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+/* Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Open Information Security Foundation
+ *
+ * You can copy, redistribute or modify this Program under the terms of
+ * the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
+ * Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ * 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * \file
+ *
+ * \author Anoop Saldanha <anoopsaldanha@gmail.com>
+ * \author Duarte Silva <duarte.silva@serializing.me>
+ *
+ * IP addresses related utility functions
+ */
+
+#include "suricata-common.h"
+
+/**
+ * \brief Validates an IPV4 address and returns the network endian arranged
+ * version of the IPV4 address
+ *
+ * \param addr Pointer to a character string containing an IPV4 address. A
+ * valid IPV4 address is a character string containing a dotted
+ * format of "ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd"
+ *
+ * \retval Pointer to an in_addr instance containing the network endian format
+ * of the IPV4 address
+ * \retval NULL if the IPV4 address is invalid
+ */
+struct in_addr *ValidateIPV4Address(const char *addr_str)
+{
+ struct in_addr *addr = NULL;
+
+ if ( (addr = SCMalloc(sizeof(struct in_addr))) == NULL) {
+ SCLogError(SC_ERR_FATAL, "Fatal error encountered in ValidateIPV4Address. Exiting...");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ if (inet_pton(AF_INET, addr_str, addr) <= 0) {
+ SCFree(addr);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return addr;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Validates an IPV6 address and returns the network endian arranged
+ * version of the IPV6 addresss
+ *
+ * \param addr Pointer to a character string containing an IPV6 address
+ *
+ * \retval Pointer to a in6_addr instance containing the network endian format
+ * of the IPV6 address
+ * \retval NULL if the IPV6 address is invalid
+ */
+struct in6_addr *ValidateIPV6Address(const char *addr_str)
+{
+ struct in6_addr *addr = NULL;
+
+ if ( (addr = SCMalloc(sizeof(struct in6_addr))) == NULL) {
+ SCLogError(SC_ERR_FATAL, "Fatal error encountered in ValidateIPV6Address. Exiting...");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, addr_str, addr) <= 0) {
+ SCFree(addr);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return addr;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Culls the non-netmask portion of the IP address. For example an IP
+ * address 192.168.240.1 would be chopped to 192.168.224.0 against a
+ * netmask value of 19.
+ *
+ * \param stream Pointer the IP address that has to be masked
+ * \param netmask The netmask value (cidr) to which the IP address has to be culled
+ * \param key_bitlen The bitlen of the stream
+ */
+void MaskIPNetblock(uint8_t *stream, uint8_t netmask, uint16_t key_bitlen)
+{
+ int mask = 0;
+ int i = 0;
+ int bytes = key_bitlen / 8;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < bytes; i++) {
+ mask = -1;
+ if ( ((i + 1) * 8) > netmask) {
+ if ( ((i + 1) * 8 - netmask) < 8)
+ mask = -1 << ((i + 1) * 8 - netmask);
+ else
+ mask = 0;
+ }
+ stream[i] &= mask;
+ }
+
+ return;
+}
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+/* Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Open Information Security Foundation
+ *
+ * You can copy, redistribute or modify this Program under the terms of
+ * the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
+ * Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ * 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * \file
+ *
+ * \author Anoop Saldanha <anoopsaldanha@gmail.com>
+ * \author Duarte Silva <duarte.silva@serializing.me>
+ */
+
+#ifndef __UTIL_IP_H__
+#define __UTIL_IP_H__
+
+struct in_addr *ValidateIPV4Address(const char *);
+struct in6_addr *ValidateIPV6Address(const char *);
+void MaskIPNetblock(uint8_t *, int, int);
+
+#endif /* __UTIL_IP_H__ */