[llvm-branch-commits] [clang] [analyzer][docs] CSA release notes for clang-21 (PR #154600)

Tue Aug 26 05:06:37 PDT 2025

https://github.com/tru updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/154600

>From b81295ef2efe283f87a75fadcf302eba701c3dd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balazs Benics <benicsbalazs at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:40:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [analyzer][docs] CSA release notes for clang-21

The commits were gathered using:
```sh
git log --reverse --oneline llvmorg-20-init..llvm/main \
  clang/{lib/StaticAnalyzer,include/clang/StaticAnalyzer} | grep -v NFC | \
  grep -v OpenACC | grep -v -i revert | grep -v -i "webkit"
```

FYI, I also ignored Webkit changes because I assue it's fairly specific
for them, and they likely already know what they ship xD.

I used the `LLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=ON` and `LLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN=ON` cmake
options to enable the `docs-clang-html` build target, which generates
the html into `build/tools/clang/docs/html/ReleaseNotes.html` of which I
attach the screenshots to let you judge if it looks all good or not.
---
 clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 9ef697a14dcce..832ee35587fe3 100644
--- a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -1234,33 +1234,131 @@ Code Completion
 
 Static Analyzer
 ---------------
-- Fixed a crash when C++20 parenthesized initializer lists are used. This issue
-  was causing a crash in clang-tidy. (#GH136041)
 
 New features
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- A new flag - `-static-libclosure` was introduced to support statically linking
+  the runtime for the Blocks extension on Windows. This flag currently only
+  changes the code generation, and even then, only on Windows. This does not
+  impact the linker behaviour like the other `-static-*` flags.
+- OpenACC support, enabled via `-fopenacc` has reached a level of completeness
+  to finally be at least notionally usable. Currently, the OpenACC 3.4
+  specification has been completely implemented for Sema and AST creation, so
+  nodes will show up in the AST after having been properly checked. Lowering is
+  currently a work in progress, with compute, loop, and combined constructs
+  partially implemented, plus a handful of data and executable constructs
+  implemented. Lowering will only work in Clang-IR mode (so only with a compiler
+  built with Clang-IR enabled, and with `-fclangir` used on the command line).
+  However, note that the Clang-IR implementation status is also quite partial,
+  so frequent 'not yet implemented' diagnostics should be expected.  Also, the
+  ACC MLIR dialect does not currently implement any lowering to LLVM-IR, so no
+  code generation is possible for OpenACC.
+- Implemented `P2719R5 Type-aware allocation and deallocation functions <https://wg21.link/P2719>`_
+  as an extension in all C++ language modes.
+
+- Added support for the ``[[clang::assume(cond)]]`` attribute, treating it as
+  ``__builtin_assume(cond)`` for better static analysis. (#GH129234)
+
+- Introduced per-entry-point statistics to provide more detailed analysis metrics.
+  Documentation: :doc:`analyzer/developer-docs/Statistics` (#GH131175)
+
+- Added time-trace scopes for high-level analyzer steps to improve performance
+  debugging. Documentation: :doc:`analyzer/developer-docs/PerformanceInvestigation`
+  (#GH125508, #GH125884)
+
+- Enhanced the ``check::BlockEntrance`` checker callback to provide more granular
+  control over block-level analysis.
+  `Documentation (check::BlockEntrance)
+  <https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/CheckerDocumentation_8cpp_source.html>`_
+  (#GH140924)
+
+- Added a new checker ``core.FixedAddressDereference`` to detect dereferences
+  of fixed addresses, which can be useful for finding hard-coded memory
+  accesses. (#GH127191, #GH132404)
+
 Crash and bug fixes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-- Fixed a crash in ``UnixAPIMisuseChecker`` and ``MallocChecker`` when analyzing
+- Fixed a crash when C++20 parenthesized initializer lists are used.
+  This affected a crash of the well-known lambda overloaded pattern.
+  (#GH136041, #GH135665)
+
+- Dropped an unjustified assertion, that was triggered in ``BugReporterVisitors.cpp``
+  for variable initialization detection. (#GH125044)
+
+- Fixed a crash in ``unix.API`` and ``unix.Malloc`` when analyzing
   code with non-standard ``getline`` or ``getdelim`` function signatures. (#GH144884)
 
+- Fixed crashes involving ``__builtin_bit_cast``. (#GH139188)
+
+- ``__datasizeof`` (C++) and ``_Countof`` (C) no longer cause a failed assertion
+  when given an operand of VLA type. (#GH151711)
+
+- Fixed a crash in ``alpha.core.CastSize``. (#GH134387)
+
+- Some ``cplusplus.PlacementNew`` false positives were fixed. (#GH150161)
+
 Improvements
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Added option to assume at least one iteration in loops to reduce false positives.
+  (#GH125494)
+
 - The checker option ``optin.cplusplus.VirtualCall:PureOnly`` was removed,
-  because it had been deprecated since 2019 and it is completely useless (it
-  was kept only for compatibility with pre-2019 versions, setting it to true is
-  equivalent to completely disabling the checker).
+  because it had been deprecated since 2019. (#GH131823)
+
+- Enhanced the ``core.StackAddressEscape`` to detect more cases of stack address
+  escapes, including return values for child stack frames. (#GH126620, #GH126986)
+
+- Improved the ``unix.BlockInCriticalSection`` to recognize ``O_NONBLOCK``
+  streams and suppress reports in those cases. (#GH127049)
+
+- Better support for lambda-converted function pointers in analysis. (#GH144906)
+
+- Improved modeling of ``getcwd`` function in ``unix.StdCLibraryFunctions`` checker.
+  (#GH141076)
+
+- Enhanced the ``optin.core.EnumCastOutOfRange`` checker to ignore ``[[clang::flag_enum]]``
+  enums. (#GH141232)
+
+- Improved handling of structured bindings captured by lambdas. (#GH132579, #GH91835)
+
+- Fixed unnamed bitfield handling in ``optin.cplusplus.UninitializedObject``. (#GH132427, #GH132001)
+
+- Enhanced iterator checker modeling for ``insert`` operations. (#GH132596)
+
+- Improved ``format`` attribute handling in ``optin.taint.GenericTaint``. (#GH132765)
+
+- Added support for ``consteval`` in ``ConditionBRVisitor::VisitTerminator``.
+  (#GH146859, #GH139130)
+
+- C standard streams are no longer invalidated by all C library function calls.
+  (#GH147766)
+
+- Enhanced store management with region-store-binding-limit to improve performance.
+  See `region-store-max-binding-fanout
+  <https://clang.llvm.org/docs/analyzer/user-docs/Options.html#region-store-max-binding-fanout>`_
+  config option. Overriding these options are discouraged, unless you know what you do.
+  (#GH127602)
+
+- Updated undefined assignment checker (``core.uninitialized.Assign``) diagnostics
+  to avoid using the term ``garbage``. (#GH126596)
+
+- Fixed false memory leak reports involving placement new. (#GH144341)
+
+- Avoided unnecessary super region invalidation in ``unix.cstring.*`` checkers.
+  (#GH146212, #GH143807)
+
+- Enhanced handling of tainted division-by-zero error paths in the
+  ``optin.taint.TaintedDiv`` checker. (#GH144491)
 
 Moved checkers
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-- After lots of improvements, the checker ``alpha.security.ArrayBoundV2`` is
+- After lots of improvements, the checker ``alpha.security.ArrayBoundV2`` was
   renamed to ``security.ArrayBound``. As this checker is stable now, the old
-  checker ``alpha.security.ArrayBound`` (which was searching for the same kind
-  of bugs with an different, simpler and less accurate algorithm) is removed.
+  checker ``alpha.security.ArrayBound`` was removed.
 
 .. _release-notes-sanitizers:
 

