ci: detect and prevent empty case statements in Go code (#11593)

One of the security patches released 2026-03-09 [fixed a vulnerability](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/11513/commits/d1c7b04d09f6a13896eaa1322ac690b2021539da) caused by a misapplication of Go `case` statements, where the implementation would have been correct if Go `case` statements automatically fall through to the next case block, but they do not.  This PR adds a semgrep rule which detects any empty `case` statement and raises an error, in order to prevent this coding mistake in the future.

For example, code like this will now trigger a build error:
```go
	switch setting.Protocol {
	case setting.HTTPUnix:
	case setting.FCGI:
	case setting.FCGIUnix:
	default:
		defaultLocalURL := string(setting.Protocol) + "://"
	}
```

Example error:
```
    cmd/web.go
   ❯❯❱ semgrep.config.forgejo-switch-empty-case
          switch has a case block with no content. This is treated as "break" by Go, but developers may
          confuse it for "fallthrough".  To fix this error, disambiguate by using "break" or
          "fallthrough".

          279┆ switch setting.Protocol {
          280┆ case setting.HTTPUnix:
          281┆ case setting.FCGI:
          282┆ case setting.FCGIUnix:
          283┆ default:
          284┆   defaultLocalURL := string(setting.Protocol) + "://"
          285┆   if setting.HTTPAddr == "0.0.0.0" {
          286┆           defaultLocalURL += "localhost"
          287┆   } else {
          288┆           defaultLocalURL += setting.HTTPAddr
```

As described in the error output, this error can be fixed by explicitly listing `break` (the real Go behaviour, to do nothing in the block), or by listing `fallthrough` (if the intent was to fall through).

All existing code triggering this detection has been changed to `break` (or, rarely, irrelevant cases have been removed), which should maintain the same code functionality.  While performing this fixup, a light analysis was performed on each case and they *appeared* correct, but with ~65 cases I haven't gone into extreme depth.

Tests are present for the semgrep rule in `.semgrep/tests/go.go`.

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- [x] I did not document these changes and I do not expect someone else to do it.

### Release notes

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Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/11593
Reviewed-by: Gusted <gusted@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-authored-by: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu@fenniak.net>
Co-committed-by: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu@fenniak.net>
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Mathieu Fenniak 2026-03-10 02:50:28 +01:00 committed by Mathieu Fenniak
parent c564867439
commit f93d2cb261
45 changed files with 135 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ func SetDefaultPasswordToArgon2(x *xorm.Engine) error {
return err
case setting.Database.Type.IsSQLite3():
// drop through
break
default:
log.Fatal("Unrecognized DB")
}

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@ -174,8 +174,10 @@ func GetPackageDescriptor(ctx context.Context, pv *PackageVersion) (*PackageDesc
metadata = &debian.Metadata{}
case TypeGeneric:
// generic packages have no metadata
break
case TypeGo:
// go packages have no metadata
break
case TypeHelm:
metadata = &helm.Metadata{}
case TypeNuGet: