Bug ID 549782: XFV driver can leak memory

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0, 11.6.1

Opened: Oct 01, 2015

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When the interface goes down, memory is not correctly freed.

Impact

Over a long enough period of time the BIG-IP can go out of memory and TMM needs to be restarted.

Conditions

the leak happens when the interface goes down

Workaround

none

Fix Information

The driver was corrected so that when the interface is brought down, all the xfrags currently in the ring buffer are freed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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