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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2016-04-29 19:04:17 -0700
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2016-04-30 02:04:50 +0000
commitc34cf306ab90307c23371d638478bce1d348388d (patch)
treeb2f59efe586f99b9d0fd91f3b925fedf368e1770 /wiretap/network_instruments.c
parent44f72a90eaffc8a0322b377c4a66c11bf63340dc (diff)
downloadwireshark-c34cf306ab90307c23371d638478bce1d348388d.tar.gz
Note some cases where we don't need to check the packet length.
These file formats have 16-bit packet lengths, so, even with some extra metadata added, the packet data length will never be bigger than WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE. (No, we won't ever reduce WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE.) Change-Id: I9e1b1d90971f91cc6e5d66d0aa93841445b2bc22 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/15186 Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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diff --git a/wiretap/network_instruments.c b/wiretap/network_instruments.c
index 9f2a45accb..286243a312 100644
--- a/wiretap/network_instruments.c
+++ b/wiretap/network_instruments.c
@@ -471,6 +471,11 @@ process_packet_header(wtap *wth, packet_entry_header *packet_header,
phdr->len = packet_header->network_size - 4;
phdr->caplen = MIN(packet_header->captured_size, phdr->len);
}
+ /*
+ * The maximum value of packet_header->captured_size is 65535, which
+ * is less than WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE will ever be, so we don't need
+ * to check it.
+ */
/* set the wiretap timestamp, assuming for the moment that Observer encoded it in GMT */
phdr->ts.secs = (time_t) ((packet_header->nano_seconds_since_2000 / 1000000000) + ansi_to_observer_epoch_offset);