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07/18/2025

CT 02:04 PM Suricata Bug #6735: setting variables with --set leads to segfault

No, but tracing getopt() from suricata.c looks like conf.c SCConfNodeGetNodeOrCreate() is where things get created. I would guess that's where a check should be but not sure if it's omniscient enough to know what should and shouldn't be ... Corey Thomas

07/11/2025

CT 04:28 PM Suricata Bug #6735: setting variables with --set leads to segfault

Doing a Corey Thomas

CT 01:23 PM Suricata Bug #6735: setting variables with --set leads to segfault

still see it in 8 too Corey Thomas

CT 01:07 PM Suricata Bug #6735: setting variables with --set leads to segfault

I am still seeing it on master 8.
Maybe it's triggered by the config we have in QA ?
That may be a bit out of date, but I'm not sure that matters since you are setting a var?
(edit: this is actually from your PR about TLPW2 using file... Corey Thomas

07/10/2024

CT 02:13 PM Suricata Bug #6490: profiling: rule profiling doesn't support absolute paths

This still seems to be failing in the PR. I'm not sure where @PathIsAbsolute@ is defined but it must not be getting the @/@
@Error: profiling-rules: failed to open /...../var/log/suricata///dev/null: No such file or directory [SCProfili... Corey Thomas

02/05/2024

CT 12:57 PM Suricata Bug #6735 (New): setting variables with --set leads to segfault

Trying to incorrectly set threading 'threads' count leads to a segfault before suricata starts. This was done in 8 but likely affects previous version. Corey Thomas

12/11/2023

CT 11:10 AM Suricata Bug #6619 (Closed): profiling: runtime much longer to run than it used to

While trying to profile for something else, I noticed that profiling in 7.x.x+ takes longer compared to 6.x.x builds.
I think the source is this commit
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b591813b8690753ee4a678f8b10ff1928de1fe15 Corey Thomas

11/13/2023

CT 03:18 PM Suricata Bug #6490 (Closed): profiling: rule profiling doesn't support absolute paths

While testing rule profiling I noticed that a filename-path of */dev/null* will get appended to the log directory and end up complaining about the file not being found (like */some/path//dev/null*). Corey Thomas

09/25/2023

CT 03:40 PM Suricata Feature #4573 (Resolved): add IPS drop total to eve log output

Jeff Lucovsky wrote in #note-6:
> @cthomas Does the eve stats addition meet your needs?
Yes, I think so. We have the accepted, blocked and rejected packets at the end of run.
I'll marked this as resolved. Feel free to fix or let m... Corey Thomas

11/10/2021

CT 03:21 PM Suricata Task #4814: GitHub: Add Fedora 35 builder to GitHub CI

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/6595 Corey Thomas