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Summary:ASTERISK-18996: Faulty SIP session timer handling
Reporter:Thomas Arimont (tomaso)Labels:
Date Opened:2011-12-08 08:56:46.000-0600Date Closed:2012-01-16 14:13:01.000-0600
Priority:MajorRegression?
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Channels/chan_sip/General
Versions:1.8.8.0 Frequency of
Occurrence
Constant
Related
Issues:
is related toASTERISK-17942 Missing session-expires from Asterisk to the phone. Asterisk not working according to RFC
Environment:Attachments:( 0) session_timer_fix.diff
( 1) session_timer.patch
Description:In case of taking the role of the uas (incoming call, endpoint is re-inviting) the SIP session timer expires after half the time the sip endpoint indicates in session-expires header (proc_session_timer(), chan_sip.c implementation). In this case the timer should run again until the second expiry. Unfortunately the session timer is stopped totally (actually error handling for other cases) and the transmitted 200 o.k. response to the next received SIP Re-Invite from the sip endpoint device does not include the session-expires header anymore, which leads to a call release (from the part of the endpoint) using a SIP pedantic sip endpoint implementation (here Siemens OpenStage 60 V3):

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session-timers=accept ;(or originate)
session-expires=3600
session-minse=90
session-refresher=uas

[Dec  8 14:28:45] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:22270 handle_request_invite: Incoming INVITE with 'timer' option supported and "Session-Expires" header.
[Dec  8 14:28:45] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25558 parse_session_expires: Session-Expires: 100
[Dec  8 14:28:45] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25571 parse_session_expires: Refresher: UAC
[Dec  8 14:28:45] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25528 parse_minse: Received Min-SE: 90
[Dec  8 14:28:45] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25426 start_session_timer: Session timer started: 27271 - dad30178c7404082
[Dec  8 14:28:45] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:22458 handle_request_invite: SIP/10-0000000e: New call is still down.... Trying...

...

[Dec  8 14:29:35] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25443 proc_session_timer: Session timer expired: 27271 - dad30178c7404082
[Dec  8 14:29:35] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25499 proc_session_timer: Session timer stopped: 27271 - dad30178c7404082
[Dec  8 14:29:35] DEBUG[3406]: chan_sip.c:25397 stop_session_timer: Session timer stopped: -1 - dad30178c7404082

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Comments:By: Thomas Arimont (tomaso) 2011-12-08 08:58:04.211-0600

For me the attached patch seems to fix this issue.

By: Thomas Arimont (tomaso) 2011-12-08 09:56:09.876-0600

Didn't know how to edit a reference to another JIRA issue (ASTERISK-17942) ...

By: Terry Wilson (twilson) 2012-01-10 09:48:27.738-0600

This patch looks correct. It should also be noted that according to the [SIP Session Timers RFC|http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4028.txt], the endpoint is behaving incorrectly as well. From section 7.2:
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  If the 2xx response did not contain a Session-Expires header field,
  there is no session expiration.  In this case, no refreshes need to
  be sent.  A 2xx without a Session-Expires can come for both initial
  and subsequent session refresh requests.  This means that the session
  timer can be 'turned-off' in mid dialog by receiving a response
  without a Session-Expires header field.
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By: Thomas Arimont (tomaso) 2012-01-10 10:26:22.624-0600

Good to know that some implementors read the specs very well! ;-)
Yes, it seems you're right, the endpoint is behaving incorrectly as well.
I'll give both of you one point ...


By: Terry Wilson (twilson) 2012-01-10 12:06:55.486-0600

Looking again, it looks like we would leak a reference in the case where st_timer >= 2 with the existing patch. I added a new patch that just moves the res = 1 into an else block.

Thomas, could you verify that session_timer_fix.diff still fixes the issue for you?

By: Thomas Arimont (tomaso) 2012-01-11 03:14:05.336-0600

Terry, yes, YOUR patch looks reasonable (avoiding a reference leak) and I have proved that it still fixes the problem. Thanks, good job!