Hi,

I am writing a dissector plugin and I am using tcp_dissect_pdus in order to 
reassemble packets. However, I am experiencing issues when there are multiple 
application layer messages in one packet and the last one is not complete. 
Specifically, I have 5 messages in one TCP packet. There are 5 calls to the 
get_pdu_len function and four calls to the dissect_pdu function. Since there is 
not enough data in the current tvbuff_t, tcp_dissect_pdus returns. When 
dissect_message is called again, the beginning of the message is lost. When 
get_pdu_len gets called again it reads a garbage size.

Per https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChDissectReassemble.html, 
I thought that tcp_dissect_pdus is supposed to handle this. I can't find 
example code in any dissector in /epan/dissectors/* that handles this unlike I 
am. Am I missing something?


This is part of my code:

void dissect_message(tvbuff_t *tvb, packet_info *pinfo, proto_tree *tree)
{
        if(pinfo->tcp_tree != NULL) {
                tcp_dissect_pdus(tvb, pinfo, tree, TRUE, MESSAGE_HEADER_SIZE,
                                 get_message_tcpmessage_len, 
dissect_message_tcpmessage);
        }
        else {
                // For UDP just print the data for now.
                call_dissector(data_handle, tvb, pinfo, tree);
        }
}

guint get_message_tcpmessage_len(packet_info *pinfo, tvbuff_t *tvb, int offset)
{
        if(tvb_length_remaining(tvb, offset) <= 8)
                return 0;

        gint32 size = tvb_get_letohl(tvb, offset)+MESSAGE_HEADER_SIZE;
        gint32 type = tvb_get_letohl(tvb, offset+4);
        printf("Len: %u type %d\n", size, type);
        if(strcmp(typeAsString(type), "Unknown") == 0)
        {
                return tvb_length_remaining(tvb, offset);
        }
        return size;
}

Thanks,
Rafael


Rafael Fernandez
131 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603
T: 312-395-4224 | C: 312-485-4292
rafael.fernan...@citadelgroup.com



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