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fix(runtime): Object.getPrototypeOf(net socket) is net.Socket.prototype, not null - #11194

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Part of #11046

What this fixes

Object.getPrototypeOf(socket) returned null for a net.Socket, whether connected, accepted, or unconnected (new net.Socket()), even though socket instanceof net.Socket was already true. Node returns net.Socket.prototype.

A socket is a registry handle. The handle branch of get_prototype_of_resolved (perry-runtime/src/object/object_ops/prototype.rs) only recognised fetch values, and through the stdlib hook StringDecoder and X509Certificate. Everything else fell through to null.

undici 8.9.0 reads this on every socket error path. util.destroy(socket, err) in lib/core/util.js runs

if (Object.getPrototypeOf(stream).constructor === IncomingMessage) { ... }

so the null dereference replaced the real error with TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'constructor'). That was the message the real undici fixture stopped at on main once #10908/#11036 landed.

Fix

Before the generic handle-prototype hook, ask the provider's net-socket probe, the same probe instanceof net.Socket already uses. The bundled and external net providers both register it. If it matches, return net.Socket.prototype, read with an ordinary [[Get]] on the same cached bound export that user code sees as net.Socket, so the two are identical objects. The [[Get]] matters: the bound constructor's prototype object is created on first access, and a plain read of the installed prop answered nothing when getPrototypeOf(socket) ran before user code had ever touched net.Socket.prototype. The gap test asks in that order on purpose.

Next undici blocker (not fixed here)

With this PR, #11176 and current main, the real undici 8.9.0 fixture (auto-optimize ON, PERRY_WORKSPACE_ROOT set, against a separate Node HTTP server) prints undici version: 8.9.0 and then exits 0 without request() ever settling. An instrumented copy shows the error util.destroy had been masking: TypeError: undefined is not a constructor, thrown inside Parser.execute on the first status-line callback. undici builds every llhttp callback argument with new FastBuffer(...), where const FastBuffer = Buffer[Symbol.species], and Symbol.species is undefined on every built-in constructor in Perry. Filed as #11193. The request then hangs rather than rejecting because socket.destroy(err) never emits 'error'. Filed as #11189.

Validation (perrymaster, Linux x64, perry-dev, Node 26.5.1 at /opt/node-v26.5.1-linux-x64)

  • New test-files/test_gap_net_socket_get_prototype_of.ts. It covers an unconnected new net.Socket() asked before net.Socket.prototype is ever read, a connected client, an accepted server-side socket, identity against the CJS require("net").Socket.prototype, and undici's util.destroy shape verbatim. Node's output is stable across 5 runs.
    • base (origin/main c7d0963, same build method): DIFF. Every socket reports null: true, and the undici-shaped destroy throws Cannot read properties of null (reading 'constructor').
    • fix: byte-identical to Node.
  • A/B, base vs fix, 23 related gap tests (all net/socket gap tests plus the prototype-shape tests), through a compile-and-diff loop (no-auto; harness port 17891 held by another job):
    • The new test goes DIFF → PASS.
    • 19 pass on both arms.
    • 3 differ from Node on both arms with identical behaviour: test_gap_2159_defineproperty_class_prototype (in known_failures.json), test_gap_net_socket_write_return_drain and test_gap_turnloop_p9_worker_agent_net. Base and fix outputs for these are byte-identical, apart from ASLR addresses in one stack trace.
  • RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib prototype: 124 passed.
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check, scripts/check_file_size.sh and RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo check -p perry-runtime --all-targets are clean.
  • SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 87 of 90 script gates pass; compile tier not run. The 3 failures reproduce identically on origin/main c7d0963: cargo xwin check (cargo-xwin not installed on the host), Public benchmark evidence freshness, and Rekeyed side-table custody audit (it flags set/index.rs::scan_identity_roots_mut, which this PR does not touch).

Not run

  • No new runtime unit test: the resolution needs a registered net-provider probe and the bound net.Socket export, which exist only once stdlib or ext-net is linked. The gap test covers it end to end.
  • The auto-optimize build of the gap test. The real undici fixture was run under auto-optimize with this PR merged locally with fix(stdlib): crypto.getHashes/getCiphers/getCurves/getCipherInfo through a dynamic receiver #11176; see above.
  • Full gap sweep, cargo test --workspace, macOS / Windows, instruction-count A/B. The added probe runs only on the small-handle branch of getPrototypeOf, not on any object hot path.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Object.getPrototypeOf() now returns the correct prototype for connected, accepted, and newly created net.Socket instances instead of null.
    • Prototype-based checks on sockets now work as expected, and stream destruction preserves the original error when handling failures.

…ototype, not null

A live net.Socket is a registry handle. instanceof already recognised it
through the provider's net-socket probe, but the handle branch of
getPrototypeOf only knew fetch values, StringDecoder and X509Certificate,
so it answered null. undici's util.destroy(socket, err) reads
Object.getPrototypeOf(stream).constructor on every socket error path, and
the resulting null dereference replaced the real error.
…e first getPrototypeOf sees it

The prototype object of the bound net.Socket export is created on first
access; reading the installed dynamic prop answered nothing when
getPrototypeOf(socket) ran before user code had read net.Socket.prototype.
The gap test now asks in that order and prints the racing server-side
result once both sides are done.
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Object.getPrototypeOf now resolves the prototype of recognized net.Socket handles from the bound net.Socket export. A new regression test checks connected and unconnected sockets and an undici-like error path.

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net.Socket Prototype Resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve and verify net.Socket prototypes
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/object_ops/prototype.rs, test-files/test_gap_net_socket_get_prototype_of.ts, changelog.d/11194-net-socket-get-prototype-of.md
The runtime reads the prototype from the bound net.Socket export when it recognizes a socket handle. The test checks connected and unconnected sockets, prototype identity, and an undici-like destroy path. The changelog describes the fix.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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Existing sockets can report the wrong prototype after net.Socket.prototype is reassigned. This is a bounded compatibility risk that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/object_ops/prototype.rs`:
- Around line 215-219: Update the recognized net.Socket branch in
Object.getPrototypeOf to retrieve the prototype stored with that socket handle
at construction, and return it instead of resolving the constructor’s current
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Record each socket’s prototype at construction.

Object.getPrototypeOf for a recognized net.Socket handle reads the current net.Socket.prototype. The socket registry stores only socket state by handle, so it cannot preserve the prototype assigned when the socket was created. Because the constructor’s writable "prototype" property can be replaced, an existing socket can resolve to the replacement instead of its original [[Prototype]]. Store the creation-time prototype with the socket handle and return it from this branch.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/object_ops/prototype.rs` around lines 215 -
219, Update the recognized net.Socket branch in Object.getPrototypeOf to
retrieve the prototype stored with that socket handle at construction, and
return it instead of resolving the constructor’s current writable prototype
through js_reflect_get. Preserve the creation-time prototype for each registered
socket.

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Ready to merge once CI is clean (undici blocker). Object.getPrototypeOf(net socket) now returns net.Socket.prototype instead of null. The gap test fails on the base and passes on the branch; a 23-test A/B shows no changes.

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