Catch RecursionError in raise_if_nothing_inferred

ChangeLog

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Release date: TBA
 
   Closes #1700
 
+* Fixed crash with recursion limits during inference.
+
+  Closes #1646
+
 What's New in astroid 2.12.1?
 =============================
 Release date: 2022-07-10

astroid/decorators.py

@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ def raise_if_nothing_inferred(func, instance, args, kwargs):
         raise InferenceError(
             "StopIteration raised without any error information."
         ) from error
+    except RecursionError as error:
+        raise InferenceError(
+            f"RecursionError raised with limit {sys.getrecursionlimit()}."
+        ) from error
 
     yield from generator
 

tests/unittest_regrtest.py

@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@
 import sys
 import textwrap
 import unittest
+from unittest import mock
 
 import pytest
 
 from astroid import MANAGER, Instance, bases, nodes, parse, test_utils
-from astroid.builder import AstroidBuilder, extract_node
+from astroid.builder import AstroidBuilder, _extract_single_node, extract_node
 from astroid.const import PY38_PLUS
 from astroid.context import InferenceContext
 from astroid.exceptions import InferenceError
@@ -420,5 +421,22 @@ def test_max_inferred_for_complicated_class_hierarchy() -> None:
     assert super_node.getattr("__init__", context=context)[0] == Uninferable
 
 
+@mock.patch(
+    "astroid.nodes.ImportFrom._infer",
+    side_effect=RecursionError,
+)
+def test_recursion_during_inference(mocked) -> None:
+    """Check that we don't crash if we hit the recursion limit during inference."""
+    node: nodes.Expr = _extract_single_node(
+        """
+    from module import something
+    something()
+    """
+    )
+    with pytest.raises(InferenceError) as error:
+        next(node.infer())
+    assert error.value.message.startswith("RecursionError raised")
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()