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| author | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@ulticom.com> | 2010-09-02 18:02:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@ulticom.com> | 2010-09-02 18:02:06 +0000 |
| commit | 7d20440ff0f5c8fc1510198eda81761b273e2a67 (patch) | |
| tree | ae3163d422effdd1ba05613492f197e462c37369 /doc/rawshark.pod | |
| parent | 8ffbb8ade834c899790c808e479cb471680c16b5 (diff) | |
Introduce 2 new environment variables: WIRESHARK_EP_VERIFY_POINTERS and
WIRESHARK_SE_VERIFY_POINTERS that control whether or not we verify if a given
pointer is ep_ or se_ allocated, respectively.
Turn the behavior off by default for speed reasons (the speed difference isn't
huge, but...).
Turn the behavior on when fuzz testing.
Document these two new variables in the man pages.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=34046
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rawshark.pod b/doc/rawshark.pod index 6981fc172a..1a3b9db210 100644 --- a/doc/rawshark.pod +++ b/doc/rawshark.pod @@ -436,10 +436,24 @@ when a dissector bug is encountered. abort(3) will cause the program to exit abnormally; if you are running B<Rawshark> in a debugger, it should halt in the debugger and allow inspection of the process, and, if you are not running it in a debugger, it will, on some OSes, assuming -your environment is configured correctly, generate a core dump file. +your environment is configured correctly, generate a core dump file. This can be useful to developers attempting to troubleshoot a problem with a protocol dissector. +=item WIRESHARK_EP_VERIFY_POINTERS + +This environment variable, if exported, causes certain uses of pointers to be +audited to ensure they do not point to memory that is deallocated after each +packet has been fully dissected. This can be useful to developers writing or +auditing code. + +=item WIRESHARK_SE_VERIFY_POINTERS + +This environment variable, if exported, causes certain uses of pointers to be +audited to ensure they do not point to memory that is deallocated after when +a capture file is closed. This can be useful to developers writing or +auditing code. + =back =head1 SEE ALSO |