When a thread is dead at init the THV_INIT_DONE flag is not set
and the spawn function can freeze (see bug #553 for an example).
In this case THV_RUNNING_DONE is set and we can also check on this
state for leaving the function. This should fix #bug553
When handling error case on SCMallog, SCCalloc or SCStrdup
we are in an unlikely case. This patch adds the unlikely()
expression to indicate this to gcc.
This patch has been obtained via coccinelle. The transformation
is the following:
@istested@
identifier x;
statement S1;
identifier func =~ "(SCMalloc|SCStrdup|SCCalloc)";
@@
x = func(...)
... when != x
- if (x == NULL) S1
+ if (unlikely(x == NULL)) S1
This patch modifies the init of Detect threads. They are now started
with a dummy function and their initialisation is done after the
signatures are loaded. Just after this, the dummy function is switched
to normal one.
In IPS mode, this permit to route packets without waiting for the
signature to start and should fix#488.
Offline mode such as pcap file don't use this mode to be sure to
analyse all packets in the file.
The patch introduces a "delayed-detect" configuration variable
under detect-engine. It can be used to activate the feature
(set to "yes" to have signature loaded after capture is started).
On some setup you want to run each thread init function sequentially.
For example, if I use flow_cpu load balancing on AF_PACKET, my target
is to have CPU 0 (first socket in the group) to be link with the
thread 0 in detect cpu set (first thread to be initialised). A good
way to achieve this is to run only one thread init function at a time
to avoid any possible race condition.
clang was issuing some warnings related to unused return in function.
This patch adds some needed error treatment and ignore the rest of the
warnings by adding a cast to void.
To reload ruleset during engine runtime, send the USR2 signal to the engine, and the ruleset would be reloaded from the same yaml file supplied at engine startup
Add profiling per lock location in the code. Accounts how often a
lock is requested, how often it was contended, the max number of
ticks spent waiting for it, avg number of ticks waiting for it and
the total ticks for that location.
Added a new configure flag --enable-profiling-locks to enable this
feature.