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2024-01-19capture: silence warning for non-root userJoakim Karlsson1-1/+5
2023-12-31dumpcap: Pass the Capchild log level from parent to dumpcapJohn Thacker1-26/+15
Pass the Capchild log domain (dumpcap's log domain) level from the parent to dumpcap when setting up the pipe. Move a few of the debugging level messagesi that previously required a #define to be set from INFO to DEBUG. This means that "--log-debug Capchild" or "--log-level debug" can be used to get DEBUG level log messages sent via the sync pipe to the parent and then the console, without having to set a #define in dumpcap. Related to #19519
2023-12-31dumpcap: Make capture child logging workJohn Thacker1-22/+25
Distinguish log messages from SP_ERROR_MSG; log messages don't necessarily represent a failure, and they have a level. This doesn't affect logging while capturing much, as SP_ERROR_MSGs are just printed to the console, but it makes it possible to log while retrieving interface information or the stats, where SP_ERROR_MSG indicates that the command failed.
2023-12-31dumpcap: Don't use fd 2 (stderr) for the sync pipeJohn Thacker1-25/+60
Don't use stderr for the sync pipe, because third party libraries and functions sometimes pollute stderr with other information. Instead, pass the information necessary to dumpcap as a parameter to the special capture child option -Z. On UN*X, that means passing the sync pipe write file descriptor, as the child is created by fork + exec and shares the file descriptor table. On Windows, the child process does not share the file descriptor table, but it does share the HANDLE value for inherited handles, so pass that instead. (The HANDLE is a void* and technically 64 bit, but only the lower 32 bits are used for inherited handles that can be shared and it is permissible to truncate: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/inheritance https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/interprocess-communication https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/WinProg64/rules-for-using-pointers though perhaps in the future casting to an intptr_t makes more sense.) Move the special Windows named signal pipe to its own long option instead of using the parameter from the capture child option. This means that we alter argv inside sync_pipe_open_command so change the static functions and free argv there. Once glib 2.68 and later is required a GStrvBuilder could be used instead. Fix #12222
2023-12-30dumpcap: treat connect errors as remote capture errors.Guy Harris1-1/+5
Treat errors beginning with "Is the server properly installed?" similarly to "The other host terminated the connection.", and don't tell the user to report them as Wireshark bugs. This should clear up at least some of the Wireshark side of #14920. (Libpcap should do a better job of reporting errors as well, although that will ultimately involve better libpcap APIs, for which there are other reasons as well.)
2023-12-20dumpcap: fix Dead Store found by Clang AnalyzerAlexis La Goutte1-1/+0
Value stored to 'status' is never read
2023-12-18dumpcap: Add a welcome modeJohn Thacker1-11/+19
Allow dumpcap to have the "-D" "-L" and "-S" flags all specified. This is a "welcome mode" that prints out the interfaces and their capabilities, and then prints out the running statistics. ("-L" and "-S" without "-D" will just print the statistics, but doesn't give an error.) In capture child mode, the interface information is sent as a message on the sync pipe before the success message; the statistics are sent on the data pipe as usual. Actually using this in Wireshark will be added next. Related to #15082
2023-12-18capture: Move pcap failure secondary message to headerJohn Thacker1-237/+0
Move get_pcap_failure_secondary_error_message from static in dumpcap to capture-pcap-util-int.h This means that when serializing the capabilities, we can just serialize the open status enum and the open status string, and recover the secondary status string when deserializing. This also lets us make the secondary message a pointer to a const char* instead of doing as much string copying.
2023-12-16dumpcap: Allow retrieving interface list + capsJohn Thacker1-12/+86
Since we get both the non monitor mode and monitor mode link types lists of interfaces that can support it, we can allow the combination of retrieving the interface list and capabilities at the same time, because we don't need the user to specify whether to retrieve the list in or not in monitor mode. Allow any combination of retrieving the the interface list and the two capability types to be retrieved, but don't allow them in combination with the other run once arguments. When not in machine readable mode, print the capability types after the link lists (maybe we should interleave them). When in machine readable mode, add them to the serialized JSON. We don't yet pass both flags to dumpcap in capture child mode from the other applications yet. Related to #15082
2023-12-16capture: Get regular and monitor mode link type lists at the same timeJohn Thacker1-0/+20
This is slightly less efficient at the moment, but makes it easier to change things to get and store the capabilities information instead of repeatedly querying for it. Eventually we can retrieve capabilities in the same dumpcap call as the interface list, and cache the information.
2023-12-14capture: Serialize the machine readable interface listJohn Thacker1-41/+57
Use JSON to serialize the machine readable interface list. This removes any problems with embedded tabs in names and descriptions, and makes it easier to later get the interface list and the capabilities in one call (and possibly even a single call that retrieves both and starts statistics.) Related to #15082
2023-12-08Capture: Check to see if the interface name is a Windows Named PipeJohn Thacker1-16/+1
Named pipes have special names on Windows ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/pipe-names ) If we're on Windows, and the interface name given has such a name, assume it is a pipe and don't bother retrieving the interface list. Dumpcap and rawshark already have identical code for testing if an interface name is a pipe. Move that into win32-utils and have capture_opts, dumpcap, and rawshark all use the common function. Fix #17721
2023-12-07dumpcap: check whether pcap_stats() succeeds.Guy Harris1-9/+10
But what if it fails? (Unlikely, but....)
2023-11-22dumpcap: Serialize machine readable interface caps as JSONJohn Thacker1-40/+97
Serialize the machine readable version of the interface capability output as JSON, using an array to support multiple interfaces. When querying multiple interfaces, try all of them, exit with success (unless unexpected errors occur) and report any per-interface errors and exit codes inside the JSON rather than stopping after the first interface with error. Update capture_get_if_capabilities to process the JSON. It (and sync_if_capabilities_open) still only query a single interface at, but this will allow modification to handle multiple interfaces at once later. Related to #16191, #15082
2023-10-24dumpcap: recommend upgrading Npcap for promiscuous-mode errors.Guy Harris1-64/+114
If the user gets the "failed to set hardware filter to promiscuous mode" error, and they're running Npcap 1.71 to 1.73, recommend that they upgrade to the current version of Npcap. Clean up the helpful-hint generation code a bit while we're at it.
2023-09-26Fix misppellings in root and ui directoriesMoshe Kaplan1-5/+5
Fix misppellings in root and ui directories. Most of these are comments, but some are in error messages.
2023-09-23Work around stub routines in macOS 14 (Sonoma) libpcap.Guy Harris1-3/+8
Some routines that are built only if libpcap 1.10.x is built with remote capture support, but that are unconditionally declared in pcap/pcap.h, now have stub implementations in macOS 14 that always fail and set the error string to "not supported". (This was probably done because those routines are now declared as "weakly linked symbols": https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Concepts/WeakLinking.html om macOS 14.) This means CMakeLists.txt finds them when you build on Sonoma, so we end up calling them. The only place where we didn't arrange that we *only* use them if the device name begins with rpcap://, indicating that it's a remote-capture URL, was the code in dumpcap that produces packet counts for the sparklines in the Wireshark main screen. That meant that all opens failed, and dumpcap reported that failure to Wireshark, so no sparklines were drawn. Check for rpcap:// in that case as well, and use pcap_open_live() if it's not present. For all code that calls the routines in question, if the any of the routines in question fail, check for an error string of "not supported", and replace it with "Remote capture not supported", so as to make the cause of failure clearer. Fixes #19349.
2023-09-17dumpcap: Change optional log cals to new API refactoringJohn Thacker1-3/+3
Commit 549d76b931349199dcc7be365ef59501b7e02916 tweaked the log API. Change the calls for the optional debugging that aren't compiled by default.
2023-09-03wslog: Refactor the API with a msg manifestJoão Valverde1-4/+4
2023-08-28For capture options, provide a callback to use to fetch an interface list.Guy Harris1-21/+2
Do that rather than having that code directly call capture_interface_list(), with the programs providing their own versions of capture_interface_list().
2023-08-26Clean up sync pipe write routines.Guy Harris1-19/+17
Give them all names beginning with sync_pipe_write_ Rename pipe_write_block() to sync_pipe_write_string_msg(), as it writes a message containing a string, not a "block". Add sync_pipe_write_uint_msg(), which takes an unsigned integer as an argument and writes a message containing its value (as a string) as the body. Make sync_pipe_write_header() and SP_DECISIZE local to sync_pipe_write.c, as they're no longer used outside that file.
2023-08-12dumpcap: map DLT_ values from libpcap or piped pcap headers to LINKTYPE_s.Guy Harris1-3/+172
For most link-layer header types, the DLT_ value and the LINKTYPE_ value are the same. For some DLT_s for which the values are *not* the same on all OSes, or which weren't defined on some OSes, that's not the case, because, in order to have a *single* link-layer type value to use in capture files on *all* platforms, so that the link-layer type is the same no matter what OS it was captured on, new values were assigned for LINKTYPE_s. (That's why LINKTYPE_s were created in the first place.) Therefore, we should map DLT_ values obtained from libpcap to the corresponding LINKTYPE_ values before using the value in a pcap header or a pcapng Interface Description Block. Furthermore, since a pcap or pcapng file being piped to dumpcap might have been generated by a program that doesn't do DLT_ to LINKTYPE_ mapping (the libpcap from tcpdump.org has done so for many years now, but OpenBSD's libpcap doesn't), we map them for pcap files as well. (pcapng files require that we not just blindly copy the pcapng file. Other things, such as byte-swapped pcapng files, may also require that; this needs to be looked into.) Fixes #19230.
2023-07-17dumpcap: Add a permissions warning about capabilitiesJohn Thacker1-1/+16
If we have Linux capabilities, and dumpcap gets a permission error, suggest that the user add the CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_NET_ADMIN capabilities that dumpcap needs if Wireshark was not installed by a package. (Distribution packages should set the capabilities.) Fix #18279
2023-06-18Get rid of unnecessary casts.Guy Harris1-66/+64
snprintf(), sensibly, takes a size_t argument specifying the size of the buffer. g_snprintf(), bogusly, takes a gulong argument specifying the size of the buffer, so we had to do casts to avoid narrowing complaints, but we're just using snprintf() now (as we require C11 or later), and don't need the casts any more.
2023-05-18dumpcap: Don't write fake IDBs for pcapng interfacesJohn Thacker1-16/+20
When we have multiple capture sources, for each one that is a pcapng source and supplies its own IDBs, don't create a fake IDB with invalid linktype WTAP_ENCAP_UNKNOWN and write it to the output file. Instead, use the IDBs from the source, remapping them as necessary. For non-pcapng sources, store the output IDB interface ID and write EPBs using that, since now the input interface ID and the output interface ID are not necessarily the same, if some of the other sources are not pcapng. Update the capture tests that use multiple FIFO sources, because now we don't add two extra IDBs, one for each FIFO. Instead there are 3 * 11 == 33 total IDBs. This prevents some various incompatibilites in Wireshark and other tools when a file has interfaces of more than one link type, and also has IDBs with an illegal WTAP_ENCAP_UNKNOWN link type. Fix #19080
2023-05-18dumpcap: Update optional log to fileJohn Thacker1-3/+3
Update the (by default #ifdef'd out) capture child log to file handling in dumpcap for the API changes in commit 5ceb916430427316c26455b75f07d50aaa9c147d
2023-04-20Check for EAFNOTSUP errors on Linux.Guy Harris1-6/+39
On Linux, look for an error message of "socket: Address family not supported by protocol"; if we see it, that's EAFNOTSUP, which means either that 1) your kernel doesn't have PF_PACKET support configured in or 2) this is a Flatpak package of Wireshark that's "helpfully" been sandboxed. Display a secondary error message indicating one of those is likely the problem; mention the Flatpak one first, as that's more likely than the second (if you can still configure PF_PACKET sockets out, it's not the default, so it's unlikely to be the case). See issue #19008.
2023-04-20Improve reporting of libpcap errors.Guy Harris1-17/+86
Expand the set of CAP_DEVICE_OPEN_ errors and warnings to include specific errors for many of the errors and warnings libpcap returns. (This doesn't include the errors that would definitely either be Wireshark or libpcap bugs, such as PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED and PCAP_ERROR_ACTIVATED.) Don't give "make sure you have the right permissions" secondary error messages if we know that the error isn't a permissions error. For the PCAP_ERROR_ codes that we handle individually, don't bother with the pcap_statustostr() string, as it would duplicate the error message we're providing. For the PCAP_ERROR_ codes we *don't* handle individually, give both the pcap_statustostr() string and the pcap_geterr() string, to give the user as much information as possible (even if that's just so that they can give *us* as much information as possible to figure out what the problem is). This should remove the "how to support packet capturing on Debian" message for "sorry, we don't support PF_PACKET sockets" error that shows up if either 1) your kernel doesn't have PF_PACKET support configured in or 2) this is a Flatpak package of Wireshark that's "helpfully" been sandboxed. See issue #19008.
2023-04-09wslog: Print log message when aborting on exceptionJoão Valverde1-6/+7
This makes it explicit in the log that the program aborted because of a logging system exception, usually configured by the user (fatal log level or domain).
2023-03-23dumpcap: LeakSanitizer issuesJohn Thacker1-0/+76
If AddressSanitizer is enabled, we build dumpcap with it, which can be useful for catching issues - at least when run standalone. Disable it when running in capture child mode, and ensure that the sanitizers don't change dumpcap's exit code, since capture/capture_sync uses the exitcode value and doesn't expect the sanitizer values. Also disable LSan if prctl(PR_GET_DUMPABLE) is 2 on Linux, since that means that the process will fail to run LSan and die with a fatal error in the attempt due to not being able to ptrace. It cannot be disabled through the normal method of using environment variables since not being dumpable also means that /proc/self/environ isn't readable. (LSan is able to deal with a dumpable value of 0, temporarily setting it to 1, but not 2, because it's not allowed to set it back to 2, due to CVE-2006-2451.) Fix #18907
2023-03-14capture: Set update interval in capture opts, default to 100msJohn Thacker1-5/+7
Reduce the default update interval for dumpcap to notify its parent of new packets (or to check if we've met file duration, etc.) from 500 ms to 100 ms, and put in the capture options. This makes the GUI appear to update more in real time rather than in visible batches of packets. This also reduces the amount of ring buffer space needed in cases where we're doing dissection, and dissection is able to keep up, but the files can be deleted before tshark gets to them because of the notification lag. (See #1650.)
2023-03-08dumpcap: Make debugging compile againJohn Thacker1-18/+42
Commit e921b804d0174b2bb5a118df8b454c0dc2e69369 removed the user data parameter from logging, so remove it here. Explain how the debugging defines work. If DEBUG_DUMPCAP is defined and dumpcap is a capture child, don't send logs to stderr with normal formatting, because that will be connected to the sync pipe. Don't send them to stdout either, because that can be connected to a data pipe (e.g., for retrieving interface information.) Instead, send it to stderr with the special formatting so that the parent recognizes it. Use va_copy if both DEBUG_DUMPCAP and DEBUG_CHILD_DUMPCAP are defined, avoiding undefined behavior that can lead to segfaults. Set the log level to DEBUG when running as a capture child if the DEBUG defines are set, because sync_pipe_start doesn't pass along log level information. If you turned on the extra #define, you presumably want to debug. If logging to a file, open the file before any log messages. Get rid of a check for the log level being below the default level. It's either redundant of a check already done in ws_log_full, or it prevents logs from being shown when dumpcap is run standalone with logging options.
2023-02-10Move ui/clopts_common.[ch] to wsutilJoão Valverde1-1/+1
2023-02-10Move ui/cmdarg_err.[ch] to wsutilJoão Valverde1-1/+1
2023-02-07Move ui/version_info.[ch] to wsutilJoão Valverde1-1/+1
2022-12-12Extcap: Create our fifo in a temporary directory.Gerald Combs1-1/+1
Instead of creating a temp file, unlinking it, and creating a fifo with the same name, add create_tempdir() so that we can create a temporary directory and create a fifo inside that. This should avoid a race condition in Carbon Black Cloud antivirus, which if the timing is right, will stat the initial temporary *file*, miss the fact that it's been replaced with a *fifo*, and open and steal data^W^W read from it, leaving dumpcap to contend with the truncated remains. Adding the unexpected magic number to cap_pipe_open_live()'s error message helped to debug this. Leave it in since it's handy to have in that case. Ping #15587
2022-10-08Add log init message to main()João Valverde1-0/+2
2022-09-09dumpcap: typo in pcap_geterr() string comparisonChuck Craft1-1/+1
Ping #18332
2022-03-20dumpcap: Count more block types as packets.Gerald Combs1-2/+2
The Sysdig Event dissector handles BLOCK_TYPE_SYSDIG_EVENT_V2 and BLOCK_TYPE_SYSDIG_EVENT_V2_LARGE blocks. Add them to dumpcap's packet count so that we don't get a "No packets captured." error.
2022-02-24dumpcap: Fix a TODO for Npcap testJoão Valverde1-16/+9
2022-02-24wsutil: New API to gather compile/runtime infoDavid Perry1-9/+9
2022-02-11Differentiate `-c` from `-a packets:`David Perry1-1/+7
2022-02-09Specify directory for temporary capturesDavid Perry1-1/+5
2022-01-19dumpcap: Fix segfault when failing to create temporary fileJohn Thacker1-3/+3
g_file_open_tmp() does not set name_used unless the temp file is successfully created (cf. to our old hand written library pre commit 2925fb0850ee3ab). Initialize it so that g_free doesn't free a random memory location in that case, and don't use it otherwise after failure. Fix #17828.
2022-01-06Update our Npcap URLs.Gerald Combs1-1/+1
The official Npcap web site is now https://npcap.com/. Update our URLs to match. Fixes #17838.
2022-01-05wslog: Use a wider type for lineJoão Valverde1-2/+2
2021-12-27Docs: Document our diagnostic output options.Gerald Combs1-0/+1
Add docs/diagnostic-options.adoc, which is a snippet that documents our various --log-* options. Include it in the dumpcap, rawshark, and tshark man pages. Make the ws_log_print_usage output more consistent.
2021-12-21Add a ws_posix_compat.h headerJoão Valverde1-1/+13
Currently used to define ssize_t on platforms that lack it. Fix some Windows build errors caused by moving the definition into a separate header. Fix some narrowing warnings on Windows x64 from changing the definition of ssize_t from long int to int64_t. The casts in dumpcap are ugly but necessary. The whole code needs to be rewritten for portability, or the warnings disabled.
2021-12-19Fix stdio.h conversions to use the scanf macrosJoão Valverde1-1/+1
2021-12-19Replace g_strdup_printf() with ws_strdup_printf()João Valverde1-18/+18
Use macros from inttypes.h.