[clang][Dependency Scanning] Report only Regular File Size Changes When Computing Out-of-Date File System Cache Entries

clang/lib/Tooling/DependencyScanning/DependencyScanningFilesystem.cpp

@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ DependencyScanningFilesystemSharedCache::getOutOfDateEntries(
     std::lock_guard<std::mutex> LockGuard(Shard.CacheLock);
     for (const auto &[Path, CachedPair] : Shard.CacheByFilename) {
       const CachedFileSystemEntry *Entry = CachedPair.first;
-
       llvm::ErrorOr<llvm::vfs::Status> Status = UnderlyingFS.status(Path);
       if (Status) {
         if (Entry->getError()) {
@@ -128,12 +127,22 @@ DependencyScanningFilesystemSharedCache::getOutOfDateEntries(
           InvalidDiagInfo.emplace_back(Path.data());
         } else {
           llvm::vfs::Status CachedStatus = Entry->getStatus();
-          uint64_t CachedSize = CachedStatus.getSize();
-          uint64_t ActualSize = Status->getSize();
-          if (CachedSize != ActualSize) {
-            // This is the case where the cached file has a different size
-            // from the actual file that comes from the underlying FS.
-            InvalidDiagInfo.emplace_back(Path.data(), CachedSize, ActualSize);
+          if (Status->getType() == llvm::sys::fs::file_type::regular_file &&
+              Status->getType() == CachedStatus.getType()) {
+            // We only check regular files. Directory files sizes could change
+            // due to content changes, and reporting directory size changes can
+            // lead to false positives.
+            // TODO: At the moment, we do not detect symlinks to files whose
+            // size may change. We need to decide if we want to detect cached
+            // symlink size changes. We can also expand this to detect file
+            // type changes.
+            uint64_t CachedSize = CachedStatus.getSize();
+            uint64_t ActualSize = Status->getSize();
+            if (CachedSize != ActualSize) {
+              // This is the case where the cached file has a different size
+              // from the actual file that comes from the underlying FS.
+              InvalidDiagInfo.emplace_back(Path.data(), CachedSize, ActualSize);
+            }
           }
         }
       }

clang/unittests/Tooling/DependencyScanning/DependencyScanningFilesystemTest.cpp

@@ -233,3 +233,34 @@ TEST(DependencyScanningFilesystem, DiagnoseCachedFileSizeChange) {
   ASSERT_EQ(SizeInfo->CachedSize, 0u);
   ASSERT_EQ(SizeInfo->ActualSize, 8u);
 }
+
+TEST(DependencyScanningFilesystem, DoNotDiagnoseDirSizeChange) {
+  llvm::SmallString<128> Dir;
+  ASSERT_FALSE(llvm::sys::fs::createUniqueDirectory("tmp", Dir));
+
+  llvm::IntrusiveRefCntPtr<llvm::vfs::FileSystem> FS =
+      llvm::vfs::createPhysicalFileSystem();
+
+  DependencyScanningFilesystemSharedCache SharedCache;
+  DependencyScanningWorkerFilesystem DepFS(SharedCache, FS);
+
+  // Trigger the file system cache.
+  ASSERT_EQ(DepFS.exists(Dir), true);
+
+  // Add a file to the FS to change its size.
+  // It seems that directory sizes reported are not meaningful,
+  // and should not be used to check for size changes.
+  // This test is setup only to trigger a size change so that we
+  // know we are excluding directories from reporting.
+  llvm::SmallString<128> FilePath = Dir;
+  llvm::sys::path::append(FilePath, "file.h");
+  {
+    std::error_code EC;
+    llvm::raw_fd_ostream TempFile(FilePath, EC);
+    ASSERT_FALSE(EC);
+  }
+
+  // We do not report directory size changes.
+  auto InvalidEntries = SharedCache.getOutOfDateEntries(*FS);
+  EXPECT_EQ(InvalidEntries.size(), 0u);
+}