Tracking issue for `forbidden_lint_groups`

This is the summary issue for the forbidden_lint_groups future-compatibility warning and other related errors. The goal of this page is describe why this change was made and how you can fix code that is affected by it. It also provides a place to ask questions or register a complaint if you feel the change should not be made. For more information on the policy around future-compatibility warnings, see our breaking change policy guidelines.

What is the warning for?

Due to a compiler bug, applying forbid to lint groups, previously had no effect. The bug is now fixed but instead of enforcing forbid we issue this future-compatibility warning to avoid breaking existing crates.

Recommendations

If your crate is using #![forbid(warnings)], we recommend that you change to #![deny(warnings)].

When will this warning become a hard error?

At the beginning of each 6-week release cycle, the Rust compiler team will review the set of outstanding future compatibility warnings and nominate some of them for Final Comment Period. Toward the end of the cycle, we will review any comments and make a final determination whether to convert the warning into a hard error or remove it entirely.

I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to report this but the error caused by this change is extremely hard to understand:

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
   --> src/lib.rs:197:9
    |
17  | #![forbid(warnings)]
    |           -------- `forbid` level set here
...
197 |         world.repo.publish_offramp(&id, false, o).await?;
    |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ overruled by previous forbid
    |
    = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
    = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>

While this hints at this issue is in no way provides the information that it is caused by using #![forbid(warnings)] instead of #![deny(warnings)]

Would it be possible to make this error a bit more "rust-like"? E.g. help: use #![deny(warnings)] instead or similar?

The warning message for this is not very helpful.

The following code:

#![forbid(unsafe_code, future_incompatible)]
#![warn(
    missing_debug_implementations,
    rust_2018_idioms,
    trivial_casts,
    unused_qualifications
)]

Produces:

warning: warn(rust_2018_idioms) incompatible with previous forbid
 --> src/lib.rs:4:5
  |
1 | #![forbid(unsafe_code, future_incompatible)]
  |                        ------------------- `forbid` level set here
...
4 |     rust_2018_idioms,
  |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ overruled by previous forbid
  |
  = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
  = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>

And frankly between that and this issue I am not sure what I am supposed to do?

Am I supposed to turn rust_2018_idioms into it's dependent lints? Does one conflict with future_incompatible? Am I no longer allowed to forbid(future_incompatible)? It isn't clear.

Am I just tired or is this an oversight? Running the following clippy command results in the warnings generated in the followed code block:

$ cargo clippy -- -F warnings -W future-incompatible

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
   --> src/main.rs:109:29
    |
109 |         let target_binary = fs::read(target_file)?;
    |                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ overruled by previous forbid
    |
    = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
    = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
    = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line
    = note: `-W forbidden-lint-groups` implied by `-W future-incompatible`

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
   --> src/main.rs:125:26
    |
125 |         let elf_object = object::File::parse(&*target_binary)?;
    |                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ overruled by previous forbid
    |
    = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
    = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
    = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
   --> src/main.rs:137:13
    |
137 |             disassemble_binary(elf_object, capstone_object)?;
    |             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ overruled by previous forbid
    |
    = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
    = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
    = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
  --> src/main.rs:66:24
   |
66 |       let section_text = elf_object
   |  ________________________^
67 | |         .section_by_name(".text")
68 | |         .ok_or("unable to get the `.text` section from the provided binary")?;
   | |_____________________________________________________________________________^ overruled by previous forbid
   |
   = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
   = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
   = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
  --> src/main.rs:70:16
   |
70 |     let code = section_text.data()?;
   |                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ overruled by previous forbid
   |
   = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
   = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
   = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
  --> src/main.rs:79:28
   |
79 |               let mnemonic = instruction
   |  ____________________________^
80 | |                 .mnemonic()
81 | |                 .ok_or("ERROR: unable to get mnemonic")?;
   | |________________________________________________________^ overruled by previous forbid
   |
   = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
   = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
   = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line

warning: allow(unreachable_code) incompatible with previous forbid
  --> src/main.rs:82:28
   |
82 |               let operands = instruction
   |  ____________________________^
83 | |                 .op_str()
84 | |                 .ok_or("ERROR: unable to get operation operands")?;
   | |__________________________________________________________________^ overruled by previous forbid
   |
   = warning: this was previously accepted by the compiler but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release!
   = note: for more information, see issue #81670 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81670>
   = note: `forbid` lint level was set on command line

warning: `inverse-transpiler` (bin "inverse-transpiler") generated 7 warnings
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.01s

Am I reading this right? (Not sarcastic, I'm genuinely asking.) Is clippy complaining that the code block under the lines using the ? operator is unreachable_code because if it fails, the following lines may not be executed?

Is this intended behaviour? If yes, is there a proposed workaround or a better method to handle the errors better than what I am doing?

Edit: Forgot to share the Rust version I am using.

$ rustup toolchain list
stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
1.62.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

$ cargo --version
cargo 1.69.0 (6e9a83356 2023-04-12)

$ rustc --version
rustc 1.69.0 (84c898d65 2023-04-16)

$ cargo clippy --version
clippy 0.1.69 (84c898d 2023-04-16)

@thefossguy: i had the same warning today and got pointed to this issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76053 it seems that this is a rustc bug reporting a warning where there shouldn't be one.

if this issue here gets stabilised then i presume that the bug has to be fixed first so as to not break the code which currently gets the invalid warning?

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