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This fixes the same problem as #7985

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…able's bounds

JLS 18.3.1 incorporation: when a bound set contains `var <: S` and `var <: T`, and S
and T have supertypes that are parameterizations of the same generic type G, then the
corresponding type arguments must be equal.  `VariableBounds.getConstraintsFromParameterized`
implied those equality constraints correctly, but `Typing.reduceEquality` discarded them:
when both sides were proper types it returned TRUE without comparing qualifiers.  So two
upper bounds whose parameterized supertypes agreed on Java types but differed on
qualifiers wrongly admitted an instantiation.

Compare the qualifiers, but only for the constraints that incorporation implies.  A
constraint between two proper types is ordinarily independent of the inference variables,
so no choice of type arguments makes it hold or fail, and BaseTypeVisitor issues a better
message about the qualifiers than inference could; failing inference there would also
suppress every other check on the invocation, because visitMethodInvocation returns as
soon as inference fails.  See the comment in Expression.reduceProperType.  A constraint
implied by two bounds on a variable is the exception: it holds only if the qualifiers
match, and if they do not, the variable has no instantiation and nothing else reports it.
Checking unconditionally instead makes checker/tests/nullness/Issue289.java report
type.arguments.not.inferred alongside the assignment error it already reports.

`checkAnnotationEquality` compares with the type hierarchy in both directions rather than
AnnotatedTypeMirror#equals, which requires the underlying types to be the same object.

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Each added case is silently accepted before the previous commit:

 - the conflicting bounds both come from the declaration, as an intersection bound
 - the qualifiers differ in the second type argument, exercising the loop over all
   type-argument positions
 - the qualifiers differ within a type argument rather than on it
 - the two bounds reach the common generic supertype at different depths
 - the conflict is between two inference variables, so it propagates through a
   complementary bound rather than relating a variable to a proper type

Also test that incorporation implies no constraint for a wildcard type argument.

Two nearby shapes are deliberately not added, because they do not exercise this change:
two lower bounds with different parameterizations are already reported by
VariableBounds.hasLowerBoundDifferentParam, and a target type that is a direct supertype
of the declared bound already reported both an assignment error and
type.arguments.not.inferred beforehand.

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Incorporating two bounds on an inference variable implied an equality constraint for
every type argument of the common generic supertype G, including a type argument that
`@Covariant` makes covariant.  That was a false positive: at a covariant index, a type
whose supertype is one parameterization can still be a subtype of the other, so
`MyClass<@Untainted String>` satisfies both `S <: MyClass<@Untainted String>` and
`S <: MyClass<@tainted String>`.  The checker accepts the corresponding assignment when
no inference is involved, so inference contradicted it.

Consult TypeHierarchy.getCovariantArgIndexes, as Typing.reduceSubtypeClass does, and
leave the qualifiers unchecked at a covariant index, which is what happened before the
constraint began comparing qualifiers at all.

Also make `qualifiersMustMatch` final and set it through the constructor, and compare it
in equals and hashCode: a constraint set drops a constraint equal to one it already
contains, so without this a constraint that compares qualifiers could be dropped in favor
of one that does not, making the strictness depend on insertion order.

Move `checkAnnotationEquality` to ProperType.  On AbstractType it could be called with an
InferenceType receiver, whose `getAnnotatedType` returns the un-instantiated type, making
the comparison meaningless rather than a compile error.

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…nt derives

`reduceEquality` consumed `qualifiersMustMatch` only in its both-proper early return, so
whether a qualifier conflict was reported depended on whether an unrelated inference
variable happened to appear in the type argument: with `S extends A<Pair<X, @Untainted
String>>`, the implied `Pair<X, @Untainted String> = Pair<String, @tainted String>`
reduced through the type-argument loop, which built the nested constraint with the flag
defaulted to false.

Pass the flag to the type-argument and array-component constraints, consulting
getCovariantArgIndexes at each level so that the covariance exemption is not lost on the
way down.  The exemption applies only where the relation is really subtyping, which is
where incorporation implies the constraint; at a nested invariant position equality is
required, matching what the checker reports for the corresponding assignment.

In getConstraintsFromParameterized, cast to AnnotatedDeclaredType directly, as
Typing.reduceSubtypeClass does.  The `instanceof` guard's else branch was unreachable:
getTypeArguments() returns null for anything that is not an AnnotatedDeclaredType, so a
non-declared type would already have thrown a NullPointerException six lines earlier.

Test the covariant argument index mapping with @covariant(1), which exempts index 1 while
index 0 is still reported.  A conflict in the argument of an enclosing type remains a
false negative; getConstraintsFromParameterized emits no constraint for enclosing type
arguments, so a test documents it.

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The change adds qualifier-aware equality handling for type-inference constraints. Proper types can compare annotations through bidirectional subtype checks. Variable-bound constraint generation preserves qualifier matching for invariant arguments and suppresses it for covariant or self-referential arguments. New checker tests cover conflicting, compatible, wildcard, nested, enum, F-bounded, and covariant parameterized bounds.

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Inference can accept incompatible qualifiers in proper enclosing type arguments. Fix the enclosing-type equality path before merging.

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531-531: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve qualifier matching for enclosing type arguments.

This call creates the enclosing-type equality constraint without qualifiersMustMatch. The helper also skips proper enclosing types. Therefore, incompatible qualifiers in Outer<...>.In do not reduce to TRUE_ANNO_FAIL.

checker/tests/tainting/ConflictingParameterizedBounds.java Lines 147-160 records this invalid program as an accepted false negative. Pass the flag into addEnclosingTypeConstraint, and compare proper enclosing types when qualifier matching is required.

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at line 531, Update the addEnclosingTypeConstraint call in Typing to enable
qualifiersMustMatch for enclosing-type equality constraints, and ensure the
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smillst and others added 6 commits September 9, 2026 09:38
That branch fixes the same bug as this one.  Its tests cover three cases this branch
did not:

 - a constraint between two proper types that arises from an argument expression still
   reports `argument` rather than `type.arguments.not.inferred`
   (ProperTypeEqualityFromArgument)
 - a covariant type argument of a type the programmer wrote, rather than of a
   parameterized bound (CovariantTypeArgumentInference)
 - a type argument that is a self-reference to the type that bears it, whose qualifier
   is a copy of that type's qualifier rather than one a programmer wrote: the upper
   bound of a use of an F-bounded type variable (FBoundedTypeArgument), and the `Enum<E>`
   and `Comparable<E>` supertypes of an enum class (EnumSupertypeTypeArgument, in both
   the tainting and the resourceleak suites)

The last group fails: this branch has no equivalent of that branch's
`VariableBounds.isSelfReferentialTypeArgument`, so it reports a conflict between the two
copied qualifiers.  The resourceleak case is `<T extends Comparable<T>> T max(T, T)`
applied to an enum, which is ordinary code rather than a contrived test.

ProperTypeEquality.java is not copied; its three cases already appear in
ConflictingParameterizedBounds.java, which takes over the two details its comments added:
the implied equality constraint that useDifferentQualifiers violates, and the reason
useCovariant is accepted.

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…checker-framework into proper-type-equality-qualifiers
Two upper bounds on an inference variable imply an equality constraint between the type
arguments of their parameterized supertypes.  That constraint must not compare the
qualifiers of a type argument that is a self-reference to the bound: such a qualifier is a
copy of the bound's own qualifier rather than one that a programmer wrote at an invariant
position, so the two bounds imply nothing about it.  There are two such cases, both of
which `isSelfReferentialTypeArgument` recognizes:

 - the upper bound of a use of an F-bounded type variable: for `S extends Store<S>`, the
   upper bound of `@Nullable S` is `@Nullable Store<@nullable S>`
 - the `Enum<E>` and `Comparable<E>` supertypes of an enum class E, whose type argument
   `SupertypeFinder.createEnumSuperType` qualifies like E

Without this, `AnalysisResult.runAnalysisFor` in the dataflow framework no longer type-checked:
inferring the type arguments of `runAnalysisFor` reported `@Nullable S` and `S` as conflicting
bounds, which fails `:dataflow:checkNullness`.  The new nullness test case has that shape.

This makes the test cases that a9d3120 imported pass: FBoundedTypeArgument and
EnumSupertypeTypeArgument in both the tainting and the resourceleak suites.

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531-531: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate qualifier matching to enclosing-type equality constraints. Add a qualifiersMustMatch parameter to addEnclosingTypeConstraint. Pass false for subtype constraints and the current flag for TYPE_EQUALITY. Construct the nested constraint with the six-argument Typing constructor. This preserves the existing covariant and self-referential handling in normal equality reduction.

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at line 531, Update addEnclosingTypeConstraint and its callers to accept a
qualifiersMustMatch parameter, passing false for subtype constraints and the
existing flag for TYPE_EQUALITY. When creating the nested constraint, use the
six-argument Typing constructor, preserving the current covariant and
self-referential equality-reduction behavior.
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`reduceEquality` compared qualifiers only in its both-proper early return.  When it
instead reduced to constraints on the type arguments or the array component type, the
primary qualifiers of S and T themselves were never compared, so `qualifiersMustMatch`
was lost for them: with `<S extends A<@Untainted Holder<X>>>` and the target
`B<@tainted Holder<String>>`, the implied constraint `@Untainted Holder<X> = @tainted
Holder<String>` is not between two proper types, so it reduced only to `<String = X>`
and the qualifier mismatch on `Holder` disappeared.  Writing a concrete type in place of
`X` made the same conflict a both-proper constraint, which was reported.

Add a `QualifierTyping` equality constraint for each pair of primary qualifiers in the
same hierarchy, as `VariableBounds.addQualifierConstraint` does.  Adding a constraint
rather than returning `ConstraintSet.TRUE_ANNO_FAIL` keeps the sub-constraints:
`reduceOneStep` recognizes `TRUE_ANNO_FAIL` by identity, so returning it would have
discarded the type-argument constraints and left an inference variable with no
instantiation.  Going through `QualifierTyping` also handles a polymorphic qualifier,
which comparing the annotated types directly would not.

Verified with taintingtest (which covers framework/tests/all-systems) and nullnesstest.
Both new test cases fail without the change to Typing.

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`reduceEquality` reduces a constraint between two wildcards to one between their bounds,
and `addEnclosingTypeConstraint` relates the enclosing types of two inner class types.
Both created the new constraint with the 4-argument constructor, which defaults
`qualifiersMustMatch` to false, so a qualifier conflict inside a wildcard bound or an
enclosing type argument went unreported.

Each new test case needs the conflicting type to mention an inference variable that is
not yet instantiated.  Otherwise the constraint is between two proper types, which the
early return in `reduceEquality` already compares.

The false negative that `useEnclosingTypeArg` documents is unaffected: the constraint
between two enclosing types is created only when one of them mentions an inference
variable, and in that test neither does.

Verified with taintingtest (which covers framework/tests/all-systems) and nullnesstest.
All three new test cases fail without the change to Typing.

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…ty constraint

`reduceEquality` cleared `qualifiersMustMatch` for a type argument that `@Covariant`
makes covariant, which contradicted its own both-proper early return: that return calls
`checkAnnotationEquality`, whose two isSubtype tests fail for two parameterizations that
differ at a covariant type argument.  Whether a conflict was reported therefore depended
on whether one side happened to mention an inference variable.

`@Covariant` relaxes subtyping, not equality, and two parameterizations that differ at a
covariant type argument are different types, so the both-proper return is the correct
behavior.  A covariant type argument is exempt only in
`VariableBounds.getConstraintsFromParameterized`, where the two types are supertypes of
one type rather than the two sides of an equality; the constraints it creates for a
covariant index already have `qualifiersMustMatch` false, so the tests of that exemption
are unaffected.

`reduceEquality` no longer needs the context, so drop the parameter.

Verified with taintingtest (which covers framework/tests/all-systems) and nullnesstest.
The new test case fails without the change to Typing.

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`isSelfReferentialTypeArgument` returns true when the type argument has the same Java
type as the bound, which its documentation justifies by the qualifier being a copy of the
bound's own qualifier rather than one that a programmer wrote.  It did not check that.
For `enum E implements Box<@Untainted E>`, the written `@Untainted` is at an invariant
position of `Box`, but the enum branch matched it in any parameterized supertype, not
just the `Enum<E>` and `Comparable<E>` that `SupertypeFinder.createEnumSuperType` builds.

Compare the qualifiers, which is what the documented justification asserts.

This adds no test, because no test distinguishes it.  For the exemption to hide a
conflict, one bound must be the enum and the other a parameterization of the same generic
type with a different qualifier; an enum is final, so the variable can only be the enum,
which is then not a subtype of the other bound, and the subtyping constraint between the
two bounds already reports it.  The type-variable branch cannot differ either: a use's
qualifier is substituted into the self-reference in its bound, and writing a conflicting
qualifier there is a `conflicting.annos` error.

Verified with taintingtest (which covers framework/tests/all-systems), nullnesstest, and
:dataflow:checkNullness, whose `AnalysisResult.runAnalysisFor` motivated the exemption.

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// A qualifier that differs from the one on `type` is not a copy of it, so a programmer wrote
// it at an invariant position, as in `enum E implements Box<@Untainted E>`.
if (!typeArgument.getQualifiers().equals(type.getQualifiers())) {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict the enum exemption to compiler-generated enum supertypes.

isSelfReferentialTypeArgument classifies a same-qualified E argument of any parameterized supertype of enum E as copied. This also matches an explicit invariant declaration such as enum E implements Box&lt;@tainted E&gt;.

If another bound contributes Box&lt;@Untainted E&gt;, Lines 511-514 disable qualifier matching. Inference can then accept conflicting invariant bounds.

Pass the matched parameterized supertype to this helper. Apply the enum exemption only to the Enum&lt;E&gt; and inherited Comparable&lt;E&gt; references created by enum-supertype construction. Add a regression test with an enum that explicitly implements an invariant self-parameterized interface.

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around lines 550 - 554, Update isSelfReferentialTypeArgument to accept the
matched parameterized supertype and restrict the enum exemption to
compiler-generated Enum<E> and inherited Comparable<E> references. Ensure
explicit invariant self-parameterized interfaces are not classified as copied,
preserving qualifier matching so conflicting bounds are rejected. Add a
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…ounds

An uncaptured wildcard keeps its qualifiers on its bounds, and the type
hierarchy compares a wildcard by its `extends` bound, so passing two
lower-bounded wildcards to `ProperType#checkAnnotationEquality` compared one
wildcard's implicit `extends Object` against the other's `super` bound and
crashed in `AsSuperVisitor`.  An upper-bounded wildcard did not crash but
compared its `extends` bound against the other's `super` bound, which is the
null type, so equal qualifiers were reported as conflicting.

Exclude a wildcard from the proper-type branch of `reduceEquality` so that the
constraint reaches the wildcard branch at the end of the method, which reduces
it to a constraint between the two wildcards' bounds.

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531-531: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not skip proper enclosing equality

addEnclosingTypeConstraint returns when both enclosing types are proper. This prevents TYPE_EQUALITY from comparing Outer<@Untainted String> with Outer<@tainted String>. The enclosingTypeArg call can then accept an invalid inferred S, although no such S exists. Allow qualifier-aware TYPE_EQUALITY to reduce proper enclosing type arguments with qualifiersMustMatch.

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at line 531, Update addEnclosingTypeConstraint so it does not return merely
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compare their enclosing type arguments using qualifiersMustMatch, preserving
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