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Unfortunately, https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17050 breaks the unit test.

vector1 = 4016713dc094270ca2ae57ef909006aa0fc0001f80222b
=========Start DECODE===========
+++++++++Finish DECODE (0)++++++++++
=========Start ENCODE=============
+++++++++Finish ENCODE (0)+++++++++++
vector1 = 40 16 71 3d c0 94 27 0c a2 ae 57 ef 90 90 06 aa 0f c0 00 1f 80 22 2b 
vector2 = 40 16 71 3d c0 94 27 48 a2 ae 57 ef 90 90 06 aa 00 00 1f 80 00 3f 00 
vector1 == vector2 : FALSE

I have no idea why, but I hope Pycrate can help us to narrow down the problem.

from pycrate_csn1dir import uplink_rlc_mac_control_message
from binascii import unhexlify

# NOTE: the first octet should be skipped (MAC header)
vector1 = unhexlify('16 71 3d c0 94 27 0c a2 ae 57 ef 90 90 06 aa 0f c0 00 1f 80 22 2b'.replace(' ', ''))
vector2 = unhexlify('16 71 3d c0 94 27 48 a2 ae 57 ef 90 90 06 aa 00 00 1f 80 00 3f 00'.replace(' ', ''))

msg1 = uplink_rlc_mac_control_message.uplink_rlc_mac_control_message.clone()
msg2 = uplink_rlc_mac_control_message.uplink_rlc_mac_control_message.clone()

msg1.from_bytes(vector1)
print(msg1.show()) # See vector1.dec attached
msg2.from_bytes(vector2) # decoding fails: pycrate_core.charpy.CharpyErr: bitlen overflow: 1, max 0

I have been doing a second iteration over wireshark commits for rlcmac and csn1 files, and submitted a couple more patches:
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17628 rlcmac: support decode FDD_CELL_INFORMATION of "UTRAN FDD Description
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17629 rlcmac: add dissection of 2G->3G/4G PS handover

I also did some fixes in csn1/rlcmac of both osmo-pcu and wireshark:
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17632 csn1: Properly verify CSN_BITMAP length
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17633 csn1: Remove code block from CSN_NEXT_EXIST_LH
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17628 rlcmac: support decode FDD_CELL_INFORMATION of "UTRAN FDD Description
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17629 rlcmac: add dissection of 2G->3G/4G PS handover
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17630 csn1: Fix Several typos & whitespace
remote: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-pcu/+/17631 csn1: verify enough bits present to decode whole CSN_UINT_ARRAY

remote: https://code.wireshark.org/review/36589 GSM RLC/MAC: fix typo in comment
remote: https://code.wireshark.org/review/36590 GSM RLC/MAC: Drop extra empty line
remote: https://code.wireshark.org/review/36591 CSN.1: verify enough bits present to decode whole CSN_UINT_ARRAY
remote: https://code.wireshark.org/review/36592 CSN.1: Optimize update of remaining_bits_len dissecting CSN_UINT_ARRAY
remote: https://code.wireshark.org/review/36593 CSN.1: Properly verify CSN_BITMAP length

I identified patches for 2 different topics which I didn't back-port because I have the feeling they are of no use to us:

Enhancemnt to GSM RLCMAC dissection adding dissection of data block headers
12e5e625a6ce7f214d111f8e48f12d5104144b53
cc6d4341e65ef2e8d8488fe0ac0f236ece0dd844

So unless somebody reasons in a different way, I think we are done with porting stuff from packet-gsm_rlcmac.* and packet-csn1.* from wireshark.git (at wireshark.git commit 2f6a692fcdc17a6eb332cbc3e2d546ac5c14d951 at the time of writing).

92ef3d0b55a37f042e1ce7e208e7f39cb49b9bce GSM RLC/MAC: add dissection of EC-GSM-IoT control messages