Rewrite String::replace_range

library/alloc/src/string.rs

@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ use core::iter::from_fn;
 use core::ops::Add;
 #[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
 use core::ops::AddAssign;
-#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
-use core::ops::Bound::{Excluded, Included, Unbounded};
 use core::ops::{self, Range, RangeBounds};
 use core::str::pattern::{Pattern, Utf8Pattern};
 use core::{fmt, hash, ptr, slice};
@@ -2049,30 +2047,19 @@ impl String {
     where
         R: RangeBounds<usize>,
     {
-        // Memory safety
-        //
-        // Replace_range does not have the memory safety issues of a vector Splice.
-        // of the vector version. The data is just plain bytes.
-
-        // WARNING: Inlining this variable would be unsound (#81138)
-        let start = range.start_bound();
-        match start {
-            Included(&n) => assert!(self.is_char_boundary(n)),
-            Excluded(&n) => assert!(self.is_char_boundary(n + 1)),
-            Unbounded => {}
-        };
-        // WARNING: Inlining this variable would be unsound (#81138)
-        let end = range.end_bound();
-        match end {
-            Included(&n) => assert!(self.is_char_boundary(n + 1)),
-            Excluded(&n) => assert!(self.is_char_boundary(n)),
-            Unbounded => {}
-        };
-
-        // Using `range` again would be unsound (#81138)
-        // We assume the bounds reported by `range` remain the same, but
-        // an adversarial implementation could change between calls
-        unsafe { self.as_mut_vec() }.splice((start, end), replace_with.bytes());
+        // We avoid #81138 (nondeterministic RangeBounds impls) because we only use `range` once, here.
+        let checked_range = slice::range(range, ..self.len());
+
+        assert!(
+            self.is_char_boundary(checked_range.start),
+            "start of range should be a character boundary"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            self.is_char_boundary(checked_range.end),
+            "end of range should be a character boundary"
+        );
+
+        unsafe { self.as_mut_vec() }.splice(checked_range, replace_with.bytes());
     }
 
     /// Replaces the leftmost occurrence of a pattern with another string, in-place.

library/alloctests/tests/string.rs

@@ -616,8 +616,15 @@ fn test_replace_range() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-#[should_panic]
-fn test_replace_range_char_boundary() {
+#[should_panic = "start of range should be a character boundary"]
+fn test_replace_range_start_char_boundary() {
+    let mut s = "Hello, 世界!".to_owned();
+    s.replace_range(8.., "");
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[should_panic = "end of range should be a character boundary"]
+fn test_replace_range_end_char_boundary() {
     let mut s = "Hello, 世界!".to_owned();
     s.replace_range(..8, "");
 }
@@ -632,28 +639,32 @@ fn test_replace_range_inclusive_range() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-#[should_panic]
+#[should_panic = "range end index 6 out of range for slice of length 5"]
 fn test_replace_range_out_of_bounds() {
     let mut s = String::from("12345");
     s.replace_range(5..6, "789");
 }
 
 #[test]
-#[should_panic]
+#[should_panic = "range end index 5 out of range for slice of length 5"]
 fn test_replace_range_inclusive_out_of_bounds() {
     let mut s = String::from("12345");
     s.replace_range(5..=5, "789");
 }
 
+// The overflowed index value is target-dependent,
+// so we don't check for its exact value in the panic message
 #[test]
-#[should_panic]
+#[should_panic = "out of range for slice of length 3"]
 fn test_replace_range_start_overflow() {
     let mut s = String::from("123");
     s.replace_range((Excluded(usize::MAX), Included(0)), "");
 }
 
+// The overflowed index value is target-dependent,
+// so we don't check for its exact value in the panic message
 #[test]
-#[should_panic]
+#[should_panic = "out of range for slice of length 3"]
 fn test_replace_range_end_overflow() {
     let mut s = String::from("456");
     s.replace_range((Included(0), Included(usize::MAX)), "");