The validity time for NF Instances obtained through NF Discovery was
not properly implemented. Since the validity was 3600 seconds(1 hour),
which caused 5G Core to not work properly after 3600 seconds(1 hour).
There was an issue where an NF Instance should be deleted
when its validity time expired, but it was not working correctly
due to incorrect use of reference count.
Therefore, I have modified the Validity of NF Instances obtained
through NF Discovery to work properly.
I also changed the default value of valdityPeriod to 30 seconds.
Fixed not using Reference Count for adding/deleting NF Instances.
Up until now, NF Instances have been managed by referencing the Reference Count.
Initially, when an NF Instance is added, the Reference Count is incremented and
when it is deleted, the Reference Count is decremented.
If a UE discovers another NF Instance through the NF Discovery function,
the Reference Count is incremented. And if a UE de-registers,
the Reference Count of the discovered NF is decremented.
However, there's a problem with this approach.
When other NF is de-registered,
there is no guarantee that it will be 100% notified.
For example, if a UDM is de-registered, but an SCP is de-registered before it,
the AMF will not be notified that the UDM has been de-registered.
In situations where this is not clear, Reference Count cannot be used.
Therefore, we have modified it to not use the Reference Count method.
Also, when a UE connects, it is modified to always search
whether an NF Instance exists by NF Instance ID whenever it is discovered.
To do this, we modified lib/sbi/path.c as shown below.
```diff
@@ -281,13 +281,15 @@ int ogs_sbi_discover_and_send(ogs_sbi_xact_t *xact)
}
/* Target NF-Instance */
- nf_instance = sbi_object->service_type_array[service_type].nf_instance;
+ nf_instance = ogs_sbi_nf_instance_find(
+ sbi_object->service_type_array[service_type].nf_instance_id);
if (!nf_instance) {
nf_instance = ogs_sbi_nf_instance_find_by_discovery_param(
target_nf_type, requester_nf_type, discovery_option);
- if (nf_instance)
- OGS_SBI_SETUP_NF_INSTANCE(
- sbi_object->service_type_array[service_type], nf_instance);
+ if (nf_instance) {
+ OGS_SBI_SETUP_NF_INSTANCE_ID(
+ sbi_object->service_type_array[service_type], nf_instance->id);
+ }
}
```
A friend in the community was trying to connect an SMF made by another
manufacturer with an SBI interface and found a big problem with Open5GS.
All of the code in the part that generates the Resource URI
from HTTP.location is invalid.
For example, suppose we create a Resource URI with SMContext as below.
{apiRoot}/nsmf-pdusession/<apiVersion>/sm-contexts/{smContextRef}
In this case, Open5GS extracted the {smContextRef} part of the HTTP.location
and appended it to the beginning
{apiRoot}/nsmf-pdusession/<apiVersion>/sm-contexts/.
This implementation may not work properly if the apiRoot changes.
Consider a different port number as shown below.
<HTTP.location>
127.0.0.4:9999/nsmf-pdusession/v1/sm-contexts/1
The SMF may send an apiRoot to the AMF with a changed port number,
in which case the AMF must honor it.
Therefore, instead of extracting only the smContextRef from HTTP.location,
we modified it to use the whole thing to create a Resource URI.
We modified all NFs that use HTTP.location in the same way, not just SMFs.
SMF already handles the freeing in labels correctly.
In the same manner the memsets are moved to the beginning of the
problematic functions in AMF and PCF.
== Known limitation ==
Placing npcf-smpolicycontrol and pcf-policyauthorization
in different NFs is not supported. Both npcf-smpolicycontrol
and pcf-policyauthorization should be placed in the same NF.
Sukchan Lee
Bostjan Meglic
Gaber Stare