Bug ID 452459: TMM crashes with PEM due to incorrect timer handling.

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

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Affected Product:  See more info
BIG-IP PEM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 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, 11.5.10, 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

Fixed In:
11.6.0

Opened: Mar 14, 2014
Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Intermittent TMM crash when using PEM. The crash backtrace indicates the TMM was caught in an infinite loop servicing timer completion events.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

Crash can (rarely) be triggered by a client disconnecting and immediately reconnecting a TCP connection to a PEM virtual.

Workaround

This issue has no workaround.

Fix Information

A bug in timer cleanup handling during TCP disconnect processing by the PEM module was fixed.

Behavior Change