[paradoxicalguy]

fixes #164933

the Reborrow impl check accepted every &mut field, so a type with a &'static mut T field passed coherence and then hit a bug! in borrowck. this makes &'static mut fall through to the Copy check, so the impl is rejected with a normal error instead of an ice.
adds a ui test using the repro from the issue.

edit:
also updates invalid-coerce-shared-static-mut-field: its Reborrow impl is now rejected at the impl, so the test gains an E0277.

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[paradoxicalguy]

oops

[Jules-Bertholet]

What about:

struct Thing<'a: 'static> {
    field: &'a mut u8,
}

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[paradoxicalguy]

the check now looks at the declared field type rather than the substituted one, so Wrap<'a, &'static mut i32> (reborrow-generic-mut-field-aliasing) stays valid. added a test for the 'a: 'static case; it gives a normal borrowck error, no ice.

[Jules-Bertholet]

It gives a borrowcheck error when you actually try to use the Reborrow impl, but ideally we would error on the impl itself. This becomes more important once we add support for generic T: Reborrow.

[paradoxicalguy]

:O, yes
i'll extend the test

pushed: the impl is now rejected for 'a: 'static bounds too, with an E0277 on the field (test: reborrow-outlives-static-mut-field). limitation: it looks at the impl's where-clauses directly, so transitive bounds like 'a: 'b, 'b: 'static aren't caught yet. happy to follow up with a full region-resolution check if you want that in this pr.

[Jules-Bertholet]

In general, I don't think we should keep adding ad-hoc checks here without a solid plan for the end-state. This is an unstable feature, it's fine if there are rough edges.

[paradoxicalguy]

yeah i think i went nuts; been extending the check around individual cases without establishing the general rule first.

+would you prefer keeping this pr scoped to the original literal &'static mut ICE with a minimal check, or should we first establish how the coherence check and borrowck should handle effectively-static regions more generally?

i'd rather get the invariant right than keep extending an incomplete region-bound scan

[paradoxicalguy]

pushed a simpler version of the fix. it now only checks for literal &'static mut fields and removes the caller_bounds() scan, since that was getting too ad-hoc.

i also tested the 'a: 'static case separately. it gives normal borrowck errors (E0597/E0499) instead of an ICE, though the impl itself is still accepted.

all 125 reborrow UI tests pass, and tidy is clean.

keeping this scoped to the original ICE for now rather than trying to handle every lifetime bound here.

[paradoxicalguy]

cc @fee1-dead

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