Hi /all,
I'm adding connection state information to my dissector using the
conversation_*_proto_data() functions. Unfortunately there is no
documentation for those functions so I looked into other dissectors to
get an idea how to use them. Actually I looked into packet_rsync.c.
Now I have a few questions:
1. In packet_rsync.c conversation_add_proto_data() is called everytime
after having changed a member of the data structure. I guess this is an
error, because conversation_get_proto_data() delivers just a pointer to
the data structure, so all modifications are done in place. Correct?
2. I wonder how to deallocate memory that has been allocated for the
data structure. Clearly one can free() the pointer to my structure when
a conversation is dropped, but what happens if I use pointers in there?
Example:
struct conn_data {
int foo;
char* bar;
}
here foo can be deallocated but the content of *bar is lost.
3. How should I handle out of memory condition in my dissector?
Currently I use g_malloc() but I guess this is wrong.
mfg, XL
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