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Rollup merge of rust-lang#52782 - pnkfelix:issue-45696-dangly-paths-for-box, r=eddyb
[NLL] Dangly paths for box
Special-case `Box` in `rustc_mir::borrow_check`.
Since we know dropping a box will not access any `&mut` or `&` references, it is safe to model its destructor as only touching the contents *owned* by the box.
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There are three main things going on here:
1. The first main thing, this PR is fixing a bug in NLL where `rustc` previously would issue a diagnostic error in a case like this:
```rust
fn foo(x: Box<&mut i32>) -> &mut i32 { &mut **x }
```
such code was accepted by the AST-borrowck in the past, but NLL was rejecting it with the following message ([playground](https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=13c5560f73bfb16d6dab3ceaad44c0f8&version=nightly&mode=release&edition=2015))
```
error[E0597]: `**x` does not live long enough
--> src/main.rs:3:40
|
3 | fn foo(x: Box<&mut i32>) -> &mut i32 { &mut **x }
| ^^^^^^^^ - `**x` dropped here while still borrowed
| |
| borrowed value does not live long enough
|
note: borrowed value must be valid for the anonymous lifetime rust-lang#1 defined on the function body at 3:1...
--> src/main.rs:3:1
|
3 | fn foo(x: Box<&mut i32>) -> &mut i32 { &mut **x }
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
error: aborting due to previous error
```
2. The second main thing: The reason such code was previously rejected was because NLL (MIR-borrowck) incorporates a fix for issue rust-lang#31567, where it models a destructor's execution as potentially accessing any borrows held by the thing being destructed. The tests with `Scribble` model this, showing that the compiler now catches such unsoundness.
However, that fix for issue rust-lang#31567 is too strong, in that NLL (MIR-borrowck) includes `Box` as one of the types with a destructor that potentially accesses any borrows held by the box. This thus was the cause of the main remaining discrepancy between AST-borrowck and MIR-borrowck, as documented in issue rust-lang#45696, specifically in [the last example of this comment](rust-lang#45696 (comment)), which I have adapted into the `fn foo` shown above.
We did close issue rust-lang#45696 back in December of 2017, but AFAICT that example was not fixed by PR rust-lang#46268. (And we did not include a test, etc etc.)
This PR fixes that case, by trying to model the so-called `DerefPure` semantics of `Box<T>` when we traverse the type of the input to `visit_terminator_drop`.
3. The third main thing is that during a review of the first draft of this PR, @matthewjasper pointed out that the new traversal of `Box<T>` could cause the compiler to infinite loop. I have adjusted the PR to avoid this (by tracking what types we have previously seen), and added a much needed test of this somewhat odd scenario. (Its an odd scenario because the particular case only arises for things like `struct A(Box<A>);`, something which cannot be constructed in practice.)
Fixrust-lang#45696.
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