Open Information Security Foundation

03/12/2021

03:55 PM Suricata Task #3852: Ability to build with sanitizers

Personal preference to set compilation features through the configure/build system, not the environment.
I find th... Roland Fischer

07/30/2020

03:29 PM Suricata Task #3852: Ability to build with sanitizers

This is only about adding the configure capability. There probably should be a follow-on discussion on whether some t... Roland Fischer

03:27 PM Suricata Task #3852 (New): Ability to build with sanitizers

While one can inject building with the different sanitizers easily from the outside through CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, I wou... Roland Fischer

07/28/2020

06:24 PM Suricata Bug #3846: Infinite loop if the sniffing interface temporarily goes down

Fixing @PcapTryReopen()@ would probably require to @pcap_close()@ the pcap handle in this case and re-create it simil... Roland Fischer

06:21 PM Suricata Bug #3846: Infinite loop if the sniffing interface temporarily goes down

The proposed patch is one way of fixing it but it'll exit Suricata.
The question is whether Suricata should try to... Roland Fischer

07/27/2020

07:56 PM Suricata Documentation #3727 (Closed): byte_extract documentation is missing some optional arguments

That was fixed in https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/5080 and merged with https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/51... Roland Fischer

07/21/2020

04:37 PM Suricata Task #3837: Investigate clang-tidy usage to enforce coding standards

Documentation can be found at: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/index.html
Version-specific doc, e.g. for cla... Roland Fischer

04:19 PM Suricata Task #3837: Investigate clang-tidy usage to enforce coding standards

Also check out CodeChecker that could combine static analysis and clang-tidy: https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/command... Roland Fischer

04:17 PM Suricata Task #3837: Investigate clang-tidy usage to enforce coding standards

h1. What's the difference between scan-build and clang-tidy?
scan-build does **static analysis** of code and as su... Roland Fischer

04:16 PM Suricata Task #3837 (New): Investigate clang-tidy usage to enforce coding standards

We shall investigate using clang-tidy to enforce coding style guide that cannot be done with clang-format. It can als... Roland Fischer