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1 //===--- UseNullptrCheck.cpp - clang-tidy----------------------------------===//
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8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 
10 #include "UseNullptrCheck.h"
11 #include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
12 #include "clang/AST/RecursiveASTVisitor.h"
13 #include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
14 #include "clang/Lex/Lexer.h"
15 
16 using namespace clang;
17 using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
18 using namespace llvm;
19 
20 namespace clang {
21 namespace tidy {
22 namespace modernize {
23 namespace {
24 
25 const char CastSequence[] = "sequence";
26 
27 /// \brief Matches cast expressions that have a cast kind of CK_NullToPointer
28 /// or CK_NullToMemberPointer.
29 ///
30 /// Given
31 /// \code
32 ///   int *p = 0;
33 /// \endcode
34 /// implicitCastExpr(isNullToPointer()) matches the implicit cast clang adds
35 /// around \c 0.
36 AST_MATCHER(CastExpr, isNullToPointer) {
37   return Node.getCastKind() == CK_NullToPointer ||
38          Node.getCastKind() == CK_NullToMemberPointer;
39 }
40 
41 AST_MATCHER(Type, sugaredNullptrType) {
42   const Type *DesugaredType = Node.getUnqualifiedDesugaredType();
43   if (const BuiltinType *BT = dyn_cast<BuiltinType>(DesugaredType))
44     return BT->getKind() == BuiltinType::NullPtr;
45   return false;
46 }
47 
48 /// \brief Create a matcher that finds implicit casts as well as the head of a
49 /// sequence of zero or more nested explicit casts that have an implicit cast
50 /// to null within.
51 /// Finding sequences of explict casts is necessary so that an entire sequence
52 /// can be replaced instead of just the inner-most implicit cast.
53 StatementMatcher makeCastSequenceMatcher() {
54   StatementMatcher ImplicitCastToNull = implicitCastExpr(
55       isNullToPointer(),
56       unless(hasSourceExpression(hasType(sugaredNullptrType()))));
57 
58   return castExpr(anyOf(ImplicitCastToNull,
59                         explicitCastExpr(hasDescendant(ImplicitCastToNull))),
60                   unless(hasAncestor(explicitCastExpr())))
61       .bind(CastSequence);
62 }
63 
64 bool isReplaceableRange(SourceLocation StartLoc, SourceLocation EndLoc,
65                         const SourceManager &SM) {
66   return SM.isWrittenInSameFile(StartLoc, EndLoc);
67 }
68 
69 /// \brief Replaces the provided range with the text "nullptr", but only if
70 /// the start and end location are both in main file.
71 /// Returns true if and only if a replacement was made.
72 void replaceWithNullptr(ClangTidyCheck &Check, SourceManager &SM,
73                         SourceLocation StartLoc, SourceLocation EndLoc) {
74   CharSourceRange Range(SourceRange(StartLoc, EndLoc), true);
75   // Add a space if nullptr follows an alphanumeric character. This happens
76   // whenever there is an c-style explicit cast to nullptr not surrounded by
77   // parentheses and right beside a return statement.
78   SourceLocation PreviousLocation = StartLoc.getLocWithOffset(-1);
79   bool NeedsSpace = isAlphanumeric(*SM.getCharacterData(PreviousLocation));
80   Check.diag(Range.getBegin(), "use nullptr") << FixItHint::CreateReplacement(
81       Range, NeedsSpace ? " nullptr" : "nullptr");
82 }
83 
84 /// \brief Returns the name of the outermost macro.
85 ///
86 /// Given
87 /// \code
88 /// #define MY_NULL NULL
89 /// \endcode
90 /// If \p Loc points to NULL, this function will return the name MY_NULL.
91 StringRef getOutermostMacroName(SourceLocation Loc, const SourceManager &SM,
92                                 const LangOptions &LO) {
93   assert(Loc.isMacroID());
94   SourceLocation OutermostMacroLoc;
95 
96   while (Loc.isMacroID()) {
97     OutermostMacroLoc = Loc;
98     Loc = SM.getImmediateMacroCallerLoc(Loc);
99   }
100 
101   return Lexer::getImmediateMacroName(OutermostMacroLoc, SM, LO);
102 }
103 
104 /// \brief RecursiveASTVisitor for ensuring all nodes rooted at a given AST
105 /// subtree that have file-level source locations corresponding to a macro
106 /// argument have implicit NullTo(Member)Pointer nodes as ancestors.
107 class MacroArgUsageVisitor : public RecursiveASTVisitor<MacroArgUsageVisitor> {
108 public:
109   MacroArgUsageVisitor(SourceLocation CastLoc, const SourceManager &SM)
110       : CastLoc(CastLoc), SM(SM), Visited(false), CastFound(false),
111         InvalidFound(false) {
112     assert(CastLoc.isFileID());
113   }
114 
115   bool TraverseStmt(Stmt *S) {
116     bool VisitedPreviously = Visited;
117 
118     if (!RecursiveASTVisitor<MacroArgUsageVisitor>::TraverseStmt(S))
119       return false;
120 
121     // The point at which VisitedPreviously is false and Visited is true is the
122     // root of a subtree containing nodes whose locations match CastLoc. It's
123     // at this point we test that the Implicit NullTo(Member)Pointer cast was
124     // found or not.
125     if (!VisitedPreviously) {
126       if (Visited && !CastFound) {
127         // Found nodes with matching SourceLocations but didn't come across a
128         // cast. This is an invalid macro arg use. Can stop traversal
129         // completely now.
130         InvalidFound = true;
131         return false;
132       }
133       // Reset state as we unwind back up the tree.
134       CastFound = false;
135       Visited = false;
136     }
137     return true;
138   }
139 
140   bool VisitStmt(Stmt *S) {
141     if (SM.getFileLoc(S->getLocStart()) != CastLoc)
142       return true;
143     Visited = true;
144 
145     const ImplicitCastExpr *Cast = dyn_cast<ImplicitCastExpr>(S);
146     if (Cast && (Cast->getCastKind() == CK_NullToPointer ||
147                  Cast->getCastKind() == CK_NullToMemberPointer))
148       CastFound = true;
149 
150     return true;
151   }
152 
153   bool TraverseInitListExpr(InitListExpr *S) {
154     // Only go through the semantic form of the InitListExpr, because
155     // ImplicitCast might not appear in the syntactic form, and this results in
156     // finding usages of the macro argument that don't have a ImplicitCast as an
157     // ancestor (thus invalidating the replacement) when they actually have.
158     return RecursiveASTVisitor<MacroArgUsageVisitor>::
159         TraverseSynOrSemInitListExpr(
160             S->isSemanticForm() ? S : S->getSemanticForm());
161   }
162 
163   bool foundInvalid() const { return InvalidFound; }
164 
165 private:
166   SourceLocation CastLoc;
167   const SourceManager &SM;
168 
169   bool Visited;
170   bool CastFound;
171   bool InvalidFound;
172 };
173 
174 /// \brief Looks for implicit casts as well as sequences of 0 or more explicit
175 /// casts with an implicit null-to-pointer cast within.
176 ///
177 /// The matcher this visitor is used with will find a single implicit cast or a
178 /// top-most explicit cast (i.e. it has no explicit casts as an ancestor) where
179 /// an implicit cast is nested within. However, there is no guarantee that only
180 /// explicit casts exist between the found top-most explicit cast and the
181 /// possibly more than one nested implicit cast. This visitor finds all cast
182 /// sequences with an implicit cast to null within and creates a replacement
183 /// leaving the outermost explicit cast unchanged to avoid introducing
184 /// ambiguities.
185 class CastSequenceVisitor : public RecursiveASTVisitor<CastSequenceVisitor> {
186 public:
187   CastSequenceVisitor(ASTContext &Context, ArrayRef<StringRef> NullMacros,
188                       ClangTidyCheck &check)
189       : SM(Context.getSourceManager()), Context(Context),
190         NullMacros(NullMacros), Check(check), FirstSubExpr(nullptr),
191         PruneSubtree(false) {}
192 
193   bool TraverseStmt(Stmt *S) {
194     // Stop traversing down the tree if requested.
195     if (PruneSubtree) {
196       PruneSubtree = false;
197       return true;
198     }
199     return RecursiveASTVisitor<CastSequenceVisitor>::TraverseStmt(S);
200   }
201 
202   // Only VisitStmt is overridden as we shouldn't find other base AST types
203   // within a cast expression.
204   bool VisitStmt(Stmt *S) {
205     CastExpr *C = dyn_cast<CastExpr>(S);
206     if (!C) {
207       FirstSubExpr = nullptr;
208       return true;
209     }
210     if (!FirstSubExpr)
211       FirstSubExpr = C->getSubExpr()->IgnoreParens();
212 
213     if (C->getCastKind() != CK_NullToPointer &&
214         C->getCastKind() != CK_NullToMemberPointer) {
215       return true;
216     }
217 
218     SourceLocation StartLoc = FirstSubExpr->getLocStart();
219     SourceLocation EndLoc = FirstSubExpr->getLocEnd();
220 
221     // If the location comes from a macro arg expansion, *all* uses of that
222     // arg must be checked to result in NullTo(Member)Pointer casts.
223     //
224     // If the location comes from a macro body expansion, check to see if its
225     // coming from one of the allowed 'NULL' macros.
226     if (SM.isMacroArgExpansion(StartLoc) && SM.isMacroArgExpansion(EndLoc)) {
227       SourceLocation FileLocStart = SM.getFileLoc(StartLoc),
228                      FileLocEnd = SM.getFileLoc(EndLoc);
229       if (isReplaceableRange(FileLocStart, FileLocEnd, SM) &&
230           allArgUsesValid(C)) {
231         replaceWithNullptr(Check, SM, FileLocStart, FileLocEnd);
232       }
233       return skipSubTree();
234     }
235 
236     if (SM.isMacroBodyExpansion(StartLoc) && SM.isMacroBodyExpansion(EndLoc)) {
237       StringRef OutermostMacroName =
238           getOutermostMacroName(StartLoc, SM, Context.getLangOpts());
239 
240       // Check to see if the user wants to replace the macro being expanded.
241       if (std::find(NullMacros.begin(), NullMacros.end(), OutermostMacroName) ==
242           NullMacros.end()) {
243         return skipSubTree();
244       }
245 
246       StartLoc = SM.getFileLoc(StartLoc);
247       EndLoc = SM.getFileLoc(EndLoc);
248     }
249 
250     if (!isReplaceableRange(StartLoc, EndLoc, SM)) {
251       return skipSubTree();
252     }
253     replaceWithNullptr(Check, SM, StartLoc, EndLoc);
254 
255     return skipSubTree();
256   }
257 
258 private:
259   bool skipSubTree() {
260     PruneSubtree = true;
261     return true;
262   }
263 
264   /// \brief Tests that all expansions of a macro arg, one of which expands to
265   /// result in \p CE, yield NullTo(Member)Pointer casts.
266   bool allArgUsesValid(const CastExpr *CE) {
267     SourceLocation CastLoc = CE->getLocStart();
268 
269     // Step 1: Get location of macro arg and location of the macro the arg was
270     // provided to.
271     SourceLocation ArgLoc, MacroLoc;
272     if (!getMacroAndArgLocations(CastLoc, ArgLoc, MacroLoc))
273       return false;
274 
275     // Step 2: Find the first ancestor that doesn't expand from this macro.
276     ast_type_traits::DynTypedNode ContainingAncestor;
277     if (!findContainingAncestor(
278             ast_type_traits::DynTypedNode::create<Stmt>(*CE), MacroLoc,
279             ContainingAncestor))
280       return false;
281 
282     // Step 3:
283     // Visit children of this containing parent looking for the least-descended
284     // nodes of the containing parent which are macro arg expansions that expand
285     // from the given arg location.
286     // Visitor needs: arg loc.
287     MacroArgUsageVisitor ArgUsageVisitor(SM.getFileLoc(CastLoc), SM);
288     if (const auto *D = ContainingAncestor.get<Decl>())
289       ArgUsageVisitor.TraverseDecl(const_cast<Decl *>(D));
290     else if (const auto *S = ContainingAncestor.get<Stmt>())
291       ArgUsageVisitor.TraverseStmt(const_cast<Stmt *>(S));
292     else
293       llvm_unreachable("Unhandled ContainingAncestor node type");
294 
295     return !ArgUsageVisitor.foundInvalid();
296   }
297 
298   /// \brief Given the SourceLocation for a macro arg expansion, finds the
299   /// non-macro SourceLocation of the macro the arg was passed to and the
300   /// non-macro SourceLocation of the argument in the arg list to that macro.
301   /// These results are returned via \c MacroLoc and \c ArgLoc respectively.
302   /// These values are undefined if the return value is false.
303   ///
304   /// \returns false if one of the returned SourceLocations would be a
305   /// SourceLocation pointing within the definition of another macro.
306   bool getMacroAndArgLocations(SourceLocation Loc, SourceLocation &ArgLoc,
307                                SourceLocation &MacroLoc) {
308     assert(Loc.isMacroID() && "Only reasonble to call this on macros");
309 
310     ArgLoc = Loc;
311 
312     // Find the location of the immediate macro expansion.
313     while (true) {
314       std::pair<FileID, unsigned> LocInfo = SM.getDecomposedLoc(ArgLoc);
315       const SrcMgr::SLocEntry *E = &SM.getSLocEntry(LocInfo.first);
316       const SrcMgr::ExpansionInfo &Expansion = E->getExpansion();
317 
318       SourceLocation OldArgLoc = ArgLoc;
319       ArgLoc = Expansion.getExpansionLocStart();
320       if (!Expansion.isMacroArgExpansion()) {
321         if (!MacroLoc.isFileID())
322           return false;
323 
324         StringRef Name =
325             Lexer::getImmediateMacroName(OldArgLoc, SM, Context.getLangOpts());
326         return std::find(NullMacros.begin(), NullMacros.end(), Name) !=
327                NullMacros.end();
328       }
329 
330       MacroLoc = SM.getExpansionRange(ArgLoc).first;
331 
332       ArgLoc = Expansion.getSpellingLoc().getLocWithOffset(LocInfo.second);
333       if (ArgLoc.isFileID())
334         return true;
335 
336       // If spelling location resides in the same FileID as macro expansion
337       // location, it means there is no inner macro.
338       FileID MacroFID = SM.getFileID(MacroLoc);
339       if (SM.isInFileID(ArgLoc, MacroFID)) {
340         // Don't transform this case. If the characters that caused the
341         // null-conversion come from within a macro, they can't be changed.
342         return false;
343       }
344     }
345 
346     llvm_unreachable("getMacroAndArgLocations");
347   }
348 
349   /// \brief Tests if TestMacroLoc is found while recursively unravelling
350   /// expansions starting at TestLoc. TestMacroLoc.isFileID() must be true.
351   /// Implementation is very similar to getMacroAndArgLocations() except in this
352   /// case, it's not assumed that TestLoc is expanded from a macro argument.
353   /// While unravelling expansions macro arguments are handled as with
354   /// getMacroAndArgLocations() but in this function macro body expansions are
355   /// also handled.
356   ///
357   /// False means either:
358   /// - TestLoc is not from a macro expansion.
359   /// - TestLoc is from a different macro expansion.
360   bool expandsFrom(SourceLocation TestLoc, SourceLocation TestMacroLoc) {
361     if (TestLoc.isFileID()) {
362       return false;
363     }
364 
365     SourceLocation Loc = TestLoc, MacroLoc;
366 
367     while (true) {
368       std::pair<FileID, unsigned> LocInfo = SM.getDecomposedLoc(Loc);
369       const SrcMgr::SLocEntry *E = &SM.getSLocEntry(LocInfo.first);
370       const SrcMgr::ExpansionInfo &Expansion = E->getExpansion();
371 
372       Loc = Expansion.getExpansionLocStart();
373 
374       if (!Expansion.isMacroArgExpansion()) {
375         if (Loc.isFileID()) {
376           return Loc == TestMacroLoc;
377         }
378         // Since Loc is still a macro ID and it's not an argument expansion, we
379         // don't need to do the work of handling an argument expansion. Simply
380         // keep recursively expanding until we hit a FileID or a macro arg
381         // expansion or a macro arg expansion.
382         continue;
383       }
384 
385       MacroLoc = SM.getImmediateExpansionRange(Loc).first;
386       if (MacroLoc.isFileID() && MacroLoc == TestMacroLoc) {
387         // Match made.
388         return true;
389       }
390 
391       Loc = Expansion.getSpellingLoc().getLocWithOffset(LocInfo.second);
392       if (Loc.isFileID()) {
393         // If we made it this far without finding a match, there is no match to
394         // be made.
395         return false;
396       }
397     }
398 
399     llvm_unreachable("expandsFrom");
400   }
401 
402   /// \brief Given a starting point \c Start in the AST, find an ancestor that
403   /// doesn't expand from the macro called at file location \c MacroLoc.
404   ///
405   /// \pre MacroLoc.isFileID()
406   /// \returns true if such an ancestor was found, false otherwise.
407   bool findContainingAncestor(ast_type_traits::DynTypedNode Start,
408                               SourceLocation MacroLoc,
409                               ast_type_traits::DynTypedNode &Result) {
410     // Below we're only following the first parent back up the AST. This should
411     // be fine since for the statements we care about there should only be one
412     // parent, except for the case specified below.
413 
414     assert(MacroLoc.isFileID());
415 
416     while (true) {
417       const auto &Parents = Context.getParents(Start);
418       if (Parents.empty())
419         return false;
420       if (Parents.size() > 1) {
421         // If there are more than one parents, don't do the replacement unless
422         // they are InitListsExpr (semantic and syntactic form). In this case we
423         // can choose any one here, and the ASTVisitor will take care of
424         // traversing the right one.
425         for (const auto &Parent : Parents) {
426           if (!Parent.get<InitListExpr>())
427             return false;
428         }
429       }
430 
431       const ast_type_traits::DynTypedNode &Parent = Parents[0];
432 
433       SourceLocation Loc;
434       if (const auto *D = Parent.get<Decl>())
435         Loc = D->getLocStart();
436       else if (const auto *S = Parent.get<Stmt>())
437         Loc = S->getLocStart();
438 
439       // TypeLoc and NestedNameSpecifierLoc are members of the parent map. Skip
440       // them and keep going up.
441       if (Loc.isValid()) {
442         if (!expandsFrom(Loc, MacroLoc)) {
443           Result = Parent;
444           return true;
445         }
446       }
447       Start = Parent;
448     }
449 
450     llvm_unreachable("findContainingAncestor");
451   }
452 
453 private:
454   SourceManager &SM;
455   ASTContext &Context;
456   ArrayRef<StringRef> NullMacros;
457   ClangTidyCheck &Check;
458   Expr *FirstSubExpr;
459   bool PruneSubtree;
460 };
461 
462 } // namespace
463 
464 UseNullptrCheck::UseNullptrCheck(StringRef Name, ClangTidyContext *Context)
465     : ClangTidyCheck(Name, Context),
466       NullMacrosStr(Options.get("NullMacros", "")) {
467   StringRef(NullMacrosStr).split(NullMacros, ",");
468 }
469 
470 void UseNullptrCheck::storeOptions(ClangTidyOptions::OptionMap &Opts) {
471   Options.store(Opts, "NullMacros", NullMacrosStr);
472 }
473 
474 void UseNullptrCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
475   // Only register the matcher for C++. Because this checker is used for
476   // modernization, it is reasonable to run it on any C++ standard with the
477   // assumption the user is trying to modernize their codebase.
478   if (getLangOpts().CPlusPlus)
479     Finder->addMatcher(makeCastSequenceMatcher(), this);
480 }
481 
482 void UseNullptrCheck::check(const MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
483   const auto *NullCast = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<CastExpr>(CastSequence);
484   assert(NullCast && "Bad Callback. No node provided");
485 
486   // Given an implicit null-ptr cast or an explicit cast with an implicit
487   // null-to-pointer cast within use CastSequenceVisitor to identify sequences
488   // of explicit casts that can be converted into 'nullptr'.
489   CastSequenceVisitor(*Result.Context, NullMacros, *this)
490       .TraverseStmt(const_cast<CastExpr *>(NullCast));
491 }
492 
493 } // namespace modernize
494 } // namespace tidy
495 } // namespace clang
496