Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] failed assertion after returning from nested lua dissector (wireshark 1.2.1 Debian/u

[David Gutzmann <gutzmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to write a bunch of small dissectors in lua for a custom  
protocol (http://www.des-testbed.net/DES-SERT).

A DES-SERT message consists of a header and within the header there  
are several user defined extension. Therefore i wrote a dissector in  
lua for the message header itself and as long as no other dissectors  
get involved everything is fine.

The idea was to let users register their extension-dissectors with the  
main DES-SERT dissector and then hand of dissection of the extensions  
to them.

The problem is, that right after the first user dissector returned i  
get this error:

    [Dissector bug, protocol DESSERT: tvbuff.c:665: failed assertion  
"tvb && tvb->initialized"]

After this, no more item are added to the tree, but i see debug output  
from the remaining user dissectors on the console. (also weird but  
maybe not related, the main dissector seems to be called twice...)

The users register their extension dissectors with the following function:

  function dessert_register_ext_dissector(ext_type, ext_name, dissector)
	extension_types[ext_type] = ext_name
	dessert_dissector_table:add(ext_type, dissector)
  end

The main-dissector hands off extensions with:


  -- extlen includes the 2byte extension header!
  extdata_real_length = extlen:uint() - 2
  extdata = buffer(offset, extdata_real_length)

  dissector = dessert_dissector_table:get_dissector(exttype:uint())
  if dissector ~= nil then
    dissector:call(extdata:tvb(), pinfo, exttreeitem)
  end


I really appreciate any comments/ideas you may have on this!

Please let me know if you need additional information (the actual lua  
scripts pcaps, ...)

Thanks!

David

--
David Gutzmann