Multiple issues while interacting with functions defined on top of one another
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- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
Research direction
Start by reproducing the overlapping-function scenario described in the issue: define two functions at one address, set a tag on the second, navigate to it, and observe view updates during analysis. Trace the affected navigation, tag, and analysis-refresh entry points; done means each action remains associated with the correct function rather than always selecting the first.
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Description
Version and Platform (required):
- Binary Ninja Version: 3.5.4322-dev
- OS: macOS
- OS Version: 13.4
- CPU Architecture: ARM64
Bug Description:
I've been working on a few databases lately that have had multiple functions defined on top of each other, either erroneously or intentionally. Many user actions (such as navigation) will assume there is exactly one function at a given address and will navigate you to the first function, rather than to the function that your user action actually corresponds to.
An example of this is having a tag set on the second function and trying to navigate there. It will send you to the first function instead.
Another example is the view updating during analysis: It'll just refresh your window into the first function, which is exceptionally disorienting.
Since we support overlapping functions as a key feature that differentiates us from competitors like IDA (which, at least the last time I used it professionally, did not handle this in the slightest), we should make sure that this support works and that we aren't accidentally baking bad assumptions into the codebase when we're making changes and bugfixes.
Steps To Reproduce:
- Define two functions, one on top of the other.
- Perform actions on the second of the two functions and observe all of the places where it's obvious that we assume Highlander rules apply.
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Expected Behavior:
In all cases, if I am performing an action where the data upon which that action is taking place resides in one function, and not another, we should perform that action on the correct function despite the address existing in multiple.
Screenshots:
Somewhat difficult to take screenshots of some of this, but if anyone wants a video or in-person demo, I'm happy to put in the extra work.
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