Smooth progress icmp

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 ### Changed
 - Add separators for a new (ip address) field in ERRMSG and DEADHOST messages. [#376](https://github.com/greenbone/gvm-libs/pull/376)
+- Continuously send dead hosts to ospd-openvas to enable a smooth progess bar if only ICMP is chosen as alive test.  [#389](https://github.com/greenbone/gvm-libs/pull/389)
 
 ### Removed
 - Remove version from the nvticache name. [#386](https://github.com/greenbone/gvm-libs/pull/386)

boreas/alivedetection.c

@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ scan (alive_test_t alive_test)
   struct timeval start_time, end_time;
   int scandb_id;
   gchar *scan_id;
+  /* Following variables are only relevant if only ICMP was chosen. */
+  int remaining_batch;
+  int prev_alive;
+  gboolean limit_reached_handled = FALSE; /* Scan restrictions related. */
 
   gettimeofday (&start_time, NULL);
   number_of_targets = g_hash_table_size (scanner.hosts_data->targethosts);
@@ -89,7 +93,82 @@ scan (alive_test_t alive_test)
   sniffer_thread_id = 0;
   start_sniffer_thread (&scanner, &sniffer_thread_id);
 
-  if (alive_test & ALIVE_TEST_ICMP)
+  /* Continuously send dead hosts to ospd if only ICMP was chosen instead of
+   * sending all at once at the end. This is done for displaying a progressbar
+   * that increases gradually. */
+  if (alive_test == ALIVE_TEST_ICMP)
+    {
+      g_hash_table_iter_init (&target_hosts_iter,
+                              scanner.hosts_data->targethosts);
+      int batch = 1000;
+      int curr_alive = 0;
+      prev_alive = 0;
+      /* Number of hosts in last batch. Depending on the total number of hosts
+       * the last batch size maybe be double the normal size. Info about the
+       * last batch is send after all hosts were checked and we waited for last
+       * packets to arrive.*/
+      remaining_batch = number_of_targets;
+      for (int packets_send = 0;
+           g_hash_table_iter_next (&target_hosts_iter, &key, &value);)
+        {
+          send_icmp (key, value, &scanner);
+          packets_send++;
+          /* Send dead hosts update after batch number of packets were send and
+           * we still have more than batch size packets remaining. */
+          if (packets_send % batch == 0
+              && (number_of_targets - packets_send) > batch)
+            {
+              /* The number of dead hosts we have to send to ospd is the batch
+               * size minus the newly found alive hosts. The newly found alive
+               * hosts is the diff between the current total of alive hosts and
+               * the total of the last batch. */
+              curr_alive = g_hash_table_size (scanner.hosts_data->alivehosts);
+              number_of_dead_hosts = batch - (curr_alive - prev_alive);
+
+              /* If the max_scan_hosts limit was reached we can not tell ospd
+               * the true number of dead hosts. The number of alive hosts which
+               * are above the max_scan_hosts limit are not to be substracted
+               * form the dead hosts to send. They are considered as dead hosts
+               * for the progress bar.*/
+              if (scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts_reached)
+                {
+                  /* Handle the case where we reach the max_scan_hosts for the
+                   * first time. We may have to considere some of the new alive
+                   * hosts as dead because of the restriction. E.g
+                   * curr_alive=110 prev_alive=90 max_scan_hosts=100 batch=100.
+                   * Normally we would send 80 as dead in this batch (20 new
+                   * alive hosts) but because of the restriction we send 90 as
+                   * dead. The 10 hosts which are over the limit are considered
+                   * as dead.
+                   * After this limit case was handled we just always send the
+                   * complete batch as dead hosts.*/
+                  if (!limit_reached_handled)
+                    {
+                      /* Number of alive hosts until limit was reached. */
+                      int last_hosts_considered_as_alive =
+                        scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts - prev_alive;
+                      number_of_dead_hosts =
+                        batch - last_hosts_considered_as_alive;
+                      send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (number_of_dead_hosts);
+                      remaining_batch -= batch;
+                      limit_reached_handled = TRUE;
+                    }
+                  else
+                    {
+                      send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (batch);
+                      remaining_batch -= batch;
+                    }
+                }
+              else
+                {
+                  send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (number_of_dead_hosts);
+                  remaining_batch -= batch;
+                }
+              prev_alive = curr_alive;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+  else if (alive_test & ALIVE_TEST_ICMP)
     {
       g_debug ("%s: ICMP Ping", __func__);
       g_hash_table_foreach (scanner.hosts_data->targethosts, send_icmp,
@@ -137,26 +216,59 @@ scan (alive_test_t alive_test)
 
   stop_sniffer_thread (&scanner, sniffer_thread_id);
 
-  number_of_dead_hosts = count_difference (scanner.hosts_data->targethosts,
-                                           scanner.hosts_data->alivehosts);
-
-  /* Send number of dead hosts to ospd-openvas. We need to consider the scan
-   * restrictions.*/
-  if (scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts_reached)
+  /* If only ICMP was specified we continously sent updates about dead hosts to
+   * ospd while checking the hosts. We now only have to send the dead hosts of
+   * the last batch. This is done here to catch the last alive hosts which may
+   * have arrived after all packets were already sent.
+   * Else send total number of dead host at once.*/
+  if (alive_test == ALIVE_TEST_ICMP)
     {
-      send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (
-        number_of_targets - scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts);
+      if (scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts_reached)
+        {
+          /* We reached the max_scan_host limit in the last batch. For detailed
+           * description look at the first time where limit_reached_handled is
+           * used.*/
+          if (!limit_reached_handled)
+            {
+              /* Number of alive hosts until limit was reached. */
+              int last_hosts_considered_as_alive =
+                scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts - prev_alive;
+              number_of_dead_hosts =
+                remaining_batch - last_hosts_considered_as_alive;
+              send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (number_of_dead_hosts);
+            }
+          else
+            {
+              send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (remaining_batch);
+            }
+        }
+      else
+        {
+          int curr_alive = g_hash_table_size (scanner.hosts_data->alivehosts);
+          number_of_dead_hosts = remaining_batch - (curr_alive - prev_alive);
+          send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (number_of_dead_hosts);
+        }
     }
   else
     {
-      send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (number_of_dead_hosts);
+      number_of_dead_hosts =
+        number_of_targets - g_hash_table_size (scanner.hosts_data->alivehosts);
+
+      /* Send number of dead hosts to ospd-openvas. We need to consider the scan
+       * restrictions.*/
+      if (scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts_reached)
+        send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (
+          number_of_targets - scanner.scan_restrictions->max_scan_hosts);
+      else
+        send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (number_of_dead_hosts);
     }
 
   gettimeofday (&end_time, NULL);
 
   g_message ("Alive scan %s finished in %ld seconds: %d alive hosts of %d.",
              scan_id, end_time.tv_sec - start_time.tv_sec,
-             number_of_targets - number_of_dead_hosts, number_of_targets);
+             g_hash_table_size (scanner.hosts_data->alivehosts),
+             number_of_targets);
   g_free (scan_id);
 
   return 0;

boreas/alivedetection.h

@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ struct scanner
 struct hosts_data
 {
   /* Set of the form (ip_str, ip_str).
-   * Hosts which passed our pcap filter. May include hosts which are alive but
-   * are not in the targethosts list */
+   * Target hosts which were detected as alive. */
   GHashTable *alivehosts;
   /* Hashtable of the form (ip_str, gvm_host_t *). The gvm_host_t pointers point
    * to hosts which are to be freed by the caller of start_alive_detection(). */

boreas/sniffer.c

@@ -153,10 +153,11 @@ got_packet (u_char *user_data,
           "%s: Failed to transform IPv4 address into string representation: %s",
           __func__, strerror (errno));
 
-      /* Do not put already found host on Queue and only put hosts on Queue we
-       * are searching for. */
-      if (g_hash_table_add (hosts_data->alivehosts, g_strdup (addr_str))
-          && g_hash_table_contains (hosts_data->targethosts, addr_str) == TRUE)
+      /* Only put unique hosts on queue and in hash table. Use short circuit
+       * evaluation to not add hosts to the hash table which are not in our
+       * target list.*/
+      if ((g_hash_table_contains (hosts_data->targethosts, addr_str) == TRUE)
+          && (g_hash_table_add (hosts_data->alivehosts, g_strdup (addr_str))))
         {
           /* handle max_scan_hosts related restrictions. */
           handle_scan_restrictions (scanner, addr_str);
@@ -174,10 +175,11 @@ got_packet (u_char *user_data,
         g_debug ("%s: Failed to transform IPv6 into string representation: %s",
                  __func__, strerror (errno));
 
-      /* Do not put already found host on Queue and only put hosts on Queue we
-       * are searching for. */
-      if (g_hash_table_add (hosts_data->alivehosts, g_strdup (addr_str))
-          && g_hash_table_contains (hosts_data->targethosts, addr_str) == TRUE)
+      /* Only put unique hosts on queue and in hash table. Use short circuit
+       * evaluation to not add hosts to the hash table which are not in our
+       * target list.*/
+      if ((g_hash_table_contains (hosts_data->targethosts, addr_str) == TRUE)
+          && (g_hash_table_add (hosts_data->alivehosts, g_strdup (addr_str))))
         {
           /* handle max_scan_hosts related restrictions. */
           handle_scan_restrictions (scanner, addr_str);
@@ -201,10 +203,11 @@ got_packet (u_char *user_data,
         g_debug ("%s: Failed to transform IP into string representation: %s",
                  __func__, strerror (errno));
 
-      /* Do not put already found host on Queue and only put hosts on Queue
-      we are searching for. */
-      if (g_hash_table_add (hosts_data->alivehosts, g_strdup (addr_str))
-          && g_hash_table_contains (hosts_data->targethosts, addr_str) == TRUE)
+      /* Only put unique hosts on queue and in hash table. Use short circuit
+       * evaluation to not add hosts to the hash table which are not in our
+       * target list.*/
+      if ((g_hash_table_contains (hosts_data->targethosts, addr_str) == TRUE)
+          && (g_hash_table_add (hosts_data->alivehosts, g_strdup (addr_str))))
         {
           /* handle max_scan_hosts related restrictions. */
           handle_scan_restrictions (scanner, addr_str);