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package sa4010
import (
"honnef.co/go/tools/analysis/lint"
"honnef.co/go/tools/analysis/report"
"honnef.co/go/tools/go/ir"
"honnef.co/go/tools/internal/passes/buildir"
"golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis"
)
var SCAnalyzer = lint.InitializeAnalyzer(&lint.Analyzer{
Analyzer: &analysis.Analyzer{
Name: "SA4010",
Run: run,
Requires: []*analysis.Analyzer{buildir.Analyzer},
},
Doc: &lint.RawDocumentation{
Title: `The result of \'append\' will never be observed anywhere`,
Since: "2017.1",
Severity: lint.SeverityWarning,
MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll,
},
})
var Analyzer = SCAnalyzer.Analyzer
func run(pass *analysis.Pass) (any, error) {
isAppend := func(ins ir.Value) bool {
call, ok := ins.(*ir.Call)
if !ok {
return false
}
if call.Call.IsInvoke() {
return false
}
if builtin, ok := call.Call.Value.(*ir.Builtin); !ok || builtin.Name() != "append" {
return false
}
return true
}
// We have to be careful about aliasing.
// Multiple slices may refer to the same backing array,
// making appends observable even when we don't see the result of append be used anywhere.
//
// We will have to restrict ourselves to slices that have been allocated within the function,
// haven't been sliced,
// and haven't been passed anywhere that could retain them (such as function calls or memory stores).
//
// We check whether an append should be flagged in two steps.
//
// In the first step, we look at the data flow graph, starting in reverse from the argument to append, till we reach the root.
// This graph must only consist of the following instructions:
//
// - phi
// - sigma
// - slice
// - const nil
// - MakeSlice
// - Alloc
// - calls to append
//
// If this step succeeds, we look at all referrers of the values found in the first step, recursively.
// These referrers must either be in the set of values found in the first step,
// be DebugRefs,
// or fulfill the same type requirements as step 1, with the exception of appends, which are forbidden.
//
// If both steps succeed then we know that the backing array hasn't been aliased in an observable manner.
//
// We could relax these restrictions by making use of additional information:
// - if we passed the slice to a function that doesn't retain the slice then we can still flag it
// - if a slice has been sliced but is dead afterwards, we can flag appends to the new slice
// OPT(dh): We could cache the results of both validate functions.
// However, we only use these functions on values that we otherwise want to flag, which are very few.
// Not caching values hasn't increased the runtimes for the standard library nor k8s.
var validateArgument func(v ir.Value, seen map[ir.Value]struct{}) bool
validateArgument = func(v ir.Value, seen map[ir.Value]struct{}) bool {
if _, ok := seen[v]; ok {
// break cycle
return true
}
seen[v] = struct{}{}
switch v := v.(type) {
case *ir.Phi:
for _, edge := range v.Edges {
if !validateArgument(edge, seen) {
return false
}
}
return true
case *ir.Sigma:
return validateArgument(v.X, seen)
case *ir.Slice:
return validateArgument(v.X, seen)
case *ir.Const:
return true
case *ir.MakeSlice:
return true
case *ir.Alloc:
return true
case *ir.Call:
if isAppend(v) {
return validateArgument(v.Call.Args[0], seen)
}
return false
default:
return false
}
}
var validateReferrers func(v ir.Value, seen map[ir.Instruction]struct{}) bool
validateReferrers = func(v ir.Value, seen map[ir.Instruction]struct{}) bool {
for _, ref := range *v.Referrers() {
if _, ok := seen[ref]; ok {
continue
}
seen[ref] = struct{}{}
switch ref.(type) {
case *ir.Phi:
case *ir.Sigma:
case *ir.Slice:
case *ir.Const:
case *ir.MakeSlice:
case *ir.Alloc:
case *ir.DebugRef:
default:
return false
}
if ref, ok := ref.(ir.Value); ok {
if !validateReferrers(ref, seen) {
return false
}
}
}
return true
}
for _, fn := range pass.ResultOf[buildir.Analyzer].(*buildir.IR).SrcFuncs {
for _, block := range fn.Blocks {
for _, ins := range block.Instrs {
val, ok := ins.(ir.Value)
if !ok || !isAppend(val) {
continue
}
isUsed := false
visited := map[ir.Instruction]bool{}
var walkRefs func(refs []ir.Instruction)
walkRefs = func(refs []ir.Instruction) {
loop:
for _, ref := range refs {
if visited[ref] {
continue
}
visited[ref] = true
if _, ok := ref.(*ir.DebugRef); ok {
continue
}
switch ref := ref.(type) {
case *ir.Phi:
walkRefs(*ref.Referrers())
case *ir.Sigma:
walkRefs(*ref.Referrers())
case ir.Value:
if !isAppend(ref) {
isUsed = true
} else {
walkRefs(*ref.Referrers())
}
case ir.Instruction:
isUsed = true
break loop
}
}
}
refs := val.Referrers()
if refs == nil {
continue
}
walkRefs(*refs)
if isUsed {
continue
}
seen := map[ir.Value]struct{}{}
if !validateArgument(ins.(*ir.Call).Call.Args[0], seen) {
continue
}
seen2 := map[ir.Instruction]struct{}{}
for k := range seen {
// the only values we allow are also instructions, so this type assertion cannot fail
seen2[k.(ir.Instruction)] = struct{}{}
}
seen2[ins] = struct{}{}
failed := false
for v := range seen {
if !validateReferrers(v, seen2) {
failed = true
break
}
}
if !failed {
report.Report(pass, ins, "this result of append is never used, except maybe in other appends")
}
}
}
}
return nil, nil
}