Bug ID 584926: Accelerated compression segfault when devices are all in error state.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.1

Opened: Apr 01, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

TMM segfaults. Kernel log contains "Uncorrectable Error" and "icp_qa_al err" messages.

Impact

Tmm segfaults and restarts. May require a reboot.

Conditions

All physical or virtual devices concurrently enter error state.

Workaround

Disable QAT compression using tmsh: tmsh modify sys db compression.strategy value softwareonly

Fix Information

TMM QAT compression driver will not fail if all QAT devices concurrently go down.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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