ignore reads of tracked state when there is no current task

I realized that, even in the current system, such reads can't really do
any harm. Because they are not part of a task, they will occur no matter
what (only tasks can be skipped). If you leak the data you read into a
task, that is bad, but that is equally bad if you are in a task.

*Writes* to tracked state, on the other hand, should never occur except
from within a task (and the task then records what things you read to
compute it).

Once we complete the shift to on-demand, these properties will hold by
construction (because the on-demand struct enforces stateless tasks
where leaks are impossible -- except by having shared mutable state in
the tcx).

Author: nikomatsakis

src/librustc/dep_graph/edges.rs

@@ -101,11 +101,15 @@ impl<D: Clone + Debug + Eq + Hash> DepGraphEdges<D> {
     }
 
     /// Indicates that the current task `C` reads `v` by adding an
-    /// edge from `v` to `C`. If there is no current task, panics. If
-    /// you want to suppress this edge, use `ignore`.
+    /// edge from `v` to `C`. If there is no current task, has no
+    /// effect. Note that *reading* from tracked state is harmless if
+    /// you are not in a task; what is bad is *writing* to tracked
+    /// state (and leaking data that you read into a tracked task).
     pub fn read(&mut self, v: DepNode<D>) {
-        let source = self.make_node(v);
-        self.add_edge_from_current_node(|current| (source, current))
+        if self.current_node().is_some() {
+            let source = self.make_node(v);
+            self.add_edge_from_current_node(|current| (source, current))
+        }
     }
 
     /// Indicates that the current task `C` writes `v` by adding an

src/librustc/dep_graph/shadow.rs

@@ -80,7 +80,13 @@ impl ShadowGraph {
 
             let mut stack = self.stack.borrow_mut();
             match *message {
-                DepMessage::Read(ref n) => self.check_edge(Some(Some(n)), top(&stack)),
+                // It is ok to READ shared state outside of a
+                // task. That can't do any harm (at least, the only
+                // way it can do harm is by leaking that data into a
+                // query or task, which would be a problem
+                // anyway). What would be bad is WRITING to that
+                // state.
+                DepMessage::Read(_) => { }
                 DepMessage::Write(ref n) => self.check_edge(top(&stack), Some(Some(n))),
                 DepMessage::PushTask(ref n) => stack.push(Some(n.clone())),
                 DepMessage::PushIgnore => stack.push(None),
@@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ impl ShadowGraph {
             (None, None) => unreachable!(),
 
             // nothing on top of the stack
-            (None, Some(n)) | (Some(n), None) => bug!("read/write of {:?} but no current task", n),
+            (None, Some(n)) | (Some(n), None) => bug!("write of {:?} but no current task", n),
 
             // this corresponds to an Ignore being top of the stack
             (Some(None), _) | (_, Some(None)) => (),