Notable changes:
- libmagic is no longer used at all. All MIME type detection is
done through new Bro signatures, and there's no longer a means to get
verbose file type descriptions (e.g. "PNG image data, 1435 x 170").
The majority of the default file magic signatures are derived
from the default magic database of libmagic ~5.17.
- File magic signatures consist of two new constructs in the
signature rule parsing grammar: "file-magic" gives a regular
expression to match against, and "file-mime" gives the MIME type
string of content that matches the magic and an optional strength
value for the match.
- Modified signature/rule syntax for identifiers: they can no longer
start with a '-', which made for ambiguous syntax when doing negative
strength values in "file-mime". Also brought syntax for Bro script
identifiers in line with reality (they can't start with numbers or
include '-' at all).
- A new Built-In Function, "file_magic", can be used to get all
file magic matches and their corresponding strength against a given
chunk of data
- The second parameter of the "identify_data" Built-In Function
can no longer be used to get verbose file type descriptions, though it
can still be used to get the strongest matching file magic signature.
- The "file_transferred" event's "descr" parameter no longer
contains verbose file type descriptions.
- The BROMAGIC environment variable no longer changes any behavior
in Bro as magic databases are no longer used/installed.
- Reverted back to minimum requirement of CMake 2.6.3 from 2.8.0
(it's back to being the same requirement as the Bro v2.2 release).
The bump was to accomodate building libmagic as an external project,
which is no longer needed.
Addresses BIT-1143.
Includes:
- Cleanup of the plugin API, in particular generally changing
const char* to std::string
- Renaming environment variable BRO_PLUGINS to BRO_PLUGIN_PATH,
defaulting to <prefix>/lib/bro/plugins
- Reworking how dynamic plugins are searched and activated. See
doc/devel/plugins.rst for details.
- New @load-plugin directive to explicitly activate a plugin
- Support for Darwin. (Linux untested right now)
- The init-plugin updates come with support for "make test", "make
sdist", and "make bdist" (see how-to).
- Test updates.
Notes: The new hook mechanism, which allows plugins to hook into Bro's
core a well-defined points, is still essentially untested.
A bunch of infrastructure work to move IOSource, IOSourceRegistry (now
iosource::Manager) and PktSrc/PktDumper code into iosource/, and over
to a plugin structure.
Other IOSources aren't touched yet, they are still in src/*.
It compiles and does something with a small trace, but that's all I've
tested so far. There are quite certainly a number of problems left, as
well as various TODOs and cleanup; and nothing's cast in stone yet.
Will continue to work on this.
- Internals: move type alias table to private static BroType member.
- Sphinx extension: now uses absolute path to bro binary.
- reST ouput formatting: remove "param" from function desriptions
and change package overview docs so script link+summaries render
consistently.
I got rid of the earlier separate InterpreterPlugin class. Instead
Plugin now has a set of virtual methods HookSomething()... that
plugins can override. For efficiency purposes, they however need to
register first that they are interested in a hook, otherwise the
virtual method will never be called. The idea is to extend the set of
hooks over time as we figure out what's useful.
This is a checkpoint commit that's essentially untested and probably
broken. It compiles, though.
This is essentially the code from the dynamic-plugin branch except for
some pieces that I have split out into separate, earlier commits.
I'm going to updatre things in this branch going forward.
So script parsing is only ~2x slower rather than 20x. Turns out cloning
Vals is particularly slow. Changed to just get a string description of
the Val for initial value and redef tracking.
Doesn't generate any docs, but it's hooked in to all places needed to
gather the necessary stuff w/ significantly less coupling than before.
The gathering now always occurs unconditionally to make documentation
available at runtime and a command line switch (-X) only toggles whether
to output docs to disk (reST format).
Should also improve the treatment of type name aliasing which wasn't a
big problem in practice before, but I think it's more correct now:
there's now a distinct BroType for each alias, but extensible types
(record/enum) will automatically update the types for aliases on redef.
Other misc refactoring of note:
- Removed a redundant/unused way of declaring event types.
- Changed type serialization format/process to preserve type name
information and remove compatibility code (since broccoli will
have be updated anyway).
- Primarily working around an issue that occurs when threads
concurrently create pipes and fork a child process. See comment in
code...
- Other minor cleanup of the code: making sure the child process calls
_exit() versus exit(), limits itself to few select system calls before
the exec(), and closes more unused file descriptors.
- Fix examples/references in the file analysis how-to/usage doc.
- Add Broxygen-generated docs for file analyzer plugins.
- Break FTP::Info type declaration out in to its own file to get
rid of some circular dependencies (between s/b/p/ftp/main and
s/b/p/ftp/utils).
Closes#1021.
* origin/topic/bernhard/input-update:
this event handler fails the unused-event-handlers test because it is a bit of a special case.
...and fix the event ordering issue. Dispatch != QueueEvent
add Terminate to input framework to prevent potential shutdown race-conditions.
fix warning.
fix stderr test. ls behaves differently on errors on linux...
small fixes.
linux does not have strnstr
and close only fds that are currently open (the logging framework really did not like that :) )
A bunch of more changes for the raw reader
make reading from stdout and stderr simultaneously work.
allow sending data to stdin of child process
Streaming reads from external commands work without blocking anything.
replace popen with fork and exec.
change raw reader to use basic c io instead of fdstream encapsulation class.
Thanks to git this merge was less troublesome that I was afraid it
would be. Not all tests pass yet though (and file hashes have changed
unfortunately).
Conflicts:
cmake
doc/scripts/DocSourcesList.cmake
scripts/base/init-bare.bro
scripts/base/protocols/ftp/main.bro
scripts/base/protocols/irc/dcc-send.bro
scripts/test-all-policy.bro
src/AnalyzerTags.h
src/CMakeLists.txt
src/analyzer/Analyzer.cc
src/analyzer/protocol/file/File.cc
src/analyzer/protocol/file/File.h
src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc
src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.h
src/analyzer/protocol/mime/MIME.cc
src/event.bif
src/main.cc
src/util-config.h.in
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.bare-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.default-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events-ssl/receiver.http.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events-ssl/sender.http.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events/receiver.http.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events/sender.http.log
It doesn't do anything else than simply forwarding to FlushBuffers().
This is just for consistency in terminate_bro() where components get
their Terminate() called so that the main code doesn't need to know
anything more specific about what particular action to take at
shutdown.
* origin/topic/bernhard/thread-cleanup:
and just to be really sure - always make threads go through OnWaitForStop
hopefully finally fix last interesting race-condition
it is apparently getting a bit late for changes at important code...
spoke to soon (forgot to comment in line again).
Change thread shutdown again to also work with input framework.
Changing semantics of thread stop methods.
Support for cleaning up threads that have terminated.
Closes#997.
* topic/robin/sqlite-merge: (25 commits)
Fix to make sqlite test consistent, and updating coverage baselines
Avoid a CMake warning about 3rdparty looking like a number.
Fixing linker error.
and there is no has-reader.
make sqlite3 executable required and add test-cases for errors
Renaming src/external -> src/3rdparty
fix a few small rough edges (mostly comments that do no longer apply)
fix bug in input-manager regarding enums that a writer reads without 0-terminating the string
actually make sqlite work again (tests passed because the writer was not actually defined because of the define.)
add sqlite distribution.
fix warnings, update baselines, handle rotation
add sqlite tests and fix small vector/set escaping bugs
fix small bug with vectors and sets.
make work with newer AsciiFormatter.
start adding a different text for empty records for the sqlite writer.
no, you will never guess from where I copied this file...
make sqlite support more or less work for logging and input
make sqlite-writer more stable.
make it compile with new version of AsciiInputOutput
and adapt to AsciiInputOutput - seems to work...
...
Conflicts:
scripts/base/frameworks/input/__load__.bro
src/CMakeLists.txt
src/input.bif
src/input/Manager.cc
src/main.cc
src/types.bif
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.bare-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.default-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
Seems to work, tests pass, but not really verified.
Major change 1:
finished flag in MsgThread was replaced by 2 flags:
child_finished and main_finished.
child_finished is set by child_thread and means that the processing
loop is stopped immediately (no longer needed, no new input messages
will be processed, if loop continues running there is an ugly delay
on shutdown). (This took me a while to realize...)
main_finished is set by a message that is sent back by the child
to the main thread when Finished() is called (and child_finished
is set). when main_finished is set, processing of output messages
stops. But all messages that the child thread pushed in the queue
before calling Finish() are still processed.
Change 2:
Logging terminate call was replaced by a smaller call that just
flushes out the cache held by the main thread. This call
has to be done before thread shutdown is called - otherwhise
the threads will be shut down before all messages are pushed
on them. (This also took me a while to realize...).
Change 3:
Input framework actually calls it stop methods correctly (everything
was prepared, function call was missing)
* origin/topic/bernhard/sqlite:
fix a few small rough edges (mostly comments that do no longer apply)
fix bug in input-manager regarding enums that a writer reads without 0-terminating the string
actually make sqlite work again (tests passed because the writer was not actually defined because of the define.)
add sqlite distribution.
fix warnings, update baselines, handle rotation
add sqlite tests and fix small vector/set escaping bugs
fix small bug with vectors and sets.
make work with newer AsciiFormatter.
start adding a different text for empty records for the sqlite writer.
no, you will never guess from where I copied this file...
make sqlite support more or less work for logging and input
make sqlite-writer more stable.
make it compile with new version of AsciiInputOutput
and adapt to AsciiInputOutput - seems to work...
make it compile
add SQLite reader.
...adapt to new api...
now the writer supports tables and vectors.
basic sqlite writer seems to work.
This works around a bug in libmagic since version 5.12 (current at
time of writing is 5.14) -- second call to magic_load() w/ non-default
database segfaults.
- It's derived from the magic database of libmagic 5.14, but with most
everything not related to mime types removed.
- The custom database is always used by default for mime detection, but
the more verbose file type detection will fall back on the default
libmagic installation's database. The result is: mime type strings
are now guaranteed to be consistent across platforms, but the verbose
file type descriptions are not.
- The custom database gets installed in $prefix/share/bro/magic, and
should even be extensible if files with new patterns are added inside
the directory.
- The search path for the mime magic database can be controlled via
BROMAGIC environment variable.
- Remove mime_desc field from ftp.log.
- Stop using the mime/file type canonifier with unit tests.
- libmagic >= 5.04 is now a requirement.
Also moving src/analyzer.bif to src/analyzer/analyzer.bif, along with
the infrastructure to build/incude bif code at other locations.
We should generally move to having per-directory CMakeLists.txt. I'll
convert the others over later.
There's now a new directory "src/protocols/", and the plan is for each
protocol analyzer to eventually have its own subdirectory in there
that contains everything it defines (C++/pac/bif). The infrastructure
to make that happen is in place, and two analyzers have been
converted to the new model, HTTP and SSL; there's no further
HTTP/SSL-specific code anywhere else in the core anymore (I believe :-)
Further changes:
- -N lists available plugins, -NN lists more details on what these
plugins provide (analyzers, bif elements). (The latter does not
work for analyzers that haven't been converted yet).
- *.bif.bro files now go into scripts/base/bif/; and
scripts/base/bif/plugins/ for bif files provided by plugins.
- I've factored out the bifcl/binpac CMake magic from
src/CMakeLists.txt to cmake/{BifCl,Binpac}
- There's a new cmake/BroPlugin that contains magic to allow
plugins to have a simple CMakeLists.txt. The hope is that
eventually the same CMakeLists.txt can be used for compiling a
plugin either statically or dynamically.
- bifcl has a new option -c that changes the code it generates so
that it can be used with a plugin.
TODOs:
- "make install" is probably broken.
- Broxygen is probably broken for plugin-defined events.
- event groups are broken (do we want to keep them?)
This is a larger internal change that moves the analyzer
infrastructure to a more flexible model where the available analyzers
don't need to be hardcoded at compile time anymore. While currently
they actually still are, this will in the future enable external
analyzer plugins. For now, it does already add the capability to
dynamically enable/disable analyzers from script-land, replacing the
old Analyzer::Available() methods.
There are three major parts going into this:
- A new plugin infrastructure in src/plugin. This is independent
of analyzers and will eventually support plugins for other parts
of Bro as well (think: readers and writers). The goal is that
plugins can be alternatively compiled in statically or loadead
dynamically at runtime from a shared library. While the latter
isn't there yet, there'll be almost no code change for a plugin
to make it dynamic later (hopefully :)
- New analyzer infrastructure in src/analyzer. I've moved a number
of analyzer-related classes here, including Analyzer and DPM;
the latter now renamed to Analyzer::Manager. More will move here
later. Currently, there's only one plugin here, which provides
*all* existing analyzers. We can modularize this further in the
future (or not).
- A new script interface in base/framework/analyzer. I think that
this will eventually replace the dpm framework, but for now
that's still there as well, though some parts have moved over.
I've also remove the dpd_config table; ports are now configured via
the analyzer framework. For exmaple, for SSH:
const ports = { 22/tcp } &redef;
event bro_init() &priority=5
{
...
Analyzer::register_for_ports(Analyzer::ANALYZER_SSH, ports);
}
As you can see, the old ANALYZER_SSH constants have more into an enum
in the Analyzer namespace.
This is all hardly tested right now, and not everything works yet.
There's also a lot more cleanup to do (moving more classes around;
removing no longer used functionality; documenting script and C++
interfaces; regression tests). But it seems to generally work with a
small trace at least.
The debug stream "dpm" shows more about the loaded/enabled analyzers.
A new option -N lists loaded plugins and what they provide (including
those compiled in statically; i.e., right now it outputs all the
analyzers).
This is all not cast-in-stone yet, for some things we need to see if
they make sense this way. Feedback welcome.
