fix(child_process): throw an unhandled spawn/fork error event; close out #11490 #11350 #10730 #11359 - #11623
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 5 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFailed child-process errors are emitted before close is scheduled. When no listener handles the error, the runtime throws it after the handle scope ends. The reactor uses the shared error-emission helper, and new tests cover handled and unhandled cases. ChangesFailed-spawn error handling
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant emit_error_then_close
participant emit_spawn_error
participant error_listener
participant throw_if_unhandled
participant close_callback
emit_error_then_close->>emit_spawn_error: Emit the stored spawn error
emit_spawn_error->>error_listener: Deliver the error event
alt listener handles the error
emit_spawn_error-->>emit_error_then_close: Return no unhandled error
emit_error_then_close->>close_callback: Schedule close callback
else no listener handles the error
emit_spawn_error-->>emit_error_then_close: Return the error object
emit_error_then_close->>throw_if_unhandled: Throw after the handle scope ends
end
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The failed-spawn handling has no established production blocker. A previously identified GC-sensitive unit-test comparison remains; address it or accept the bounded test-reliability risk. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change restores expected error propagation without granting additional process-launch privileges. Applications that omit child error handlers may now terminate instead of continuing silently. Recovering through an uncaughtException handler does not restore the suppressed close event, so callers must not rely solely on close for failure cleanup. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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- Line 125: In the failed-spawn error storage path, root `err` in `scope` and
reload it when calling `cp_set_field`, so it remains valid if field-name
creation allocates. In `spawn_error_without_listener_is_unhandled`, also root
the value read before `emit_spawn_error` and reload it for the later comparison.
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Root the test error before storing it.
If GC runs while cp_set_field creates the __cpError field-name string, it can move the error held only in the raw err local. The helper can then store a stale value and make either new test fail for the wrong reason. Root err in scope and reload it for the store. In spawn_error_without_listener_is_unhandled, also root the value read on Line 135 before comparing it after emit_spawn_error, which can allocate. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Based on learnings, Perry’s production GC does not conservatively scan Rust locals, so NaN-boxed values must be rooted and reloaded across allocating operations.
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In the failed-spawn error storage path, root `err` in `scope` and reload it when
calling `cp_set_field`, so it remains valid if field-name creation allocates. In
`spawn_error_without_listener_is_unhandled`, also root the value read before
`emit_spawn_error` and reload it for the later comparison.
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Source: Learnings
…ode does A failed spawn()/fork() emits a deferred `error` on the ChildProcess. With no `error` listener Perry dropped it, still fired `close`, and carried on; Node's EventEmitter throws it (`Unhandled 'error' event`) and `close` never fires. This is the remaining half of #10730: test_gap_9592 read as a Perry pass on macOS because the missing /bin/true's ENOENT went nowhere, not because Perry resolved the absolute path through PATH (it does not). The emit now reports whether a listener took the error; if not, the error object is thrown as-is once the frame's handle scopes have dropped, and `close` is not scheduled. Adds test_gap_10730_child_unhandled_error (byte-identical to node; prints `close without listener` and no `uncaught` lines without the fix) and two failed_spawn unit tests.
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Summary
Of the four issues, three were already fixed on
mainby earlier PRs; I re-verified each on this head. The one real gap left was the second half of #10730, which this PR fixes: a failedspawn()orfork()whoseerrorevent has no listener now throws, as Node's EventEmitter does. Before, Perry dropped the error, still firedclose, and carried on.No version bump.
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crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/failed_spawn.rs:emit_spawn_errordelivers the deferred spawn/forkerrorand returns the error if no listener took it.throw_if_unhandledthrows it, but only after every handle scope in the emitting frame has dropped.emit_error_then_closeno longer schedulesclosewhen the error was unhandled. In Node the process dies beforeclose.crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/reactor.rs:cp_emit_spawn_error(the fork path) is now a thin wrapper over the same helpers.test-files/test_gap_10730_child_unhandled_error.ts(new) covers three cases: a handled error, an unhandled one, and a listener that was removed again.failed_spawnunit tests.changelog.d/10730-child-unhandled-error.md.exec/execFileuse their own callback path and are unaffected. No JS-callable native signature changed.Related issue
Closes #10730
/usr/bin/trueon macOS.PATH. It was not: Perry reportedENOENTcorrectly, but nothing was listening, so the error was dropped. That is what this PR fixes.Closes #11490
PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./run_parity_tests.sh.Closes #11350
compile_ir()now takesartifact_env_lock(), so it no longer racescompile_artifact()deletingPERRY_NATIVE_REPS_DIR.typed_array_rmw_8692pass at--test-threads=16.Closes #11359
arena_alloc_gc_old's recycled header bytes, so the thread-exit drop no longerBox::from_raws residue.RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --libpassed 6/6 full runs (4704 passed, 0 failed).helper_stores::map_and_set_external_helper_stores_preserve_young_childrenran in every run.Test plan
Fails without the fix. Built from
HEAD~1's runtime, the new gap test printsclose without listenerand nouncaught …lines. With the fix it is byte-identical tonode --experimental-strip-types(checked locally against Node 22, not the pinned 26.5.1).Runtime lib suite vs
main:RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib:main: 4704 passed, 0 failed.Gap suite vs
main: each of the 36test-files/*.tsthat importchild_processwas run on its own withPERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./run_parity_tests.sh --filter <test>, against both amainbuild and this PR. The only difference istest_gap_10730_child_unhandled_error(main FAIL → PR PASS).test_gap_9493_utf8_stream_exit_no_flushfails on both arms, so it is pre-existing.cargo fmt --check,scripts/check_file_size.sh,scripts/addr_class_inventory.pyandscripts/check_test_registration.pyare clean.cargo build --releasecleanFull
cargo test --workspace: not run locally. Covered:perry-runtime --libin full, andperry-codegen --test typed_array_rmw_8692.Added a test under
test-files/and#[test]s in the affected cratedocs/src/not updated (no API change)Checklist
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Summary by CodeRabbit
spawn()andfork()calls now report the original error as an uncaught error when no active error listener handles it.