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);
TS23.007 17.4.1
19A PFCP based restart procedures
After a PFCP entity has restarted, it shall immediately update all local Recovery Time Stamps and shall clear all remote
Recovery Time Stamps. When peer PFCP entities information is available, i.e. when the PFCP Association is still alive,
the restarted PFCP entity shall send its updated Recovery Time Stamps in a Heartbeat Request message to the peer
PFCP entities before initiating any PFCP session signalling.
3GPP TS 29.244 7.2.2.4.2 documents that the peer will set SEID=0 in the
response when we request something for a session not existing at the peer.
If that's the case, we still want to locate the local session which
originated the request, so let's store the local SEID in the xact when
submitting the message, so that we can retrieve the related SEID and
find the session if we receive SEID=0.
It was spotted that if DeleteSessionReq sent by SMF is answered by UPF
with cause="Session context not found", then it contains SEID=0 (this is
correct as per specs). Hence, since SEID=0 session is not looked up, so
sess=NULL.
A follow up commit improves the situation by looking up the SEID in the
originating request message in that case.
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.
- Set the number of UEs in units of AMF/MME instead of gNB/eNB.
- See default value as shown below
Number of UEs per AMF/MME : 4,096
Number of gNB/eNB per AMF/MME : 32
Sukchan Lee
mitmitmitm
Bostjan Meglic
Flander Bojan
Spencer Sevilla
Pau Espin