This commit makes it impossible to create derived contexts with nil parents.
Previously it was possible to create derived contexts with nil parents, and
invalid contexts could propogate through the program. Eventually this can
cause a panic downstream, which is difficult to trace back to the source
of the error.
Although `WithCancel` and `WithDeadline` already panic if `parent` is `nil`, this adds explicit checks to give a useful message in the panic.
Fixes#37908
Change-Id: I70fd01f6539c1b0da0e775fc5457e32e7075e52c
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GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#37898
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If the parent context passed to WithCancel or WithTimeout
is a known context implementation (one created by this package),
we attach the child to the parent by editing data structures directly;
otherwise, for unknown parent implementations, we make a
goroutine that watches for the parent to finish and propagates
the cancellation.
A common problem with this scheme, before this CL, is that
users who write custom context implementations to manage
their value sets cause WithCancel/WithTimeout to start
goroutines that would have not been started before.
This CL changes the way we map a parent context back to the
underlying data structure. Instead of walking up through
known context implementations to reach the *cancelCtx,
we look up parent.Value(&cancelCtxKey) to return the
innermost *cancelCtx, which we use if it matches parent.Done().
This way, a custom context implementation wrapping a
*cancelCtx but not changing Done-ness (and not refusing
to return wrapped keys) will not require a goroutine anymore
in WithCancel/WithTimeout.
For #28728.
Change-Id: Idba2f435c81b19fe38d0dbf308458ca87c7381e9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/196521
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
So that testing can use context in its public API.
For #16221.
Change-Id: I6263fa7266c336c9490f20164ce79336df44a57e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/32648
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Kyle Nusbaum
Russ Cox