not strictly required, these conversions keep us
up to date with latest rspec conventions and best practices
which will prevent use from having to convert them when they become
deprecated later
MSP-11368
MSP-11143
Remove fastlib as it slows down the code loading process. From the
previous commit, the mean loading for
`METASPLOIT_FRAMEWORK_PROFILE=true msfconsole -q -x exit` was
27.9530±0.3485 seconds (N=10). The mean after removal of fastlib
was 17.9820±0.6497 seconds (N=10). This means an average 35.67%
reduction in boot time.
MSP-9606
In order to support Metasploit::Credential correctly,
metasploit-framework needs to support Metasploit::Concern, which does
all its magic using a Rails::Engine initializer, so the easiest path is
to make metasploit-framework be able to use Rails::Engines. To make
Rails::Engine use Rails::Engine, make a dummy Rails::Application
subclass so that all the initializers will be run when anything requires
msfenv.
[#47720609]
Msf::PayloadSet#add_module does NOT return an annotated module class as
Msf::ModuleSet#add_module does because a payload module is defined as a
ruby Module instead of a ruby Class. Since add_module doesn't always
return an annotated_class, the logic in
Msf::ModuleManager#on_module_load needed to change to NOT use
annotated_class and create #add_module as return [void]. Thus, it is
necessary to pass in all the metasploit module metadata to
Msf::ModuleManager#cache_in_memory instead of assuming they can be
derived from the (payload) Module or (other) Class.
[#47720609]
Msf::ModuleManager#module_info_by_path was not being updated when a
module was loaded, so if a load_module was called again, say during
start up of prosvc, the module would reload even though there was no
change in the file because file_changed? couldn't find an entry for the
module's path in module_info_by_path.
[Fixes#38426061, #38097411]
Msf::Modules::Loader::Directory#read_module_content may calculate a non-existent
module_path that gets passed to File.open causing an Errno::ENOENT exception
to be raised when using the module cache with a module that has been
moved to a new path (as is the case that originally found this bug) or
deleted. Now, the exception is rescued and read_module_content returns
an empty string (''), which load_module detects with
module_content.empty? and returns earlier without attempting to module
eval the (empty) content.
As having Msf::Modules::Loader::Directory#read_module_content rescue the
exception, meant there was another place that needed to log and error
and store an error in Msf::ModuleManager#module_load_error_by_path, I
refactored the error reporting to call
Msf::Modules::Loader::Base#load_error, which handles writing to the log
and setting the Hash, so the error reporting is consistent across the
loaders.
The exception hierarchy was also refactored so that
namespace_module.metasploit_class now has an error raising counter-part:
namespace_module.metasploit_class! that can be used with
Msf::Modules::Loader::Base#load_error as it requires an exception, and
not just a string so the exception class, message, and backtrace can be
logged.
Msf::Modules::Loader::Archive#each_module_reference_name tried to check
the enabled types for the module_manager by accessing the
enabledment_by_type Hash, which is protected. Instead, it should use
the public type_enabled? method.
Add specs to test all of Msf::Modules::Loader::Archive while testing
each_module_reference_name. In order to properly test that modules
could be found in archives, I had to produce a fastlib archive, so there
is now a spec for FastLib.dump and FastLib.load. Some specs are marked
pending as I found a bug in FastLib, which has a work-around. The bug
is filed in PivotalTracker as
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/38730815 and the pending tests
include the URL also in their tags.
Msf::Config.install_root already existed, but I didn't know about it
until egypt pointed it out, so remove the new Msf.root and use
Msf::Config.install_root in the specs instead.
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