}
}
- /* No underlaying filtering system. We need to filter on our own */
+ /* No underlying filtering system. We need to filter on our own */
if (p->fcode.bf_insns)
{
if (pcap_filter(p->fcode.bf_insns, dp, packet_len, caplen) == 0)
}
/*
- * Vendor-specific error codes.
- *
* These are NTSTATUS values:
*
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-erref/87fba13e-bf06-450e-83b1-9241dc81e781
* mapped to Windows error values in userland; they're returned by
* GetLastError().
*
- * Attempting to set non-promiscuous mode on a Microsoft Surface Pro's
- * Mobile Broadband Adapter returns an error; that error can safely be
- * ignored, as it's always in non-promiscuous mode.
+ * Note that "driver" here includes the Npcap NPF driver, as various
+ * versions would take NT status values and set the "Customer" bit
+ * before returning the status code. The commit message for the
+ * change that started doing that is
+ *
+ * Returned a customer-defined NTSTATUS in OID requests to avoid
+ * NTSTATUS-to-Win32 Error code translation.
+ *
+ * but I don't know why the goal was to avoid that translation.
+ *
+ * Attempting to set the hardware filter on a Microsoft Surface Pro's
+ * Mobile Broadband Adapter returns an error that appears to be
+ * NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED ORed with the "Customer" bit, so it's
+ * probably indicating that it doesn't support that.
*
* It is likely that there are other devices which throw spurious errors,
* at which point this will need refactoring to efficiently check against
- * a list, but for now we can just check this one value.
+ * a list, but for now we can just check this one value. Perhaps the
+ * right way to do this is compare against various NDIS errors with
+ * the "customer" bit ORed in.
*/
-#define NPF_SURFACE_MOBILE_NONPROMISC 0xe00000bb
+#define NT_STATUS_CUSTOMER_DEFINED 0x20000000
static int
pcap_activate_npf(pcap_t *p)
/*
* Suppress spurious error generated by non-compiant
- * MS Surface mobile adapters.
+ * MS Surface mobile adapters that appear to
+ * return NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED for attempts
+ * to set the hardware filter.
+ *
+ * It appears to be reporting NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED,
+ * but with the NT status value "Customer" bit set;
+ * the Npcap NPF driver sets that bit in some cases.
*
* If we knew that this meant "promiscuous mode
* isn't supported", we could add a "promiscuous
* and rejecting it with an error could disrupt
* attempts to capture, as many programs (tcpdump,
* *shark) default to promiscuous mode.
+ *
+ * Alternatively, we could return the "promiscuous
+ * mode not supported" *warning* value, so that
+ * correct code will either ignore it or report
+ * it and continue capturing. (This may require
+ * a pcap_init() flag to request that return
+ * value, so that old incorrect programs that
+ * assume a non-zero return from pcap_activate()
+ * is an error don't break.)
*/
- if (errcode != NPF_SURFACE_MOBILE_NONPROMISC)
+ if (errcode != (NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED|NT_STATUS_CUSTOMER_DEFINED))
{
pcap_fmt_errmsg_for_win32_err(p->errbuf,
PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE, errcode,
* Suppress spurious error generated by non-compiant
* MS Surface mobile adapters.
*/
- if (errcode != NPF_SURFACE_MOBILE_NONPROMISC)
+ if (errcode != (NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED|NT_STATUS_CUSTOMER_DEFINED))
{
pcap_fmt_errmsg_for_win32_err(p->errbuf,
PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE, errcode,
#ifdef OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM_EX
OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM_EX,
#endif
- OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM
- };
+ OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM
+ };
#define N_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM_OIDS (sizeof gen_physical_medium_oids / sizeof gen_physical_medium_oids[0])
size_t i;
#endif /* OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM */
desc++;
/*
- * Found it - "desc" points to the first of the two
+ * Found it - "desc" points to the first of the two
* nulls at the end of the list of names, so the
* first byte of the list of descriptions is two bytes
* after it.