Fix struct type resolution and SSA resilience for complex codebases

[nisedo]

Summary

Fixes multiple crashes when analyzing complex codebases with contract name collisions, deeply inherited state variables, and ternary operators in partially-parsed functions.

Bug 1: Struct Type Resolution with Same-Name Contract Collisions

Root Cause: FileScope.contracts is a dict[str, Contract] keyed by contract name. When a file imports a contract with the same name as a local contract (via import { Structs as Alias }), the imported contract silently overwrites the local one. The parse_type() function in type_parsing.py builds all_structures and all_enums from scope.contracts.values(), which loses all structs/enums from the overwritten contract.

Fix: Changed all_structures and all_enums to be built from sl.contracts (the full compilation unit) instead of scope.contracts.values(). This matches the existing approach already used for top-level contexts and avoids the dict collision entirely.

Files: slither/solc_parsing/solidity_types/type_parsing.py

Bug 2: SSA Assertion Failure on Untracked State Variables

Root Cause: The get() function in ssa.py checks isinstance(variable, StateVariable) and variable.canonical_name in state_variables_instances, but if a ReferenceVariable.points_to refers to a state variable not in the current contract's SSA instances (e.g., from an external contract or unresolved due to name collisions), the StateVariable falls through all handlers and hits an assertion at line 632 where StateVariable is not listed as an allowed type.

Fix: When a StateVariable is not in state_variables_instances, return it as-is (same treatment as Constant, Contract, etc.). Also hardened all downstream SSA consumers:

• update_lvalue(): Skip updates for unknown state variables
• last_name(): Filter to SSA-typed variables, return None when no candidates found
• fix_phi_rvalues_and_storage_ref(): Filter None from phi rvalues
• fix_phi() in Contract: Skip unknown state variable names
• convert_variable_to_non_ssa(): Accept raw StateVariable/LocalVariable

Files: slither/slithir/utils/ssa.py, slither/core/declarations/contract.py, slither/analyses/data_dependency/data_dependency.py

Bug 3: One Parsing Failure Aborts All Sibling Functions

Root Cause: analyze_content_functions() and analyze_content_modifiers() wrapped their entire loop in a single try/except. When one function raised VariableNotFound (e.g., an unresolvable struct constructor), ALL remaining functions in the contract were skipped — including their ternary rewriting phase. This caused surviving ternary expressions to crash during IR generation.

Fix: Moved try/except inside the loop so each function/modifier is independently analyzed. Also added per-node error handling in expression analysis within analyze_content() so that a failure in one CFG node doesn't prevent ternary rewriting from running on other nodes.

Files: slither/solc_parsing/declarations/contract.py, slither/solc_parsing/declarations/function.py

Test Results

• SSA generation unit tests: 14 passed, 12 xfailed
• AST parsing e2e tests: 6593 passed
• Detector e2e tests: 381 passed
• All other unit tests: 247 passed, 14 xfailed
• Total: 7221 tests passed, 0 regressions
• Successfully analyzed a real-world 806-contract codebase that previously crashed

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