Summary:
The "access path" memory model (equal access paths iff equal object addresses) is suited to when aliasing occurs only at the roots (i.e. variables). When there is intentional aliasing in the middle of an access path, this model will miss the aliasing. For instance if `[x.f] == [y.g]`, then also `[x.f.h] == [y.g.h]`, but the latter access paths are unequal.
In Java, non-static inner classes consistently alias `this.this$0` inside an inner class, which points to the "parent" outer-class object. So if two inner-class objects (belonging to different inner classes) access `this(type:InnerClassA).this$0.f` and `this(type:InnerClassB).this$0.f` the equality will be missed (many other combinations exist). This isn't strictly due to the memory model -- any alias analysis would have to do some class invariant inference to detect this.
For this purpose `AccessPath.inner_class_normalize` exists (it replaces `this.this$0` with `this` of the appropriate type), but this breaks the invariant that we know which formal parameter is at the root (there may not even exist a `this` parameter if the method is static). So this was buggy.
Here we simply recursively remove the synthetic field prefix of the accesses list, while computing forwards the object type. This is only applied when we check aliasing across threads. This will also allow actuals/parameters substitutions (stacked diff) which normalisation was breaking.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D19601455
fbshipit-source-id: 7e42667b6
Nikos Gorogiannis