xk6-tcp panics on socket read errors with nil tags
xk6-tcp panics on socket read errors due to a nil tag set, and the bug report could not be filed on GitHub.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 3 August 2026 · last reported 5 August 2026
What's going wrong
Users of the k6 load-testing tool who run the xk6-tcp extension report that it crashes with a nil pointer panic when a socket read fails.
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