Verify a transpiler cache entry before any field of it is used

[robobun]

Problem

• A damaged .pile entry is used as written. With output_byte_length zeroed (byte 0x26), bun big.ts prints nothing, exits 0, and keeps the entry: a zero length skips the output hash check in Entry::load (src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs).
• The sourcemap hash is never checked, the size guard adds the stored lengths with wrapping arithmetic, and a flipped module_type byte fails every later run with TypeError: Expected CommonJS module to have a function wrapper.
• A FIFO at the entry path blocks open() forever.

Fix

• The header now ends with a wyhash of the header fields (format version 26). Metadata::decode checks the version and this hash before it returns any field.
• Metadata::verify_layout requires the offsets and lengths to add up to the fstat size (checked_add). Entry::load then checks every section hash, empty sections included.
• The entry is opened with O_NONBLOCK on unix and rejected unless it is a regular file. A rejection takes the existing path: unlink, transpile, write a new entry.
• Verified: test/cli/run/transpiler-cache.test.ts, 4 tests fail on the released bun. Also regression tests 30887 and 28159 and the isolation cache test.

Background

• The cache keeps the transpiled output of source files of 4 KiB or more. get reads the entry before the parser runs, put writes it after.
• An entry is a 110 byte header plus output code, sourcemap, and ES module record. The header stores offset, length, and hash per section.
• A version bump invalidates all entries once. Most parser changes do this.
• transpiler cache: bind section hashes to input and verify unconditionally #35101 and runtime transpiler cache: per-uid root, ownership check, mandatory payload hashes #35747 only drop the hash != 0 bypass and do not catch a zeroed length. Both conflict with main.

Notes

Repro on the released 1.4.0:

D=$(mktemp -d); cd $D; export BUN_RUNTIME_TRANSPILER_CACHE_PATH=$D/tc
python3 -c "print('\n'.join('export function f%d(a: number): number { return a + %d }'%(i,i) for i in range(400))); print(\"console.log('OUT', f7(1), f399(2))\")" > big.ts
bun big.ts            # OUT 8 401
python3 -c "import struct,glob; f=glob.glob('tc/*.pile')[0]; b=bytearray(open(f,'rb').read()); struct.pack_into('<Q',b,0x26,0); open(f,'wb').write(b)"
bun big.ts; echo $?   # prints nothing, exit 0, on every later run too

With this change the second run logs get("big.ts") = InvalidHash under BUN_DEBUG_cache=1, prints OUT 8 401, and rewrites the entry.

Checks, in the order the reader applies them: version, header hash, input hash and length, features hash, layout against the fstat size, section hashes. The writer now stores all three section hashes, the esm record hash included, so the reader has no hash != 0 special case left.

Tests. The mutation table hits the header hash (zeroed output length, zeroed sourcemap length, flipped type, flipped encoding, zeroed header hash), the layout check (re-signed u64::MAX length, appended bytes, truncated file), and the sourcemap hash (flipped body byte). Each row expects the module to print its marker and the entry to be rewritten byte for byte. The positive control rewrites the output section and re-signs both hashes. It proves that a consistent entry is still served from disk and that the hash of an empty esm record round-trips. The FIFO test expects the FIFO to be replaced by a regular entry. works with empty files now also checks that the entry (empty output section) is not rewritten on the second run. The existing module record test re-signs the record and the header instead of zeroing the record hash.

On the released bun: module type flipped exits 1 with the TypeError above, output length zeroed prints nothing, and sourcemap length zeroed, output encoding flipped, bytes appended, and sourcemap byte flipped leave the damaged entry in place. header hash zeroed, u64::MAX, and last byte removed pass there and are controls for the new code paths. The u64::MAX addition aborts a debug build of main (overflow check) and wraps in release.

The LATIN1 arm used to hash the buffer before it compared the read length. It now checks the length first, like the other arms. from_file_with_cache_file_path does one fstat, the same count as before (get_end_pos was an fstat).

Cost on a hit: one wyhash over 102 header bytes, plus the sourcemap hash, which the writer already computed but the reader never checked. An entry grows by 8 bytes.

Not in this change: Entry::save retries a short pwritev with the unadvanced iovec array. The layout check now detects the result. The writer side is tracked separately.

Also run: cargo check -p bun_jsc for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin, cargo clippy -p bun_jsc.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/run/transpiler-cache.test.ts

[robobun]

Status: reproduced on the released 1.4.0 with the steps in the Notes block of the description (zero the u64 at byte 0x26 of the .pile, the module then runs as an empty file on every run). Fix and tests are in this PR. CI is green on 70f9f0b and all review threads are resolved. Ready for a maintainer.

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Changes

The transpiler cache format advances to version 26. It adds fixed metadata headers, header and section hash validation, exact layout checks, regular-file enforcement, and expanded corruption tests.

Transpiler cache integrity

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metadata and layout contract src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs, src/jsc/error.rs	Metadata uses a fixed-size hashed header. Decoding validates metadata fields and cache layout. New errors identify invalid layouts and non-regular files.
Cache writing and reading src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs	Cache writes hash every section. Cache reads validate exact lengths, file layout, regular-file status, and hashes, including empty sections.
Cache corruption and reuse tests test/cli/run/transpiler-cache.test.ts	Tests cover empty-output reuse, damaged entries, malformed layouts, section corruption, FIFO files, and self-consistent cache edits.

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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Since it changes the on-disk cache format (version bump + trailing header hash), refactors the Metadata::encode/decode signatures, and adds a cfg-gated O_NONBLOCK open path, a maintainer sign-off would still be worthwhile.

Checked: header offset arithmetic in the test constants matches Metadata::encode byte-for-byte; Bun.hash.wyhash and RuntimeTranspilerCache::hash are the same wyhash-final4 with the same seed, so signPileHeader round-trips; decode on a short read errors in read_int_le before the bytes[..FIELDS_SIZE] slice is taken; verify_layout uses checked_add and pins each offset to the previous section's end plus the file size, so a re-signed u64::MAX length is rejected; O_NONBLOCK on a regular file is a no-op for pread, and a FIFO opens immediately then fails ISREG and hits the existing unlink-and-retranspile path.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR hardens the runtime transpiler cache reader in src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs against damaged .pile entries. It adds a trailing wyhash of the 102-byte header (bumping the format to version 26 and growing the header to 110 bytes), replaces the wrapping-add size guard in Entry::load with a new Metadata::verify_layout that requires the three sections to sit back-to-back and add up to the fstat size via checked_add, drops every hash != 0 bypass so empty sections are hash-checked too, opens the entry with O_NONBLOCK on unix and rejects non-regular files, and reorders the LATIN1 arm to check the read length before hashing. encode now writes into a fixed [u8; SIZE] and decode returns a fresh Metadata instead of mutating one in place. Two new error variants land in src/jsc/error.rs. The test file gains a pile constants block, three new tests (a nine-row damage matrix, a positive control that re-signs an edited entry, and a FIFO test), tightens works with empty files to assert the entry is not rewritten on the second run, and updates the pre-existing module-record corruption test to re-sign the entry instead of zeroing the hash.

Security risks

None material. The cache lives under a per-user directory (BUN_RUNTIME_TRANSPILER_CACHE_PATH, XDG_CACHE_HOME, or ~/.bun), and the change strictly tightens what the reader accepts — every path that used to trust a header field now checks it against a hash and against the file size first. The header hash is wyhash, not a cryptographic MAC, but that matches the existing threat model (integrity against disk errors and torn writes, not against an attacker who already controls the cache directory); the positive-control test demonstrates that a self-consistent entry is still served. The FIFO/regular-file check removes a hang vector.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-to-high. The transpiler cache runs on every bun run of a source file ≥4 KiB, and this PR bumps the on-disk format version (invalidating every existing entry once) and refactors the encode/decode API. The logic itself is straightforward and defensively written, but a format change plus a hot-path reader refactor is the kind of change a maintainer should sign off on rather than land purely on automated review.

Other factors

The test coverage is thorough and structured the way the review guide asks: a mutation table with a per-row expected result (so a single toEqual shows which row failed and how), a positive control that proves the checks are what rejects a damaged entry, and per-test fileIdentity assertions using bigint mtimeNs/ctimeNs after the CodeRabbit follow-up. The PR description states four of the new rows fail on the released 1.4.0 and names which ones are controls. I verified the test-side byte offsets against Metadata::encode field-by-field, that Bun.hash.wyhash is the same bun_wyhash::Wyhash::hash the cache uses, that a short pread_all into the header buffer makes decode fail in read_int_le before the bytes[..FIELDS_SIZE] slice is indexed, and that sys::S::ISREG(st_mode as _) and usize::try_from(st_size) follow the same pattern used across the tree. All prior bot feedback (comment length, fileIdentity resolution, tmpdirSync scope) is resolved on the timeline.