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Problem

  • A fetch() with its own TLS context (for example tls: { serverName }) holds the last ref to that HTTPContext once the 60-entry context cache evicts it. When the server closes the connection, a debug ASAN build reports AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free in us_internal_ssl_detach (packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:1827). A release build shows nothing.
  • The request drops its ref in the result callback (src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:745), inside the close callback of the context's own socket. That frees the context and the socket group embedded in it. us_internal_ssl_on_close then reads s->group->loop (openssl.c:2303).
  • Found by fuzzing, no user report. It needs over 60 tls configs in one process, or a request older than the 30-minute cache TTL.

Fix

  • The last deref of an HTTPContext no longer frees it in place. #[ref_count(destroy = Self::destroy_between_ticks)] queues it on the HTTP thread, and process_events frees it between drain_events() and the next tick().
  • Correct because all work of the HTTP thread runs inside those two calls. No socket callback is on the stack between them, whoever dropped the last ref.
  • Verified: test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts. Two new ASAN-only tests (h2 and HTTP/1.1) fail with src/ at main. A third checks that the context is still freed.

Background

  • An HTTPContext embeds one uSockets socket group, and each socket points into it (s->group).
  • Custom TLS contexts are refcounted (http: ref-count custom SSL contexts so eviction skips in-flight ones #29334). The cache holds one ref and each request holds one. Eviction drops only the cache ref.
  • HttpThread::process_events is the HTTP thread's loop. drain_events() starts and aborts requests. tick() runs the socket callbacks.
  • WindowsNamedPipeContext defers its free with the same hook.
Notes

ASAN report on main (3f7f046), HTTP/1.1 run, trimmed:

ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free READ of size 8, 72 bytes inside of 208-byte region, thread T4 (HTTP Client)
    #0 us_internal_ssl_detach          packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:1827
    #1 us_internal_ssl_on_close        packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:2303
    #2 us_internal_socket_close_raw    packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c:328
    #3 us_internal_ssl_on_end          packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:2393
freed by thread T4 (HTTP Client):
    #12 HTTPContext<true>::destroy
    #15 RefPtr<HTTPContext<true>>::drop
    #19 AsyncHTTP::on_async_http_callback_raw   src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:745
    #21 HTTPClient::dispatch_result_and_reset    src/http/lib.rs:1618
    #22 HTTPClient::fail                         src/http/lib.rs:3970
    #23 HTTPClient::on_close::<true>             src/http/lib.rs:2163
    #24 Handler<true>::on_close                  src/http/HTTPContext.rs:1341
    #28 us_internal_ssl_on_close                 packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:2301

The h2 run frees through fail_from_h2, called by ClientSession::fail_streams, called by ClientSession::on_close. #42647 fixed a different defect with the same trigger (a stream freed twice in the h2 deliver loop). With this change that trigger is gone too: the context's Drop, which closes the session's socket, no longer runs inside the deliver loop.

One more path fails on main with the same report: a keep-alive socket that the server closes before it answers. The request dials again from inside the close callback, and the new context displaces the ref on the old one. A redirect, an idle timeout, a DNS failure, an abort and a normal end of the response on an evicted context show no report on main.

Why the fix is in HTTPContext and not in uSockets. HTTPContext is the only socket group owner in bun that freed its group from inside a socket callback. Listener frees its group from a finalizer, and the other TLS users share per-VM groups. The safety contract on SocketGroup::destroy (src/uws_sys/SocketGroup.rs) already says that it must not run while the loop walks the group. A C-side change that passes loop into us_internal_ssl_detach also stops this report. It leaves the context free to die under Rust frames that still hold its raw pointer, and the next read of s->group after a dispatch brings the report back (that read came with #31584, and ssl_release_batch after it). Two comments in uSockets said the opposite of the Rust contract: us_socket_group_deinit called a deinit from on_close fine. They now say what SocketGroup::destroy says. No C code changes.

An earlier draft of this branch routed each holder (AsyncHTTP::on_async_http_callback_raw, HttpThread::connect) through a queue of refs. The hook replaces that: no holder can get it wrong, and only dead contexts are queued, not one ref per request.

No wakeup is needed. A context that dies during tick() is freed as soon as that tick returns. One that dies during drain_events() (a request that fails at start, a cache eviction) is freed right after it. At process exit the queue is not drained, like the cache.

Related history: #31660 (closed) is a crash of the same class in the Zig implementation, where the last ref went away inside onLongTimeout.

Tests:

  • The ASAN-only block from fetch(h2): do not free the deliver loop's stream when a terminal callback closes the session #42647 now takes a protocol. The child holds a response open on a context made by serverName, runs 61 more TLS configs to evict it, and writes evicted to stderr. The two new tests then destroy the server side of the held TLS socket, over h2 and over HTTP/1.1. With src/ at main both fail with the report above.
  • an evicted custom TLS context is freed when its last request ends runs on each build. It does not fail on main. It exists because the deferral adds a way to leak: if the queue is never drained, a dead context lives forever. The test keeps one request busy on a context, leaves a second connection idle in that context's keep-alive pool, evicts the context, ends the busy request, and waits for the server to see the idle connection close. With the heap::destroy call removed the test times out.

Suites run on the debug ASAN build: fetch-http2-client.test.ts (70 pass), fetch-http2-leak.test.ts (7), fetch-http2-adversarial.test.ts (20), fetch.tls.test.ts (34), fetch-redirect.test.ts (30), fetch-tls-abortsignal-timeout.test.ts (6), fetch-proxy-tls-intern-race.test.ts (1), tls-keepalive.test.ts (4 pass, 2 skip), fetch-abort-ssl-context-eviction.test.ts (1), regression/issue/27358.test.ts (2). On a release build of this branch: tls-keepalive.test.ts 6 pass (same config: 20000 requests, 0 MB growth. 200 distinct configs: 1 MB growth), fetch-http2-client.test.ts 66 pass and 4 skip, fetch-abort-ssl-context-eviction.test.ts 1 pass.


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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/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (b99371011)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts:
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > GET: status, headers and body round-trip [1172.89ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > response body larger than one DATA frame [989.87ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > concurrent requests multiplex on one h2 session [1222.39ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body streams as raw DATA frames [467.33ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST: request body is delivered as DATA frames [1562.88ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > gzip content-encoding is decompressed [1655.77ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body larger than initial send window [960.24m
... (truncated)

release without fix: 4 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (722de17af)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts:
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > GET: status, headers and body round-trip [73.34ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > response body larger than one DATA frame [65.19ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > gzip content-encoding is decompressed [89.92ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST: request body is delivered as DATA frames [102.83ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > connection-specific request headers are stripped before HPACK [74.16ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > multiple Set-Cookie response headers survive HPACK decode [74.43ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > concurrent requests multiplex on one h2 session [101.86ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > abort sends RST_STREAM; siblings on the session survive [107.88ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FE
... (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/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (b99371011)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts:
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > GET: status, headers and body round-trip [1119.35ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > response body larger than one DATA frame [988.06ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > concurrent requests multiplex on one h2 session [1222.20ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body streams as raw DATA frames [531.27ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST: request body is delivered as DATA frames [1925.52ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > gzip content-encoding is decompressed [2051.61ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body larger than initial send window [837.85m
... (truncated)

release with fix: 4 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 846ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/128] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 122 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=107, rust=0); 243 extern-C blocks audited
[2/128] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[3/128] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (9358ms)
Bundle modules (81ms)
Postprocesss modules (248ms)
Bundle Functions (727ms)
Generate Code (35ms)

[10.46s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2600 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[3/127] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
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�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_react_compiler v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/react_compiler)
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... (truncated)
diff hotspot
packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c          |  10 ++-
 packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c             |  10 +--
 src/http/HTTPContext.rs                      |  17 +++-
 src/http/HTTPThread.rs                       |  18 ++++
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 5 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                          reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c               1      1     28
packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c                  1      1     28
src/http/HTTPContext.rs                           4      5     28
src/http/HTTPThread.rs                            5     15     28
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts      4     11     28

…wn socket callback

A request whose TLS context left the 60-entry cache holds the last ref to
it. The request gives that ref up in its result callback, which runs inside
callbacks of the context's own sockets, so the context and the socket group
embedded in it were freed while uSockets was still in the dispatch. When the
server closed the connection, us_internal_ssl_detach read s->group->loop
from the freed context right after the close callback returned.

The last deref of an HTTPContext now queues it on the HTTP thread, which
frees it between drain_events() and the next tick(), whoever held the last
ref.
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Status: ready for a maintainer. Buildkite build #115456 passed. No review thread is open.

Reproduced on main (3f7f046) with a debug ASAN build:

  1. Start a TLS server (node:http2 with allowHTTP1: true) that answers /hold with headers and one chunk, and keeps the response open.
  2. fetch(url + "/hold", { tls: { serverName: "localhost", rejectUnauthorized: false } }), then read one chunk. serverName gives the request its own TLS context.
  3. Run 61 more fetch() calls, each with a different tls.serverName. This evicts the first context from the 60-entry cache, so the held request has the last ref.
  4. Destroy the server side of the held TLS socket.

Result: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free in us_internal_ssl_detach (packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:1827), freed by the custom_ssl_ctx drop at src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:745. The same happens with protocol: "http2" and with HTTP/1.1. With this branch both runs print read after close: rejected ECONNRESET and later fetch: ok.

The two new tests in test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts do the same steps. They fail with src/ at main and pass with this branch.

Self-reviewed before the push. The review asked to move the deferral from the two holder sites into the HTTPContext destroy hook and to correct two uSockets comments that contradicted the contract. Both are in this PR.

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The change defers final custom SSL context destruction between HTTP event-loop ticks. It clarifies dispatch safety comments and expands ASAN coverage to HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1.

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TLS cleanup safety

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Dispatch-time cleanup constraints
packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c
Comments document group deinitialization hazards during close, timeout, and data dispatch.
Deferred SSL context destruction
src/http/HTTPContext.rs, src/http/HTTPThread.rs
Final custom SSL context releases are queued and processed between event-loop activity.
Protocol coverage and eviction tests
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts
ASAN tests cover HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 server-closed connections and deferred cleanup while a final request remains active.

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The summary above still asks for describe.each. CodeRabbit withdrew that finding in its thread (#42693 (comment)), so there is no code change for it. No review thread is open.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes destructor timing for refcounted TLS contexts on the HTTP thread — a memory-safety-critical lifecycle — a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Verified free_dead_ssl_contexts uses while let pop so a context whose Drop (via close_all → close handler) queues another dead context is handled in the same drain, and the Vec borrow ends before heap::destroy runs.
  • Checked placement in process_events: contexts queued during tick() are freed after the next drain_events(), still outside any socket callback; nothing can re-acquire a ref to a queued (refcount-0, cache-evicted) context in between.
  • Confirmed the debug_assert!(SSL) + cast is guarded by the "global contexts never deref'd" invariant, and the pattern matches WindowsNamedPipeContext's existing #[ref_count(destroy = …)] hook.
  • Tests: busySocket is set before the first reader.read() resolves; idleClosed awaits the observable close (no sleep); https/nodetls imports already present; the h2/h1.1 matrix and server-side-destroy path cover the sibling variants REVIEW.md asks for.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a heap-use-after-free where a custom TLS HTTPContext<true> could be destroyed from inside one of its own socket callbacks, after which uSockets reads s->group (embedded in the freed context) on callback return. The fix adds #[ref_count(destroy = Self::destroy_between_ticks)] so the last deref pushes the context onto HttpThread::dead_ssl_contexts instead of freeing in place, and process_events drains that queue between drain_events() and tick(). Two C comments in packages/bun-usockets are updated (no code change) to state the "never deinit from inside a dispatch" contract. Tests extend the existing ASAN-gated block in fetch-http2-client.test.ts to cover both h2 and HTTP/1.1 with a server-side socket destroy, and add a non-ASAN test that observes the deferred free actually happening via the idle keep-alive socket closing.

Security risks

The change touches TLS context lifecycle in the HTTP client. It does not alter TLS validation, certificate handling, or connection establishment — only when the destructor of an already-doomed context runs. The queue holds NonNull pointers to refcount-zero, cache-evicted contexts, so no path can resurrect or reuse them; heap::destroy runs the same Drop as before, just at a safe point. I see no injection, auth, or data-exposure surface here. The residual risk is the classic one for deferred-free schemes: if a raw pointer to the context or its embedded group were held anywhere between the last deref and free_dead_ssl_contexts, it would now dangle longer rather than shorter — but the PR narrows the UAF window rather than widening it, and the invariant "everything runs inside drain_events or tick" is stated and matches the loop body.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is refcount + destructor-ordering logic on a hot, security-adjacent path (per-request TLS contexts), and REVIEW.md explicitly calls out "reference counts provably balanced on every terminal path" and "the released ref may be the last one mid-callback" as the most-blocked category. The change itself is small (~40 lines of Rust) and mirrors an existing pattern (WindowsNamedPipeContext uses the same ref_count(destroy = …) hook), which reduces novelty risk. Still, the subtlety of re-entrant Drop (a context's close_all firing close handlers that may push more dead contexts mid-drain) and the SSL const-generic cast justify a maintainer confirming the lifecycle reasoning.

Other factors

Test coverage is strong: the ASAN-only cases reproduce the exact freed-read on the unfixed build for both h2 and HTTP/1.1 (satisfying REVIEW.md's "UAF fixes need an ASAN repro" and "fix the whole bug class — SSL/non-SSL, h1/h2 variants"), and the new non-ASAN test guards against the deferral turning into a leak by awaiting an observable event (idle socket close) rather than sleeping. The C changes are comment-only. The while let pop drain correctly handles pushes during iteration without holding a Vec borrow across heap::destroy. The PR description is thorough, cites the exact ASAN frames, explains why the fix belongs at the HTTPContext layer rather than in uSockets, and lists the passing test suites. Given all that, this is close to approvable, but memory-safety lifecycle changes in TLS contexts warrant a human sign-off.

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…ide its own socket callback (oven-sh#42693)

### Problem
- A `fetch()` with its own TLS context (for example `tls: { serverName
}`) holds the last ref to that `HTTPContext` once the 60-entry context
cache evicts it. When the server closes the connection, a debug ASAN
build reports `AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free` in
`us_internal_ssl_detach`
(`packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:1827`). A release build
shows nothing.
- The request drops its ref in the result callback
(`src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:745`), inside the close callback of the
context's own socket. That frees the context and the socket group
embedded in it. `us_internal_ssl_on_close` then reads `s->group->loop`
(`openssl.c:2303`).
- Found by fuzzing, no user report. It needs over 60 `tls` configs in
one process, or a request older than the 30-minute cache TTL.

### Fix
- The last deref of an `HTTPContext` no longer frees it in place.
`#[ref_count(destroy = Self::destroy_between_ticks)]` queues it on the
HTTP thread, and `process_events` frees it between `drain_events()` and
the next `tick()`.
- Correct because all work of the HTTP thread runs inside those two
calls. No socket callback is on the stack between them, whoever dropped
the last ref.
- Verified: `test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts`. Two new
ASAN-only tests (h2 and HTTP/1.1) fail with `src/` at main. A third
checks that the context is still freed.

### Background
- An `HTTPContext` embeds one uSockets socket group, and each socket
points into it (`s->group`).
- Custom TLS contexts are refcounted (oven-sh#29334). The cache holds one ref
and each request holds one. Eviction drops only the cache ref.
- `HttpThread::process_events` is the HTTP thread's loop.
`drain_events()` starts and aborts requests. `tick()` runs the socket
callbacks.
- `WindowsNamedPipeContext` defers its free with the same hook.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

ASAN report on main (3f7f046), HTTP/1.1 run, trimmed:

```
ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free READ of size 8, 72 bytes inside of 208-byte region, thread T4 (HTTP Client)
    #0 us_internal_ssl_detach          packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:1827
    oven-sh#1 us_internal_ssl_on_close        packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:2303
    oven-sh#2 us_internal_socket_close_raw    packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c:328
    oven-sh#3 us_internal_ssl_on_end          packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:2393
freed by thread T4 (HTTP Client):
    oven-sh#12 HTTPContext<true>::destroy
    oven-sh#15 RefPtr<HTTPContext<true>>::drop
    oven-sh#19 AsyncHTTP::on_async_http_callback_raw   src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:745
    oven-sh#21 HTTPClient::dispatch_result_and_reset    src/http/lib.rs:1618
    oven-sh#22 HTTPClient::fail                         src/http/lib.rs:3970
    oven-sh#23 HTTPClient::on_close::<true>             src/http/lib.rs:2163
    oven-sh#24 Handler<true>::on_close                  src/http/HTTPContext.rs:1341
    oven-sh#28 us_internal_ssl_on_close                 packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:2301
```

The h2 run frees through `fail_from_h2`, called by
`ClientSession::fail_streams`, called by `ClientSession::on_close`.
oven-sh#42647 fixed a different defect with the same trigger (a stream freed
twice in the h2 deliver loop). With this change that trigger is gone
too: the context's `Drop`, which closes the session's socket, no longer
runs inside the deliver loop.

One more path fails on main with the same report: a keep-alive socket
that the server closes before it answers. The request dials again from
inside the close callback, and the new context displaces the ref on the
old one. A redirect, an idle timeout, a DNS failure, an abort and a
normal end of the response on an evicted context show no report on main.

Why the fix is in `HTTPContext` and not in uSockets. `HTTPContext` is
the only socket group owner in bun that freed its group from inside a
socket callback. `Listener` frees its group from a finalizer, and the
other TLS users share per-VM groups. The safety contract on
`SocketGroup::destroy` (`src/uws_sys/SocketGroup.rs`) already says that
it must not run while the loop walks the group. A C-side change that
passes `loop` into `us_internal_ssl_detach` also stops this report. It
leaves the context free to die under Rust frames that still hold its raw
pointer, and the next read of `s->group` after a dispatch brings the
report back (that read came with oven-sh#31584, and `ssl_release_batch` after
it). Two comments in uSockets said the opposite of the Rust contract:
`us_socket_group_deinit` called a deinit from `on_close` fine. They now
say what `SocketGroup::destroy` says. No C code changes.

An earlier draft of this branch routed each holder
(`AsyncHTTP::on_async_http_callback_raw`, `HttpThread::connect`) through
a queue of refs. The hook replaces that: no holder can get it wrong, and
only dead contexts are queued, not one ref per request.

No wakeup is needed. A context that dies during `tick()` is freed as
soon as that tick returns. One that dies during `drain_events()` (a
request that fails at start, a cache eviction) is freed right after it.
At process exit the queue is not drained, like the cache.

Related history: oven-sh#31660 (closed) is a crash of the same class in the Zig
implementation, where the last ref went away inside `onLongTimeout`.

Tests:
- The ASAN-only block from oven-sh#42647 now takes a protocol. The child holds
a response open on a context made by `serverName`, runs 61 more TLS
configs to evict it, and writes `evicted` to stderr. The two new tests
then destroy the server side of the held TLS socket, over h2 and over
HTTP/1.1. With `src/` at main both fail with the report above.
- `an evicted custom TLS context is freed when its last request ends`
runs on each build. It does not fail on main. It exists because the
deferral adds a way to leak: if the queue is never drained, a dead
context lives forever. The test keeps one request busy on a context,
leaves a second connection idle in that context's keep-alive pool,
evicts the context, ends the busy request, and waits for the server to
see the idle connection close. With the `heap::destroy` call removed the
test times out.

Suites run on the debug ASAN build: `fetch-http2-client.test.ts` (70
pass), `fetch-http2-leak.test.ts` (7), `fetch-http2-adversarial.test.ts`
(20), `fetch.tls.test.ts` (34), `fetch-redirect.test.ts` (30),
`fetch-tls-abortsignal-timeout.test.ts` (6),
`fetch-proxy-tls-intern-race.test.ts` (1), `tls-keepalive.test.ts` (4
pass, 2 skip), `fetch-abort-ssl-context-eviction.test.ts` (1),
`regression/issue/27358.test.ts` (2). On a release build of this branch:
`tls-keepalive.test.ts` 6 pass (same config: 20000 requests, 0 MB
growth. 200 distinct configs: 1 MB growth), `fetch-http2-client.test.ts`
66 pass and 4 skip, `fetch-abort-ssl-context-eviction.test.ts` 1 pass.
</details>

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---

**[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 0 · 5 files touched

<details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary>

```console
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/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (b993710)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts:
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > GET: status, headers and body round-trip [1172.89ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > response body larger than one DATA frame [989.87ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > concurrent requests multiplex on one h2 session [1222.39ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body streams as raw DATA frames [467.33ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST: request body is delivered as DATA frames [1562.88ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > gzip content-encoding is decompressed [1655.77ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body larger than initial send window [960.24m
... (truncated)

release without fix: 4 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (722de17)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts:
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > GET: status, headers and body round-trip [73.34ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > response body larger than one DATA frame [65.19ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > gzip content-encoding is decompressed [89.92ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST: request body is delivered as DATA frames [102.83ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > connection-specific request headers are stripped before HPACK [74.16ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > multiple Set-Cookie response headers survive HPACK decode [74.43ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > concurrent requests multiplex on one h2 session [101.86ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > abort sends RST_STREAM; siblings on the session survive [107.88ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FE
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary>

```console
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/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (b993710)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts:
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > GET: status, headers and body round-trip [1119.35ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > response body larger than one DATA frame [988.06ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > concurrent requests multiplex on one h2 session [1222.20ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body streams as raw DATA frames [531.27ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST: request body is delivered as DATA frames [1925.52ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > gzip content-encoding is decompressed [2051.61ms]
(pass) fetch() over HTTP/2 (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP2_CLIENT) > POST with ReadableStream body larger than initial send window [837.85m
... (truncated)

release with fix: 4 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 846ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/128] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 122 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=107, rust=0); 243 extern-C blocks audited
[2/128] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[3/128] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (9358ms)
Bundle modules (81ms)
Postprocesss modules (248ms)
Bundle Functions (727ms)
Generate Code (35ms)

[10.46s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2600 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[3/127] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_threading v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/threading)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_react_compiler v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/react_compiler)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_io v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/io)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_watcher v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/watcher)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_crash_handler v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/crash_handler)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_event_loop v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/event_loop)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c          |  10 ++-
 packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c             |  10 +--
 src/http/HTTPContext.rs                      |  17 +++-
 src/http/HTTPThread.rs                       |  18 ++++
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 5 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                          reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c               1      1     28
packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c                  1      1     28
src/http/HTTPContext.rs                           4      5     28
src/http/HTTPThread.rs                            5     15     28
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http2-client.test.ts      4     11     28
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
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