fix(runtime): bind a 'static method name on the timer and TextDecoder/TextEncoder handle paths (#8133) - #8177
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…/TextEncoder handle paths (#8133) `js_class_method_bind` stores the method-name POINTER in the bound closure and `dispatch_bound_method` re-reads it at CALL time, so the pointer must outlive the closure. Six runtime sites derived it as `key + size_of::<StringHeader>()` — the interior of a movable GC heap string that is unreachable the moment the read returns. #7747 fixed this on the Buffer path; these are the same defect elsewhere. Replace `is_timer_handle_method_key` with `timer_handle_method_name_static`, which answers the `'static` literal instead of a bool, and add `text_decoder_method_name_static` / `text_encoder_method_name_static`. `text_handle_property` no longer TAKES the caller's pointer, so the bug is not merely fixed there, it is unwritable. Reproduced end-to-end: on the pre-fix binary a computed-key read (`dec[("dec"+"ode")]`) followed by allocation churn prints `decode=undefined` and then throws, and under `PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1` it takes a SIGBUS the protector reports as RETIRED FROM-SPACE. Fixed, it matches node and exits 0 with the protector armed (18 blocks, 18.8 MB).
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTimer, TextDecoder, and TextEncoder method binding now uses static method-name byte slices instead of movable heap-string interiors. New GC tests verify pointer identity across direct, raw-handle, inline-cache, and text property lookup paths. ChangesStable bound method names
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR fixes a concrete GC-lifetime bug in bound method lookup, but its tests do not directly exercise two changed tail-helper paths and the documented test command omits the required serialized-thread setting. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and targeted test/documentation follow-up. Possibly related PRs
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In `@changelog.d/8177-handle-bound-method-name-static.md`:
- Line 75: Update the reported perry-runtime test command in the changelog to
prefix it with RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, preserving the existing cargo test -p
perry-runtime --lib arguments.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/handle_bound_method_name.rs`:
- Around line 135-150: Update the bound-method tests to directly invoke
get_field_by_name_object_tail for both boxed and already-stripped raw receiver
encodings, so those tail paths are exercised. Retain one direct
js_object_get_field_by_name assertion in the existing coverage around the later
test section, rather than using it for both cases.
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Run the reported test command with serialized test threads.
Line 75 omits RUST_TEST_THREADS=1. Report the command as RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib so the validation matches the runtime test constraint.
As per coding guidelines: "perry-runtime's tests are not parallel-safe — run them RUST_TEST_THREADS=1."
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In `@changelog.d/8177-handle-bound-method-name-static.md` at line 75, Update the
reported perry-runtime test command in the changelog to prefix it with
RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, preserving the existing cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib
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| fn a_bound_timer_method_from_a_raw_handle_never_captures_the_key() { | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Exercise the tail helper directly.
Lines 135 and 150 call js_object_get_field_by_name. Its small-handle branch resolves known timer handles before get_field_by_name_object_tail runs. Therefore, these tests do not cover the boxed and raw tail paths that their names claim to test.
Add assertions that call crate::object::get_field_by_name_object_tail for both receiver encodings. Keep one direct js_object_get_field_by_name assertion for Lines 864-880.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/handle_bound_method_name.rs` around lines
135 - 150, Update the bound-method tests to directly invoke
get_field_by_name_object_tail for both boxed and already-stripped raw receiver
encodings, so those tail paths are exercised. Retain one direct
js_object_get_field_by_name assertion in the existing coverage around the later
test section, rather than using it for both cases.
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Closes #8133.
js_class_method_bind(instance, name_ptr, name_len)stores the method-namepointer in the bound closure (capture 1) and
dispatch_bound_methodre-reads it at call time. Its doc requires the pointer to stay valid for the
closure's lifetime, which codegen satisfies with per-module rodata. Runtime
callers on the timer and TextDecoder/TextEncoder paths did not: each derived
key_ptr = (key as *const u8).add(size_of::<StringHeader>())— the interior ofa movable GC heap string that is unreachable the moment the read returns —
and handed that pointer straight to the bind.
#7747 fixed exactly this on the Buffer path, and its commit message states the
consequence: "whether the stale bytes still spell the method is an allocator
property, not a program property", which is why it passed locally and took a
SIGSEGV on conformance-smoke shards 7 and 8.
Sites fixed
The issue names four. There are six — two more of the identical timer block
that the issue did not list, both found while confirming its four:
field_get_set/get_field_by_name_tail.rs:48field_get_set/get_field_by_name_tail.rs:121text.rs:649TextDecoder.prototype.decode— named in the issuetext.rs:670TextEncoder.prototype.encode/encodeInto— named in the issuefield_get_set/ic_miss.rs:533js_object_get_field_by_name, so it must be mirrored" — a separate live entry point, and it has a test here.field_get_set/get_field_by_name.rs:869js_object_get_field_by_namecalls the tail first, so it looks shadowed today; fixed defensively because nothing guarantees that survives a refactor. No test — I could not construct a receiver that reaches it.Shape of the fix
The same one #7747 used, tightened one notch.
is_timer_handle_method_key(aboolpredicate) is replaced bytimer_handle_method_name_static(key) -> Option<&'static [u8]>. Returning theliteral rather than answering
boolis the point: with no predicate left, acaller has nothing to pair with its own pointer, so the obvious code no longer
reintroduces the bug. Same shape as
set_method_value_nametwo functions aboveit, and as Fix a crash when reading a method off a Buffer without calling it #7747's
buffer_method_name_static.text.rsgrowstext_decoder_method_name_static/text_encoder_method_name_static, andtext_handle_propertyno longer takeskey_ptr/key_lenat all — it cannot bind the caller's pointer because itno longer has it. Its four callers are updated.
Reproduction — it does reproduce, and here is how
This is a GC lifetime bug, so a test that merely calls the path passes. I built a
fixture that actually moves the string.
The key insight is that a literal
dec.decodelowers the property name torodata and never reaches these arms. A computed key does not:
On a pre-fix binary (the fix reverted to echo the caller's pointer):
Plain run, no instruments: prints
decode=undefined, thenTypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined. Node printsdecode=hi.A silent wrong answer, deterministic on this host.
PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_ZEAL_ALLOC_KB=0 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE_DEPTH=800: SIGBUS, reported precisely:On the fixed binary the same fixture exits 0 and matches node byte-for-byte
(
sink=true / decode=hi / encode=2 / done), with the protector armed —retired_set=#0 blocks=18 bytes_protected=18874368— so the green run means thedetector was live, not that nothing was tried.
The fixture is a reproduction, not a committed test: it needs a full compile plus
two GC env knobs, so it belongs in the writeup rather than in
cargo-test.Tests
Six in
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/handle_bound_method_name.rs, mirroringbuffer_bound_method_name.rs. They assert pointer identity with the'staticliteral, per #7747's note that the issue repeats: an inequality against the key
could pass with the bug present, and comparing the BYTES only fails on a host
where the freed memory has already been reused — the lucky-allocator problem
these tests exist to avoid. Identity cannot be lucky.
Each test also asserts its gate is live (
is_known_timer_id/is_known_text_decoder_id) before measuring, so a green run cannot mean the armnever ran.
Sabotage — each mutation applied, tests re-run, then reverted:
timer_handle_method_name_staticechoes its argument (restores the exact pre-fix pointer at all four timer sites)One measurement of mine was vacuous and I fixed it. The tests first failed
with the fix applied, because
assert_names_the_literalcompared against ab"ref"literal written in the test file — two occurrences of the same bytestring in different modules are two
&'static [u8]s the linker is free to leaveat different addresses, and it did. The expected pointer now comes from the
lookup under test, which is what
buffer_bound_method_name.rsdoes and why itwas right. The helper carries a comment saying so.
Deliberately out of scope
The sweep for other
js_class_method_bindcallers turned up the same mistake intwo places this PR does not touch, because they are different surfaces with
their own name lists and deserve their own issue:
field_get_set/get_field_by_name.rs:1555— the primitive-receiver arm(
is_primitive_proto_method:toString/valueOf/hasOwnProperty/…), reachedby e.g.
const f = (5).toString. Same heap-string-interior bind.perry-stdlib's handle-property dispatch layer.js_handle_property_dispatchis handed the samekey_ptrby the runtime andforwards it; eight sub-dispatchers then capture
property_name.as_ptr()/property.as_bytes()directly instead of remapping to a literal —sqlite/dispatch.rs(×4),tls/dispatch.rs(×2),common/dispatch/emitter_als.rs(×2). Soconst f = db.run,const f = tlsServer.listen,const f = emitter.onandconst f = als.getStorehave the same hazard. Sibling dispatchers in the very same files
(
crypto/ecdh.rs,fetch/dispatch.rs,streams/subclass.rs) already return&'static [u8]and show the pattern to copy.Also noted, unconfirmed:
js_class_method_bind_by_id's legacySHORT_STRING_TAGfallback forwards a pointer into a stack-localscratcharray, dead on return. Current codegen uses the
STATIC_DISPATCH_TAGpath, so Icould not show the legacy branch is live.
Verification
cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib— 2424 passed, 0 failed, 4 ignored(2418 on
main+ 6 new).v26.5.1(.node-version).lint-job gates generated from.github/workflows/test.yml(32 commands)plus
scripts/check_gc_env_knobs.py: all pass.Summary by CodeRabbit
TextDecoderandTextEncodermethod access to prevent intermittent failures when methods are bound or cached.