* * * READ ME * * * * * * Symantec Storage Foundation HA 6.1.1 * * * * * * Patch 6.1.1.400 * * * Patch Date: 2016-06-30 This document provides the following information: * PATCH NAME * OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH * PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH * BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH * SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH * DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH * INSTALLATION PRE-REQUISITES * INSTALLING THE PATCH * REMOVING THE PATCH PATCH NAME ---------- Symantec Storage Foundation HA 6.1.1 Patch 6.1.1.400 OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH ---------------------------------------- RHEL6 x86-64 PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH ------------------------------ VRTSllt VRTSlvmconv VRTSvxvm BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH ----------------------------------- * Symantec Cluster Server 6.1 * Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.1 * Symantec Storage Foundation 6.1 * Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA 6.1 * Symantec Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 6.1 * Symantec Storage Foundation HA 6.1 * Symantec Volume Manager 6.1 SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH --------------------------------------- Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.300 * 3889639 (3877459) Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 8 (RHEL6.8). Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.200 * 3794198 (3794154) Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 7 (RHEL6.7). Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.100 * 3646467 (3642131) VCS support for RHEL 6.6 Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.000 * 3376505 (3410309) The LLT driver fails to load and logs a message in the syslog. * 3458677 (3460985) The system panics and logs an error message in the syslog. Patch ID: 6.1.1.500 * 3890226 (3880936) vxvmconvert hangs on RHEL 6.8. * 3890251 (3478478) While Performing LVM to VxVM conversion, it fails to prepare the volume group for conversion. * 3890262 (3879234) dd read on the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) character device fails with Input/Output error while accessing end of device. Patch ID: 6.1.1.400 * 3607232 (3596330) 'vxsnap refresh' operation fails with `Transaction aborted waiting for IO drain` error * 3640641 (3622068) After mirroring encapsulated root disk, rootdg fails to import if any disk in the disk group becomes unavailable. * 3662397 (3662392) In the Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) environment, if I/Os are getting executed on slave node, corruption can happen when the vxdisk resize(1M) command is executing on the master node. * 3674567 (3636089) VVR(Veritas Volume Replicator) secondary was panicked due to a bad mutex produced by vxconfigd while committing the transactions. * 3682022 (3648719) The server panics while adding or removing LUNs or HBAs. * 3729172 (3726110) On systems with high number of CPUs, Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) devices may perform considerably slower than OS device paths. * 3736352 (3729078) VVR(Veritas Volume Replication) secondary site panic occurs during patch installation because of flag overlap issue. * 3778391 (3565212) IO failure is seen during controller giveback operations on Netapp Arrays in ALUA mode. * 3790099 (3581646) Logical Volumes fail to migrate back to OS devices Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) when DMP native support is disabled while root("/") is mounted on LVM. * 3790106 (3488071) The command "vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=on" fails to enable Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) Native Support * 3790115 (3623617) The command "vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=on" may fail with a perl error * 3790117 (3776520) Filters are not updated properly in lvm.conf file in VxDMP initrd (initial ramdisk) while Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) Native Support is being enabled. * 3795623 (3795622) With Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) Native Support enabled, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) global_filter is not updated properly in lvm.conf file. * 3800388 (3581264) VxVM package uninstallation succeeds even if DMP Native Support is enable and IO's are in progress on LV. * 3800421 (3762580) In Linux kernels greater than or equal to RHEL6.6 (e.g. RHEL7 and SLES11SP3), the vxfen module fails to register the SCSI-3 PR keys to EMC devices when powerpath co-exists with DMP (Dynamic Multi-Pathing). * 3808593 (3795788) Performance degrades when many application sessions open the same data file on the VxVMvolume. * 3812272 (3811946) When invoking "vxsnap make" command with cachesize option to create space optimized snapshot, the command succeeds but a plex I/O error message is displayed in syslog. * 3852147 (3852146) Shared DiskGroup(DG) fails to import when "-c" and "-o noreonline" options are specified together * 3852800 (3819670) When smartmove with 'vxevac' command is run in background by hitting 'ctlr-z' key and 'bg' command, the execution of 'vxevac' is terminated abruptly. * 3854390 (3853049) The display of stats delayed beyond the set interval for vxstat and multiple sessions of vxstat impacted the IO performance. * 3854526 (3544020) Volume Manager (VxVM) tunables are getting reset to default after patch upgrade. * 3856384 (3525490) System panic occurs when partial data received by VVR for incorrect type casting. * 3857121 (3857120) Oracle database process hangs when being stopped. * 3859012 (3859009) global_filter of lvm.conf is not updated due to some paths of LVM dmpnode are reused during DDL(Device Discovery Layer) discovery cycle. * 3861494 (3557636) Sequential execution of udev-rules may delay the processing of udev events, this may cause probable data corruption due to IO getting issued to incorrect disk. * 3864093 (3825467) SLES11-SP4 build fails. * 3864112 (3860503) Poor performance of vxassist mirroring is observed on some high end servers. * 3864480 (3823283) While unencapsulating a boot disk in SAN environment (Storage Area etwork), Linux operating system sticks in grub after reboot. * 3864625 (3599977) During a replica connection, referencing a port that is already deleted in another thread causes a system panic. * 3864628 (3686698) vxconfigd was getting hung due to deadlock between two threads * 3864980 (3594158) The spinlock and unspinlock are referenced to different objects when interleaving with a kernel transaction. * 3864986 (3621232) The vradmin ibc command cannot be started or executed on Veritas Volume Replicators (VVR) secondary node. * 3864987 (3513392) Reference to replication port that is already deleted caused panic. * 3864988 (3625890) vxdisk resize operation on CDS disks fails with an error message of "Invalid attribute specification" * 3864989 (3521726) System panicked for double freeing IOHINT. * 3865411 (3665644) The system panics due to an invalid page pointer in the Linux bio structure. * 3865415 (3736502) Memory leakage is found when transaction aborts. * 3865631 (3564260) VVR commands are unresponsive when replication is paused and resumed in a loop. * 3865633 (3721565) vxconfigd hang is seen. * 3865640 (3749557) System hangs because of high memory usage by vxvm. * 3865653 (3795739) In a split brain scenario, cluster formation takes very long time. * 3866241 (3790136) File system hang observed due to IO's in Ditry Region Logging (DRL). * 3866595 (3866051) Driver name over 32 bytes may cause vxconfigd unable to startup * 3866643 (3539548) After adding removed MPIO disk back, 'vxdisk list' or 'vxdmpadm listctlr all' commands may show duplicate entry for DMP node with error state. * 3866651 (3596282) Snap operations fail with error "Failed to allocate a new map due to no free map available in DCO". * 3866675 (3840359) Some VxVM commands fail on using the localized messages. * 3867134 (3486861) Primary node panics when storage is removed while replication is going on with heavy IOs. * 3867137 (3674614) Restarting the vxconfigd(1M) daemon on the slave (joiner) node during node-join operation may cause the vxconfigd(1M) daemon to become unresponsive on the master and the joiner node. * 3867315 (3672759) The vxconfigd(1M) daemon may core dump when DMP database is corrupted. * 3867706 (3645370) vxevac command fails to evacuate disks with Dirty Region Log(DRL) plexes. * 3867709 (3767531) In Layered volume layout with FSS configuration, when few of the FSS_Hosts are rebooted, Full resync is happening for non-affected disks on master. * 3867710 (3788644) Reuse raw device number when checking for available raw devices. * 3867711 (3802750) VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) volume I/O-shipping functionality is not disabled even after the user issues the correct command to disable it. * 3867712 (3807879) User data corrupts because of the writing of the backup EFT GPT disk label during the VxVM disk-group flush operation. * 3867714 (3819832) No syslog message seen when dmp detects controller disabled/enabled * 3867881 (3867145) When VVR SRL occupation > 90%, then output the SRL occupation is shown by 10 percent. * 3867925 (3802075) Foreign disks with name having digit in it, defined by udev rules goes into error state after vxdisk scandisks/ * 3869659 (3868444) Disk header timestamp is updated even if the disk group(DG) import fails. * 3874736 (3874387) Disk header information is not logged to the syslog sometimes even if the disk is missing and dg import fails. * 3874961 (3871750) In parallel VxVM vxstat commands report abnormal disk IO statistic data * 3875113 (3816219) VxDMP event source daemon keeps reporting UDEV change event in syslog. * 3875161 (3860184) Turning off DMP(Dynamic Multipathing) Native support succeeds even I/Os are in progress on LV. * 3875230 (3554608) Mirroring a volume on 6.1 creates a larger plex than the original. * 3875564 (3875563) While dumping the disk header information, human readable timestamp was not converted correctly from corresponding epoch time. Patch ID: 6.1.1.100 * 3632970 (3631230) VRTSvxvm patch version 6.0.5 and 6.1.1 or previous will not work with RHEL6.6 update. Patch ID: 6.1.1.000 * 3372831 (2573229) On RHEL6, the server panics when Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) executes PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with REPORT CAPABILITIES service action on powerpath controlled device. * 3440232 (3408320) Thin reclamation fails for EMC 5875 arrays. * 3457363 (3462171) When SCSI-3 persistent reservation command 'ioctls' are issued on non-SCSI devices, dmpnode gets disabled. * 3470254 (3370637) In VxVM, the SmartIO feature gets enabled for volumes with type as root/swap that are under VxVM control. * 3470255 (2847520) The resize operation on a shared linked-volume can cause data corruption on the target volume. * 3470260 (3415188) I/O hangs during replication in Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR). * 3470262 (3077582) A Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume may become inaccessible causing the read/write operations to fail. * 3470265 (3326964) VxVM hangs in Clustered Volume Manager (CVM) environments in the presence of FMR operations. * 3470270 (3403390) After a crash, the linked-to volume goes into NEEDSYNC state. * 3470272 (3385753) Replication to the Disaster Recovery (DR) site hangs even though Replication links (Rlinks) are in the connected state. * 3470273 (3416404) The vxdisksetup(1M) command shows a warning message about disk geometry mismatch on console. * 3470274 (3373208) DMP wrongly sends the SCSI PR OUT command with APTPL bit value as A0A to arrays. * 3470275 (3417044) System becomes unresponsive while creating a VVR TCP connection. * 3470276 (3287940) Logical unit number (LUN) from EMC CLARiiON array and having NR (Not Ready) state are shown in the state of online invalid by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). * 3470279 (3300418) VxVM volume operations on shared volumes cause unnecessary read I/Os. * 3470282 (3374200) A system panic or exceptional IO delays are observed while executing snapshot operations, such as, refresh. * 3470286 (3417164) The virtual machine cache area size cannot be shrunk when the data size in the cache is more than the resize value. * 3470290 (2999871) The vxinstall(1M) command gets into a hung state when it is invoked through Secure Shell (SSH) remote execution. * 3470292 (3416098) The vxvmconvert utility throws error during execution. * 3470300 (3340923) For Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) array type Logical Unit Numbers (LUN), Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) disables and enables the unavailable asymmetric access state paths on I/O load. * 3470301 (2812161) In a Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) environment, after the Rlink is detached, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon on the secondary host may hang. * 3470303 (3314647) The vxcdsconvert(1M)command fails with error: Plex column offset is not strictly increasing for column/plex. * 3470304 (3390162) The NetMapper tool which scans the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 4145 causes the vxnetd daemon to consume 100% CPU, the rlink disconnects and finally the system hang. * 3470321 (3336714) The slab of I/O request in Linux may get corrupted. * 3470322 (3399323) The reconfiguration of Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) database fails. * 3470345 (3281004) For DMP minimum queue I/O policy with large number of CPUs a couple of issues are observed. * 3470347 (3444765) In Cluster Volume Manager (CVM), shared volume recovery may take long time for large configurations. * 3470350 (3437852) The system panics when Symantec Replicator Option goes to PASSTHRU mode. * 3470352 (3450758) The slave node was not able to join CVM cluster and resulted in panic. * 3470353 (3236772) Heavy I/O loads on primary sites result in transaction/session timeouts between the primary and secondary sites. * 3470354 (3446415) A pool may get added to the file system when the file system shrink operation is performed on FileStore. * 3470382 (3368361) When site consistency is configured within a private disk group and CVM is up, the reattach operation of a detached site fails. * 3470383 (3455460) The vxfmrshowmap and verify_dco_header utilities fail with an error. * 3470384 (3440790) The vxassist(1M) command with parameter mirror and the vxplex command(1M) with parameter att hang. * 3470385 (3373142) Updates to vxassist and vxedit man pages for behavioral changes after 6.0. * 3490147 (3485907) Panic occurs in the I/O code path. * 3492363 (3402487) The page-size allocation fails in Fast Mirror Resynchronization (FMR) operation due to fragmentation or size limitation. * 3506660 (3325022) The VirtIO-disk interface exported disks from an SLES11 SP2 or SLES11 SP3 host are not visible. * 3506679 (3435225) In a given CVR setup, rebooting the master node causes one of the slaves to panic. * 3506707 (3400504) Upon disabling the host side Host Bus Adapter (HBA) port, extended attributes of some devices are not seen anymore. * 3506709 (3259732) In a CVR environment, rebooting the primary slave followed by connect-disconnect in loop causes rlink to detach. * 3506718 (3433931) The AvxvmconvertA utility fails to get the correct LVM version. * 3506747 (3496077) The vxvmconvert(1m) command fails with an error message while converting Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Volume Groups (VG) into VxVM disk group. * 3515438 (3535309) VRTSvxvm patch failed to install on sfcache configure system while upgrading SFRAC from 6.1 to 6.1.1. * 3522541 (3533888) If default value is not choosen, the vxunroot(1M) throws error and goes into infinite loop. * 3531906 (3526500) Disk IO failures occur with DMP IO timeout error messages when DMP (Dynamic Multi-pathing) IO statistics demon is not running. * 3536289 (3492062) Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) fails to get page 0x83 LUN identifier for EMC symmetrix LUNS and continuously logs error messages. * 3538792 (3528498) When the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) smartIO feature is disabled on a VxVM volume, the system panics. * 3539906 (3394933) The vxrecover(1M) command does not trigger volume recovery operations (plex attach, volume resynchronization, etc)in parallel for remote evices during node join operation in Cluster Volume Manager (CVM), which results in longer time for recoveries. * 3540122 (3482026) The vxattachd(1M) daemon reattaches plexes of manually detached site. * 3541262 (3543284) Storage devices are not visible in the vxdisk list or the vxdmpadm getdmpnode outputs. * 3543944 (3520991) The vxconfigd(1M) daemon dumps core due to memory corruption. Patch ID: 6.1.0.100 * 3444900 (3399131) For PowerPath (PP) enclosure, both DA_TPD and DA_COEXIST_TPD flags are set. * 3445234 (3358904) The system with Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) enclosures sometimes panics during path fault scenarios. * 3445235 (3374117) I/O hangs on VxVM SmartIOenabled data volume with one detached plex. * 3445236 (3381006) The system panics when it collects stats for SmartIO by the VxIO driver. * 3446001 (3380481) When you select a removed disk during the "5 Replace a failed or removed disk" operation, the vxdiskadm(1M) command displays an error message. * 3446112 (3288744) In a Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) diskgroup, whenever a new mirror is added to a volume, the Data Change Object (DCO) associated with the volume is not mirrored. * 3446126 (3338208) The writes from fenced out LDOM guest node on Active-Passive (AP/F) shared storage device fails with an unexpected error. * 3447244 (3427171) When I/Os are issued on a volume associated with the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) block level SmartIO caching immediately after a system reboot, a system panic happens. * 3447245 (3385905) Data corruption occurs after VxVM makes cache area offline and online again without a reboot. * 3447306 (3424798) Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) mirror attach operations (e.g., plex attach, vxassist mirror, and third-mirror break-off snapshot resynchronization) may take longer time under heavy application I/O load. * 3447530 (3410839) In FSS (Flexible Storage Sharing) environment, volume allocation operations may lead to full mirror synchronization for the layered volume recovery, when any node goes down. * 3447894 (3353211) A. After EMC Symmetrix BCV (Business Continuance Volume) device switches to read-write mode, continuous vxdmp (Veritas Dynamic Multi Pathing) error messages flood syslog. B. DMP metanode/path under DMP metanode gets disabled unexpectedly. * 3449714 (3417185) Rebooting the host, after the exclusion of a dmpnode while I/O is in progress on it, leads to the vxconfigd(1M) to dump core. * 3452709 (3317430) The vxdiskunsetup(1M) utility throws error after upgradation from 5.1SP1RP4. * 3452727 (3279932) The vxdisksetup and vxdiskunsetup utilities were failing on disk which is part of a deported disk group (DG), even if "-f" option is specified. * 3452811 (3445120) Change tunable VOL_MIN_LOWMEM_SZ value to trigger early readback. * 3453105 (3079819) vxconfigbackup and vxconfigrestore fail on FSS(Flexible Storage Sharing) disk groups with remote disks. * 3453163 (3331769) The vxconfigrestore(1M) command does not restore the latest configuration. * 3455455 (3409612) The value of reclaim_on_delete_start_time cannot be set to values outside the range: 22:00-03:59 * 3456729 (3428025) When heavy parallel I/O load is issued, the system that runs Symantec Replication Option (VVR) and is configured as VVR primary crashes. * 3458036 (3418830) A node boot-up hangs while starting the vxconfigd(1M) daemon. * 3458799 (3197987) When Avxddladm assign names file=A is executed and the file has one or more invalid values for enclosure vendor ID or product ID, vxconfigd(1M) dumps core. * 3470346 (3377383) The vxconfigd crashes when a disk under Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) reports device failure. * 3484547 (3383625) When a cluster node that contributes the storage to the FSS (Flexible Storage Sharing) disk group rejoins the cluster, the local disks brought back by that node do not get reattached. * 3498795 (3394926) vx* commands hang when mirror-stripe format is used after a reboot of master node. DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH --------------------------------------- This patch fixes the following Symantec incidents: Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.300 * 3889639 (Tracking ID: 3877459) SYMPTOM: Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 8 (RHEL6.8). DESCRIPTION: VCS did not support RHEL versions released after RHEL6 Update 7. RESOLUTION: VCS support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 8 (RHEL6.8) is now introduced. Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.200 * 3794198 (Tracking ID: 3794154) SYMPTOM: Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 7 (RHEL6.7). DESCRIPTION: VCS did not support RHEL versions released after RHEL6 Update 6. RESOLUTION: VCS support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 7 (RHEL6.7) is now introduced. Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.100 * 3646467 (Tracking ID: 3642131) SYMPTOM: Low Latency Transport (LLT) fails to start on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 Update 6. DESCRIPTION: On RHEL 6.6, LLT fails to start due to kABI incompatibility. The following error appears: # rpm -ivh VRTSllt-6.1.1.000-RHEL6.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:VRTSllt ########################################### [100%] # /etc/init.d/llt start Starting LLT: LLT: loading module... ERROR: No appropriate modules found. Error in loading module "llt". See documentation. LLT:Error: cannot find compatible module binary Or after OS update, the following messages will be logged in the system log file: kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol ib_create_cq kernel: llt: Unknown symbol ib_create_cq kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_resolve_addr kernel: llt: Unknown symbol rdma_resolve_addr kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol ib_dereg_mr kernel: llt: Unknown symbol ib_dereg_mr kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_reject kernel: llt: Unknown symbol rdma_reject kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_disconnect kernel: llt: Unknown symbol rdma_disconnect kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_resolve_route kernel: llt: Unknown symbol rdma_resolve_route kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_bind_addr kernel: llt: Unknown symbol rdma_bind_addr kernel: llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_create_qp kernel: llt: Unknown symbol rdma_create_qp RESOLUTION: VRTSllt package now includes RHEL 6.6 compatible kernel module. Patch ID: VRTSllt-6.1.1.000 * 3376505 (Tracking ID: 3410309) SYMPTOM: The Low Latency Transport (LLT) driver fails to load and logs the following message in the syslog when a mismatch is observed in the RDMA-specific symbols. llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_connect llt: Unknown symbol rdma_connect llt: disagrees about version of symbol rdma_destroy_id llt: Unknown symbol rdma_destroy_id DESCRIPTION: The LLT driver fails to load when an external Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) (OFA or MLNX_OFED) stack is installed on a system. The OFED replaces the native RDMA-related drivers (shipped with the OS) with the external OFED drivers. Since LLT is built against the native RDMA drivers, LLT fails due to a symbol mismatch when the startup script tries to load LLT. RESOLUTION: The code is modified in the LLT startup script to detect if any external OFED is installed on the system. If the script detects an external OFED, then it loads an LLT driver (without the RDMA symbols) of a non-RDMA version. Since this LLT does not contain RDMA-specific symbols, the LLT driver successfully loads. However, the LLT driver does not have the RDMA functionality. In this case, LLT can be used either in Ethernet or in a UDP mode. * 3458677 (Tracking ID: 3460985) SYMPTOM: The system panics and logs the following error message in the syslog: kernel:BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 67s! [llt_rfreem:7125] DESCRIPTION: With the LLT-RDMA feature, Low Latency Transport (LLT) threads can be busy for a longer period of time without scheduling out of CPU depending on workload. The Linux kernel may falsely detect this activity as an unresponsive task or a soft lockup, thus causing the panic. This issue is observed in the LLT threads, such as lltd, llt_rdlv and llt_rfreem. RESOLUTION: The code is modified in order to avoid false alarms for soft lockups. The LLT threads now schedule themselves out of the CPU after the specified time, which is configured by default based on the watchdog_threshold/softlockup_threshold value in the system configuration. The default value can be changed using the lltconfig utility (lltconfig -T yieldthresh:value). This value decides when the LLT threads schedule themselves out. Patch ID: 6.1.1.500 * 3890226 (Tracking ID: 3880936) SYMPTOM: vxvmconvert hangs while analysing the LVM Volume Groups for further conversion. DESCRIPTION: The issue occurs due to additional messages in the duplicate warnings when executing "pvdisplay" command. The "PV UUID"s are not properly extracted because the keyword used to extract them is not correct. RESOLUTION: The code has been modified to extract PV UUIDs correctly. * 3890251 (Tracking ID: 3478478) SYMPTOM: While Coverting the lvm volume to VxVM volume it fails to prepare the lvm volumes for conversion. .. VxVM ERROR V-5-2-4614 Error while preparing the volume group for conversion. ... vxlvmconv: making log directory /etc/vx/lvmconv/myvg.d/log. vxlvmconv: starting conversion for VG "myvg" - Thu Jun 23 12:52:55 IST 2016 vxlvmconv: Checking disk connectivity vxlvmconv: can not access disks /dev/sdx. vxlvmconv: Disk connectivity check failed. Conversion aborted. .. DESCRIPTION: while doing VxVM convert from lvm volume group to VxVM volume. It adds the disks to existing disk group and replaces lvm volumes to VxVM volumes. It fails at second stage when it has to migrate extends, it looses the connectivity with the disks and cannot access it, and aborts the VxVM conversion due to it. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made appropriately to overcome disk-connectivity. * 3890262 (Tracking ID: 3879234) SYMPTOM: dd read on the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) character device fails with Input/Output error while accessing end of device like below: [root@dn pmansukh_debug]# dd if=/dev/vx/rdsk/hfdg/vol1 of=/dev/null bs=65K dd: reading `/dev/vx/rdsk/hfdg/vol1': Input/output error 15801+0 records in 15801+0 records out 1051714560 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.96065 s, 266 MB/s DESCRIPTION: The issue occurs because of the change in the Linux API generic_file_aio_read. Because of lot of changes in Linux API generic_file_aio_read, it does not properly handle end of device reads/writes. The Linux code has been changed to use blkdev_aio_read which is a GPL symbol and hence cannot be used. RESOLUTION: Made changes in the code to handle end of device reads/writes properly. Patch ID: 6.1.1.400 * 3607232 (Tracking ID: 3596330) SYMPTOM: 'vxsnap refresh' operation fails with following indicants: Errors occur from DR (Disaster Recovery) Site of VVR (Veritas Volume Replicator): o vxio: [ID 160489 kern.notice] NOTICE: VxVM vxio V-5-3-1576 commit: Timedout waiting for rvg [RVG] to quiesce, iocount [PENDING_COUNT] msg 0 o vxvm:vxconfigd: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] V-5-1-8011 Internal transaction failed: Transaction aborted waiting for io drain At the same time, following errors occur from Primary Site of VVR: vxio: [ID 218356 kern.warning] WARNING: VxVM VVR vxio V-5-0-267 Rlink [RLINK] disconnecting due to ack timeout on update message DESCRIPTION: VM (Volume Manager) Transactions on DR site get aborted as pending IOs could not be drained in stipulated time leading to failure of FMR (Fast-Mirror Resync) 'snap' operations. These IOs could not be drained because of IO throttling. A bug/race in conjunction with timing in VVR causes a miss in clearing this throttling condition/state. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to fix the race condition which ensures clearance of throttling state at appropriate time. * 3640641 (Tracking ID: 3622068) SYMPTOM: After mirroring encapsulated root disk, rootdg fails to import if any disk in the disk group becomes unavailable. It causes system becoming unbootable if /usr is mounted on a separate disk and is also encapsulated. DESCRIPTION: Starting from VxVM(Veritas Volume Manager) 6.1, by default all non-detached disks within a disk group should be accessible to the system so that the disk group can be successfully imported. It impacts system boot with alternative encapsulated boot disk when original encapsulated boot disk is unavailable. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to skip such check when trying to import rootdg. * 3662397 (Tracking ID: 3662392) SYMPTOM: In the CVM environment, if I/Os are getting executed on slave node, corruption can happen when the vxdisk resize(1M) command is executing on the master node. DESCRIPTION: During the first stage of resize transaction, the master node re-adjusts the disk offsets and public/private partition device numbers. On a slave node, the public/private partition device numbers are not adjusted properly. Because of this, the partition starting offset is are added twice and causes the corruption. The window is small during which public/private partition device numbers are adjusted. If I/O occurs during this window then only corruption is observed. After the resize operation completes its execution, no further corruption will happen. RESOLUTION: The code has been changed to add partition starting offset properly to an I/O on slave node during execution of a resize command. * 3674567 (Tracking ID: 3636089) SYMPTOM: VVR secondary was panicked while committing the transactions with the following stack: vpanic() vol_rv_sec_write_childdone+0x18() vol_rv_transaction_prepare+0x63c() vol_commit_iolock_objects+0xbc() vol_ktrans_commit+0x2d8() volsioctl_real+0x2ac() DESCRIPTION: While unwinding updates in vol_rv_transaction_prepare(), double SIO(Staged IO) done happens result of panic. RESOLUTION: Code changes were made to fix the issue. * 3682022 (Tracking ID: 3648719) SYMPTOM: The server panics with a following stack trace while adding or removing LUNs or HBAs: dmp_decode_add_path() dmp_decipher_instructions() dmp_process_instruction_buffer() dmp_reconfigure_db() gendmpioctl() vxdmpioctl() DESCRIPTION: While deleting a dmpnode, Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) releases the memory associated with the dmpnode structure. In case the dmpnode doesn't get deleted for some reason, and if any other tasks access the freed memory of this dmpnode, then the server panics. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to avoid the tasks from accessing the memory that is freed by the dmpnode, which is deleted. The change also fixed the memory leak issue in the buffer allocation code path. * 3729172 (Tracking ID: 3726110) SYMPTOM: On systems with high number of CPUs, DMP devices may perform considerably slower than OS device paths. DESCRIPTION: In high CPU configuration, I/O statistics related functionality in DMP takes more CPU time because DMP statistics are collected on per CPU basis. This stat collection happens in DMP I/O code path hence it reduces the I/O performance. Because of this, DMP devices perform slower than OS device paths. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to remove some of the stats collection functionality from DMP I/O code path. Along with this, the following tunable need to be turned off: 1. Turn off idle lun probing. #vxdmpadm settune dmp_probe_idle_lun=off 2. Turn off statistic gathering functionality. #vxdmpadm iostat stop Notes: 1. Please apply this patch if system configuration has large number of CPU and if DMP performs considerably slower than OS device paths. For normal systems this issue is not applicable. * 3736352 (Tracking ID: 3729078) SYMPTOM: In VVR environment, the panic may occur after SF(Storage Foundation) patch installation or uninstallation on the secondary site. DESCRIPTION: VXIO Kernel reset invoked by SF patch installation removes all Disk Group objects that have no preserved flag set, because the preserve flag is overlapped with RVG(Replicated Volume Group) logging flag, the RVG object won't be removed, but its rlink object is removed, result of system panic when starting VVR. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to fix this issue. * 3778391 (Tracking ID: 3565212) SYMPTOM: While performing controller giveback operations on NetApp ALUA arrays, the below messages are observed in /etc/vx/dmpevents.log [Date]: I/O error occured on Path belonging to Dmpnode [Date]: I/O analysis done as DMP_PATH_BUSY on Path belonging to Dmpnode [Date]: I/O analysis done as DMP_IOTIMEOUT on Path belonging to Dmpnode DESCRIPTION: During the asymmetric access state transition, DMP puts the buffer pointer in the delay queue based on the flags observed in the logs. This delay resulted in timeout and thereby filesystem went into disabled state. RESOLUTION: DMP code is modified to perform immediate retries instead of putting the buffer pointer in the delay queue for transition in progress case. * 3790099 (Tracking ID: 3581646) SYMPTOM: Sometimes Logical Volumes may fail to migrate back to OS devices when Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) Native Support is disabled when the root is mounted on LVM. DESCRIPTION: lvmetad caches open count on devices which are present in accept section of filter in lvm.conf file. When DMP Native Support is enabled, all non-VxVM devices are put in reject section of filter so that only "/dev/vx/dmp" devices remain in accept section of filter in lvm.conf file. So lvmetad caches open count on "/dev/vx/dmp" devices. When DMP Native Support is disabled "/dev/vx/dmp" devices are not put in reject section of filter causing a stale open count for lvmetad which is causing physical volumes to point to stale devices even when DMP Native Support is disabled. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to add "/dev/vx/dmp" devices in reject section of filter in lvm.conf file so lvmetad releases open count on these devices. * 3790106 (Tracking ID: 3488071) SYMPTOM: The command "vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=on" fails to enable Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) Native Support and fails with the below error: VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15690 Operation failed for one or more volume groups DESCRIPTION: From LVM version 105, global_filters were introduced as part of lvm.conf file. RHEL 6.6 and RHEL 6.6 onwards has LVM version 111 and hence supports global_filters. The code changes were not done to handle global_filter in lvm.conf file while 6.1.1.100 was released. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to handle global_filter in lvm.conf file and allow DMP Native Support to work. * 3790115 (Tracking ID: 3623617) SYMPTOM: The command "vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=on" may fail with a below perl error: Can't locate Sys/Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxupdatelvm line 73. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxupdatelvm line 73. DESCRIPTION: In one of VxVM specific script used for enabling Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) Native Support, perl syslog module is used. It can happen sometimes that minimal package installation of OS might not contain perl syslog module leading to this error. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to use internally developed perl module and avoid the dependency. * 3790117 (Tracking ID: 3776520) SYMPTOM: Filters are not updated properly in lvm.conf file in VxDMP initrd while DMP Native Support is being enabled. As a result, root Logical Volume (LV) is mounted on OS device upon reboot. DESCRIPTION: From LVM version 105, global_filter was introduced as part of lvm.conf file. VxDMP updates initird lvm.conf file with the filters required for DMP Native Support to function. While updating the lvm.conf, VxDMP checks for the filter field to be updated, but ideally we should check for global_filter field to be updated in the latest LVM version. This leads to lvm.conf file not updated with the proper filters. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly update global_filter field in lvm.conf file in VxDMP initrd. * 3795623 (Tracking ID: 3795622) SYMPTOM: With Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) Native Support enabled, LVM global_filter is not updated properly in lvm.conf file to reject the newly added paths. DESCRIPTION: With DMP Native Support enabled, when new paths are added to existing LUNs, LVM global_filter is not updated properly in lvm.conf file to reject the newly added paths. This can lead to duplicate PV (physical volumes) found error reported by LVM commands. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly update global_filter field in lvm.conf file when new paths are added to existing disks. * 3800388 (Tracking ID: 3581264) SYMPTOM: VxVM package uninstallation succeeds even When DMP (Dynamic Multipathing) Native Support is on and IO's are in progress on LV (Logical Volume). DESCRIPTION: While uninstalling the VxVM package, no precaution is taken to log an error message if DMP native support could not be successfully disabled. As a result, the uninstallation proceeds without any error message. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to display an error message if DMP native support could not be disabled during uninstallation. Additionally, if the rootvg is enabled, the uninstallation will proceed with an error message; otherwise uninstallation will fail. * 3800421 (Tracking ID: 3762580) SYMPTOM: In Linux kernels greater than or equal to RHEL6.6 (e.g. RHEL7 and SLES11SP3), the vxfen module fails to register the SCSI-3 PR keys to EMC devices when powerpath co-exists with DMP (Dynamic Multi-Pathing). The following logs are printed while setting up fencing for the cluster. VXFEN: vxfen_reg_coord_pt: end ret = -1 vxfen_handle_local_config_done: Could not register with a majority of the coordination points. DESCRIPTION: In Linux kernels greater than or equal to RHEL6.6 (e.g. RHEL7 and SLES11SP3), the interface used by DMP to send the SCSI commands to block devices does not transfer the data to or from the device. Therefore, the SCSI-3 PR keys do not get registered. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to use SCSI request_queue to send the SCSI commands to the underlying block device. Additional patch is required from EMC to support processing SCSI commands via the request_queue mechanism on EMC PowerPath devices. Please contact EMC for patch details for a specific kernel version. * 3808593 (Tracking ID: 3795788) SYMPTOM: Performance degradation is seen when many application sessions open the same data file on Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume. DESCRIPTION: This issue occurs because of the lock contention. When many application sessions open the same data file on the VxVM volume, the exclusive lock is occupied on all CPUs. If there are a lot of CPUs in the system, this process could be quite time- consuming, which leads to performance degradation at the initial start of applications. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to change the exclusive lock to the shared lock when the data file on the volume is open. * 3812272 (Tracking ID: 3811946) SYMPTOM: When invoking "vxsnap make" command with cachesize option to create space optimized snapshot, the command succeeds but the following error message is displayed in syslog: kernel: VxVM vxio V-5-0-603 I/O failed. Subcache object <subcache-name> does not have a valid sdid allocated by cache object <cache-name>. kernel: VxVM vxio V-5-0-1276 error on Plex <plex-name> while writing volume <volume-name> offset 0 length 2048 DESCRIPTION: When space optimized snapshot is created using "vxsnap make" command along with cachesize option, cache and subcache objects are created by the same command. During the creation of snapshot, I/Os from the volumes may be pushed onto a subcache even though the subcache ID has not yet been allocated. As a result, the I/O fails. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to make sure that I/Os on the subcache are pushed only after the subcache ID has been allocated. * 3852147 (Tracking ID: 3852146) SYMPTOM: Shared DiskGroup fails to import when "-c" and "-o noreonline" options are specified together with the below error: VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10978 Disk group : import failed: Disk for disk group not found DESCRIPTION: When "-c" option is specified we update the DISKID and DGID of the disks in the DG. When the information about the disks in the DG is passed to Slave node, slave node does not have the latest information since the online of the disks would not happen because of "-o noreonline" being specified. Now since slave node does not have the latest information, it would not be able to identify proper disks belonging to the DG which leads to DG import failing with "Disk for disk group not found". RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to handle the working of "-c" and "-o noreonline" together. * 3852800 (Tracking ID: 3819670) SYMPTOM: When smartmove with 'vxevac' command is run in background by hitting 'ctlr-z' key and 'bg' command, the execution of 'vxevac' is terminated abruptly. DESCRIPTION: As part of "vxevac" command for data movement, VxVM submits the data as a task in the kernel, and use select() primitive on the task file descriptor to wait for task finishing events to arrive. When "ctlr-z" and bg is used to run vxevac in background, the select() returns -1 with errno EINTR. VxVM wrongly interprets it as user termination action and hence vxevac is terminated. Instead of terminating vxevac, the select() should be retried untill task completes. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that when select() returns with errno EINTR, it checks whether vxevac task is finished. If not, the select() is retried. * 3854390 (Tracking ID: 3853049) SYMPTOM: On a server with more number CPUs, the stats output of vxstat is delayed beyond the set interval. Also multiple sessions of vxstat is impacting the IO performance. DESCRIPTION: The vxstat acquires an exclusive lock on each CPU in order to gather the stats. This would affect the consolidation and display of stats in an environment with huge number of CPUs and disks. The output of stats for interval of 1 second can get delayed beyond the set interval. Also the acquisition of lock happens in the IO path which would affect the IO performance due contention of these locks. RESOLUTION: The code modified to remove the exclusive spin lock. * 3854526 (Tracking ID: 3544020) SYMPTOM: Volume Manager tunables are getting reset to default after patch upgade DESCRIPTION: The file "/kernel/drv/vxio.conf" which is used to store all the tunable values is getting replaced with the default template during patch upgrade. This leads to values of all the tunables getting reset to default after patch upgrade. RESOLUTION: Changes are done to preserve the file "/kernel/drv/vxio.conf" as part of patch upgrade. * 3856384 (Tracking ID: 3525490) SYMPTOM: In VVR (Veritas Volume Replication) environment, system panic with the following stack, #0 crash_kexec at ffffffff800b1509 #1 __die at ffffffff80065137 #2 do_page_fault at ffffffff80067430 #3 error_exit at ffffffff8005ddf9 [exception RIP: nmcom_wait_msg+449] #4 nmcom_server_proc at ffffffff889f04b6 [vxio] DESCRIPTION: While VVR sending messages with UDP, it uses different data structure with TCP. In case of receiving partial data, the message is explicitly typecast to the same structure for both TCP and UDP. This will cause some pointers in UDP message header become invalid and panic the system while copying data. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to fix the problem. * 3857121 (Tracking ID: 3857120) SYMPTOM: After stopping Oracle database process, this process does not run Oracle database again but it hangs there. DESCRIPTION: Two threads from VxVM(Veritas Volume Manager) trying to asynchronously manipulate the per-cpu data structures for I/O counting, which causes to a race condition that might make I/O count leaking, hence the volume cant be closed and results in the process hang. RESOLUTION: VxVM code has been changed to avoid the race condition happening. * 3859012 (Tracking ID: 3859009) SYMPTOM: pvs command will show the duplicate PV messages since global_filter of lvm.conf is not updated after fiber switch or storage controller get rebooted. DESCRIPTION: When fiber switch or storage controller reboot, some paths dev No. may get reused during DDL reconfig cycle, in this case VxDMP(Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing) wont treat them as newly added devices. For those devices belong to LVM dmpnode, VxDMP will not trigger lvm.conf update for them. As a result, the global_filter of lvm.conf will not be updated. Hence the issue. RESOLUTION: The code has been changed to update lvm.conf correctly. * 3861494 (Tracking ID: 3557636) SYMPTOM: Following errors may be seen with probable data corruption: A serial number mismatch may be logged in syslog: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1970 dmp_verify_devid:Graceful DR steps are not followed by the user on the path . The device with old serial number is replaced with a new device with serial number Or udev threads may get timed out or killed with following messages: systemd-udevd: worker [ThreadId] /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:05:00.0/host7/rport-7:0- 2/target7:0:1/7:0:1:6/block/sdaj timeout; kill it systemd-udevd: seq 21010 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:05:00.0/host7/rport-7:0- 2/target7:0:1/7:0:1:6/block/sdaj' killed DESCRIPTION: In Linux, VxVM uses udev framework to listen to disk add/remove events. ESD (Event source daemon) updates the VxVM and DMP configuration based on these events. As the udev-rules are executed serially, the processing of udev rule for VxVM may get delayed, in turn device add or remove events would be delivered late to ESD. For instance, after disk is removed, if udev-remove event gets delayed, then path may not be disabled in DMP kernel immediately; In addition, udev threads may be timed out or killed. Under both situation, IO might be issued to incorrect disk, which may result in probable data corruption. RESOLUTION: In order to ensure udev events are processed quickly, ESD uses libudev library to listen to disk add or remove events. * 3864093 (Tracking ID: 3825467) SYMPTOM: Error showing about symbol d_lock. DESCRIPTION: This symbol is already present in this kernel, so its duplicate getting declared in kernel code of VxVM. RESOLUTION: Code is modified to remove the definition, hence solved the issue * 3864112 (Tracking ID: 3860503) SYMPTOM: Poor performance of vxassist mirroring is observed compared to using raw dd utility to do mirroring . DESCRIPTION: There is huge lock contention on high end server with large number of cpus, because doing copy on each region needs to obtain some unnecessary cpu locks. RESOLUTION: VxVM code has been changed to decrease the lock contention. * 3864480 (Tracking ID: 3823283) SYMPTOM: Linux operating system sticks in grub after reboot. Manual kernel load is required to make operating system functional. DESCRIPTION: During unencapsulation of a boot disk in SAN environment, multiple entries corresponding to root disk are found in by-id device directory. As a result, a parse command fails, leading to the creation of an improper menu file in grub directory. This menu file defines the device path to load kernel and other modules. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to handle multiple entries for SAN boot disk. * 3864625 (Tracking ID: 3599977) SYMPTOM: During a replica connection, referencing a port that is already deleted in another thread causes a system panic with a similar stack trace as below: .simple_lock() soereceive() soreceive() .kernel_add_gate_cstack() kmsg_sys_rcv() nmcom_get_next_mblk() nmcom_get_next_msg() nmcom_wait_msg_tcp() nmcom_server_proc_tcp() nmcom_server_proc_enter() vxvm_start_thread_enter() DESCRIPTION: During a replica connection, a port is created before increasing the count. This is to protect the port from getting deleted. However, another thread deletes the port before the count is increased and after the port is created. While the replica connection thread proceeds, it refers to the port that is already deleted, which causes a NULL pointer reference and a system panic. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to prevent asynchronous access to the count that is associated with the port by means of locks. * 3864628 (Tracking ID: 3686698) SYMPTOM: vxconfigd was getting hung due to deadlock between two threads DESCRIPTION: Two threads were waiting for same lock causing deadlock between them. This will lead to block all vx commands. untimeout function will not return until pending callback is cancelled (which is set through timeout function) OR pending callback has completed its execution (if it has already started). Therefore locks acquired by callback routine should not be held across call to untimeout routine or deadlock may result. Thread 1: untimeout_generic() untimeout() voldio() volsioctl_real() fop_ioctl() ioctl() syscall_trap32() Thread 2: mutex_vector_enter() voldsio_timeout() callout_list_expire() callout_expire() callout_execute() taskq_thread() thread_start() RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to call untimeout outside the lock taken by callback handler. * 3864980 (Tracking ID: 3594158) SYMPTOM: The system panics on a VVR secondary node with the following stack trace: .simple_lock() soereceive() soreceive() .kernel_add_gate_cstack() kmsg_sys_rcv() nmcom_get_next_mblk() nmcom_get_next_msg() nmcom_wait_msg_tcp() nmcom_server_proc_tcp() nmcom_server_proc_enter() vxvm_start_thread_enter() DESCRIPTION: You may issue a spinlock or unspinlock to the replica to check whether to use a checksum in the received packet. During the lock or unlock operation, if there is a transaction that is being processed with the replica, which rebuilds the replica object in the kernel, then there is a possibility that the replica referenced in spinlock is different than the one which the replica has referenced in unspinlock (especially when the replica is referenced through several pointers). As a result, the system panics. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to set the flag in the port attribute to indicate whether to use the checksum during a port creation. Hence, for each packet that is received, you only need to check the flag in the port attribute rather than referencing it to the replica object. As part of the change, the spinlock or unspinlock statements are also removed. * 3864986 (Tracking ID: 3621232) SYMPTOM: When the vradmin ibc command is executed to initiate the In-band Control (IBC) procedure, the vradmind (VVR daemon) on VVR secondary node goes into the disconnected state. Due to which, the following IBC procedure or vradmin ibc commands cannot be started or executed on VVRs secondary node and a message similar to the following appears on VVRs primary node: VxVM VVR vradmin ERROR V-5-52-532 Secondary is undergoing a state transition. Please re-try the command after some time. VxVM VVR vradmin ERROR V-5-52-802 Cannot start command execution on Secondary. DESCRIPTION: When IBC procedure runs into the commands finish state, the vradmin on VVR secondary node goes into a disconnected state, which the vradmind on primary node fails to realize. In such a scenario, the vradmind on primary refrains from sending a handshake request to the secondary node which can change the primary nodes state from disconnected to running. As a result, the vradmind in the primary node continues to be in the disconnected state and the vradmin ibc command fails to run on the VVR secondary node despite of being in the running state on the VVR primary node. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to make sure the vradmind on VVR primary node is notified while it goes into the disconnected state on VVR secondary node. As a result, it can send out a handshake request to take the secondary node out of the disconnected state. * 3864987 (Tracking ID: 3513392) SYMPTOM: secondary panics when rebooted while heavy IOs are going on primary PID: 18862 TASK: ffff8810275ff500 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "vxiod" #0 [ffff880ff3de3960] machine_kexec at ffffffff81035b7b #1 [ffff880ff3de39c0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c0db2 #2 [ffff880ff3de3a90] oops_end at ffffffff815111d0 #3 [ffff880ff3de3ac0] no_context at ffffffff81046bfb #4 [ffff880ff3de3b10] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81046e85 #5 [ffff880ff3de3b60] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81046f53 #6 [ffff880ff3de3b70] __do_page_fault at ffffffff810476b1 #7 [ffff880ff3de3c90] do_page_fault at ffffffff8151311e #8 [ffff880ff3de3cc0] page_fault at ffffffff815104d5 #9 [ffff880ff3de3d78] volrp_sendsio_start at ffffffffa0af07e3 [vxio] #10 [ffff880ff3de3e08] voliod_iohandle at ffffffffa09991be [vxio] #11 [ffff880ff3de3e38] voliod_loop at ffffffffa0999419 [vxio] #12 [ffff880ff3de3f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c0ca DESCRIPTION: If the replication stage IOs are started after serialization of the replica volume, replication port could be deleted and set to NULL during handling the replica connection changes, this will cause the panic since we have not checked if the replication port is still valid before referencing to it. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to abort the stage IO if replication port is NULL. * 3864988 (Tracking ID: 3625890) SYMPTOM: After running the vxdisk resize command, the following message is displayed: "VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-8643 Device resize failed: Invalid attribute specification" DESCRIPTION: Two reserved cylinders for special usage for CDS (Cross-platform Data Sharing) VTOC(Volume Table of Contents) disks. In case of expanding a disk with particular disk size on storage side, VxVM(Veritas Volume Manager) may calculate the cylinder number as 2, which causes the vxdisk resize fails with the error message of "Invalid attribute specification". RESOLUTION: The code is modified to avoid the failure of resizing a CDS VTOC disk. * 3864989 (Tracking ID: 3521726) SYMPTOM: When using Symantec Replication Option, system panic happens while freeing memory with the following stack trace on AIX, pvthread+011500 STACK: [0001BF60]abend_trap+000000 () [000C9F78]xmfree+000098 () [04FC2120]vol_tbmemfree+0000B0 () [04FC2214]vol_memfreesio_start+00001C () [04FCEC64]voliod_iohandle+000050 () [04FCF080]voliod_loop+0002D0 () [04FC629C]vol_kernel_thread_init+000024 () [0025783C]threadentry+00005C () DESCRIPTION: In certain scenarios, when a write IO gets throttled or un-winded in VVR, we free the memory related to one of our data structures. When we restart this IO, the same memory gets illegally accessed and freed again even though it was freed.It causes system panic. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to fix the illegal memory access issue. * 3865411 (Tracking ID: 3665644) SYMPTOM: The system panics with the following stack trace due to an invalid page pointer in the Linux bio structure: crash_kexec() die() do_page_fault() error_exit() blk_recount_segments() bio_phys_segments() init_request_from_bio() make_request() generic_make_request() gendmpstrategy() generic_make_request() dmp_indirect_io() dmpioctl() dmp_ioctl() dmp_compat_ioctl() DESCRIPTION: A falsified page pointer is returned when Dynamic Muti-Pathing (DMP) allocates memory by calling the Linux vmalloc() function and maps the allocated virtual address to the physical page in the back trace. The issue is observed because DMP refrains from calling the appropriate Linux kernel API leading to a system panic. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to call the correct Linux kernel API while DMP maps the virtual address, which the vmalloc() function allocates to the physical page. * 3865415 (Tracking ID: 3736502) SYMPTOM: When FMR is configured in VVR environment, 'vxsnap refresh' fails with below error message: "VxVM VVR vxsnap ERROR V-5-1-10128 DCO experienced IO errors during the operation. Re-run the operation after ensuring that DCO is accessible". Also, multiple messages of connection/disconnection of replication link(rlink) are seen. DESCRIPTION: Inherently triggered rlink connection/disconnection causes the transaction retries. During transaction, memory is allocated for Data Change Object(DCO) maps and is not cleared on abortion of a transaction. This leads to a problem of memory leak and eventually to exhaustion of maps. RESOLUTION: The fix has been added to clear the allocated DCO maps when transaction aborts. * 3865631 (Tracking ID: 3564260) SYMPTOM: VVR commands are unresponsive when replication is paused and resumed in a loop. DESCRIPTION: While Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) is in the process of sending updates then pausing a replication is deferred until acknowledgements of updates are received or until an error occurs. For some reason, if the acknowledgements get delayed or the delivery fails, the pause operation continues to get deferred resulting in unresponsiveness. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to resolve the issue that caused unresponsiveness. * 3865633 (Tracking ID: 3721565) SYMPTOM: vxconfigd hang is seen with below stack. genunix:cv_wait_sig_swap_core genunix:cv_wait_sig_swap genunix:pause unix:syscall_trap32 DESCRIPTION: In FMR environment, write is done on a source volume having space-optimized(SO) snapshot. Memory is acquired first and then ILOCKs are acquired on individual SO volumes for pushed writes. On the other hand, a user write on SO snapshot will first acquire ILOCK and then acquire memory. This causes deadlock. RESOLUTION: Code is modified to resolve deadlock. * 3865640 (Tracking ID: 3749557) SYMPTOM: System hangs and becomes unresponsive because of heavy memory consumption by vxvm. DESCRIPTION: In the Dirty Region Logging(DRL) update code path an erroneous condition was present that lead to an infinite loop which keeps on consuming memory. This leads to consumption of large amounts of memory making the system unresponsive. RESOLUTION: Code has been fixed, to avoid the infinite loop, hence preventing the hang which was caused by high memory usage. * 3865653 (Tracking ID: 3795739) SYMPTOM: In a split brain scenario, cluster formation takes very long time. DESCRIPTION: In a split brain scenario, the surviving nodes in the cluster try to preempt the keys of nodes leaving the cluster. If the keys have been already preempted by one of the surviving nodes, other surviving nodes will receive UNIT Attention. DMP (Dynamic Multipathing) then retries the preempt command after a delayof 1 second if it receives Unit attention. Cluster formation cannot complete untill PGR keys of all the leaving nodes are removed from all the disks. If the number of disks are very large, the preemption of keys takes a lot of time, leading to the very long time for cluster formation. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to avoid adding delay for first couple of retries when reading PGR keys. This allows faster cluster formation with arrays that clear the Unit Attention condition sooner. * 3866241 (Tracking ID: 3790136) SYMPTOM: File system hang can be observed sometimes due to IO's hung in DRL. DESCRIPTION: There might be some IO's hung in DRL of mirrored volume due to incorrect calculation of outstanding IO's on volume and number of active IO's which are currently in progress on DRL. The value of the outstanding IO on volume can get modified incorrectly leading to IO's on DRL not to progress further which in turns results in a hang kind of scenario. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to avoid incorrect modification of value of outstanding IO's on volume and prevent the hang. * 3866595 (Tracking ID: 3866051) SYMPTOM: After we load a driver with name over 32 bytes in kernel, we will not be able to restart vxconfigd. DESCRIPTION: In Kernel, if we have any driver with name over 32 bytes AND when we restart vxconfigd. Then due to a defect in our code about size of driver name we accept, the process stack will be corrupted. Hence, vxconfigd becomes unable to startup. RESOLUTION: Code changes are made to fix the memory corruption issue. * 3866643 (Tracking ID: 3539548) SYMPTOM: Adding MPIO(Multi Path I/O) disk that had been removed earlier may result in following two issues: 1. 'vxdisk list' command shows duplicate entry for DMP (Dynamic Multi-Pathing) node with error state. 2. 'vxdmpadm listctlr all' command shows duplicate controller names. DESCRIPTION: 1. Under certain circumstances, deleted MPIO disk record information is left in /etc/vx/disk.info file with its device number as -1 but its DMP node name is reassigned to other MPIO disk. When the deleted disk is added back, it is assigned the same name, without validating for conflict in the name. 2. When some devices are removed and added back to the system, we are adding a new controller for each and every path that we have discovered. This leads to duplicated controller entries in DMP database. RESOLUTION: 1. Code is modified to properly remove all stale information about any disk before updating MPIO disk names. 2. Code changes have been made to add the controller for selected paths only. * 3866651 (Tracking ID: 3596282) SYMPTOM: FMR (Fast Mirror Resync) operations fail with error "Failed to allocate a new map due to no free map available in DCO". "vxio: [ID 609550 kern.warning] WARNING: VxVM vxio V-5-3-1721 voldco_allocate_toc_entry: Failed to allocate a new map due to no free map available in DCO of [volume]" It often leads to disabling of the snapshot. DESCRIPTION: For instant space optimized snapshots, stale maps are left behind for DCO (Data Change Object) objects at the time of creation of cache objects. So, over the time if space optimized snapshots are created that use a new cache object, stale maps get accumulated, which eventually consume all the available DCO space, resulting in the error. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been done to ensure no stale entries are left behind. * 3866675 (Tracking ID: 3840359) SYMPTOM: On using localized messages, some VxVM commands fail while executing vxrootadm. The error message is as follows: VxVM vxmkrootmir ERROR V-5-2-3943 The Master Boot Record (MBR) could not be copied to the root disk mirror.To manually install it, follow the procedures in the VxVM Boot Disk Recovery chapter of the VxVM Trouble Shooting Guide. DESCRIPTION: The issue occurs when the output of the sfdisk command appears in the localized format. When the output is not translated into English language, a mismatch of messages is observed and command fails. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to convert the output of necessary commands in the scripts into English language before comparing it with the expected output. * 3867134 (Tracking ID: 3486861) SYMPTOM: Primary node panics with below stack when storage is removed while replication is going on with heavy IOs. Stack: oops_end no_context page_fault vol_rv_async_done vol_rv_flush_loghdr_done voliod_iohandle voliod_loop DESCRIPTION: In VVR environment, when write to data volume failson primary node, error handling is initiated. As a part of it, SRL header will be flushed. As primary storage is removed, flushing will fail. Panic will be hit as invalid values will be accessed while logging error message. RESOLUTION: Code is modified to resolve the issue. * 3867137 (Tracking ID: 3674614) SYMPTOM: Restarting the vxconfigd(1M) daemon on the slave (joiner) node during node-join operation may cause the vxconfigd(1M) daemon to become unresponsive on the master and the joiner node. DESCRIPTION: When vxconfigd(1M) daemon is restarted in the middle of the node join process, it wrongly assumes that this is a slave rejoin case, and sets the rejoin flag. Since the rejoin flag is wrongly set, the import operation of the disk groups on the slave node fails, and the join process is not terminated smoothly. As a result, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon becomes unresponsive on the master and the slave node. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to differentiate between the rejoin scenario and the vxconfigd(1M) daemon restart scenario. * 3867315 (Tracking ID: 3672759) SYMPTOM: When a DMP database is corrupted, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon may core dump with the following stack trace: database is corrupted. ddl_change_dmpnode_state () ddl_data_corruption_msgs () ddl_reconfigure_all () ddl_find_devices_in_system () find_devices_in_system () req_change_state () request_loop () main () DESCRIPTION: The issue is observed because the corrupted DMP database is not properly destroyed. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to remove the corrupted DMP database. * 3867706 (Tracking ID: 3645370) SYMPTOM: After running the vxevac command, if the user tries to rollback or commit the evacuation for a disk containing DRL plex, the action fails with the following errors: /etc/vx/bin/vxevac -g testdg commit testdg02 testdg03 VxVM vxsd ERROR V-5-1-10127 deleting plex %1: Record is associated VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-324 fsgen/vxsd killed by signal 11, core dumped VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-12178 Could not commit subdisk testdg02-01 in volume testvol VxVM vxevac ERROR V-5-2-3537 Aborting disk evacuation /etc/vx/bin/vxevac -g testdg rollback testdg02 testdg03 VxVM vxsd ERROR V-5-1-10127 deleting plex %1: Record is associated VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-324 fsgen/vxsd killed by signal 11, core dumped VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-12178 Could not rollback subdisk testdg02-01 in volume testvol VxVM vxevac ERROR V-5-2-3537 Aborting disk evacuation DESCRIPTION: When the user uses the vxevac command, new plexes are created on the target disks. Later, during the commit or roll back operation, VxVM deletes the plexes on the source or the target disks. For deleting a plex, VxVM should delete its sub disks first, otherwise the plex deletion fails with the following error message: VxVM vxsd ERROR V-5-1-10127 deleting plex %1: Record is associated The error is displayed because the code does not handle the deletion of subdisks of plexes marked for DRL (dirty region logging) correctly. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to handle evacuation of disks with DRL plexes correctly. . * 3867709 (Tracking ID: 3767531) SYMPTOM: In Layered volume layout with FSS configuration, when few of the FSS_Hosts are rebooted, Full resync is happening for non-affected disks on master. DESCRIPTION: In configuration, where there are multiple FSS-Hosts, with layered volume created on the hosts. When the slave nodes are rebooted , few of the sub-volumes of non-affected disks are fully getting synced on master. RESOLUTION: Code-changes have been made to sync only needed part of sub- volume. * 3867710 (Tracking ID: 3788644) SYMPTOM: When DMP (Dynamic Multi-Pathing) native support enabled for Oracle ASM environment, if we constantly adding and removing DMP devices, it will cause error like: /etc/vx/bin/vxdmpraw enable oracle dba 775 emc0_3f84 VxVM vxdmpraw INFO V-5-2-6157 Device enabled : emc0_3f84 Error setting raw device (Invalid argument) DESCRIPTION: There is a limitation (8192) of maximum raw device number N (exclusive) of /dev/raw/rawN. This limitation is defined in boot configuration file. When binding a raw device to a dmpnode, it uses /dev/raw/rawN to bind the dmpnode. The rawN is calculated by one-way incremental process. So even if we unbind the device later on, the "released" rawN number will not be reused in the next binding. When the rawN number is increased to exceed the maximum limitation, the error will be reported. RESOLUTION: Code has been changed to always use the smallest available rawN number instead of calculating by one-way incremental process. * 3867711 (Tracking ID: 3802750) SYMPTOM: Once VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) volume I/O-shipping functionality is turned on, it is not getting disabled even after the user issues the correct command to disable it. DESCRIPTION: VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) volume I/O-shipping functionality is turned off by default. The following two commands can be used to turn it on and off: vxdg -g <dgname> set ioship=on vxdg -g <dgname> set ioship=off The command to turn off I/O-shipping is not working as intended because I/O-shipping flags are not reset properly. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to correctly reset I/O-shipping flags when the user issues the CLI command. * 3867712 (Tracking ID: 3807879) SYMPTOM: Writing the backup EFI GPT disk label during the disk-group flush operation may cause data corruption on volumes in the disk group. The backup label could incorrectly get flushed to the disk public region and overwrite the user data with the backup disk label. DESCRIPTION: For EFI disks initialized under VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager), it is observed that during a disk-group flush operation, vxconfigd (veritas configuration daemon) could stop writing the EFI GPT backup label to the volume public region, thereby causing user data corruption. When this issue happens, the real user data are replaced with the backup EFI disk label RESOLUTION: The code is modified to prevent the writing of the EFI GPT backup label during the VxVM disk-group flush operation. * 3867714 (Tracking ID: 3819832) SYMPTOM: No syslog message seen when dmp detects controller disabled/enabled DESCRIPTION: Whenever there is action taken from Storage whether addtion or removal, DMP detects the events of failure or notifications of additions, and as prt of discovery it disables / enables the controller and message for this was not getting logged in syslog file. RESOLUTION: Code-changes made to show the syslog message for controller disable/enable event. * 3867881 (Tracking ID: 3867145) SYMPTOM: When VVR SRL occupation > 90%, then output the SRL occupation is shown by 10 percent. DESCRIPTION: This is kind of enhancement, to show the SRL Occupation when it's more than 90% is previously shown with 10 percentage gap. Here the enhancement is to show the logs with 1 percentage granularity. RESOLUTION: Changes are done to show the syslog messages wih 1 percent granularity, when SRL is filled > 90%. * 3867925 (Tracking ID: 3802075) SYMPTOM: Disks having digit in its name and which are added as foreign path using "vxddladm addforeign" goes into ERROR state after running vxdisk scandisks. DESCRIPTION: When the disk is added as foreign using 'vxddladm addforeign' , and after performing device-discovery using vxdisk scandisks, we use disk whole disk name, which is not the exact name of the disk. When digits are added in the name of the disk using udev rule, we now use the actual name of disk instead of whole disk name. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to use the exact disk-device name which adds the foreign disk successfully. * 3869659 (Tracking ID: 3868444) SYMPTOM: Disk header timestamp is updated even if the disk group import fails. DESCRIPTION: While doing dg import operation, during join operation disk header timestamps are updated. This makes difficult for support to understand which disk is having latest config copy if dg import is failed and decision is to be made if force dg import is safe or not. RESOLUTION: Dump the old disk header timestamp and sequence number in the syslog which can be referred on deciding if force dg import would be safe or not * 3874736 (Tracking ID: 3874387) SYMPTOM: Disk header information is not logged to the syslog sometimes even if the disk is missing and dg import fails. DESCRIPTION: In scenarios where disk has config copy enabled and get active disk record, then disk header information was not getting logged even though the disk is missing thereafter dg import fails. RESOLUTION: Dump the disk header information even if the disk record is active and attached to the disk group. * 3874961 (Tracking ID: 3871750) SYMPTOM: In parallel VxVM(Veritas Volume Manager) vxstat commands report abnormal disk IO statistic data. Like below: # /usr/sbin/vxstat -g -u k -dv -i 1 -S ...... dm emc0_2480 4294967210 4294962421 -382676k 4294967.38 4294972.17 ...... DESCRIPTION: After VxVM IO statistics was optimized for huge CPUs and disks, there's a race condition when multiple vxstat commands are running to collect disk IO statistic data. It causes disk's latest IO statistic value become smaller than previous one, hence VxVM treates the value overflow so that abnormal large IO statistic value is printed. RESOLUTION: Code changes are done to eliminate such race condition. * 3875113 (Tracking ID: 3816219) SYMPTOM: VxDMP (Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing) event source daemon (vxesd) keeps reporting a lot of messages in syslog as below: "vxesd: Device sd*(*/*) is changed" DESCRIPTION: The vxesd daemon registers with the UDEV framework and keeps VxDMP up-to-date with devices' status. Due to some change at device, vxesd keeps reporting this kind of change-event listened by udev. VxDMP only cares about "add" and "remove" UDEV events. For UDEV "change" event, we can avoid logging for these events to VxDMP. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to stop logging UDEV change-event related messages in syslog. * 3875161 (Tracking ID: 3860184) SYMPTOM: vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=off succeeds even when I/O's are in progress on LV (Logical Volume). DESCRIPTION: While turning off the DMP native support, no precaution is taken to log an error message if DMP native support could not be successfully disabled. As a result, even when the I/Os are in progress DMP Native support is turned off without any error. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to display an error message if DMP native support could not be disabled. Due to fix following error messages can be seen. # vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=off VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15690 Operation failed for one or more volume groups VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15686 The following vgs could not be migrated as they are in use - VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15686 The following vgs could not be migrated due to unknown error - * 3875230 (Tracking ID: 3554608) SYMPTOM: Mirroring a volume on 6.1 creates a larger plex than the original. DESCRIPTION: when mirror a volume, VXVM should ignore the disk alignment and use the DG(Disk Group) alignment. After VXVM got all the configuration from user command, it didn't check whether disk alignment will be used. Since disk alignment isn't ignored, the length of the mirror will be based on disk alignment. Hence the issue. RESOLUTION: Code changes have been made to use the DG alignment instead of disk alignment when mirror a volume. * 3875564 (Tracking ID: 3875563) SYMPTOM: While dumping the disk header information, human readable timestamp was not converted correctly from corresponding epoch time. DESCRIPTION: When disk group import fails if one of the disk is missing while importing the disk group, it will dump the disk header information the syslog. But, human readable time stamp was not getting converted correctly from corresponding epoch time. RESOLUTION: Code changes done to dump disk header information correctly. Patch ID: 6.1.1.100 * 3632970 (Tracking ID: 3631230) SYMPTOM: VRTSvxvm patch version 6.0.5 and 6.1.1 will not work with RHEL6.6 update. # rpm -ivh VRTSvxvm-6.1.1.000-GA_RHEL6.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:VRTSvxvm ########################################### [100%] Installing file /etc/init.d/vxvm-boot creating VxVM device nodes under /dev WARNING: No modules found for 2.6.32-494.el6.x86_64, using compatible modules for 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64. FATAL: Error inserting vxio (/lib/modules/2.6.32- 494.el6.x86_64/veritas/vxvm/vxio.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) ERROR: modprobe error for vxio. See documentation. warning: %post(VRTSvxvm-6.1.1.000-GA_RHEL6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 # Or after OS update, the system log file will have the following messages logged. vxio: disagrees about version of symbol poll_freewait vxio: Unknown symbol poll_freewait vxio: disagrees about version of symbol poll_initwait vxio: Unknown symbol poll_initwait DESCRIPTION: Installation of VRTSvxvm patch version 6.0.5 and 6.1.1 fails on RHEL6.6 due to the changes in poll_initwait() and poll_freewait() interfaces. RESOLUTION: The VxVM package has re-compiled with RHEL6.6 build environment. Patch ID: 6.1.1.000 * 3372831 (Tracking ID: 2573229) SYMPTOM: On RHEL6, the server panics when Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) executes PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with REPORT CAPABILITIES service action on powerpath controlled device. The following stack trace is displayed: enqueue_entity at ffffffff81068f09 enqueue_task_fair at ffffffff81069384 enqueue_task at ffffffff81059216 activate_task at ffffffff81059253 pull_task at ffffffff81065401 load_balance_fair at ffffffff810657b7 thread_return at ffffffff81527d30 schedule_timeout at ffffffff815287b5 wait_for_common at ffffffff81528433 wait_for_completion at ffffffff8152854d blk_execute_rq at ffffffff8126d9dc emcp_scsi_cmd_ioctl at ffffffffa04920a2 [emcp] PowerPlatformBottomDispatch at ffffffffa0492eb8 [emcp] PowerSyncIoBottomDispatch at ffffffffa04930b8 [emcp] PowerBottomDispatchPirp at ffffffffa049348c [emcp] PowerDispatchX at ffffffffa049390d [emcp] MpxSendScsiCmd at ffffffffa061853e [emcpmpx] ClariionKLam_groupReserveRelease at ffffffffa061e495 [emcpmpx] MpxDefaultRegister at ffffffffa061df0a [emcpmpx] MpxTestPath at ffffffffa06227b5 [emcpmpx] MpxExtraTry at ffffffffa06234ab [emcpmpx] MpxTestDaemonCalloutGuts at ffffffffa062402f [emcpmpx] MpxIodone at ffffffffa0624621 [emcpmpx] MpxDispatchGuts at ffffffffa0625534 [emcpmpx] MpxDispatch at ffffffffa06256a8 [emcpmpx] PowerDispatchX at ffffffffa0493921 [emcp] GpxDispatch at ffffffffa0644775 [emcpgpx] PowerDispatchX at ffffffffa0493921 [emcp] GpxDispatchDown at ffffffffa06447ae [emcpgpx] VluDispatch at ffffffffa068b025 [emcpvlumd] GpxDispatch at ffffffffa0644752 [emcpgpx] PowerDispatchX at ffffffffa0493921 [emcp] GpxDispatchDown at ffffffffa06447ae [emcpgpx] XcryptDispatchGuts at ffffffffa0660b45 [emcpxcrypt] XcryptDispatch at ffffffffa0660c09 [emcpxcrypt] GpxDispatch at ffffffffa0644752 [emcpgpx] PowerDispatchX at ffffffffa0493921 [emcp] GpxDispatch at ffffffffa0644775 [emcpgpx] PowerDispatchX at ffffffffa0493921 [emcp] PowerSyncIoTopDispatch at ffffffffa04978b9 [emcp] emcp_send_pirp at ffffffffa04979b9 [emcp] emcp_pseudo_blk_ioctl at ffffffffa04982dc [emcp] __blkdev_driver_ioctl at ffffffff8126f627 blkdev_ioctl at ffffffff8126faad block_ioctl at ffffffff811c46cc dmp_ioctl_by_bdev at ffffffffa074767b [vxdmp] dmp_kernel_scsi_ioctl at ffffffffa0747982 [vxdmp] dmp_scsi_ioctl at ffffffffa0786d42 [vxdmp] dmp_send_scsireq at ffffffffa078770f [vxdmp] dmp_do_scsi_gen at ffffffffa077d46b [vxdmp] dmp_pr_check_aptpl at ffffffffa07834dd [vxdmp] dmp_make_mp_node at ffffffffa0782c89 [vxdmp] dmp_decode_add_disk at ffffffffa075164e [vxdmp] dmp_decipher_instructions at ffffffffa07521c7 [vxdmp] dmp_process_instruction_buffer at ffffffffa075244e [vxdmp] dmp_reconfigure_db at ffffffffa076f40e [vxdmp] gendmpioctl at ffffffffa0752a12 [vxdmp] dmpioctl at ffffffffa0754615 [vxdmp] dmp_ioctl at ffffffffa07784eb [vxdmp] dmp_compat_ioctl at ffffffffa0778566 [vxdmp] compat_blkdev_ioctl at ffffffff8128031d compat_sys_ioctl at ffffffff811e0bfd sysenter_dispatch at ffffffff81050c20 DESCRIPTION: Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) uses PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with the REPORT CAPABILITIES service action to discover target capabilities. On RHEL6, system panics unexpectedly when Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) executes PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with REPORT CAPABILITIES service action on powerpath controlled device coming from EMC Clarion/VNX array. This bug has been reported to EMC powperpath engineering. RESOLUTION: The Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) code is modified to execute PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with the REPORT CAPABILITIES service action to discover target capabilities only on non-third party controlled devices. * 3440232 (Tracking ID: 3408320) SYMPTOM: Thin reclamation fails for EMC 5875 arrays with the following message: # vxdisk reclaim Reclaiming thin storage on: Disk : Reclaim Partially Done. Device Busy. DESCRIPTION: As a result of recent changes in EMC Microcode 5875, Thin Reclamation for EMC 5875 arrays fails because reclaim request length exceeds the maximum "write_same" length supported by the array. RESOLUTION: The code has been modified to correctly set the maximum "write_same" length of the array. * 3457363 (Tracking ID: 3462171) SYMPTOM: When SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation command ioctls are issued on non-SCSI devices, dmpnode gets disabled with the following messages in the system log: [..] Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-0 dmp_scsi_ioctl: devno=0x11700000002 ret=0x19 Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Warn] SCSI error opcode=0x5e returned rq_status=0x7 cdb_status=0x0 key=0x0 asc=0x0 ascq=0x0 on path 279/0x2 Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1476 dmp_notify_events: Total number of events = 1 Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-0 dmp_pr_send_cmd failed with transport error: uscsi_rqstatus = 7ret = -1 status = 0 on dev 279/0x2 Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-112 [Warn] disabled path 279/0x0 belonging to the dmpnode 302/0x0 due to path failure Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1476 dmp_notify_events: Total number of events = 2 Mar 10 22:44:19 s40sb1 vxdmp: NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-111 [Warn] disabled dmpnode 302/0x0 [..] DESCRIPTION: Non-SCSI devices do not support SCSI persistent reservation commands. Thus, SCSI-3 persistent commands 'ioctls' on non-SCSI device fails with unsupported error codes. Due to which, Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) ends up treating ioctl failure as path error causing dmpnode to get disabled. RESOLUTION: The DMP code is modified such that SCSI-3 persistent reservation commands are not sent on non-SCSI devices. * 3470254 (Tracking ID: 3370637) SYMPTOM: In VxVM, the SmartIO feature gets enabled for volumes with type as root/swap. DESCRIPTION: The SmartIO feature should be disabled for volumes of root/swap use type. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to disable the SmartIO feature for volumes with root/swap use type. * 3470255 (Tracking ID: 2847520) SYMPTOM: Users can create linked volume using 'vxsnap addmir ... mirdg= mirvol=' CLI. The target volume then can be used to create snapshot using 'vxsnap make source= snap= snapdg=' CLI. When such linked volume is created in the clustered environment and the resize operation is executed on the volume, it can cause corruption of target volume. So, if such a target volume is used to create snapshot, it would be corrupted as well. If the linked volume had a VxFS filesystem created on it and the user tries to mount the snapshot created using such a corrupted target volume, it might fail with the following error message: UX:vxfs mount: ERROR: V-3-26883: fsck log replay exits with 12 UX:vxfs mount: ERROR: V-3-26881: Cannot be mounted until it has been cleaned by fsck. Please run "fsck -V vxfs -y /dev/vx/dsk/snapdg/snapvol" before mounting. DESCRIPTION: When a linked volume is resized, maps are updated to keep track of regions inconsistent between the source volume and the target volume for the grown/shrunk region. Such update of map should ideally happen only from one node/machine in the cluster. Due to some problems, the map was getting updated concurrently from two different nodes/machine causing inconsistent maps. When this map was used to synchronize the target volume, it would lead to data on target volume not getting synchronized correctly and thus led to corrupted target volume. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to make sure that the map is updated only from one node if the volume is shared. * 3470260 (Tracking ID: 3415188) SYMPTOM: Filesystem/IO hangs during data replication with Symantec Replication Option (VVR) with the following stack trace: schedule() volsync_wait() volopobjenter() vol_object_ioctl() voliod_ioctl() volsioctl_real() vols_ioctl() vols_compat_ioctl() compat_sys_ioctl() sysenter_dispatch() DESCRIPTION: One of the structures of Symantec Replication Option that are associated with Storage Replicator Log (SRL) can become invalid because of improper locking mechanism in code that leads to IO/file system hang. RESOLUTION: The code is changed to have appropriate locks to protect the code. * 3470262 (Tracking ID: 3077582) SYMPTOM: A Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume may become inaccessible causing the read/write operations to fail with the following error: # dd if=/dev/vx/dsk/<dg>/<volume> of=/dev/null count=10 dd read error: No such device 0+0 records in 0+0 records out DESCRIPTION: If I/Os to the disks timeout due to some hardware failures like weak Storage Area Network (SAN) cable link or Host Bus Adapter (HBA) failure, VxVM assumes that the disk is faulty or slow and it sets the failio flag on the disk. Due to this flag, all the subsequent I/Os fail with the ANo such deviceA error. RESOLUTION: The code is modified such that vxdisk now provides a way to clear the failio flag. To check whether the failio flag is set on the disks, use the vxkprint(1M) utility (under /etc/vx/diag.d). To reset the failio flag, execute the Avxdisk set <disk_name> failio=offA command, or deport and import the disk group that holds these disks. * 3470265 (Tracking ID: 3326964) SYMPTOM: VxVM () hangs in CVM environment in presence of Fast Mirror Resync FMR)/Flashsnap operations with the following stack trace: voldco_cvm_serialize() voldco_serialize() voldco_handle_dco_error() voldco_mapor_sio_done() voliod_iohandle() voliod_loop() child_rip() voliod_loop() child_rip() DESCRIPTION: During split brain testing in presence of FMR activities, when errors occur on the Data change object (DCO), the DCO error handling code sets up a flag due to which the same error gets set again in its handler. Consequently the VxVM Staged I/O (SIO) loop around the same code and causes the hang. RESOLUTION: The code is changed to appropriately handle the scenario. * 3470270 (Tracking ID: 3403390) SYMPTOM: The linked-to volume goes into NEEDSYNC state if the system crashes while I/Os are ongoing on the linked-from volume or the linked-from volume is open by any application. DESCRIPTION: In this case, when the system comes up, volume recovery is performed on the linked-from volume which also recovers the linked-to volumes associated to it. But still, the linked-to volumes were shown in NEEDSYNC state even though no recovery was required. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to prevent linked-to volume from going into NEEDSYNC state in the above mentioned scenarios and hence no recovery is required for the linked-to volume. * 3470272 (Tracking ID: 3385753) SYMPTOM: Replication to the Disaster Recovery (DR) site hangs even though Replication links (Rlinks) are in the connected state. DESCRIPTION: Based on Network conditions under User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Symantec Replication Option (Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) has its own flow control mechanism to control the flow/amount of data to be sent over the network. Under error prone network conditions which cause timeouts, VVR's flow control values become invalid, resulting in replication hang. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to ensure valid values for the flow control even under error prone network conditions. * 3470273 (Tracking ID: 3416404) SYMPTOM: The vxdisksetup(1M) command shows the following warning message: "Warning: The disk CHS geometry (261, 255, 63) reported by the operating system does not match the geometry stored on the disk label (1024, 128, 32)." DESCRIPTION: The warning message is displayed due to changes in the parted tool, which is internally used in the vxdisksetup(1M) command. In the new version of parted, error messages are re-directed to stderr rather than stdout. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to redirect the errors to stderr, not stdout. * 3470274 (Tracking ID: 3373208) SYMPTOM: Veritas Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) wrongly sends the SCSI PR OUT command with Activate Persist Through Power Loss (APTPL) bit with value as A0A to array that supports the APTPL capabilities. DESCRIPTION: DMP correctly recognizes the APTPL bit settings and stores them in the database. DMP verifies this information before sending the SCSI PR OUT command so that the APTPL bit can be set appropriately in the command. But, due to issue in the code, DMP was not handling the node's device number properly. Due to which, the APTPL bit was getting incorrectly set in the SCSI PR OUT command. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to handle the node's device number properly in the DMP SCSI command code path. * 3470275 (Tracking ID: 3417044) SYMPTOM: The system becomes unresponsive while creating Veritas Volume Replication (VVR) TCP connection. The vxiod kernel thread reports the following stack trace: mt_pause_trigger() wait_for_lock() spinlock_usav() kfree() t_kfree() kmsg_sys_free() nmcom_connect() vol_rp_connect() vol_rp_connect_start() voliod_iohandle() voliod_loop() DESCRIPTION: When multiple TCP connections are configured, some of these connections are still in the active state and the connection request process function attempts to free a memory block. If this block is already freed by a previous connection, then the kernel thread may become unresponsive on a HPUX platform. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to resolve the issue of freeing a memory block which is already freed by another connection. * 3470276 (Tracking ID: 3287940) SYMPTOM: Logical unit number (LUN) from the EMC CLARiiONarray and having NR (Not Ready) state are shown in the state of online invalid by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). DESCRIPTION: Logical unit number (LUN) from EMC CLARiiON array and having NR state are shown in the state of online invalid by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). The EMC CLARiiON array does not have mechanism to communicate the NR state of LUN, so VxVM cannot recognize it. However, read operation on these LUNs fails. Due to defect in the disk online operation, the read failure is ignored and causes the disk online to succeed. Thus, these LUNs are shown as online invalid. RESOLUTION: Changes have been made to recognize and propagate the disk read operation failure during the online operation. So the EMC CLARiiON disks with NR state are shown in error state. * 3470279 (Tracking ID: 3300418) SYMPTOM: VxVM volume operations on shared volumes cause unnecessary read I/Os on the disks that have both configuration copy and log copy disabled on slaves. DESCRIPTION: The unnecessary disk read I/Os are generated on slaves when VxVM is refreshing the private region information into memory during VxVM transaction. In fact, there is no need to refresh the private region information if the disk already has disabled the configuration copy and log copy. RESOLUTION: The code has been changed to skip the refreshing if both configuration copy and log copy are already disabled on master and slaves. * 3470282 (Tracking ID: 3374200) SYMPTOM: A Linux-based system panic or exceptional IO delay is observed on the volume when a snapshot operation is executed. In case of a panic, the following stack trace is reported: spin_lock_irqsave() volpage_getlist_internal() volpage_getlist() voldco_needupdate_instant() volfmr_needupdate_instant() DESCRIPTION: Volume Manager uses a system wide pool of memory to manage IO and snapshot operations (paging module). The default size is 6MB on Linux, which suffices for 1 TB volume. For snapshot operations, the default size is increased dynamically without considering the IO performed by other volumes. Thus, during a snapshot operation, contention on the paging module occurs leading to delays in IO handling or sometimes panics. RESOLUTION: The code is modified such that the default paging module size on Linux is increased to 64M. However, if you still face the issue then you can manually increase the paging module size using the volpagemod_max_memsz tunable. Or, to avoid manual intervention, To avoid contention during the snapshot operation, the paging module size is increased considering the other online volumes in the system. * 3470286 (Tracking ID: 3417164) SYMPTOM: The Asfcache(1M) resizeA command fails when the size value is lesser than the data stored in the cache. DESCRIPTION: The cache area contains the metadata and cached data. The cache area size can be shrunk to a value which is an addition of metadata size and cached data size. However, the cache area cannot be shrunk to match the the metadata size value. RESOLUTION: The code is modified such that the minimal size to which a cache area can be shrunk is calculated matching the metadata size. * 3470290 (Tracking ID: 2999871) SYMPTOM: The vxinstall(1M) command gets into a hung state when it is invoked through Secure Shell (SSH) remote execution. DESCRIPTION: The vxconfigd process which starts from the vxinstall script fails to close the inherited file descriptors, causing the vxinstall to enter the hung state. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to handle the inherited file descriptors for the vxconfigd process. * 3470292 (Tracking ID: 3416098) SYMPTOM: "vxvmconvert" utility throws error during execution. The following error message is displayed. "[: 100-RHEL6: integer expression expected". DESCRIPTION: In vxvmconvert utility, the sed (stream editor) expression which is used to parse and extract the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) version is not appropriate and fails for particular RHEL(Red Hat Enterprise Linux) version. RESOLUTION: Code changes are done so that the expression parses correctly. * 3470300 (Tracking ID: 3340923) SYMPTOM: The following kind of messages are seen in system log corresponding to the unavailable asymmetric access state paths. .. .. kernel: [859680.551729] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 44515143296 kernel: [859680.552219] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-112 disabled path 8/0x20 belonging to the dmpnode 201/0x40 due to path failure kernel: [859690.554947] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-1652 dmp_alua_update_alua_info: change in aas detected for node=8/32 old_aas: 0 new_aas: 3 kernel: [859690.554980] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-148 enabled path 8/0x20 belonging to the dmpnode 201/0x40 .. .. DESCRIPTION: The paths with unavailable asymmetric access state do not service I/O. Hence by design, DMP tries to return path failure for such paths. This avoids such paths getting selected for I/Os. But due to an issue, DMP returns path okay and causes path to be enabled back. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to fix this issue. * 3470301 (Tracking ID: 2812161) SYMPTOM: In a VVR environment, after the Rlink is detached, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon on the secondary host may hang. The following stack trace is observed: cv_wait delay_common delay vol_rv_service_message_start voliod_iohandle voliod_loop ... DESCRIPTION: There is a race condition if there is a node crash on the primary site of VVR and if any subsequent Rlink is detached. The vxconfigd(1M) daemon on the secondary site may hang, because it is unable to clear the I/Os received from the primary site. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to resolve the race condition. * 3470303 (Tracking ID: 3314647) SYMPTOM: The vxcdsconvert(1M) command fails with following options when disk group (DG) contains multiple volumes: /etc/vx/bin/vxcdsconvert -o novolstop -g group move_subdisks_ok=yes evac_subdisks_ok=yes relayout: ERROR! Plex column offset is not strictly increasing for column/plex 0/ DESCRIPTION: When the vxcdsconvert(1M) command is invoked with "group" option, it converts non-cds disks to Cross-Platform-Data Sharing(CDS) formatted disks. The command will align and resize subdisks within the DG to make sure alignment of all volumes is 8k and finally set CDS flag on the DG. The command may need to relocate subdisks when it formats the disks with CDS format. To do this, it uses some global variables which indicate the subdisks from volume which need to be re-analyzed. To align all volumes at 8K boundaries, same global variables are used and since these global variables were already set during disk initialization, stale values were used during volume alignment which causes the error. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that before volumes are considered for 8K alignment, the global variables, which indicate whether some subdisks need to be reanalyzed for alignment or not, are reset. * 3470304 (Tracking ID: 3390162) SYMPTOM: The NetMapper tool which scans the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 4145 causes the vxnetd daemon to consume 100% CPU, the rlink disconnects and finally the system hang. DESCRIPTION: As the vxnetd daemon skips the zero byte UDP packet which is sent from NetMapper, the packet is kept in socket receive buffer, and it leads to the vxnetd daemon ceaselessly receive the packet. RESOLUTION: The code changes are made not to skip the zero byte UDP packet. * 3470321 (Tracking ID: 3336714) SYMPTOM: The slab of I/O request in Linux may get corrupted. DESCRIPTION: A slab of I/O request may get corrupt in Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) SCSI bypass I/O path when a member pointer of Linux kernel I/O request structure is set to NULL after the I/O request pointer is freeded. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to delete the needless code, which sets the member pointer to NULL. * 3470322 (Tracking ID: 3399323) SYMPTOM: The reconfiguration of Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) database fails with the below error: VxVM vxconfigd DEBUG V-5-1-0 dmp_do_reconfig: DMP_RECONFIGURE_DB failed: 2 DESCRIPTION: As part of the DMP database reconfiguration process, controller information from DMP user-land database is not removed even though it is removed from DMP kernel database. This creates inconsistency between the user-land and kernel-land DMP database. Because of this, subsequent DMP reconfiguration fails with above error. RESOLUTION: The code changes have been made to properly remove the controller information from the user-land DMP database. * 3470345 (Tracking ID: 3281004) SYMPTOM: For DMP minimum queue I/O policy with large number of CPUs, the following issues are observed since the VxVM 5.1 SP1 release: 1. CPU usage is high. 2. I/O throughput is down if there are many concurrent I/Os. DESCRIPTION: The earlier minimum queue I/O policy is used to consider the host controller I/O load to select the least loaded path. For VxVM 5.1 SP1 version, an addition was made to consider the I/O load of the underlying paths of the selected host based controllers. However, this resulted in the performance issues, as there were lock contentions with the I/O processing functions and the DMP statistics daemon. RESOLUTION: The code is modified such that the host controller paths I/O load is not considered to avoid the lock contention. * 3470347 (Tracking ID: 3444765) SYMPTOM: In Cluster Volume Manager (CVM), shared volume recovery may take long time for large configurations. DESCRIPTION: In the CVM environment, the volume recovery operation involves following tasks: 1. Unconditional Data Change Object (DCO) volume recovery. 2. Recovery using the vxvol noderecover(1M) command. But the DCO volume recovery is done serially and the noderecover(1M) command is executed separately for each volume which needs recovery. Therefore, the complete recovery operation can take longer time. RESOLUTION: The code changes are done to recover DCO volume only if required and the recovery of multiple DCO volumes will be done in parallel. Similarly, single vxvol noderecover(1M) command will be issued for multiple volumes. * 3470350 (Tracking ID: 3437852) SYMPTOM: The system panics when Symantec Replicator Option goes to PASSTHRU mode. Panic stack trace might look like: vol_rp_halt() vol_rp_state_trans() vol_rv_replica_reconfigure() vol_rv_error_handle() vol_rv_errorhandler_callback() vol_klog_start() voliod_iohandle() voliod_loop() DESCRIPTION: When Storage Replicator Log (SRL) gets faulted for any reason, VVR goes into the PASSTHRU Mode. At this time, a few updates are erroneously freed. When these updates are accessed during the correct processing, access to these updates results in panic as the updates are already freed. RESOLUTION: The code changes have been made not to free the updates erroneously. * 3470352 (Tracking ID: 3450758) SYMPTOM: The slave node panics when it tries to join the cluster with the following stack: bad_area_nosemaphore() page_fault() vol_plex_iogen() volobject_iogen() vol_cvol_volobject_iogen() vol_cvol_init_iogen() vol_cache_linkdone() cvm_msg_cfg_end() vol_kmsg_request_receive() vol_kmsg_receiver() kernel_thread() DESCRIPTION: The panic happens when the node generates a Staged I/O (SIO) for the plex object in the process of validating the cache object (parent) and plex object (child) associations. Some of the fields of the plex object which have not been populated are accessed as part of the SIO generation. This access to NULL fields leads to panic. RESOLUTION: The code changes have been made to avoid accessing those NULL fields of plex object while the slave node joins the cluster. * 3470353 (Tracking ID: 3236772) SYMPTOM: Replication with heavy I/O loads on primary sites result in the following errors on the secondary site: 1. "Transaction aborted waiting for io drain" and/or 2. "vradmin ERROR Lost connection to host" DESCRIPTION: A deadlock between 'transaction' and messages delivered to the secondary site results in repeated timeouts of transactions on the secondary site. These repeated transaction timeouts cause transaction failures and/or session timeouts between primary and secondary sites. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to resolve the deadlock condition. * 3470354 (Tracking ID: 3446415) SYMPTOM: When the file system shrink operation is performed on FileStore, a different pool may get added to the file system Example: # fs create mirrored 8g 2 pool01 protection=disk # fs list FS STATUS SIZE LAYOUT MIRRORS COLUMNS USE% NFS SHARED CIFS SHARED SECONDARY TIER POOL LIST ========================= ====== ==== ====== ======= ======= ==== ========== =========== ============== ========= online 8.00G mirrored 2 - 1% no no no pool01 # fs shrinkto primary 4g # fs list FS STATUS SIZE LAYOUT MIRRORS COLUMNS USE% NFS SHARED CIFS SHARED SECONDARY TIER POOL LIST ========================= ====== ==== ====== ======= ======= ==== ========== =========== ============== ============= online 4.00G mirrored 2 - 2% no no no pool01, pool02 DESCRIPTION: While performing shrink operation on volume, associated DCO volume gets recreated. But during this operation, specified site tags on command line are not taken into consideration. Thus, new DCO volumes may get created on the disk that has different site tag. Due to this, different pools are added to file system on FileStore. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly allocate DCO volume within the specified pool of the disk during the volume shrink operation. * 3470382 (Tracking ID: 3368361) SYMPTOM: When site consistency is configured within a private disk group and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is up, the reattach operation of a detached site fails. DESCRIPTION: When you try to reattach the detached site configured in a private disk-group with CVM up on that node, the reattach operation fails with the following error "Disk (disk_name) do not have connectivity from one or more cluster nodes". The reattach operation fails because you are not checking the shared attribute of the disk group when you apply the disk connectivity check for a private disk group. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to make the disk connectivity check explicit for a shared disk group by checking the shared attribute of a disk group. * 3470383 (Tracking ID: 3455460) SYMPTOM: The vxfmrshowmap and verify_dco_header utilities fail with the following error message: vxfmrshowmap: VxVM ERROR V-5-1-15443 seek to for FAILED:Error 0 verify_dco_header: Cannot lseek to offset: DESCRIPTION: The issue occurs because the large offsets are not handled properly while seeking using 'lseek', as a part of the vxfmrshowmap and verify_dco_header utilities. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly handle large offsets as a part of the vxfmrhsowmap and verify_dco_header utilities. * 3470384 (Tracking ID: 3440790) SYMPTOM: Sometimes the vxassist(1M) command with parameter mirror and the vxplex(1M) command with parameter att hang. The hang is observed by looking at the vxtask list output which shows no progress of the tasks. DESCRIPTION: Sometimes the vxassist(1M) command with parameter mirror and the vxplex command(1M) with parameter att result into hang, showing no progress of operation in the vxtask list o/p. This operation requires a kernel memory to copy data from one plex to another and this memory is allocated from a dedicated Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) memory pool. Due to some problems in calculating free memory in the pool, the task forever waits for memory even though enough memory is available in pool. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly compute the free memory available in VxVM's memory pool use for these operations. * 3470385 (Tracking ID: 3373142) SYMPTOM: Manual pages for vxedit and vxassist do not contain details about updated behavior of these commands. DESCRIPTION: 1. vxedit manual page On this page it explains that if the reserve flag is set for a disk, then vxassist will not allocate a data subdisk on that disk unless the disk is specified on the vxassist command line. But Data Change Object (DCO) volume creation by vxassist or vxsnap command will not honor the reserved flag. 2. vxassist manual page DCO allocation policy has been updated starting from 6.0. The allocation policy may not succeed if there is insufficient disk space. The vxassist command then uses available space on the remaining disks of the disk group. This may prevent certain disk group from splitting or moving if the DCO plexes cannot accompany their parent data volume. RESOLUTION: The manual pages for both commands have been updated to reflect the new behavioral changes. * 3490147 (Tracking ID: 3485907) SYMPTOM: Panic occurs in the I/O code path. The following stack trace is observed: ... volkcontext_process() volkiostart() vxiostrategy() ... or ... voliod_iohandle() voliod_loop() ... DESCRIPTION: When the snapshot reattach operation is in progress on a volume, the metadata of the snapshot get's updated. If any parallel I/O during this operation gets incorrect state of Metadata, this leads to IO's of zero size being created. This leads to system panic. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to avoid the generation of I/Os of zero length, on volumes which are under the snapshot operations. * 3492363 (Tracking ID: 3402487) SYMPTOM: Page-size allocation fails in Fast Mirror Resynchronization (FMR) operation due to fragmentation or size limitation. As a result, vxiod daemon is found hogging the CPU. DESCRIPTION: Paging module used for Fast Mirror Resynchronization (FMR) operation requires a large number of pages. The kernel memory allocator in Volume Manager on Linux is such that the page-size allocation (8K) is done directly from the mapped area. Page-size allocation in some situations fails because of fragmentation or size limitation. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to introduce new API which allocates memory virtually. * 3506660 (Tracking ID: 3325022) SYMPTOM: The disks that are exported using the VirtIO-disk interface from an SLES11 SP2 or SP3 host are invisible to Veritas Volume Manager running inside the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) guests. DESCRIPTION: Array Support Library (ASL) claims devices during device discovery. But it doesn't support devices that are exported from a host running SLES11 SP2 or SLES11 SP3, to guest using VirtIO-disk interfaces. Therefore the devices are not visible to Veritas Volume Manager running inside a KVM guest. For example, if disks vda, vdb are the only exported disks to guest "guest1" using the VirtIO-disk interface, they're not visible in "vxdisk list" output: guest1:~ # vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS As, none of the ASLs claimed those devices: guest1:~ # vxddladm list devices DEVICE TARGET-ID STATE DDL-STATUS (ASL) =============================================================== vdb - Online - vda - Online - RESOLUTION: The code is fixed to make ASL claim the disk exported using VirtIO-disk Interface. * 3506679 (Tracking ID: 3435225) SYMPTOM: In a given CVR setup, rebooting the master node causes one of the slaves to panic with following stack: pse_sleep_thread vol_rwsleep_rdlock vol_kmsg_send_common vol_kmsg_send_prealloc cvm_obj_sendmsg_prealloc vol_rv_async_done volkcontext_process voldiskiodone DESCRIPTION: The issue is triggered by one of the code paths sleeping in interrupt context. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that sleep is not invoked in interrupt context. * 3506707 (Tracking ID: 3400504) SYMPTOM: While disabling the host side HBA port, extended attributes of some devices are not present anymore. This happens even when there is a redundant controller present on the host which is in enabled state. An example output is shown below where the 'srdf' attribute of an EMC device (which has multiple paths through multiple controllers) gets affected. Before the port is disabled- # vxdisk -e list emc1_4028 emc1_4028 auto:cdsdisk emc1_4028 dg21 online c6t5000097208191154d112s2 srdf-r1 After the port is disabled- # vxdisk -e list emc1_4028 emc1_4028 auto:cdsdisk emc1_4028 dg21 online c6t5000097208191154d112s2 - DESCRIPTION: The code which prints the extended attributes used to print the attributes of the first path in the list of all paths. If the first path belongs to the controller which is disabled, its attributes will be empty. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to look for the path in enabled state among all the paths and then print the attributes of such path. * 3506709 (Tracking ID: 3259732) SYMPTOM: In a Clustered Volume Replicator (CVR) environment, if the SRL size grows and if it is followed by a slave node leaving and then re-joining the cluster then rlink is detached. DESCRIPTION: After the slave re-joins the cluster, it does not correctly receive and process the SRL resize information received from the master. This means that application writes initiated on this slave may corrupt the SRL causing rlink to detach. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that when a slave joins the cluster, make sure that the SRL resize related information is correctly received and processed by the slave. * 3506718 (Tracking ID: 3433931) SYMPTOM: The AvxvmconvertAutility fails to get the correct Logical Volume Manager (LVM) version and reports following message: "vxvmconvert is not supported if LVM version is lower than 2.02.61 and Disk having multiple path" DESCRIPTION: In the AvxvmconvertA utility, an incorrect stream editor (sed) expression is used to parse and extract the LVM version. Due to which the expression failed for build versions greater than two digits. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to parse the expression correctly. * 3506747 (Tracking ID: 3496077) SYMPTOM: The vxvmconvert(1m) command fails while converting Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Volume Groups (VG)into VxVM disk group and displays the following error message: AThe specified Volume Group (VG name) was not found.A DESCRIPTION: A race condition is observed between AblockdevA and AvgdisplayA commands, wherein, if the AblockdevA command does not flush the buffered data onto the device, then the AvgdisplayA fails to provide accurate output. As a result, VxVM assumes that Volume Groups (VG) is not present and displays the error message. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to allow finite number of trials for AvgdisplayAcommand before failure so that there is sufficient time for buffers to get flushed. * 3515438 (Tracking ID: 3535309) SYMPTOM: VRTSvxvm patch failed to install on sfcache configure system while upgrading SFRAC from 6.1 to 6.1.1. The patch installation failed with the following error message: UX:vxfs fscache: ERROR: V-3-25963: Failed to open /dev/vxca: No such file or directory SFCache ERROR V-3-25963: Failed to open /dev/vxca: No such file or directory DESCRIPTION: SFRAC installer stops daemon/services and removes all modules related to SFRAC packages before the upgrade process starts. The vxrecover(1M) command gets executed during the VRTSvxvm package upgrade and attempts to start the cache volume on sfcache configured system. However, it fails because sfcache related module does not exist at the time of upgrade task. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to redirect the vxrecover(1M) command's standard error and output to /dev/null at configuration stage when SFRAC starts all services and daemons. * 3522541 (Tracking ID: 3533888) SYMPTOM: If the default value is not chosen, the vxunroot(1M) throws error and goes into infinite loop. The following error messages are displayed: "VxVM vxunroot ERROR V-5-2-2534 Grub menu entry is not a valid menu entry VxVM vxunroot INFO V-5-2-2607 The grub boot menu entries in the current configuration are: 0. "title Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64)" DESCRIPTION: When the vxunroot(1M) command is executed, if the file descriptor was not closed, the system prints error and turns into infinite looping. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to solve this issue. * 3531906 (Tracking ID: 3526500) SYMPTOM: Disk IO failures occur with DMP IO timeout error messages when DMP (Dynamic Multi-pathing) IO statistics daemon is not running. Following are the timeout error messages: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-0 I/O failed on path 65/0x40 after 1 retries for disk 201/0x70 VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-0 Reached DMP Threshold IO TimeOut (100 secs) I/O with start 3e861909fa0 and end 3e86190a388 time VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o error occurred (errno=0x206) on dmpnode 201/0x70 DESCRIPTION: When IO is submitted to DMP, it sets the start time on the IO buffer. The value of the start time depends on whether the DMP IO statistics daemon is running or not. When the IO is returned as error from SCSI to DMP, instead of retrying the IO on alternate paths, DMP failed that IO with 300 seconds timeout error, but the IO has elapsed only few milliseconds in its execution. The miscalculation of DMP timeout happens only when DMP IO statistics daemon is not running. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to calculate appropriate DMP IO timeout value when DMP IO statistics demon is not running. * 3536289 (Tracking ID: 3492062) SYMPTOM: Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) fails to get page 0x83 LUN identifier for EMC symmetrix LUNS and continuously logs the following error message: AVxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1984 dmp_restore_callback: devid could not be extracted from pg 0x83 on pathA DESCRIPTION: If DMP fails to get page 0x83 LUN identifier for EMC symmetrix LUNS during discovery, then DMP should set a device identifier unsupported flag on the corresponding DMP node. Currently, there is no code to set this flag and hence, the restore daemon identifies such devices as device identifier mismatch case and logs error messages. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to mark device identifier unsupported flag if it could not be extracted during discovery process so that the restore daemon does not pick it up for device identifier mismatch case. Also, the message is converted from NOTE message to LOG message type. * 3538792 (Tracking ID: 3528498) SYMPTOM: When the VxVM smartIO is disabled on a VxVM volume, VxIO causes a system panic with the following stack trace: COMMAND: "vxiod" machine_kexec() crash_kexec() panic() vol_cvol_delete_iogen() vol_cache_request_start() voliod_iohandle() voliod_loop() kthread() kernel_thread() DESCRIPTION: When the VxVM SmartIO is disabled on a VxVM volume, the cached data for the volume is deleted asynchronously. VxVM keeps a list of asynchronous delete operations in a queue protected by a lock. In a special case, this queue is modified without holding the lock. The corrupted queue results in a system panic. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to hold the lock while modifying the queue. * 3539906 (Tracking ID: 3394933) SYMPTOM: In Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) disk group, if a node providing storage is joining back to the cluster, the volume recovery operations are started. These recovery operations are not fired in parallel for all remote devices. As a result, the volume recovery operations take a longer time and also impact the application I/O performance. DESCRIPTION: Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) controls the number of recovery operations that can be started in parallel. If there is a scenario wherein, more than the desired maximum number of recovery operations is to be run on a particular disk, then VxVM ensures that at any given point of time, not more than the desired maximum task is run. Due to a bug, all the remote disks are deemed same in vxrecover operation. Hence, parallel recovery operation is not allowed on volumes in FSS disk group even when it is possible. RESOLUTION: The Code is modified in vxrecover to identify different remote disks as different to ensure that parallel recovery operation runs. * 3540122 (Tracking ID: 3482026) SYMPTOM: The vxattachd(1M) daemon reattaches plexes of manually detached site. DESCRIPTION: The vxattachd daemon reattaches plexes for a manually detached site that is the site with state as OFFLINE. As there was no check to differentiate between a manually detach site and the site that was detached due to IO failure. Hence, the vxattachd(1M) daemon brings the plexes online for manually detached site also. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to differentiate between manually detached site and the site detached due to IO failure. * 3541262 (Tracking ID: 3543284) SYMPTOM: Storage devices are not visible in the vxdisk list or the vxdmpadm getdmpnode outputs. DESCRIPTION: The Device Discovery Layer (DDL) discovers storage devices and iterates through Array Support Libraries (ASL). DDL maintains bitmap data structure for the ASLs present on hosts. In some case of 64 ASLs, code was not considering the 64th bit in bitmap and hence the corresponding ASL is not called in the device claim cycle. Due to this, devices are not visible in VxVM. RESOLUTION: The DDL code is modified such that the device details are listed in the VxVM list. * 3543944 (Tracking ID: 3520991) SYMPTOM: The vxconfigd(1M) daemon dumps core due to memory corruption and displays the following stack trace: 1. malloc_y() malloc_common misc.xalloc() dll_iter_next() ddl_claim_single_disk() ddl_thread_claim_disk() ddl_task_start() volddl_thread_start() OR 2. free_y() free_common() ddl_name_value_api.nv_free ddl_vendor_claim_device() ddl_claim_single_disk() ddl_thread_claim_disk() ddl_task_start() at volddl_thread_start() DESCRIPTION: Device Discovery Layer (DDL) maintains a bitmap data structure for the Array Support Libraries (ASLs) present on hosts. If the number of Array Support Libraries (ASLs) are greater than or equal to 64, then, while setting the 64th bit in the bitmap data structure associated with the ASLs, DDL performs an out of bound write operation. This memory corruption causes either vxconfigd daemon to dump core or other unexpected issues. RESOLUTION: The Device Discovery Layer (DDL) code is modified to fix this issue. Patch ID: 6.1.0.100 * 3444900 (Tracking ID: 3399131) SYMPTOM: The following command fails with an error for a path managed by Third Party Driver (TPD) which co-exists with DMP. # vxdmpadm -f disable path= VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-11771 Operation not supported DESCRIPTION: The Third Party Drivers manage the devices with or without the co-existence of Dynamic Multi Pathing driver. Disabling the paths managed by a third party driver which does not co-exist with DMP is not supported. But due to bug in the code, disabling the paths managed by a third party driver which co-exists with DMP also fails. The same flags are set for all third party driver devices. RESOLUTION: The code has been modified to block this command only for the third party drivers which cannot co-exist with DMP. * 3445234 (Tracking ID: 3358904) SYMPTOM: The system with Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) enclosures sometimes panics during path fault scenarios, with the following stack: dmp_alua_get_owner_state() dmp_alua_get_path_state() dmp_get_path_state() dmp_get_enabled_ctlrs() dmp_info_ioctl() gendmpioctl() dmpioctl() vol_dmp_ktok_ioctl() dmp_get_enabled_cntrls() vx_dmp_config_ioctl() quiescesio_start() voliod_iohandle() voliod_loop() kernel_thread() DESCRIPTION: System running with ALUA logical unit numbers (LUNs) sometimes panics during path fault scenarios. This happens due to possible NULL pointer access problems. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to fix the NULL pointer access problem, thus fixing the issue. * 3445235 (Tracking ID: 3374117) SYMPTOM: Write I/O issued on a layered Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume may hang if it has a detached plex and has VxVM SmartIO enabled. DESCRIPTION: VxVM uses interlocking to prevent parallel writes that are issued on a data volume. In certain scenarios that involve a detached plex, write I/O issued on a SmartIO enabled VxVM volume tries to take the interlock multiple times, which leads to I/O hang. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to avoid double interlocking in above mentioned scenarios. * 3445236 (Tracking ID: 3381006) SYMPTOM: When I/Os are issued on the volume associated with Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) block level SmartIO caching, the system panic happens with the stack trace below: volmv_accum_cache_stats() vol_cache_write_done() volkcontext_process() voldiskiodone() ... DESCRIPTION: The improper lock for the stats is taken when collecting SmartIO stats. This leads to the system panic, because another thread modified the pointer to NULL. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that a proper lock is held before collecting stats for SmartIO in kernel. * 3446001 (Tracking ID: 3380481) SYMPTOM: When the vxdiskadm(1M) command selects a removed disk during the "5 Replace a failed or removed disk" operation, the vxdiskadm(1M) command displays the following error message: "/usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxadm_syslib.sh: line 2091:return: -1: invalid option". DESCRIPTION: From bash version 4.0, bash doesnAt accept negative error values. If VxVM scripts return negative values to bash, the error message is displayed. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that VxVM scripts donAt return negative values to bash. * 3446112 (Tracking ID: 3288744) SYMPTOM: In a Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) diskgroup, whenever a new mirror is added to a volume, the Data Change Object (DCO) associated with the volume is not mirrored. DESCRIPTION: In an FSS environment, if a volume's DCO object is not mirrored across all hosts which are contributing to the storage of the volume, there is a possibility that volume recovery and mirror attaches for detached mirrors require full-re-synchronization data. There is also a possibility of losing snapshots if nodes which are contributing to the storage of the DCO volume go down. This essentially defeats the purpose of having the default DCO volume in FSS environments. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that whenever a new data mirror is added to a volume in an FSS diskgroup, a new DCO mirror is also added on the same disks as the data volume. This increases the redundancy of DCO volume associated with the data volume and helps avoiding full data re-synchronization cases described above. * 3446126 (Tracking ID: 3338208) SYMPTOM: The writes from fenced out LDOM guest node on Active-Passive (AP/F) shared storage device fails with the following error message: .. Mon Oct 14 06:03:39.411: I/O retry(6) on Path c0d8s2 belonging to Dmpnode emc_clariion0_48 Mon Oct 14 06:03:39.951: SCSI error occurred on Path c0d8s2: opcode=0x2a reported device not ready (status=0x2, key=0x2, asc=0x4, ascq=0x3) LUN not ready, manual intervention required Mon Oct 14 06:03:39.951: I/O analysis done as DMP_PATH_FAILURE on Path c0d8s2 belonging to Dmpnode emc_clariion0_48 Mon Oct 14 06:03:40.311: Marked as failing Path c0d1s2 belonging to Dmpnode emc_clariion0_48 Mon Oct 14 06:03:40.671: Disabled Path c0d8s2 belonging to Dmpnode emc_clariion0_48 due to path failure .. .. DESCRIPTION: The write SCSI commands from fenced out host should fail with reservation conflict from the shared device. This error code needs to be propagated to upper layers for appropriate action. In the DMP ioctl interface, DMP first sends command through available active paths. If the command fails, then it means that the command was tried through passive paths. The command fails with a not ready error code and this error code gets propagated to upper layer instead of reservation conflict. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to prevent retrying of the IO SCSI commands on passive paths in case of Active-Passive (AP/F) shared storage device. * 3447244 (Tracking ID: 3427171) SYMPTOM: When I/Os are issued on a volume associated with the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) block level SmartIO caching immediately after a system reboot, a system panic happens with the following stack trace: vol_unspinlock() volmv_accum_cache_stats() vol_cache_read_done() volkcontext_process() voldiskiodone() ... DESCRIPTION: VxVM detects all the CPUs on which I/O is happening. VxVM SmartIO uses this facility to enable stats collection for each CPU detected. A problem with SmartIO has caused SmartIO not to detect CPU changes and to use wrong pointers for unlocking, thus leading to the system panic. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly identify the newly detected CPU before using locks. * 3447245 (Tracking ID: 3385905) SYMPTOM: Corrupt data might be returned for reading a data volume with VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) SmartIO caching enabled, if the VxVM cache area is brought offline with the command "sfcache offline " and later brought online without a system reboot. DESCRIPTION: When the cache area is brought offline, few incore data structures of cache area are not reset. When it is brought online again, the cache area is re-created afresh as warm cache is not used in this case. Since the incore structures now have stale information about cache area it results in corruption. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to reinitalize the incore data structures of cache area, if VxVM doesnAt use the warm cache during the cache area online operations. * 3447306 (Tracking ID: 3424798) SYMPTOM: Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) mirror attach operations (e.g., plex attach, vxassist mirror, and third-mirror break-off snapshot resynchronization) may take longer time under heavy application I/O load. The vxtask list command shows tasks are in the 'auto-throttled (waiting)' state for a long time. DESCRIPTION: With the AdminIO de-prioritization feature, VxVM administrative I/O's (e.g. plex attach, vxassist mirror, and third-mirror break-off snapshot resynchronization) are de-prioritized under heavy application I/O load, but this can lead to very slow progress of these operations. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to disable the AdminIO de-prioritization feature. * 3447530 (Tracking ID: 3410839) SYMPTOM: Volume allocation operations, such as make, grow, and convert, may internally lead to layered layouts. In FSS (Flexible Storage Sharing) environment, when any node goes down, this eventually causes full mirror synchronization for the layered volume recovery. DESCRIPTION: During volume allocation operations, the vxassist(1M) command sometimes automatically creates a layered layout for better resiliency. The creation depends on criteria like volume size or certain upper limit settings. Layered layouts prevent the complete volume from being disabled, in case the disable operation affects underlying disk(s). However, layered layouts donAt support DCO (Data Change Object). Hence, volume recovery cannot do optimized mirror synchronization, when any node goes down. This is a likely scenario in a FSS environment. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to add checks in vxassist allocation operations, to prevent internal change to layered layout for volumes in a FSS diskgroup. * 3447894 (Tracking ID: 3353211) SYMPTOM: A. After EMC Symmetrix BCV (Business Continuance Volume) device switches to read-write mode, continuous vxdmp (Veritas Dynamic Multi Pathing) error messages flood syslog as shown below: NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1061 dmp_restore_node: The path 18/0x2 has not yet aged - 299 NOTE VxVM vxdmp 0 dmp_tur_temp_pgr: open failed: error = 6 dev=0x24/0xD0 NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1062 dmp_restore_node: Unstable path 18/0x230 will not be available for I/O until 300 seconds NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1061 dmp_restore_node: The path 18/0x2 has not yet aged - 299 NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o error occurred (errno=0x6) on dmpnode 36/0xD0 .. .. B. DMP metanode/path under DMP metanode gets disabled unexpectedly. DESCRIPTION: A. DMP caches the last discovery NDELAY open for the BCV dmpnode paths. BCV device switching to read-write mode is an array side operation. Typically in such cases, the system administrators are required to run the following command: 1. vxdisk rm OR In case of parallel backup jobs, 1. vxdisk offline 2. vxdisk online This causes DMP to close cached open, and during the next discovery, the device is opened in read-write mode. If the above steps are skipped then it causes the DMP device to go in state where one of the paths is in read-write mode and the others remain in NDELAY mode. If the above layers request for NORMAL open, then the DMP has the code to close NDELAY cached open and reopen in NORMAL mode. When the dmpnode is online, this happens only for one of the paths of dmpnode. B. DMP performs error analysis for paths on which I/O has failed. In some cases, the SCSI probes are sent, failed with the return value/sense codes that are not handled by DMP. This causes the paths to get disabled. RESOLUTION: A. The code is modified for the DMP EMC ASL (Array Support Library) to handle case A for EMC Symmetrix arrays. B. The DMP code is modified to handle the SCSI conditions correctly for case B. * 3449714 (Tracking ID: 3417185) SYMPTOM: Rebooting the host, after the exclusion of a dmpnode while I/O is in progress on it, leads to the vxconfigd(1M) to dump core. DESCRIPTION: The function which deletes the path after exclusion, does not update the corresponding data structures properly. Consequently, rebooting the host, after the exclusion of a dmpnode while I/O is in progress on it, leads to the vxconfigd(1M) to dump core with the following stack: ddl_find_devno_in_table() ddl_get_disk_policy() devintf_add_autoconfig_main() devintf_add_autoconfig() mode_set() req_vold_enable() request_loop() main() RESOLUTION: The code is modified to update the data structure properly. * 3452709 (Tracking ID: 3317430) SYMPTOM: The vxdiskunsetup(1M) utility reports error during execution with the following error message: "Device unexport failed: Operation is not supported". DESCRIPTION: The vxdisksetup(1M) utility calls the Avxdisk unexportA command without checking if the disk is exported or the CVM protocol version. When the bits are upgraded from 5.1SP1RP4, the CVM protocol version is not updated, which causes the error. RESOLUTION: The code is modified so that the Avxdisk unexportA is called after proper checks. * 3452727 (Tracking ID: 3279932) SYMPTOM: The vxdisksetup and vxdiskunsetup utilities were failing on disk which is part of deported disk group (DG), even if '-f' option is specified. The vxdisksetup command fails with following error: VxVM vxedpart ERROR V-5-1-10089 partition modification failed : Device or resource busy The vxdiskunsetup command fails following error: VxVM vxdisk ERROR ERROR V-5-1-0 Device appears to be owned by disk group . Use -f option to force destroy. VxVM vxdiskunsetup ERROR V-5-2-5052 : Disk destroy failed. DESCRIPTION: The vxdisksetup and vxdiskunsetup utilities internally call the 'vxdisk' utility. Due to a defect in vxdisksetup and vxdiskunsetup, the vxdisk operation used to fail on disk which is part of deported DG, even if '-f' operation is requested by user. RESOLUTION: Code changes are done to the vxdisksetup and vxdiskunsetup utilities so that when "-f" option is specified the operation succeeds. * 3452811 (Tracking ID: 3445120) SYMPTOM: Change of the Avol_min_lowme_szA tunable triggers early readback. DESCRIPTION: Default value of the Avol_min_lowmem_szA tunable is not consistent on all platforms. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to set the default value of tunable to 32MB on all platforms. * 3453105 (Tracking ID: 3079819) SYMPTOM: In Cluster Volume Manager(CVM), configuration backup and configuration restore operations fail on FSS disk groups. DESCRIPTION: When CVM takes configuration backup and does configuration restoration of disk groups, CVM carries out SCSI inquiry on disks belonging to a disk group. If a disk group has remote, lfailed, or lmissing disks on the specific node of a cluster, SCSI inquiry on such disks fails as node does not have connectivity to such disks. As a result, configuration backup and configuration restore may fail. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to address the afore-mentioned issue in the FSS environment, so that CVM only considers the disks physically connected to a node for configuration backup and restore. * 3453163 (Tracking ID: 3331769) SYMPTOM: Latest disk group configuration fails to get restored while the disk group configuration corresponding to the old backup is restored. DESCRIPTION: When the configuration backup of a disk group is restored, the private region content gets updated on the disk. If the configuration backup is taken for the first time, the vxconfigbackup(1M) commands reads the data from the disk and updates the buffer cache in turn. If you modify the disk group configuration and take a backup again within a short span, vxconfigbackup(1M) gets the data from the buffer cache. In such cases, buffer cache has the stale data, and hence vxconfigbackup(1M) backs up old configuration data again. Vxconfigrestore(1M) fails to restore the latest configuration when it is invoked on the backup. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to make sure vxconfigbackup always queries for the required configuration data from disk and bypass the buffer cache. * 3455455 (Tracking ID: 3409612) SYMPTOM: Fails to run "vxtune reclaim_on_delete_start_time " if the specified value is outside the range of 22:00-03:59 (E.g. setting it to 04:00 or 19:30 fails). DESCRIPTION: Tunable reclaim_on_delete_start_time can be set to any time value within 00:00 to 23:59. But because of the wrong regular expression to parse time, it cannot be set to all values in 00:00 - 23:59. RESOLUTION: The regular expression has been updated to parse time format correctly. Now all values in 00:00-23:59 can be set. * 3456729 (Tracking ID: 3428025) SYMPTOM: When heavy parallel I/O load is issued, the system that runs Symantec Replication Option (VVR) and is configured as VVR primary panics with the stack: vol_alloc() vol_zalloc() volsio_alloc_kc_types() vol_subdisk_iogen_base() volobject_iogen() vol_rv_iogen() volobject_iogen() vol_rv_batch_write_start() volkcontext_process() vol_rv_start_next_batch() vol_rv_batch_write_done() [...] vol_rv_batch_write_done() volkcontext_process() vol_rv_start_next_batch() vol_rv_batch_write_done() volkcontext_process() vol_rv_start_next_batch() vol_rv_batch_kio() volkiostart() vol_linux_kio_start() vol_fsvm_strategy() DESCRIPTION: Heavy parallel I/O load leads to I/O throttling in Symantec Replication Option (VVR). Improper throttle handling leads to kernel stack overflow. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to handle I/O throttle correctly, which avoids stack overflow and subsequent panic. * 3458036 (Tracking ID: 3418830) SYMPTOM: The node boot-up hangs while starting the vxconfigd(1M)daemon. It happens when the '/etc/VRTSvcs/conf/sysname' file or the '/etc/vx/vxvm-hostprefix' file is not present. You can see the following messages on the console. # Starting up VxVM ... # VxVM general startup... After these messages, the system hangs. DESCRIPTION: While generating a unique prefix, we call scanf instead of sscanf for fetching the prefix. So while starting the vxconfigd(1M) daemon, the system waits for some user inputs because of scanf, which results in the hang. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to address this issue. * 3458799 (Tracking ID: 3197987) SYMPTOM: When the Avxddladm assign names file=A command is executed and the file has one or more invalid values for enclosure vendor ID or product ID, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon dumps core. DESCRIPTION: When the input file that is provided to the Avxddladm assign names file=A command has invalid vendor ID or product ID, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon is unable to find the corresponding enclosure that is referred and makes an invalid memory reference. The following stack trace can be seen: strncasecmp() from /lib/libc.so.6 ddl_load_namefile() req_ddl_set_names() request_loop() main() RESOLUTION: The code is modified to make the vxconfigd(1M) daemon verify the validity of input vendor ID and product ID before it makes a memory reference to the corresponding enclosure in its internal data structures. * 3470346 (Tracking ID: 3377383) SYMPTOM: vxconfigd crashes when a disk under DMP reports device failure. After this, the following error will be seen when a VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager)command is excuted:- "VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible" DESCRIPTION: If a disk fails and reports certain failure to DMP (Veritas Dynamic Multipathing), then vxconfigd crashes because that error is not handled properly. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to properly handle the device failures reported by a failed disk under DMP. * 3484547 (Tracking ID: 3383625) SYMPTOM: When a cluster node that contributes the storage to the FSS (Flexible Storage Sharing) disk group rejoins the cluster, the local disks brought back by that node do not get reattached. DESCRIPTION: When any cluster node that contributes the storage to the FSS (Flexible Storage Sharing) disk group rejoins the cluster, the vxattachd daemon fails to identify the local disks of the joiner and hence the local disks brought back by that node are not available to the other cluster nodes. RESOLUTION: The code is modified to identify the disks properly. * 3498795 (Tracking ID: 3394926) SYMPTOM: During cluster reconfiguration, VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) commands hang intermittently with the below stack on a slave node in a CVM (Veritas Cluster Volume Manager) environment with Flexible Storage Sharing(FSS) feature in use: vol_commit_iowait_objects+ volktcvm_kmsgwait_objects volktcvm_iolock_wait vol_ktrans_commit volconfig_ioctl volsioctl_real vols_ioctl vols_compat_ioctl DESCRIPTION: During transaction if a joining node attempts to perform error processing and if it gets aborted then this may lead to VxVM commands getting hung as I/O drain will not proceed on slave node due to FSS diskgroup on CVM. RESOLUTION: Code changes are made to handle this case. INSTALLING THE PATCH -------------------- Run the Installer script to automatically install the patch: ----------------------------------------------------------- To install the patch perform the following steps on at least one node in the cluster: 1. Copy the patch sfha-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.1.1.400.tar.gz to /tmp 2. Untar sfha-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.1.1.400.tar.gz to /tmp/hf # mkdir /tmp/hf # cd /tmp/hf # gunzip /tmp/sfha-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.1.1.400.tar.gz # tar xf /tmp/sfha-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.1.1.400.tar 3. Install the hotfix # pwd /tmp/hf # ./installSFHA611P400 [ ...] You can also install this patch together with 6.1.1 maintenance release using Install Bundles 1. Download this patch and extract it to a directory 2. Change to the Veritas InfoScale 6.1.1 directory and invoke the installmr script with -patch_path option where -patch_path should point to the patch directory # ./installmr -patch_path [] [ ...] Install the patch manually: -------------------------- Perform the following steps on the node on which this patch is being applied: 1. Take backup of your configurations 2. Stop VCS 3. Install the patch 4. Restart VCS on the node Stopping VCS on the cluster node -------------------------------- 1. Ensure that the /opt/VRTSvcs/bin directory is included in your PATH environment variable so that you can execute all the VCS commands. Refer to Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide for more information. 2. Freeze all the service groups persistently. # haconf -makerw # hagrp -freeze [group] -persistent 3. If the cluster is writable, you may close the configuration before stopping the cluster. Stop the cluster on this node: # haconf -dump -makero run the following command: # hastop -local -force Verify that the cluster is stopped by running the ha command: # hasys -state make sure that both had and hashadow processes are stopped. Also, stop the VCS CmdServer: # CmdServer -stop 4. Stop the cluster services in order: - For VxFEN: # /etc/init.d/vxfen stop - For GAB: # /etc/init.d/gab stop - For LLT # /etc/init.d/llt stop Note: Stop any other services depending on GAB Installing the Patch -------------------- 1. Un-compress the downloaded patch and change the directory to the uncompressed patch location. Install the patch using the following command: # rpm -Uvh VRTSllt-6.1.1.300-RHEL6.x86_64.rpm 2. Run the following command to verify if the new patch has been installed: # rpm -q VRTSllt If the proper patch is installed, the following output is displayed: VRTSllt-6.1.1.300-RHEL6.x86_64 Re-starting the cluster services: -------------------------------- 1. To start the cluster services in order run the following commands: - For LLT: # /etc/init.d/llt start - For GAB: # /etc/init.d/gab start - For VxFEN: # /etc/init.d/vxfen start - For VCS: # hastart # /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/CmdServer 2. Make VCS cluster writable: # haconf -makerw 3. Unfreeze all the groups: # hagrp -unfreeze [group] -persistent # haconf -dump -makero For LVMCONV rpm, o Select the appropriate RPMs for your system, and install the new patch. # rpm -ihv VRTSlvmconv-6.1.1.500-GA_RHEL6.i686.rpm For upgrading the path: o Select the appropriate RPMs for your system, and upgrade to the new patch. # rpm -Uhv VRTSlvmconv-6.1.1.500-GA_RHEL6.i686.rpm For VM rpm, o Before-the-upgrade :- (a) Stop I/Os to all the VxVM volumes. (b) Umount any filesystems with VxVM volumes. (c) Stop applications using any VxVM volumes. o Select the appropriate RPMs for your system, and upgrade to the new patch. # rpm -Uhv VRTSvxvm-6.1.1.500-RHEL6.x86_64.rpm You can also install this patch together with 7.1 GA release using Install Bundles 1. Download this patch and extract it to a directory 2. Change to the Veritas InfoScale 7.1 directory and invoke the installer script with -patch_path option where -patch_path should point to the patch directory. # ./installer -patch_path [patch path] [host1 host2...] REMOVING THE PATCH ------------------ Removal of the patch will result in removing the whole package from the system/node. To go back to a previous installed version of the package, you may need to re-install the package. Run the following steps on the node where the patch is being uninstalled: To remove the patch from a cluster node: --------------------------------------------- 1. Freeze all the service groups persistently. # haconf -makerw # hagrp -freeze [group] -persistent 2. Stop VCS by following the stop sequence as mentioned in the PATCH INSTALLATION section. 3. Remove the patch by using the following command: # rpm -e VRTSllt --nodeps 4. Verify that the patch has been removed from the system: # rpm -qa|grep VRTSllt Ensure that the package is not displayed. This confirms that the package is removed. 5. Install the relevant package from the VCS base media. Also refer to SORT for any applicable patches. 6. To start the cluster service, follow the start sequence as mentioned in the PATCH INSTALLATION section. 7. Unfreeze all the groups. # hagrp -unfreeze [group] -persistent # haconf -dump -makero SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS -------------------- NONE OTHERS ------ NONE