go/types: `panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference` with go1.22rc1

[MadhavJivrajani]

Go version

go version go1.22rc1 darwin/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='amd64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/Users/mjivrajani/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Users/mjivrajani/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/mjivrajani/gocode'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.22rc1.darwin-amd64'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='go1.22rc1'
GOTOOLDIR='/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.22rc1.darwin-amd64/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.22rc1'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOAMD64='v1'
AR='ar'
CC='clang'
CXX='clang++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/src/github.com/MadhavJivrajani/kubernetes/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch x86_64 -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/r7/f6kyp7vs0sv90105pjh1t8340000gp/T/go-build620260146=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'

What did you do?

Started testing Kubernetes with go1.22rc1.
Ref: kubernetes/kubernetes#122410

Steps to reproduce the error:

Clone Kubernetes

git clone git@github.com:kubernetes/kubernetes.git --depth 1

Run test

In the root of the repo:

GO_VERSION=1.22rc1 ./hack/verify-typecheck-providerless.sh

What did you expect to see?

I expected the test to work as before without the panic.

If you run the same test with go1.21.5:

GO_VERSION=1.21.5 ./hack/verify-typecheck-providerless.sh

This should pass.

What did you see instead?

On running

GO_VERSION=1.22rc1 ./hack/verify-typecheck-providerless.sh

You should see:

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered]
	panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x8b1d95e]

goroutine 1105 [running]:
go/types.(*Checker).handleBailout(0xc004566e00, 0xc00457fbd0)
	/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/src/github.com/MadhavJivrajani/kubernetes/_output/local/.gimme/versions/go1.22rc1.darwin.amd64/src/go/types/check.go:367 +0x88
panic({0x8c0b020?, 0x8da4520?})
	/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/src/github.com/MadhavJivrajani/kubernetes/_output/local/.gimme/versions/go1.22rc1.darwin.amd64/src/runtime/panic.go:770 +0x132
go/types.(*StdSizes).Sizeof(0x0, {0x8c48240, 0x8da7440})
	/Users/mjivrajani/gocode/src/github.com/MadhavJivrajani/kubernetes/_output/local/.gimme/versions/go1.22rc1.darwin.amd64/src/go/types/sizes.go:228 +0x31e
...

PS - we get the same result on linux/amd64 as well: https://prow.k8s.io/view/gs/kubernetes-jenkins/pr-logs/pull/122410/pull-kubernetes-typecheck/1737348733923758080

[MadhavJivrajani]

I see SizeOf at the top of the call stack, which internally uses an implementation of types.Sizes. From the go1.22 release notes (https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.22):

The implementation of SizesFor has been adjusted to compute the same type sizes as the compiler when the compiler argument for SizesFor is "gc". The default Sizes implementation used by the type checker is now types.SizesFor("gc", "amd64").

I wonder if this is related

[cuonglm]

@MadhavJivrajani Yes, see this for more details: #61035 (comment)

[cuonglm]

Duplicated of #62167

[MadhavJivrajani]

Thanks @cuonglm!
After bumping x/tools, this was resolved ❤️