expect attribute supressing lint, but then saying it's not fulfilled

[asquared31415]

NOTE: This is using cargo clippy, but the actual issue may be in the lint_reasons feature. If this is not appropriate for the rustc repo, let me know and I can copy it over to clippy's.

I tried this code:

#![feature(lint_reasons)]

fn main() {
    if true {
        #[expect(clippy::needless_return)]
        return;
    }
}

playground (Use Clippy)

I expected to see this happen: No output because clippy emits the clippy::needless_return lint, which should satisfy the expect.

Instead, this happened:

warning: this lint expectation is unfulfilled
 --> src/main.rs:5:18
  |
5 |         #[expect(clippy::needless_return)]
  |                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  |
  = note: `#[warn(unfulfilled_lint_expectations)]` on by default

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rustc --version --verbose:

rustc 1.77.0-nightly (2df6406b8 2023-12-26)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 2df6406b886757a3c1475957660a3a4ae6c786de
commit-date: 2023-12-26
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.77.0-nightly
LLVM version: 17.0.6

@rustbot label +T-compiler +A-clippy +A-lint +F-lint_reasons

[asquared31415]

This may be a bug in clippy's implementation of the lint: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/257328-clippy/topic/Possible.20bug.3F/near/410324973

[xFrednet]

This is a most likely a bug in Clippy. The old playground link from the issue doesn't work anymore, but here is a new working one: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=c87895279ad49e3067a5ec9c812bf6a9

The problem is likely that the lint is not emitted at the right place. I'll transfer it to the Clippy repo.

[xFrednet]

Lol, yep found the corporate:

if !cx.tcx.hir().attrs(expr.hir_id).is_empty() {
    return;
}

The lint is apparently suppressed if there is any attribute on the return. Now comes the fun part of figuring out why xD

[xFrednet]

Ignoring attributes seem to be intentional: #9361

I can still make it work for #[expect] attrs: