usockets: decouple dns_ready_head and closed_connecting_head lists

[robobun]

What

Give us_connecting_socket_t a dedicated next_closed link for the deferred-free list (closed_connecting_head) instead of reusing the dns_ready_head next pointer, make us_connecting_socket_free idempotent via a scheduled_for_free bit, and have the drain loop skip entries that are already scheduled for free.

Why

The v1.3.11 linux-x64-baseline crash signature is:

panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0x0
  us_internal_drain_pending_dns_resolve   loop.c:238
  ← return from us_internal_socket_after_resolve

Disassembly of the callee prologue:

mov 0x8(%rdi),%rsi   ; rsi = c->context
mov (%rsi),%rax      ; rax = context->loop   ← fault, rsi == 0
decl 0xb0(%rax)      ; loop->num_polls--

c->context (offset 8 in us_connecting_socket_t) reads as 0. Nothing ever writes c->context = NULL explicitly, so the block at c was freed and recycled by a subsequent us_calloc. #29067 added an extra context ref, which keeps the context alive but does nothing when c itself is the recycled block — the field is zero regardless. #29068 added Bun__addrinfo_cancel, which correctly refuses once request.result is set, so it doesn't change the guarded paths either.

Analysis of the pending_resolve_callback invariant

us_connecting_socket_free(c) is reachable from four sites and in every one c->pending_resolve_callback == 0:

1. after_resolve(c) c->closed branch — pending cleared two lines earlier; c has just been dequeued from the drain snapshot.
2. us_connecting_socket_close(c) non-pending branch — explicit pending == 0.
3. us_connecting_socket_close(c) cancel-success branch — Bun__addrinfo_cancel only returns 1 while request.result == NULL, i.e. before the worker has snapshotted notify (both sides hold global_cache.lock), so us_internal_dns_callback(c) will never fire and c never reaches dns_ready_head.
4. after_open(s) success — s was created by start_connections(c), called only from after_resolve(c) after it cleared pending.

And us_internal_dns_callback(c) fires exactly once per c (Bun__addrinfo_set either enqueues directly or appends to notify, never both; afterResult moves notify out under the same lock). So c is never simultaneously on closed_connecting_head and reachable from a future dns_ready_head snapshot — the invariant holds through every 2/3/4-socket interleaving traced.

The production workload (fetch via proxy + WebSocket + spawn + AbortSignal, ~3 req/s, one crash per several process-hours) nevertheless hits it, so either there is an interleaving outside the traced set or another writer is corrupting c->next. Separately, us_loop_run_bun_tick has no re-entrancy guard and waitForPromise / HTMLRewriter.transform / expect().resolves can nest it on the same loop from inside on_connect_error, which runs free_closed_sockets inside a drain — but even that path leaves the outer next untouched because next is captured before after_resolve(s).

The structural hazard this removes

The two lists previously shared c->next. us_connecting_socket_free(c) did:

c->next = c->context->loop->data.closed_connecting_head;  // overwrites dns_ready_head link

so the correctness of the drain loop depended entirely on the invariant above. With a dedicated next_closed link, enqueuing c for deferred free can no longer truncate or splice the drain chain, us_connecting_socket_free becomes safely idempotent (double-call early-returns instead of double-unlinking and cycling the close list), and the drain loop skips anything already scheduled for free (valid memory until free_closed_sockets runs) instead of derefing a released context/addrinfo_req.

This turns a subtle cross-function invariant into a structural guarantee: even if a future change violates pending_resolve_callback, the failure mode is a skipped drain entry, not a recycled pointer in after_resolve.

Testing

resolve-dns.test.ts 71/71, node-net/socket.test.ts/tcp-server.test.ts unchanged vs USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 baseline (failures there are environmental — proxy cert / ECONNREFUSED to external hosts). The new dns-connecting-socket-stress.test.ts (ASAN-only, 25k concurrent net.connect("localhost") + random-phase abort, quarantine_size_mb=0) runs clean on the patched build; it also ran clean on a pre-#29067 ASAN build, consistent with the field hit rate. No deterministic fail-before — the exact interleaving is not reproduced here. The stress test is included as a regression guard for the lifecycle rather than a gate.

[robobun]

^{Updated 10:57 PM PT - Apr 9th, 2026}

❌ @autofix-ci[bot], your commit 7e39306 has 3 failures in Build #44832 (All Failures):

• test/js/web/fetch/fetch.upgrade.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 aarch64
• test/js/node/test/parallel/test-cluster-primary-kill.js - timeout on 🐧 13 x64-asan
• test/js/bun/webview/webview-chrome.test.ts - code 1 on 🍎 13 aarch64

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🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 29099

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-29099 executable, so you can run:

bun-29099 --bun

[robobun]

Status: defensive hardening, not a proven root-cause fix. Rebased off e1069426f to drop #29092.

CI (build #44832): all build jobs pass on every platform; all test lanes pass except darwin-13-aarch64-test-bun, which is also failing on #29096 and #29097 — pre-existing flake, not this change. debian-13-x64-asan-test-bun passed, so the stress test ran green under ASAN in CI.

Local (debug+ASAN, e1069426f base):

• resolve-dns.test.ts 71/71
• socket.test.ts / tcp-server.test.ts / node-net.test.ts failures are environmental (proxy cert / ECONNREFUSED to external hosts), identical on USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1
• Stress test (25k net.connect("localhost") + random abort, ASAN, quarantine_size_mb=0) runs clean on both patched and pre-fix(usockets): hold a context ref for the lifetime of pending_resolve_callback #29067 builds — does not reproduce, so no fail-before

Gate: fails on container-local issues (release WebKit fetch → unable to verify the first certificate from the proxy; ASAN legs truncated). Not caused by this diff. Even once those clear, the gate will correctly flag "passes both ways" — this is hardening without a deterministic repro.

Draft. The analysis in the PR body is the deliverable; the diff turns the pending_resolve_callback invariant into a structural guarantee.

[github-actions]

This PR may be a duplicate of:

1. fix(usockets): snapshot loop before context unref in us_connecting_socket_free #29064 - Also fixes the v1.3.11 segfault in us_connecting_socket_free / us_internal_drain_pending_dns_resolve; modifies the same function in socket.c to address the same crash, but with a different approach (snapshotting the loop pointer vs. this PR's structural fix with separate next_closed link)

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[robobun]

Not a duplicate of #29064 — that one snapshots loop before the unlink's us_socket_context_unref, which with #29067 already merged is now redundant (the pending-resolve ref keeps the context alive past unlink). This PR instead separates the two linked lists so they use independent link fields, and makes us_connecting_socket_free idempotent. The two are compatible; this one is the broader structural change.

CI build failures are from #29092 (ZIG_PARALLEL_SEMA) which broke main — same failures on other PRs opened after it; #29097 is the follow-up fix. My change compiles clean locally (verified on e1069426f base, the commit immediately before #29092).