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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] bug in packet-bgp.c (Ethereal) and print-bgp.c (tcpdump) (fwd)

From: Aaron Campbell <aaron@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:06:53 -0400 (EDT)
The expression (BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_EXT ||BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_NSSA) will always
evaluate to 1.  As well, neither of these constants are defined as flag
values, so a bitwise op was probably not intended either.

Commit log for packet-bgp.c in Ethereal shows that this code originated
from Aamer Akhter, and was later ported to tcpdump by Hannes Gredler.  I
have already received notice from Hannes that he has committed a fix:

http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-bgp.c

Below is my attempt to fix the code in Ethereal.  Is it correct?  (This is
untested, I don't have a trace to test with.)

--- packet-bgp.c.orig	Thu Oct  5 19:59:25 2006
+++ packet-bgp.c	Thu Oct  5 20:00:40 2006
@@ -2268,7 +2268,7 @@
 				/* always print E2 even if not external route -- receiving router should ignore */
                                 if ( (tvb_get_guint8(tvb,q+7)) & BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_METRIC_TYPE ) {
                                     junk_gbuf_ptr += g_snprintf(junk_gbuf_ptr, MAX_STR_LEN-(junk_gbuf_ptr-junk_gbuf), " E2");
-                                } else if (tvb_get_guint8(tvb,q+6)==(BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_EXT ||BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_NSSA ) ) {
+                                } else if ( (tvb_get_guint8(tvb,q+6)==BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_EXT) || (tvb_get_guint8(tvb,q+6)==BGP_OSPF_RTYPE_NSSA) ) {
                                     junk_gbuf_ptr += g_snprintf(junk_gbuf_ptr, MAX_STR_LEN-(junk_gbuf_ptr-junk_gbuf), " E1");
                                 } else {
 				    junk_gbuf_ptr += g_snprintf(junk_gbuf_ptr, MAX_STR_LEN-(junk_gbuf_ptr-junk_gbuf), ", no options");

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Aaron Campbell <aaron@xxxxxxxxx>
Software Engineer, Arbor Networks, Inc.