bug in wireshark decoder of osmo-pcu

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jolly andreas at eversberg.eu
Sun Sep 30 10:40:30 UTC 2012


hi,

i get wrong decoding of RLCMAC control block.

the decoder of osmo-pcu is decoding following sequence:

0x40,0x16,0x76,0x67,0x74,0x02,0x26,0x64,0xe8,0x65,0x64,0x69,0x00,0x3e,0x4c,0x00,0x2b,0x2b,0x2b,0x2b,0x2b,0x2b,0x2

this is the result:

PayloadType = 1 | spare = 0 | R = 0 | MESSAGE_TYPE = 5 |
Exist_ACCESS_TYPE = 1 | ACCESS_TYPE = 0 |  : ID | Choice
PacketResourceRequestID = 1 | u.TLLI = 0xd99dd008 | : End ID |
Exist_MS_Radio_Access_capability = 1 |  : MS_Radio_Access_capability |
MS_RA_capability_value[0] { | Choice MS_RA_capability_value_Choice = 3 |
u.Content length = 25

 ... at this point, the length of the content is 25 bits:

| RF_Power_Capability = 1 | Exist_A5_bits = 1 | A5_bits = 80 | ES_IND =
1 | PS = 1 | VGCS = 0 | VBS = 0 | Exist_Multislot_capability = 1 |  :
Multislot_capability | Exist_HSCSD_multislot_class = 0 |
Exist_GPRS_multislot_class = 1 | GPRS_multislot_class = 12 |
GPRS_Extended_Dynamic_Allocation_Capability = 1 | Exist_SM = 0

 ... at this point all 25 bits are decoded, so the decoder must abort
decoding of content of Multislot_capability_t (see gsm_rlcmac.cpp).
instead, it continues with the data found after these 25 bits: (all crap
from now on)

| Exist_ECSD_multislot_class = 0 | Exist_EGPRS_multislot_class = 0 |
Exist_DTM_GPRS_multislot_class = 1 | DTM_GPRS_multislot_class = 2 |
Single_Slot_DTM = 1 |  : DTM_EGPRS_Params |
Exist_DTM_EGPRS_multislot_class = 0 | : End DTM_EGPRS_Params | : End
Multislot_capability | Exist_Eight_PSK_Power_Capability = 0 |
COMPACT_Interference_Measurement_Capability = 1 |
Revision_Level_Indicator = 0 |
UMTS_FDD_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 0 |
UMTS_384_TDD_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 0 |
CDMA2000_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 0 |
UMTS_128_TDD_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 0 |
GERAN_Feature_Package_1 = 0 | Exist_Extended_DTM_multislot_class = 0 |
Modulation_based_multislot_class_support = 0 |
Exist_HighMultislotCapability = 0 | Exist_GERAN_lu_ModeCapability = 0 |
GMSK_MultislotPowerProfile = 3 | EightPSK_MultislotProfile = 3 |
MultipleTBF_Capability = 1 | DownlinkAdvancedReceiverPerformance = 0 |
ExtendedRLC_MAC_ControlMessageSegmentionsCapability = 1 |
DTM_EnhancementsCapability = 0 | Exist_DTM_GPRS_HighMultislotClass = 0 |
PS_HandoverCapability = 1 | MS_RA_capability_value[0] } |
MS_RA_capability_value[0] { | Choice MS_RA_capability_value_Choice = 0 |
u.Content length = 0 | RF_Power_Capability = 2 | Exist_A5_bits = 1 |
A5_bits = 50 | ES_IND = 1 | PS = 0 | VGCS = 1 | VBS = 1 |
Exist_Multislot_capability = 0 | Exist_Eight_PSK_Power_Capability = 0 |
COMPACT_Interference_Measurement_Capability = 1 |
Revision_Level_Indicator = 0 |
UMTS_FDD_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 1 |
UMTS_384_TDD_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 0 |
CDMA2000_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 1 |
UMTS_128_TDD_Radio_Access_Technology_Capability = 1 |
GERAN_Feature_Package_1 = 0 | Exist_Extended_DTM_multislot_class = 0 |
Modulation_based_multislot_class_support = 1 |
Exist_HighMultislotCapability = 0 | Exist_GERAN_lu_ModeCapability = 1 |
GERAN_lu_ModeCapability = 6 | GMSK_MultislotPowerProfile = 1 |
EightPSK_MultislotProfile = 1 | MultipleTBF_Capability = 0 |
DownlinkAdvancedReceiverPerformance = 3 |
ExtendedRLC_MAC_ControlMessageSegmentionsCapability = 0 |
DTM_EnhancementsCapability = 0 | Exist_DTM_GPRS_HighMultislotClass = 1 |
DTM_GPRS_HighMultislotClass = 2 |  : DTM_EGPRS_HighMultislotClass |
Exist_DTM_EGPRS_HighMultislotClass = 1 | : End
DTM_EGPRS_HighMultislotClass | : End MS_Radio_Access_capability |


there are two problems with the decoder:

- it does not check if the length has been exceeded while decoding
Multislot_capability_t content. if the length is lower than all elements
in Multislot_capabilit_t, the decoder must abort decoding the content.
this is no bug. (the definition used at that point should be
M_NEXT_EXIST_OR_NULL instead of M_NEXT_EXIST, see gsm_rlcmac.cpp)
- even if the correct definition is used, the csn1 decoder will not use
the length given at "u.Content length" to abort. instead it checks for
reaching total length of coded data.


i played a bit with the code, but could not fix it without breaking
other things. but decoding with wireshark works. would it be possible to
port latest wireshark code?

regards,

andreas






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