iOS Unit Tests - #8
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Captured a full backtrace via lldb -k (see prior CI commit). The smoking gun: frame BabylonJS#5: ___BUG_IN_CLIENT_OF_LIBMALLOC_POINTER_BEING_FREED_WAS_NOT_ALLOCATED frame BabylonJS#6: napi_delete_reference at hermes_napi_reference.cpp:113 frame BabylonJS#7: Napi::Reference<...>::~Reference at napi-inl.h:3262 frame BabylonJS#8: Napi::ObjectReference::~ObjectReference frame BabylonJS#10: Babylon::Polyfills::Internal::URL::~URL at URL.h:10 frame BabylonJS#12: Napi::ObjectWrap<...URL>::FinalizeCallback at napi-inl.h:4963 frame BabylonJS#13: napi_env__::shutdown at hermes_napi.cpp:214 frame BabylonJS#16: hermes::vm::Runtime::~Runtime Root cause: Hermes's napi_env__::shutdown() iterates refListHead_ and delete ref; one at a time. It only sets ref->deletionPending_ on the *current* ref before its finalize_cb fires. If the finalizer transitively destroys a node-addon-api wrapper (Napi::Reference / Napi::ObjectReference) whose underlying napi_ref was already deleted earlier in the same loop, napi_delete_reference reads ref->deletionPending_ from freed memory and proceeds to delete ref again -> double-free. The exact path: URL (an ObjectWrap subclass) has a Napi::ObjectReference member m_searchParamsReference. addReference prepends to the linked list, so m_searchParamsReference's ref is processed BEFORE URL's wrap ref. When URL's wrap finalizer runs delete this, ~URL destroys m_searchParamsReference, whose destructor calls napi_delete_reference on the already-freed sibling ref. macOS libmalloc detects this (malloc: *** error for object 0x...: pointer being freed was not allocated -> SIGABRT). Linux glibc and Windows CRT happen to miss it. Fix: PATCH Hermes shutdown() to mark ALL refs deletionPending in a pre-pass BEFORE iterating. Apply as a FetchContent PATCH_COMMAND via the new ApplyPatchIfNeeded.cmake helper (idempotent — uses git apply --check --reverse to detect already-applied state across reconfigure). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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### Problem
`napi_throw`, `napi_throw_error`, `napi_throw_type_error` and
`napi_throw_range_error` returned `napi_pending_exception` after
successfully scheduling the throw.
In Node-API that status means *"this call failed because an exception
was already pending"*, not *"a throw is now pending"*. The upstream
implementation returns `napi_clear_last_error(env)` (i.e. `napi_ok`).
Because the QuickJS port reported failure,
`Error::ThrowAsJavaScriptException` in `napi-inl.h` took its failure
branch on **every** native throw:
```cpp
napi_status status = napi_throw(_env, Value());
#ifdef NAPI_CPP_EXCEPTIONS
if (status != napi_ok) {
throw Error::New(_env); // consumes the exception that was just set
}
#endif
```
`Error::New(env)` calls `napi_get_and_clear_last_exception`, so the
pending JS exception is discarded and a fresh C++ exception is thrown
out of `details::WrapCallback`. `ExternalCallback::Callback` then
catches it, observes `!JS_HasException(ctx)`, and rebuilds the error
from `e.what()`.
By that point the `HandleScope` opened by `ThrowAsJavaScriptException`
has been destroyed during unwinding, so stringifying the message reads
freed memory.
### Impact
Two symptoms, both of which reproduce today:
1. **Wrong error surfaced to JS.** The real error is replaced by
`InternalError: Uncaught C++ exception: <message>`. Every native throw
on QuickJS is affected, so `err.name` and `err instanceof TypeError` are
wrong throughout.
2. **Use-after-free.** On Linux this segfaults. Backtrace from a
BabylonNative CI core dump:
```
#0 js_dup quickjs.c:1628 <-- SIGSEGV
#1 js_force_tostring quickjs.c:4813
#3 JS_ToCStringLen
#4 napi_get_value_string_utf8 js_native_api_quickjs.cc:696
#5 Napi::String::Utf8Value napi-inl.h:1118
#7 Napi::Error::Message napi-inl.h:3087
#8 Napi::Error::what napi-inl.h:3157
#9 ExternalCallback::Callback js_native_api_quickjs.cc:164
```
The `JSValue` being stringified carries `JS_TAG_STRING` with an
unaligned, freed pointer.
I instrumented the `catch` in `ExternalCallback::Callback` in a
BabylonNative QuickJS build and confirmed that **all ~50 native throws**
in that test run escaped `WrapCallback` with `hasExc=0`. After this
change the count is 0.
### Fix
Return `napi_ok` from the four throw entry points, matching upstream.
The exception stays pending, `WrapCallback` returns normally, and the
fragile `e.what()` fallback is never entered.
### Test
Added a strict assertion to the existing `URLSearchParams.set()` arity
throw, checking the error type and exact message rather than a
substring. The pre-existing `.to.throw()` test could not catch this,
because `"Uncaught C++ exception: <msg>"` still *contains* the expected
substring.
Verified on Linux QuickJS (RelWithDebInfo):
| | result |
|---|---|
| without the C++ change | `expected 'InternalError' to equal 'Error'` —
212 passing, **1 failing** |
| with the C++ change | **213 passing**, 10/10 gtest |
Also verified in a BabylonNative QuickJS build on Windows: 21/21 gtest,
49 JS assertions, exit 0, and zero escapes from `WrapCallback`.
Co-authored-by: Branimir Karadzic <branimirkaradzic@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 88569c10-a7ff-4373-9a58-afa9c68b8c09
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