layers/dns: preserve wire label boundaries for names with literal dots (DNS-SD/mDNS)#1237
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Ports google/gopacket#1237 to this fork and extends it to NAPTR/SVCB/HTTPS/RRSIG. Also fixes a pre-existing out-of-bounds panic in decodeSVCB. Reviewed and verified locally: gofmt/vet clean, full layers suite passes.
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Problem
gopacket decodes DNS names to dotted
[]byteand the serializer rebuilds the wirename by splitting on every
.. That corrupts any DNS name whose single labelcontains a literal dot — common in DNS-SD/mDNS service-instance names. A
foo.barinstance label in
foo.bar._tcp.localdecodes fine but re-serializes as two labels(
foo,bar), producing a malformed packet, even when the name wasn't modified.Refernce
Fix
lazily — only when a label actually contains
.or\— so ordinary names addno allocations.
round-trip); otherwise it parses the name as presentation form where
.separateslabels, with
\.,\\, and\DDDescapes to embed literal bytes in a label.escape) instead of silently emitting a malformed packet.
This is a generic DNS fix, not mDNS-specific. It covers the DNS name fields gopacket
decodes: question/owner names and NS, CNAME, PTR, SOA, MX, and SRV RDATA. Non-name
RDATA (A/AAAA, TXT, URI, OPT) is unaffected.
Compatibility
Public API unchanged — same
[]bytefields, no new exported symbols. Decoded bytes andordinary names (
example.com) serialize identically. The only behavior change: in aconstructed or modified name,
\.now means a literal dot, which only affectscallers that opt into the escape syntax.
Testing
23 new tests (preservation across all covered fields, compression, decode→mutate→encode,
escapes, invalid-name errors, zero-copy buffer-reuse safety) plus a decode→serialize
fuzz target.
go test ./layers,go vet, andgofmtclean.