[Fiber] Fix context propagation into Suspense fallbacks (#36160)
## Summary When a context value changes above a Suspense boundary that is showing its fallback, context consumers inside the fallback do not re-render — they display stale values. `propagateContextChanges`, upon encountering a suspended Suspense boundary, marks the boundary for retry but stops traversing into its children entirely (`nextFiber = null`). This skips both the hidden primary subtree (intentional — those fibers may not exist) and the visible fallback subtree (a bug — those fibers are committed and visible to the user). The fix skips the primary OffscreenComponent and continues traversal into the FallbackFragment, so fallback context consumers are found and marked for re-render. In practice this often goes unnoticed because it's uncommon to read context inside a Suspense fallback, and when some other update (like a prop change) flows into the fallback it sidesteps the propagation path entirely. React Compiler makes the bug more likely to surface since it memoizes more aggressively, reducing the chance of an incidental re-render masking the stale value. ## Test plan - Added regression test `'context change propagates to Suspense fallback (memo boundary)'` in `ReactContextPropagation-test.js` - Verified the test fails without the fix and passes with it - All existing context propagation, Suspense, memo, and hooks tests pass
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Andrew Clark committed
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Parent: f944b4c
Committed by GitHub <[email protected]>
on 3/27/2026, 10:04:53 PM