[BUG] ICE in clang::Sema::CheckVariableDeclaration(clang::VarDecl*, clang::LookupResult&)
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Description
## Bug Report: ICE in clang::Sema::CheckVariableDeclaration(clang::VarDecl*, clang::LookupResult&)
Clang crashes when compiling the following C code.
**Compiler**: clang-22 (LLVM 22.1.5, commit 5ea218a153f4d2f815b8244eab3e4b4ba5e00e6c)
**Compilation flags**: -O0
**Platform**: x86_64-linux-gnu
**Component**: frontend
This is a **frontend** crash (reproduces with `-emit-llvm -Xclang -disable-llvm-passes`).
## Reduced Test Case
> Minimized from the original fuzzer-generated input using `creduce`.
```sh
clang -O0 test.c -o /dev/null
```
```c
#pragma redefine_extname a alias
static a;
extern a;
```
## Crash Output
```
/root/outputs/experiments-on-metamut/surfuzz,gcc,1/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c:5:12: warning: #pragma redefine_extname is applicable to external C declarations only; not applied to variable 'name' [-Wpragmas]
5 | static int name;
| ^
clang-22: /root/compilers/llvm-project-release/clang/include/clang/AST/Decl.h:5357: void clang::Redeclarable::setPreviousDecl(decl_type*) [with decl_type \= clang::VarDecl]: Assertion \`!isa(static_cast(this)) || cast(static_cast(this))->isLinkageValid()' failed.
PLEASE submit a bug report to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/ and include the crash backtrace, preprocessed source, and associated run script.
Stack dump:
0\. Program arguments: /root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22 -cc1 -triple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -O0 -emit-obj -dumpdir /dev/null- -disable-free -clear-ast-before-backend -main-file-name NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c -mrelocation-model pic -pic-level 2 -pic-is-pie -mframe-pointer=all -fmath-errno -ffp-contract=on -fno-rounding-math -mconstructor-aliases -funwind-tables=2 -target-cpu x86-64 -tune-cpu generic -debugger-tuning=gdb -fdebug-compilation-dir=/root/data -fcoverage-compilation-dir=/root/data -resource-dir /root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/lib/clang/22 -internal-isystem /root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/lib/clang/22/include -internal-isystem /usr/local/include -internal-isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -internal-externc-isystem /include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include -ferror-limit 19 -fgnuc-version=4.2.1 -fskip-odr-check-in-gmf -faddrsig -fdwarf2-cfi-asm -o /tmp/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-f009ff.o -x c /root/outputs/experiments-on-metamut/surfuzz,gcc,1/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c
1\. /root/outputs/experiments-on-metamut/surfuzz,gcc,1/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c:7:16: current parser token ';'
#0 0x0000556de550b2d2 llvm::sys::PrintStackTrace(llvm::raw_ostream&, int) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x44f62d2)
#1 0x0000556de5507caf llvm::sys::RunSignalHandlers() (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x44f2caf)
#2 0x0000556de5507dfc SignalHandler(int, siginfo_t*, void*) Signals.cpp:0:0
#3 0x00007fb65dd6d520 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x42520)
#4 0x00007fb65ddc1a7c __pthread_kill_implementation ./nptl/./nptl/pthread_kill.c:44:76
#5 0x00007fb65ddc1a7c __pthread_kill_internal ./nptl/./nptl/pthread_kill.c:78:10
#6 0x00007fb65ddc1a7c pthread_kill ./nptl/./nptl/pthread_kill.c:89:10
#7 0x00007fb65dd6d476 gsignal ./signal/../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27:6
#8 0x00007fb65dd537f3 abort ./stdlib/./stdlib/abort.c:81:7
#9 0x00007fb65dd5371b _nl_load_domain ./intl/./intl/loadmsgcat.c:1177:9
#10 0x00007fb65dd64e96 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x39e96)
#11 0x0000556de80b4c65 clang::Redeclarable::setPreviousDecl(clang::VarDecl*) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x709fc65)
#12 0x0000556de80fbdff clang::Sema::MergeVarDecl(clang::VarDecl*, clang::LookupResult&) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x70e6dff)
#13 0x0000556de80fce97 clang::Sema::CheckVariableDeclaration(clang::VarDecl*, clang::LookupResult&) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x70e7e97)
#14 0x0000556de80fdf82 clang::Sema::ActOnVariableDeclarator(clang::Scope*, clang::Declarator&, clang::DeclContext*, clang::TypeSourceInfo*, clang::LookupResult&, llvm::MutableArrayRef, bool&, llvm::ArrayRef) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x70e8f82)
#15 0x0000556de8116ec7 clang::Sema::HandleDeclarator(clang::Scope*, clang::Declarator&, llvm::MutableArrayRef) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x7101ec7)
#16 0x0000556de81177cc clang::Sema::ActOnDeclarator(clang::Scope*, clang::Declarator&) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x71027cc)
#17 0x0000556de7d61faa clang::Parser::ParseDeclarationAfterDeclaratorAndAttributes(clang::Declarator&, clang::Parser::ParsedTemplateInfo const&, clang::Parser::ForRangeInit*) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d4cfaa)
#18 0x0000556de7d79ce3 clang::Parser::ParseDeclGroup(clang::ParsingDeclSpec&, clang::DeclaratorContext, clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::Parser::ParsedTemplateInfo&, clang::SourceLocation*, clang::Parser::ForRangeInit*) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d64ce3)
#19 0x0000556de7d327e1 clang::Parser::ParseDeclOrFunctionDefInternal(clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::ParsingDeclSpec&, clang::AccessSpecifier) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d1d7e1)
#20 0x0000556de7d3300f clang::Parser::ParseDeclarationOrFunctionDefinition(clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::ParsingDeclSpec*, clang::AccessSpecifier) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d1e00f)
#21 0x0000556de7d3b896 clang::Parser::ParseExternalDeclaration(clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::ParsedAttributes&, clang::ParsingDeclSpec*) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d26896)
#22 0x0000556de7d3c915 clang::Parser::ParseTopLevelDecl(clang::OpaquePtr&, clang::Sema::ModuleImportState&) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d27915)
#23 0x0000556de7d1c88a clang::ParseAST(clang::Sema&, bool, bool) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x6d0788a)
#24 0x0000556de6194987 clang::FrontendAction::Execute() (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x517f987)
#25 0x0000556de611c0e9 clang::CompilerInstance::ExecuteAction(clang::FrontendAction&) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x51070e9)
#26 0x0000556de629195e clang::ExecuteCompilerInvocation(clang::CompilerInstance*) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0x527c95e)
#27 0x0000556de1f9c657 cc1_main(llvm::ArrayRef, char const*, void*) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0xf87657)
#28 0x0000556de1f91694 ExecuteCC1Tool(llvm::SmallVectorImpl&, llvm::ToolContext const&, llvm::IntrusiveRefCntPtr) driver.cpp:0:0
#29 0x0000556de1f96907 clang_main(int, char**, llvm::ToolContext const&) (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0xf81907)
#30 0x0000556de1e540ea main (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0xe3f0ea)
#31 0x00007fb65dd54d90 __libc_start_call_main ./csu/../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58:16
#32 0x00007fb65dd54e40 call_init ./csu/../csu/libc-start.c:128:20
#33 0x00007fb65dd54e40 __libc_start_main ./csu/../csu/libc-start.c:379:5
#34 0x0000556de1f90cb5 _start (/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22+0xf7bcb5)
clang: error: unable to execute command: Aborted (core dumped)
clang: error: clang frontend command failed due to signal (use -v to see invocation)
clang version 22.1.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 5ea218a153f4d2f815b8244eab3e4b4ba5e00e6c)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin
Build config: \+assertions
clang: note: diagnostic msg:
********************
PLEASE ATTACH THE FOLLOWING FILES TO THE BUG REPORT:
Preprocessed source(s) and associated run script(s) are located at:
clang: note: diagnostic msg: /tmp/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.c
clang: note: diagnostic msg: /tmp/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.sh
clang: note: diagnostic msg:
********************
EXIT_CODE: 1
```
## Preprocessed Source & Run Script
**Preprocessed source** (`/tmp/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.c`):
```c
# 1 ""
# 1 "/root/outputs/experiments-on-metamut/surfuzz,gcc,1/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c"
#pragma redefine_extname fake real
#pragma redefine_extname name alias
extern int fake(void);
static int name;
#pragma redefine_extname fish mouth
extern int name;
int fish(void) { return fake() + __PRAGMA_REDEFINE_EXTNAME + name; }
#pragma redefine_extname foo bar
int f(void) {
int foo = 0;
return foo;
}
extern int foo(void) { return 1; }
#pragma redefine_extname foo_static bar_static
static int foo_static(void) { return 1; }
int baz(void) { return foo_static(); }
typedef unsigned long size_t;
extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, size_t);
#pragma redefine_extname memcpy __GI_memcpy
void *test_memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t n) { return memcpy(dst, src, n); }
```
**Run script** (`/tmp/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.sh`):
```sh
# Crash reproducer for clang version 22.1.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 5ea218a153f4d2f815b8244eab3e4b4ba5e00e6c)
# Driver args: "-O0" "/root/outputs/experiments-on-metamut/surfuzz,gcc,1/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c" "-o" "/dev/null"
# Original command: "/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22" "-cc1" "-triple" "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "-O0" "-emit-obj" "-dumpdir" "/dev/null-" "-disable-free" "-clear-ast-before-backend" "-main-file-name" "NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c" "-mrelocation-model" "pic" "-pic-level" "2" "-pic-is-pie" "-mframe-pointer=all" "-fmath-errno" "-ffp-contract=on" "-fno-rounding-math" "-mconstructor-aliases" "-funwind-tables=2" "-target-cpu" "x86-64" "-tune-cpu" "generic" "-debugger-tuning=gdb" "-fdebug-compilation-dir=/root/data" "-fcoverage-compilation-dir=/root/data" "-resource-dir" "/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/lib/clang/22" "-internal-isystem" "/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/lib/clang/22/include" "-internal-isystem" "/usr/local/include" "-internal-isystem" "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/include" "-internal-externc-isystem" "/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu" "-internal-externc-isystem" "/include" "-internal-externc-isystem" "/usr/include" "-ferror-limit" "19" "-fgnuc-version=4.2.1" "-fskip-odr-check-in-gmf" "-faddrsig" "-fdwarf2-cfi-asm" "-o" "/tmp/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-f009ff.o" "-x" "c" "/root/outputs/experiments-on-metamut/surfuzz,gcc,1/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c"
"/root/objects/llvm-project-release.obj/bin/clang-22" "-cc1" "-triple" "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "-O0" "-emit-obj" "-dumpdir" "/dev/null-" "-disable-free" "-clear-ast-before-backend" "-main-file-name" "NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16.c" "-mrelocation-model" "pic" "-pic-level" "2" "-pic-is-pie" "-mframe-pointer=all" "-fmath-errno" "-ffp-contract=on" "-fno-rounding-math" "-mconstructor-aliases" "-funwind-tables=2" "-target-cpu" "x86-64" "-tune-cpu" "generic" "-debugger-tuning=gdb" "-fdebug-compilation-dir=/root/data" "-fcoverage-compilation-dir=/root/data" "-ferror-limit" "19" "-fgnuc-version=4.2.1" "-fskip-odr-check-in-gmf" "-faddrsig" "-fdwarf2-cfi-asm" "-x" "c" "NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.c"
```
* found via a fuzzer
[NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.c](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/29128222/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.c)
[NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.sh](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/29128221/NCAfnmyyJDEB_surfuzz_16-791ad1.sh)
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Reproduce the crash with the reduced C source and the shown clang -O0 command, then trace the named Sema::CheckVariableDeclaration, Sema::MergeVarDecl, and Redeclarable::setPreviousDecl entry points. Add a regression test for this pragma and declaration sequence; done means clang no longer aborts while preserving the appropriate diagnostic behavior.
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