[Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've submitted a patch with epan scope.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2013-09-13, at 7:55 AM, Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm trying to address se_alloc() calls. If I change this:
>
> Index: packet-infiniband_sdp.c
> ===================================================================
> --- packet-infiniband_sdp.c   (revision 52002)
> +++ packet-infiniband_sdp.c   (working copy)
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>  #include <epan/packet.h>
>  #include <epan/prefs.h>
>  #include <epan/conversation.h>
> +#include <epan/wmem/wmem.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <errno.h>
>
> @@ -529,8 +530,8 @@
>          heur_dissector_add("infiniband.mad.cm.private", dissect_ib_sdp, proto_ib_sdp);
>
>          /* allocate enough space in the addresses to store the largest address (a GID) */
> -        manual_addr_data[0] = se_alloc(GID_SIZE);
> -        manual_addr_data[1] = se_alloc(GID_SIZE);
> +        manual_addr_data[0] = wmem_alloc(wmem_file_scope(), GID_SIZE);
> +        manual_addr_data[1] = wmem_alloc(wmem_file_scope(), GID_SIZE);
>
>          initialized = TRUE;
>      }
> @@ -567,4 +568,3 @@
>
>      }
>  }
> -
>
> tshark -v crashes. What is wrong with my patch?

Apparently there is no file in scope when that code is run. Depending on the necessary lifetime of the memory, it may make sense to replace it with epan scoped memory (the lifetime of the program, basically) or manually managed memory if the lifetime is something else.
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