[analyzer] Suppress "this" pointer escape during construction.

Pointer escape event notifies checkers that a pointer can no longer be reliably
tracked by the analyzer. For example, if a pointer is passed into a function
that has no body available, or written into a global, MallocChecker would
no longer report memory leaks for such pointer.

In case of operator new() under -analyzer-config c++-allocator-inlining=true,
MallocChecker would start tracking the pointer allocated by operator new()
only to immediately meet a pointer escape event notifying the checker that the
pointer has escaped into a constructor (assuming that the body of the
constructor is not available) and immediately stop tracking it. Even though
it is theoretically possible for such constructor to put "this" into
a global container that would later be freed, we prefer to preserve the old
behavior of MallocChecker, i.e. a memory leak warning, in order to
be able to find any memory leaks in C++ at all. In fact, c++-allocator-inlining
*reduces* the amount of false positives coming from this-pointers escaping in
constructors, because it'd be able to inline constructors in some cases.

With other checkers working similarly, we simply suppress the escape event for
this-value of the constructor, regardless of analyzer options.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41797
rdar://problem/12180598

llvm-svn: 322795

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CallEvent.cpp b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CallEvent.cpp
index 776369be9db..76b9630c3b5 100644
--- a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CallEvent.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CallEvent.cpp
@@ -672,8 +672,13 @@ SVal CXXConstructorCall::getCXXThisVal() const {
 
 void CXXConstructorCall::getExtraInvalidatedValues(ValueList &Values,
                            RegionAndSymbolInvalidationTraits *ETraits) const {
-  if (Data)
-    Values.push_back(loc::MemRegionVal(static_cast<const MemRegion *>(Data)));
+  if (Data) {
+    loc::MemRegionVal MV(static_cast<const MemRegion *>(Data));
+    if (SymbolRef Sym = MV.getAsSymbol(true))
+      ETraits->setTrait(Sym,
+                        RegionAndSymbolInvalidationTraits::TK_SuppressEscape);
+    Values.push_back(MV);
+  }
 }
 
 void CXXConstructorCall::getInitialStackFrameContents(
diff --git a/clang/test/Analysis/NewDeleteLeaks-PR19102.cpp b/clang/test/Analysis/NewDeleteLeaks-PR19102.cpp
index 502db6122f5..625b2d4b7af 100644
--- a/clang/test/Analysis/NewDeleteLeaks-PR19102.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/Analysis/NewDeleteLeaks-PR19102.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // RUN: %clang_analyze_cc1 -analyzer-checker=core,cplusplus.NewDeleteLeaks -verify %s
+// RUN: %clang_analyze_cc1 -analyzer-checker=core,cplusplus.NewDeleteLeaks -analyzer-config c++-allocator-inlining=true -verify %s
 
 class A0 {};