2016-08-26 10:14 GMT+02:00 Dario Lombardo <[email protected]>:

> It seems that it prevents the dissection of exported payloads if
> proto_name is disaligned. Alexis is experiencing that during the testing of
> udpdump. Maybe he can clarify where the problem is so we can work on it.
> AFAIK, he's using aruba_erm as proto_name in udpdump, but this is changed
> into "aruba_erm\x00\x00\x00" that is not matched by the dissectors table.
> Alexis, did I get the point?
>

I'm using exported PDU with a protocol name that is not a multiple of 4
bytes everyday without any issue.
I'm nor surprised that it does not work with "aruba_erm" as this dissector
is not registered by name.
 Exported PDU can support dissectors registered by name, in a dissector
table, or heuristic ones (see exported_pdu.h fiel for details).



> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Pascal Quantin <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Dario,
>>
>> 2016-08-26 10:02 GMT+02:00 Dario Lombardo <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm looking into the code of exported_pdu.c and specifically
>>> into export_pdu_create_tags(). The first tag it creates is the tag with
>>> proto_name. The piece of code that I don't understand is
>>>
>>>         /* Start by computing size of protocol name as a tag */
>>> proto_str_len = (int)strlen(proto_name);
>>>
>>> /* Ensure that tag length is a multiple of 4 bytes */
>>> proto_tag_len = ((proto_str_len + 3) & 0xfffffffc);
>>>
>>> /* Add Tag + length */
>>> tag_buf_size += (proto_tag_len + 4);
>>>
>>>        [...]
>>>
>>> exp_pdu_data->tlv_buffer = (guint8 *)g_malloc0(tag_buf_size);
>>>
>>> Basically, the buffer to store the proto_name tag must be multiple of 4
>>> bytes. This means that if I use "data", I have "data", but if I use "data1"
>>> I have "data1\x00\x00\x00". What's the rationale behind this? Why is the
>>> alignment to 4 bytes required?
>>>
>>
>> This is inspired by the pcapng specification. You have a complete
>> description of the TLV format used in epan/exported_pdu.h
>>
>> Pascal.
>>
>>
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