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implement RFC 1238: nonparametric dropck.

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159 changes: 154 additions & 5 deletions src/doc/nomicon/dropck.md
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**For a generic type to soundly implement drop, its generics arguments must
strictly outlive it.**

This rule is sufficient but not necessary to satisfy the drop checker. That is,
if your type obeys this rule then it's definitely sound to drop. However
there are special cases where you can fail to satisfy this, but still
successfully pass the borrow checker. These are the precise rules that are
currently up in the air.
Obeying this rule is (usually) necessary to satisfy the borrow
checker; obeying it is sufficient but not necessary to be
sound. That is, if your type obeys this rule then it's definitely
sound to drop.

The reason that it is not always necessary to satisfy the above rule
is that some Drop implementations will not access borrowed data even
though their type gives them the capability for such access.

For example, this variant of the above `Inspector` example will never
accessed borrowed data:

```rust,ignore
struct Inspector<'a>(&'a u8, &'static str);
impl<'a> Drop for Inspector<'a> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
println!("Inspector(_, {}) knows when *not* to inspect.", self.1);
}
}
fn main() {
let (inspector, days);
days = Box::new(1);
inspector = Inspector(&days, "gadget");
// Let's say `days` happens to get dropped first.
// Even when Inspector is dropped, its destructor will not access the
// borrowed `days`.
}
```

Likewise, this variant will also never access borrowed data:

```rust,ignore
use std::fmt;
struct Inspector<T: fmt::Display>(T, &'static str);
impl<T: fmt::Display> Drop for Inspector<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
println!("Inspector(_, {}) knows when *not* to inspect.", self.1);
}
}
fn main() {
let (inspector, days): (Inspector<&u8>, Box<u8>);
days = Box::new(1);
inspector = Inspector(&days, "gadget");
// Let's say `days` happens to get dropped first.
// Even when Inspector is dropped, its destructor will not access the
// borrowed `days`.
}
```

However, *both* of the above variants are rejected by the borrow
checker during the analysis of `fn main`, saying that `days` does not
live long enough.

The reason is that the borrow checking analysis of `main` does not
know about the internals of each Inspector's Drop implementation. As
far as the borrow checker knows while it is analyzing `main`, the body
of an inspector's destructor might access that borrowed data.

Therefore, the drop checker forces all borrowed data in a value to
strictly outlive that value.

# An Escape Hatch

The precise rules that govern drop checking may be less restrictive in
the future.

The current analysis is deliberately conservative and trivial; it forces all
borrowed data in a value to outlive that value, which is certainly sound.

Future versions of the language may make the analysis more precise, to
reduce the number of cases where sound code is rejected as unsafe.
This would help address cases such as the two Inspectors above that
know not to inspect during destruction.

In the meantime, there is an unstable attribute that one can use to
assert (unsafely) that a generic type's destructor is *guaranteed* to
not access any expired data, even if its type gives it the capability
to do so.

That attribute is called `unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params`.
To deploy it on the Inspector example from above, we would write:

```rust,ignore
struct Inspector<'a>(&'a u8, &'static str);
impl<'a> Drop for Inspector<'a> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
println!("Inspector(_, {}) knows when *not* to inspect.", self.1);
}
}
```

This attribute has the word `unsafe` in it because the compiler is not
checking the implicit assertion that no potentially expired data
(e.g. `self.0` above) is accessed.

It is sometimes obvious that no such access can occur, like the case above.
However, when dealing with a generic type parameter, such access can
occur indirectly. Examples of such indirect access are:
* invoking a callback,
* via a trait method call.

(Future changes to the language, such as impl specialization, may add
other avenues for such indirect access.)

Here is an example of invoking a callback:

```rust,ignore
struct Inspector<T>(T, &'static str, Box<for <'r> fn(&'r T) -> String>);
impl<T> Drop for Inspector<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// The `self.2` call could access a borrow e.g. if `T` is `&'a _`.
println!("Inspector({}, {}) unwittingly inspects expired data.",
(self.2)(&self.0), self.1);
}
}
```

Here is an example of a trait method call:

```rust,ignore
use std::fmt;
struct Inspector<T: fmt::Display>(T, &'static str);
impl<T: fmt::Display> Drop for Inspector<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// There is a hidden call to `<T as Display>::fmt` below, which
// could access a borrow e.g. if `T` is `&'a _`
println!("Inspector({}, {}) unwittingly inspects expired data.",
self.0, self.1);
}
}
```

And of course, all of these accesses could be further hidden within
some other method invoked by the destructor, rather than being written
directly within it.

In all of the above cases where the `&'a u8` is accessed in the
destructor, adding the `#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]`
attribute makes the type vulnerable to misuse that the borrower
checker will not catch, inviting havoc. It is better to avoid adding
the attribute.

# Is that all about drop checker?

It turns out that when writing unsafe code, we generally don't need to
worry at all about doing the right thing for the drop checker. However there
is one special case that you need to worry about, which we will look at in
the next section.

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- `simd` - on certain tuple structs, derive the arithmetic operators, which
lower to the target's SIMD instructions, if any; the `simd` feature gate
is necessary to use this attribute.
- `unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params` - on `Drop::drop` method, asserts that the
destructor code (and all potential specializations of that code) will
never attempt to read from nor write to any references with lifetimes
that come in via generic parameters. This is a constraint we cannot
currently express via the type system, and therefore we rely on the
programmer to assert that it holds. Adding this to a Drop impl causes
the associated destructor to be considered "uninteresting" by the
Drop-Check rule, and thus it can help sidestep data ordering
constraints that would otherwise be introduced by the Drop-Check
rule. Such sidestepping of the constraints, if done incorrectly, can
lead to undefined behavior (in the form of reading or writing to data
outside of its dynamic extent), and thus this attribute has the word
"unsafe" in its name. To use this, the
`unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params` feature gate must be enabled.
- `unsafe_no_drop_flag` - on structs, remove the flag that prevents
destructors from being run twice. Destructors might be run multiple times on
the same object with this attribute. To use this, the `unsafe_no_drop_flag` feature
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///
/// } // implicit drop
/// ```
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
#[inline]
fn drop(&mut self) {
// This structure has #[unsafe_no_drop_flag], so this drop glue may run
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions src/liballoc/lib.rs
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#![feature(unboxed_closures)]
#![feature(unique)]
#![feature(unsafe_no_drop_flag, filling_drop)]
// SNAP 1af31d4
#![allow(unused_features)]
// SNAP 1af31d4
#![allow(unused_attributes)]
#![feature(dropck_parametricity)]
#![feature(unsize)]
#![feature(core_slice_ext)]
#![feature(core_str_ext)]
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}

impl<T> Drop for RawVec<T> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
/// Frees the memory owned by the RawVec *without* trying to Drop its contents.
fn drop(&mut self) {
let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
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///
/// } // implicit drop
/// ```
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe {
let ptr = *self._ptr;
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions src/libarena/lib.rs
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#![feature(ptr_as_ref)]
#![feature(raw)]
#![feature(staged_api)]
#![feature(dropck_parametricity)]
#![cfg_attr(test, feature(test))]

// SNAP 1af31d4
#![allow(unused_features)]
// SNAP 1af31d4
#![allow(unused_attributes)]

extern crate alloc;

use std::cell::{Cell, RefCell};
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}

impl<T> Drop for TypedArena<T> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe {
// Determine how much was filled.
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions src/libcollections/btree/node.rs
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}

impl<T> Drop for RawItems<T> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
for _ in self {}
}
}

impl<K, V> Drop for Node<K, V> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
if self.keys.is_null() ||
(unsafe { self.keys.get() as *const K as usize == mem::POST_DROP_USIZE })
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}

impl<K, V> Drop for MoveTraversalImpl<K, V> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
// We need to cleanup the stored values manually, as the RawItems destructor would run
// after our deallocation.
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions src/libcollections/lib.rs
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#![allow(trivial_casts)]
#![cfg_attr(test, allow(deprecated))] // rand

// SNAP 1af31d4
#![allow(unused_features)]
// SNAP 1af31d4
#![allow(unused_attributes)]

#![feature(alloc)]
#![feature(box_patterns)]
#![feature(box_syntax)]
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#![feature(unboxed_closures)]
#![feature(unicode)]
#![feature(unique)]
#![feature(dropck_parametricity)]
#![feature(unsafe_no_drop_flag, filling_drop)]
#![feature(decode_utf16)]
#![feature(utf8_error)]
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions src/libcollections/linked_list.rs
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#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
impl<T> Drop for LinkedList<T> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
// Dissolve the linked_list in a loop.
// Just dropping the list_head can lead to stack exhaustion
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#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
impl<T> Drop for Vec<T> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
// NOTE: this is currently abusing the fact that ZSTs can't impl Drop.
// Or rather, that impl'ing Drop makes them not zero-sized. This is
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#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
impl<T> Drop for VecDeque<T> {
#[unsafe_destructor_blind_to_params]
fn drop(&mut self) {
self.clear();
// RawVec handles deallocation
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