From 652881ecddbefb9a81775b0de44afa79d7d26bd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitali Zaidman <vzaidman@meta.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:37:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix RCTBundleURLProvider crash when failing to check
 isPackagerRunning (#55761)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/55761

In certain situations, where there are network issues reaching the Dev Server, the app crashes because of waiting too long on a semaphore.

Instead, reduce the timeout on the `/status` request to 6 seconds, which is plenty of time to validate that the Dev Server is running, and reduce the timeout for the semaphore to 8 seconds, in case the request still won't finish by then.

Changelog: [iOS][Fixed] not crashing on network issues with connecting to DevServer

Reviewed By: cipolleschi

Differential Revision: D94382277
---
 .../React/Base/RCTBundleURLProvider.mm        | 31 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTBundleURLProvider.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTBundleURLProvider.mm
index b599cb95eca7..9032d5d5dff3 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTBundleURLProvider.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTBundleURLProvider.mm
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ void RCTBundleURLProviderAllowPackagerServerAccess(BOOL allowed)
 static NSString *const kRCTEnableDevKey = @"RCT_enableDev";
 static NSString *const kRCTEnableMinificationKey = @"RCT_enableMinification";
 static NSString *const kRCTInlineSourceMapKey = @"RCT_inlineSourceMap";
+static const NSTimeInterval kRCTPackagerStatusRequestTimeout = 6;
+static const NSTimeInterval kRCTPackagerStatusRequestTimeoutGraceTime = 2;
 
 @implementation RCTBundleURLProvider
 
@@ -96,22 +98,39 @@ + (BOOL)isPackagerRunning:(NSString *)hostPort scheme:(NSString *)scheme
   NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
   NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url
                                                          cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
-                                                     timeoutInterval:10];
+                                                     timeoutInterval:kRCTPackagerStatusRequestTimeout];
   [[RCTDevSupportHttpHeaders sharedInstance] applyHeadersToRequest:request];
   __block NSURLResponse *response;
   __block NSData *data;
 
+  __block BOOL isRunning = NO;
   dispatch_semaphore_t semaphore = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);
   [[session dataTaskWithRequest:request
-              completionHandler:^(NSData *d, NSURLResponse *res, __unused NSError *err) {
+              completionHandler:^(NSData *d, NSURLResponse *res, NSError *err) {
                 data = d;
                 response = res;
+                NSString *status = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:d encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
+                isRunning = [status isEqualToString:@"packager-status:running"];
+                if (!isRunning) {
+                  RCTLogWarn(
+                      @"Packager status check returned unexpected result for %@: %@, error: %@", url, status, err);
+                }
                 dispatch_semaphore_signal(semaphore);
               }] resume];
-  dispatch_semaphore_wait(semaphore, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);
-
-  NSString *status = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-  return [status isEqualToString:@"packager-status:running"];
+  long result = dispatch_semaphore_wait(
+      semaphore,
+      dispatch_time(
+          DISPATCH_TIME_NOW,
+          (int64_t)((kRCTPackagerStatusRequestTimeout +
+                     // The request timeout does not cover all phases of the request (e.g. DNS resolution),
+                     // so the actual request might take slightly longer than the configured timeout.
+                     kRCTPackagerStatusRequestTimeoutGraceTime) *
+                    NSEC_PER_SEC)));
+  if (result != 0) {
+    RCTLogWarn(@"Packager status check timed out for %@", url);
+    return NO;
+  }
+  return isRunning;
 }
 
 - (NSString *)guessPackagerHost