Last Modified: Jun 04, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Opened: Jan 16, 2024 Severity: 2-Critical
Sod reports a warning warning sod[7949]: 01140029:4: HA crypto_failsafe_t fips-crypto0-3 fails action is go offline and down links. Kernel errors are reported warning kernel: SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1 (gfp=0x20) warning kernel: cache: __n3fips_rx_buf_pool, object size: 9216, buffer size: 9216, default order: 3, min order: 2 warning kernel: node 0: slabs: 1372, objs: 4116, free: 7 err kernel: n3fips_drv 0000:04:00.0: refill_rx_bufs: Couldn't allocate Rx descriptor 357 The kernel is unable to allocate memory to N3FIPS driver and leads to page allocation failures. This issue is displayed on several other platforms. The page allocation failures are observed even if free blocks of memory is available.
HA crypto_failsafe_t fips-crypto0-3 fails action goes offline and downlinks.
-- BIG-IP iSeries i5820-DF (C125) platform (other platforms are affected) -- During memory allocation in the N3FIPS driver.
Contact F5 Support for assistance in increasing the value of the kernel tunable parameter vm.min_free_kbytes.
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