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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This mail is to highlight the necessity of the “[PATCH] Fix encoding of padding bits to start with 0 bit”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the latest master osmo-pcu 0.2.752-173e, the identified bug in encoding of padding bits is generating incorrect Control message.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Example of an incorrect Packet Downlink Assignment message from the current
<i>TbfTest.err</i> log is @ line number 3433<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sending data request: trx=0 ts=4 sapi=5 arfcn=0 fn=0 block=0
<b>data=4f 08 20 00 44 02 00 02 08 04 00 c0 <span style="color:red">0b</span> 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b</b><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Incorrect encoding has resulted in the analyzer interpreting
<i>PFI present with value 21</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whereas with the fix for encoding padding bits result is <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sending data request: trx=0 ts=4 sapi=5 arfcn=0 fn=0 block=0
<b>data=4f 08 20 00 44 02 00 02 08 04 00 c0 <span style="color:#0070C0">03</span> 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b 2b</b><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Output of the message analyzer(http://www.3gpp-message-analyser.com/) is attached in the mail.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please review the patch and let us know procedure for a merge to master.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saurabh <o:p></o:p></p>
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