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Problem

  • A fetch handler that returns a Bun.file() slice can declare more bytes than it sends. slice(5, 21) of a 16-byte file answers Content-Length: 16 with 11 bytes. Every Bun.file(fd) slice declares the whole file. curl waits 12 s, then fails with end of response with 5 bytes missing. A relay that reuses the connection reads the next response as those bytes.
  • render_metadata (src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:3797) took the length from the blob size (the file size) unless the needs_content_range bit was set. do_sendfile (:1906) sets that bit before it clamps the slice, and never for an fd.
  • Plain HTTP: since v0.3.0. TLS: since v1.3.13 (serve: consolidate file streaming into FileResponseStream; Range support; fix aborted-stream hang #29202).

Fix

  • render_metadata writes Content-Length from sendfile.remain, the length that do_sendfile gives the stream.
  • Status and Content-Range do not change (probes in Notes).
  • Verified: 3 new tests in test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts fail on main by assertion. Also ran that file and serve.test.ts in full.
  • Self-reviewed: 26 concerns raised, 24 addressed. Not taken: the status change in this PR (it is Bun.serve: answer 206 for a Bun.file() slice as long as the file that starts past byte 0 #44827), and a change to TRACE here (Notes).

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Found by a fuzzer that checks the bytes of Bun.serve file responses. No user has reported it.

Who reaches it. The handler in docs/runtime/http/routing.mdx ("To send part of a file") returns new Response(bigFile.slice(start, end)) from the Range header. Range: bytes=100-307300 on a 307200-byte file (end minus start equal to the file size, start above 0) gets 200, Content-Length: 307200 and 307100 bytes on main. Other reaches of the same line: every Bun.file(fd) slice, a slice of a sized file that then shrinks to the stored length of the slice, and a sized Bun.file(fd) whose file grows.

What a client sees on main (documented handler, 16-byte file, Range: bytes=5-21). curl: curl: (18) end of response with 5 bytes missing after 12,056 ms. The control bytes=5-20 answers in 237 ms. A raw client that sends a second request on the connection after the 11 bytes reads 56789ABCDEFHTTP/ as the body. With this PR curl exits 0.

Observed, debug builds of 620b50f.

probe main this PR
23 slice shapes, GET and HEAD, mis-framed rows 9 0
the same probe, rows whose status or Content-Range changed - 0
36-row matrix (path and fd, GET and HEAD), mis-framed rows 10 1
matrix rows that main framed right and that changed - 0
documented handler, 8 ranges, second request on the connection: mis-framed 4 0
the same over TLS 4 0
documented handler behind a relay that shares one upstream connection: second client harmed yes no
24 explicit statuses over 6 slices: replaced by 206 20 20

The matrix row that stays mis-framed is Bun.file(fd).slice(0, 100) after an earlier read of that descriptor: Content-Length: 100, 0 bytes (main: 307200, 0 bytes). See the limits.

History per transport (documented handler, Range: bytes=100-307300, official release binaries).

build plain HTTP TLS
v1.3.12 200, length 307200, 307100 bytes 206, length 307100, bytes 100-307199/*
v1.3.13 200, length 307200, 307100 bytes 200, length 307200, 307100 bytes
main the same the same
this PR 200, length 307100 200, length 307100

The first tag that has #29202 is bun-v1.3.13. The bit and its use for the length date from 0617896 (first tag bun-v0.3.0). Also measured: plain HTTP mis-frames on v1.0.0 and v1.3.0, and TLS is right on v1.3.0. Windows and macOS were not run.

Limits that this PR does not change.

Cost for other responses. None added, and one removed. On main render_metadata calls blob.size() for every response and uses the result only for a file. For a GET whose body is an ASCII string that call is a UTF-8 length pass over the body. Release builds of 620b50f and of this PR, gdb stepi from entry to return of render_metadata, two runs each with equal counts:

response main this PR
ASCII string, 13 bytes 1745 1667
ASCII string, 4 KiB 2029 1667
ASCII string, 64 KiB 6220 1667
whole file 2177 2169
path slice 3133 3130

Code bytes (nm -S, size, the same builds): render_metadata 2385 and 2422 to 2321 and 2334 (2 bodies), do_sendfile 4571 unchanged (8 bodies), text of the stripped binary 88,977,421 to 88,976,769. Syscalls: 2 pread64 per path-plus-fd response pair before and after (gdb catch syscall on debug builds, strace is not available in this environment).

Tests (bun-serve-file.test.ts).

  • a fetch handler frames a Bun.file() slice by the bytes it serves: 18 windows over a raw socket, GET and HEAD, the shrink case, and one window over TLS. For a path slice as long as the file that starts past byte 0, and for a slice with an explicit status, it asserts the framing only. The status of the other rows is pinned.
  • a Range as long as the file, past byte 0, leaves the next response on the connection in step: the documented handler, two requests on one connection.
  • a fetch handler frames a Bun.file() slice that goes through sendfile (Linux): a file of 1 MiB + 100 bytes. Three windows of 1 MiB take sendfile(2), one of 1 MiB - 1 takes the reader.
  • The raw-socket helper of the file-route test next to them is now shared. That test is unchanged otherwise.
  • Whole files, debug build, default 5 s timeout. bun-serve-file.test.ts (179): 174 pass. The one failure is a pollable test that times out on main too. serve.test.ts (330): 326 pass. The 3 failures are on main too: the root-port test (the machine runs as root) and two timeouts (abort a sendfile response, --hot reload of a node:http server).
  • Not run: Windows, macOS, HTTP/2, HTTP/3.

Other PRs. This PR should land before #41585: by a reading of its diff, without this PR it makes HEAD of a path slice as long as the file declare the file size. With it, the line that #41585 adds for an fd (b.size.set(sendfile.remain)) is not needed. The status hunk of draft #43910 is in #44827.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts

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Status: reproduced on a release build of main with a raw HTTP/1.1 client against a fetch handler. new Response(Bun.file(p).slice(5, 21)) for a 16-byte file answers 200, Content-Length: 16, and 11 bytes. new Response(Bun.file(fd).slice(5, 10)) answers Content-Length: 16 and 5 bytes. curl reports end of response with 5 bytes missing after 12 s. The status change that was first part of this work is the stacked draft #44827.

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render_metadata now sets Content-Length from sendfile.remain. New wire-level tests cover file-slice response framing across path and fd-backed slices, HEAD responses, TLS, keep-alive connections, and large slices.

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File Slice Response Framing

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Content-Length metadata
src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs
When content length is needed, render_metadata writes sendfile.remain instead of a locally selected size.
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test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts
A shared raw-connection helper captures response metadata and body. Tests cover path and fd-backed slices, EOF boundaries, file shrinkage, custom status and headers, HEAD, TLS, keep-alive responses, and large slices.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked whether switching render_metadata from blob.size() to sendfile.remain changes any other response: needs_content_length is only set true at RequestContext.rs:1900 (regular files, right before remain is clamped at :1911-1918), cleared at :2549, and left false for FIFOs/char devices, so no other caller's Content-Length moves.

Extended reasoning...

The Rust change is a two-hunk edit to render_metadata in src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs that makes Content-Length always come from the clamped sendfile window; the test file adds a shared raw-socket helper and three framing tests. No auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface is touched. The inline findings (helper resolving on error, a pinned 206-for-404 row, and the pre-existing fd-offset, HEAD, TRACE, and 200-without-Content-Range siblings) already signal a human should weigh the stacked status PR; this note only records the setter audit that was ruled out.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟣 src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs — Clients that probe with HEAD before GET now get two different Content-Length values for the same slice once the file has shrunk. GET takes the clamped sendfile.remain at RequestContext.rs:3890, but HEAD at RequestContext.rs:2671-2678 still writes the Blob's cached size, which resolve_size only re-stats when seekable is unset (Blob.rs:2132). On base both said the stale number, so a HEAD-then-GET client saw one length. Fix: size HEAD from the same clamp GET uses (re-stat in do_render_head_response or route HEAD through do_sendfile), covering path and fd slices; the PR's own test exempts this row at test:1584.

    Why this was flagged

    A long-lived server keeps a Bun.file whose .size was read (sets seekable), returns file.slice(a) from a fetch handler, and the file is later truncated. GET goes through do_sendfile: b.size.set(stat_size) at RequestContext.rs:1893, remain clamped at :1911-1918, Content-Length written from remain at :3890 (6 in the test fixture). HEAD goes through do_render_head_response: blob.resolve_size() at :2671 skips the fstat because seekable.is_some() (Blob.rs:2132-2133) and writes the cached window (11) at :2678. On base GET wrote blob.size() = stat_size = 11 too, so HEAD and GET agreed. After merge a cache or download manager that validates with HEAD and then ranges or resumes with GET sees 11 vs 6 and treats the resource as changed or truncated on every request until restart. The REVIEW.md same-class rule names this sibling site; the PR defers it to #41585 but ships a test comment (test:1584) acknowledging the mismatch. Remedy: write HEAD's Content-Length from the same stat-and-clamp as GET.

    Verification: pre-existing; acknowledged in diff: the PR description lists "HEAD sizes from a cached stat" under "Not fixed here" and the test pins it at test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts:1584. HEAD sizes from blob.size.get() (RequestContext.rs:2671-2678); resolve_size only calls resolve_file_stat when seekable.is_none() (Blob.rs:2132-2133). The HEAD value (11) is identical on base.

  • 🟣 src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs — A TRACE request for a file response still leaves a keep-alive connection out of step, the same symptom this PR fixes for GET. At RequestContext.rs:1991 render_metadata writes Content-Length: remain (the slice length), then :1994 !self.method.has_body() ends the response with zero bytes at :2002. The next request on that connection is read as the owed body, as the PR's own pipelining test shows for GET. Fix: when the method has no body, zero remain before render_metadata (or close the connection) so the declared length matches the 0 bytes sent, for TRACE and any future HEAD routed through do_sendfile.

    Why this was flagged

    Method::has_body (src/http_types/Method.rs:176-178) is false for HEAD and TRACE. HEAD is diverted earlier, but TRACE of a route that returns Bun.file(path) or a slice reaches do_sendfile. set_needs_content_length(is_regular) at :1900 is true, render_metadata at :1991 writes content-length from sendfile.remain (:3890), then :1994 takes the no-body branch and calls resp.end(b"", close) at :2002 with close from should_close_connection(), which keeps the connection open for HTTP/1.1 keep-alive. The peer now owes N bytes it never gets; a proxy or client reusing the connection parses the next response head as body, the exact failure the PR description reports for GET (curl 'end of response with N bytes missing'). Base wrote blob.size() and had the same bug, but the PR's stated goal is framing from bytes sent, and the no-body branch still declares a length it does not send. Population: any public Bun.serve exposed to scanners that issue TRACE (common in security probes). Remedy: set remain to 0 (or force close) on the !has_body() path before rendering metadata.

    Verification: pre-existing; acknowledged in diff: the PR description's Limits section cites #19615 for TRACE of a file body, on main and with this PR. Trigger: an HTTP/1.1 keep-alive TRACE request to a fetch handler that returns Bun.file(path). src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:1991 render_metadata writes content-length as sendfile.remain; then :1994 !self.method.has_body() takes the no-body branch and :2002 resp.end(b"", close).

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if self.flags.needs_content_length() {
resp.write_header_int(b"content-length", size as u64);
resp.write_header_int(b"content-length", sendfile.remain as u64);

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: a Bun.file(fd) response whose window starts at byte 0 still declares more bytes than it sends when the descriptor's position is not 0, so clients still hang or read the next response out of step. The header at src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:3890 now promises sendfile.remain bytes (clamped from the stat'd size), but the reader path only positions the fd when offset > 0 (src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:245-249), so reader.start reads from wherever the descriptor is. Fix: for regular files read every window with pread from sendfile.offset, including offset 0 (always start_file_offset), so the bytes sent match the declared length on both the reader and sendfile paths.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A handler returns new Response(Bun.file(fd)) or Bun.file(fd).slice(0, n) for a regular file whose descriptor position is not 0 (a prior read, or a shared fd reused across requests). do_sendfile stats the file and sets sendfile.remain to the window clamped against st_size (RequestContext.rs:1911-1918) and render_metadata writes Content-Length: remain (RequestContext.rs:3890). FileResponseStream::start passes offset: 0, and at FileResponseStream.rs:245-249 it calls reader.start(fd, pollable) instead of start_file_offset, so the BufferedReader uses plain read(2) from the current position (PipeReader.rs:576-579 only sets USE_PREAD in start_file_offset). The reader hits EOF after st_size - position bytes and ends the response short of the declared length. On the base branch the header was the full file size and the body was the same short read, so the response was mis-framed there too; the PR fixes the header for offsets > 0 and for fd slices but this input class stays out of step.

Verification: src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:1901-1918 computes sendfile.remain purely from the stat'd size and the blob window, never from the fd position. src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:245-249 calls reader.start(opts.fd, pollable) when opts.offset == 0, and only start_file_offset sets USE_PREAD. On the base commit the same route fails identically for a whole Bun.file(fd).

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Confirmed, and this PR does not change it. One descriptor that serves slice(0, 4) three times sends 0123, 4567, 89AB on main and here. #33873 had the change (pread for a regular file at offset 0) and was closed as stale. It is being revived as a separate PR.

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…w it streams

`render_metadata` took the length from the blob size unless the
`needs_content_range` bit was set. `do_sendfile` sets the blob size to the
file size. It sets the bit from the slice length before the clamp, and
never for a file descriptor. So a slice as long as the file that starts
past byte 0, and every slice of `Bun.file(fd)`, declared the whole file and
sent the window. The connection stays open after the short body.

`render_metadata` now writes `sendfile.remain`, the length that
`do_sendfile` gives to `FileResponseStream`. No status changes.
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Rebased onto e655c58 (now 4bdf0f8). The conflict was in bun-serve-file.test.ts with #44614. #44827 is rebased on top (42da3fb).

The push also takes three review notes. wireResponse rejects on a socket error and throws when no response head arrives. The slice(5, 20) row with { status: 404 } is asserted on framing only.

On the two findings outside the diff: HEAD takes its length from the cached stat (#41585 routes HEAD through do_sendfile), and TRACE of a file body declares the length and sends no bytes (#19615). Both behave the same on main and with this PR.

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I reviewed the new push and found no bugs; the two nits from my earlier pass (the shared helper's error() now rejects, and the explicit-status row moved to the framing-only group) are addressed. A maintainer look is still worthwhile only for the design point the PR itself flags: slice(5, 21) now answers a cleanly framed 200 with no Content-Range, with the status question left to the stacked PR.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced the one-line change in render_metadata: needs_content_length is set only in do_sendfile (RequestContext.rs:1900) after SendfileContext is clamped to the stat'd size, the Range branch rewrites remain before render_metadata_corked runs, and do_render_head_response clears the flag, so sendfile.remain is always populated when the header is written.
  • Checked the tests fail on main for the right reason: path slice(5, 21) declared 16 and sent 11 before, and the Linux sendfile variant covers the 1 MiB reader/sendfile boundary on both path and fd windows.
  • Confirmed the hoisted wireResponse helper preserves the original file-route test's assertions (same contentLength/body fields).
Extended reasoning...

The diff is a one-line change in src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs that writes Content-Length from the clamped sendfile window instead of the blob size, plus ~300 lines of new tests in test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts covering path/fd slices, GET/HEAD, TLS, keep-alive framing, and the Linux sendfile path. It touches HTTP response framing (a request-desync-adjacent surface) and the change makes framing stricter, not laxer; no auth, crypto, or permission code is involved. The Rust change was traced end to end and the prior inline feedback was addressed in the new commit, but the PR deliberately leaves a user-visible status/Content-Range decision to a stacked PR and a maintainer commented before the latest push, so a human decision on that semantic point is the reason for defer rather than approve.

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