Bug 307531

Summary:	Remove SWIFT_RETURNS_INDEPENDENT_VALUE
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	adrian_taylor
Component:	WebKit Misc.	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	Normal	CC:	webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified

adrian_taylor

Reported 2026-02-11 00:45:18 PST

The annotation SWIFT_RETURNS_INDEPENDENT_VALUE is undesirable, as mistakes using it can result in exploitable memory safety conditions. We want to avoid its use in WebKit as far as possible. Remove it in cases where we know how.

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Radar WebKit Bug Importer

Comment 1 2026-02-11 00:45:25 PST

<rdar://problem/170127262>

adrian_taylor

Comment 2 2026-02-11 00:53:43 PST

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/58389

EWS

Comment 3 2026-02-17 10:05:53 PST

Committed 307713@main (b0d82122ac81): <https://commits.webkit.org/307713@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #58389 and removing active labels.

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