Bug ID 669459: Efect of bad connection handle between APMD and memcachd

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3

Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3.4

Opened: Jun 15, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When a connection handle (fd) between apmd and memcachd gets bad (someone else is using or already closed by memcachd), all worker threads gets locked out. A cleaner thread then restart APMD with an assert.

Impact

APMD gets locked down , eventually restart with a core.

Conditions

This is difficult to reproduce. It happens if one or more connection handle between apmd worker thread and memcachd gets misused.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Communication between APMD and TMM has been improved to be more tolerant of error conditions.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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