Bug ID 1388753: FIPS device unable to provision full accelerator cores for FIPS partitions

Last Modified: Apr 25, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 15.1.10.6, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1

Fixed In:
17.5.0

Opened: Oct 25, 2023

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The issue is that FIPS systems have been reporting an incorrect number of available accelerator cores. For example, i15820-DF supports a total of 63 accelerator cores, but it is showing maximum 32 while resizing the partition. [root@gwelb01-tic:Active:Standalone] config # fipsutil ptnresize Enter Security Officer password: Enter partition name: PARTITION_1 Enter max keys (1-102235, current 10075): 1 Enter max accel devs (1-32, current 32): 1 ---> Max value should be 63

Impact

Not able to provision the full accelerator dev cores though the platform support.

Conditions

- BIG-IP platform with an onboard FIPS HSM.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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