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Type inference: an equality constraint between proper types compares qualifiers - #7985

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Does this fix #7708?

mernst and others added 2 commits August 14, 2026 04:05
…qualifiers

`Typing.reduceEquality` unconditionally returned TRUE for two proper types, so a
qualifier mismatch went undetected.  Compare the qualifiers in both directions,
as the surrounding comment already said the code did.

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…differently

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Type inference now tracks whether constraints come from parameterized inference-variable bounds. Proper-type equality uses qualifier-aware comparison for those constraints. Parameterized-bound processing excludes covariant and enum-synthesized type arguments from qualifier comparison. New tainting and resource leak tests cover invariant, covariant, enum, comparable-bound, F-bounded, and argument-diagnostic cases.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR meets the coding objective in issue #7708. VariableBounds.getConstraintsFromParameterized reads @Covariant indexes and ignores qualifier equality for covariant arguments. Typing marks con…
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- Around line 491-494: Update isEnumSupertypeOfEnumClass to return true only
when type is a declared type whose element kind is ENUM, while preserving the
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bounded by Enum<T> and verify that its qualifier equality constraints and
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An equality constraint between two proper types compares their qualifiers only
if two parameterized bounds of an inference variable imply the constraint.
When such a constraint arises from a construct in the program, such as an
argument, BaseTypeVisitor separately reports any qualifier mismatch with a more
informative message; comparing the qualifiers during inference replaced that
message by "type.arguments.not.inferred" and suppressed every other check of
the invocation.  This restores the expected errors in Issue289.java and
Issue1218.java.

Two bounds imply nothing about the qualifiers of a type argument that is
@covariant or that was synthesized from an enum class, so the implied
constraints now ignore those qualifiers.  Handling @covariant subsumes the
special case for `Enum<E>` but not the one for `Comparable<E>`, which
`Enum<E>` implements and whose type argument bears the same synthesized
qualifier.

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framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/framework/util/typeinference8/constraint/Typing.java (1)

318-323: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve flagged enclosing-type equality constraints.

When impliedByParameterizedBounds is true, this early return prevents reduceEquality() from reaching ProperType.isSameType() for an inner class’s proper enclosing types. For example, Outer<@A String>.Inner<X> and Outer<@b String>.Inner<X> can have the same inner argument while their enclosing qualifiers differ. The mismatch is then not reported.

Keep the existing skip for ordinary constraints, but retain the enclosing constraint for parameterized-bound constraints. Also bypass the equals short-circuit for that flagged case.

Proposed fix
-    if (lhsEnclosing.isProper() && rhsEnclosing.isProper()) {
-      return;
-    }
-    if (lhsEnclosing.equals(rhsEnclosing)) {
-      return;
+    if (!impliedByParameterizedBounds) {
+      if (lhsEnclosing.isProper() && rhsEnclosing.isProper()) {
+        return;
+      }
+      if (lhsEnclosing.equals(rhsEnclosing)) {
+        return;
+      }

Add a regression test for qualifier differences in parameterized enclosing types.

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In
`@framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/framework/util/typeinference8/constraint/Typing.java`
around lines 318 - 323, Update the enclosing-type checks in the relevant Typing
constraint-reduction logic so both the proper-type early return and
lhsEnclosing.equals(rhsEnclosing) short-circuit apply only when
impliedByParameterizedBounds is false; flagged constraints must proceed to
reduceEquality() and ProperType.isSameType(). Add a regression test covering
differing qualifiers on parameterized enclosing types.
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- Around line 318-323: Update the enclosing-type checks in the relevant Typing
constraint-reduction logic so both the proper-type early return and
lhsEnclosing.equals(rhsEnclosing) short-circuit apply only when
impliedByParameterizedBounds is false; flagged constraints must proceed to
reduceEquality() and ProperType.isSameType(). Add a regression test covering
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// S has upper bounds A<@Untainted String> and B<@Tainted String>, so S would have to be a
// subtype of both Sup<@Untainted String> and Sup<@Tainted String>. The implied constraint
// `@Untainted String = @Tainted String` does not hold.
// :: error: [type.arguments.not.inferred]

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This error doesn't appear in master. All other tests passes.

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163-177: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Compare enclosing types in parameterized-bound equality constraints

When two upper parameterized bounds produce a type-argument equality constraint, Typing.reduceEquality calls ProperType.isSameType. This method checks only the current declared type. DefaultTypeHierarchy.visitDeclared_Declared also checks only the current type and its arguments; it does not traverse getEnclosingType(). Therefore, inner type arguments with matching qualifiers but differently qualified enclosing types can reduce to ConstraintSet.TRUE and permit an invalid inference. Compare enclosing types recursively in this equality path before accepting the constraint.

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In
`@framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/framework/util/typeinference8/types/ProperType.java`
around lines 163 - 177, Update ProperType.isSameType to recursively compare the
enclosing types after the current qualifiers match, including handling types
with no enclosing type. Require the enclosing-type comparison to succeed before
returning ConstraintSet.TRUE, so parameterized-bound equality rejects
differently qualified enclosing types while preserving the existing current-type
qualifier checks.
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- Around line 163-177: Update ProperType.isSameType to recursively compare the
enclosing types after the current qualifiers match, including handling types
with no enclosing type. Require the enclosing-type comparison to succeed before
returning ConstraintSet.TRUE, so parameterized-bound equality rejects
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`checkAnnotationSubtype` compares the qualifiers of the types themselves and
of their type arguments, but not those of their enclosing types.  Recurse
through `getEnclosingType` so that an equality constraint that is implied by
two parameterized bounds rejects differently qualified enclosing types.

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Make type argument inference make use of @Covariant.

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