Brief background on "why heap allocate". Things can be
forced to the heap for the following reasons:
1) address published, hence lifetime unknown.
2) size unknown/too large, cannot be stack allocated
3) multiplicity unknown/too large, cannot be stack allocated
4) reachable from heap (not necessarily published)
The bug here is a case of failing to enforce 4) when an
object Y was reachable from a heap allocation X forced
because of 3). It was found in the case of a closure
allocated within a loop (X) and assigned to a variable
outside the loop (multiplicity unknown) where the closure
also captured a map (Y) declared outside the loop (reachable
from heap). Note the variable declared outside the loop (Y)
is not published, has known size, and known multiplicity
(one). The only reason for heap allocation is that it was
reached from a heap allocated item (X), but because that was
not forced by publication, it has to be tracked by loop
level, but escape-loop level was not tracked and thus a bug
results.
The fix is that when a heap allocation is newly discovered,
use its looplevel as the minimum loop level for downstream
escape flooding.
Every attempt to generalize this bug to X-in-loop-
references-Y-outside loop succeeded, so the fix was aimed
to be general. Anywhere that loop level forces heap
allocation, the loop level is tracked. This is not yet
tested for all possible X and Y, but it is correctness-
conservative and because it caused only one trivial
regression in the escape tests, it is probably also
performance-conservative.
The new test checks the following:
1) in the map case, that if fn escapes, so does the map.
2) in the map case, if fn does not escape, neither does the map.
3) in the &x case, that if fn escapes, so does &x.
4) in the &x case, if fn does not escape, neither does &x.
Fixes#13799.
Change-Id: Ie280bef2bb86ec869c7c206789d0b68f080c3fdb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18234
Run-TryBot: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
