Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> 
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=32519
>>>
>>> User: guy
>>> Date: 2010/04/19 04:38 PM
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> If that should truly "never happen", use DISSECTOR_ASSERT_NOT_REACHED()
>>> so it's more clearly marked as a dissector bug.
>>>
>>> (It apparently *does* happen - see bug 4698.)
>> This has the randpkt test failing on the buildbot.
> 
> ...which means that the RSVP dissector has, and had even before that checkin, 
> a bug, in that something that, according to a comment in the code, "should 
> never happen" can, in fact, happen with a bogus packet; this just makes the 
> bug more obvious.
> 
>> Should it really be backported to 1.2.8?
> 
> Clearly marking something that "should never happen" but does happen as a 
> dissector bug in the dissection is better than just putting a blob of
> 
>       Unknown session type
> 
> into the protocol tree, so, yes, I'd backport it.
> 
>> Or should the randpkt test accept dissector bugs as OK (like the fuzz 
>> testing)?
> 
> The fuzz testing accepts dissector bug reports as OK?  That seems like an 
> error to me.

So someone else thought too when they noticed it.  So we turned it on 
for a while but then we got overwhelmed with bugs.  See, for example, 
3885, 3879, 3887, 3881.  So then it got turned off again.
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