x/tools/go/analysis/passes/nilness: missing location for error in embedded struct

[yuki2006]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.17.7 darwin/arm64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes ( v0.1.10 )

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""

GOARCH="arm64"

GOBIN=""

GOCACHE="/Users/yuki/Library/Caches/go-build"

GOENV="/Users/yuki/Library/Application Support/go/env"

GOEXE=""

GOEXPERIMENT=""

GOFLAGS=""

GOHOSTARCH="arm64"

GOHOSTOS="darwin"

GOINSECURE=""

GOMODCACHE="/Users/yuki/go/pkg/mod"

GONOPROXY=""

GONOSUMDB=""

GOOS="darwin"

GOPATH="/Users/yuki/go"

GOPRIVATE=""

GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"

GOROOT="/usr/local/go"

GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"

GOTMPDIR=""

GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64"

GOVCS=""

GOVERSION="go1.17.7"

GCCGO="gccgo"

AR="ar"

CC="clang"

CXX="clang++"

CGO_ENABLED="1"

GOMOD="/Users/yuki/gopath/src/go-test/go.mod"

CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_CPPFLAGS=""

CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/00/79n00m9j66zf77ppbmrzg_300000gn/T/go-build438069086=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

go install golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/passes/nilness/cmd/nilness@latest

put main.go

package main

import "fmt"

type dummy struct {
	innerDummy
}

type innerDummy struct {
	value int
}

func main() {
	var d *dummy
	fmt.Println(d.value)
}

nilness ./...

What did you expect to see?

The correct error location is displayed.

What did you see instead?

-: nil dereference in field selection

[zpavlinovic]

Related issue #31008

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/396495 mentions this issue: go/ssa: adds position info to implicit field selection instructions