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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### Documentation

- [ ] I created a pull request [to the documentation](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/docs) to explain to Forgejo users how to use this change.
- [x] I did not document these changes and I do not expect someone else to do it.

### Release notes

- [ ] This change will be noticed by a Forgejo user or admin (feature, bug fix, performance, etc.). I suggest to include a release note for this change.
- [x] This change is not visible to a Forgejo user or admin (refactor, dependency upgrade, etc.). I think there is no need to add a release note for this change.

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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ func getSignVersion(req *http.Request) (string, error) {
switch m[1] {
case "1.0", "1.1", "1.2", "1.3":
break
default:
return "", util.NewInvalidArgumentErrorf("unsupported version")
}

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@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ func Search(ctx *context.APIContext) {
opts.Mirror = optional.Some(false)
opts.Collaborate = optional.Some(true)
case "":
break
default:
ctx.Error(http.StatusUnprocessableEntity, "", fmt.Errorf("Invalid search mode: \"%s\"", mode))
return

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@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ func MonitorDiagnosis(ctx *context.Context) {
select {
case <-time.After(time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second):
break
case <-ctx.Done():
break
}
pprof.StopCPUProfile()
trace.Stop()

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@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ func initTestQueueOnce() {
for range t {
select {
case <-graceful.GetManager().ShutdownContext().Done():
break
case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
break
}
}
return nil
@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ func initTestQueueOnce() {
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
break
case <-time.After(500 * time.Millisecond):
if adding {
if testQueue.GetQueueItemNumber() == qs.Length {

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@ -1418,6 +1418,7 @@ func generateCodeChallenge(ctx *context.Context, provider string) (codeChallenge
case *openidConnect.Provider, *fitbit.Provider, *zoom.Provider:
// those providers forward the `code_verifier`
// a code_challenge can be generated
break
}
codeVerifier := util.CryptoRandomString(util.RandomStringHigh)

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@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ func SearchRepo(ctx *context.Context) {
opts.Mirror = optional.Some(false)
opts.Collaborate = optional.Some(true)
case "":
break
default:
ctx.Error(http.StatusUnprocessableEntity, fmt.Sprintf("Invalid search mode: \"%s\"", mode))
return

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@ -511,8 +511,6 @@ func buildIssueOverview(ctx *context.Context, unitType unit.Type) {
}
switch filterMode {
case issues_model.FilterModeAll:
case issues_model.FilterModeYourRepositories:
case issues_model.FilterModeAssign:
opts.AssigneeID = ctx.Doer.ID
case issues_model.FilterModeCreate:
@ -846,7 +844,7 @@ func getUserIssueStats(ctx *context.Context, ctxUser *user_model.User, filterMod
openClosedOpts := opts.Copy()
switch filterMode {
case issues_model.FilterModeAll:
// no-op
break
case issues_model.FilterModeYourRepositories:
openClosedOpts.AllPublic = false
case issues_model.FilterModeAssign:

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@ -180,8 +180,6 @@ func ViewPackageVersion(ctx *context.Context) {
ctx.Data["PackageRegistryHost"] = setting.Packages.RegistryHost
switch pd.Package.Type {
case packages_model.TypeContainer:
case packages_model.TypeAlpine:
branches := make(container.Set[string])
repositories := make(container.Set[string])