# Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved. # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be # found in the LICENSE file. import logging import os import subprocess from autotest_lib.client.bin import utils class Tcpdump(object): """tcpdump capture process wrapper.""" def __init__(self, iface, dumpfilename): """Launches a tcpdump process on the background. @param iface: The name of the interface to listen on. @param dumpfilename: The filename of the destination dump file. @raise utils.TimeoutError if tcpdump fails to start after 10 seconds. """ logging.debug('Recording %s traffic to %s.', iface, dumpfilename) # Force to run tcpdump as root, since the dump file is created *after* # the process drops to a unprivileged user, meaning that it can't create # the passed dumpfilename file. self._tcpdump_proc = subprocess.Popen( ['tcpdump', '-i', iface, '-w', dumpfilename, '-Z', 'root'], stdout=open('/dev/null', 'w'), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) # Wait for tcpdump to initialize and create the dump file. utils.poll_for_condition( lambda: os.path.exists(dumpfilename), desc='tcpdump creates the dump file.', sleep_interval=1, timeout=10.) def stop(self, timeout=10.): """Stop the dump process and wait for it to return. This method stops the tcpdump process running in background and waits for it to finish for a given timeout. @param timeout: The time to wait for the tcpdump to finish in seconds. None means no timeout. @return whether the tcpdump is not running. """ if not self._tcpdump_proc: return True # Send SIGTERM to tcpdump. try: self._tcpdump_proc.terminate() except OSError, e: # If the process exits before we can send it a SIGTERM, an # OSError exception is raised here which we can ignore since the # process already finished. logging.error('Trying to kill tcpdump (%d): %s', self._tcpdump_proc.pid, e.strerror) logging.debug('Waiting for pid %d to finish.', self._tcpdump_proc.pid) if timeout is None: self._tcpdump_proc.wait() else: try: utils.poll_for_condition( lambda: not self._tcpdump_proc.poll() is None, sleep_interval=1, timeout=timeout) except utils.TimeoutError: logging.error('tcpdump failed to finish after %f seconds. Dump ' 'file can be truncated.', timeout) return False self._tcpdump_proc = None return True def __del__(self): self.stop()