These file formats have 16-bit packet lengths, so, even with some extra
metadata added, the packet data length will never be bigger than
WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE. (No, we won't ever reduce WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE.)
Change-Id: I9e1b1d90971f91cc6e5d66d0aa93841445b2bc22
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/15186
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
The use of a flag field here is aesthetically unpleasing when the flags
are referred to frequently. Convert these into bitfield entries.
Change-Id: I6f47e31558439dfd343ec7f856d04480366a1237
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/12511
Petri-Dish: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
It doesn't actually *close* any handle, so it's best called a "finish"
routine rather than a "close" routine.
In libwiretap modules, don't bother setting the finish routine pointer
to null - it's already initialized to null (it's probably best not to
require modules to set it).
Change-Id: I19554f3fb826db495f17b36600ae36222cbc21b0
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/11659
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
There were some cases where it wasn't getting initialized when we set
the PHY to 11b, in addition to the one Pascal found.
Change-Id: I127737cd29dc53c96342364de5cb722b135f23f3
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/9540
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
OK, anybody know how to convert a frequency between 4.9 GHz and 5.0 GHz
into a channel number, in a fashion that handles what's actually used in
both the US and Japan?
Change-Id: I95f4f9649e379b3d6651aadf8f62d8406b81b3b3
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/9511
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Have a field that holds the PHY type but nothing else. Have
a union with structures holding PHY-type-specific information, as a
bunch of attributes are PHY-specific.
If we have a channel and band, but don't have the frequency, attempt to
calculate the frequency, and add that to the radio information if we
succeed. If we have the frequency, but don't have the channel, attempt
to calculate the channel, and add that to the radio information if we
succeed.
Handle FHSS information, 11a "half/quarter-clocked" and turbo
information, 11g normal vs. Super G, additional 11n and 11ac
information, and the "short preamble" flag for 11b and 11g.
Add a PHY type for 11 legacy DSSS and detect it if possible.
Clean up the AVS dissector - make all fields wlancap. fields (if you
want generic fields, use the wlan_radio. fields).
Set more fields when writing out Commview Wi-Fi files.
Change-Id: I691ac59f5e9e1a23779b56a65124049914b72e69
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/9146
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Provide that information so that the "802.11 radio information" protocol
can indicate whether a packet was 802.11 legacy/11b/11a/11g/11n/11ac,
and possibly whether it's 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz 11n. (Sometimes the center
frequency might not be supplied, so the band information can be useful.)
Also, provide some 11ac information, now that we can distinguish between
11n and 11ac. Don't calculate the data rate from the MCS index unless
it's 11n; we don't yet have code to calculate it for 11ac.
For radiotap, only provide guard interval information for 11n and 11ac,
not for earlier standards.
Handle the 11ac flag in the Peek remote protocol.
For Peek tagged files, the "extension flags" are 11n/11ac flags, so we
don't have to check for the "MCS used" bit in order to decide that the
packet is 11n or 11ac or to decide whether to provide the "bandwidth" or
"short GI" information.
Change-Id: Ia8a1a9b11a35243ed84eb4e72c384cc77512b098
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/9032
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Have dissectors of various forms of radio information headers in the
packets fill in a struct ieee_802_11_phdr with radio information as
appropriate, and call the "802.11 radio information" dissector rather
than the raw 802.11 dissector.
This means that the radio information can be found in a
protocol-independent and encapsulation-independent form when you're
looking at the packet; that information can be presented in a form
somewhat easier to read than the raw metadata header format.
It also enables having a single "radio information" tap that allows
statistics to handle all different sorts of radio information
encapsulation.
In addition, it lets us clean up some of the arguments passed to the
common 802.11 dissector routine, by having it pull that information from
the struct ieee_802_11_phdr.
Ensure that the right structure gets passed to that routine, and that
all the appropriate parts of that structure are filled in.
Rename the 802.11 radio protocol to "wlan_radio", rather than just
"radio", as it's 802.11-specific. Give all its fields "wlan_radio."
names rather than "wlan." names.
Change-Id: I78d79afece0ce0cf5fc17293c1e29596413b31c8
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/8992
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
That indicates that it's a problem specific to *writing* capture files;
we've already converted some errors to that style, and added a new one
in that style.
Change-Id: I8268316fd8b1a9e301bf09ae970b4b1fbcb35c9d
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/5826
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
For cases where record (meta)data is something that can't be written out
in a particular file format, return WTAP_ERR_UNWRITABLE_REC_DATA along
with an err_info string.
Report (and free) that err_info string in cases where
WTAP_ERR_UNWRITABLE_REC_DATA is returned.
Clean up some other error reporting cases, and flag with an XXX some
cases where we aren't reporting errors at all, while we're at it.
Change-Id: I91d02093af0d42c24ec4634c2c773b30f3d39ab3
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/5823
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
That makes it clearer what the problem is, and that it should only be
returned by the dump code path, not by the read code path.
Change-Id: Icc5c9cff43be6c073f0467607555fa7138c5d074
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/5797
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Add a set of presence bits, so we can indicate which bits of radio
metadata we do and don't have.
Fill in more radio metadata from capture files, and display it.
(More to come.)
Change-Id: Idea2c05442c74af17c14c4d5a8d8025ab27fbd15
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/4987
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Clean up some things we ran across while making those changes.
Change-Id: Ic0d8943d36e6e120d7af0a6148fad98015d1e83e
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/4581
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Add wtap_read_bytes(), which takes a FILE_T, a pointer, a byte count, an
error number pointer, and an error string pointer as arguments, and that
treats a short read of any sort, including a read that returns 0 bytes,
as a WTAP_ERR_SHORT_READ error, and that returns the error number and
string through its last two arguments.
Add wtap_read_bytes_or_eof(), which is similar, but that treats a read
that returns 0 bytes as an EOF, supplying an error number of 0 as an EOF
indication.
Use those in file readers; that simplifies the code and makes it less
likely that somebody will fail to supply the error number and error
string on a file read error.
Change-Id: Ia5dba2a6f81151e87b614461349d611cffc16210
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/4512
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Pcap-ng files don't have a per-file time stamp resolution, they have a
per-interface time stamp resolution. Add new time stamp resolution
types of "unknown" and "per-packet", add the time stamp resolution to
struct wtap_pkthdr, have the libwiretap core initialize it to the
per-file time stamp resolution, and have pcap-ng do the same thing with
the resolution that it does with the packet encapsulation.
Get rid of the TS_PREC_AUTO_XXX values; just have TS_PREC_AUTO, which
means "use the packet's resolution to determine how many significant
digits to display". Rename all the WTAP_FILE_TSPREC_XXX values to
WTAP_TSPREC_XXX, as they're also used for per-packet values.
Change-Id: If9fd8f799b19836a5104aaa0870a951498886c69
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/4349
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Otherwise, if you link with both libwiretap and libfiletap, it's
anybody's guess which one you get. That means you're wasting memory
with two copies of its routines if they're identical, and means
surprising behavior if they're not (which showed up when I was debugging
a double-free crash - fixing libwiretap's buffer_free() didn't fix the
problem, because Wireshark happened to be calling libfiletap' unfixed
buffer_free()).
There's nothing *tap-specific about Buffers, anyway, so it really
belongs in wsutil.
Change-Id: I91537e46917e91277981f8f3365a2c0873152870
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/3066
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Add a "record type" field to "struct wtap_pkthdr"; currently, it can be
REC_TYPE_PACKET, for a record containing a packet, or
REC_TYPE_FILE_TYPE_SPECIFIC, for records containing file-type-specific
data.
Modify code that reads packets to be able to handle non-packet records,
even if that just means ignoring them.
Rename some routines to indicate that they handle more than just
packets.
We don't yet have any libwiretap code that supplies records other than
REC_TYPE_PACKET or that supporting writing records other than
REC_TYPE_PACKET, or any code to support plugins for handling
REC_TYPE_FILE_TYPE_SPECIFIC records; this is just the first step for bug
8590.
Change-Id: Idb40b78f17c2c3aea72031bcd252abf9bc11c813
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1773
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
This reverts commit c0c480d08c.
A better way to do this is to have the record type be part of struct wtap_pkthdr; that keeps the metadata for the record together and requires fewer API changes. That is in-progress.
Change-Id: Ic558f163a48e2c6d0df7f55e81a35a5e24b53bc6
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1741
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
This is the first step towards implementing the mechanisms requestd in
bug 8590; currently, we don't return any records other than packet
records from libwiretap, and just ignore non-packet records in the rest
of Wireshark, but this at least gets the ball rolling.
Change-Id: I34a45b54dd361f69fdad1a758d8ca4f42d67d574
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1736
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
This reverts commit 1abeb277f5.
This isn't building, and looks as if it requires significant work to fix.
Change-Id: I622b1bb243e353e874883a302ab419532b7601f2
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1568
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Start of refactoring Wiretap and breaking structures down into "generally useful fields for dissection" and "capture specific". Since this in intended as a "base" for Wiretap and Filetap, the "wft" prefix is used for "common" functionality.
The "architectural" changes can be found in cfile.h, wtap.h, wtap-int.h and (new file) wftap-int.h. Most of the other (painstaking) changes were really just the result of compiling those new architecture changes.
bug:9607
Change-Id: Ife858a61760d7a8a03be073546c0e7e582cab2ae
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1485
Reviewed-by: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
(Using sed : sed -i '/^ \* \$Id\$/,+1 d')
Fix manually some typo (in export_object_dicom.c and crc16-plain.c)
Change-Id: I4c1ae68d1c4afeace8cb195b53c715cf9e1227a8
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/497
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
willing to read or that's bigger than will fit in the file format;
instead, report an error.
For the "I can't write a packet of that type in that file type" error,
report the file type in question.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=54882
subtypes, e.g. Network Monitor version 1 and Network Monitor version 2
are separate "file types", even though they both come from Network
Monitor.
Rename various functions, #defines, and variables appropriately.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=53166
as the "where to put the packet data" argument.
This lets more of the libwiretap code be common between the read and
seek-read code paths, and also allows for more flexibility in the "fill
in the data" path - we can expand the buffer as needed in both cases.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=49949
wtap_file_read_expected_bytes() from an open routine - open routines are
supposed to return -1 on error, 0 if the file doesn't appear to be a
file of the specified type, or 1 if the file does appear to be a file of
the specified type, but those macros will cause the caller to return
FALSE on errors (so that, even if there's an I/O error, it reports "the
file isn't a file of the specified type" rather than "we got an error
trying to read the file").
When doing reads in an open routine before we've concluded that the file
is probably of the right type, return 0, rather than -1, if we get
WTAP_ERR_SHORT_READ - if we don't have enough data to check whether a
file is of a given type, we should keep trying other types, not give up.
For reads done *after* we've concluded the file is probably of the right
type, if a read doesn't return the number of bytes we asked for, but
returns an error of 0, return WTAP_ERR_SHORT_READ - the file is
apparently cut short.
For NetMon and NetXRay/Windows Sniffer files, use a #define for the
magic number size, and use that for both magic numbers.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=46803
long; that means we read only one byte into our structure, so make its
"rate" element one byte long, so we don't fill in half the "rate"
element with the read - and the *wrong* half on big-endian machines -
and leave the other half un-set and thus containing some random possibly
non-zero data.
In addition, that's not the full data rate for faster networks; for
Wi-Fi, the one-byte "direction" field is actually the upper 8 bits of
the data rate, so combine them when we fill in the data rate in the
pseudo-header.
#BACKPORT
svn path=/trunk/; revision=45504
which could use lseek() and were thus expensive due to system call
overhead. To avoid making a system call for every packet on a
sequential read, we maintained a data_offset field in the wtap structure
for sequential reads.
It's now a routine that just returns information from the FILE_T data
structure, so it's cheap. Use it, rather than maintaining the data_offset
field.
Readers for some file formats need to maintain file offset themselves;
have them do so in their private data structures.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=42423
by Wiretap, to indicate whether certain fields in that structure
actually have data in them.
Use the "time stamp present" flag to omit showing time stamp information
for packets (and "packets") that don't have time stamps; don't bother
working very hard to "fake" a time stamp for data files.
Use the "interface ID present" flag to omit the interface ID for packets
that don't have an interface ID.
We don't use the "captured length, separate from packet length, present"
flag to omit the captured length; that flag might be present but equal
to the packet length, and if you want to know if a packet was cut short
by a snapshot length, comparing the values would be the way to do that.
More work is needed to have wiretap/pcapng.c properly report the flags,
e.g. reporting no time stamp being present for a Simple Packet Block.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=41185
form of corruption/bogosity in a file, including in a file header as
well as in records in the file. Change the error message
wtap_strerror() returns for it to reflect that.
Use it for some file header problems for which it wasn't already being
used - WTAP_ERR_UNSUPPORTED shouldn't be used for that, it should only
be used for files that we have no reason to believe are invalid but that
have a version number we don't know about or some other
non-link-layer-encapsulation-type value we don't know about.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=40175
same.
Add to wiretap/pcap-common.c a routine to fill in the pseudo-header for
ATM (by looking at the VPI, VCI, and packet data, and guessing) and
Ethernet (setting the FCS length appropriately). Use it for both pcap
and pcap-ng files.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=38840
Set the pseudo-header when doing the sequential read as well as when
doing random reads.
When writing packets to a CommView file, use a slightly less contorted
way to get the year/month/day/hour/minute/second values.
commview_dump() uses the pseudo_header argument; don't mark it as
unused.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=38833
by the gunzipping code. Have it also supply a err_info string, and
report it. Have file_error() supply an err_info string.
Put "the file" - or, for WTAP_ERR_DECOMPRESS, "the compressed file", to
suggest a decompression error - into the rawshark and tshark errors,
along the lines of what other programs print.
Fix a case in the Netscaler code where we weren't fetching the error
code on a read failure.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=36748
can't be saved in compress form" are both equivalent to "this file file
format requires seeking when writing it". Change the "can compress"
Boolean in the file format table to "writing requires seeking", give all
the entries the proper value, and do the checks for attempting to write
a file format to a pipe or write it in compressed format to common code.
This means we don't need to pass the "can't seek" flag to the dump open
routines.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=36575
Guy Harris