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Bug #3345

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App-Layer: Not all parsers register TX detect flags that should

Added by Jason Ish over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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Description

User reported slowdown in the DHCP parser. It turns out that the DHCP parser did not register tx detect flag callbacks resulting the transactions on a flow never being freed. This is particular noticeable on DHCP due to the 0.0.0.0->255.255.255.255 address pair that is used for many DHCP requests.

First fixed as an app-layer fixup to handle parsers without tx detect flags, such as DHCP that don't need them as they don't register any detection engines.

The second fix was to throw a fatal error if a detect engine is registered for an app-layer proto without tx detect flags. This should never happen in production, its more of a check during development.

Finally protocols that were missing tx detect flags that needed them were fixed up to use them.


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