Bug ID 882157: One thread of pkcs11d consumes 100% without any traffic.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 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, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.3, 14.1.4

Opened: Feb 19, 2020

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

One thread of pkcs11d consumes 100% without any traffic.

Impact

NetHSM configurations and statistics updates are not updated.

Conditions

-- The BIG-IP system is licensed with NetHSM, and service pkcs11d is running. -- The MCDP service is restarted.

Workaround

Restart the pkcs11d service: tmsh restart sys service pkcs11d

Fix Information

The system now watches for errors and prevents this error from occurring.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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