Cancellation exception handled incorrectly

Reports ProcessCanceledException and CancellationException handled incorrectly.

ProcessCanceledException and its inheritors must not be caught, swallowed, logged, or handled in any way. Instead, it must be rethrown so that the IntelliJ Platform infrastructure can handle it correctly.

CancellationException must not be caught, swallowed, logged, or handled in any way in coroutine context. Instead, it must be rethrown so that the coroutines infrastructure can handle it correctly.

Inspection reports both explicit ProcessCanceledException (including inheritors) and CancellationExceptioncatching, as well as catching RuntimeException, Exception and Throwable covering cancellation exceptions.

// bad:
try {
  // ...
} catch (ProcessCanceledException e) { // exception should not be swallowed
}

// bad:
try {
  // ...
} catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
  LOG.error("Error occurred", e); // exception should not be logged
  throw e;
}


// good:
try {
  // ...
} catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
  // additional actions
  throw e;
}

// bad:
cs.launch {
  try {
    // ...
  } catch (e: CancellationException) { // exception should not be swallowed
  }
}

// bad:
suspend fun suspendingFunction() {
  try {
    // ...
  } catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
    LOG.error("Error occurred", e); // exception should not be logged
    throw e;
  }
}


// good:
cs.launch {
  try {
    // ...
  } catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
    // additional actions
    throw e;
  }
}

Locating this inspection

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IncorrectCancellationExceptionHandling

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New in 2023.2

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection IncorrectCancellationExceptionHandling

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025