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reference type safety invariant docs: clarification #125043

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@RalfJung RalfJung commented May 12, 2024

The old text could have been read as saying that you can call a function if these requirements are upheld, which is definitely not true as they are an underapproximation of the actual safety invariant.

I removed the part about functions relaxing the requirements via their documentation... this seems incoherent with saying that it may actually be unsound to ever temporarily violate the requirement. Furthermore, a function cannot just relax this for its return value, that would in general be unsound. And the part about "unsafe code in a safe function may assume these invariants are ensured of arguments passed by the caller" also interacts with relaxing things: clearly, if the invariant has been relaxed, unsafe code cannot rely on it any more. There may be a place to give general guidance on what kinds of function contracts can exist, but the reference type is definitely not the right place to write that down.

I also took a clarification from #121965 that is orthogonal to the rest of that PR.

Cc @joshlf @scottmcm

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Thanks, Ralf! I agree this is a better phrasing of the current state of the world.

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reference type safety invariant docs: clarification

The old text could have been read as saying that you can call a function if these requirements are upheld, which is definitely not true as they are an underapproximation of the actual safety invariant.

I removed the part about functions relaxing the requirements via their documentation... this seems incoherent with saying that it may actually be unsound to ever temporarily violate the requirement. Furthermore, a function *cannot* just relax this for its return value, that would in general be unsound. And the part about "unsafe code in a safe function may assume these invariants are ensured of arguments passed by the caller" also interacts with relaxing things: clearly, if the invariant has been relaxed, unsafe code cannot rely on it any more. There may be a place to give general guidance on what kinds of function contracts can exist, but the reference type is definitely not the right place to write that down.

I also took a clarification from rust-lang#121965 that is orthogonal to the rest of that PR.

Cc `@joshlf` `@scottmcm`
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Rollup of 7 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#124227 (Make sure that the method resolution matches in `note_source_of_type_mismatch_constraint`)
 - rust-lang#124896 (miri: rename intrinsic_fallback_checks_ub to intrinsic_fallback_is_spec)
 - rust-lang#125015 (Pattern types: Prohibit generic args on const params)
 - rust-lang#125043 (reference type safety invariant docs: clarification)
 - rust-lang#125259 (An async closure may implement `FnMut`/`Fn` if it has no self-borrows)
 - rust-lang#125306 (Force the inner coroutine of an async closure to `move` if the outer closure is `move` and `FnOnce`)
 - rust-lang#125378 (remove tracing tree indent lines)

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fmease added a commit to fmease/rust that referenced this pull request May 22, 2024
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reference type safety invariant docs: clarification

The old text could have been read as saying that you can call a function if these requirements are upheld, which is definitely not true as they are an underapproximation of the actual safety invariant.

I removed the part about functions relaxing the requirements via their documentation... this seems incoherent with saying that it may actually be unsound to ever temporarily violate the requirement. Furthermore, a function *cannot* just relax this for its return value, that would in general be unsound. And the part about "unsafe code in a safe function may assume these invariants are ensured of arguments passed by the caller" also interacts with relaxing things: clearly, if the invariant has been relaxed, unsafe code cannot rely on it any more. There may be a place to give general guidance on what kinds of function contracts can exist, but the reference type is definitely not the right place to write that down.

I also took a clarification from rust-lang#121965 that is orthogonal to the rest of that PR.

Cc ``@joshlf`` ``@scottmcm``
bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this pull request May 22, 2024
Rollup of 7 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#125043 (reference type safety invariant docs: clarification)
 - rust-lang#125306 (Force the inner coroutine of an async closure to `move` if the outer closure is `move` and `FnOnce`)
 - rust-lang#125355 (Use Backtrace::force_capture instead of Backtrace::capture in rustc_log)
 - rust-lang#125378 (remove tracing tree indent lines)
 - rust-lang#125391 (Minor serialize/span tweaks)
 - rust-lang#125395 (Remove unnecessary `.md` from the documentation sidebar)
 - rust-lang#125399 (Stop using `to_hir_binop` in codegen)

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bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this pull request May 22, 2024
Rollup of 7 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#125043 (reference type safety invariant docs: clarification)
 - rust-lang#125306 (Force the inner coroutine of an async closure to `move` if the outer closure is `move` and `FnOnce`)
 - rust-lang#125355 (Use Backtrace::force_capture instead of Backtrace::capture in rustc_log)
 - rust-lang#125382 (rustdoc: rename `issue-\d+.rs` tests to have meaningful names (part 7))
 - rust-lang#125391 (Minor serialize/span tweaks)
 - rust-lang#125395 (Remove unnecessary `.md` from the documentation sidebar)
 - rust-lang#125399 (Stop using `to_hir_binop` in codegen)

r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this pull request May 22, 2024
Rollup of 7 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#125043 (reference type safety invariant docs: clarification)
 - rust-lang#125306 (Force the inner coroutine of an async closure to `move` if the outer closure is `move` and `FnOnce`)
 - rust-lang#125355 (Use Backtrace::force_capture instead of Backtrace::capture in rustc_log)
 - rust-lang#125382 (rustdoc: rename `issue-\d+.rs` tests to have meaningful names (part 7))
 - rust-lang#125391 (Minor serialize/span tweaks)
 - rust-lang#125395 (Remove unnecessary `.md` from the documentation sidebar)
 - rust-lang#125399 (Stop using `to_hir_binop` in codegen)

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@bors bors merged commit ab9e0a7 into rust-lang:master May 22, 2024
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#125043 - RalfJung:ref-type-safety-invariant, r=scottmcm

reference type safety invariant docs: clarification

The old text could have been read as saying that you can call a function if these requirements are upheld, which is definitely not true as they are an underapproximation of the actual safety invariant.

I removed the part about functions relaxing the requirements via their documentation... this seems incoherent with saying that it may actually be unsound to ever temporarily violate the requirement. Furthermore, a function *cannot* just relax this for its return value, that would in general be unsound. And the part about "unsafe code in a safe function may assume these invariants are ensured of arguments passed by the caller" also interacts with relaxing things: clearly, if the invariant has been relaxed, unsafe code cannot rely on it any more. There may be a place to give general guidance on what kinds of function contracts can exist, but the reference type is definitely not the right place to write that down.

I also took a clarification from rust-lang#121965 that is orthogonal to the rest of that PR.

Cc ```@joshlf``` ```@scottmcm```
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