Lua Dissector.get can’t find an existing dissector.

Question

I'm building a LUA dissector. I want to run another dissector on the data before i continue examining the data but i am failing miserably. I have tried this with 1.10.5 and 1.11.2 and it fails in either case. This line of code is failing, (i am trying to mimic what the docs do, but obviously the docs are less than adequate):

Dissector.get("moldudp64"):call(buffer,pinfo,tree)

Simple. Get the moldudp64 dissector and call it. It fails with this in the tree pane:

bad argument #1 to 'get (Dissector_get: No such dissector)

I KNOW the dissector exists, you can go to "Internals" -> "Supported Protocols" and there it is:

MoldUDP64   MoldUDP64     moldudp64

In fact if i right click a line and click on Decode As... i can select "MoldUDP64" and it works. By the way i have tried using different variations of the "MoldUDP64" string for the get call. I am flabbergasted at how hard this simple thing is turning out to be. I'm probably completely misunderstanding something and will feel like a dummy once the obvious is pointed out to me.

Here is the complete lua dissector. Obviously it is not finished and broken in many places, but i can't even get past the first .get call in the dissector definition:

bono_proto = Proto("NASDAQ-TOPO","Nasdaq TOPO Options Protocol")
local vs_types = {
[84] = "Timestamp",
[83] = "System",
[68] = "Directory",
[72] = "Trading Action",
[79] = "Security Open/Close"
}
local f_type = ProtoField.uint8("NASDAQ-TOPO.type","Type", base.DEC, vs_types)
bono_proto.fields = { f_type }
– create a function to dissect it
function bono_proto.dissector(buffer,pinfo,tree)
Dissector.get("moldudp64"):call(buffer,pinfo,tree)
pinfo.cols.protocol = "Nasdaq TOPO"
local subtree = tree:add(bono_proto,buffer(),"Nasdaq TOPO Options Data")
subtree:add(f_length, buffer(0,1))
end
– load the udp.port table
udp_table = DissectorTable.get("udp.port")
– register our protocol to handle udp ports 19601-19608
udp_table:add(19601,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19602,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19603,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19604,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19605,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19606,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19607,bono_proto)
udp_table:add(19608,bono_proto)

Answer 1

As an FYI, the following dissectors are registered such that Lua can call them (in Wireshark 1.11.3):

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Answer 2

0

Finding a dissector by name only works if the dissector rgister by name which this one seems to not be doing.

answered 13 Feb '14, 14:21

Anders ♦
4.6k●9●52
accept rate: 17%

Well that makes sense. Is there a way to tell how the dissector is registered?

(13 Feb '14, 14:24) shredluc

Non other than looking at the register routine in the source code of the dissector as far as I know.

(13 Feb '14, 14:28) Anders ♦

So this is the registration in the source code:

 255     expert_module_t* expert_moldudp64;
 256 
 257     /* Register the protocol name and description */
 258     proto_moldudp64 = proto_register_protocol("MoldUDP64",
 259             "MoldUDP64", "moldudp64");
 260 
 261     /* Required function calls to register the header fields and subtrees used */
 262     proto_register_field_array(proto_moldudp64, hf, array_length(hf));
 263     proto_register_subtree_array(ett, array_length(ett));
 264     expert_moldudp64 = expert_register_protocol(proto_moldudp64);
 265     expert_register_field_array(expert_moldudp64, ei, array_length(ei));
 266 
 267     /* Register preferences module */
 268     moldudp64_module = prefs_register_protocol(proto_moldudp64,
 269             proto_reg_handoff_moldudp64);
 270 
 271     /* Register a sample port preference   */
 272     prefs_register_uint_preference(moldudp64_module, "udp.port", "MoldUDP64 UDP Port",
 273             "MoldUDP64 UDP port to dissect on.",
 274             10, &pf_moldudp64_port);

I don't understand why i can't look it up by name. It doesn't make any sense to me.

(14 Feb '14, 06:10) shredluc

The lookup failed because moldudp do not perform named dissector registration through new_register_dissector().

(14 Feb '14, 08:28) RuAnShi

You can try following hack. Assign port 43210 in moldudp64 protocol preferences. In LUA script use:

local x = DissectorTable.get("udp.port")
local y = x:get_dissector("43210")
y:call(tvb, pinfo, tree)

(14 Feb '14, 08:39) RuAnShi