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The fix #748 set aside (review thread), built from its first commit, e8bfeef. Replaces #474. Bun tests: oven-sh/bun#39711.

Problem

  • A module that is replaced while its import() is in flight (mock.module(), build.module(), a --hot reload) and then fails leaves its error on the replacement. Every later import() of it rejects. Debug builds stop at ASSERTION FAILED: m_status == Status::Fetching in ModuleRegistryEntry::fetchComplete.
  • A failed load by name stores its error by key (JSMicrotask.cpp:1281, :1436, :1253), into whichever entry holds the key by then.

Fix

  • The two loadModule() contexts record their load's entry. moduleLoadTopRejected and moduleLoadStoreError write to context->entry().
  • A load whose fetch failed has no entry. It stores nothing into an entry under its key, because another load registered that entry.
  • Correct because the error is the outcome of loading one entry. With no rebound key and no overlapping loads of a key, that is the entry the key lookup returns.
  • Verified: a new JSTests stress test and seven tests in Module loader: a failed load of a replaced module must not leave its error on the replacement (tests for oven-sh/WebKit#754) bun#39711 fail on main's engine and pass here. Self-reviewed: 4 concerns raised, 4 addressed.

Background

  • The registry maps a key to a ModuleRegistryEntry: promises, record, one error. A load of a key whose entry holds an error gets that error. Only this fork removes entries (removeEntry(), clearAll()).
  • A load by name (import(), require() of an ES module, the entry point) has no entry until its fetch settles.
  • Considered: a lookup by key for a load with no entry (e8bfeef), which keeps the fetch-failure case broken. Considered: an entry from the load's start ([JSC] removeEntry() and clearAll() keep the realm's [[LoadedModules]] in step with the registry #748's first design), withdrawn after its review.

Downsides

  • Per load by name: two more registry lookups and two barriered stores, about 115 instructions counted in the release disassembly. Not measured: perf and valgrind were not available. Text grows by 359 bytes.
  • One result changes without a removal. After an import() failed at its fetch while another load registered the key, the next import() gets the module.
  • Four other by-key sites remain, and Re-fetch a module whose previous load failed before it evaluated bun#40267 overlaps. See the notes.
Notes

What a program sees (Bun debug build of main, engine fb1167e, against the same tree with this PR's preview build autobuild-preview-pr-754-08bf0974; the tests are in oven-sh/bun#39711):

route main with this change
build.module() replaces a module while it evaluates, the module then throws (import() and require()) next: the replaced module threw next: build.module()
mock.module() of a module whose import() is in flight, the mock is imported, the old load then throws the next import() rejects with the old error the mock
import() of a malformed JSON file, mock.module() of it, import() again release: the later import() rejects with the JSON error. debug: the assertion above the mock, twice
bun --hot reload while an import() is in flight, the reloaded module is imported, the old load then throws next: rejected: the module from before the reload threw next: evaluation 1
import() of a malformed JSON file, the file is fixed and imported again at once (no plugin, no mock, nothing removed) debug: the assertion above. release: the later import() rejects later: 42
build.module() replaces a module whose onLoad is still running; the onLoad then rejects with the error of another module's import() (third store) next: rejected: another module threw next: build.module()

Bun 1.3.13 gives the right-hand column for the build.module() and mock.module() rows. After the wrong result, delete require.cache[path] and a new import() recover.

The rule for a load with no entry. e8bfeef fell back to the lookup by key ("a load that failed before it had an entry has not lost one"). That is true, but the entry found that way was never this load's: another load of the key registered it between this load's start and its failure. The two JSON rows are that case. With nothing registered the lookup returns null and nothing is stored either way, so dropping the fallback changes only those.

What context->entry() is in each path:

  • Fetch fulfilled: the entry under the key after provideFetch(), which registers the key if nothing holds it. If another load registered the key first, provideFetch() does nothing and hostLoadImportedModule() joins that entry, so it is this load's entry too.
  • provideModule() entry removed before moduleLoadTopSettled: getRegisteredMayBeNull() returns null and nothing is inserted. JSModuleLoader: a top-level load stores its failure into the entry it loaded #474 used ensureRegistered() here, which could insert a Status::New entry that hostLoadImportedModule() asserts on (finding).
  • Fetch rejected: null. For a load that joined an entry, moduleRegistryFetchSettled has stored the fetch error on that entry by then, and setEvaluationError() on a FetchFailed entry is a no-op, so the by-key store added nothing there.

The third store. When a fetch rejects with an error that the loader tagged as not being a fetch error of this key (ModuleFailure::isEvaluationError()), the rejected branch of moduleLoadTopSettled registers the key and stores the error. In Bun that is an onLoad or a module factory that awaits an import() which throws. The second commit leaves the store out when an entry holds the key. With nothing under the key, the key is registered with the error as before.

Not fixed here. Places that still work by key while a load is in flight:

  • moduleLoadTopSettled calls provideFetch() by key (JSMicrotask.cpp:1188). An import() that joined an entry which is then removed registers a new entry from the old source. build.module() right after an import() of a module that was loaded before: next: file, and the file is evaluated twice. Bug 3 of the first description of [JSC] removeEntry() and clearAll() keep the realm's [[LoadedModules]] in step with the registry #748.
  • A load by name has no entry until its fetch settles (JSModuleLoader.cpp:400-431), so a removal before that finds nothing to remove. build.module() right after a first import(): next: file. Bug 4 of that description.
  • The third store's registration, when nothing holds the key: a fetch that failed with a tagged error leaves a failed entry with no record and no promises. The next import() is answered from it without a new fetch, and a later static import of the key never settles (hostLoadImportedModule() waits on a fetch promise that nothing settles). An untagged failure leaves nothing and is fetched again. Not registering the key here at all would close this; it changes which failed loads are retried, so it is left for a decision.
  • In Bun, functionEsmLoadSync reads the registry by key after a synchronous load (src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp:926, :945), which is what require() of an ES module that is replaced during its own evaluation goes through. require(esm): return the namespace when the module is evicted from require.cache during evaluation bun#38072 is open for that.

oven-sh/bun#40267 (open) handles the same stores from Bun's side for the route without a removal: a second import() of a key whose load by name is pending joins that load, so the two share one outcome. Its description says a loader-side fix needs a change here; this is that change. The two do not conflict in the engine. They differ in what a test may assume: with that join, an import() issued after mock.module() or build.module() replaced a module still joins the pending load of the replaced module (its pending map is cleared for a hot reload only). Five of the seven Bun tests import the replacement while the replaced load is pending, as the test for this bug in the history of oven-sh/bun#44281 does, so they and that PR cannot both land unchanged. Whether overlapping import()s of one key share a load is not decided here: no test of this change asserts it.

Verification.

  • Engine CI on 08bf097: 46 jobs green. Both JSTests lanes (Linux x64 and arm64, lto) ran the new stress test in every mode it runs in, with 0 failures in the suite.
  • The stress test with the jsc of the published builds: exit 3 (expected 42 but got rejected) on main's (fb1167e), exit 0 on this PR's. It writes the module it imports into resources/ under a new name per run (ignored by the .gitignore added there), because the shell cannot delete a file. It skips the bytecode-cache mode: that mode's second run asserts that all code comes from the cache of the first run, and a module with a new name is never in it.
  • The seven Bun tests: 7 of 7 fail on main's engine (a debug+ASAN build, and every lane of Bun's CI, Buildkite 123129), 7 of 7 pass on this PR's, three runs, on Bun main with Resolve a module specifier once: fix a segfault in require() of an ES module, and require() with a plugin's namespace bun#44473.
  • Bun suites on this PR's engine: test/js/bun/plugin/, test/js/bun/test/mock/, test/js/bun/resolve/, test/js/node/module/: 669 pass, 2 fail. The two are load the same file 2000 times and load the same empty JS file 2000 times, which time out on a debug+ASAN build with main's engine too. test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts and test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts: 63 pass.
  • removeEntry() and a tagged fetch rejection are not reachable from the jsc shell, so the other routes are tested from Bun only.

Cost. setEntry() is 10 instructions on its fast path and getRegisteredMayBeNull() about 45 for a hit on the first probe. Each runs twice per load by name, plus the calls. On a failure the two stores each do one lookup less. The third store's check runs only when a fetch rejects with a tagged error. Static imports do not pass through these functions. For scale, an earlier description of #748 measured 22.4k instructions for a warm import(). Text size by object, release Linux x64: UnifiedSource-runtime-25 +39, -26 +261, -33 +59 bytes. perf_event_open is not permitted in the container this was built in and valgrind could not be installed, so there is no measured instruction count.

Self-review. Four concerns were raised against the first version of this PR, all addressed: the third by-key store (second commit, with a Bun test), the description claiming more than the change covers (the list above), the missing engine test (the stress test), and the overlap with oven-sh/bun#40267 (the paragraph above; the one Bun test that assumed separate fetches for overlapping import()s is replaced by one that does not).

setEntry() is defined in ModuleLoadingContext.cpp, not in the header as in e8bfeef: the header only forward-declares ModuleRegistryEntry, and the barrier needs the complete type.

… loaded

moduleLoadTopRejected and moduleLoadStoreError looked the entry up by
key when a load by name failed. removeEntry() and clearAll() can leave
another load's entry under the key while the first load is in flight,
and a second load of the key can register one at any time, so the error
went to a module that had loaded. Every later load of the key was then
answered with that error.

The two loadModule() contexts now record the entry the load has once it
has one: the entry the key holds after provideFetch() in
moduleLoadTopSettled, and after hostLoadImportedModule() in the
loadModule() that takes a referrer. The two error stores write to that
entry. A load that failed before it had an entry, which is a load whose
fetch failed, stores nothing: an entry under its key at that point was
registered by another load.

Inside USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS), with upstream's lookups kept in #else.
Upstream never rebinds a key, and its lookup by key is the same entry
unless two loads of one key are in flight at once.

Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
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Preview build of 08bf097: autobuild-preview-pr-754-08bf0974

robobun added a commit to oven-sh/bun that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
…the replacement

Six tests that fail on main. A module that mock.module(), a plugin's
build.module() or a --hot reload replaced while its import() was in
flight, and that then fails, leaves its error on the replacement: every
later import() of the replacement rejects with the replaced module's
error. The same happens without a removal when one of two overlapping
import()s of a module fails at its fetch. In a debug build the
mock.module() case stops at an assertion in fetchComplete().

They pass with the engine change of oven-sh/WebKit#754.

Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
robobun added a commit to oven-sh/bun that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
…the replacement

Six tests that fail on main. A module that mock.module(), a plugin's
build.module() or a --hot reload replaced while its import() was in
flight, and that then fails, leaves its error on the replacement: every
later import() of the replacement rejects with the replaced module's
error. The same happens without a removal when one of two overlapping
import()s of a module fails at its fetch. In a debug build the
mock.module() case stops at an assertion in fetchComplete().

They pass with the engine change of oven-sh/WebKit#754.

Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
…d a stress test

moduleLoadTopSettled registers the key and stores the error when a fetch
rejects with an error the loader tagged as not being a fetch error of
this key. The load has no entry at that point, so an entry that holds
the key is another load's. The store now leaves it alone, like the two
stores of the previous commit. With nothing under the key the key is
registered as before.

JSTests/stress/module-load-failed-fetch-keeps-concurrent-load.js covers
the route that needs no removeEntry(): two import()s of one key overlap
and the first fails at its fetch. The later import() of the key rejects
on main and gets the module here.
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robobun added a commit to oven-sh/bun that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
…the replacement

Seven tests that fail on main. A module that mock.module(), a plugin's
build.module() or a --hot reload replaced while its import() was in
flight, and that then fails, leaves its error on the replacement: every
later import() of the replacement rejects with the replaced module's
error. The same happens without a removal when an import() fails at its
fetch and the file is imported again before that failure has settled.
In a debug build that case stops at an assertion in fetchComplete().

They pass with the engine change of oven-sh/WebKit#754.

Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
robobun added a commit to oven-sh/bun that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
…the replacement

Seven tests that fail on main. A module that mock.module(), a plugin's
build.module() or a --hot reload replaced while its import() was in
flight, and that then fails, leaves its error on the replacement: every
later import() of the replacement rejects with the replaced module's
error. The same happens without a removal when an import() fails at its
fetch and the file is imported again before that failure has settled.
In a debug build that case stops at an assertion in fetchComplete().

They pass with the engine change of oven-sh/WebKit#754.

Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
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@dylan-conway this is the by-entry error store of your first commit of #748 (e8bfeef), without its lookup by key for a load that has no entry. On #748 you wrote that this bug is "a separate bug with its own fix, which is going into a PR of its own" (comment). I found no PR or branch for it, so this PR offers it in that shape: 31 lines in four source files, all inside #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) with upstream's lines kept in #else, and a stress test.

If your own version is in progress, close this in favour of it. If you want this one changed, say what: the rule for a load with no entry, the third store, or where the second loadModule() reads its entry.

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Bun builds now track registry entries on module loading contexts and use them during fetch rejection handling. A stress test covers concurrent imports around a failed fetch and a later successful import.

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Bun module load rejection handling

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Store registry entries on loading contexts
Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/ModuleLoadingContext.h, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/ModuleLoadingContext.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSModuleLoader.cpp
ModuleLoadingContext gains a nullable entry setter. In Bun builds, JSModuleLoader::loadModule assigns the registry entry for the request.
Use stored entries during rejection handling
Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSMicrotask.cpp, JSTests/stress/module-load-failed-fetch-keeps-concurrent-load.js, JSTests/stress/resources/.gitignore
In Bun builds, JSMicrotask records and uses the loading context’s entry during rejection handling and error categorization. The stress test checks that the first import rejects and a later import resolves to 42; it ignores the second import’s result. The ignore rule excludes generated test files.

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Module load errors may not be recorded on the correct registry entry when specifier resolution changes the key. Confirm the lookup key before merging.

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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 the new setEntry at JSModuleLoader.cpp:930 can miss an entry whose key the host resolve() hook rewrote (the entry is registered under the resolved key, line 807, while the lookup uses moduleRequest.m_specifier). It is the same unresolved key the upstream by-key stores in moduleLoadTopRejected/moduleLoadStoreError already used, so that path's behavior is unchanged by this PR.

Extended reasoning...

The change is confined to USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) branches in JSMicrotask.cpp, JSModuleLoader.cpp and ModuleLoadingContext.h/.cpp, redirecting a failed loadModule()'s error store from a by-key registry lookup to the entry recorded on the load's own context, plus one new stress test; it touches no auth, injection or data-exposure surface. The two inline findings concern by-key paths the PR description itself lists as not fixed here, and the resolve()-rewritten-key candidate was ruled out as pre-existing behavior identical to upstream's lookup.

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The pending run is done. On Bun main with oven-sh/bun#44473 and this PR's preview build (bun bd --webkit-version=autobuild-preview-pr-754-08bf0974), the seven tests of oven-sh/bun#39711 pass, three runs. On the same tree with main's engine all seven fail (Bun CI, Buildkite 123129). The plugin, mock, resolve, node:module, hot reload and isolation suites pass with the preview build, except two load-same-js-file-a-lot timeouts that a debug+ASAN build has on main's engine too.

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