add osmo_mobile_identity API
Implement better API around 3GPP TS 24.008 Mobile Identity coding.
struct osmo_mobile_identity is a decoded representation of the raw Mobile
Identity, with a string representation as well as dedicated raw uint32_t TMSI.
The aim is to remove all uncertainty about decoded buffer sizes / data types.
I have patches ready for current osmo CNI programs, replacing the Mobile
Identity coding with this new API. Deprecate the old MI API.
osmo-bsc: I71c3b4c65dbfdfa51409e09d4868aea83225338a
osmo-msc: Ic3f969e739654c1e8c387aedeeba5cce07fe2307
osmo-sgsn: I4cacb10bac419633ca0c14f244f9903f7f517b49
Note that some GPRS and SGs related coding is done here in libosmocore and
hence currently remains using the old implementation (see previous version of
this patch: Ic3f969e739654c1e8c387aedeeba5cce07fe2307).
New API functions provide properly size-checking implementations of:
- decoding a raw MI from a bunch of MI octets;
- locating and decoding MI from a full 3GPP TS 24.008 Complete Layer 3 msgb;
- encoding to a buffer;
- encoding to the end of a msgb.
Other than the old gsm48_generate_mid(), omit a TLV tag and length from
encoding. Many callers manually stripped the tag and value after calling
gsm48_generate_mid(). The aim is to leave writing a TL to the caller entirely,
especially since some callers need to use a TvL, i.e. support a variable-size
length of 8 or 16 bit.
New validity checks so far not implemented anywhere else:
- stricter validation of number of digits of IMSI, IMEI, IMEI-SV MI.
- stricter on filler nibbles to be 0xf.
As a result, applications using osmo_mobile_identity will be stricter in
rejecting coding mistakes (some of which we currently have in our test suites,
and which we'll need to fix).
Rationale:
While implementing osmo-bsc's MSC pooling feature in osmo-bsc, this API will be
used to reduce the number of times a Mobile Identity is extracted from a raw
RSL message.
Extracting the Mobile Identity from messages has numerous duplicate
implementations across our code with various levels of specialization.
https://xkcd.com/927/
To name a few:
- libosmocore: gsm48_mi_to_string(), osmo_mi_name_buf()
- osmo-bsc: extract_sub()
- osmo-msc: mm_rx_loc_upd_req(), cm_serv_reuse_conn(), gsm48_rx_mm_serv_req(),
vlr_proc_acc_req()
We have existing functions to produce a human readable string from a Mobile
Identity, more or less awkward:
- gsm48_mi_to_string() decodes a TMSI as a decimal number. These days we use
hexadecimal TMSI everywhere.
- osmo_mi_name_buf() decodes the BCD digits from a raw MI every time, so we'd
need to pass around the raw message bytes. Also, osmo_mi_name_buf() has the
wrong signature, it should return a length like snprintf().
- osmo-bsc's extract_sub() first uses gsm48_mi_to_string() which encodes the
raw uint32_t TMSI to a string, and then calls strtoul() via
tmsi_from_string() to code those back to a raw uint32_t.
Each of the above implementations employ their own size overflow checks, each
invoke osmo_bcd2str() and implement their own TMSI osmo_load32be() handling.
Too much code dup, let's hope that each and every one is correct.
In osmo-bsc, I am now implementing MSC pooling, and need to extract NRI bits
from a TMSI Mobile Identity. Since none of the above functions are general
enough to be re-used, I found myself again copy-pasting Mobile Identity code:
locating the MI in a 24.008 message with proper size checks, decoding MI
octets.
This time I would like it to become a generally re-usable API.
This patch was first merged as Ic3f969e739654c1e8c387aedeeba5cce07fe2307 and
caused test fallout, because it re-implemented old API with the new stricter
decoding. In this patch version, old API remains 1:1 unchanged to avoid such
fallout. Applications will soon switch to the new osmo_mobile_identity API and
become stricter on MI coding when that happens, not implicitly by a new
libosmocore version.
Change-Id: If4f7be606e54cfa1c59084cf169785b1cbda5cf5
diff --git a/include/osmocom/core/utils.h b/include/osmocom/core/utils.h
index e637786..8619120 100644
--- a/include/osmocom/core/utils.h
+++ b/include/osmocom/core/utils.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
uint8_t osmo_char2bcd(char c);
int osmo_bcd2str(char *dst, size_t dst_size, const uint8_t *bcd, int start_nibble, int end_nibble, bool allow_hex);
+int osmo_str2bcd(uint8_t *dst, size_t dst_size, const char *digits, int start_nibble, int end_nibble, bool allow_hex);
int osmo_hexparse(const char *str, uint8_t *b, int max_len);