https://github.com/steakhal created 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/212107

This reverts commit a34cb573eae65f48f0e51147289e042a86b55d16.

This feature caused some issues (#209905), so the best course of action is to 
postpone it to clang-24 and revert from this branch. The #210154 tried to fix 
the surfaced issue, and considered to nominate it for backport in #211832, but 
ultimately we had to revert it from main in #211857 - this confirms that 
probably the best action is to revert the half-baked feature from the release 
branch.

This means that #203260 won't be fixed in clang-23, and that's fine.

From 092bf6d3d54bb34f50d417f4f11e2992d9c183d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balazs Benics <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:15:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[analyzer] Model
 strchr/strrchr/memchr/strstr/strpbrk/strchrnul (#207267)"

This reverts commit a34cb573eae65f48f0e51147289e042a86b55d16.

This feature caused some issues (#209905), so the best course of
action is to postpone it to clang-24 and revert from this branch.
The #210154 tried to fix the surfaced issue, and considered to nominate
it for backport in #211832, but ultimately we had to revert it from
main in #211857 - this confirms that probably the best action is to
revert the half-baked feature from the release branch.

This means that #203260 won't be fixed in clang-23, and that's fine.
---
 clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.md                    |   1 -
 .../Checkers/CStringChecker.cpp               |  83 +-------
 clang/test/Analysis/string-search-modeling.c  | 178 ------------------
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 258 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 clang/test/Analysis/string-search-modeling.c

diff --git a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.md b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
index f4043d6c64a71..2ea954b442678 100644
--- a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
+++ b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
@@ -1270,7 +1270,6 @@ latest release, please see the [Clang Web 
Site](https://clang.llvm.org) or the
 - Added a new `check::LifetimeEnd` callback that fires for each 
`CFGLifetimeEnds` element, which is useful for detecting dangling pointers. 
(#GH201123)
 - The `unix.StdCLibraryFunctions` standard-library summaries were optimized 
for binary size. (#GH202662)
 - Fixed the alignment of entries printed by `clang -cc1 
-analyzer-print-analyzer-options` / `-analyzer-help`. (#GH190570)
-- Improved the models of 
`strchr`/`strrchr`/`memchr`/`strstr`/`strpbrk`/`strchrnul`, enabling 
`core.StackAddressEscape` to catch dangling pointers returned by these 
functions. (#GH203260)
 - Improved the modeling of symbolic ranges in the engine when calculating the 
largest and smallest possible values for range sets involving the `+`, `-`, and 
`*` binary operators. (#GH173113)
 
 #### Moved checkers
diff --git a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/CStringChecker.cpp 
b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/CStringChecker.cpp
index 745297dd1f057..32daa7045b12f 100644
--- a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/CStringChecker.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/CStringChecker.cpp
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 #include "clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/PathSensitive/SVals.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/APSInt.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
-#include "llvm/ADT/STLForwardCompat.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/StringExtras.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
 #include <functional>
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ class CStringChecker
     : public CheckerFamily<eval::Call, check::PreStmt<DeclStmt>,
                            check::LiveSymbols, check::DeadSymbols,
                            check::RegionChanges> {
-  mutable StringRef CurrentFunctionDescription;
+  mutable const char *CurrentFunctionDescription = nullptr;
 
 public:
   // FIXME: The bug types emitted by this checker family have confused garbage
@@ -163,24 +162,6 @@ class CStringChecker
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strncasecmp"}, 3}, &CStringChecker::evalStrncasecmp},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strsep"}, 2}, &CStringChecker::evalStrsep},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strxfrm"}, 3}, &CStringChecker::evalStrxfrm},
-      {{CDM::CLibraryMaybeHardened, {"strchr"}, 2},
-       llvm::bind_back(&CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon, "strchr()",
-                       /*CanReturnNull=*/true)},
-      {{CDM::CLibraryMaybeHardened, {"strrchr"}, 2},
-       llvm::bind_back(&CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon, "strrchr()",
-                       /*CanReturnNull=*/true)},
-      {{CDM::CLibraryMaybeHardened, {"memchr"}, 3},
-       llvm::bind_back(&CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon, "memchr()",
-                       /*CanReturnNull=*/true)},
-      {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strstr"}, 2},
-       llvm::bind_back(&CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon, "strstr()",
-                       /*CanReturnNull=*/true)},
-      {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strpbrk"}, 2},
-       llvm::bind_back(&CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon, "strpbrk()",
-                       /*CanReturnNull=*/true)},
-      {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strchrnul"}, 2},
-       llvm::bind_back(&CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon, "strchrnul()",
-                       /*CanReturnNull=*/false)},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"bcopy"}, 3}, &CStringChecker::evalBcopy},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"bcmp"}, 3},
        std::bind(&CStringChecker::evalMemcmp, _1, _2, _3, CK_Regular)},
@@ -244,9 +225,6 @@ class CStringChecker
 
   void evalStrsep(CheckerContext &C, const CallEvent &Call) const;
 
-  void evalStrchrCommon(CheckerContext &C, const CallEvent &Call,
-                        StringRef FnName, bool CanReturnNull) const;
-
   void evalStdCopy(CheckerContext &C, const CallEvent &Call) const;
   void evalStdCopyBackward(CheckerContext &C, const CallEvent &Call) const;
   void evalStdCopyCommon(CheckerContext &C, const CallEvent &Call) const;
@@ -402,7 +380,7 @@ ProgramStateRef CStringChecker::checkNonNull(CheckerContext 
&C,
     if (NullArg.isEnabled()) {
       SmallString<80> buf;
       llvm::raw_svector_ostream OS(buf);
-      assert(!CurrentFunctionDescription.empty());
+      assert(CurrentFunctionDescription);
       OS << "Null pointer passed as " << (Arg.ArgumentIndex + 1)
          << llvm::getOrdinalSuffix(Arg.ArgumentIndex + 1) << " argument to "
          << CurrentFunctionDescription;
@@ -1067,7 +1045,7 @@ SVal CStringChecker::getCStringLength(CheckerContext &C, 
ProgramStateRef &state,
       if (NotNullTerm.isEnabled()) {
         SmallString<120> buf;
         llvm::raw_svector_ostream os(buf);
-        assert(!CurrentFunctionDescription.empty());
+        assert(CurrentFunctionDescription);
         os << "Argument to " << CurrentFunctionDescription
            << " is the address of the label '" << Label->getLabel()->getName()
            << "', which is not a null-terminated string";
@@ -1137,7 +1115,7 @@ SVal CStringChecker::getCStringLength(CheckerContext &C, 
ProgramStateRef &state,
       SmallString<120> buf;
       llvm::raw_svector_ostream os(buf);
 
-      assert(!CurrentFunctionDescription.empty());
+      assert(CurrentFunctionDescription);
       os << "Argument to " << CurrentFunctionDescription << " is ";
 
       if (SummarizeRegion(os, C.getASTContext(), MR))
@@ -2639,59 +2617,6 @@ void CStringChecker::evalStrsep(CheckerContext &C,
   C.addTransition(State);
 }
 
-void CStringChecker::evalStrchrCommon(CheckerContext &C, const CallEvent &Call,
-                                      StringRef FnName,
-                                      bool CanReturnNull) const {
-  CurrentFunctionDescription = FnName;
-  const Expr *CE = Call.getOriginExpr();
-  assert(CE);
-
-  // These functions always return a pointer.
-  if (!CE->getType()->isPointerType())
-    return;
-
-  ProgramStateRef State = C.getState();
-  const StackFrame *SF = C.getStackFrame();
-  SValBuilder &SVB = C.getSValBuilder();
-  ASTContext &Ctx = C.getASTContext();
-
-  // The first argument must be non-null for all functions in this family.
-  SourceArgExpr Src = {{Call.getArgExpr(0), 0}};
-  SVal SrcVal = State->getSVal(Src.Expression, SF);
-  State = checkNonNull(C, State, Src, SrcVal);
-  if (!State)
-    return;
-
-  // NULL (no-match) branch.
-  if (CanReturnNull) {
-    ProgramStateRef NullState =
-        State->BindExpr(CE, SF, SVB.makeNullWithType(CE->getType()));
-    C.addTransition(NullState);
-  }
-
-  // Found branch: a pointer within the source; needs a Loc for the arithmetic.
-  std::optional<Loc> SrcLoc = SrcVal.getAs<Loc>();
-  if (!SrcLoc) {
-    SVal Result = SVB.conjureSymbolVal(Call, C.blockCount());
-    State = State->BindExpr(CE, SF, Result);
-    C.addTransition(State);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  // The result is: Src + SymOffset
-  auto RemainingExtentBytes =
-      getDynamicExtentWithOffset(State, 
*SrcLoc).castAs<DefinedOrUnknownSVal>();
-  NonLoc SymOffset =
-      SVB.conjureSymbolVal(Call, Ctx.getSizeType(), C.blockCount())
-          .castAs<NonLoc>();
-  State = State->assumeInBound(SymOffset, RemainingExtentBytes, true);
-
-  SVal Result = SVB.evalBinOpLN(State, BO_Add, *SrcLoc, SymOffset,
-                                Src.Expression->getType());
-  State = State->BindExpr(CE, SF, Result);
-  C.addTransition(State);
-}
-
 // These should probably be moved into a C++ standard library checker.
 void CStringChecker::evalStdCopy(CheckerContext &C,
                                  const CallEvent &Call) const {
diff --git a/clang/test/Analysis/string-search-modeling.c 
b/clang/test/Analysis/string-search-modeling.c
deleted file mode 100644
index a50ec439731a3..0000000000000
--- a/clang/test/Analysis/string-search-modeling.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,178 +0,0 @@
-// RUN: %clang_analyze_cc1 -verify %s \
-// RUN:   -analyzer-checker=core,unix \
-// RUN:   -analyzer-checker=debug.ExprInspection \
-// RUN:   -analyzer-config eagerly-assume=false
-
-typedef __SIZE_TYPE__ size_t;
-void *malloc(size_t size);
-void free(void *p);
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n);
-char *strchr(const char *s, int c);
-char *strrchr(const char *s, int c);
-char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);
-char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *accept);
-void *memchr(const void *s, int c, size_t n);
-char *strchrnul(const char *s, int c);
-
-void clang_analyzer_eval(int);
-
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-// Check for stack address escapes.
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-
-char *returns_stack_strchr(void) {
-  char buf[8] = "abc";
-  return strchr(buf, 'b');
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Address of stack memory associated with local 
variable 'buf' returned to caller}}
-}
-
-char *returns_stack_strrchr(void) {
-  char buf[8] = "abc";
-  return strrchr(buf, 'b');
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Address of stack memory associated with local 
variable 'buf' returned to caller}}
-}
-
-char *returns_stack_strstr(void) {
-  char buf[8] = "abc";
-  return strstr(buf, "b");
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Address of stack memory associated with local 
variable 'buf' returned to caller}}
-}
-
-char *returns_stack_strpbrk(void) {
-  char buf[8] = "abc";
-  return strpbrk(buf, "b");
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Address of stack memory associated with local 
variable 'buf' returned to caller}}
-}
-
-void *returns_stack_memchr(void) {
-  char buf[8] = "abc";
-  return memchr(buf, 'b', sizeof buf);
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Address of stack memory associated with local 
variable 'buf' returned to caller}}
-}
-
-char *returns_stack_strchrnul(void) {
-  char buf[8] = "abc";
-  return strchrnul(buf, 'b');
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Address of stack memory associated with local 
variable 'buf' returned to caller}}
-}
-
-char *forwards_param(char *p) {
-  return strchr(p, 'b'); // no-warning
-}
-
-char *returns_local_static(void) {
-  extern char g[8];
-  return strchr(g, 'b'); // no-warning
-}
-
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-// unix.cstring.NullArg: the source pointer must be non-null.
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-
-void null_source_strchr(int c) {
-  strchr(0, c);
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Null pointer passed as 1st argument to strchr()}}
-}
-
-void null_source_strrchr(int c) {
-  strrchr(0, c);
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Null pointer passed as 1st argument to strrchr()}}
-}
-
-void null_source_memchr(int c) {
-  memchr(0, c, 4);
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Null pointer passed as 1st argument to memchr()}}
-}
-
-void null_source_strstr(void) {
-  strstr(0, "x");
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Null pointer passed as 1st argument to strstr()}}
-}
-
-void null_source_strpbrk(void) {
-  strpbrk(0, "x");
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Null pointer passed as 1st argument to strpbrk()}}
-}
-
-void null_source_strchrnul(int c) {
-  strchrnul(0, c);
-  // expected-warning@-1 {{Null pointer passed as 1st argument to strchrnul()}}
-}
-
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-// State split: result == NULL on one branch, in the source on the other.
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-
-// Both branches are reachable; the verifier matches the two values set-wise.
-void state_split(const char *p) {
-  clang_analyzer_eval(strchr(p, 'b') == 0);    // expected-warning {{TRUE}} 
expected-warning {{FALSE}}
-  clang_analyzer_eval(strrchr(p, 'b') == 0);   // expected-warning {{TRUE}} 
expected-warning {{FALSE}}
-  clang_analyzer_eval(strstr(p, "x") == 0);    // expected-warning {{TRUE}} 
expected-warning {{FALSE}}
-  clang_analyzer_eval(strpbrk(p, "x") == 0);   // expected-warning {{TRUE}} 
expected-warning {{FALSE}}
-  clang_analyzer_eval(memchr(p, 'b', 4) == 0); // expected-warning {{TRUE}} 
expected-warning {{FALSE}}
-}
-
-// strchrnul does not split: it never returns NULL at runtime.
-void strchrnul_is_nonnull(const char *p) {
-  clang_analyzer_eval(strchrnul(p, 'b') == 0); // expected-warning {{FALSE}}
-}
-
-// On the "found" branch the result aliases the source region, but the offset
-// is opaque, so equality with in-source pointers is UNKNOWN.
-void found_branch_offset_is_opaque(const char *p) {
-  char *q = strchr(p, 'b');
-  if (!q) return; // constrain to "found" branch
-  clang_analyzer_eval(q == p);     // expected-warning {{UNKNOWN}}
-  clang_analyzer_eval(q == p + 1); // expected-warning {{UNKNOWN}}
-}
-
-void resulting_ptr_shares_provenance_with_src(int rng, char *opaque) {
-  if (rng == 10) {
-    char *q = strchr("abcd", 'b');
-    free(q); // expected-warning {{Argument to 'free()' is the address of a 
global variable, which is not memory allocated by 'malloc()'}}
-    return;
-  }
-
-  if (rng == 20) {
-    char *q = strchr(opaque, 'b');
-    free(q); // ok
-    return;
-  }
-
-  if (rng == 30) {
-    char *q = strchr(opaque, 'b');
-    free(q); // Notionally releases 'opaque'.
-    free(opaque); // expected-warning {{Attempt to release already released 
memory}}
-    return;
-  }
-}
-
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-// core.NullDereference:
-// A returned pointer used without a NULL check is flagged on the NULL branch.
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-
-void deref_unchecked(const char *s) {
-  char *p = strchr(s, 'b');
-  *p = 'X'; // expected-warning {{Dereference of null pointer}}
-}
-
-void deref_after_check(const char *s) {
-  char *p = strchr(s, 'b');
-  if (p) {
-    *p = 'X'; // no-warning
-  }
-}
-
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-// Calling these functions does not invalidate unrelated memory.
-//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
-
-int global_unmodified;
-void no_invalidation_of_globals(const char *p) {
-  int local_unmodified = 10;
-  global_unmodified = 20;
-  (void)strchr(p, 'b');
-  clang_analyzer_eval(local_unmodified == 10);  // expected-warning {{TRUE}}
-  clang_analyzer_eval(global_unmodified == 20); // expected-warning {{TRUE}}
-}

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