Bug ID 760961: TMM crashes due to webroot database shared memory channel corruption when wr_urldbd daemon restarts

Last Modified: Jul 13, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP PEM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3

Fixed In:
15.0.0, 14.1.4.4, 13.1.1.5

Opened: Mar 11, 2019

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Webroot daemon (wr_urldbd) crashes because of a socket handler issue that occurs when sending the URI categorization request to the BrightCloud server. Wr_urldbd daemon restarts, and during startup, it loads the downloaded database to the shared memory channel. This shared memory channel is being used by the TMM, which has no information about the wr_urldbd restart, so tmm restarts.

Impact

TMM restarts. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

-- Wr_urldbd restarts (which occurs due to an issue in socket handler when sending URL categorization requests to the BrightCloud server). -- During wr_urldbd startup, the daemon starts loading the downloaded webroot database to the shared memory channel set up between the wr_urldbd and TMM. -- TMM accesses this shared memory channel to perform a URL category lookup (due to traffic).

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

TMM no longer crashes under these conditions.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips