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randall77 opened this issue Jul 27, 2022 · 6 comments
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unsafe: Slice does not panic on nil pointer when element size is 0 #54092

randall77 opened this issue Jul 27, 2022 · 6 comments
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This program should panic:

package main

import "unsafe"

func main() {
	var p *struct{}
	_ = unsafe.Slice(p, 5)
}

From the unsafe.Slice docs:

if ptr is nil and len is not zero, a run-time panic occurs.

A zero-sized element is a very special case here, so just a doc fix would be fine also.

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cuonglm commented Jul 27, 2022

Isn't it #46742?

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That issue is about Slice(nil, 0). This one is about Slice(nil, >0). Which correctly panics if the element type has nonzero size. It's just when the element type is zero sized, no panic happens. We get a slice with {ptr:nil, len:5, cap:5}.

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cuonglm commented Jul 27, 2022

That issue is about Slice(nil, 0). This one is about Slice(nil, >0). Which correctly panics if the element type has nonzero size. It's just when the element type is zero sized, no panic happens. We get a slice with {ptr:nil, len:5, cap:5}.

Ah right, it does panic with go.17, though https://go.dev/play/p/bpbEmh22qZA?v=goprev

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Nice find. It looks like the issue is we rely on size * len > -ptr to detect this, but this fails when size is 0.

We can add an extra explicit ptr == nil && len > 0 check, but that adds an extra branch on a code path we're trying to keep fast.

Maybe we can add it to the 64-bit entry point, and just force use of that function for zero-size types?

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We could generate entirely different code for the elemsize==0 case.

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cmd/compile,runtime: panic when unsafe.Slice param is nil and > 0
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Change https://go.dev/cl/419755 mentions this issue: cmd/compile,runtime: panic when unsafe.Slice param is nil and > 0

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cmd/compile,runtime: panic when unsafe.Slice param is nil and > 0
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Fixes: golang#54092
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cmd/compile,runtime: panic when unsafe.Slice param is nil and > 0
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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Fixes: golang#54092
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cmd/compile,runtime: panic when unsafe.Slice param is nil and > 0
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