Don't emit arg count diagnostics for method calls with unknown receiver

Fixes #7098.

crates/hir_ty/src/diagnostics/expr.rs

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ fn validate_call(&mut self, db: &dyn HirDatabase, call_id: ExprId, expr: &Expr)
         // FIXME: Due to shortcomings in the current type system implementation, only emit this
         // diagnostic if there are no type mismatches in the containing function.
         if self.infer.type_mismatches.iter().next().is_some() {
-            return Some(());
+            return None;
         }
 
         let is_method_call = matches!(expr, Expr::MethodCall { .. });
@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@ fn validate_call(&mut self, db: &dyn HirDatabase, call_id: ExprId, expr: &Expr)
                 let mut args = args.clone();
                 args.insert(0, *receiver);
 
+                let receiver = &self.infer.type_of_expr[*receiver];
+                if receiver.strip_references().is_unknown() {
+                    // if the receiver is of unknown type, it's very likely we
+                    // don't know enough to correctly resolve the method call.
+                    // This is kind of a band-aid for #6975.
+                    return None;
+                }
+
                 // FIXME: note that we erase information about substs here. This
                 // is not right, but, luckily, doesn't matter as we care only
                 // about the number of params
@@ -504,6 +512,22 @@ fn f() {
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn method_unknown_receiver() {
+        // note: this is incorrect code, so there might be errors on this in the
+        // future, but we shouldn't emit an argument count diagnostic here
+        check_diagnostics(
+            r#"
+trait Foo { fn method(&self, arg: usize) {} }
+
+fn f() {
+    let x;
+    x.method();
+}
+"#,
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn tuple_struct() {
         check_diagnostics(

crates/hir_ty/src/lib.rs

@@ -791,6 +791,10 @@ pub fn is_never(&self) -> bool {
         matches!(self, Ty::Apply(ApplicationTy { ctor: TypeCtor::Never, .. }))
     }
 
+    pub fn is_unknown(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Ty::Unknown)
+    }
+
     /// If this is a `dyn Trait` type, this returns the `Trait` part.
     pub fn dyn_trait_ref(&self) -> Option<&TraitRef> {
         match self {