Every transaction has an existing mandatory field, tx_data. As
DetectEngineState is also mandatory, include it in tx_data.
This allows us to remove the boilerplate every app-layer has
for managing detect engine state.
Allow progress values in the range 0-47 so we have 48 bits to track
prefilter engines.
Mark bits 48-62 as reserved explicitly.
Add debug validation checks to make sure the reserved space isn't used.
Since the completion status was a constant for all parsers, remove the
callback logic and instead register the values themselves. This should
avoid a lot of unnecessary callback calls.
Update all parsers to take advantage of this.
This parameter is NULL or the pointer to the previous state
for the previous protocol in the case of a protocol change,
for instance from HTTP1 to HTTP2
This way, the new protocol can use the old protocol context.
For instance, HTTP2 mimicks the HTTP1 request, to have a HTTP2
transaction with both request and response
Optional callback a parser can register for applying configuration
to the 'transaction'. Most parsers have a bidirectional tx. For those
parsers that have different types of transaction handling, this new
callback can be used to properly apply the config.
AppLayerTxData is a structure each tx should include that will contain
the common fields the engine needs for tracking logging, detection and
possibly other things.
AppLayerTxConfig will be used by the detection engine to configure
the transaction.
This patch simplifies the return codes app-layer parsers use,
in preparation of a patch set for overhauling the return type.
Introduce two macros:
APP_LAYER_OK (value 0)
APP_LAYER_ERROR (value -1)
Update all parsers to use this.
Add method to check if a parser for an app-layer protocol
supports tx detect flags.
This is a bit of a hack for now as where we need to run
this check from we do not have the IP protocol.
This changeset makes changes to the TX logging path. Since the txn
is passed to the TX logger, the TX can be used directly instead of
through the TX id.
When an app-layer parser is enabled, it could set its
own stream_depth value calling the API AppLayerParserSetStreamDepth.
Then, the function AppLayerParserPostStreamSetup will replace
the stream_depth value already set with stream_config.reassembly_depth.
To avoid overwriting, in AppLayerParserSetStreamDepth API a flag
will be set internally to specify that a value is already set.
Also remove the now useless 'state' argument from the SetTxDetectState
calls. For those app-layer parsers that use a state == tx approach,
the state pointer is passed as tx.
Update app-layer parsers to remove the unused call and update the
modified call.
Until now, the transaction space is assumed to be terse. Transactions
are handled sequentially so the difference between the lowest and highest
active tx id's is small. For this reason the logic of walking every id
between the 'minimum' and max id made sense. The space might look like:
[..........TTTT]
Here the looping starts at the first T and loops 4 times.
This assumption isn't a great fit though. A protocol like NFS has 2 types
of transactions. Long running file transfer transactions and short lived
request/reply pairs are causing the id space to be sparse. This leads to
a lot of unnecessary looping in various parts of the engine, but most
prominently: detection, tx house keeping and tx logging.
[.T..T...TTTT.T]
Here the looping starts at the first T and loops for every spot, even
those where no tx exists anymore.
Cases have been observed where the lowest tx id was 2 and the highest
was 50k. This lead to a lot of unnecessary looping.
This patch add an alternative approach. It allows a protocol to register
an iterator function, that simply returns the next transaction until
all transactions are returned. To do this it uses a bit of state the
caller must keep.
The registration is optional. If no iterator is registered the old
behaviour will be used.
Free txs that are done out of order if we can. Some protocol
implementations have transactions running in parallel, where it is
possible that a tx that started later finishes earlier than other
transactions. Support freeing those.
Also improve handling on asynchronious transactions. If transactions
are unreplied, e.g. in the dns flood case, the parser may at some
point free transactions on it's own. Handle this case in
the app-layer engine so that the various tracking id's (inspect, log,
and 'min') are updated accordingly.
Next, free txs much more aggressively. Instead of freeing old txs
at the app-layer parsing stage, free all complete txs at the end
of the flow-worker. This frees txs much sooner in many cases.
Use per tx detect_flags to track prefilter. Detect flags are used for 2
things:
1. marking tx as fully inspected
2. tracking already run prefilter (incl mpm) engines
This supercedes the MpmIDs API for directionless tracking
of the prefilter engines.
When we have no SGH we have to flag the txs that are 'complete'
as inspected as well.
Special handling for the stream engine:
If a rule mixes TX inspection and STREAM inspection, we can encounter
the case where the rule is evaluated against multiple transactions
during a single inspection run. As the stream data is exactly the same
for each of those runs, it's wasteful to rerun inspection of the stream
portion of the rule.
This patch enables caching of the stream 'inspect engine' result in
the local 'RuleMatchCandidateTx' array. This is valid only during the
live of a single inspection run.
Remove stateful inspection from 'mask' (SignatureMask). The mask wasn't
used in most cases for those rules anyway, as there we rely on the
prefilter. Add a alproto check to catch the remaining cases.
When building the active non-mpm/non-prefilter list check not just
the mask, but also the alproto. This especially helps stateful rules
with negated mpm.
Simplify AppLayerParserHasDecoderEvents usage in detection to only
return true if protocol detection events are set. Other detection is done
in inspect engines.
Move rule group lookup and handling into it's own function. Handle
'post lookup' tasks immediately, instead of after the first detect
run. The tasks were independent of the initial detection.
Many cleanups and much refactoring.
Add API meant to replace the MpmIDs API. It uses a u64 for each direction
in a tx to keep track of 2 things:
1. is inspection done?
2. which prefilter engines (like mpm) are already completed
Avoid looping in transaction output.
Update app-layer API to store the bits in one step
and retrieve the bits in a single step as well.
Update users of the API.
Create a bitmap of the loggers per protocol. This is done at runtime
based on the loggers that are enabled. Take the logger_id for each
logger and store it as a bitmap in the app-layer protcol storage.
Goal is to be able to use it as an expectation later.
TCP reassembly is now deactivated more frequently and triggering a
bypass on it is resulting in missing some alerts due forgetting
about packet based signature.
So this patch is introducing a dedicated flag that can be set in
the app layer and transmitted in the streaming to trigger bypass.
It is currently used by the SSL app layer to trigger bypass when
the stream becomes encrypted.
A parser can now set a flag that will tell the application
layer that it is capable of handling gaps. If enabled, and a
gap occurs, the app-layer needs to be prepared to accept
input that is NULL with a length, where the length is the
number of bytes lost. It is up to the app-layer to
determine if it can sync up with the input data again.
Jason Ish
Victor Julien
Philippe Antoine
Danny Browning
Giuseppe Longo
Jeff Lucovsky
Giuseppe Longo
Jason Ish
Pierre Chifflier
Eric Leblond