Analyzing stuck - Infinite increments during analysis phase 1

[fnpngn]

Version and Platform (required):

• Binary Ninja Version: 5.2.8722 free
• OS: windows
• OS Version: 11 26200.8037
• CPU Architecture: x64

Bug Description:
Binary Ninja keeps endlessly analyzing. Analysis Phase 1...Analyzing (n / n+23) with n increasing every second indefinitely.

Other issues caused by this:

• All Xrefs wiped every time you open project
• Need to manually reanalyze functions to apply naming/struct changes
• Copying shortcuts seem to stop working, only able to copy code / highlighted addresses through context menu
• Project file keeps growing without stopping, currently 224mb after 5 hours

Steps To Reproduce:

• Project auto-analyzed and working

• Found a function with a warning: too complex to analyze
• Clicked force analyze, accepted it would take much time
• Saved the project file after ~two hours unfinished analysis, logs showed still analyzing warning
• Reloading the project starts analyzing counting from zero indefinitely

Expected Behavior:
Analysis concludes or stops after exiting BN
Ability to cancel faulty analysis

Screenshots:

Binary:
radiant orbit atomizes meaningfully
x86 Game executable from 2008

Additional Information:
Noticed that struct parts of the function in High Level view keep alternating between
eax->vtable->vFunc_7()
and the raw pointer addressing equivalent for all members
Unfortunately, I could not find the exact function that started it.

[psifertex]

Thanks for the report -- this looks to already fixed on dev, unfortunately that won't be available to try on free until the next stable in a few months.

[psifertex]

Actually, if you can shoot us an email (binaryninja at vector35), we can send you an updated version to test and verify it's gone for you as well in case it's something platform-specfiic.

[fnpngn]

Thank you for sharing a development build, It does not seem to fix it for me.
Here is a video of what happens, reproduced from zero at 0:24
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nXN1snrcxXUlqNPRATISkBC6snkHBTBE/view?usp=sharing

[psifertex]

Not sure why you're experiencing this but we can't reproduce it directly in either free or paid versions. I'm re-opening this but we'll probably have to take a look at it during the next release cycle. In the meantime you can try some of the steps in https://docs.binary.ninja/guide/troubleshooting.html that are applicable (potentially only excluding settings makes sense, but not plugins of course)