Commit 8331f25e authored by Keith Randall's avatar Keith Randall
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reflect: make Elem panic on bad notinheap pointers

This CL fixes the subtle issue that Elem can promote a
not-in-heap pointer, which could be any bit pattern, into an
unsafe.Pointer, which the garbage collector can see. If that
resulting value is bad, it can crash the GC.

Make sure that we don't introduce bad pointers that way. We can
make Elem() panic, because any such bad pointers are in the Go heap,
and not-in-heap pointers are not allowed to point into the Go heap.

Update #48399

Change-Id: Ieaf35a611b16b4dfb5e907e229ed4a2aed30e18c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/350153


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