps its in-process shape and is skipIf(isMacOS). A stdin/stdout round trip through the child after the pause proves the parent has polled since pausing, keeping the kqueue fix from #39610 pinned.

Security risks

None. Test-only, no production code touched, all traffic is loopback with fixture certs.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Although test-only, the change encodes non-obvious reasoning about macOS TCP semantics, event-loop poll ordering, and cross-platform receive-queue behavior on reset. It also removes one describe block entirely (folded into the child-peer harness) and adds a platform skip. I verified the removed coverage is preserved: the new acceptedSocketReset({ paused: true }) case still asserts closeError === readReset and received === "ready" (no data delivered while paused), matching what the deleted block checked. The stdio round-trip witness is a reasonable substitute for the old greeting round-trip and is stronger (it doesn't touch the socket).

Other factors

• The single CodeRabbit thread (Windows assertion falsifiability) was addressed in 02e6909 and resolved.
• The PR description documents 25/25 passes on macOS 14 and 26 with post-#39610 binaries and confirms the paused tests still time out on the pre-#39610 binary, so the regression pin holds.
• The skipIf(isMacOS) is justified in-code with measured loss rates and a pointer; per REVIEW.md a skip needs a stated reason, which is present.
• Deferring rather than approving because the platform-specific kernel reasoning and the coverage trade-off (dropping macOS from the queued-data test) are the kind of call a maintainer with CI history should sign off on.

[claude]

LGTM — test-only de-flaking with thorough platform verification.

What was reviewed:

• The reshaped paused-socket tests in socket.test.ts reuse the existing child-peer fixture; the stdin/stdout round trip correctly proves the event loop polled since the pause, so the kqueue fix from #39610 stays pinned.
• node-tls-server.test.ts: checked that moving the 64 KiB write into the resume+terminate tick keeps the receive buffer empty at RST time on macOS, and that the paused test's peerGotData await plays the same role as the child stdio round trip.
• The Windows dataDelivered assertion is now falsifiable on both branches (CodeRabbit thread resolved); confirmed the removed socket.test.ts describe block is fully replaced by the new paused case, not silently dropped.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only change reshaping four peer-reset regression tests that were flaking on macOS. Two files touched: test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts (folds the standalone paused-socket describe into the existing child-process-peer fixture as a second case) and test/js/node/tls/node-tls-server.test.ts (stops pre-filling the accepted socket's receive buffer; only the data-delivery test writes bytes, and does so on the same tick as resume+terminate). No runtime code is touched.

Security risks

None. Test-only, no auth/crypto/permissions surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium — de-flaking tests carries the risk of accidentally weakening what they pin. The PR handles this well: it explicitly verifies the reshaped paused tests still time out on a pre-#39610 darwin binary (proving the kqueue fix is still exercised) and that the node tests still fail on a pre-#39600 Linux binary (proving the read-loop fix is still exercised). The stdin/stdout round trip in socket.test.ts and the peerGotData await in node-tls-server.test.ts both guarantee the event loop has polled since the pause, so a reset cannot ride on the leftover one-shot writable event — the exact condition the original tests were written to catch.

Other factors

The root-cause analysis is unusually deep (packet captures, C-level reproduction on two macOS versions, RFC 5961 citation for the ACK-on-RST behavior) and the verification is strong: 25/25 runs on macOS 14 and 26, 10/10 on Windows, plus before/after runs against the pre-fix binaries. The one CodeRabbit comment (make the Windows branch falsifiable) was addressed in 02e6909 and the thread is resolved. The removed 68-line describe block in socket.test.ts is not lost coverage — its scenario is now the paused: true case of the shared acceptedSocketReset helper, which additionally avoids the in-process terminate() that (for TLS) would have queued a close_notify ahead of the RST.