Bug ID 882273: MRF Diameter: memory leak during server down and reconnect attempt which leads to tmm crash and memory usage grow

Last Modified: Jul 13, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(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, 13.1.0, 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, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4

Fixed In:
14.1.2.5, 13.1.3.4

Opened: Feb 19, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Memory leak can cause tmm to crash and memory usage to grow.

Impact

Memory corruption will lead to tmm crash in longer run and memory leak make memory usage to grow in linear order. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

-- Diameter transmission setting is enabled and action should be retrans. -- auto-init should be enabled. -- And server is down.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

When server is down BIG-IP keeps creating new connection to it. there is memory leak need to be fixed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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