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A dynamic method call on a receiver whose prototype was replaced (Object.setPrototypeOf(o, proto); o.run(), or a per-evaluation class instance) wrote a stale caller this back into the implicit-this cell when the callee ran a copying minor. The caller's next this.x then read undefined. The fix roots the saved this in every runtime guard that restores it, not only in the one path the issue names. The same bug was in the Array.prototype callback engines, in six other runtime spots and in ten stdlib spots. cheerio 1.2.0 (compiled from its JS entry) now runs 200 × load + 3 queries and matches Node.

Root cause

js_native_call_method has an early path for receivers with an individual class prototype (#9247). It bound the callee's this with a private guard, ImplicitThisScope (crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method.rs:1197-1213, used at :1389). That guard kept the displaced value, the caller's receiver, in a plain f64 field and wrote it back in Drop. The callee is user code. A copying minor inside the call moves the caller's receiver and updates every root it can see, but a struct field is not a root. So Drop wrote the retired from-space address back as the caller's this. This matches the gdb watchpoint in the issue: the stale write comes from js_implicit_this_set right after js_native_call_value returns.

#9445 rooted every let prev = js_implicit_this_set(..); …; js_implicit_this_set(prev) pair. A save/restore inside a guard's constructor and Drop does not have that shape, so the sweep missed it. It also missed two identical private guards:

  • DenseThisGuard (array/iter_methods.rs:162): the dense forEach, map, map_discard, filter, find, findIndex, findLast, findLastIndex, some, every and flatMap engines.
  • ThisGuard (array/generic.rs:667): the nine js_arraylike_* callback engines, which arr.forEach(cb, thisArg) and Array.prototype.X.call(..) use.

Neither the static dominance checker nor PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE_HOLDERS can see this holder, because it is a Rust-side copy.

Fix

  • One shared, rooted guard. object::ImplicitThisScope<'scope> (object/this_binding.rs) stores the displaced value in a slot of a borrowed RuntimeHandleScope, and Drop reads it back from that slot. The borrow means the scope must be declared before the guard. It replaces the three unrooted private guards and the regex ImplicitThisGuard, which was already correct and is now just a copy. The restore still runs when the callee unwinds (release blocker: #9169 regresses 4 gap tests (built-in iterator/prototype dispatch) #9244).
  • The early path now re-reads the receiver after clone_closure_rebind_this before binding it, because the clone allocates.
  • Other displaced values held across user code that the audit found:
    • the accessor-receiver override in the handle-method prototype walk (native_call_method/handle_methods.rs:1160);
    • new.target in the Intl and Temporal subclass super() bridges (intl/subclass.rs:155, object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs:464);
    • ten stdlib save/restores listed below.

streams.rs makes every runtime-owned operation through the provider C ABI. Its two sites therefore root through js_ffi_root_* rather than the Rust RuntimeHandleScope.

Audit: every save/restore of implicit this and similar saved receivers

Method: classify every js_implicit_this_set( and IMPLICIT_THIS.with(|c| c.replace(..)) call in perry-runtime, perry-stdlib and perry-ext-*. Also check every let x = js_implicit_this_get() that is later written back, plus the other save/restore cells (js_new_target_set, accessor_receiver_override_begin, CURRENT_NEW_TARGET, STATIC_THIS_OVERRIDE).

Fixed in this PR (displaced value held unrooted across user code):

site what brackets it verdict
object/native_call_method.rs:1389 (ImplicitThisScope) prototype-override method call (#10490) fixed
object/native_call_method/primitive_methods.rs:353 #9502 Promise-subclass static via property read fixed (same guard)
object/native_call_method/primitive_methods.rs:392 #10210 static accessor / per-evaluation parent static fixed (same guard)
array/iter_methods.rs DenseThisGuard, 11 sites dense Array callback engines fixed
array/generic.rs ThisGuard, 9 sites js_arraylike_* callback engines fixed
object/native_call_method/handle_methods.rs:1160 displaced accessor-receiver override across a getter fixed
intl/subclass.rs:155, object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs:464 displaced new.target across the parent constructor fixed
perry-stdlib: domain.rs:274, events.rs:972, events/warnings.rs:52, net/mod.rs:1780, streams.rs:1485, streams.rs:1541, tls.rs:1202, worker_threads.rs:725, worker_threads/worker_surface.rs:394 listener / callback / iterator calls fixed
regex/site_test.rs:310 ImplicitThisGuard already rooted replaced by the shared guard, no behavior change

Audited, already rooted, unchanged:

  • The 121 root_nanbox(js_implicit_this_set(..)) saves from Sweep: ~20 unrooted js_implicit_this_set(prev) save/restores hold a bare local across allocating user code #9445 and their ~180 rooted restores.
  • Saves rooted in the very next statement with no allocation in between: closure/dispatch/calln.rs:130, object/field_get_set/accessors.rs:261, object/prototype_chain.rs:664, value/to_string.rs:669/732/772.
  • dyn_eval/bridge.rs:256, which roots through its own stack.
  • All 12 IMPLICIT_THIS.with(|c| c.replace(..)) sites.
  • object/class_registry/construct.rs:1167/1837.
  • node_submodules/test.rs:821.
  • Loops that root the displaced value once before the loop: cluster.rs:351/1472, event_target.rs:992, map.rs:3482, set.rs:2226, timer.rs:1313, url/search_params.rs:939, object/global_this/bigint_promise.rs:702, value/to_string.rs:202.

Not changed:

  • perry-ext-* bindings, same shape: perry-ext-events/src/lib.rs:1131, perry-ext-events/src/max_listeners.rs:117, perry-ext-net/src/socket_events.rs:15, perry-ext-http/src/server/request.rs:940 (with_implicit_this). These are native package bindings, outside this runtime fix. perry_ffi::TransientRootScope is available for a follow-up.
  • Test-only saves: object/tests.rs, node_stream_tests.rs, node_submodules/tests.rs, to_locale_string_tests.rs, the calln.rs receiverless test and gc/tests/runtime_roots/side_table_scanners.rs. Each is a fixture with no collection in the window.
  • A different bug class, left alone (see "New bug noticed"): a callback or bound receiver held as a bare local and reused on the next loop iteration, as opposed to a displaced value.

Tests

  • Gap test test-files/test_gap_10490_implicit_this_scope_rooting.ts (17 cases, no GC env knobs):

    • receivers: setPrototypeOf object, Object.create, a __proto__ literal, a class instance swapped to an object or to another class's prototype;
    • the outer and inner call through call/apply;
    • a per-evaluation subclass with mixed-in methods (cheerio's load() shape) and nested swapped receivers;
    • dense forEach/map/filter/some/every/find, arr.forEach(cb, thisArg), and Array.prototype.forEach/map.call(arrayLike, cb, thisArg).

    Node prints bad=0 on every line. Baseline 7661bc0 (no-auto build) prints non-zero bad= on 12 of 17 cases:

    setPrototypeOf_object bad=8, proto_literal bad=5, class_instance_swapped_to_object bad=5,
    outer_call bad=5, outer_apply bad=5, array_forEach bad=2, array_map bad=2,
    array_filter_some_every_find bad=10, array_forEach_thisArg bad=3,
    arraylike_forEach_thisArg bad=2, arraylike_map_thisArg bad=3, nested_swapped_receivers bad=2
    

    On this branch the output is identical to Node. Five cases (object_create, class_instance_swapped_to_class, inner_call, inner_apply, per_evaluation_subclass_mixin) pass on both builds and are kept as coverage.

  • Runtime unit tests gc/tests/runtime_roots/implicit_this_scope.rs. Each test plants a callback that runs a forced-evacuation copying minor. It then asserts that the caller's receiver moved and that the restored cell holds the relocated address. There are four tests: the guard itself, js_native_call_method on a js_object_set_prototype_of receiver, js_array_forEach, and js_arraylike_forEach. The three that exist on baseline fail on 7661bc0 with the displaced this must be restored at its relocated address, not the pre-collection one (0x7ffd…) and pass here.

  • Reduced repro from the issue under PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=1..5 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1:

    • baseline: 5 of 5 seeds fail, and the plain run fails too;
    • this branch: 5 of 5 print total 160190 (Node's value for N=40), and the plain run prints total 1201690.
    • A scaled-down copy of the gap test (N=30, churn 200) segfaults on baseline for all 5 seeds and matches Node on this branch for all 5 seeds.
    • It also matches with PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_ALLOC_KB=0 on seeds 1–3, which ran 120,516 copying minors (moved_objects=985522).

Validation

All on perrybuilder (Linux x64), branch base 7661bc05fe (v0.5.1589), compared against the shared baseline build of that commit.

gate result
cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib (RUST_TEST_THREADS=1) 3970 passed, 1 failed: gc::tests::heap_generation::a_free_or_move_outside_every_scope_is_caught_in_debug_builds, which asserts a #[cfg(debug_assertions)] funnel assert fires and therefore cannot pass in a --release run. Unrelated to this change (CI runs these tests in debug).
new unit tests 4 passed here; the 3 that exist on baseline fail there
cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --test android_tls_pool 1 passed
cargo test --release -p perry-stdlib --tests 139 passed, exit 0
scripts/run_lint_gates.sh (full, incl. compile tier, BASE_SHA=7661bc05fe) 82 of 83 pass. The one red is [Public benchmark evidence freshness] benchmarks/ci_public_baseline_check.py, which fails identically on the unmodified baseline clone ("public artifact benchmark inputs changed"), i.e. pre-existing. cargo fmt --all --check, the raw-handle and unrooted-local ratchets, check_test_registration.py, the 2000-line cap, -D warnings and clippy over the workspace all pass.
gap suite (PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 scripts/run_gap_tests.sh) 820 tests, 814 pass, GAP_EXIT=0, "Gap snapshot OK". The 6 non-passing are exactly the 6 snapshot entries, the same set the baseline run produced. The baseline run additionally had test_gap_9536_fetch_url_error: pass -> node_fail (a node-side environment artifact); that test passes here. No new failures.
auto-optimize mode the issue's repro prints total 1201690 and the new gap test is byte-identical to Node with the default (auto-optimize) pipeline as well as PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1.

Performance

perf stat -e instructions, 3 runs per arm, baseline binary vs this branch, both PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1 so only the runtime archives differ. Run-to-run spread is under 0.1 %.

microbenchmark baseline (instructions) fix delta node wall
5M o.m(), o: any, plain object methods (untouched dispatch) 17.547 G 17.478 G −0.39 % 0.10–0.14 s (perry 2.15 s)
5M o.m() on Object.setPrototypeOf receivers — the changed path 19.049 G 19.184 G +0.71 % (≈27 instructions per dispatch) 0.10 s (perry 2.38 s)
2M arr.forEach(cb) + 2M arr.some(cb) + 1M arr.forEach(cb, thisArg) 8.042 G 8.071 G +0.36 % (≈6 instructions per call) 0.19 s (perry 0.79 s)
the issue repro scaled to 300k swapped-receiver calls with an allocating callee crashes (the bug) 13.006 G / 1.9 s n/a 0.20 s

The +0.71 % on the changed path is the cost of the one handle slot the correctness requires: a push, a re-read and a scope pop per dispatch, on a dispatch that already costs roughly 3,800 instructions. It is below the ±1 % noise bar the brief sets, but it is deterministic, so I am naming it rather than calling it noise. There is no cheaper correct form: the displaced value must be a slot the collector can rewrite. Perry's absolute cost on these dispatch microbenchmarks (15–24× Node) is pre-existing and identical on both arms.

Package check (cheerio 1.2.0, compiled from source with node_modules/cheerio/src hidden)

build 200 × load + 3 queries
node 26.5.1 total 172800 (1.6 s)
baseline 7661bc0 FAILED at iteration 3 … Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'xmlMode')
this branch total 172800 — identical to Node (23.6 s on a loaded host)

Single-query runs agree too: OPS=a/b/c give 60000 / 52800 / 60000 on both Node and this branch, and fail on baseline at iterations 100 / 116 / 21. The remaining gap is speed, not correctness — cheerio is roughly 15× Node here, which is a separate, pre-existing performance issue (and this host was loaded).

Not verified

  • macOS/aarch64: everything here ran on Linux x64 only.
  • perry-ext-* bindings carry the same unrooted save (4 sites, listed above); I did not change or test them.
  • Multi-threaded (perry/thread) programs: the implicit-this cell and the handle stack are per-thread, and I did not exercise a cross-thread case.
  • The stdlib sites (domain, events, warnings, net, streams, tls, worker_threads) are fixed mechanically by the same rule as the reproduced ones; I did not build a reproduction for each.
  • cheerio with its TypeScript sources still stops on the separate enum cross-module-inline bug (Cross-module inlining copies Enum.Member references into the importer: "enum member X.Y not found in enums table" #10417); I used the JS entry, as the issue instructs.
  • cargo test --workspace in full: I ran the crates I touched (perry-runtime, perry-stdlib) plus the runtime integration test, not the whole workspace.

New bug noticed (not fixed here)

URLSearchParams.prototype.forEach(cb, thisArg) keeps callback and this_arg as bare locals across callbacks that allocate (url/search_params.rs:939-944). A moved thisArg is rebound stale on the next iteration. This is not the displaced-value shape and it reproduces on this branch too:

let bad = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 200; i++)
  new URLSearchParams("a=1&b=2&c=3").forEach(function (this: any) {
    const a: any[] = []; for (let k = 0; k < 2000; k++) a.push({ k, s: "t" + k });
    if (this.id !== 7) bad++;
  }, { id: 7 });
console.log("bad", bad); // node: 0, perry (this branch and baseline): 4

It prints bad 4 (Node prints 0), and a variant that dereferences this.id after the churn segfaults. The same "installed receiver reused across iterations" shape likely exists in cluster.rs emit (target) and worker_threads/worker_surface.rs (arr). I did not audit or fix those here.

Fixes #10490

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where garbage collection during callbacks or method calls could leave this stale or read as undefined.
    • Preserved correct receiver handling across array iteration methods, event listeners, streams, iterators, subclass constructors, prototype dispatch, and accessor calls.
    • Fixed restoration of this and new.target when exceptions cross nested call boundaries.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for moving garbage collection, dynamic method calls, callbacks, and exception handling.

…restores it

`js_native_call_method`'s prototype-override early path (#9247) bound the
callee's `this` through a private `ImplicitThisScope` guard that kept the
displaced value -- the caller's receiver -- in a plain struct field and wrote
it back in `Drop`. The callee is user code; a copying minor inside it moves the
caller's receiver, and the restore reinstalled the retired from-space address,
so the caller's next `this.x` read `undefined` (#10490; cheerio 1.2.0's
`_findBySelector`). The #9445 sweep rooted every `let prev =
js_implicit_this_set(..)` but not the same save hidden in a guard's `Drop`,
nor the two identical guards behind the Array.prototype callback engines
(`DenseThisGuard`, 11 dense methods; `ThisGuard`, 9 `js_arraylike_*`).

Replace the three private guards (and the already-rooted regex copy) with one
shared `object::ImplicitThisScope<'scope>` that roots the displaced value in a
borrowed `RuntimeHandleScope` and re-reads it in `Drop`. Also root the other
displaced values the audit found held across user code: the accessor receiver
override in the handle-method prototype walk, `new.target` in the Intl and
Temporal subclass `super()` bridges, and ten stdlib save/restores (domain,
events, process warnings, net, web streams, tls ALPNCallback, worker_threads).
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The change replaces unrooted implicit-this guards with GC-rooted scopes, updates dispatch and callback paths, roots related displaced values, adds exception savepoint restoration, and adds moving-GC regression coverage.

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Implicit-this rooting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared implicit-this scope
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/this_binding.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/site_test.rs
Adds the shared ImplicitThisScope, which roots the displaced value and restores it on drop. Existing local guards now use this scope.
Dispatch and constructor state
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/subclass.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs
Dispatch re-reads receivers after allocation and roots accessor overrides and displaced new.target values.
Array callback bindings
crates/perry-runtime/src/array/generic.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/array/iter_methods.rs
Dense and array-like callback methods use rooted implicit-this bindings.
Standard-library callback preservation
crates/perry-stdlib/src/domain.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/events*, crates/perry-stdlib/src/net/*, crates/perry-stdlib/src/streams.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/worker_threads*
Listener, iterator, network, TLS, and worker callback paths root displaced implicit-this values across user code.
Exception-safe state restoration
crates/perry-runtime/src/exception.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/exception/savepoints.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/this_binding.rs
Exception savepoints capture and restore implicit_this and new.target, and root scanning updates pending savepoint values during moving collection.
Moving-GC regression coverage
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/runtime_roots/*, test-files/test_gap_10490_implicit_this_scope_rooting.ts, changelog.d/10564-implicit-this-scope-rooting.md
Adds forced moving-GC tests for scope restoration, prototype overrides, dense arrays, array-like arrays, nested calls, callback shapes, and exception restoration.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DynamicMethod
  participant js_native_call_method
  participant ImplicitThisScope
  participant MovingMinorGC
  DynamicMethod->>js_native_call_method: invoke method
  js_native_call_method->>ImplicitThisScope: bind displaced receiver
  ImplicitThisScope->>MovingMinorGC: keep receiver rooted during callee
  MovingMinorGC-->>ImplicitThisScope: update rooted receiver
  ImplicitThisScope-->>js_native_call_method: restore updated receiver
  js_native_call_method-->>DynamicMethod: continue with valid this
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Temporal subclass construction can use stale values after allocating its internal key, causing runtime failures. Root and reload the values before merging.

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🟠 Major · Reload rooted values after creating the property key. · fetch_globals.rs:421-432

crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs:421-432
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Reload rooted values after creating the property key. js_string_from_bytes allocates through the normal GC arena path, which can run a moving collection. The caller roots this_box in this_h, but the helper derives the raw obj pointer before key creation. A handle refresh updates this_h, not obj. The returned cell also crosses the allocation as an unrooted raw f64. js_object_set_field_by_name accepts both operands as raw values, so it can receive the pre-collection receiver pointer or cell value if either object moves.

Root this_box and cell_box at helper entry. After creating the key, re-derive obj from the current this_box handle and pass the current cell_box handle to js_object_set_field_by_name.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs` around lines
421 - 432, Update attach_temporal_cell_to_this to root both this_box and
cell_box before any allocation, then create the property key and re-derive obj
from the refreshed this_box handle. Pass the refreshed cell_box handle to
js_object_set_field_by_name so neither raw value predates the possible moving
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs`:
- Around line 465-468: Update the parent Temporal constructor call around
CatchSavepoint and js_native_call_value to register rooted capture/restore hooks
for both IMPLICIT_THIS and new.target, ensuring js_throw restores them before
transferring control. Preserve the existing explicit restoration lines for
normal returns, and do not use a Drop-based guard.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method/handle_methods.rs`:
- Around line 1166-1173: Update the accessor getter/call flow around
invoke_accessor_getter and js_closure_call0 to register both IMPLICIT_THIS and
the accessor receiver override with CatchSavepoint before they are changed or
consumed. Restore these bindings through the savepoint on caught js_throw, while
retaining scoped guards for normal returns and Rust unwinding; do not rely
solely on Drop-based cleanup.

In `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/streams.rs`:
- Line 245: Wrap every callback invocation in streams.rs (line 245), net/mod.rs
(line 1789), tls.rs (line 1210), and worker_threads.rs (line 731) with the
runtime’s js_call_catching or catch_js_throw mechanism. After the catcher
returns, explicitly restore IMPLICIT_THIS and close any
provider_js_ffi_root_scope_enter scope, then rethrow or handle the captured
exception according to each caller’s existing semantics; do not rely on Rust
drop guards across runtime exceptions or longjmp.

In `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/worker_threads/worker_surface.rs`:
- Line 395: Root all live callback operands before listener dispatch: update
worker_surface.rs stream_emit_event to root and refresh this, arr, arg, and each
callback before every js_native_call_value; update domain.rs emit_domain_event
to root copied listeners and the argument slice, passing refreshed values;
update the synchronous branch in events.rs to root and refresh callback_value
and args while leaving the already-rooted asynchronous path unchanged; update
events/warnings.rs to root and refresh emit_warning and warning while retaining
the existing IMPLICIT_THIS receiver handling.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs`:
- Around line 421-432: Update attach_temporal_cell_to_this to root both this_box
and cell_box before any allocation, then create the property key and re-derive
obj from the refreshed this_box handle. Pass the refreshed cell_box handle to
js_object_set_field_by_name so neither raw value predates the possible moving
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  • changelog.d/10564-implicit-this-scope-rooting.md
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/array/generic.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/array/iter_methods.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/runtime_roots.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/runtime_roots/implicit_this_scope.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/subclass.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method/handle_methods.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/native_call_method/primitive_methods.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/object/this_binding.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/site_test.rs
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  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/events/warnings.rs
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  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/streams.rs
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  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/worker_threads.rs
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Comment thread crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs
let base = provider_call!(provider_js_ffi_root_scope_enter());
let previous = js_implicit_this_set(receiver);
let slot = provider_call!(provider_js_ffi_root_push_nanbox(previous.to_bits()));
let result = f();

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Catch callback exceptions before restoring runtime state.

js_closure_call0/js_closure_call1 and the js_native_call_value call inside with_implicit_this can propagate a JavaScript throw across these Rust frames. The runtime exception contract states that this path skips Rust cleanup. Therefore each callback can leave IMPLICIT_THIS set to a stale receiver. The streams path can also leave provider_js_ffi_root_scope_enter unclosed.

Wrap each callback in perry_runtime::exception::js_call_catching or catch_js_throw, restore IMPLICIT_THIS and exit the provider root scope after the catcher returns, then rethrow or handle the captured exception according to the caller's semantics. Do not rely on a Rust drop guard across the runtime's raw exception or longjmp path. This applies to crates/perry-stdlib/src/streams.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/net/mod.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls.rs, and crates/perry-stdlib/src/worker_threads.rs.

📍 Affects 4 files
  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/streams.rs#L245-L245 (this comment)
  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/net/mod.rs#L1789-L1789
  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls.rs#L1210-L1210
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In `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/streams.rs` at line 245, Wrap every callback
invocation in streams.rs (line 245), net/mod.rs (line 1789), tls.rs (line 1210),
and worker_threads.rs (line 731) with the runtime’s js_call_catching or
catch_js_throw mechanism. After the catcher returns, explicitly restore
IMPLICIT_THIS and close any provider_js_ffi_root_scope_enter scope, then rethrow
or handle the captured exception according to each caller’s existing semantics;
do not rely on Rust drop guards across runtime exceptions or longjmp.

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// #10490: the displaced `this` crosses every listener (user code); restore
// it from a root, taken once.
let this_scope = perry_runtime::gc::RuntimeHandleScope::new();
let prev_this = this_scope.root_nanbox_f64(perry_runtime::object::js_implicit_this_get());

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Root all live callback operands before listener dispatch.

A moving collection can relocate these values while user code runs:

  • worker_surface.rs: stream_emit_event reuses raw this, arr, and arg for later listener iterations. Root them and re-read their current values before each dispatch. Root the callback value before passing it to js_native_call_value.
  • domain.rs: emit_domain_event copies listeners into an unscanned Vec<f64> and passes an unrooted argument slice to each listener. Root the listener values and argument slice, then pass refreshed values to js_native_call_value.
  • events.rs: the synchronous branch passes unrooted callback_value and args to js_native_call_value, which can allocate before callback entry. Root and refresh both values. The asynchronous branch already roots its callback, receiver, argument array, and arguments through js_async_resource_run_in_async_scope.
  • events/warnings.rs: root emit_warning and warning before generic dispatch. The current process receiver remains held by IMPLICIT_THIS, but the copied callback and argument values are not rewritten when GC moves them.

Otherwise, a later dispatch or callback can receive a retired address.

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In `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/worker_threads/worker_surface.rs` at line 395, Root
all live callback operands before listener dispatch: update worker_surface.rs
stream_emit_event to root and refresh this, arr, arg, and each callback before
every js_native_call_value; update domain.rs emit_domain_event to root copied
listeners and the argument slice, passing refreshed values; update the
synchronous branch in events.rs to root and refresh callback_value and args
while leaving the already-rooted asynchronous path unchanged; update
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Ralph Küpper added 3 commits September 18, 2026 07:03
Several runtime guards displace IMPLICIT_THIS/new.target around a call
they don't own (the Temporal/Intl subclass super() bridges, the
handle-method prototype-walk accessor dispatch, the stdlib listener/
getter dispatchers) with a bare save/call/restore statement pair, not
an RAII guard. When the bracketed call throws, the restore statement
textually follows it, so neither longjmp nor a system unwind ever
reaches it -- both cells stay pinned at whatever the failed call set
them to for every later read.

Add implicit_this and new_target as two more members of the
catch_savepoints! family exception.rs already maintains for exactly
this shape (shadow stack, runtime handles, call-method depth, ...):
captured at every try-push, replayed by js_throw before it transports
the exception, uniformly for both the setjmp and the unwind handler
kind (both already funnel into one try_push_with_kind ->
CatchSavepoint::capture(), and js_throw calls .restore()
unconditionally before branching on transport).

The captured bits are a second root for whatever heap value they hold
while a try is open, invisible to the live cell's own scanner, so
scan_exception_roots_mut now also walks the live prefix of the
per-thread savepoints slab and rewrites both fields across a moving
collection.

Proven with a unit test that reproduces the bare save/call/restore
shape using only pre-existing public entry points (so the same test
body fails on the unfixed tree and passes here): an inner js_throw
crossing the bare site leaves IMPLICIT_THIS/new.target stuck at the
inner value instead of the enclosing try's baseline. NOT verified: that
any of the four named sites is reachable in the way the finding
assumes -- see the PR comment.
…ests

The perex GC-isolation test harness (register_host_roots) clears the
production scanner registry and manually restores only what its own
tests need. implicit_this/new_target in exception.rs's catch_savepoints!
are a second root for whatever these tests displace IMPLICIT_THIS to
across a throw (previously nothing in scan_exception_roots_mut needed
scanning for these specific tests, since their thrown values are always
plain numbers) -- register it alongside the live-cell scanner it already
restores, or a forced-evacuation minor between the try-push and the
throw leaves the savepoint copy stale and the post-catch receiver wrong.

Fixes the 3 new failures the previous commit introduced under
`cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --tests` (perex_dispatch,
perex_replace, perex_split's "restores this" tests); full suite is back
to 3975 passed, 1 pre-existing failure (a_free_or_move_outside_every_
scope_is_caught_in_debug_builds, a debug_assert! funnel that cannot
fire under --release, unrelated to this change and already documented
in #10564's own PR body), 4 ignored.
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Review finding: displaced implicit-this/new.target exception-safety

Added two commits addressing the outstanding review finding: several runtime
guards displace IMPLICIT_THIS/new.target around a call they don't own
with a bare save/call/restore statement pair, not an RAII guard -- so a
throw crossing the bracketed call skips the restore on both transports
(longjmp and system unwind), leaving both cells pinned at whatever the
failed call set them to.

What changed

exception.rs already maintains a catch_savepoints! family for exactly
this shape (shadow stack, runtime handles, call-method depth, and 9 others):
one parallel slab entry per piece of state that a transport-skipped cleanup
would otherwise leak, captured at every try-push and replayed by
js_throw before it transports the exception -- uniformly for both
js_try_push/HandlerKind::Setjmp and the generated-code
js_eh_try_push/HandlerKind::Unwind (both already funnel into one
try_push_with_kind -> CatchSavepoint::capture(), and js_throw calls
.restore() unconditionally before branching on transport).
implicit_this and new_target now join that family
(crates/perry-runtime/src/exception/savepoints.rs), with capture/restore
functions in object/this_binding.rs.

The captured bits are a second root for whatever heap value they hold while
a try is open, invisible to the live cell's own scanner, so
scan_exception_roots_mut now also walks the live prefix of the per-thread
savepoints slab and rewrites both fields across a moving collection
(scan_pending_trap_roots_mut). The perex GC test harness clears the
production scanner registry and re-registers only what its own tests need;
it's updated to restore this scanner too (second commit) -- three of its
"restores this across a forced-evacuation throw" tests regressed without it,
caught by the full cargo test -p perry-runtime run before push.

Correction on the prior triage note

An earlier note claimed catch_savepoints! and
crates/perry-runtime/src/exception/savepoints.rs didn't exist and pointed
at main instead of this branch. They do exist here (239-line file, 12-member
macro-generated family, per-field auto-generated nested-throw tests) -- I
verified by reading the file before writing anything, and the owner has
corrected the note. Also turned out simpler than the note assumed: there's
only one shared try-push entry point in practice (js_try_push and
js_eh_try_push both call try_push_with_kind), one shared restore call
site in js_throw, and the existing test helper (test_unwind_innermost_ shadow_restore) already replays the real production .restore(), not a
duplicated list -- so none of steps 3-5 in the original prescription applied
as written; the two new fields were added as plain macro-family members and
covered automatically.

What I proved, and what I did not

Proven: a unit test
(exception::tests::a_bare_save_call_restore_site_is_made_exception_safe_by_ the_savepoint) reproduces the bare save/call/restore shape using only
pre-existing public entry points (js_implicit_this_set/js_new_target_set/
catch_js_throw/js_throw -- none touched by this fix), so the identical
test body was run on both the unfixed and fixed tree. On the unfixed tree
(d2ed8ef9e) it fails:

assertion `left == right` failed: the try open around the bare site must have restored IMPLICIT_THIS
  left: 4622382067542392832
 right: 9222246136947933185

(left is the inner sentinel the failed call set; right is the outer
try's baseline.) On the fixed tree it passes, along with the macro's own
auto-generated nested-throw witness for both new fields
(restore_tests::implicit_this, restore_tests::new_target).

NOT proven: that any of the four sites named in the finding
(fetch_globals.rs's Temporal/Intl subclass super() bridges,
handle_methods.rs's prototype-walk accessor dispatch, and the stdlib
listener/getter dispatchers) is reachable the way the finding assumes. I
targeted the most tractable one -- handle_methods.rs -- with a getter-throws
gap test built to exercise it; a temporary eprintln! placed directly on
that code path never fired, on either build, so something else resolves that
call first (or this specific shape doesn't reach that branch at all). I did
not probe the other three sites. Filed as #10598 rather than left silent.

Do not read this PR as "fixes the 4 sites." It fixes the shape of the
defect at the shared mechanism every one of those sites (and any future one
with the same shape) goes through when a throw crosses it, proven against
that shape directly -- not against a confirmed observation of the bug at any
specific site.

Validation

gate result
cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --tests (RUST_TEST_THREADS=1) 3975 passed, 1 pre-existing failure (a_free_or_move_outside_every_scope_is_caught_in_debug_builds, a debug_assert! funnel that can't fire under --release; already documented in this PR's own validation table), 4 ignored
cargo test --release -p perry-stdlib --tests 138 passed, 1 pre-existing failure unrelated to this change (readline::stdin_data_listener_flows_without_raw_mode; zero diff in perry-stdlib)
python3 scripts/check_test_registration.py OK, 332 files / 4 registries
cargo fmt --all -- --check clean
scripts/run_lint_gates.sh (SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1, compile tier known-red on this host) 76 of 77 pass; the one red (Public benchmark evidence freshness) is pre-existing and unrelated
GC-rooting gates (gc_runtime_root_holders.py, gc_root_dominance_check.py, raw-handle / unrooted-local ratchets) all pass
Targeted exception/try-catch gap tests (11) 10 pass; test_issue_7302_thread_throws reproduces identically on the unmodified baseline (a Node-side environment artifact in this sandbox, not a Perry regression)
test_gap_10490_implicit_this_scope_rooting.ts (this PR's own gap test) still passes

Performance

perf stat -e instructions, 3 runs/arm, spread <0.1%, on a
5,000,000-iteration try { sum += i & 7 } catch { sum -= 1 } loop that never
throws (deliberately adversarial: nothing but the try/catch itself):

instructions
baseline 895.28M
this branch 965.34M
delta +7.83% (~14 instructions per try-push)

That's the cost of two more TLS reads folded into the one savepoint write
every try already performs. It reads larger in percentage terms than the
rest of the PR's own dispatch-call microbenchmarks (+0.71%/+0.36%) because
this benchmark isolates try/catch overhead alone rather than mixing in
real per-call work; the marginal per-try cost is the same order of
magnitude.

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🟠 Major · Root the Temporal subclass receiver and cell across key allocation. · fetch_globals.rs:421-431

crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs:421-431
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Root the Temporal subclass receiver and cell across key allocation.

temporal_subclass_super is reachable through js_fetch_or_value_super and js_super_construct_apply. It calls attach_temporal_cell_to_this after the Temporal constructor returns. That helper derives a raw obj pointer and passes an unrooted cell_box across js_string_from_bytes, which allocates through string_storage_alloc and can move the heap. The setter can then receive stale from-space values.

Root both values with RuntimeHandleScope. Re-read the object pointer and cell value after js_string_from_bytes before calling js_object_set_field_by_name.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs` around lines
421 - 431, Update attach_temporal_cell_to_this to root both the subclass
receiver and cell_box with RuntimeHandleScope before key allocation; after
js_string_from_bytes returns, reload the object pointer and cell value from the
rooted handles before calling js_object_set_field_by_name. Preserve the existing
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/fetch_globals.rs`:
- Around line 421-431: Update attach_temporal_cell_to_this to root both the
subclass receiver and cell_box with RuntimeHandleScope before key allocation;
after js_string_from_bytes returns, reload the object pointer and cell value
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Triaged CodeRabbit's one finding on this review round (attach_temporal_cell_to_this in fetch_globals.rs:421-431, unrooted obj/cell_box across the js_string_from_bytes allocation).

It's a real, valid GC-rooting concern -- but it's in code from an earlier commit on this PR (temporal_subclass_super's cell-attach helper), not touched by either of my two commits here (b91218dd6, 577df0e26), and it's a different bug class from the exception-safety finding I was asked to add: this one is about surviving a moving collection mid-call, not about a throw skipping a restore statement. Leaving it unfixed here rather than expanding this PR's scope to a bug I didn't introduce and wasn't asked to fix -- noting it so it isn't silently dropped.

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Filed the out-of-scope review finding on worker_surface.rs as #10600 so it survives this merge — unrooted JSValue copies reused across listener dispatches in worker_surface/domain/events/events-warnings. Noted there that it is a code-reading finding, not independently reproduced, and that the async branch of events.rs already implements the correct rooting pattern.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
…ests

The perex GC-isolation test harness (register_host_roots) clears the
production scanner registry and manually restores only what its own
tests need. implicit_this/new_target in exception.rs's catch_savepoints!
are a second root for whatever these tests displace IMPLICIT_THIS to
across a throw (previously nothing in scan_exception_roots_mut needed
scanning for these specific tests, since their thrown values are always
plain numbers) -- register it alongside the live-cell scanner it already
restores, or a forced-evacuation minor between the try-push and the
throw leaves the savepoint copy stale and the post-catch receiver wrong.

Fixes the 3 new failures the previous commit introduced under
`cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --tests` (perex_dispatch,
perex_replace, perex_split's "restores this" tests); full suite is back
to 3975 passed, 1 pre-existing failure (a_free_or_move_outside_every_
scope_is_caught_in_debug_builds, a debug_assert! funnel that cannot
fire under --release, unrelated to this change and already documented
in #10564's own PR body), 4 ignored.
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Landed via merge train #10631 (v0.5.1595). All source commits preserve authorship; merged main matches the validated train exactly.

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