[clang] [analyzer] MallocChecker – Fix false positive leak for smart pointers in temporary objects (PR #152751)

Ivan Murashko via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Aug 22 04:19:43 PDT 2025


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@@ -1096,6 +1104,54 @@ class StopTrackingCallback final : public SymbolVisitor {
     return true;
   }
 };
+
+/// EscapeTrackedCallback - A SymbolVisitor that marks allocated symbols as
+/// escaped.
+///
+/// This visitor is used to suppress false positive leak reports when smart
+/// pointers are nested in temporary objects passed by value to functions. When
+/// the analyzer can't see the destructor calls for temporary objects, it may
+/// incorrectly report leaks for memory that will be properly freed by the smart
+/// pointer destructors.
+///
+/// The visitor traverses reachable symbols from a given set of memory regions
+/// (typically smart pointer field regions) and marks any allocated symbols as
+/// escaped. Escaped symbols are not reported as leaks by checkDeadSymbols.
+class EscapeTrackedCallback final : public SymbolVisitor {
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ivanmurashko wrote:

Yes, the `EscapeTrackedCallback` class is properly wrapped in an anonymous namespace that starts at line 1094. It shares the same anonymous namespace with the `StopTrackingCallback` class defined just above it.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/152751


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