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A worker whose entry script sets a throwing onclose and then calls close() crashes the app:
onclose = () => { throw new Error("boom"); };
close();
CloseWorkerCallback reports the error through CallOnErrorHandlers, which read workerIsolate_. That field is only published once the worker's startup function returns, so during the entry it is still null and Caches::Get(nullptr) faults. CallOnErrorHandlers and ReportEntryEvaluationRejection now take the isolate from their caller, which is running on it. The new spec crashes the TestRunner without the fix.
Two more lifetime problems in the same file, found while reading how that field is used. Neither has a spec: one needs a preempted thread, the other needs the runtime shut down mid-suite.
Terminate() read workerIsolate_ on the parent thread and then called RequestTermination() and TerminateExecution() on it with nothing holding the isolate alive. If the worker has just published the isolate and sees isTerminating_ before entering its run loop, it goes straight to deleting its runtime while the parent may still be between the read and the use. The worker now publishes and withdraws the pointer under a mutex and Terminate() holds it across the use. Only the winner of the isTerminating_ exchange takes it, and the worker holds it just for the two assignments, so the heap-limit callback calling Terminate() from inside a GC on the worker thread cannot deadlock on it. Once the worker is inside CFRunLoopRun the old code was already safe, since the loop only stops through queue_.Terminate(), which runs after the isolate use.
EndWrapperLifetime() dispatched nsworkerended and then called this->UnrootWorkerObject(). A listener that calls shutdownRuntime (supported from inside a JS callback, see DisposeIsolateWhenPossible) runs ~Runtime on the same thread, and its disposal walk deletes this wrapper, because the worker has already published isDisposed_ by the time the notification is posted. It now reads what the dispatch needs up front and checks the selfRef_ token again before touching this.
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Bug Fixes
- Fixed worker errors thrown by an
onclose handler during entry-script evaluation so they are correctly reported through the parent worker’s onerror event.
- Improved worker shutdown handling to prevent race conditions and ensure errors and lifecycle events are delivered safely.
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- Added regression coverage for errors raised during worker shutdown while the entry script is still running.
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A throwing onclose run from the entry script read the worker isolate before it was published and crashed. Terminate() used the worker isolate with no synchronization against the worker thread deleting its runtime. EndWrapperLifetime kept using the wrapper after dispatching nsworkerended, whose listeners can shut the runtime down and delete it.
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NativeScript/runtime/ConcurrentQueue.cpp
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The worker runtime now passes active isolates explicitly, synchronizes isolate access during termination and teardown, protects wrapper lifetime during event dispatch, and tests error propagation from an onclose handler during entry-script evaluation.
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Explicit isolate error reporting NativeScript/runtime/DataWrapper.h, NativeScript/runtime/WorkerWrapper.mm, NativeScript/runtime/Worker.mm |
CallOnErrorHandlers and ReportEntryEvaluationRejection now receive the caller's isolate. Their worker and pending-task call sites pass the isolate explicitly. |
Isolate lifecycle and wrapper lifetime NativeScript/runtime/DataWrapper.h, NativeScript/runtime/WorkerWrapper.mm |
workerIsolate_ access is synchronized during publication, termination, and teardown. EndWrapperLifetime snapshots required values and skips unrooting when the wrapper is deleted during dispatch. |
Error reporting regression coverage TestRunner/app/tests/messaging/throwingOncloseWorker.js, TestRunner/app/tests/MessagingTests.js |
Adds a worker that throws from onclose during entry evaluation and verifies that the parent receives the error through onerror. |
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A future cross-thread use of the exposed isolate pointer could race worker teardown. Remove or synchronize the getter before merging.
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🟠 Major · Do not expose workerIsolate_ without synchronization. · DataWrapper.h:630
NativeScript/runtime/DataWrapper.h:630
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Do not expose workerIsolate_ without synchronization.
GetWorkerIsolate() returns workerIsolate_ without workerIsolateMutex_. BackgroundLooper() withdraws the pointer under that mutex before deleting the worker runtime. Because the mutex is private, a caller cannot hold it for the full use of the returned v8::Isolate*. A cross-thread caller can therefore use the isolate after teardown.
The repository has no callers for this getter. Remove it. If a caller is required, replace it with an operation that holds workerIsolateMutex_ for the complete isolate use.
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In `@NativeScript/runtime/DataWrapper.h` at line 630, Remove the unused
GetWorkerIsolate() getter and its exposure of workerIsolate_; do not replace it
with an unsynchronized accessor. If an actual caller requires isolate access,
provide an operation that holds workerIsolateMutex_ for the entire use and
prevents access after BackgroundLooper() teardown.
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In `@NativeScript/runtime/DataWrapper.h`:
- Line 630: Remove the unused GetWorkerIsolate() getter and its exposure of
workerIsolate_; do not replace it with an unsynchronized accessor. If an actual
caller requires isolate access, provide an operation that holds
workerIsolateMutex_ for the entire use and prevents access after
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The GetWorkerIsolate() getter flagged by the review is gone. It had no callers, and it handed out the pointer without the mutex that now guards it.
While at it I looked at the other piece of worker state the parent thread touches during teardown, the message queue. ConcurrentQueue::Push() and Signal() read runLoopTasksSource_ and runLoop_ with no lock, while Terminate() invalidates and releases the source on another thread (a worker closing itself while the parent is in postMessage). The signal and wake-up now happen under the mutex Terminate() holds. The queue also borrows the worker thread's run loop, and a worker that skipped CFRunLoopRun because a terminate won the flag used to leave without clearing it, so the parent's later queue_.Terminate() could call CFRunLoopStop on the run loop of a thread that had already exited. The worker thread now terminates its queue before it leaves.
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@adrian-niculescu, verified.
GetWorkerIsolate() has no remaining declaration or call site.
ConcurrentQueue::Signal() now holds initializationMutex_ while it accesses runLoopTasksSource_ and runLoop_. ConcurrentQueue::Terminate() uses the same mutex while it clears, invalidates, and releases those objects. ConcurrentQueue::Push() releases mutex_ before it calls Signal(), so this change does not introduce an inverse lock order.
WorkerWrapper::BackgroundLooper() now calls queue_.Terminate() on both the normal and early-termination paths before the worker thread exits. This prevents later use of the borrowed CFRunLoopRef.
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URL: https://github.com/NativeScript/ios/pull/478
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Learning: In `NativeScript/runtime/ConcurrentQueue.cpp`, access to `ConcurrentQueue::runLoopTasksSource_` and `ConcurrentQueue::runLoop_` must occur under `ConcurrentQueue::initializationMutex_`. `ConcurrentQueue::Terminate()` clears, invalidates, and releases the source under this mutex, while `ConcurrentQueue::Signal()` signals and wakes the worker run loop under the same mutex.
Learnt from: adrian-niculescu
URL: https://github.com/NativeScript/ios/pull/478
Timestamp: 2026-09-17T11:31:21.581Z
Learning: In `NativeScript/runtime/WorkerWrapper.mm`, `WorkerWrapper::BackgroundLooper()` must call `WorkerWrapper::queue_.Terminate()` before the worker thread exits. `ConcurrentQueue` borrows the worker thread's `CFRunLoopRef`; a later `ConcurrentQueue::Terminate()` must not stop a run loop after its owning thread has exited.
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Push() and Signal() read the run loop source and run loop with no lock while Terminate(), on another thread, invalidates and releases the source. They now go through the mutex Terminate() holds, and the worker thread terminates its queue before it leaves, since the queue borrows that thread's run loop. Also removes the unused GetWorkerIsolate() getter, which handed out the isolate without the mutex that now guards it.
…and-ended-races
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# NativeScript/runtime/DataWrapper.h
…late lock
initializationMutex_ guards the run loop source and run loop for the queue's whole life now that Signal() takes it, so it is named runLoopMutex_. Terminate() holds workerIsolateMutex_ in a scoped block, like the inspectorMutex_ block next to it, instead of a unique_lock released by hand. The comment in Push() said Terminate() flips the terminated flag under the queue mutex; it sets it under the run loop mutex, before emptying the queue.
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… and let it stop a closing worker (#2067)
Terminate() now holds a mutex across reading workerIsolate_ and using it (TerminateExecution, event-loop lookup); the worker thread takes the same mutex when it clears the pointer, before disposing the isolate, so a terminate that already read it finishes first and a later one finds null. Same fix as NativeScript/ios#478.
terminate() no longer returns early for a worker that called close(), so it interrupts one that keeps running (close(); while (true) {}). Adds a spec for that case.
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