Until now, the TCP options would all be stored in the Packet structure.
The commonly used ones (wscale, ts, sack, sackok and mss*) then had a
pointer to the position in the option array. Overall this option array
was large. About 360 bytes on 64bit systems. Since no part of the engine
would every access this array other than through the common short cuts,
this was actually just wasteful.
This patch changes the approach. It stores just the common ones in the
packet. The rest is gone. This shrinks the packet structure with almost
300 bytes.
* even though mss wasn't actually used
Most flows are marked for clean up by the flow manager, which then
passes them to the recycler. The recycler logs and cleans up. However,
under resource stress conditions, the packet threads can recycle
existing flow directly. So here the recycler has no role to play, as
the flow is immediately used.
For this reason, the packet threads need to be able to invoke the
flow logger directly.
The flow logging thread ctx will stored in the DecodeThreadVars
stucture. Therefore, this patch makes the DecodeThreadVars an argument
to FlowHandlePacket.
This patch set a new value in pkt->flag to signal that a packet is
invalid during decoding. The patch has been obtained via a coccinelle
transformation.
In some cases, the decoding is not possible and some really invalid
packet can be created. This is in particular the case of tunnel. In
that case, it is more interesting to forget about the tunneled
packet and only consider the original packet.
DecodeTunnel function is maked as warn_unused_result because it is
meaningful for the decoder to know if the underlying data were not
correct. And in this case, only focus detection on the content.
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 renames DECODER_SET_EVENT, DECODER_ISSET_EVENT and some
other structures to ENGINE equivalent to take into account the fact
the event list is now related to all engines and not only to decoder.
For convenience, a massive usage of 'Packet p;' declaration has
been done in the tests function. Although this was completely
legal, this is not possible anymore because of the new Packet
allocation structure. This massive patch modifies all suricata
files to use a SCMalloc allocated pointer to Packet instead.
This patch has been done using coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr)
which is a semantic patching tool. This ensures that things like call
to SCFree() should have not been forget because the semantic patch
explicitly forces the call to SCFree(p) before each return. With this
patch all unittests are running fine with a small and a big default
packet size.
This patch implements the needed modification of payload access
in a Packet structure to support the abstraction introduced by
the extended data system.