Bug ID 442584: Policy forwarding to virtual server can experience failures

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.1 hf1, 11.5.1 hf2, 11.5.1 hf3, 11.5.1 hf4, 11.5.1 hf5, 11.5.1 hf6, 11.5.1 hf7, 11.5.1 hf8, 11.5.1 hf9, 11.5.1 hf10, 11.5.1 hf11, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 hf1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10

Fixed In:
11.6.0

Opened: Jan 09, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K15731

Symptoms

The TMM process may segfault, or an entry similar to the following may appear in the logs: "Could not bind action 'forward select policy=... rule=... action-id=0 virtual=...', reason ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED

Impact

1. If a change is made to the targeted virtual server, the tmm process can suddenly stop working when the policy is executed. 2. If, at tmm startup, the policy targets a non-existent virtual, then policy will fail with ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED in logs.

Conditions

1. Policy targets a virtual, for example: ltm policy /Common/mypolicy { controls { forwarding } requires { http } rules { ... default_policy_rule { actions { ... 1 { forward select virtual /Common/virtual2 } } } ... } ... } 2. A change is made to the virtual server (/Common/virtual2, in this case), say adding or removing a profile, or deleting it altogether.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

Making configuration changes, such as adding/removing a profile, to the targeted virtual will not adversely affect policy execution.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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