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Jeremy Kerr e1cbe02cce Add Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) dissector
This change adds a protocol dissector for the Management Component
Transport Protocol (MCTP). This is a failry simple datagram-based
protocol for messaging between components within a single platform,
typically over I2C, serial or PCIe.

This dissector just implements the header fields, and sequence-number
based message reassembly. Inner protocols will be added as follow-up
changes.

Linux has support for AF_MCTP data, so decode from the MCTP SLL ltype.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
2022-11-15 09:05:05 +00:00
Guy Harris e5951765d8 Dissector names are not protocol names.
A given protocol's packet format may depend, for example, on which
lower-level protocol is transporting the protocol in question.  For
example, protocols that run atop both byte-stream protocols such as TCP
and TLS, and packet-oriented protocols such as UDP or DTLS, might begin
the packet with a length when running atop a byte-stream protocol, to
indicate where this packet ends and the next packet begins in the byte
stream, but not do so when running atop a packet-oriented protocol.

Dissectors can handle this in various ways:

For example, the dissector could attempt to determine the protocol over
which the packet was transported.

Unfortunately, many of those mechanisms do so by fetching data from the
packet_info structure, and many items in that structure act as global
variables, so that, for example, if there are two two PDUs for protocol
A inside a TCP segment, and the first protocol for PDU A contains a PDU
for protocol B, and protocol B's dissector, or a dissector it calls,
modifies the information in the packet_info structure so that it no
longer indicates that the parent protocol is TCP, the second PDU for
protocol A might not be correctly dissected.

Another such mechanism is to query the previous element in the layers
structure of the packet_info structure, which is a list of protocol IDs.

Unfortunately, that is not a list of earlier protocols in the protocol
stack, it's a list of earlier protocols in the dissection, which means
that, in the above example, when the second PDU for protocol A is
dissected, the list is {...,TCP,A,B,...,A}, which means that the
previous element in the list is not TCP, so, again, the second PDU for
protocol A will not be correctly dissected.

An alternative is to have multiple dissectors for the same protocol,
with the part of the protocol that's independent of the protocol
transporting the PDU being dissected by common code.  Protocol B might
have an "over a byte-stream transport" dissector and an "over a packet
transport" dissector, with the first dissector being registered for use
over TCP and TLS and the other dissector being registered for use over
packet protocols.  This mechanism, unlike the other mechanisms, is not
dependent on information in the packet_info structure that might be
affected by dissectors other than the one for the protocol that
transports protocol B.

Furthermore, in a LINKTYPE_WIRESHARK_UPPER_PDU pcap or pcapng packet for
protocol B, there might not be any information to indicate the protocol
that transports protocol B, so there would have to be separate
dissectors for protocol B, with separate names, so that a tag giving the
protocol name would differ for B-over-byte-stream and B-over-packets.

So:

We rename EXP_PDU_TAG_PROTO_NAME and EXP_PDU_TAG_HEUR_PROTO_NAME to
EXP_PDU_TAG_DISSECTOR_NAME and EXP_PDU_TAG_HEUR_DISSECTOR_NAME, to
emphasize that they are *not* protocol names, they are dissector names
(which has always been the case - if there's a protocol with that name,
but no dissector with that name, Wireshark will not be able to handle
the packet, as it will try to look up a dissector given that name and
fail).

We fix that exported PDU dissector to refer to those tags as dissector
names, not protocol names.

We update documentation to refer to them as DISSECTOR_NAME tags, not
PROTO_NAME tags.  (If there is any documentation for this outside the
Wireshark source, it should be updated as well.)

We add comments for calls to dissector_handle_get_dissector_name() where
the dissector name is shown to the user, to indicate that it might be
that the protocol name should be used.

We update the TLS and DTLS dissectors to show the encapsulated protocol
as the string returned by dissector_handle_get_long_name(); as the
default is "Application Data", it appeaers that a descriptive name,
rather than a short API name, should be used.  (We continue to use the
dissector name in debugging messages, to indicate which dissector was
called.)
2022-09-10 22:37:11 -07:00
Moshe Kaplan e45ad9dcef wsutil: Add header files to Doxygen
Add @file markers for wsutil
headers so that Doxygen will
generate documentation for them.
2021-11-30 07:30:34 +00:00
Jorge Mora 981ec7f3c7 iwarp_mpa: fix iWarp MPA for NFS-over-RDMA
On the first packet of the conversation, the MPA layer is
dissected correctly followed by the DDP, RDMAP, RPC-over-RDMA,
RPC and NFS layers. The MPA layer sets the TCP conversation as
MPA protocol but when it dissects the RPC layer it also sets
the TCP conversation as RPC protocol thus overwriting the previous
protocol.

Added new port type PT_IWARP_MPA so that when the RPC layer
is dissected it does not overwrite the default protocol for
the TCP conversation which has already been set to MPA.

Fixes #15869.
2021-08-31 08:14:31 +00:00
Guy Harris 4de9f6ef83 Fix some issues with Exported PDUs.
Fix the description in wsutil/exported_pdu_tlvs.h to reflect reality
(i.e., to match what the code in Wireshark that reads the exported PDU
TLVs, and all code that writes them, does).

In the code that dissects them, treat all strings as FT_STRINGZPAD, as
any null bytes at the end of the string are padding, not part of the
string.

See merge request !3895 and issue #17535.
2021-08-21 02:31:45 -07:00
Guy Harris 4e80643cc0 Move LINKTYPE_WIRESHARK_UPPER_PDU definitions to a separate header.
Have wsutil/exported_pdu_tlvs.h define the LINKTYPE_WIRESHARK_UPPER_PDU
TLV type and length values, as well as the port type values written to
files in EXP_PDU_TAG_PORT_TYPE TLVs.

Update the comment that describes the LINKTYPE_WIRESHARK_UPPER_PDU TLVs
to more completely and correctly reflect reality (it was moved from
epan/exported_pdu.h to wsutil/exported_pdu_tlvs.h).

Rename those port type values from OLD_PT_ to EXP_PDU_PT_; there is
nothing "old" about them - yes, they originally had the same numerical
values as the PT_ enum values in libwireshark, but that's no longer the
case, and the two are now defined independently.  Rename routines that
map between libwireshark PT_ values and EXP_PDU_PT_ values to remove
"old" from the name while we're at it.

Don't include epan/exported_pdu.h if we only need the
LINKTYPE_WIRESHARK_UPPER_PDU definitions - just include
wsutil/exported_pdu_tlvs.h.

In extcap/udpdump.c, include wsutil/exported_pdu_tlvs.h rather than
defining the TLV types ourselves.
2021-08-20 02:18:19 -07:00