Bug ID 542009: tmm might loop and get killed by sod when the system tries to process an invalid-message-length MPI message.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF3, 11.6.3, 11.5.5

Opened: Aug 26, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K01162427

Symptoms

tmm might loop and get killed by sod when the system tries to process an invalid-message-length MPI message. You might notice the following in /var/log/ltm prior to the core: notice MPI stream: connection to node nodedadress expired for reason: Internal error (bad magic) (mpi_proxy.c:664)

Impact

tmm might loop, using 100% of CPU, and eventually get killed by sod.

Conditions

This is an internal condition related to TMMs passing messages between each other. The cause of the invalid internal message is unknown.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

tmm no longer loops and gets killed by sod when the system tries to process an invalid MPI message.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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