Merge pull request #12873 from dotty-staging/backport-unpickle-param-cycle

[backport] TreeUnpickler: fix cycle involving param accessor

Author: bishabosha

compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/tasty/TreeUnpickler.scala

@@ -881,7 +881,12 @@ class TreeUnpickler(reader: TastyReader,
       }
       goto(end)
       setSpan(start, tree)
-      if (!sym.isType) // Only terms might have leaky aliases, see the documentation of `checkNoPrivateLeaks`
+
+      // Dealias any non-accessible type alias in the type of `sym`. This can be
+      // skipped for types (see `checkNoPrivateLeaks` for why) as well as for
+      // param accessors since they can't refer to an inaccesible type member of
+      // the class.
+      if !sym.isType && !sym.is(ParamAccessor) then
         sym.info = ta.avoidPrivateLeaks(sym)
 
       if (ctx.settings.YreadComments.value) {

tests/pos/i12834.scala

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+class A(val ref: Option[B])
+class B extends A(None)