881 lines
25 KiB
Go
881 lines
25 KiB
Go
package staticcheck
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import "honnef.co/go/tools/lint"
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var Docs = map[string]*lint.Documentation{
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"SA1000": {
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Title: `Invalid regular expression`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1001": {
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Title: `Invalid template`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1002": {
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Title: `Invalid format in time.Parse`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1003": {
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Title: `Unsupported argument to functions in encoding/binary`,
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Text: `The encoding/binary package can only serialize types with known sizes.
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This precludes the use of the int and uint types, as their sizes
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differ on different architectures. Furthermore, it doesn't support
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serializing maps, channels, strings, or functions.
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Before Go 1.8, bool wasn't supported, either.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1004": {
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Title: `Suspiciously small untyped constant in time.Sleep`,
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Text: `The time.Sleep function takes a time.Duration as its only argument.
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Durations are expressed in nanoseconds. Thus, calling time.Sleep(1)
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will sleep for 1 nanosecond. This is a common source of bugs, as sleep
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functions in other languages often accept seconds or milliseconds.
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The time package provides constants such as time.Second to express
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large durations. These can be combined with arithmetic to express
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arbitrary durations, for example '5 * time.Second' for 5 seconds.
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If you truly meant to sleep for a tiny amount of time, use
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'n * time.Nanosecond' to signal to Staticcheck that you did mean to sleep
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for some amount of nanoseconds.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1005": {
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Title: `Invalid first argument to exec.Command`,
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Text: `os/exec runs programs directly (using variants of the fork and exec
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system calls on Unix systems). This shouldn't be confused with running
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a command in a shell. The shell will allow for features such as input
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redirection, pipes, and general scripting. The shell is also
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responsible for splitting the user's input into a program name and its
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arguments. For example, the equivalent to
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ls / /tmp
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would be
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exec.Command("ls", "/", "/tmp")
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If you want to run a command in a shell, consider using something like
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the following – but be aware that not all systems, particularly
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Windows, will have a /bin/sh program:
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exec.Command("/bin/sh", "-c", "ls | grep Awesome")`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1006": {
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Title: `Printf with dynamic first argument and no further arguments`,
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Text: `Using fmt.Printf with a dynamic first argument can lead to unexpected
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output. The first argument is a format string, where certain character
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combinations have special meaning. If, for example, a user were to
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enter a string such as
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Interest rate: 5%
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and you printed it with
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fmt.Printf(s)
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it would lead to the following output:
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Interest rate: 5%!(NOVERB).
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Similarly, forming the first parameter via string concatenation with
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user input should be avoided for the same reason. When printing user
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input, either use a variant of fmt.Print, or use the %s Printf verb
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and pass the string as an argument.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1007": {
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Title: `Invalid URL in net/url.Parse`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1008": {
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Title: `Non-canonical key in http.Header map`,
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Text: `Keys in http.Header maps are canonical, meaning they follow a specific
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combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. Methods such as
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http.Header.Add and http.Header.Del convert inputs into this canonical
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form before manipulating the map.
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When manipulating http.Header maps directly, as opposed to using the
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provided methods, care should be taken to stick to canonical form in
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order to avoid inconsistencies. The following piece of code
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demonstrates one such inconsistency:
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h := http.Header{}
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h["etag"] = []string{"1234"}
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h.Add("etag", "5678")
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fmt.Println(h)
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// Output:
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// map[Etag:[5678] etag:[1234]]
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The easiest way of obtaining the canonical form of a key is to use
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http.CanonicalHeaderKey.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1010": {
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Title: `(*regexp.Regexp).FindAll called with n == 0, which will always return zero results`,
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Text: `If n >= 0, the function returns at most n matches/submatches. To
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return all results, specify a negative number.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1011": {
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Title: `Various methods in the strings package expect valid UTF-8, but invalid input is provided`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1012": {
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Title: `A nil context.Context is being passed to a function, consider using context.TODO instead`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1013": {
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Title: `io.Seeker.Seek is being called with the whence constant as the first argument, but it should be the second`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1014": {
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Title: `Non-pointer value passed to Unmarshal or Decode`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1015": {
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Title: `Using time.Tick in a way that will leak. Consider using time.NewTicker, and only use time.Tick in tests, commands and endless functions`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1016": {
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Title: `Trapping a signal that cannot be trapped`,
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Text: `Not all signals can be intercepted by a process. Speficially, on
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UNIX-like systems, the syscall.SIGKILL and syscall.SIGSTOP signals are
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never passed to the process, but instead handled directly by the
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kernel. It is therefore pointless to try and handle these signals.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1017": {
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Title: `Channels used with os/signal.Notify should be buffered`,
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Text: `The os/signal package uses non-blocking channel sends when delivering
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signals. If the receiving end of the channel isn't ready and the
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channel is either unbuffered or full, the signal will be dropped. To
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avoid missing signals, the channel should be buffered and of the
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appropriate size. For a channel used for notification of just one
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signal value, a buffer of size 1 is sufficient.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1018": {
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Title: `strings.Replace called with n == 0, which does nothing`,
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Text: `With n == 0, zero instances will be replaced. To replace all
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instances, use a negative number, or use strings.ReplaceAll.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1019": {
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Title: `Using a deprecated function, variable, constant or field`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1020": {
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Title: `Using an invalid host:port pair with a net.Listen-related function`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1021": {
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Title: `Using bytes.Equal to compare two net.IP`,
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Text: `A net.IP stores an IPv4 or IPv6 address as a slice of bytes. The
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length of the slice for an IPv4 address, however, can be either 4 or
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16 bytes long, using different ways of representing IPv4 addresses. In
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order to correctly compare two net.IPs, the net.IP.Equal method should
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be used, as it takes both representations into account.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1023": {
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Title: `Modifying the buffer in an io.Writer implementation`,
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Text: `Write must not modify the slice data, even temporarily.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1024": {
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Title: `A string cutset contains duplicate characters`,
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Text: `The strings.TrimLeft and strings.TrimRight functions take cutsets, not
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prefixes. A cutset is treated as a set of characters to remove from a
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string. For example,
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strings.TrimLeft("42133word", "1234"))
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will result in the string "word" – any characters that are 1, 2, 3 or
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4 are cut from the left of the string.
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In order to remove one string from another, use strings.TrimPrefix instead.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA1025": {
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Title: `It is not possible to use (*time.Timer).Reset's return value correctly`,
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Since: "2019.1",
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},
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"SA1026": {
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Title: `Cannot marshal channels or functions`,
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Since: "2019.2",
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},
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"SA1027": {
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Title: `Atomic access to 64-bit variable must be 64-bit aligned`,
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Text: `On ARM, x86-32, and 32-bit MIPS, it is the caller's responsibility to
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arrange for 64-bit alignment of 64-bit words accessed atomically. The
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first word in a variable or in an allocated struct, array, or slice
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can be relied upon to be 64-bit aligned.
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You can use the structlayout tool to inspect the alignment of fields
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in a struct.`,
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Since: "2019.2",
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},
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"SA1028": {
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Title: `sort.Slice can only be used on slices`,
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Text: `The first argument of sort.Slice must be a slice.`,
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Since: "2020.1",
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},
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"SA1029": {
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Title: `Inappropriate key in call to context.WithValue`,
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Text: `The provided key must be comparable and should not be
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of type string or any other built-in type to avoid collisions between
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packages using context. Users of WithValue should define their own
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types for keys.
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To avoid allocating when assigning to an interface{},
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context keys often have concrete type struct{}. Alternatively,
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exported context key variables' static type should be a pointer or
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interface.`,
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Since: "2020.1",
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},
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"SA2000": {
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Title: `sync.WaitGroup.Add called inside the goroutine, leading to a race condition`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA2001": {
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Title: `Empty critical section, did you mean to defer the unlock?`,
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Text: `Empty critical sections of the kind
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mu.Lock()
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mu.Unlock()
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are very often a typo, and the following was intended instead:
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mu.Lock()
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defer mu.Unlock()
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Do note that sometimes empty critical sections can be useful, as a
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form of signaling to wait on another goroutine. Many times, there are
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simpler ways of achieving the same effect. When that isn't the case,
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the code should be amply commented to avoid confusion. Combining such
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comments with a //lint:ignore directive can be used to suppress this
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rare false positive.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA2002": {
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Title: `Called testing.T.FailNow or SkipNow in a goroutine, which isn't allowed`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA2003": {
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Title: `Deferred Lock right after locking, likely meant to defer Unlock instead`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA3000": {
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Title: `TestMain doesn't call os.Exit, hiding test failures`,
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Text: `Test executables (and in turn 'go test') exit with a non-zero status
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code if any tests failed. When specifying your own TestMain function,
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it is your responsibility to arrange for this, by calling os.Exit with
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the correct code. The correct code is returned by (*testing.M).Run, so
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the usual way of implementing TestMain is to end it with
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os.Exit(m.Run()).`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA3001": {
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Title: `Assigning to b.N in benchmarks distorts the results`,
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Text: `The testing package dynamically sets b.N to improve the reliability of
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benchmarks and uses it in computations to determine the duration of a
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single operation. Benchmark code must not alter b.N as this would
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falsify results.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4000": {
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Title: `Boolean expression has identical expressions on both sides`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4001": {
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Title: `&*x gets simplified to x, it does not copy x`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4002": {
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Title: `Comparing strings with known different sizes has predictable results`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4003": {
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Title: `Comparing unsigned values against negative values is pointless`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4004": {
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Title: `The loop exits unconditionally after one iteration`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4005": {
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Title: `Field assignment that will never be observed. Did you mean to use a pointer receiver?`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4006": {
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Title: `A value assigned to a variable is never read before being overwritten. Forgotten error check or dead code?`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4008": {
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Title: `The variable in the loop condition never changes, are you incrementing the wrong variable?`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4009": {
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Title: `A function argument is overwritten before its first use`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4010": {
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Title: `The result of append will never be observed anywhere`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4011": {
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Title: `Break statement with no effect. Did you mean to break out of an outer loop?`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4012": {
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Title: `Comparing a value against NaN even though no value is equal to NaN`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4013": {
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Title: `Negating a boolean twice (!!b) is the same as writing b. This is either redundant, or a typo.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4014": {
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Title: `An if/else if chain has repeated conditions and no side-effects; if the condition didn't match the first time, it won't match the second time, either`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4015": {
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Title: `Calling functions like math.Ceil on floats converted from integers doesn't do anything useful`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4016": {
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Title: `Certain bitwise operations, such as x ^ 0, do not do anything useful`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4017": {
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Title: `A pure function's return value is discarded, making the call pointless`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4018": {
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Title: `Self-assignment of variables`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4019": {
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Title: `Multiple, identical build constraints in the same file`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA4020": {
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Title: `Unreachable case clause in a type switch`,
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Text: `In a type switch like the following
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type T struct{}
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func (T) Read(b []byte) (int, error) { return 0, nil }
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var v interface{} = T{}
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switch v.(type) {
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case io.Reader:
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// ...
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case T:
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// unreachable
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}
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the second case clause can never be reached because T implements
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io.Reader and case clauses are evaluated in source order.
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Another example:
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type T struct{}
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func (T) Read(b []byte) (int, error) { return 0, nil }
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func (T) Close() error { return nil }
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var v interface{} = T{}
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switch v.(type) {
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case io.Reader:
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// ...
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case io.ReadCloser:
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// unreachable
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}
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Even though T has a Close method and thus implements io.ReadCloser,
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io.Reader will always match first. The method set of io.Reader is a
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subset of io.ReadCloser. Thus it is impossible to match the second
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case without matching the first case.
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Structurally equivalent interfaces
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A special case of the previous example are structurally identical
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interfaces. Given these declarations
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type T error
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type V error
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func doSomething() error {
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err, ok := doAnotherThing()
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if ok {
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return T(err)
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}
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return U(err)
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}
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the following type switch will have an unreachable case clause:
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switch doSomething().(type) {
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case T:
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// ...
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case V:
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// unreachable
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}
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T will always match before V because they are structurally equivalent
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and therefore doSomething()'s return value implements both.`,
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Since: "2019.2",
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},
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"SA4021": {
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Title: `x = append(y) is equivalent to x = y`,
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Since: "2019.2",
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},
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"SA4022": {
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Title: `Comparing the address of a variable against nil`,
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Text: `Code such as 'if &x == nil' is meaningless, because taking the address of a variable always yields a non-nil pointer.`,
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Since: "2020.1",
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},
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"SA5000": {
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Title: `Assignment to nil map`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5001": {
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Title: `Defering Close before checking for a possible error`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5002": {
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Title: `The empty for loop (for {}) spins and can block the scheduler`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5003": {
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Title: `Defers in infinite loops will never execute`,
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Text: `Defers are scoped to the surrounding function, not the surrounding
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block. In a function that never returns, i.e. one containing an
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infinite loop, defers will never execute.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5004": {
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Title: `for { select { ... with an empty default branch spins`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5005": {
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Title: `The finalizer references the finalized object, preventing garbage collection`,
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Text: `A finalizer is a function associated with an object that runs when the
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garbage collector is ready to collect said object, that is when the
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object is no longer referenced by anything.
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If the finalizer references the object, however, it will always remain
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as the final reference to that object, preventing the garbage
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collector from collecting the object. The finalizer will never run,
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and the object will never be collected, leading to a memory leak. That
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is why the finalizer should instead use its first argument to operate
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on the object. That way, the number of references can temporarily go
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to zero before the object is being passed to the finalizer.`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5006": {
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Title: `Slice index out of bounds`,
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Since: "2017.1",
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},
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"SA5007": {
|
||
Title: `Infinite recursive call`,
|
||
Text: `A function that calls itself recursively needs to have an exit
|
||
condition. Otherwise it will recurse forever, until the system runs
|
||
out of memory.
|
||
|
||
This issue can be caused by simple bugs such as forgetting to add an
|
||
exit condition. It can also happen "on purpose". Some languages have
|
||
tail call optimization which makes certain infinite recursive calls
|
||
safe to use. Go, however, does not implement TCO, and as such a loop
|
||
should be used instead.`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA5008": {
|
||
Title: `Invalid struct tag`,
|
||
Since: "2019.2",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA5009": {
|
||
Title: `Invalid Printf call`,
|
||
Since: "2019.2",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA5010": {
|
||
Title: `Impossible type assertion`,
|
||
|
||
Text: `Some type assertions can be statically proven to be
|
||
impossible. This is the case when the method sets of both
|
||
arguments of the type assertion conflict with each other, for
|
||
example by containing the same method with different
|
||
signatures.
|
||
|
||
The Go compiler already applies this check when asserting from an
|
||
interface value to a concrete type. If the concrete type misses
|
||
methods from the interface, or if function signatures don't match,
|
||
then the type assertion can never succeed.
|
||
|
||
This check applies the same logic when asserting from one interface to
|
||
another. If both interface types contain the same method but with
|
||
different signatures, then the type assertion can never succeed,
|
||
either.`,
|
||
|
||
Since: "2020.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA5011": {
|
||
Title: `Possible nil pointer dereference`,
|
||
|
||
Text: `A pointer is being dereferenced unconditionally, while
|
||
also being checked against nil in another place. This suggests that
|
||
the pointer may be nil and dereferencing it may panic. This is
|
||
commonly a result of improperly ordered code or missing return
|
||
statements. Consider the following examples:
|
||
|
||
func fn(x *int) {
|
||
fmt.Println(*x)
|
||
|
||
// This nil check is equally important for the previous dereference
|
||
if x != nil {
|
||
foo(*x)
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
func TestFoo(t *testing.T) {
|
||
x := compute()
|
||
if x == nil {
|
||
t.Errorf("nil pointer received")
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
// t.Errorf does not abort the test, so if x is nil, the next line will panic.
|
||
foo(*x)
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
Staticcheck tries to deduce which functions abort control flow.
|
||
For example, it is aware that a function will not continue
|
||
execution after a call to panic or log.Fatal. However, sometimes
|
||
this detection fails, in particular in the presence of
|
||
conditionals. Consider the following example:
|
||
|
||
func Log(msg string, level int) {
|
||
fmt.Println(msg)
|
||
if level == levelFatal {
|
||
os.Exit(1)
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
func Fatal(msg string) {
|
||
Log(msg, levelFatal)
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
func fn(x *int) {
|
||
if x == nil {
|
||
Fatal("unexpected nil pointer")
|
||
}
|
||
fmt.Println(*x)
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
Staticcheck will flag the dereference of x, even though it is perfectly
|
||
safe. Staticcheck is not able to deduce that a call to
|
||
Fatal will exit the program. For the time being, the easiest
|
||
workaround is to modify the definition of Fatal like so:
|
||
|
||
func Fatal(msg string) {
|
||
Log(msg, levelFatal)
|
||
panic("unreachable")
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
We also hard-code functions from common logging packages such as
|
||
logrus. Please file an issue if we're missing support for a
|
||
popular package.`,
|
||
Since: "2020.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA6000": {
|
||
Title: `Using regexp.Match or related in a loop, should use regexp.Compile`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA6001": {
|
||
Title: `Missing an optimization opportunity when indexing maps by byte slices`,
|
||
|
||
Text: `Map keys must be comparable, which precludes the use of byte slices.
|
||
This usually leads to using string keys and converting byte slices to
|
||
strings.
|
||
|
||
Normally, a conversion of a byte slice to a string needs to copy the data and
|
||
causes allocations. The compiler, however, recognizes m[string(b)] and
|
||
uses the data of b directly, without copying it, because it knows that
|
||
the data can't change during the map lookup. This leads to the
|
||
counter-intuitive situation that
|
||
|
||
k := string(b)
|
||
println(m[k])
|
||
println(m[k])
|
||
|
||
will be less efficient than
|
||
|
||
println(m[string(b)])
|
||
println(m[string(b)])
|
||
|
||
because the first version needs to copy and allocate, while the second
|
||
one does not.
|
||
|
||
For some history on this optimization, check out commit
|
||
f5f5a8b6209f84961687d993b93ea0d397f5d5bf in the Go repository.`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA6002": {
|
||
Title: `Storing non-pointer values in sync.Pool allocates memory`,
|
||
Text: `A sync.Pool is used to avoid unnecessary allocations and reduce the
|
||
amount of work the garbage collector has to do.
|
||
|
||
When passing a value that is not a pointer to a function that accepts
|
||
an interface, the value needs to be placed on the heap, which means an
|
||
additional allocation. Slices are a common thing to put in sync.Pools,
|
||
and they're structs with 3 fields (length, capacity, and a pointer to
|
||
an array). In order to avoid the extra allocation, one should store a
|
||
pointer to the slice instead.
|
||
|
||
See the comments on https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/24371
|
||
that discuss this problem.`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA6003": {
|
||
Title: `Converting a string to a slice of runes before ranging over it`,
|
||
Text: `You may want to loop over the runes in a string. Instead of converting
|
||
the string to a slice of runes and looping over that, you can loop
|
||
over the string itself. That is,
|
||
|
||
for _, r := range s {}
|
||
|
||
and
|
||
|
||
for _, r := range []rune(s) {}
|
||
|
||
will yield the same values. The first version, however, will be faster
|
||
and avoid unnecessary memory allocations.
|
||
|
||
Do note that if you are interested in the indices, ranging over a
|
||
string and over a slice of runes will yield different indices. The
|
||
first one yields byte offsets, while the second one yields indices in
|
||
the slice of runes.`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA6005": {
|
||
Title: `Inefficient string comparison with strings.ToLower or strings.ToUpper`,
|
||
Text: `Converting two strings to the same case and comparing them like so
|
||
|
||
if strings.ToLower(s1) == strings.ToLower(s2) {
|
||
...
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
is significantly more expensive than comparing them with
|
||
strings.EqualFold(s1, s2). This is due to memory usage as well as
|
||
computational complexity.
|
||
|
||
strings.ToLower will have to allocate memory for the new strings, as
|
||
well as convert both strings fully, even if they differ on the very
|
||
first byte. strings.EqualFold, on the other hand, compares the strings
|
||
one character at a time. It doesn't need to create two intermediate
|
||
strings and can return as soon as the first non-matching character has
|
||
been found.
|
||
|
||
For a more in-depth explanation of this issue, see
|
||
https://blog.digitalocean.com/how-to-efficiently-compare-strings-in-go/`,
|
||
Since: "2019.2",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA9001": {
|
||
Title: `Defers in range loops may not run when you expect them to`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA9002": {
|
||
Title: `Using a non-octal os.FileMode that looks like it was meant to be in octal.`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA9003": {
|
||
Title: `Empty body in an if or else branch`,
|
||
Since: "2017.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA9004": {
|
||
Title: `Only the first constant has an explicit type`,
|
||
|
||
Text: `In a constant declaration such as the following:
|
||
|
||
const (
|
||
First byte = 1
|
||
Second = 2
|
||
)
|
||
|
||
the constant Second does not have the same type as the constant First.
|
||
This construct shouldn't be confused with
|
||
|
||
const (
|
||
First byte = iota
|
||
Second
|
||
)
|
||
|
||
where First and Second do indeed have the same type. The type is only
|
||
passed on when no explicit value is assigned to the constant.
|
||
|
||
When declaring enumerations with explicit values it is therefore
|
||
important not to write
|
||
|
||
const (
|
||
EnumFirst EnumType = 1
|
||
EnumSecond = 2
|
||
EnumThird = 3
|
||
)
|
||
|
||
This discrepancy in types can cause various confusing behaviors and
|
||
bugs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Wrong type in variable declarations
|
||
|
||
The most obvious issue with such incorrect enumerations expresses
|
||
itself as a compile error:
|
||
|
||
package pkg
|
||
|
||
const (
|
||
EnumFirst uint8 = 1
|
||
EnumSecond = 2
|
||
)
|
||
|
||
func fn(useFirst bool) {
|
||
x := EnumSecond
|
||
if useFirst {
|
||
x = EnumFirst
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
fails to compile with
|
||
|
||
./const.go:11:5: cannot use EnumFirst (type uint8) as type int in assignment
|
||
|
||
|
||
Losing method sets
|
||
|
||
A more subtle issue occurs with types that have methods and optional
|
||
interfaces. Consider the following:
|
||
|
||
package main
|
||
|
||
import "fmt"
|
||
|
||
type Enum int
|
||
|
||
func (e Enum) String() string {
|
||
return "an enum"
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
const (
|
||
EnumFirst Enum = 1
|
||
EnumSecond = 2
|
||
)
|
||
|
||
func main() {
|
||
fmt.Println(EnumFirst)
|
||
fmt.Println(EnumSecond)
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
This code will output
|
||
|
||
an enum
|
||
2
|
||
|
||
as EnumSecond has no explicit type, and thus defaults to int.`,
|
||
Since: "2019.1",
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
"SA9005": {
|
||
Title: `Trying to marshal a struct with no public fields nor custom marshaling`,
|
||
Text: `The encoding/json and encoding/xml packages only operate on exported
|
||
fields in structs, not unexported ones. It is usually an error to try
|
||
to (un)marshal structs that only consist of unexported fields.
|
||
|
||
This check will not flag calls involving types that define custom
|
||
marshaling behavior, e.g. via MarshalJSON methods. It will also not
|
||
flag empty structs.`,
|
||
Since: "2019.2",
|
||
},
|
||
}
|