Bug 879869

Summary: patch to fix mic-e packet editing bug
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alan Crosswell <alan>
Component: aprsdAssignee: Lucian Langa <lucilanga>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: bobjensen, lucilanga
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patch to fix mic-e encoding bug
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revised SPEC that applies the patch
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patch to fix mic-e encoding bug
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revised SPEC that applies the patch
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consolidated mic-e and extra trailing blanks patch
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Description Alan Crosswell 2012-11-24 23:27:46 UTC
Created attachment 651312 [details]
patch to fix mic-e encoding bug

Description of problem:
aprsd has had a long-standing mic-e packet "clean-up" bug that incorrectly edits a received packet that is gateway to APRS-IS.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.2.5-15

How reproducible:
Transmit packets with a mic-e protocol device (e.g. Mic Encoder, Kenwood D700, etc.) and notice that valid non-printing characters (e.g. 0x1c) are being blanked.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Transmit mic-e packets
2. Look at data transmitted to APRS-IS servers (see aprs.fi)
3. Notice aprsd-repeated packets don't match those of other correct APRS-IS servers.
  
Actual results:

2012-11-19 17:50:49 UTC: N2MH-8>T0TW5V,WB2ZII*,WIDE2,qAR,WB2ZII-15:'f+%l  o1]= 

Expected results:
2012-11-19 18:00:48 UTC: N2MH-8>T0TW5V,WIDE2-1,qAR,N2MH-12:'f+%l <0x1c>o1]=

Additional info:
This bug has been in aprsd forever but only manifests in a limited number of cases as the test was for isprint, which excludes the four or so non-printable characters that are allowed by the APRS spec.  See ftp://ftp.tapr.org/aprssig/aprsspec/spec/aprs101/APRS101.pdf Chapter 10.

Comment 1 Alan Crosswell 2012-11-24 23:28:34 UTC
Created attachment 651313 [details]
revised SPEC that applies the patch

Comment 2 Alan Crosswell 2012-12-28 19:19:11 UTC
Created attachment 669945 [details]
patch to fix mic-e encoding bug

Comment 3 Alan Crosswell 2012-12-28 19:19:55 UTC
Created attachment 669946 [details]
revised SPEC that applies the patch

Comment 4 Alan Crosswell 2012-12-28 19:21:16 UTC
Further revised the patch based on feedback from N2MH.

Comment 5 Alan Crosswell 2013-05-11 03:22:45 UTC
Created attachment 746459 [details]
consolidated mic-e and extra trailing blanks patch

This patch hopefully fully fixes aprsd to no longer blank out valid mic-e unprintable characters *and* stop tacking on an extra \r on every packet (which are then replaced by blank by the next aprsd in the chain).

Comment 6 Alan Crosswell 2013-05-11 03:23:25 UTC
Created attachment 746460 [details]
updated SPEC

Comment 7 Alan Crosswell 2013-05-11 03:25:50 UTC
There was an additional bug that was resulting in extra \r's getting tacked on to every packet, which are then getting replaced by a growing string of trailing blanks as each \r was replaced by blank in the next aprsd in the APRS-IS chain.

This (hopefully final) patch consolidates my Mic-E and extra-CR fixes into one patch.

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Comment 10 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:56:00 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

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