// Package staticcheck contains analyzes that find bugs and performance issues. // Barring the rare false positive, any code flagged by these analyzes needs to be fixed. package staticcheck import "honnef.co/go/tools/analysis/lint" var Docs = lint.Markdownify(map[string]*lint.RawDocumentation{ "SA1000": { Title: `Invalid regular expression`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1001": { Title: `Invalid template`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1002": { Title: `Invalid format in \'time.Parse\'`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1003": { Title: `Unsupported argument to functions in \'encoding/binary\'`, Text: `The \'encoding/binary\' package can only serialize types with known sizes. This precludes the use of the \'int\' and \'uint\' types, as their sizes differ on different architectures. Furthermore, it doesn't support serializing maps, channels, strings, or functions. Before Go 1.8, \'bool\' wasn't supported, either.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1004": { Title: `Suspiciously small untyped constant in \'time.Sleep\'`, Text: `The \'time\'.Sleep function takes a \'time.Duration\' as its only argument. Durations are expressed in nanoseconds. Thus, calling \'time.Sleep(1)\' will sleep for 1 nanosecond. This is a common source of bugs, as sleep functions in other languages often accept seconds or milliseconds. The \'time\' package provides constants such as \'time.Second\' to express large durations. These can be combined with arithmetic to express arbitrary durations, for example \'5 * time.Second\' for 5 seconds. If you truly meant to sleep for a tiny amount of time, use \'n * time.Nanosecond\' to signal to Staticcheck that you did mean to sleep for some amount of nanoseconds.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1005": { Title: `Invalid first argument to \'exec.Command\'`, Text: `\'os/exec\' runs programs directly (using variants of the fork and exec system calls on Unix systems). This shouldn't be confused with running a command in a shell. The shell will allow for features such as input redirection, pipes, and general scripting. The shell is also responsible for splitting the user's input into a program name and its arguments. For example, the equivalent to ls / /tmp would be exec.Command("ls", "/", "/tmp") If you want to run a command in a shell, consider using something like the following – but be aware that not all systems, particularly Windows, will have a \'/bin/sh\' program: exec.Command("/bin/sh", "-c", "ls | grep Awesome")`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1006": { Title: `\'Printf\' with dynamic first argument and no further arguments`, Text: `Using \'fmt.Printf\' with a dynamic first argument can lead to unexpected output. The first argument is a format string, where certain character combinations have special meaning. If, for example, a user were to enter a string such as Interest rate: 5% and you printed it with fmt.Printf(s) it would lead to the following output: Interest rate: 5%!(NOVERB). Similarly, forming the first parameter via string concatenation with user input should be avoided for the same reason. When printing user input, either use a variant of \'fmt.Print\', or use the \'%s\' Printf verb and pass the string as an argument.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1007": { Title: `Invalid URL in \'net/url.Parse\'`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1008": { Title: `Non-canonical key in \'http.Header\' map`, Text: `Keys in \'http.Header\' maps are canonical, meaning they follow a specific combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. Methods such as \'http.Header.Add\' and \'http.Header.Del\' convert inputs into this canonical form before manipulating the map. When manipulating \'http.Header\' maps directly, as opposed to using the provided methods, care should be taken to stick to canonical form in order to avoid inconsistencies. The following piece of code demonstrates one such inconsistency: h := http.Header{} h["etag"] = []string{"1234"} h.Add("etag", "5678") fmt.Println(h) // Output: // map[Etag:[5678] etag:[1234]] The easiest way of obtaining the canonical form of a key is to use \'http.CanonicalHeaderKey\'.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1010": { Title: `\'(*regexp.Regexp).FindAll\' called with \'n == 0\', which will always return zero results`, Text: `If \'n >= 0\', the function returns at most \'n\' matches/submatches. To return all results, specify a negative number.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, // MergeIfAny if we only flag literals, not named constants }, "SA1011": { Title: `Various methods in the \"strings\" package expect valid UTF-8, but invalid input is provided`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1012": { Title: `A nil \'context.Context\' is being passed to a function, consider using \'context.TODO\' instead`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1013": { Title: `\'io.Seeker.Seek\' is being called with the whence constant as the first argument, but it should be the second`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1014": { Title: `Non-pointer value passed to \'Unmarshal\' or \'Decode\'`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1015": { 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`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1016": { Title: `Trapping a signal that cannot be trapped`, Text: `Not all signals can be intercepted by a process. Specifically, on UNIX-like systems, the \'syscall.SIGKILL\' and \'syscall.SIGSTOP\' signals are never passed to the process, but instead handled directly by the kernel. It is therefore pointless to try and handle these signals.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1017": { Title: `Channels used with \'os/signal.Notify\' should be buffered`, Text: `The \'os/signal\' package uses non-blocking channel sends when delivering signals. If the receiving end of the channel isn't ready and the channel is either unbuffered or full, the signal will be dropped. To avoid missing signals, the channel should be buffered and of the appropriate size. For a channel used for notification of just one signal value, a buffer of size 1 is sufficient.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1018": { Title: `\'strings.Replace\' called with \'n == 0\', which does nothing`, Text: `With \'n == 0\', zero instances will be replaced. To replace all instances, use a negative number, or use \'strings.ReplaceAll\'.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, // MergeIfAny if we only flag literals, not named constants }, "SA1019": { Title: `Using a deprecated function, variable, constant or field`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityDeprecated, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1020": { Title: `Using an invalid host:port pair with a \'net.Listen\'-related function`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1021": { Title: `Using \'bytes.Equal\' to compare two \'net.IP\'`, Text: `A \'net.IP\' stores an IPv4 or IPv6 address as a slice of bytes. The length of the slice for an IPv4 address, however, can be either 4 or 16 bytes long, using different ways of representing IPv4 addresses. In order to correctly compare two \'net.IP\'s, the \'net.IP.Equal\' method should be used, as it takes both representations into account.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1023": { Title: `Modifying the buffer in an \'io.Writer\' implementation`, Text: `\'Write\' must not modify the slice data, even temporarily.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1024": { Title: `A string cutset contains duplicate characters`, Text: `The \'strings.TrimLeft\' and \'strings.TrimRight\' functions take cutsets, not prefixes. A cutset is treated as a set of characters to remove from a string. For example, strings.TrimLeft("42133word", "1234") will result in the string \'"word"\' – any characters that are 1, 2, 3 or 4 are cut from the left of the string. In order to remove one string from another, use \'strings.TrimPrefix\' instead.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1025": { Title: `It is not possible to use \'(*time.Timer).Reset\''s return value correctly`, Since: "2019.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1026": { Title: `Cannot marshal channels or functions`, Since: "2019.2", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1027": { Title: `Atomic access to 64-bit variable must be 64-bit aligned`, Text: `On ARM, x86-32, and 32-bit MIPS, it is the caller's responsibility to arrange for 64-bit alignment of 64-bit words accessed atomically. The first word in a variable or in an allocated struct, array, or slice can be relied upon to be 64-bit aligned. You can use the structlayout tool to inspect the alignment of fields in a struct.`, Since: "2019.2", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1028": { Title: `\'sort.Slice\' can only be used on slices`, Text: `The first argument of \'sort.Slice\' must be a slice.`, Since: "2020.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1029": { Title: `Inappropriate key in call to \'context.WithValue\'`, Text: `The provided key must be comparable and should not be of type \'string\' or any other built-in type to avoid collisions between packages using context. Users of \'WithValue\' should define their own types for keys. To avoid allocating when assigning to an \'interface{}\', context keys often have concrete type \'struct{}\'. Alternatively, exported context key variables' static type should be a pointer or interface.`, Since: "2020.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA1030": { Title: `Invalid argument in call to a \'strconv\' function`, Text: `This check validates the format, number base and bit size arguments of the various parsing and formatting functions in \'strconv\'.`, Since: "2021.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA2000": { Title: `\'sync.WaitGroup.Add\' called inside the goroutine, leading to a race condition`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA2001": { Title: `Empty critical section, did you mean to defer the unlock?`, Text: `Empty critical sections of the kind mu.Lock() mu.Unlock() are very often a typo, and the following was intended instead: mu.Lock() defer mu.Unlock() Do note that sometimes empty critical sections can be useful, as a form of signaling to wait on another goroutine. Many times, there are simpler ways of achieving the same effect. When that isn't the case, the code should be amply commented to avoid confusion. Combining such comments with a \'//lint:ignore\' directive can be used to suppress this rare false positive.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA2002": { Title: `Called \'testing.T.FailNow\' or \'SkipNow\' in a goroutine, which isn't allowed`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA2003": { Title: `Deferred \'Lock\' right after locking, likely meant to defer \'Unlock\' instead`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA3000": { Title: `\'TestMain\' doesn't call \'os.Exit\', hiding test failures`, Text: `Test executables (and in turn \"go test\") exit with a non-zero status code if any tests failed. When specifying your own \'TestMain\' function, it is your responsibility to arrange for this, by calling \'os.Exit\' with the correct code. The correct code is returned by \'(*testing.M).Run\', so the usual way of implementing \'TestMain\' is to end it with \'os.Exit(m.Run())\'.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA3001": { Title: `Assigning to \'b.N\' in benchmarks distorts the results`, Text: `The testing package dynamically sets \'b.N\' to improve the reliability of benchmarks and uses it in computations to determine the duration of a single operation. Benchmark code must not alter \'b.N\' as this would falsify results.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4000": { Title: `Binary operator has identical expressions on both sides`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4001": { Title: `\'&*x\' gets simplified to \'x\', it does not copy \'x\'`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4003": { Title: `Comparing unsigned values against negative values is pointless`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4004": { Title: `The loop exits unconditionally after one iteration`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4005": { Title: `Field assignment that will never be observed. Did you mean to use a pointer receiver?`, Since: "2021.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4006": { Title: `A value assigned to a variable is never read before being overwritten. Forgotten error check or dead code?`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4008": { Title: `The variable in the loop condition never changes, are you incrementing the wrong variable?`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4009": { Title: `A function argument is overwritten before its first use`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4010": { Title: `The result of \'append\' will never be observed anywhere`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4011": { Title: `Break statement with no effect. Did you mean to break out of an outer loop?`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4012": { Title: `Comparing a value against NaN even though no value is equal to NaN`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4013": { Title: `Negating a boolean twice (\'!!b\') is the same as writing \'b\'. This is either redundant, or a typo.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4014": { 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`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4015": { Title: `Calling functions like \'math.Ceil\' on floats converted from integers doesn't do anything useful`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4016": { Title: `Certain bitwise operations, such as \'x ^ 0\', do not do anything useful`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, // MergeIfAny if we only flag literals, not named constants }, "SA4017": { Title: `A pure function's return value is discarded, making the call pointless`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4018": { Title: `Self-assignment of variables`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4019": { Title: `Multiple, identical build constraints in the same file`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4020": { Title: `Unreachable case clause in a type switch`, Text: `In a type switch like the following type T struct{} func (T) Read(b []byte) (int, error) { return 0, nil } var v interface{} = T{} switch v.(type) { case io.Reader: // ... case T: // unreachable } the second case clause can never be reached because \'T\' implements \'io.Reader\' and case clauses are evaluated in source order. Another example: type T struct{} func (T) Read(b []byte) (int, error) { return 0, nil } func (T) Close() error { return nil } var v interface{} = T{} switch v.(type) { case io.Reader: // ... case io.ReadCloser: // unreachable } Even though \'T\' has a \'Close\' method and thus implements \'io.ReadCloser\', \'io.Reader\' will always match first. The method set of \'io.Reader\' is a subset of \'io.ReadCloser\'. Thus it is impossible to match the second case without matching the first case. Structurally equivalent interfaces A special case of the previous example are structurally identical interfaces. Given these declarations type T error type V error func doSomething() error { err, ok := doAnotherThing() if ok { return T(err) } return U(err) } the following type switch will have an unreachable case clause: switch doSomething().(type) { case T: // ... case V: // unreachable } \'T\' will always match before V because they are structurally equivalent and therefore \'doSomething()\''s return value implements both.`, Since: "2019.2", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA4021": { Title: `\"x = append(y)\" is equivalent to \"x = y\"`, Since: "2019.2", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4022": { Title: `Comparing the address of a variable against nil`, Text: `Code such as \"if &x == nil\" is meaningless, because taking the address of a variable always yields a non-nil pointer.`, Since: "2020.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4023": { Title: `Impossible comparison of interface value with untyped nil`, Text: `Under the covers, interfaces are implemented as two elements, a type T and a value V. V is a concrete value such as an int, struct or pointer, never an interface itself, and has type T. For instance, if we store the int value 3 in an interface, the resulting interface value has, schematically, (T=int, V=3). The value V is also known as the interface's dynamic value, since a given interface variable might hold different values V (and corresponding types T) during the execution of the program. An interface value is nil only if the V and T are both unset, (T=nil, V is not set), In particular, a nil interface will always hold a nil type. If we store a nil pointer of type *int inside an interface value, the inner type will be *int regardless of the value of the pointer: (T=*int, V=nil). Such an interface value will therefore be non-nil even when the pointer value V inside is nil. This situation can be confusing, and arises when a nil value is stored inside an interface value such as an error return: func returnsError() error { var p *MyError = nil if bad() { p = ErrBad } return p // Will always return a non-nil error. } If all goes well, the function returns a nil p, so the return value is an error interface value holding (T=*MyError, V=nil). This means that if the caller compares the returned error to nil, it will always look as if there was an error even if nothing bad happened. To return a proper nil error to the caller, the function must return an explicit nil: func returnsError() error { if bad() { return ErrBad } return nil } It's a good idea for functions that return errors always to use the error type in their signature (as we did above) rather than a concrete type such as \'*MyError\', to help guarantee the error is created correctly. As an example, \'os.Open\' returns an error even though, if not nil, it's always of concrete type *os.PathError. Similar situations to those described here can arise whenever interfaces are used. Just keep in mind that if any concrete value has been stored in the interface, the interface will not be nil. For more information, see The Laws of Reflection (https://golang.org/doc/articles/laws_of_reflection.html). This text has been copied from https://golang.org/doc/faq#nil_error, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.`, Since: "2020.2", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, // TODO should this be MergeIfAll? }, "SA4024": { Title: `Checking for impossible return value from a builtin function`, Text: `Return values of the \'len\' and \'cap\' builtins cannot be negative. See https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#len and https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#cap. Example: if len(slice) < 0 { fmt.Println("unreachable code") }`, Since: "2021.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4025": { Title: "Integer division of literals that results in zero", Text: `When dividing two integer constants, the result will also be an integer. Thus, a division such as \'2 / 3\' results in \'0\'. This is true for all of the following examples: _ = 2 / 3 const _ = 2 / 3 const _ float64 = 2 / 3 _ = float64(2 / 3) Staticcheck will flag such divisions if both sides of the division are integer literals, as it is highly unlikely that the division was intended to truncate to zero. Staticcheck will not flag integer division involving named constants, to avoid noisy positives. `, Since: "2021.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4026": { Title: "Go constants cannot express negative zero", Text: `In IEEE 754 floating point math, zero has a sign and can be positive or negative. This can be useful in certain numerical code. Go constants, however, cannot express negative zero. This means that the literals \'-0.0\' and \'0.0\' have the same ideal value (zero) and will both represent positive zero at runtime. To explicitly and reliably create a negative zero, you can use the \'math.Copysign\' function: \'math.Copysign(0, -1)\'.`, Since: "2021.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4027": { Title: `\'(*net/url.URL).Query\' returns a copy, modifying it doesn't change the URL`, Text: `\'(*net/url.URL).Query\' parses the current value of \'net/url.URL.RawQuery\' and returns it as a map of type \'net/url.Values\'. Subsequent changes to this map will not affect the URL unless the map gets encoded and assigned to the URL's \'RawQuery\'. As a consequence, the following code pattern is an expensive no-op: \'u.Query().Add(key, value)\'.`, Since: "2021.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4028": { Title: `\'x % 1\' is always zero`, Since: "2022.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, // MergeIfAny if we only flag literals, not named constants }, "SA4029": { Title: "Ineffective attempt at sorting slice", Text: ` \'sort.Float64Slice\', \'sort.IntSlice\', and \'sort.StringSlice\' are types, not functions. Doing \'x = sort.StringSlice(x)\' does nothing, especially not sort any values. The correct usage is \'sort.Sort(sort.StringSlice(x))\' or \'sort.StringSlice(x).Sort()\', but there are more convenient helpers, namely \'sort.Float64s\', \'sort.Ints\', and \'sort.Strings\'. `, Since: "2022.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4030": { Title: "Ineffective attempt at generating random number", Text: ` Functions in the \'math/rand\' package that accept upper limits, such as \'Intn\', generate random numbers in the half-open interval [0,n). In other words, the generated numbers will be \'>= 0\' and \'< n\' – they don't include \'n\'. \'rand.Intn(1)\' therefore doesn't generate \'0\' or \'1\', it always generates \'0\'.`, Since: "2022.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA4031": { Title: `Checking never-nil value against nil`, Since: "2022.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5000": { Title: `Assignment to nil map`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5001": { Title: `Deferring \'Close\' before checking for a possible error`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5002": { Title: `The empty for loop (\"for {}\") spins and can block the scheduler`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5003": { Title: `Defers in infinite loops will never execute`, Text: `Defers are scoped to the surrounding function, not the surrounding block. In a function that never returns, i.e. one containing an infinite loop, defers will never execute.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5004": { Title: `\"for { select { ...\" with an empty default branch spins`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5005": { Title: `The finalizer references the finalized object, preventing garbage collection`, Text: `A finalizer is a function associated with an object that runs when the garbage collector is ready to collect said object, that is when the object is no longer referenced by anything. If the finalizer references the object, however, it will always remain as the final reference to that object, preventing the garbage collector from collecting the object. The finalizer will never run, and the object will never be collected, leading to a memory leak. That is why the finalizer should instead use its first argument to operate on the object. That way, the number of references can temporarily go to zero before the object is being passed to the finalizer.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5008": { Title: `Invalid struct tag`, Since: "2019.2", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5009": { Title: `Invalid Printf call`, Since: "2019.2", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, // Technically this should be MergeIfAll, but the Go compiler // already flags some impossible type assertions, so // MergeIfAny is consistent with the compiler. MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA5012": { Title: "Passing odd-sized slice to function expecting even size", Text: `Some functions that take slices as parameters expect the slices to have an even number of elements. Often, these functions treat elements in a slice as pairs. For example, \'strings.NewReplacer\' takes pairs of old and new strings, and calling it with an odd number of elements would be an error.`, Since: "2020.2", Severity: lint.SeverityError, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA6000": { Title: `Using \'regexp.Match\' or related in a loop, should use \'regexp.Compile\'`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA9001": { Title: `Defers in range loops may not run when you expect them to`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA9002": { Title: `Using a non-octal \'os.FileMode\' that looks like it was meant to be in octal.`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA9003": { Title: `Empty body in an if or else branch`, Since: "2017.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "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", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAll, }, "SA9006": { Title: `Dubious bit shifting of a fixed size integer value`, Text: `Bit shifting a value past its size will always clear the value. For instance: v := int8(42) v >>= 8 will always result in 0. This check flags bit shifting operations on fixed size integer values only. That is, int, uint and uintptr are never flagged to avoid potential false positives in somewhat exotic but valid bit twiddling tricks: // Clear any value above 32 bits if integers are more than 32 bits. func f(i int) int { v := i >> 32 v = v << 32 return i-v }`, Since: "2020.2", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, // Technically this should be MergeIfAll, because the type of // v might be different for different build tags. Practically, // don't write code that depends on that. MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA9007": { Title: "Deleting a directory that shouldn't be deleted", Text: ` It is virtually never correct to delete system directories such as /tmp or the user's home directory. However, it can be fairly easy to do by mistake, for example by mistakingly using \'os.TempDir\' instead of \'ioutil.TempDir\', or by forgetting to add a suffix to the result of \'os.UserHomeDir\'. Writing d := os.TempDir() defer os.RemoveAll(d) in your unit tests will have a devastating effect on the stability of your system. This check flags attempts at deleting the following directories: - os.TempDir - os.UserCacheDir - os.UserConfigDir - os.UserHomeDir `, Since: "2022.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, "SA9008": { Title: `\'else\' branch of a type assertion is probably not reading the right value`, Text: ` When declaring variables as part of an \'if\' statement (like in \"if foo := ...; foo {\"), the same variables will also be in the scope of the \'else\' branch. This means that in the following example if x, ok := x.(int); ok { // ... } else { fmt.Println("unexpected type %T", x) } \'x\' in the \'else\' branch will refer to the \'x\' from \'x, ok :=\'; it will not refer to the \'x\' that is being type-asserted. The result of a failed type assertion is the zero value of the type that is being asserted to, so \'x\' in the else branch will always have the value \'0\' and the type \'int\'. `, Since: "2022.1", Severity: lint.SeverityWarning, MergeIf: lint.MergeIfAny, }, })