[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Fix crash in bugprone-not-null-terminated-result check (PR #160727)

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Author: Endre Fülöp (gamesh411)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

The check was crashing when trying to evaluate value-dependent expressions using EvaluateAsInt() in cases where the src parameter of memcpy is value-dependent, but the length is not. Added isValueDependent() check before EvaluateAsInt() call to prevent the crash.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/160727.diff


2 Files Affected:

- (modified) clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NotNullTerminatedResultCheck.cpp (+5-3) 
- (added) clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/not-null-terminated-result-value-dependent-crash.cpp (+23) 


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diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NotNullTerminatedResultCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NotNullTerminatedResultCheck.cpp
index d4676842a97ff..463677d2d3af6 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NotNullTerminatedResultCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NotNullTerminatedResultCheck.cpp
@@ -64,15 +64,17 @@ static unsigned getLength(const Expr *E,
   if (!E)
     return 0;
 
-  Expr::EvalResult Length;
   E = E->IgnoreImpCasts();
 
   if (const auto *LengthDRE = dyn_cast<DeclRefExpr>(E))
     if (const auto *LengthVD = dyn_cast<VarDecl>(LengthDRE->getDecl()))
       if (!isa<ParmVarDecl>(LengthVD))
         if (const Expr *LengthInit = LengthVD->getInit())
-          if (LengthInit->EvaluateAsInt(Length, *Result.Context))
-            return Length.Val.getInt().getZExtValue();
+          if (!LengthInit->isValueDependent()) {
+            Expr::EvalResult Length;
+            if (LengthInit->EvaluateAsInt(Length, *Result.Context))
+              return Length.Val.getInt().getZExtValue();
+          }
 
   if (const auto *LengthIL = dyn_cast<IntegerLiteral>(E))
     return LengthIL->getValue().getZExtValue();
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/not-null-terminated-result-value-dependent-crash.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/not-null-terminated-result-value-dependent-crash.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5f361c35e448c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/not-null-terminated-result-value-dependent-crash.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// RUN: %check_clang_tidy %s bugprone-not-null-terminated-result %t -- \
+// RUN: -- -std=c++17 -I %S/Inputs/not-null-terminated-result
+
+// This test case reproduces the crash when the check tries to evaluate
+// a value-dependent expression using EvaluateAsInt() in
+// bugprone-not-null-terminated-result, where the src parameter of memcpy is
+// value-dependent, but the length is not.
+
+// expected-no-diagnostics
+
+#include "not-null-terminated-result-cxx.h"
+
+template<size_t N>
+class ValueDependentClass {
+public:
+  void copyData(char* Dst) {
+    const char* Src = reinterpret_cast<const char*>(this);
+    // The length parameter is arbitrary, but the crash is not reproduced if it is N.
+    memcpy(Dst, Src, 32);
+  }
+};
+
+template class ValueDependentClass<42>; // The template parameter value is arbitrary.

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/160727


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