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Rollup merge of rust-lang#129021 - compiler-errors:ptr-cast-outlives, r=lcnr
Check WF of source type's signature on fn pointer cast
This PR patches the implied bounds holes slightly for rust-lang#129005, rust-lang#25860.
Like most implied bounds related unsoundness fixes, this isn't complete w.r.t. higher-ranked function signatures, but I believe it implements a pretty good heuristic for now.
### What does this do?
This PR makes a partial patch for a soundness hole in a `FnDef` -> `FnPtr` "reifying" pointer cast where we were never checking that the signature we are casting *from* is actually well-formed. Because of this, and because `FnDef` doesn't require its signature to be well-formed (just its predicates must hold), we are essentially allowed to "cast away" implied bounds that are assumed within the body of the `FnDef`:
```
fn foo<'a, 'b, T>(_: &'a &'b (), v: &'b T) -> &'a T { v }
fn bad<'short, T>(x: &'short T) -> &'static T {
let f: fn(_, &'short T) -> &'static T = foo;
f(&&(), x)
}
```
In this example, subtyping ends up casting the `_` type (which should be `&'static &'short ()`) to some other type that no longer serves as a "witness" to the lifetime relationship `'short: 'static` which would otherwise be required for this call to be WF. This happens regardless of if `foo`'s lifetimes are early- or late-bound.
This PR implements two checks:
1. We check that the signature of the `FnDef` is well-formed *before* casting it. This ensures that there is at least one point in the MIR where we ensure that the `FnDef`'s implied bounds are actually satisfied by the caller.
2. Implements a special case where if we're casting from a higher-ranked `FnDef` to a non-higher-ranked, we instantiate the binder of the `FnDef` with *infer vars* and ensure that it is a supertype of the target of the cast.
The (2.) is necessary to validate that these pointer casts are valid for higher-ranked `FnDef`. Otherwise, the example above would still pass even if `help`'s `'a` lifetime were late-bound.
### Further work
The WF checks for function calls are scattered all over the MIR. We check the WF of args in call terminators, we check the WF of `FnDef` when we create a `const` operand referencing it, and we check the WF of the return type in rust-lang#115538, to name a few.
One way to make this a bit cleaner is to simply extend rust-lang#115538 to always check that the signature is WF for `FnDef` types. I may do this as a follow-up, but I wanted to keep this simple since this leads to some pretty bad NLL diagnostics regressions, and AFAICT this solution is *complete enough*.
### Crater triage
Done here: rust-lang#129021 (comment)
r? lcnr
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