Experience has shown that:
1. The current logging methods are not very reliable or practical.
A logging bitmask makes little sense as the user-facing interface (who
would want debug but not crtical messages for example?); it's
computer-friendly and user-unfriendly. More importantly the console
log level preference is initialized too late in the startup process
to be used for the logging subsystem and that fact raises a number
of annoying and hard-to-fix usability issues.
2. Coding around G_MESSAGES_DEBUG to comply with our log level mask
and not clobber the user's settings or not create unexpected log misses
is unworkable and generally follows the principle of most surprise.
The fact that G_MESSAGES_DEBUG="all" can leak to other programs using
GLib is also annoying.
3. The non-structured GLib logging API is very opinionated and lacks
configurability beyond replacing the log handler.
4. Windows GUI has some special code to attach to a console,
but it would be nice to abstract away the rest under a single
interface.
5. Using this logger seems to be noticeably faster.
Deprecate the console log level preference and extend our API to
implement a log handler in wsutil/wslog.h to provide easy-to-use,
flexible and dependable logging during all execution phases.
Log levels have a hierarchy, from most verbose to least verbose
(debug to error). When a given level is set everything above that
is also enabled.
The log level can be set with an environment variable or a command
line option (parsed as soon as possible but still later than the
environment). The default log level is "message".
Dissector logging is not included because it is not clear what log
domain they should use. An explosion to thousands of domains is
not desirable and putting everything in a single domain is probably
too coarse and noisy. For now I think it makes sense to let them do
their own thing using g_log_default_handler() and continue using the
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG mechanism with specific domains for each individual
dissector.
In the future a mechanism may be added to selectively enable these
domains at runtime while trying to avoid the problems introduced
by G_MESSAGES_DEBUG.
Replace most instances of ws_debug_printf() except in
epan/dissectors and dissector plugins.
Some replacements use printf(), some use ws_debug(), and
some were removed because they were dead or judged to be
temporary.
It only registers one file type/subtype, so rename it to
wtap_register_file_type_subtype().
That will also force plugins to be recompiled; that will produce compile
errors for some plugins that didn't change to match the new contents of
the file_type_subtype_info structure.
Also check to make sure that the registered file type/subtype supports
at least one type of block; a file type/subtype that doesn't return
*any* blocks and doesn't permit *any* block types to be written is not
very useful. That should also catch most if not all other plugins that
didn't change to match the new contents of the file_type_subtype_info
structure.
Don't make errors registering a file type/subtype fatal; just complain,
don't register the bogus file type/subtype, and drive on.
Instead of a "supports name resolution" Boolean and bitflags for types of
comments supported, provide a list of block types that the file
type/subtype supports, with each block type having a list of options
supported. Indicate whether "supported" means "one instance" or
"multiple instances".
"Supports" doesn't just mean "can be written", it also means "could be
read".
Rename WTAP_BLOCK_IF_DESCRIPTION to WTAP_BLOCK_IF_ID_AND_INFO, to
indicate that it provides, in addition to information about the
interface, an ID (implicitly, in pcapng files, by its ordinal number)
that is associated with every packet in the file. Emphasize that in
comments - just because your capture file format can list the interfaces
on which a capture was done, that doesn't mean it supports this; it
doesn't do so if the file doesn't indicate, for every packet, on which
of those interfaces it was captured (I'm looking at *you*, Microsoft
Network Monitor...).
Use APIs to query that information to do what the "does this file
type/subtype support name resolution information", "does this file
type/subtype support all of these comment types", and "does this file
type/subtype support - and require - interface IDs" APIs did.
Provide backwards compatibility for Lua.
This allows us to eliminate the WTAP_FILE_TYPE_SUBTYPE_ values for IBM's
iptrace; do so.
Provide a wiretap routine to get an array of all savable file
type/subtypes, sorted with pcap and pcapng at the top, followed by the
other types, sorted either by the name or the description.
Use that routine to list options for the -F flag for various commands
Rename wtap_get_savable_file_types_subtypes() to
wtap_get_savable_file_types_subtypes_for_file(), to indicate that it
provides an array of all file type/subtypes in which a given file can be
saved. Have it sort all types, other than the default type/subtype and,
if there is one, the "other" type (both of which are put at the top), by
the name or the description.
Don't allow wtap_register_file_type_subtypes() to override any existing
registrations; have them always register a new type. In that routine,
if there are any emply slots in the table, due to an entry being
unregistered, use it rather than allocating a new slot.
Don't allow unregistration of built-in types.
Rename the "dump open table" to the "file type/subtype table", as it has
entries for all types/subtypes, even if we can't write them.
Initialize that table in a routine that pre-allocates the GArray before
filling it with built-in types/subtypes, so it doesn't keep getting
reallocated.
Get rid of wtap_num_file_types_subtypes - it's just a copy of the size
of the GArray.
Don't have wtap_file_type_subtype_description() crash if handed an
file type/subtype that isn't a valid array index - just return NULL, as
we do with wtap_file_type_subtype_name().
In wtap_name_to_file_type_subtype(), don't use WTAP_FILE_TYPE_SUBTYPE_
names for the backwards-compatibility names - map those names to the
current names, and then look them up. This reduces the number of
uses of hardwired WTAP_FILE_TYPE_SUBTYPE_ values.
Clean up the type of wtap_module_count - it has no need to be a gulong.
Have built-in wiretap file handlers register names to be used for their
file type/subtypes, rather than building the table in init.lua.
Add a new Lua C function get_wtap_filetypes() to construct the
wtap_filetypes table, based on the registered names, and use it in
init.lua.
Add a #define WSLUA_INTERNAL_FUNCTION to register functions intended
only for internal use in init.lua, so they can be made available from
Lua without being documented.
Get rid of WTAP_NUM_FILE_TYPES_SUBTYPES - most code has no need to use
it, as it can just request arrays of types, and the space of
type/subtype codes can be sparse due to registration in any case, so
code has to be careful using it.
wtap_get_num_file_types_subtypes() is no longer used, so remove it. It
returns the number of elements in the file type/subtype array, which is
not necessarily the name of known file type/subtypes, as there may have
been some deregistered types, and those types do *not* get removed from
the array, they just get cleared so that they're available for future
allocation (we don't want the indices of any registered types to changes
if another type is deregistered, as those indicates are the type/subtype
values, so we can't shrink the array).
Clean up white space and remove some comments that shouldn't have been
added.
Remove most of the built-in file types from the table in
wiretap/file_access.c and, instead, have the file types register
themselves, using wtap_register_file_type_subtypes().
This reduces the source code changes needed to add a new file type from
three (add the handler, add the file type to the table in file_access.c,
add a #define for the file type in wiretap/wtap.h) to one (add the
handler). (It also requires adding the handler's source file to
wiretap/CMakeLists.txt, but that's required in both cases.)
A few remain because the WTAP_FILE_TYPE_SUBTYPE_ #define is used
elsewhere; that needs to be fixed.
Fix the wiretap/CMakefile.txt file to scan k12text.l, as that now
contains a registration routine. In the process, avoid scanning files
that don't implement a file type and won't ever have a registration
routine.
Add a Lua routine to fetch the total number of file types; we use that
in some code to construct the wtap_filetypes table, which we need to do
in order to continue to have all the values that used to come from the
WTAP_FILE_TYPE_SUBTYPE_ types.
While we're at it, add modelines to a file that lacked them.
That makes them work as input to a mergecap that writes pcapng files.
File types that don't have a single per-file encapsulation type need
more work, with multiple fake IDBs, one for each packet encapsulation
type seen in the file, unless we can generate real IDBs.
Change-Id: I2859e4f7fb15ec0c0f31a4044dc15638e5db7826
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/37983
Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net>
Fall back on the Wayback Machine for some links.
Change-Id: I6a44a2caaeb4fa521c2f08196e7c36069e3bb842
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/34103
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Change all wireshark.org URLs to use https.
Fix some broken links while we're at it.
Change-Id: I161bf8eeca43b8027605acea666032da86f5ea1c
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/34089
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
That makes it - and the routines that implement it - work more like the
seek-read routine.
Change-Id: I0cace2d0e4c9ebfc21ac98fd1af1ec70f60a240d
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/32727
Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Separate the stuff that any record could have from the stuff that only
particular record types have; put the latter into a union, and put all
that into a wtap_rec structure.
Add some record-type checks as necessary.
Change-Id: Id6b3486858f826fce4b096c59231f463e44bfaa2
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25696
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
The first is deprecated, as per https://spdx.org/licenses/.
Change-Id: I8e21e1d32d09b8b94b93a2dc9fbdde5ffeba6bed
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25661
Petri-Dish: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
Petri-Dish: Dario Lombardo <lomato@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
Use WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE_STANDARD, set to 256KB, for everything except
for D-Bus captures. Use WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE_DBUS, set to 128MB, for
them, because that's the largest possible D-Bus message size. See
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100220
for an example of the problems caused by limiting the snapshot length to
256KB for D-Bus.
Have a snapshot length of 0 in a capture_file structure mean "there is
no snapshot length for the file"; we don't need the has_snap field in
that case, a value of 0 mean "no, we don't have a snapshot length".
In dumpcap, start out with a pipe buffer size of 2KB, and grow it as
necessary. When checking for a too-big packet from a pipe, check
against the appropriate maximum - 128MB for DLT_DBUS, 256KB for
everything else.
Change-Id: Ib2ce7a0cf37b971fbc0318024fd011e18add8b20
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/21952
Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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>
Remove variadic macros restriction (c99, c++11 feature) from
README.developer. GCC, Clang, MSVC 2005 all support it.
Enable -Wno-variadic-macros in configure.ac and CMakeLists.txt when
-Wpedantic is enabled (which would enable -Wvariadic-macros).
For all files matching 'define\s*\w+[0-9]\(', replace "FOO[0-9]" by
"FOO" and adjust the macro definition accordingly. The nbap dissector
was regenerated after adjusting its template and .cnf file. The
generated code is the same since all files disabled the debug macros.
Discussed at:
https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201209/msg00142.htmlhttps://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201510/msg00012.html
Change-Id: I3b2e22487db817cbbaac774a592669a4f44314b2
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/10781
Petri-Dish: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com>
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>
wtap_file_read_expected_bytes() is a macro that can return a Boolean
FALSE; it should not be used in routines that don't return a Boolean.
In addition, both EOF *and* a short read, in that routine, should be
treated as a "not an IPFIX file" indication.
While we're at it, a seek failure should be treated as an error.
Change-Id: I97815bc9e78169ded567b60835cc7bcf6a0e6f0c
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/4261
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>
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
ipfix_read_and_process_message_header() call it and then fill in the
wtap_pkthdr structure, and use the latter routine in the read and
seek-read routines.
Expand a comment, and fix indentation.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=49369
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
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
João Valverde