When pagig for a CS-Call via SGs times out, the MME expects to be
informed about this via an SGsAP-SERVICE-ABORT-REQUEST, make sure this
message is sent, but only for CS-Fallback calls.
Change-Id: I3f8f153afe24cf2efa245713509bdc8488902877
Depends: osmo-ttcn3-hacks I99950a17ccf26aaa0eebded5480f33be4c57586a
Related: OS#3614
3GPP TS 29.118, chapter 7.5 states that unknown TLV elements should be
ignored rather than that the whole message is discarded a STATUS message
is sent. Lets turn the returncode check of the tlv_parse() call into a
log message and continue normally.
Change-Id: Ic6714451ad970043d4765f8420d753daf5294a44
Related: OS#4214
When the VLR/MSC receives an SGsAP-MO-CSFB-INDICATION message it sets
the RAN type back to SGs. This is wrong, the message
SGsAP-MO-CSFB-INDICATION has just an informative character. It informs
the VLR that the UE has initiated an MO CSFB call (service request).
Change-Id: I625574fc42fc915ba483db3bb406922ad6df370d
Related: SYS#4624
The HLR (which is connected via the GSUP interface) may fail and
disconnect. On the next location update the VLR will try to talk to the
HLR and fail. This failure event is not communicated towards the SGs
related code and the SGs-association will remain in the LA-PRESENT state
forever. Lets add code to report the problem to the SGs code and trigger
a RESET an the SGs interface.
- Add a flag to report an HLR problem back to the SGs code
- Fix the FSM that controls the reset
- Make sure the all SGs associations are reset when the failure occurs.
Change-Id: Icc7df92879728bc98c85fc1d5d8b4c6246501b12
Related: OS#3859
3GPP TS 49.008 '4.3 Roles of MSC-A, MSC-I and MSC-T' defines distinct roles:
- MSC-A is responsible for managing subscribers,
- MSC-I is the gateway to the RAN.
- MSC-T is a second transitory gateway to another RAN during Handover.
After inter-MSC Handover, the MSC-I is handled by a remote MSC instance, while
the original MSC-A retains the responsibility of subscriber management.
MSC-T exists in this patch but is not yet used, since Handover is only prepared
for, not yet implemented.
Facilitate Inter-MSC and inter-BSC Handover by the same internal split of MSC
roles.
Compared to inter-MSC Handover, mere inter-BSC has the obvious simplifications:
- all of MSC-A, MSC-I and MSC-T roles will be served by the same osmo-msc
instance,
- messages between MSC-A and MSC-{I,T} don't need to be routed via E-interface
(GSUP),
- no call routing between MSC-A and -I via MNCC necessary.
This is the largest code bomb I have submitted, ever. Out of principle, I
apologize to everyone trying to read this as a whole. Unfortunately, I see no
sense in trying to split this patch into smaller bits. It would be a huge
amount of work to introduce these changes in separate chunks, especially if
each should in turn be useful and pass all test suites. So, unfortunately, we
are stuck with this code bomb.
The following are some details and rationale for this rather huge refactoring:
* separate MSC subscriber management from ran_conn
struct ran_conn is reduced from the pivotal subscriber management entity it has
been so far to a mere storage for an SCCP connection ID and an MSC subscriber
reference.
The new pivotal subscriber management entity is struct msc_a -- struct msub
lists the msc_a, msc_i, msc_t roles, the vast majority of code paths however
use msc_a, since MSC-A is where all the interesting stuff happens.
Before handover, msc_i is an FSM implementation that encodes to the local
ran_conn. After inter-MSC Handover, msc_i is a compatible but different FSM
implementation that instead forwards via/from GSUP. Same goes for the msc_a
struct: if osmo-msc is the MSC-I "RAN proxy" for a remote MSC-A role, the
msc_a->fi is an FSM implementation that merely forwards via/from GSUP.
* New SCCP implementation for RAN access
To be able to forward BSSAP and RANAP messages via the GSUP interface, the
individual message layers need to be cleanly separated. The IuCS implementation
used until now (iu_client from libosmo-ranap) did not provide this level of
separation, and needed a complete rewrite. It was trivial to implement this in
such a way that both BSSAP and RANAP can be handled by the same SCCP code,
hence the new SCCP-RAN layer also replaces BSSAP handling.
sccp_ran.h: struct sccp_ran_inst provides an abstract handler for incoming RAN
connections. A set of callback functions provides implementation specific
details.
* RAN Abstraction (BSSAP vs. RANAP)
The common SCCP implementation did set the theme for the remaining refactoring:
make all other MSC code paths entirely RAN-implementation-agnostic.
ran_infra.c provides data structures that list RAN implementation specifics,
from logging to RAN de-/encoding to SCCP callbacks and timers. A ran_infra
pointer hence allows complete abstraction of RAN implementations:
- managing connected RAN peers (BSC, RNC) in ran_peer.c,
- classifying and de-/encoding RAN PDUs,
- recording connected LACs and cell IDs and sending out Paging requests to
matching RAN peers.
* RAN RESET now also for RANAP
ran_peer.c absorbs the reset_fsm from a_reset.c; in consequence, RANAP also
supports proper RESET semantics now. Hence osmo-hnbgw now also needs to provide
proper RESET handling, which it so far duly ignores. (TODO)
* RAN de-/encoding abstraction
The RAN abstraction mentioned above serves not only to separate RANAP and BSSAP
implementations transparently, but also to be able to optionally handle RAN on
distinct levels. Before Handover, all RAN messages are handled by the MSC-A
role. However, after an inter-MSC Handover, a standalone MSC-I will need to
decode RAN PDUs, at least in order to manage Assignment of RTP streams between
BSS/RNC and MNCC call forwarding.
ran_msg.h provides a common API with abstraction for:
- receiving events from RAN, i.e. passing RAN decode from the BSC/RNC and
MS/UE: struct ran_dec_msg represents RAN messages decoded from either BSSMAP
or RANAP;
- sending RAN events: ran_enc_msg is the counterpart to compose RAN messages
that should be encoded to either BSSMAP or RANAP and passed down to the
BSC/RNC and MS/UE.
The RAN-specific implementations are completely contained by ran_msg_a.c and
ran_msg_iu.c.
In particular, Assignment and Ciphering have so far been distinct code paths
for BSSAP and RANAP, with switch(via_ran){...} statements all over the place.
Using RAN_DEC_* and RAN_ENC_* abstractions, these are now completely unified.
Note that SGs does not qualify for RAN abstraction: the SGs interface always
remains with the MSC-A role, and SGs messages follow quite distinct semantics
from the fairly similar GERAN and UTRAN.
* MGW and RTP stream management
So far, managing MGW endpoints via MGCP was tightly glued in-between
GSM-04.08-CC on the one and MNCC on the other side. Prepare for switching RTP
streams between different RAN peers by moving to object-oriented
implementations: implement struct call_leg and struct rtp_stream with distinct
FSMs each. For MGW communication, use the osmo_mgcpc_ep API that has originated
from osmo-bsc and recently moved to libosmo-mgcp-client for this purpose.
Instead of implementing a sequence of events with code duplication for the RAN
and CN sides, the idea is to manage each RTP stream separately by firing and
receiving events as soon as codecs and RTP ports are negotiated, and letting
the individual FSMs take care of the MGW management "asynchronously". The
caller provides event IDs and an FSM instance that should be notified of RTP
stream setup progress. Hence it becomes possible to reconnect RTP streams from
one GSM-04.08-CC to another (inter-BSC Handover) or between CC and MNCC RTP
peers (inter-MSC Handover) without duplicating the MGCP code for each
transition.
The number of FSM implementations used for MGCP handling may seem a bit of an
overkill. But in fact, the number of perspectives on RTP forwarding are far
from trivial:
- an MGW endpoint is an entity with N connections, and MGCP "sessions" for
configuring them by talking to the MGW;
- an RTP stream is a remote peer connected to one of the endpoint's
connections, which is asynchronously notified of codec and RTP port choices;
- a call leg is the higher level view on either an MT or MO side of a voice
call, a combination of two RTP streams to forward between two remote peers.
BSC MGW PBX
CI CI
[MGW-endpoint]
[--rtp_stream--] [--rtp_stream--]
[----------------call_leg----------------]
* Use counts
Introduce using the new osmo_use_count API added to libosmocore for this
purpose. Each use token has a distinct name in the logging, which can be a
globally constant name or ad-hoc, like the local __func__ string constant. Use
in the new struct msc_a, as well as change vlr_subscr to the new osmo_use_count
API.
* FSM Timeouts
Introduce using the new osmo_tdef API, which provides a common VTY
implementation for all timer numbers, and FSM state transitions with the
correct timeout. Originated in osmo-bsc, recently moved to libosmocore.
Depends: Ife31e6798b4e728a23913179e346552a7dd338c0 (libosmocore)
Ib9af67b100c4583342a2103669732dab2e577b04 (libosmocore)
Id617265337f09dfb6ddfe111ef5e578cd3dc9f63 (libosmocore)
Ie9e2add7bbfae651c04e230d62e37cebeb91b0f5 (libosmo-sccp)
I26be5c4b06a680f25f19797407ab56a5a4880ddc (osmo-mgw)
Ida0e59f9a1f2dd18efea0a51680a67b69f141efa (osmo-mgw)
I9a3effd38e72841529df6c135c077116981dea36 (osmo-mgw)
Change-Id: I27e4988e0371808b512c757d2b52ada1615067bd
The function sgs_tx() is using the sgs connection pointer as context,
even though it has done a check for a nullpointer in the line before.
This is very prone to lead into a segfault when the SGs connection dies.
Change-Id: I88b95e3f8cd35241ad68f08d94c6ad7067b842e6
Related: OS#3859
It was observed that the SGs server is started before
the actual VTY configuration is parsed. For example:
sgs
local-port 9999
local-ip 127.0.0.1
vlr-name vlr.example.net
produces the following debug output:
<0011> sgs_server.c:185 SGs socket bound to r=NULL<->l=0.0.0.0:29118
DLSS7 NOTICE <001e> osmo_ss7.c:1284 0: ASP Restart for server not implemented yet!
DSGS NOTICE <0011> sgs_server.c:185 SGs socket bound to r=NULL<->l=0.0.0.0:9999
DSGS NOTICE <0011> sgs_server.c:185 SGs socket bound to r=NULL<->l=127.0.0.1:9999
DMNCC DEBUG <0004> msc_main.c:604 Using internal MNCC handler.
The first startup is triggered by sgs_iface_init(), before reading
the VTY configuration, so the logging style is different. The next
two calls to sgs_server_open() are triggered during reading of the
VTY configuration by cfg_sgs_local_port() and cfg_sgs_local_ip().
Let's avoid starting the SGs server three times, and do it once,
after the VTY configuration is parsed. Also, keep the possibility
to change the binding parameters at run-time.
Change-Id: Ie0c31205ac48be7e50d0380a89833771b2708da4
The SGS_STATE_TS11 is not for counters, it's for timers!
Change-Id: Ifbb1a37e644ae8bf8e7959f6f6cd6403ac1f2f1b
Fixes: CID#190872 Out-of-bounds read (OVERRUN)
Add an SGs interface (3GPP TS 29.118) to osmo-msc in order to support
SMS tunneling and Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB)
Change-Id: I73359925fc1ca72b33a1466e6ac41307f2f0b11d
Related: OS#3615
Philipp Maier
Neels Hofmeyr
Harald Welte