Bug ID 514521: Rare TMM Cores with TCP SACK and Early Retransmit

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.4, 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 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5

Opened: Mar 26, 2015

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K16417

Symptoms

In certain isolated cases, TCP profiles with Early Retransmit and SACK enabled will cause a TMM Crash.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

The connection is not in fast recovery but a SACK hole has been retransmitted.

Workaround

Disable Early Retransmit in the TCP profile.

Fix Information

Early retransmit now handles corner cases where the SACK scoreboard is empty.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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