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Runs the TestRunner suite a second time under AddressSanitizer on every pull request.

Why

Most of the recent lifetime fixes in the runtime (#456, #457, #469, #475, #479) are use-after-free or double-free bugs that are usually silent in a plain run. The nested-worker teardown spec added in #479 is the clearest case: it only aborts on the unfixed code when the TestRunner is built with ASan, so in CI it passes with or without the fix.

What changes

  • pull_request.yml: the Test job becomes a two-entry matrix.
    • Test is the existing run, with the same check name and artifact names as before.
    • Test (ASan) is the same xcodebuild invocation plus -enableAddressSanitizer YES. It uploads test-results-asan and test-diagnostics-asan.
    • fail-fast is off, so one entry failing does not cancel the other.
  • collect-test-diagnostics: takes the artifact name as an input (default unchanged), because artifact names are unique per workflow run. npm_release.yml keeps using the default.
  • WorkerOptionsTests.js: five worker quality-of-service specs are reported as skipped in an ASan build. A worker asked for default or utility reads back user-initiated (25) there; the userInteractive and userInitiated specs still run. Everywhere else the specs run unchanged.
  • Test fixtures: new TNSIsAddressSanitizerEnabled(), a compile-time __has_feature(address_sanitizer) check, so the skip also applies when ASan is switched on from the Xcode scheme rather than from CI.

No scheme or project settings change, and the release workflow is untouched.

Test server port (second commit)

The XCTest harness served the junit report and the HTTP module fixtures on a fixed loopback port (63846). Simulators share the host's loopback interface, so two suite runs on one machine could deliver one run's report to the other's listener, even on different simulators.

  • ModuleTestServer now binds a port chosen by the system. The app already learns the address only through REPORT_BASEURL, so nothing else changes and there is nothing to configure.
  • start() blocks until the listener is bound, because the port is only known then, and throws when binding fails. A bind failure was previously unobserved. Setup runs in setUpWithError(), so such a failure is recorded as a test failure rather than crashing the runner.
  • The harness prints the bound port (ModuleTestServer listening on 127.0.0.1:<port>) so it can be found in a run's output.

Scope of the instrumentation

Only code compiled in this build is instrumented: the runtime and the test fixtures. The prebuilt V8 archives are not, so this catches bad accesses made by the runtime's own code, not bugs inside V8 or on the JS heap.

Verification

Local, iOS 18.5 simulator, Xcode 26.3:

Run Specs Failures Skipped
ASan, main before this change 1735 5 (the QoS specs) 11
ASan, this branch 1735 0 16
No sanitizer, this branch 1735 0 11 (all QoS specs run and pass)
No sanitizer, with the system-assigned port 1735 0 11 (all 63 HTTP-suite specs run)

The ASan run predates the port commit, which only touches the Swift harness; the Test (ASan) check on this PR covers the two together.

The ASan binary was confirmed to link libclang_rt.asan_iossim_dynamic.dylib. The suite itself took about a minute in both configurations, so the existing step timeouts are left as they are.

Notes for review

  • No check is required on main today, so Test (ASan) reports its own status without blocking merges.
  • The ASan entry shares the existing max_attempts: 2 retry. That keeps simulator flakes from turning it red, at the cost that an intermittent sanitizer abort can pass on the retry; the first attempt's result bundle is still uploaded in that case.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Added separate standard and AddressSanitizer test runs, with distinct result and diagnostic artifacts.
    • Test expectations now account for AddressSanitizer limitations.
    • Test servers use an available port and report startup failures instead of waiting indefinitely.
    • Diagnostic artifact names can now be customized when collecting test diagnostics.

The Test job becomes a two-entry matrix: the existing run, still named Test, and Test (ASan), the same xcodebuild invocation with -enableAddressSanitizer YES. Use-after-free and double-free bugs in the runtime are usually silent in a plain run, so a spec written for one (the nested-worker teardown spec from #479) passes there with or without its fix.

Artifact names are unique per workflow run, so the ASan entry uploads test-results-asan and test-diagnostics-asan, and collect-test-diagnostics takes the artifact name as an input.

Five worker quality-of-service specs cannot hold in an instrumented build: a worker asked for default or utility reads back user-initiated. They are reported as skipped there, keyed on a new TNSIsAddressSanitizerEnabled() test fixture, and run unchanged everywhere else.
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CI now runs standard and AddressSanitizer test variants with variant-specific artifacts. Worker QoS tests detect AddressSanitizer builds. The module test server binds to a system-assigned port, which its test uses in the report base URL.

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AddressSanitizer Test Execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
AddressSanitizer detection and QoS expectations
TestFixtures/TNSTestCommon.h, TestFixtures/TNSTestCommon.m, TestFixtures/exported-symbols.txt, TestRunner/app/tests/WorkerOptionsTests.js
TNSIsAddressSanitizerEnabled() reports whether the build enables AddressSanitizer. Worker QoS tests mark expectations below UserInitiated as pending when it is enabled.
CI test matrix and artifact names
.github/workflows/pull_request.yml, .github/actions/collect-test-diagnostics/action.yml
CI runs standard and AddressSanitizer variants without fail-fast cancellation. Diagnostic and test-result artifact names distinguish the variants. The diagnostics action accepts an artifact name.

Dynamic Test Server Port

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dynamic port assignment and server startup
TestRunnerTests/ModuleTestServer.swift, TestRunnerTests/TestRunnerTests.swift
The server binds to 127.0.0.1 on an available port and waits for listener readiness. The test uses the assigned port in REPORT_BASEURL.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequestWorkflow
  participant XcodeTest
  participant CollectTestDiagnostics
  participant ArtifactStorage
  PullRequestWorkflow->>XcodeTest: Run standard or AddressSanitizer test variant
  XcodeTest-->>PullRequestWorkflow: Return test results and diagnostics
  PullRequestWorkflow->>CollectTestDiagnostics: Provide variant-specific artifact name
  CollectTestDiagnostics->>ArtifactStorage: Upload diagnostics artifact
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The test server reports startup failures without crashing the runner, and the test uses its assigned port. No merge-blocking issue remains identified.

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The changes improve test isolation without expanding the inspected CI permissions or network exposure. No introduced security concern was established. Complete security coverage and merge-time enforcement of the sanitizer run remain unconfirmed.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected exposure is confined to PR test execution and host-loopback test traffic. Adding a sanitizer execution does not add token permissions or a non-loopback listener. No production deployment or persistence migration is changed in the full PR comparison.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A local peer that learns the listening port can still submit report-shaped requests to the unauthenticated loopback handler, which attaches report data and fulfills the test expectation. This reachability predates the PR: route handling and authorization are unchanged. Dynamic ports reduce collisions but do not authenticate the report producer.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The harness owns listener creation, startup, endpoint injection, and teardown. The app receives the endpoint through launch configuration rather than selecting the listening port. Binding remains explicitly restricted to 127.0.0.1.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Failed startup does not publish an endpoint to the app. Although start() does not cancel on its throwing paths, its sole observed caller terminates the test process on error, limiting resource persistence. The evidence does not support an insecure listener surviving that failure in the current harness.
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The XCTest harness served the junit report and the HTTP module fixtures on a fixed loopback port. Simulators share the host's loopback interface, so two suite runs on one machine, even on different simulators, could deliver one run's report to the other's listener.

The listener now binds a port chosen by the system and hands it to the app through REPORT_BASEURL, which is already the only way the app learns the address. start() blocks until the listener is bound, since the port is only known then, and throws when binding fails instead of leaving the failure unobserved.
The port is assigned by the system at bind time, so the run's output is the only place to find it when poking at the server by hand.
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Setup moves to setUpWithError() so a listener that fails to bind, or does not become ready in time, is recorded by XCTest as a failure of the test instead of crashing the runner through try!. tearDown() tolerates a server that was never created, since it still runs after a throwing setup.
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