GP-6431 updated RTTI analyzer to handle case where class name cannot be demangled. Some improvement to RTTI script vbtable determination of invalid tables.

Ghidra/Features/MicrosoftCodeAnalyzer/src/main/java/ghidra/app/cmd/data/CreateTypeDescriptorBackgroundCmd.java

@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ import ghidra.program.model.address.Address;
 import ghidra.program.model.data.*;
 import ghidra.program.model.listing.*;
 import ghidra.program.model.symbol.Namespace;
+import ghidra.program.model.symbol.SourceType;
 import ghidra.program.model.util.CodeUnitInsertionException;
 import ghidra.util.Msg;
-import ghidra.util.exception.CancelledException;
-import ghidra.util.exception.InvalidInputException;
+import ghidra.util.exception.*;
 
 /**
  * This command will create a TypeDescriptor data type. Since unsized arrays are not properly
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ public class CreateTypeDescriptorBackgroundCmd
 
 		Program program = model.getProgram();
 		String demangledName = model.getDemangledTypeDescriptor();
+
+		// if cannot demangle then use the mangled name
 		if (demangledName == null) {
-			return false;
+			demangledName = model.getOriginalTypename();
 		}
 		String prefix = demangledName + " ";
 
@@ -147,9 +149,25 @@ public class CreateTypeDescriptorBackgroundCmd
 		// Label
 		Namespace classNamespace = model.getDescriptorAsNamespace();
 
-		if (classNamespace == null) {
-			Msg.error(RttiUtil.class, "Cannot get namespace from model " + model.getAddress());
-			return false;
+		// if cannot demangle then use the mangled name as the namespace
+		if (classNamespace == null || classNamespace.isGlobal()) {
+			Msg.error(RttiUtil.class, "Cannot get demangled namespace from model " +
+				model.getAddress() + " so will use the mangled name for the namespace");
+			try {
+				classNamespace = program.getSymbolTable()
+						.getOrCreateNameSpace(program.getGlobalNamespace(), demangledName,
+							SourceType.IMPORTED);
+			}
+			catch (DuplicateNameException e) {
+				// ok if it is duplicate as it was likely created in another rtti handling method
+			}
+			catch (InvalidInputException e) {
+				Msg.error(TypeDescriptorModel.class,
+					"Failed to create mangled namespace: " + e.getMessage());
+				classNamespace = null;
+				return false;
+			}
+
 		}
 
 		// If PDB had been run, then the namespace here might already have been promoted to

Ghidra/Features/MicrosoftCodeAnalyzer/src/main/java/ghidra/app/cmd/data/TypeDescriptorModel.java

@@ -28,11 +28,9 @@ import ghidra.program.model.listing.Program;
 import ghidra.program.model.mem.DumbMemBufferImpl;
 import ghidra.program.model.mem.Memory;
 import ghidra.program.model.scalar.Scalar;
-import ghidra.program.model.symbol.Namespace;
-import ghidra.program.model.symbol.Symbol;
+import ghidra.program.model.symbol.*;
 import ghidra.util.Msg;
-import ghidra.util.exception.AssertException;
-import ghidra.util.exception.CancelledException;
+import ghidra.util.exception.*;
 import ghidra.util.task.TaskMonitor;
 
 /**
@@ -473,6 +471,10 @@ public class TypeDescriptorModel extends AbstractCreateDataTypeModel {
 		return hasComplexType() ? demangledDataType.getOriginalDemangled() : null;
 	}
 
+	public String getOriginalTypename() {
+		return originalTypeName;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Gets just the name of the type descriptor.
 	 * @return the name of the thing referred to by this descriptor, or null if it couldn't
@@ -583,6 +585,23 @@ public class TypeDescriptorModel extends AbstractCreateDataTypeModel {
 		Program program = getProgram();
 		namespace = DemangledObject.createNamespace(program, demangledDataType,
 			program.getGlobalNamespace(), false);
+
+		// if for some reason the mangled name can't be demangled, use the mangled name
+		if (namespace.isGlobal()) {
+			try {
+				namespace = program.getSymbolTable()
+						.getOrCreateNameSpace(program.getGlobalNamespace(), originalTypeName,
+							SourceType.IMPORTED);
+			}
+			catch (DuplicateNameException e) {
+				// ok if it is duplicate as it was likely created in another rtti handling method 
+			}
+			catch (InvalidInputException e) {
+				Msg.error(TypeDescriptorModel.class,
+					"Failed to create namespace: " + e.getMessage());
+				namespace = null;
+			}
+		}
 		return namespace;
 	}
 

Ghidra/Features/MicrosoftCodeAnalyzer/src/main/java/ghidra/app/cmd/data/rtti/CreateVfTableBackgroundCmd.java

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ public class CreateVfTableBackgroundCmd extends AbstractCreateDataBackgroundCmd<
 				String demangledTypeDescriptor = rtti0Model.getDemangledTypeDescriptor();
 				String prefixString = ((demangledTypeDescriptor != null)
 						? (demangledTypeDescriptor + Namespace.DELIMITER)
-						: "");
+						: rtti0Model.getOriginalTypename() + Namespace.DELIMITER);
 				data.setComment(CommentType.EOL, "terminator for " + prefixString + VF_TABLE_LABEL);
 				return true;
 			}

Ghidra/Features/MicrosoftCodeAnalyzer/src/main/java/ghidra/app/cmd/data/rtti/RttiUtil.java

@@ -313,7 +313,11 @@ public class RttiUtil {
 	public static String getDescriptorTypeNamespace(TypeDescriptorModel rtti0Model) {
 		String descriptorTypeNamespace = rtti0Model.getDescriptorTypeNamespace(); // Can be null.
 		if (descriptorTypeNamespace == null) {
-			descriptorTypeNamespace = ""; // Couldn't get namespace so leave it off.
+
+			descriptorTypeNamespace = rtti0Model.getOriginalTypename();
+
+			Msg.warn(RttiUtil.class, rtti0Model.getAddress().toString() +
+				": Could not demangle TypeDescriptor namespace so using the mangled string as the namespace.");
 		}
 		return descriptorTypeNamespace;
 	}