Auto merge of #114494 - est31:extend_useless_ptr_null_checks, r=jackh726

Make useless_ptr_null_checks smarter about some std functions

This teaches the `useless_ptr_null_checks` lint that some std functions can't ever return null pointers, because they need to point to valid data, get references as input, etc.

This is achieved by introducing an `#[rustc_never_returns_null_ptr]` attribute and adding it to these std functions (gated behind bootstrap `cfg_attr`).

Later on, the attribute could maybe be used to tell LLVM that the returned pointer is never null. I don't expect much impact of that though, as the functions are pretty shallow and usually the input data is already never null.

Follow-up of PR #113657

Fixes #114442

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/library/alloc/src/vec/mod.rs b/library/alloc/src/vec/mod.rs
index ae7bac0c85f..4cfffdf18c6 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/vec/mod.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/vec/mod.rs
@@ -1258,6 +1258,7 @@ impl<T, A: Allocator> Vec<T, A> {
     /// [`as_mut_ptr`]: Vec::as_mut_ptr
     /// [`as_ptr`]: Vec::as_ptr
     #[stable(feature = "vec_as_ptr", since = "1.37.0")]
+    #[cfg_attr(not(bootstrap), rustc_never_returns_null_ptr)]
     #[inline]
     pub fn as_ptr(&self) -> *const T {
         // We shadow the slice method of the same name to avoid going through
@@ -1317,6 +1318,7 @@ impl<T, A: Allocator> Vec<T, A> {
     /// [`as_mut_ptr`]: Vec::as_mut_ptr
     /// [`as_ptr`]: Vec::as_ptr
     #[stable(feature = "vec_as_ptr", since = "1.37.0")]
+    #[cfg_attr(not(bootstrap), rustc_never_returns_null_ptr)]
     #[inline]
     pub fn as_mut_ptr(&mut self) -> *mut T {
         // We shadow the slice method of the same name to avoid going through