[Static Analyzer] BugReporter.cpp:2869: Assertion failed: !RemainingNodes.empty() && "No error node found in the trimmed graph"

The assertion is caused by reusing a “filler” ExplodedNode as an error node.
The “filler” nodes are only used for intermediate processing and are not
essential for analyzer history, so they can be reclaimed when the
ExplodedGraph is trimmed by the “collectNode” function. When a checker finds a
bug, they generate a new transition in the ExplodedGraph. The analyzer will
try to reuse the existing predecessor node. If it cannot, it creates a new
ExplodedNode, which always has a tag to uniquely identify the creation site.
The assertion is caused when the analyzer reuses a “filler” node.

In the test case, some “filler” nodes were reused and then reclaimed later
when the ExplodedGraph was trimmed. This caused an assertion because the node
was needed to generate the report. The “filler” nodes should not be reused as
error nodes. The patch adds a constraint to prevent this happening, which
solves the problem and makes the test cases pass.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11433

Patch by Ying Yi!

llvm-svn: 246188

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