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cmd/cover: lines that are unreached (due to panic() ) appear as covered by test #48147

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holubond opened this issue Sep 2, 2021 · 2 comments
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holubond commented Sep 2, 2021

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.17 windows/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output
$ go env
set GO111MODULE=
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\ondre\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOENV=C:\Users\ondre\AppData\Roaming\go\env
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOEXPERIMENT=
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOINSECURE=
set GOMODCACHE=C:\Users\ondre\go\pkg\mod
set GONOPROXY=
set GONOSUMDB=
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=C:\Users\ondre\go
set GOPRIVATE=
set GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct
set GOROOT=C:\Program Files\Go
set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=C:\Program Files\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GOVCS=
set GOVERSION=go1.17
set GCCGO=gccgo
set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=1
set GOMOD=C:\Users\ondre\OneDrive\Desktop\workplace\mladata-bang\bang-backend\go.mod
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -mthreads -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\ondre\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build1886039437=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches
gdb --version: GNU gdb (GDB) 7.9.1

What did you do?

When running tests with coverage, the lines after calling a panicking function appear to be covered, even though the test could never reach them. They are not executed, just appear to be covered. This happens to every line until a branching statement is reached as can be seen when adding regular statements above the branching statement.

An example can be found at https://github.com/mazanec202/go-wrong-panic-coverage. In this case I had to place the panicking function to a separate package, however on my personal project was the logic complex enough not to be marked by go vet as unused while residing in a single package.

Using the following commands on the project, it's possible to verify the problem:
go test -coverprofile=coverage.out
go tool cover -html=coverage.out

I believe this issue could provide a false sense of safety and could therefore lead to potential security issues.

What did you expect to see?

Only a line 16 (main.go) containing panic.DoPanic(true) to be marked as covered. Line 17 (main.go) containing shouldBeZero = 1 should be marked as not covered.

What did you see instead?

Line 17 (main.go) containing shouldBeZero = 1 is marked as covered, even though the tests prove that the panic was executed and value of shouldBeZero is unchanged - 0.

@holubond holubond changed the title Lines that are unreached (due to panic() ) appear as covered by test cmd/go/internal/test: lines that are unreached (due to panic() ) appear as covered by test Sep 2, 2021
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bcmills commented Sep 2, 2021

CC @thanm

@bcmills bcmills added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Sep 2, 2021
@bcmills bcmills added this to the Backlog milestone Sep 2, 2021
@bcmills bcmills changed the title cmd/go/internal/test: lines that are unreached (due to panic() ) appear as covered by test cmd/cover: lines that are unreached (due to panic() ) appear as covered by test Sep 2, 2021
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thanm commented Sep 2, 2021

Thanks for the report. This is a known flaw with the current implementation. There are a number of other coverage testing frameworks (such as the support offered by LLVM/clang) that have the same limitation.

Providing support for this use case would require substantial effort, probably not something that would be workable with the existing cmd/cover source-to-source translation scheme. I'll add this to the potential list of features to support if/when we refresh Go's coverage implementation.

@thanm thanm self-assigned this Sep 2, 2021
@gopherbot gopherbot added the compiler/runtime Issues related to the Go compiler and/or runtime. label Jul 13, 2022
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