If eg. PCRF or AAA diameter link is not yet ready (eg. PCRF crashed), and
a client sends a CreateSessionRequest announcing its ow F-TEID,
then open5gs-smfd answers with Create Session Response Cause=
"Remote peer not responding", but it is not setting the received F-TEID
in the header of the response, instead it sends with TEI=0.
As a result, the peer cannot match the CreateSessionResponse, and needs
to rely on its own timeout timer to figure out that specific request failed.
This also happens in PFCP, so to solve this problem, I added teid/seid_presence
to the interface that sends the error message as shown below.
void ogs_gtp2_send_error_message(ogs_gtp_xact_t *xact,
int teid_presence, uint32_t teid, uint8_t type, uint8_t cause_value);
void ogs_pfcp_send_error_message(
ogs_pfcp_xact_t *xact, int seid_presence, uint64_t seid, uint8_t type,
uint8_t cause_value, uint16_t offending_ie_value);
Expose SM metrics with labels according to ETSI TS 128 552 V16.13.0 in
SMF by using hash.
The metrics are named respecting the rule:
<generation>_<measurement_object_class>_<measurement_family_name>_<metric_name_as_in_TS_128_552>
Existing gauge sessions_active is renamed!
Since slice itself is not unique, the plmnid label is exposed in
addition to snssai.
Exposed metrics example:
-standard gauges:
fivegs_smffunction_sm_sessionnbr{plmnid="00101",snssai="1000009"} 0
fivegs_smffunction_sm_qos_flow_nbr{plmnid="00101",snssai="1000009",fiveqi="9"} 0
-nonstandard counters:
fivegs_smffunction_sm_n4sessionestabfail{cause="71"} 68
fivegs_smffunction_sm_n4sessionreport 1
fivegs_smffunction_sm_n4sessionreportsucc 1
fivegs_smffunction_sm_n4sessionestabreq 1
A problem occurred when there was one SGWU/UPF and multiple SGWC/SMF.
When SGWU and UPF create a session, if the SEID is the same,
the existing session information is used without creating an additional session.
These problems were solved by using the F-SEID including IP information
in the process of checking the existing session.
For video in VoNR, multiple QosFlow is required in one session.
In the past, since only one Session Modification Message was supported,
QoS-Flow was put into several Session Messages one by one and processed.
Now that multiple QoS-Flows can be supported,
it is optimized to process one session modification message.
It allows for much better control on the lifecycle of the session, and
already shows some missing tear down paths in case of errors.
It also clarifies the existence of "sess" pointer in several paths.
The code also becomes clearer overall, since all the transitions and
logic to send next messages are put together.
Tear down of the session will be integrated into gsm-sm in a follow-up
patch.
The 5gc session setup is only partially moved to gsm-sm, and left as an
exercise for users wishin to improve 5gc support.
In the past only GTPv2C was supported, and had the "gtp" generic prefix.
Later on, GTPv1C support was added, and "gtp1" prefix was used.
Let's move GTPv2C specific bits to have "gtp2" prefix too, and leave
"gtp" prefix for generic stuff among different GTP versions.
The use of the Gy interface (SMF acting as CTF towards an OCS node) is
mandated through configuration file. Default value "enable: auto" will
only make use of it in case a Diameter peer announcing support for the
Credit-Control Application is found.
Upon subscriber session creation, and after auth check over Gx, the SMF
will create a Gy session with the OCS and only after that step the SMF
will accept the session back to the subscriber.
The OCS may then grant some traffic volumes/time and ask to be notified
back with updated measurements.
In order to get the measurements, the SMF relies on PFCP URR configured
to the UPF through Session Repoort Request messages.
When closing the subscriber session, the SMF will also terminate the Gy
session at the OCS.
So far only some specifics parts of the Gy interface as well as the PFCP
side are implemented. Those should be enough to at least have
volume/time thresholds granted by the OCS, which then will be able to
track subsriber resource use.
This patch doesn't implement the OCS side of the Gy interface, that's
left as a future exercise. The interface was tested using an OCS
emulator implemented in TTCN-3 [1]
[1] https://cgit.osmocom.org/osmo-ttcn3-hacks/
TODO:
* Use an event for the report, like SMF_EVT_N4_TIMER?
* Properly set Service identifier in Gy CCR
* SMF: Properly set pkt/octet volumes in Gy CCR
** Update when receiving PFCP Modify Response.
* Figure out best way to require Gy through config file in open5gs-smfd.
* Create a new sess-sm.c which handles smf_sess_t state through
Gx+Gy+PFCP creation, modification and tear down. This way we can do
stuff in parallel, for instance Gx+Gy. It will alsoavoid duplicating
some code paths due to Gy being optional.
* [SMF] Gn: Avoid assert crash if no PDP resources available
* [SMF] Gn: Rearrange IE handling order in CreatePDPContextRequest
Let's handle the GTPC remote addr + TEID first, since those should be
used in the CreatePDPContextResponse ideally if available.
Let's then handle parsing of all IEs not related to bearers/UserPlane,
then those missing, and finally do all the IP resource allocation.
* [SMF] typo fixes in commented code
* [SMF] Fix early err return handling UpdatePDPContextRequest
* [SMF] UpdatePDPContext: forward update of remote TEID+IPaddr to UPF
Updating the remote GTP-U IP address and/or TEID on the GGSN is a common
practice, used for instance by an SGSN in a UTRAN network to connect an
HNB(GW) to exchange GTP-U directly with the GGSN. It is also used in
general when doing handovers.
When receiving a UpdatePDPContext with the new address, we need to
forward the update to the UPF so that it takes it into account when
forwarding packets.
This patch only implements updating the information towards the UPF when
GTPv1C is used. Similar approach for GTPv2C (upon receival of Modify
Bearer Request) is still unimplemented.
Related: https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs/issues/1367
TS 29.060 sections 7.3.4 and 7.3.6 specify the possible cause values for
UpdatePdpContextResponse and DeletePdpContextResponse.
Together with section 8.2, it becomes clear that 'Non-existent' cause
should be sent instead of 'Context not found' one in those cases.
* [CORE] tlv: Store mode in ogs_tlv_t
This allows specifying the format of the IE for each individual IE,
hence allowing messages containing IEs formatted in different ways.
This is needed in order to support parsing GTPv1-C, since messages
contain IEs with different structure (TLV vs TV). Hence, this is a
preparation patch to add support for parsing TVs in ogs-tlv.c/.h.
* [CORE] tlv: Support parsing msg with both TLV and TV in it
IEs of type TV are sometimes used in GTPv1-C. Current tlv parser/builder
doesn't provide with ways to parse messages which contain TV formatted
IEs. This patch adds the relevant types and ways to encode/decode them.
Furthermore, the current parser/builder allows parsing/building messages
containing the exact same format in all its IEs. A new parser function
is added which allows parsing messages of different types (TV, TLV)
mixed in the same message. In order to be able to do so, it uses the
general msg_mode passed to it in order to know the general TLV format
(in essence, the length of the Tag field, and also the length of the
Length field if applicable each IE).
Looking up the instance in the TLV description is left undone and
hadcoded to 0, since the only user so far requiring this API is GTPv1-C,
which has no instances.
* [CORE] tlv: Support repeated tag+instance parsing TLV message
In GTPv2C, repeated IEs (same tag) are easily differentiated by the
Instance byte, which provides info to match different decoded
structures. In GTPv1C though, there's no Instance byte, and we still
encounter repeated IEs (like GSN Address in Create PDP Context Request).
Hence, the TLV decoder needs to be updated to track count of IEs found
(identified by tag+instance, where instance is always 0 in GTPv1C) and
get the proper description index + offset into the decoded structure.
* [GTP]: Move GTPv2-C specifics to its own libgtp subdir
This will allow adding GTPv1-C code by the side. Most GTPv2 code is left
in this patch as "gtp" instead of renaming it to "gtp2" in order to
avoid massive changes. It can be done at a later stage if wanted.
* [GTP] Support generating GTPv1-C messages
* [SMF] Add Gn interface support
This patch introduces GTPv1C support to open5gs-smfd. With it,
open5gs-becomes a GGSN too, where SGSN can connect to, hence supporting
GERAN and UTRAN networks.
Sukchan Lee
Gaber Stare
mitmitmitm
Pau Espin