Hi,
From a code point of view (epan/proto.c) I can see why this is
happening. From a API point of view this looks wrong. If I'm serving the
function the value to work with I expect it to work with that value, not
its own interpretation of it.
Let's have a look at what happens if we change this.
Thanx,
Jaap
Alexey Neyman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following question: in the dissector I am writing, there is a
> bitfield occupying bits [2..7] of a byte. I have defined it as follows:
>
> { &hf_x, { "X", "p.x", FT_UINT8, BASE_HEX, NULL, 0xfc, "", HFILL }}
>
> Everything is okay if I add that field using proto_tree_add_item().
> However, the following code fails:
>
> x = tvb_get_guint8(tvb, 0) >> 2;
> proto_tree_add_uint_format(tree, hf_x, tvb, 0, 1, x,
> "the value of X formatted in some way");
>
> The problem is that the value assigned to the "p.x" variable for packet
> matching is shifted 2 bits right one more time in proto_tree_set_uint().
> Workaround is easy: for such fields, the bitmask could be specified as
> zero in header_field_info. I looked for other dissectors which might have
> faced such issue; in fact, epan/dissectors/packet-cimd.c just employs
> such workaround.
>
> However, I wonder if this is a known and desired side-effect of
> proto_tree_add_uint_format() that makes its behavior different from
> proto_tree_add_item(). The doc/README.developer does not appear to
> mention that proto_tree_uint_format() takes not "final value" for fields
> with a bitmask, but rather raw, "unshifted" value.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexey Neyman.
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