Rust: Add Result::Err to excludeFieldTaintStep#21114
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This PR adds Result::Err to the excludeFieldTaintStep configuration to prevent taint from flowing through the error variant of Result types. The rationale is that when a Result value is user-controllable, typically only the Ok branch contains controllable data, not the Err branch. This change reduces false positives in security queries like rust/log-injection and rust/cleartext-logging.
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core::result::Result::Err(0)to theexcludeFieldTaintSteplist
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Seems very reasonable!
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The motivation here is that if a
Resultvalue is user-controllable, then it likely means that only theOkbranch is controllable. DCA confirms that we have fewer results forrust/log-injectionandrust/cleartext-logging.