Bug ID 851393: Tmipsecd leaves a zombie rm process running after starting up

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.0.5, 14.1.4.4

Opened: Nov 19, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After booting the system, you notice zombie 'rm' processes: $ top -b | awk '$8=="Z"' 14461 root 20 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rm 14461 root 20 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rm 14461 root 20 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rm Restarting tmipsecd will kill the zombied process but will start a new one.

Impact

A zombie 'rm' process exists. There should be no other impact.

Conditions

-- IPsec is enabled. -- Booting up the system.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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