Keith Randall 2b8e60d464 runtime: make typehash match compiler generated hashes exactly ...

If typehash (used by reflect) does not match the built-in map's hash,
then problems occur. If a map is built using reflect, and then
assigned to a variable of map type, the hash function can change. That
causes very bad things.

This issue is rare. MapOf consults a cache of all types that occur in
the binary before making a new one. To make a true new map type (with
a hash function derived from typehash) that map type must not occur in
the binary anywhere. But to cause the bug, we need a variable of that
type in order to assign to it. The only way to make that work is to
use a named map type for the variable, so it is distinct from the
unnamed version that MapOf looks for.

Fixes #37716

Change-Id: I3537bfceca8cbfa1af84202f432f3c06953fe0ed
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/222357
Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>

2020-03-10 16:26:59 +00:00

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