Bug ID 829677: .tmp files in /var/config/rest/ may cause /var directory exhaustion

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1

Fixed In:
16.1.0, 16.0.1.1, 15.1.2, 14.1.2.7, 13.1.3.5

Opened: Sep 20, 2019

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The /var partition might become completely full on the disk due to tmp files being written to /var/config/rest. This condition may be accompanied by console error messages similar to the following: 011d0004:3: Disk partition /var (slot #) has only 0% free on secondary blade. Additionally, there may be periodic restjavad and bigd daemon restarts related to disk space exhaustion.

Impact

The partition housing /var/config/rest may become 100% full, impacting future disk IO to the partition.

Conditions

Process traffic while DoS Dashboard is open. This issue is happening because a VIPRION process is not available because of a REST timeout.

Workaround

Manually run the following commands, in sequence: bigstart stop restjavad rm -rf /var/config/rest/*.tmp bigstart start restjavad

Fix Information

Increased the rest socket timeout value and shellexecutor timeout value to 6 min to fix the timeout issue of viprion worker ?The fix also includes automatic removal of unused tmp files.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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