<div dir="ltr">Greetings folks,<div><br></div><div>Manuel pointed me at a use-after-free issue that is really nasty. We've got a lot of these while using preambles in libclang for code completion. The crux of the problem seems to stem from the following:</div>
<div><br></div><div>- DeclContext::lookup(...) returns a MutableArrayRef<NamedDecl*> which points into a particular StoredDeclsList looked up in a StoredDeclsMap.</div><div><br></div><div>- In some cases, the StoredDeclsList only has one element, and it stores it internally.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- In other cases, the StoredDeclsList stores the elements in a small vector which can grow and be re-allocated...</div><div><br></div><div>- Thus, things which add decls to an AST have a very real chance of invalidating the pointer stored in the MutableArrayRef returned by DeclContext::lookup.</div>
<div><br></div><div>=/</div><div><br></div><div>My question is how best to fix this long term? I can go in and add targeted copying of the NamedDecl*s in the lookup result when there are clearly operations that might shift the AST... I've started looking for these and may commit a few strategic fixes that are causing crashes for us, but it seems like a losing proposition because the results of a lookup are sometimes rather long lived -- we store them in CXXBasePaths for example.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a better long-term solution? Other ideas or suggestions? Have I messed up my analysis somewhere?</div></div>