events: do not call resume() from on() after the iterator closes by robobun · Pull Request #42896 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-09-16T09:32:09Z

Problem

for await (const line of rl) over node:readline throws ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE (readline was closed) and drops the last line. It happens when one chunk delivers 1,026 or more lines and the input ends with that chunk (Readable.from([text]), an HTTP response). Bun 1.3.14 and Node.js v26.3.0 yield every line.
The cause is closeHandler in events.on (src/js/node/events.ts:741). It leaves paused set when the interface closes. When the queue drains, next() calls rl.resume(), which throws on a closed interface.
The bug shows since Bun 1.4.0. node:repl: replace the stub with Node v26.3.0's REPL — v26 readline stack, acorn recoverable-parse + top-level await, completion, history, --interactive (82 vendored upstream tests) #31827 ported the Node.js v26 readline, where resume() throws after close(). Before that, it did nothing.

Fix

closeHandler sets paused = false. A finished iterator does not call emitter.resume(). It still yields every queued event.
This is the Node.js fix from events: don't call resume after close (fix readline regression) nodejs/node#60548. A diff of on() against v26.3.0 shows no other behavior difference.
Verified: test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts, test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts, and test/js/node/test/parallel/test-readline-async-iterators.js (now the v26.3.0 file, with the upstream regression test). All three fail without the fix.

Background

events.on(emitter, event) returns an async iterator that queues events until the consumer calls next().
With highWaterMark, the iterator calls emitter.pause() when the queue is longer than the mark. It calls emitter.resume() when the queue drains below lowWaterMark.
The close option names events that finish the iterator. closeHandler removes the listeners and marks it finished. Queued events stay readable.
readline builds its line iterator with events.on(rl, "line", { close: ["close"], highWaterMark: 1024 }). The first line resolves the pending next(), so line 1,026 is the first one that pauses the interface.

Notes

Repro. It prints threw ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE after 1025 of 1026 lines before the fix and ok: 1026 of 1026 lines after it:

import readline from "node:readline";
import { Readable } from "node:stream";
const n = 1026;
const text = Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => "line " + i + "\n").join("");
const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: Readable.from([text]), crlfDelay: Infinity });
let got = 0;
try {
  for await (const line of rl) got++;
  console.log(`ok: ${got} of ${n} lines`);
} catch (e) {
  console.log(`threw ${e.code} after ${got} of ${n} lines`);
}

Event order, traced with listeners on the input and on the interface. Steps 1 to 3 are identical on Node.js v26.3.0 and Bun:

The iterator calls rl.pause() inside the data event.
The input emits end one tick later, while it is paused.
rl.close() runs and emits close. The consumer has read one line at this point.
Bun only: next() calls rl.resume() when the queue drains, and resume() throws.

Inputs that fail on Bun 1.4.3 with 5,000 lines in one chunk: Readable.from([text]), a PassThrough with end(text), a Readable that pushes the text and then null, Readable.fromWeb(new Response(text).body), and http.IncomingMessage. These streams know about the end when they emit the chunk, so end follows one tick later even if the stream is paused. All of them pass with the fix.

Inputs that passed on Bun 1.4.3 in the first probes: fs.createReadStream, piped stdin, and redirected stdin (5,000 and 200,000 lines, one run each), and child process stdout (5,000 lines). They usually find the end in a later read, and a paused stream does not start that read.

Correction after the merge: pipes are not always safe. A pipe fails when its last chunk and its end arrive together. On the unfixed canary c6b7fcb5b, for await over spawn("seq", ["1", "100000"]).stdout threw ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE after 99,999 lines in 5 of 8 runs, and after 999,999 of 1,000,000 lines in 7 of 8 runs. With 5,000 lines, 8 of 8 runs passed. Piped process.stdin with 100,000 lines threw the same error in 1 of 10 runs. The fix does not depend on the input type: after the input ends and the interface closes, next() does not call rl.resume().

A separate defect showed up in the same probes and is not part of this PR. Piped process.stdin sometimes never emits end after a pause() and resume() cycle (about 10% of runs on Bun 1.4.2 and canary, 0 of 40 on Bun 1.3.14, never on Node.js v26.3.0). It reproduces without readline.

Upstream report: nodejs/node#60507 ("readline regression since v24.2.0 on >= 1026 lines in input").

The diff of on() compares src/js/node/events.ts with lib/events.js at v26.3.0. It covers the body of on() only, not the helpers it calls. The draft #35483 carries the same line inside a larger change set.

Fail-before check with a debug build: with src/ at origin/main, the two new bun:test cases fail and test-readline-async-iterators.js exits 1. With the fix, event-emitter.test.ts (91 tests) and readline.node.test.ts (81 tests) pass, and the vendored test exits 0. Also run: readline_promises.node.test.ts, test-readline-async-iterators-backpressure.js, test-readline-async-iterators-destroy.js, test-events-on-async-iterator.js.

Known sibling case, same as Node.js. A line listener that is registered before the loop calls rl.close() in the middle of a chunk, with more than 1,024 lines queued. emit still calls the iterator's listener for that line after closeHandler ran, and eventHandler calls rl.pause() on the closed interface. Node.js v26.3.0 and this PR report uncaughtException ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE, and the loop then rejects. Bun 1.4.3 rejects the loop only. Node.js main has the same code (lib/events.js#L1202-L1205). A !finished condition in that branch of eventHandler fixes the case (tested: 1,501 lines through the closing line, then done). It is not in this PR because it makes Bun differ from Node.js. See the review thread.

[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 4 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 2 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts:
(pass) CSI > should be defined [13.58ms]
(pass) CSI > should have all the correct clear sequences [11.39ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should put clear screen sequence into writable when called [125.20ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should throw on invalid callback [6.90ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should that clearScreenDown() does not throw on null or undefined stream [7.97ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear to the left of cursor when given -1 as direction [6.16ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear to the right of cursor when given 1 as direction [3.03ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear whole line when given 0 as direction [2.37ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should call callback after clearing line [4.33ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should throw on an invalid callback [3.54ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should
... (truncated)

release without fix: 2 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630)

test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts:
(pass) CSI > should be defined [0.14ms]
(pass) CSI > should have all the correct clear sequences [0.17ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should put clear screen sequence into writable when called [1.67ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should throw on invalid callback [0.14ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should that clearScreenDown() does not throw on null or undefined stream [0.12ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear to the left of cursor when given -1 as direction [0.11ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear to the right of cursor when given 1 as direction [0.04ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear whole line when given 0 as direction [0.03ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should call callback after clearing line [0.07ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should throw on an invalid callback [0.06ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should not throw on null or undefined stream [0.12ms]
(pass) readline.moveCursor() > shouldn't write when moveCursor(0, 0) is called [0.60ms]
(pass) readline.moveCursor() > should throw on invalid callback [0.07ms]
(pas
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts:
(pass) CSI > should be defined [7.74ms]
(pass) CSI > should have all the correct clear sequences [7.76ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should put clear screen sequence into writable when called [87.64ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should throw on invalid callback [5.98ms]
(pass) readline.clearScreenDown() > should that clearScreenDown() does not throw on null or undefined stream [5.90ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear to the left of cursor when given -1 as direction [5.99ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear to the right of cursor when given 1 as direction [3.06ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should clear whole line when given 0 as direction [2.63ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should call callback after clearing line [4.30ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should throw on an invalid callback [3.74ms]
(pass) readline.clearLine() > should no
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 760ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/125] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (8216ms)
Bundle modules (66ms)
Postprocesss modules (172ms)
Bundle Functions (549ms)
Generate Code (42ms)

[9.05s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2600 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[2/6] link bun-profile
[3/6] strip bun
[4/6] check bun-profile --revision
[check] bun-profile 1.4.3-canary.1+e9a3c8bee (7ms)
[5/6] check bun-profile exports, dynamic deps, initializers, hardening
[check] bun-profile 688 exported symbols (25ms)
[check] bun-profile 3 shared libraries (1ms)
[check] bun-profile 392 imported symbols (5ms)
[check] bun-profile 10 static initializers (324ms)
[check] bun-profile 3 hardening properties (1ms)
[check] bun-profile 11 debug sections (0ms)
[6/6] check bun-profile link inputs for duplicate definitions
[check] bun-profile 0 duplicate strong symbols (3.5s)
[build] done
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (e9a3c8bee)

test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts:
(pass) CSI > should be defined
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

src/js/node/events.ts                              |  3 ++-
 test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts          | 18 ++++++++++++++++
 test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts        | 16 +++++++++++++-
 .../test/parallel/test-readline-async-iterators.js | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file

file                                                      reads  edits  tests
src/js/node/events.ts                                         1      1     16
test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts                     2      1      9
test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts                   1      1      9
…/js/node/test/parallel/test-readline-async-iterators.js      0      0     20

The iterator from events.on() pauses the emitter above highWaterMark and resumes it when the queue drains. closeHandler left the paused flag set, so next() called emitter.resume() on an emitter that had already closed. node:readline builds its line iterator on events.on() with a highWaterMark of 1024, and Interface.resume() throws ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE after close(). A for await loop over an input that delivers 1,026 or more lines in one chunk and then ends threw that error and dropped the last line. Clear the paused flag in closeHandler, as Node.js does since nodejs/node#60548. Update test-readline-async-iterators.js to the v26.3.0 version, which has the upstream regression test.

robobun · 2026-09-16T09:32:26Z

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Reproduced on Bun 1.4.3 (canary 09bb54630) with the script in the Notes section of the PR body. n = 1025 prints ok: 1025 of 1025 lines. n = 1026 prints threw ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE after 1025 of 1026 lines. Node.js v26.3.0 prints ok for both.
The fix is in this PR (events: do not call resume() from on() after the iterator closes #42896). With a debug build, the new tests fail with src/ at origin/main and pass with the fix.
Self-review: the change is one line and matches Node.js (events: don't call resume after close (fix readline regression) nodejs/node#60548). No open concerns.

coderabbitai · 2026-09-16T09:34:51Z

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The async iterator cleanup now clears paused state, and buffered-event handling records that iteration cannot finish at the resume point. Regression tests cover EventEmitter and readline async iteration with large buffered inputs, including Readable.from().

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Async iterator buffering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Event iterator cleanup `src/js/node/events.ts`, `test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts`	Buffered events no longer imply iterator completion at the resume point. Closing the iterator clears its paused state. Tests verify that closing drains queued events without calling `resume`.
Readline buffer regressions `test/js/node/readline/readline.node.test.ts`, `test/js/node/test/parallel/test-readline-async-iterators.js`	Tests cover 1,100 lines delivered in one chunk and 10,000-line input delivered through `Readable.from()`. The new test runs in the existing promise chain.

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The added readline regression test can fail before testing the intended behavior, blocking the affected test workflow. Add the missing stream import before merge.

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robobun · 2026-09-16T09:38:02Z

A note on the CodeRabbit summary above. Its "missing stream import" finding is not valid, and CodeRabbit withdrew it in the review thread. test-readline-async-iterators.js imports Readable on line 6, in unchanged context outside the diff hunk. The file is a byte-for-byte copy of the Node.js v26.3.0 test. It exits 0 with the fix, and it fails with ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE inside testReadableFrom without it. No change is needed.

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