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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clang code analysis buildbot

From: Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:03:41 -0400
Right, understood.
And if I'd actually carefully read the bug comments fuzzbot submits, I would have noticed the './tshark -nVxr' at the bottom of them. :)

-hadriel


On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 22, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How long does the clang code analysis buldbot
>>> 
>>> You mean the "beat the living hell out of Wireshark to look for bugs in many different ways" buildbot? :-)
>> 
>> What does it actually *do*?
> 
> The partial list in my previous message said:
> 
> 	scan-build, running the Clang static analyzer;
> 
> 	cov-build, building to prepare to hand Wireshark off to Coverity;
> 
> 	fuzz-menagerie, repeatedly running fuzzed capture files through TShark to make sure it doesn't crash.
> 
> There's also a phase in which it runs capture files with random data ("random" in the sense of "generated by a pseudo-random number generator") through TShark as well.
> 
>> It looks like some of the crash bugs it submits are GUI-specific
> 
> Unlikely, given that it's testing TShark, not Wireshark, with the fuzzed captures.  See tools/fuzz-test.sh.
> 
>> and only occur way down the packet list, so presumably it actually loads the fuzzed files in wireshark
> 
> Nope.  It really does run them through TShark; where has the buildbot filed a bug in which *Wireshark* crashed?
> 
>> Does it also try some of the graphs/analyzers?
> 
> No, it doesn't test any of the Wireshark GUI.
> 
>> I ask because I can't repo a crash with bug 9887 by just viewing it,
> 
> Perhaps:
> 
> 	1) for some unknown reason, it crashes on Ubuntu (64-bit x86) but not OS X (64-bit x86 in your case, as you are, as I remember, running a recent OS X version);
> 
> 	2) you have different preferences set (I think the buildbot has an empty set of preferences, so the defaults are used);
> 
> 	3) perhaps, for some reason, it crashes in TShark but doesn't crash in Wireshark - for example, if you don't have any color filters set and don't have a display filter, the path where it reads in the capture doesn't generate a protocol tree, but I think the TShark test generates a protocol tree.
> 
>> but if I select Telephony->Voip Calls... boom goes the dynamite.
> 
> That might be a separate bug.
> 
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