Fix ICE in ParamConst::find_ty_from_env when handling None values

[Aditya-PS-05]

Fix ICE in ParamConst::find_ty_from_env when handling None values

This PR fixes issue #139314 where the compiler would panic with "called Option::unwrap() on a None value" when processing async functions with const parameters.

Problem

When processing async functions with const parameters, the compiler would try to find the type of a const parameter by looking through the environment's caller bounds. If no matching type was found, it would call unwrap() on a None value, causing the compiler to panic.

Solution

The fix modifies ParamConst::find_ty_from_env to return an Option<Ty<'tcx>> instead of unwrapping the result directly. A new method find_ty_from_env_unwrap is added for backward compatibility.

All call sites are updated to handle the Option return type appropriately:

• In rustc_trait_selection/src/traits/fulfill.rs: Return a ProcessResult::Error when no type is found
• In rustc_trait_selection/src/solve/fulfill/derive_errors.rs: Use an error type when no type is found
• In rustc_trait_selection/src/traits/select/mod.rs: Return EvaluatedToErr when no type is found

Similar changes are made to Placeholder::find_const_ty_from_env for consistency.

Testing

Test cases are added to verify the fix and prevent regression. The compiler now properly reports type errors instead of panicking with an ICE.

Fixes #139314

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[compiler-errors]

I don't believe this is the right fix. It is intentional that find_ty_from_env ICEs if it's run in the wrong ParamEnv.

I don't see any explanation for what the root cause of the error is. Can you explain the original ICE in detail?

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[Aditya-PS-05]

I don't believe this is the right fix. It is intentional that find_ty_from_env ICEs if it's run in the wrong ParamEnv.

I don't see any explanation for what the root cause of the error is. Can you explain the original ICE in detail?

Thank you for your feedback, Michael. You raise an important point about the intentional behavior of find_ty_from_env.

The original ICE occurs in the following scenario:
When processing an async function with a const parameter like:

async fn func<T: Iterator<Item = u8> + Copy, const N: usize>(iter: T) -> impl for<'a1> Clone {
    func(iter.map(|x| x + 1))
}

The compiler attempts to find the type associated with the const parameter N during the recursive call func(iter.map(|x| x + 1)). Specifically, in ParamConst::find_ty_from_env, it searches through the environment's caller bounds for a matching ConstArgHasType predicate.

The root cause is that during the processing of this recursive call in an async context, the environment doesn't contain the necessary information about the const parameter's type. This is because the async transformation changes how the function is processed, and the const parameter information isn't properly propagated in this specific case.

You're right that find_ty_from_env is designed to ICE when run in the wrong ParamEnv - this is a deliberate assertion that the compiler's invariants are being maintained. However, in this specific case with async functions and const parameters, we're encountering a legitimate edge case where the environment doesn't have the expected information.

Rather than modifying the behavior of find_ty_from_env, a better approach might be to:

1.) Investigate why the const parameter information isn't properly propagated in the async context
2.) Fix the root cause by ensuring the async transformation properly handles const parameters
3.) Maintain the existing behavior of find_ty_from_env as an important invariant check

Would you suggest a different approach to addressing this issue?

[compiler-errors]

@Aditya-PS-05: Random question, but are you using AI/LLM assistance to generate your PR and comments?

[Aditya-PS-05]

@Aditya-PS-05: Random question, but are you using AI/LLM assistance to generate your PR and comments?

Unfortunately yes, I have to. I try a lot. But I fail, then I have to use them.

[Aditya-PS-05]

@compiler-errors , if you can mentor me, how to approach the rust lang code to solve the issue?

[workingjubilee]

It has been suggested I post a comment. Your approach should be informed by examining the trace of the execution up until it arrives in the situation where it panics. Trying the code on a recent nightly, we get a backtrace from which I have taken this excerpt:

  14:     0x74819553b366 - <rustc_middle[6bf438ce1f449cd2]::ty::sty::ParamConst>::find_ty_from_env.cold
  15:     0x7481941ee8af - <rustc_trait_selection[6116fba8902975c5]::traits::fulfill::FulfillProcessor as rustc_data_structures[706042bfa2b7a0c2]::obligation_forest::ObligationProcessor>::process_obligation
  16:     0x748193807d04 - <rustc_data_structures[706042bfa2b7a0c2]::obligation_forest::ObligationForest<rustc_trait_selection[6116fba8902975c5]::traits::fulfill::PendingPredicateObligation>>::process_obligations::<rustc_trait_selection[6116fba8902975c5]::traits::fulfill::FulfillProcessor>
  17:     0x748193d22562 - <rustc_trait_selection[6116fba8902975c5]::traits::fulfill::FulfillmentContext<rustc_infer[cf4ffcedee93cf74]::traits::engine::ScrubbedTraitError> as rustc_infer[cf4ffcedee93cf74]::traits::engine::TraitEngine<rustc_infer[cf4ffcedee93cf74]::traits::engine::ScrubbedTraitError>>::select_where_possible
  18:     0x748192f21d56 - <rustc_trait_selection[6116fba8902975c5]::error_reporting::TypeErrCtxt>::error_implies
  19:     0x748192ee9742 - <rustc_trait_selection[6116fba8902975c5]::error_reporting::TypeErrCtxt>::report_fulfillment_errors
  20:     0x7481939ca35e - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::try_structurally_resolve_type
  21:     0x748194454ef7 - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::check_expr_with_expectation_and_args
  22:     0x748194459c67 - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::check_expr_with_expectation_and_args
  23:     0x74819444fd71 - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::check_expr_block
  24:     0x7481944577c4 - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::check_expr_with_expectation_and_args
  25:     0x748193cc9199 - rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::check::check_fn
  26:     0x748194428532 - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::check_expr_closure
  27:     0x74819445c56c - <rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::fn_ctxt::FnCtxt>::check_expr_with_expectation_and_args
  28:     0x748193cc9199 - rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::check::check_fn
  29:     0x748193cb6091 - rustc_hir_typeck[75de04720260e6f5]::typeck_with_inspect::{closure#0}
  30:     0x748193cb4e36 - rustc_query_impl[9fd3fd019d5bb5ba]::plumbing::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::<rustc_query_impl[9fd3fd019d5bb5ba]::query_impl::typeck::dynamic_query::{closure#2}::{closure#0}, rustc_middle[6bf438ce1f449cd2]::query::erase::Erased<[u8; 8usize]>>
  31:     0x748193ab65ac - rustc_query_system[e11aa6dc93e86788]::query::plumbing::try_execute_query::<rustc_query_impl[9fd3fd019d5bb5ba]::DynamicConfig<rustc_data_structures[706042bfa2b7a0c2]::vec_cache::VecCache<rustc_span[3f1f0e279447ef10]::def_id::LocalDefId, rustc_middle[6bf438ce1f449cd2]::query::erase::Erased<[u8; 8usize]>, rustc_query_system[e11aa6dc93e86788]::dep_graph::graph::DepNodeIndex>, false, false, false>, rustc_query_impl[9fd3fd019d5bb5ba]::plumbing::QueryCtxt, false>
  32:     0x748193ab5f4b - rustc_query_impl[9fd3fd019d5bb5ba]::query_impl::typeck::get_query_non_incr::__rust_end_short_backtrace
  33:     0x74819492c1a8 - rustc_hir_analysis[7c975a2d476d1b1d]::collect::type_of::type_of_opaque

We also get this "query stack":

#0 [typeck] type-checking `func`
#1 [type_of_opaque] computing type of opaque `func::{opaque#0}`

Here we can see that we are typechecking an opaque type... the closure I believe. Because the backtrace reports what last happened first, we must read it from the bottom up, unfortunately, to obtain the linear sequence of events. So, starting at 33, we spot the opaque typechecking query that the query stack mentioned. We start scanning upward to find the function which panicked... and then we first reach report_fulfillment_errors, at 19. We are no longer on a "happy path", but look what happens next, at 17-15?

We are invoking the trait solver again! Probably to find a good suggestion, I'm going to guess. So the problem here is almost certainly... I haven't looked too closely yet... that we are trying to construct a hypothetical answer that would fix the problem for the programmer, maybe a trait they can maybe bring into scope or implement or something, but we are likely passing a dodgy ParamEnv that has been modified or constructed in a way that makes it incapable of answering anything correctly, thus this assert here is discovering, instead, a flaw in the error-reporting code.

Thus, the problem is to find the site where we are doing that and start digging. I suppose I should build the compiler and find line numbers to refine my hypothesis. Or you can do it, as a learning exercise. But you'd have to, in order to solve this, understand either

• how to construct, modify, or find a useful ParamEnv to answer the question we're trying to answer for error-reporting purposes, or
• whether we should give up and just report a different error

You certainly should not take "we ICE, so the primary goal is to stop the ICE" as a given, here, if we are the ones making mistakes in using our own compiler!

Also, probably, the code in the original issue is not fully reduced in terms of complexity and should be simplified further in order to better understand why we even error.

[workingjubilee]

This is the opposite of our usual conventions: we do not qualify the unwrapping function in its name, instead we qualify the Option-returning variant of a function as try, for a try_something.

[compiler-errors]

Thanks for the analysis @workingjubilee and I agree that that's generally how I would approach fixing an issue (i.e. root-causing it). However, I think this issue is a lot more subtle and complex than a beginner issue, and I don't think it would be beneficial to mentor a solution to this issue.

Thanks for putting up the PR, but I'm going to close it and open a separate solution PR soon, since in the process of root-causing this I think I understand the issue more clearly now, and the fix is kinda subtle.

In the future, I would appreciate if you ask AI/LLM to write much smaller and more readable descriptions, or just don't use AI/LLM at all. I find the comment #139333 (comment) to be very overwhelming to process because it's a lot of words that don't say very much about what the issue is, which is common with LLM-generated text.

Thanks again for the contribution, and hope you can find an issue to fix that's a bit more beginner friendly!