* * * READ ME * * *
                      * * * InfoScale 7.4.1 * * *
                         * * * Patch 3100 * * *
                         Patch Date: 2022-01-14


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
   * KNOWN ISSUES


PATCH NAME
----------
InfoScale 7.4.1 Patch 3100


OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH
----------------------------------------
RHEL8 x86-64


PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH
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VRTSamf
VRTSaslapm
VRTScavf
VRTScps
VRTSdbac
VRTSdbed
VRTSgab
VRTSglm
VRTSgms
VRTSllt
VRTSodm
VRTSpython
VRTSsfcpi
VRTSsfmh
VRTSvcs
VRTSvcsag
VRTSvcsea
VRTSveki
VRTSvlic
VRTSvxfen
VRTSvxfs
VRTSvxvm


BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH
-----------------------------------
   * InfoScale Availability 7.4.1
   * InfoScale Enterprise 7.4.1
   * InfoScale Foundation 7.4.1
   * InfoScale Storage 7.4.1


SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
---------------------------------------
Patch ID: VRTSglm-7.4.1.2900
* 4037956 (4037621) GLM module failed to load on RHEL8.4
Patch ID: VRTSglm-7.4.1.2800
* 4014715 (4011596) man page changes for glmdump
* 4016408 (4018213) GLM module failed to load on RHEL8.3
Patch ID: VRTSglm-7.4.1.1700
* 3999030 (3999029) GLM module failed to unload because of VCS service hold.
* 4001383 (4001382) GLM module failed to load on RHEL8.2
Patch ID: VRTSgms-7.4.1.3400
* 4057175 (4057176) Rebooting the system results into emergency mode due to corruption of module dependency files.
* 4061465 (4061644) GMS failed to start after the kernel upgrade.
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.3300
* 4050664 (4046199) LLT configurations over UDP accept only ethernet interface names as link tag names.
* 4051040 (3989372) When the CPU load and memory consumption is high in a VMware environment, some nodes in an InfoScale cluster may get fenced out.
* 4054272 (4045607) Performance improvement of the UDP multiport feature of LLT on 1500 MTU-based networks.
* 4054697 (3985775) Sometimes, the system log may get flooded with LLT heartbeat loss messages that do not necessarily indicate any actual issues with LLT.
* 4058763 (4057310) After an InfoScale upgrade, the updated values of LLT and GAB tunables that are used when loading the corresponding modules fail to persist.
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.3200
* 4053179 (4053171) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2900
* 4022791 (4022792) A cluster node panics during an FSS I/O transfer over LLT.
* 4029112 (4029253) LLT may not reuse the buffer slots on which NAK is received from the earlier RDMA writes.
* 4037049 (4037048) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2800
* 3999398 (3989440) The dash (-) in the device name may cause the LLT link configuration to fail.
* 4002584 (3994996) Adding -H miscellaneous flag to add new functionalities in lltconfig. Add a tunable to allow skb alloc with SLEEP flag.
* 4003442 (3983418) In a rare case, after a panic or a reboot of a node, it may fail to join the CVM master due to an inconsistent LLT port state on the master.
* 4010546 (4018581) The LLT module fails to start and the system log messages indicate missing IP address.
* 4016483 (4016484) The vxexplorer utility panics the node on which it runs if the LLT version on the node is llt-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.2100 or later.
* 4019676 (4019674) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2200
* 4012089 (4002150) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2100
* 4002151 (4002150) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.1600
* 3990017 (3990016) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).
Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.3300
* 4019290 (4012396) The AzureDisk agent needs to support the latest Azure Storage SDK.
* 4042947 (4042944) In a hardware replication environment, a disk group resource may fail to be imported when the HARDWARE_MIRROR flag is set.
* 4054269 (4030215) The InfoScale agents for Azure agents did not support credential validation methods based on the azure-identity library.
* 4054270 (4057550) The InfoScale agents for Azure do not handle generic exceptions.
* 4054273 (4044567) The HostMonitor agent faults while logging the memory usage of a system.
* 4054276 (4048164) When a cloud API that an InfoScale agent has called hangs, an unwanted failover of the associated service group may occur.
Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.3200
* 4021371 (4021370) The AWSIP and EBSVol resources fail to come online when IMDSv2 is used for requesting instance metadata.
* 4028124 (4027915) Processes configured for HA using the ProcessOnOnly agent get killed during shutdown or reboot, even if they are still in use.
* 4038915 (1837967) Application agent falsely detects an application as faulted, due to corruption caused by non-redirected STDOUT or STDERR.
* 4038916 (3860766) HostMonitor agent shows incorrect swap space usage in the agent logs.
* 4038919 (4038906) In case of ESXi 6.7, the VMwareDisks agent fails to perform a failover on a peer node.
* 4042947 (4042944) In a hardware replicated environment, a disk group resource may fail to import when the HARDWARE_MIRROR flag is set
Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.2900
* 4021371 (4021370) The AWSIP and EBSVol resources fail to come online when IMDSv2 is used for requesting instance metadata.
* 4028124 (4027915) Processes configured for HA using the ProcessOnOnly agent get killed during shutdown or reboot, even if they are still in use.
Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.2800
* 3984343 (3982300) A warning message related to the process priority is logged in the ProcessOnOnly agent log every minute.
* 4006950 (4006979) When the AzureDisk resource comes online on a cluster node, it goes into the UNKNOWN state on all the other nodes.
* 4009762 (4009761) A lower NFSRestart resoure fails to come online within the duration specified in OnlineTimeout when the share directory for NFSv4 lock state information contains millions of small files.
* 4016488 (4007764) The NFS locks related log file is flooded with the "sync_dir:copy failed for link" error messages.
* 4016625 (4016624) When a disk group is forcibly imported with ClearClone enabled, different DGIDs are assigned to the associated disks.
Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.3300
* 4054264 (4046413) After a node is added to or removed from a cluster, the GAB node count or the fencing quorum is not updated.
* 4054265 (4046418) The GAB module starts up even if LLT is not configured.
* 4060792 (4057312) Load time GAB tunables fail to persist the updated value after upgrade.
Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.3200
* 4053180 (4053171) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).
Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.2900
* 4037949 (4037048) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).
Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.2800
* 4016486 (4011683) The GAB module failed to start and the system log messages indicate failures with the mknod command.
* 4016487 (4007726) When a GAB message that is longer than the value specified by GAB_MAX_MSGSIZE is transfered, an error message is added to the VCS logs. However the error message is not sufficiently descriptive.
* 4019677 (4019674) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).
Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.2100
* 4002152 (4002150) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).
Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.1600
* 3990018 (3990016) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).
Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.3300
* 4051532 (4057308) After an InfoScale upgrade, the updated values of vxfen tunables that are used when loading the corresponding module fail to persist.
Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.3200
* 4053182 (4053171) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).
Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.2900
* 4028780 (4029261) An entire InfoScale cluster may go down unexpectedly if one of its nodes receives a RECONFIG message during a shutdown or a restart operation.
* 4037951 (4037048) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).
Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.2800
* 4000746 (4000745) The VxFEN process fails to start due to late discovery of the VxFEN disk group.
* 4019680 (4019674) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.3400
* 4056672 (4056673) Rebooting the system results into emergency mode due to corruption of module dependency files. Incorrect vxgms dependency in odm service file.
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.3200
* 3983992 (3868609) High CPU usage by vxfs thread.
* 4052886 (4052885) ODM support for RHEL 8.5.
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.3100
* 4040934 (4040933) VRTSodm driver will not load with VRTSvxfs patch.
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2900
* 4037955 (4037575) ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.4
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2800
* 4018202 (4018200) ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.3
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2600
* 4011973 (4012094) VRTSodm driver will not load with 7.4.1.2600 VRTSvxfs patch.
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2100
* 4001381 (4001380) ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.2
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.1600
* 3989416 (3989415) ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.1
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.3400
* 4026389 (4026388) Unable to unpin a file back after pinning while testing SMARTIO.
* 4050229 (4018995) Panic in AIX while doing read ahead of size greater than 4 GB.
* 4053149 (4043084) panic in vx_cbdnlc_lookup
* 4054243 (4014274) Gsed cmd might report a bad address error
* 4054244 (4052449) Cluster goes in an 'unresponsive' mode while invalidating pages due to duplicate page entries in iowr structure.
* 4054387 (4054386) If systemd service fails to load vxfs module, the service still shows status as active instead of failed.
* 4054412 (4042254) A new feature has been added in vxupgrade which fails disk-layout upgrade if sufficient space is not available in the filesystem.
* 4054416 (4005620) Internal counter of inodes from Inode Allocation Unit (IAU) can be negative if IAU is marked bad.
* 4054724 (4018697) After installing InfoScale 7.4.2, the system fails to start.
* 4054725 (4051108) While storing multiple attributes for a file in an immediate area of inode, system might be unresponsive due to a wrong loop increment statement.
* 4054726 (4051026) If file system is created with inode size 512, the file system might report inconsistencies with the bitmap after running fsck .
* 4055858 (4042925) Intermittent Performance issue on commands like df and ls.
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.3300
* 4006837 (3987722) Reset v_path on vnode when VxFS reuses inode from the delicache list on Solaris.
* 4044557 (4037035) VxFS should have the ability to control the number of inactive processing threads.
* 4046828 (3993943) A core dump occurs and the fsck operation fails on a file system.
* 4050227 (3946098) An output of the 'mount -v' command, when run on Linux, contains a typographical error.
* 4052884 (4052883) VxFS support for RHEL 8.5.
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.3200
* 3983991 (3864111) The vx_nospace encountered randomly when starting Oracle DB on file system with
multiple checkpoints.
* 3983996 (3941620) Memory starvation during heavy write activity.
* 3989587 (3989588) Mark FCL bad for fileset (checkpoint) and deactivate FCL
* 4039671 (4021368) FSCK fails with below error 
             "UX:vxfs fsck: ERROR: V-3-26113: bc_getfreebuf internal error"
* 4042130 (3993822) fsck stops running on a file system
* 4042685 (4042684) ODM resize fails for size 8192.
* 4042983 (3990168) Accommodation of new interpretation of error from bio structure in linux kernel greater than 4.12.14
* 4043494 (3985749) Observed hang in internal fsdedup test
* 4044639 (4013139) The abort operation on an ongoing online migration from the native file system to VxFS on RHEL 8.x systems.
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2900
* 4016080 (4008520) CFS hang in vx_searchau().
* 4016081 (4009728) Panic while trying to add a hard link.
* 4018971 (4012544) Unmounting of bind mounted filesystem which is bound to VxFS mount locked filesystem fails with error.
* 4018972 (4017303) Bind mount of source directory on VxFS fails to unmount, after source directory is removed. Following error is displayed.
umount.vxfs: INFO: V-3-28386:  /mnt2: is not a VxFS filesystem.
* 4020914 (4020758) Filesystem mount or fsck with -y may see hang during log replay
* 4022224 (4012049) Documented "metasave" option and added one new option in fsck binary.
* 4022225 (4012049) Documented "metasave" option and added one new option in fsck binary.
* 4037954 (4037420) VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.4
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2800
* 3976693 (4016085) fsdb command "xxxiau" refers wrong device to dump information
* 4004182 (4004181) Read the value of VxFS compliance clock
* 4004927 (3983350) Secondary may falsely assume that the ilist extent is pushed and do the allocation, even if the actual push transaction failed on primary.
* 4014718 (4011596) man page changes for glmdump
* 4015824 (4015278) System panics during vx_uiomove_by _hand.
* 4016077 (4009328) In cluster filesystem, unmount hang could be observed if smap is marked bad previously.
* 4016082 (4000465) FSCK binary loops when it detects break in sequence of log ids.
* 4016407 (4018197) VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.3
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2600
* 3983165 (3975019) Under IO load running with NFS v4 using NFS lease, may panic the server
* 3998797 (3998162) If the file system is disabled while iau allocation log replay may fail for this intermediate state.
* 4001941 (3998931) Mount fails for the target filesystem while doing migration from ext4 to vxfs.
* 4001942 (3992665) Panic occurs at vx_mig_linux_getxattr_int/vx_mig_linux_setxattr_int  due to "kernel NULL pointer dereference".
* 4002742 (4002740) Dalloc tunable gets enabled on CFS secondary.
* 4002986 (3994123) Running fsck on a system may show LCT count mismatch errors
* 4005377 (3982291) ncheck command failure to allocate memory
* 4006832 (3987533) Mount is failing because of incorrect check in solaris env.
* 4010354 (3993935) Fsck command of vxfs may hit segmentation fault.
* 4011363 (4003395) System got panicked during upgrading IS 6.2.1 to IS 7.4.2 using phased upgrade.
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2200
* 3986794 (3992718) On CFS, read on clone's overlay attribute inode results in ERROR if clone is marked for removal and its the last clone being removed case, during attribute inode removal in inode inactivation process.
* 3989317 (3989303) In case of reconfig seen hang when fsck hits coredump and coredump is stuck in vx_statvfs() on rhel8 and sles15 where OS systemd coredump utility calls vx_statvfs(). This blocks recovery thread on FS.
* 3995201 (3990257) VxFS may face buffer overflow in case of doing I/O on File Change Log (FCL) file through Userspace Input Output (UIO) interface
* 3997065 (3996947) FSCK operation may behave incorrectly or hang
* 3998169 (3998168) vxresize operations results in system freeze for 8-10 mins causing application 
hangs and VCS timeouts
* 3998394 (3983958) Code changes have been done to return proper error code while performing open/read/write operations on a removed checkpoint.
* 4001379 (4001378) VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.2
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.1600
* 3989413 (3989412) VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.1
Patch ID: VRTSpython-3.6.6.10
* 4056525 (4049692) Additional Python modules are required in the VRTSpython package to support changes in the InfoScale licensing component.
Patch ID: VRTSvlic-4.01.741.300
* 4049416 (4049416) Migrate Licensing Collector service from Java to Python.
Patch ID: VRTScavf-7.4.1.3400
* 4056567 (4054462) In a hardware replication environment, a shared disk group resource may fail to be imported when the HARDWARE_MIRROR flag is set.
Patch ID: VRTSveki-7.4.1.3300
* 4056103 (3992450) VRTSveki installation is failing.
Patch ID: VRTSvcsea-7.4.1.3300
* 4054325 (4043289) In an Oracle ASM 19c environment on Solaris, the ASMInst agent fails to come online or to detect the state of the related resources.
Patch ID: VRTSvcsea-7.4.1.3100
* 4044135 (4044136) Package installation failed on CentOS platform.
Patch ID: VRTSvcsea-7.4.1.1600
* 3982248 (3989510) The VCS agent for Oracle does not support Oracle 19c databases.
Patch ID: VRTSvcs-7.4.1.3300
* 4054266 (4040705) When a command exceeds 4096 characters, hacli hangs indefinitely.
* 4054267 (4040656) When the ENOMEM error occurs, HAD does not shut down gracefully.
* 4054271 (4043700) In case of failover, parallel, or hybrid service groups, multiple PreOnline triggers can be executed on the same node or on different nodes in a cluster while an online operation is in already progress.
Patch ID: VRTSvcs-7.4.1.2900
* 4026815 (4026819) When IPv6 is disabled, non-root guest users cannot run HAD CLI commands.
Patch ID: VRTSvcs-7.4.1.2800
* 3995684 (3995685) Discrepancy in engine log messages of PR and DR site in GCO configuration.
* 4012318 (4012518) The gcoconfig command does not accept "." in the interface name.
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.3400
* 4054323 (4001565) On Solaris 11.4, IMF fails to provide notifications when Oracle processes stop.
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.3300
* 4045476 (4041596) A cluster node panics when the arguments passed to a process that is registered with AMF exceeds 8K characters.
* 4053181 (4053171) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.3200
* 4044340 (4041703) The system panics when the Mount and the CFSMount agents fail to register with AMF.
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.2900
* 4037950 (4037048) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.2800
* 4019003 (4018791) A cluster node panics when the AMF module attempts to access an executable binary or a script using its absolute path.
* 4019679 (4019674) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.2100
* 4002154 (4002150) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).
Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.1600
* 3990020 (3990016) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.3300
* 3984175 (3917636) Filesystems from /etc/fstab file are not mounted automatically on boot through systemd on RHEL7 and SLES12.
* 4011097 (4010794) When storage activity was going on, Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) caused system panic in a cluster.
* 4039527 (4018086) The system hangs when the RVG in DCM resync with SmartMove is set to ON.
* 4045494 (4021939) The "vradmin syncvol" command fails due to recent changes related to binding sockets without specifying IP addresses.
* 4051815 (4031597) vradmind generates a core dump in __strncpy_sse2_unaligned.
* 4051887 (3956607) A core dump occurs when you run the vxdisk reclaim command.
* 4051889 (4019182) In case of a VxDMP configuration, an InfoScale server panics when applying a patch.
* 4051896 (4010458) In a Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) environment, the rlink might inconsistently disconnect due to unexpected transactions.
* 4055653 (4049082) I/O read error is displayed when remote FSS node rebooting.
* 4055660 (4046007) The private disk region gets corrupted if the cluster name is changed in FSS environment.
* 4055668 (4045871) vxconfigd crashed at ddl_get_disk_given_path.
* 4055697 (4047793) Unable to import diskgroup even replicated disks are in SPLIT mode
* 4055772 (4043337) logging fixes for VVR
* 4055895 (4038865) The system panics due to deadlock between inode_hash_lock and DMP shared lock.
* 4055899 (3993242) vxsnap prepare command when run on vset sometimes fails.
* 4055905 (4052191) Unexcepted scripts or commands are run due to an incorrect comments format in the vxvm-configure script.
* 4055925 (4031064) Master switch operation is hung in VVR secondary environment.
* 4055938 (3999073) The file system corrupts when the cfsmount group goes into offline state.
* 4056107 (4036181) Volumes that are under a RVG (Replicated Volume Group), report an IO error.
* 4056124 (4008664) System panic when signal vxlogger daemon that has ended.
* 4056144 (3906534) After Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) Native support is enabled, /boot should to be mounted on the DMP device.
* 4056146 (3983832) VxVM commands hang in CVR environment.
* 4056832 (4057526) Adding check for init while accessing /var/lock/subsys/ path in vxnm-vxnetd.sh script.
* 4056121 (4003617) Vxconfigd daemon dump core during node join operation
* 4056154 (3975081) DMP (Dynamic Multipathing) Native support fails to get enabled after reboot.
* 4056918 (3995648) Import of disk group in Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) with missing disks can lead to data corruption.
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.3200
* 3984156 (3852146) A shared disk group (DG) fails to be imported when "-c" and "-o noreonline" are specified together.
* 3984175 (3917636) Filesystems from /etc/fstab file are not mounted automatically on boot 
through systemd on RHEL7 and SLES12.
* 4041285 (4044583) A system goes into the maintenance mode when DMP is enabled to manage native devices.
* 4042039 (4040897) Add support for HPE MSA 2060 arrays in the current ASL.
* 4050892 (3991668) In a Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) configuration where secondary logging is enabled, data inconsistency is reported after the "No IBC message arrived" error is encountered.
* 4051457 (3958062) After a boot LUN is migrated, enabling and disabling dmp_native_support fails.
* 4051815 (4031597) vradmind generates a core dump in __strncpy_sse2_unaligned.
* 4051887 (3956607) A core dump occurs when you run the vxdisk reclaim command.
* 4051889 (4019182) In case of a VxDMP configuration, an InfoScale server panics when applying a patch.
* 4051896 (4010458) In a Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) environment, the rlink might inconsistently disconnect due to unexpected transactions.
* 4051968 (4023390) Vxconfigd keeps dump core as invalid private region offset on a disk.
* 4051985 (4031587) Filesystems are not mounted automatically on boot through systemd.
* 4053231 (4053230) VxVM support for RHEL 8.5
* 4053234 (4053233) ASL-APM support for RHEL 8.5
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.3100
* 4017284 (4011691) High CPU consumption on the VVR secondary nodes because of high pending IO load.
* 4039240 (4027261) World writable permission not required for /var/VRTSvxvm/in.vxrsyncd.stderr and /var/adm/vx/vxdmpd.log
* 4039242 (4008075) Observed with ASL changes for NVMe, This issue observed in reboot scenario. For every reboot machine was hitting panic And this was happening in loop.
* 4039244 (4010612) This issue observed for NVMe and ssd. where every disk has separate enclosure like nvme0, nvme1... so on. means every nvme/ssd disks names would be 
hostprefix_enclosurname0_disk0, hostprefix_enclosurname1_disk0....
* 4039249 (3984240) AIX builds were failing on AIX7.2
* 4039525 (4012763) IO hang may happen in VVR (Veritas Volume Replicator) configuration when SRL overflows for one rlink while another one rlink is in AUTOSYNC mode.
* 4039526 (4034616) vol_seclog_limit_ioload tunable needs to be enabled on Linux only.
* 4040842 (4009353) Post enabling dmp native support machine is going in to mantaince mode
* 4044174 (4044072) I/Os fail for NVMe disks with 4K block size on the RHEL 8.4 kernel.
* 4045494 (4021939) The "vradmin syncvol" command fails due to recent changes related to binding sockets without specifying IP addresses.
* 4045502 (4045501) The VRTSvxvm and the VRTSaslapm packages fail to install on Centos 8.4 systems.
* 4039241 (4010667) NVMe devices are not detected by Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) on RHEL 8.
* 4039527 (4018086) system hang was observed when RVG was in DCM resync with SmartMove as ON.
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2900
* 4013643 (4010207) System panicked due to hard-lockup due to a spinlock not released properly during the vxstat collection.
* 4023762 (4020046) DRL log plex gets detached unexpectedly.
* 4031342 (4031452) vxesd core dump in esd_write_fc()
* 4033162 (3968279) Vxconfigd dumping core for NVME disk setup.
* 4033163 (3959716) System may panic with sync replication with VVR configuration, when the RVG is in DCM mode.
* 4033172 (3994368) vxconfigd daemon abort cause I/O write error
* 4033173 (4021301) Data corruption issue observed in VxVM on RHEL8.
* 4033216 (3993050) vxdctl dumpmsg command gets stuck on large node cluster
* 4033515 (3984266) DCM flag in on the RVG volume may get deactivated after a master switch, which may cause excessive RVG recovery after subsequent node reboots.
* 4035313 (4037915) VxVM 7.4.1 support for RHEL 8.4 compilation errors
* 4036426 (4036423) Race condition while reading config file in docker volume plugin caused the issue in Flex Appliance.
* 4037331 (4037914) BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
* 4037810 (3977101) Hitting core in write_sol_part()
* 4017906 (4017905) Modifying current ASL to support VSPEx series array.
* 4022943 (4017656) Add support for XP8 arrays in the current ASL.
* 4037946 (4037958) ASLAPM support for RHEL 8.4 on IS 7.4.1
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2800
* 3984155 (3976678) vxvm-recover:  cat: write error: Broken pipe error encountered in syslog.
* 4016283 (3973202) A VVR primary node may panic due to accessing already freed memory.
* 4016291 (4002066) Panic and Hang seen in reclaim
* 4016768 (3989161) The system panic occurs when dealing with getting log requests from vxloggerd.
* 4017194 (4012681) If vradmind process terminates due to some reason, it is not properly restarted by RVG agent of VCS.
* 4017502 (4020166) Vxvm Support on RHEL8 Update3
* 4019781 (4020260) Failed to activate/set tunable dmp native support for Centos 8
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2700
* 3984163 (3978216) 'Device mismatch warning' seen on boot when DMP native support is enabled with LVM snapshot of root disk present
* 4010517 (3998475) Unmapped PHYS read I/O split across stripes gives incorrect data leading to data corruption.
* 4010996 (4010040) Configuring VRTSvxvm package creates a world writable file: /etc/vx/.vxvvrstatd.lock
* 4011027 (4009107) CA chain certificate verification fails in SSL context.
* 4011097 (4010794) Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) caused system panic in a cluster while there were storage activities going on.
* 4011105 (3972433) IO hang might be seen while issuing heavy IO load on volumes having cache objects.
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2200
* 3992902 (3975667) Softlock in vol_ioship_sender kernel thread
* 3997906 (3987937) VxVM command hang may happen when snapshot volume is configured.
* 4000388 (4000387) VxVM support on RHEL 8.2
* 4001399 (3995946) CVM Slave unable to join cluster - VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-11092 cleanup_client: (Memory allocation failure) 12
* 4001736 (4000130) System panic when DMP co-exists with EMC PP on rhel8/sles12sp4.
* 4001745 (3992053) Data corruption may happen with layered volumes due to some data not re-synced while attaching a plex.
* 4001746 (3999520) vxconfigd may hang waiting for dmp_reconfig_write_lock when the DMP iostat tunable is disabled.
* 4001748 (3991580) Deadlock may happen if IO performed on both source and snapshot volumes.
* 4001750 (3976392) Memory corruption might happen in VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) while processing Plex detach request.
* 4001752 (3969487) Data corruption observed with layered volumes when mirror of the volume is detached and attached back.
* 4001755 (3980684) Kernel panic in voldrl_hfind_an_instant while accessing agenode.
* 4001757 (3969387) VxVM(Veritas Volume Manager) caused system panic when handle received request response in FSS environment.
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.1600
* 3984139 (3965962) No option to disable auto-recovery when a slave node joins the CVM cluster.
* 3984731 (3984730) VxVM logs warning messages when the VxDMP module is stopped or removed for the first time after the system is rebooted
* 3988238 (3988578) Encrypted volume creation fails on RHEL 8
* 3988843 (3989796) RHEL 8.1 support for VxVM
Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.3200
* 4053178 (4053171) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).
Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.2900
* 4037952 (4037048) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).
Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.2800
* 4019681 (4019674) Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).
Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.2100
* 4002155 (4002150) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).
Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.1600
* 3990021 (3990016) Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).
Patch ID: VRTSsfmh-vom-HF0741500
* 4020130 (4020129) VIOM Agent for InfoScale 7.4.1 Update 4
Patch ID: VRTSdbed-7.4.1.3100
* 4044143 (4044136) Package installation failed on CentOS platform.
Patch ID: VRTSdbed-7.4.1.1600
* 3980547 (3989826) The VCS agent for Oracle does not support Oracle 19c databases.
Patch ID: VRTSsfcpi-7.4.1.3100
* 3969748 (3969438) Rolling upgrade fails when local node is specified at the system name prompt on non-fss environment.
* 3970852 (3970848) The CPI configures the product even if you use the -install option while installing the InfoScale Foundation version 7.x or later.
* 3972077 (3972075) Veki fails to unload during patch installation when -patch_path option is used with the installer.
* 3973119 (3973114) While upgrading to Infoscale 7.4, the installer fails to stop vxspec, vxio and
vxdmp as vxcloudd is still running.
* 3979596 (3979603) While upgrading from InfoScale 7.4.1 to 7.4.1.xxx, CPI installs the packages from the 7.4.1.xxx patch only and not the base packages of 7.4.1 GA.
* 3980564 (3980562) CPI does not perform the installation when two InfoScale patch paths are provided, and displays the following message: "CPI ERROR V-9-30-1421 The patch_path and patch2_path patches are both for the same package: VRTSinfoscale".
* 3980944 (3981519) An uninstallation of InfoScale 7.4.1 using response files fails with an error.
* 3985584 (3985583) The addnode operation fails during symmetry check of a new node with other nodes in the cluster.
* 3986468 (3987894) An InfoScale 7.4.1 installation fails even though the installer automatically downloads the appropriate platform support patch from SORT.
* 3986572 (3965602) Rolling upgrade Phase2 fails if a patch is installed as a part of Rolling
upgrade Phase1.
* 3986960 (3986959) The installer fails to install the 'infoscale-sles12.4_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.100' patch on SLES 12 SP4.
* 3987228 (3987171) The installer takes longer than expected time to start installation process.
* 3989085 (3989081) When a system is restarted after a successful VVR configuration, it becomes unresponsive.
* 3989099 (3989098) For SLES15, system clock synchronization using the NTP server fails while configuring server-based fencing.
* 3992222 (3992254) The installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1 on SLES12 SP5.
* 3993898 (3993897) On SLES12 SP4, if the kernel version is not 4.12.14-94.41-default, the installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1.
* 3995826 (3995825) The installer script fails to stop the vxfen service while configuring InfoScale components or applying patches.
* 3999671 (3999669) A single-node HA configuration failed on a NetBackup Appliance system because CollectorService failed to start.
* 4000598 (4000596) The 'showversion' option of the InfoScale 7.4.1 installer fails to download the available maintenance releases or patch releases.
* 4004174 (4004172) On SLES15 SP1, while installing InfoScale 7.4.1 along with product patch, the installer fails to install some of the base rpms and exits with an error.
* 4006619 (4015976) On a Solaris system, patch upgrade of InfoScale fails with an error in the alternate boot environment.
* 4008070 (4008578) Even though a cluster node may have a fully qualified hostname, the product installer trims this value and uses the shorter hostname for the cluster configuration.
* 4012032 (4012031) Installer does not upgrade VRTSvxfs and VRTSodm inside
non-global zones
* 4014984 (4014983) The product installer does not display a warning at the time of the pre-upgrade check to suggest that you will need to provide telemetry details later on if the cluster nodes are not registered with TES or VCR.
* 4015142 (4015139) Product installer fails to install InfoScale on RHEL 8 systems if IPv6 addresses are provided for the system list.
* 4020128 (4020370) The product installer fails to complete a fresh configuration of InfoScale Enterprise on a RHEL 7 system when it fails to stop the vxglm service.
* 4021427 (4021515) On SLES 12 SP4 and later systems, the installer fails to fetch the media speed of the network interfaces.
* 4022784 (4022640) Installer fails to complete installation after it automatically downloads a required support patch from SORT that contains a VRTSvlic package.
* 4029173 (4027759) The product installer installs lower versions packages if multiple patch bundles are specified using the patch path options in the incorrect order.
* 4033989 (4033988) The product installer does not allow the installation of an Infoscale patch bundle if a more recent version of any package in the bundle is already installed on the system.
* 4040893 (4040946) The product installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1 on SLES 15 SP2.
* 4042494 (4042674) The product installer does not honor the single-node mode of a cluster and restarts it in the multi-mode if 'vcs_allowcomms = 1'.
Patch ID: VRTScps-7.4.1.3100
* 4038100 (4034933) After installing VRTScps 6.2.1.002, the following error is logged in cpserver_A.log "CPS CRITICAL V-97-1400-22017 Error executing update nodes set is_reachable..."


DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
---------------------------------------
This patch fixes the following incidents:

Patch ID: VRTSglm-7.4.1.2900

* 4037956 (Tracking ID: 4037621)

SYMPTOM:
GLM module failed to load on RHEL8.4

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.4 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused GLM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support GLM on RHEL8.4.

Patch ID: VRTSglm-7.4.1.2800

* 4014715 (Tracking ID: 4011596)

SYMPTOM:
Man page is missing details about of the feature we support

DESCRIPTION:
Need to include new option "-h" in glmdump in man page for using hacli utility for communicating across the nodes in the cluster.

RESOLUTION:
Added the details about the feature supported by glmdump in man page

* 4016408 (Tracking ID: 4018213)

SYMPTOM:
GLM module failed to load on RHEL8.3

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.3 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused GLM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support GLM on RHEL8.3.

Patch ID: VRTSglm-7.4.1.1700

* 3999030 (Tracking ID: 3999029)

SYMPTOM:
GLM module failed to unload because of VCS service hold.

DESCRIPTION:
GLM module was failed to unload during systemd shutdown because glm service was racing with vcs service. VCS takes hold on GLM which was resulting in failing to unload the module.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to add vcs service dependency in glm.service during systemd shutdown.

* 4001383 (Tracking ID: 4001382)

SYMPTOM:
GLM module failed to load on RHEL8.2

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.2 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused GLM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support GLM on RHEL8.2

Patch ID: VRTSgms-7.4.1.3400

* 4057175 (Tracking ID: 4057176)

SYMPTOM:
Rebooting the system results into emergency mode.

DESCRIPTION:
Module dependency files get corrupted due to parallel invocation of depmod.

RESOLUTION:
Serialized the invocation of depmod through file lock.

* 4061465 (Tracking ID: 4061644)

SYMPTOM:
GMS failed to start after the kernel upgrade with the following error as
"modprobe FATAL Module vxgms not found in directory /lib/modules/>"

DESCRIPTION:
Due to a race GMS module (vxgms.ko) is not copied to the latest kernel location inside /lib/module directory during reboot.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to copy it to the directory.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.3300

* 4050664 (Tracking ID: 4046199)

SYMPTOM:
LLT configurations over UDP accept only ethernet interface names as link tag names.

DESCRIPTION:
The tag field in the link definition accepts only the ethernet interface name as a value.

RESOLUTION:
The LLT module is updated to accept any string a as link tag name.

* 4051040 (Tracking ID: 3989372)

SYMPTOM:
When the CPU load and memory consumption is high in a VMware environment, some nodes in an InfoScale cluster may get fenced out.

DESCRIPTION:
Occasionally, in a VMware environment, the operating system may not schedule LLT contexts on time. Consequently, heartbeats from some of the cluster nodes may be lost, and those nodes may get fenced out. This situation typically occurs when the CPU load or the memory usage is high or when the VMDK snapshot or vMotion operations are in progress.

RESOLUTION:
This fix attempts to make clusters more resilient to transient issues by heartbeating using threads bound to every vCPU.

* 4054272 (Tracking ID: 4045607)

SYMPTOM:
LLT over UDP support for transmission and reception of data over 1500 MTU networks.

DESCRIPTION:
The UDP multiport feature in LLT performs poorly in case of 1500 MTU-based networks. Data packets larger than 1500 bytes cannnot be transmitted over 1500 MTU-based networks, so the IP layer fragments them appropriately for transmission. The loss of a single fragment from the set leads to a total packet (I/O) loss. LLT then retransmits the same packet repeatedly until the transmission is successful. Eventually, you may encounter issues with the Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) feature. For example, the vxprint process or the disk group creation process may stop responding, or the I/O-shipping performance may degrade severely.

RESOLUTION:
The UDP multiport feature of LLT is updated to fragment the packets such that they can be accommodated in the 1500-byte network frame. The fragments are rearranged on the receiving node at the LLT layer. Thus, LLT can track every fragment to the destination, and in case of transmission failures, retransmit the lost fragments based on the current RTT time.

* 4054697 (Tracking ID: 3985775)

SYMPTOM:
Sometimes, the system log may get flooded with LLT heartbeat loss messages that do not necessarily indicate any actual issues with LLT.

DESCRIPTION:
LLT heartbeat loss messages can appear in the system log either due to actual heartbeat drops in the network or due to heartbeat packets arriving out of order. In either case, these messages are only informative and do not indicate any issue in the LLT functionality. Sometimes, the system log may get flooded with these messages, which are not useful.

RESOLUTION:
The LLT module is updated to lower the frequency of printing LLT heartbeat loss messages. This is achieved by increasing the number of missed sequential HB packets required to print this informative message.

* 4058763 (Tracking ID: 4057310)

SYMPTOM:
After an InfoScale upgrade, the updated values of LLT and GAB tunables that are used when loading the corresponding modules fail to persist.

DESCRIPTION:
When the value of a tunable in /etc/sysconfig/llt or /etc/sysconfig/gab is changed before an RPM upgrade, the existing value gets reset to the default value.

RESOLUTION:
The LLT and the GAB modules are updated so that their tunable values in /etc/sysconfig/llt and /etc/sysconfig/gab can retain the existing values even after an RPM upgrade.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.3200

* 4053179 (Tracking ID: 4053171)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 4.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
5(RHEL8.5) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2900

* 4022791 (Tracking ID: 4022792)

SYMPTOM:
A cluster node panics during an FSS I/O transfer over LLT.

DESCRIPTION:
In a Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) setup, LLT uses sockets to transfer data between nodes. If a remote node is rebooted while the FSS I/O is running on the local node, the socket that was closed as part of the reboot process may still be used. If a NULL socket is thus accidentally used by the socket selection algorithm, it results in a node panic.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the LLT module to avoid the selection of such closed sockets.

* 4029112 (Tracking ID: 4029253)

SYMPTOM:
LLT may not reuse the buffer slots on which NAK is received from the earlier RDMA writes.

DESCRIPTION:
On receiving the buffer advertisement after an RDMA write, LLT also waits for the hardware/OS ACK for that RDMA write. Only after the ACK is received, LLT sets the state of the buffers to free (usable). If the connection between the cluter nodes breaks after LLT receives the buffer advertisement but before receiving the ACK, the local node generates a NAK. LLT does not acknowledge this NAK, and so, that specific buffer slot remains unusable. Over time, the number of buffer slots in the unusable state increases, which sets the flow control for the LLT client. This conditions leads to an FSS I/O hang.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the LLT module to mark a buffer slot as free (usable) even when a NAK is received from the previous RDMA write.

* 4037049 (Tracking ID: 4037048)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 3.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
4(RHEL8.4) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2800

* 3999398 (Tracking ID: 3989440)

SYMPTOM:
The dash (-) in the device name may cause the LLT link configuration to fail.

DESCRIPTION:
While configuring LLT links, if the LLT module finds a dash in the device name, it assumes that the device name is in the 'eth-<mac-address>' format and considers the string after the dash as the mac address. However, if the user specifies an interface name that includes a dash, the string after the dash is not intended to be a MAC address. In such a case, the LLT link configuration fails.

RESOLUTION:
The LLT module is updated to check for the string 'eth-' before validating the device name with the 'eth-<mac-address>' format. If the string 'eth-' is not found, LLT assumes the name to be an interface name.

* 4002584 (Tracking ID: 3994996)

SYMPTOM:
Adding -H miscellaneous flag to add new functionalities in lltconfig. Add a tunable to allow skb alloc with SLEEP flag.

DESCRIPTION:
Adding -H miscellaneous flag, which we will use to add new functionalities in lltconfig, as very less alphabets are left to be able to assign an alphabet to each functionality.

RESOLUTION:
Inside -H flag
1. Add a tunable to allow skb alloc with SLEEP flag, in case memory is scarce.
2. Add skb_alloc failure count in lltstat output.

* 4003442 (Tracking ID: 3983418)

SYMPTOM:
In a rare case, after a panic or a reboot of a node, it may fail to join the CVM master due to an inconsistent LLT port state on the master.

DESCRIPTION:
When a node tries to join the cluster after a reboot or a panic, in a rare case, on one of the remaining nodes the port state of CVM or any other port may be in an inconsistent state with respect to LLT.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the LLT module to fix the issue by not accepting a particular type of a packet when not connected to the remote node and also adds more states to log into the LLT circular buffer.

* 4010546 (Tracking ID: 4018581)

SYMPTOM:
The LLT module fails to start and the system log messages indicate missing IP address.

DESCRIPTION:
When only the low priority LLT links are configured over UDP, UDPBurst mode must be disabled. UDPBurst mode must only be enabled when the high priority LLT links are configured over UDP. If the UDPBurst mode gets enabled while configuring the low priority links, the LLT module fails to start and logs the following error: "V-14-2-15795 missing ip address / V-14-2-15800 UDPburst:Failed to get link info".

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the LLT module to not enable the UDPBurst mode when only the low priority LLT links are configured over UDP.

* 4016483 (Tracking ID: 4016484)

SYMPTOM:
The vxexplorer utility panics the node on which it runs if the LLT version on the node is llt-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.2100 or later.

DESCRIPTION:
The vxexplorer utility panics the node on which it runs if the LLT version on the node is llt-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.2100 or later.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix addresses the issue so that vxexplorer utility does not panic nodes that run on the RHEL 8 platform.

* 4019676 (Tracking ID: 4019674)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8 Update 2.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2200

* 4012089 (Tracking ID: 4002150)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8.1 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.2100

* 4002151 (Tracking ID: 4002150)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8.1 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.1.1600

* 3990017 (Tracking ID: 3990016)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8.0 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
1(RHEL8.1) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.3300

* 4019290 (Tracking ID: 4012396)

SYMPTOM:
The AzureDisk agent fails to work with the latest Azure Storage SDK.

DESCRIPTION:
The InfoScale AzureDisk agent does not yet support the latest Python SDK for Azure Storage.

RESOLUTION:
The AzureDisk agent is now updated to support the latest Azure Storage Python SDK.

* 4042947 (Tracking ID: 4042944)

SYMPTOM:
In a hardware replication environment, a disk group resource may fail to be imported when the HARDWARE_MIRROR flag is set.

DESCRIPTION:
After the VCS hardware replication agent resource fails over control to the secondary site, the DiskGroup agent does not rescan all the required device paths in case of a multi-pathing configuration. The vxdg import operation fails, because the hardware device characteristics for all the paths are not refreshed.

RESOLUTION:
A new resource-level attribute, ScanDisks, is introduced for the DiskGroup agent. The ScanDisks attribute lets you perform a selective devices scan for all the disk paths that are associated with a VxVM disk group. Before attempting to import a hardware clone or a hardware replicated device, the VxVM and the DMP attributes of a disk are refreshed. The default value of ScanDisks is 0, which indicates that a selective device scan is not performed. Even when ScanDisks is set to 0, if the disk group fails with an error string containing HARDWARE_MIRROR during the first disk group import attempt, the DiskGroup agent performs a selective device scan to increase the chances of a successful import.
Sample resource configuration for hardware clone disk groups:
DiskGroup tc_dg (
DiskGroup = datadg
DGOptions = "-o useclonedev=on -o updateid"
ForceImport = 0
ScanDisks = 1
)
Sample resource configuration for hardware replicated disk groups:
DiskGroup tc_dg (
DiskGroup = datadg
ForceImport = 0
ScanDisks = 1
)

* 4054269 (Tracking ID: 4030215)

SYMPTOM:
The InfoScale agents for Azure agents did not support credential validation methods based on the azure-identity library.

DESCRIPTION:
The Microsoft Azure credential system is revamped, and the new system is available in the azure-identity library.

RESOLUTION:
The InfoScale agents for Azure have been enhanced to support credential validation methods based on the azure-identity library. Now, the agents support the following Azure Python SDK versions:
azure-common==1.1.25
azure-core==1.10.0
azure-identity==1.4.1
azure-mgmt-compute==19.0.0
azure-mgmt-core==1.2.2
azure-mgmt-dns==8.0.0
azure-mgmt-network==17.1.0
azure-storage-blob==12.8.0
msrestazure==0.6.4

* 4054270 (Tracking ID: 4057550)

SYMPTOM:
The InfoScale agents for Azure do not handle generic exceptions.

DESCRIPTION:
The InfoScale agents can handle only the CloudError exception of the Azure APIs. It cannot handle other errors that may occur during certain failure conditions.

RESOLUTION:
The InfoScale agents for Azure are enhanced to handle several API failure conditions.

* 4054273 (Tracking ID: 4044567)

SYMPTOM:
The HostMonitor agent faults while logging the memory usage of a system.

DESCRIPTION:
The HostMonitor agent runs in the background to monitor the usage of the resources of a system. It faults and terminates unexpectedly while logging the memory usage of a system and generates a core dump.

RESOLUTION:
This patch updates the HostMonitor agent to handle the issue that it encounters while logging the memory usage data of a system.

* 4054276 (Tracking ID: 4048164)

SYMPTOM:
When a cloud API that an InfoScale agent has called hangs, an unwanted failover of the associated service group may occur.

DESCRIPTION:
When a cloud SDK API or a CLI command hangs, the monitor function of an InfoScale agent that has called the API or the command may time out. Consequently, the agent may report incorrect resource states, and an unwanted failover of the associated service group may occur.

RESOLUTION:
To avoid this issue, the default value of the FaultOnMonitorTimeout attribute is set to 0 for all the InfoScale agents for cloud support.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.3200

* 4021371 (Tracking ID: 4021370)

SYMPTOM:
The AWSIP and EBSVol resources fail to come online when IMDSv2 is used for requesting instance metadata.

DESCRIPTION:
By default, the AWSIP and EBSVol agents are developed to use IMDSv1 for requesting instance metadata. If the AWS cloud environment is configured to use IMDSv2, the AWSIP and EBSVol resource fail to come online and goes into UNKNOWN state.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the AWSIP and EBSVol agents to access the instance metadata based on the instance configuration for IMDS.

* 4028124 (Tracking ID: 4027915)

SYMPTOM:
Processes configured for HA using the ProcessOnOnly agent get killed during shutdown or reboot, even if they are still in use.

DESCRIPTION:
Processes that are started by the ProcessOnOnly agent do not have any dependencies on vcs.service. Such processes can therefore get killed during shutdown or reboot, even if they are being used by other VCS processes. Consequently, issues occur while bringing down Infoscale services during shutdown or reboot.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix adresses the issue by enhancing the ProcessOnOnly agent such that the configured processes have their own systemd service files. The service file is used to set dependencies, so that the corresponding process is not killed unexpectedly during shutdown or reboot.

* 4038915 (Tracking ID: 1837967)

SYMPTOM:
Application agent falsely detects an application as faulted, due to corruption caused by non-redirected STDOUT or STDERR.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue can occur when the STDOUT and STDERR file descriptors of the program to be started and monitored are not redirected to a specific file or to /dev/null. In this case, an application that is started by the Online entry point inherits the STDOUT and STDERR file descriptors from the entry point. Therefore, the entry point and the application, both, read from and write to the same file, which may lead to file corruption and cause the agent entry point to behave unexpectedly.

RESOLUTION:
The Application agent is updated to identify whether STDOUT and STDERR for the configured application are already redirected. If not, the agent redirects them to /dev/null.

* 4038916 (Tracking ID: 3860766)

SYMPTOM:
When the swap space is in terabytes, HostMonitor agent shows incorrect swap space usage in the agent logs.

DESCRIPTION:
When the swap space on the system is in terabytes, HostMonitor incorrectly calculated the available swap 
capacity. The incorrect swap space usage was displayed in the HostMonitor agent log.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas has modified the HostMonitor agent code to correctly calculate the swap space capacity on the 
system.

* 4038919 (Tracking ID: 4038906)

SYMPTOM:
In case of ESXi 6.7, the VMwareDisks agent fails to perform a failover on a peer node.

DESCRIPTION:
The VMwareDisks agent faults when you try to bring the related service group online or to fail over the service group on a peer node. This issue occurs due to the change in the behavior of the API on ESXi 6.7 that is used to attach VMware disks.

RESOLUTION:
The VMWareDisks agent is updated to support the changed behavior of the API on ESXi 6.7. The agent can now bring the service group online or perform a failover on a peer node successfully.

* 4042947 (Tracking ID: 4042944)

SYMPTOM:
In a hardware replicated environment, a disk group resource may fail to import when the HARDWARE_MIRROR flag is set

DESCRIPTION:
After the VCS hardware replication agent resource fails over control to the secondary site, the DiskGroup agent does not rescan all the required device paths in 
case of a multi-pathing configuration. 
The vxdg import operation fails, as the hardware device characteristics for all the paths are not refreshed.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix introduces of a new resource attribute for DiskGroup agent called ScanDisks. The ScanDisks attributes enables the user to perform a selective 
devices scan for all disk paths associated with a VxVM disk group. The VxVM and DMP disks attributes are refreshed before attempting to importing hardware clone 
or replicated devices. The default value of ScanDisks is 0, which indicates a selective device scan is not performed. Even when set 0, if the disk group fails 
with an error string containing HARDWARE MIRROR during the first disk group import attempt, the DiskGroup agent will then perform a selective device scan to 
increase of the chances of a successful import.
Sample resource configurations:
For Hardware Clone DiskGroups

DiskGroup tc_dg (
DiskGroup = datadg
DGOptions = "-o useclonedev=on -o updateid"
ForceImport = 0
ScanDisks = 1
)

For Hardware Replicated DiskGroups

DiskGroup tc_dg (
DiskGroup = datadg
ForceImport = 0
ScanDisks = 1
)

Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.2900

* 4021371 (Tracking ID: 4021370)

SYMPTOM:
The AWSIP and EBSVol resources fail to come online when IMDSv2 is used for requesting instance metadata.

DESCRIPTION:
By default, the AWSIP and EBSVol agents are developed to use IMDSv1 for requesting instance metadata. If the AWS cloud environment is configured to use IMDSv2, the AWSIP and EBSVol resource fail to come online and goes into UNKNOWN state.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the AWSIP and EBSVol agents to access the instance metadata based on the instance configuration for IMDS.

* 4028124 (Tracking ID: 4027915)

SYMPTOM:
Processes configured for HA using the ProcessOnOnly agent get killed during shutdown or reboot, even if they are still in use.

DESCRIPTION:
Processes that are started by the ProcessOnOnly agent do not have any dependencies on vcs.service. Such processes can therefore get killed during shutdown or reboot, even if they are being used by other VCS processes. Consequently, issues occur while bringing down Infoscale services during shutdown or reboot.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix adresses the issue by enhancing the ProcessOnOnly agent such that the configured processes have their own systemd service files. The service file is used to set dependencies, so that the corresponding process is not killed unexpectedly during shutdown or reboot.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.1.2800

* 3984343 (Tracking ID: 3982300)

SYMPTOM:
A warning message related to the process priority is logged in the ProcessOnOnly agent log every minute.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because value of the Priority attribute of processes monitored by the ProcessOnOnly agent did not match the actual process priority value. As part of the Monitor function, if the priority of a process is found to be different from the value that is configured for the Priority attribute, warning messages are logged in the following scenarios:
1. The process is started outside VCS control with a different priority.
2. The priority of the process is changed after it is started by VCS.

RESOLUTION:
The ProcessOnOnly agent is updated to set the current value of the priority of a process to the Priority attribute if these values are found to be different.

* 4006950 (Tracking ID: 4006979)

SYMPTOM:
When the AzureDisk resource comes online on a cluster node, it goes into the UNKNOWN state on all the other nodes.

DESCRIPTION:
When an AzureDisk resource is online on one node, the status of that resource appears as UNKNOWN, instead of OFFLINE, on the other nodes in the cluster. Also, if the resource is brought online on a different node, its status on the remaining nodes appears as UNKNOWN. However, if the resource is not online on any node, its status correctly appears as OFFLINE on all the nodes.
This issue occurs when the VM name on the Azure portal does not match the local hostname of the cluster node. The monitor operation of the agent compares these two values to identify whether the VM to which the AzureDisk resource is attached is part of a cluster or not. If the values do not match, the agent incorrectly concludes that the resource is attached to a VM outside the cluster. Therefore, it displays the status of the resource as UNKNOWN.

RESOLUTION:
The AzureDisk agent is modified to compare the VM name with the appropriate attribute of the of the agent so that the status of an AzureDisk resource is reported correctly.

* 4009762 (Tracking ID: 4009761)

SYMPTOM:
A lower NFSRestart resoure fails to come online within the duration specified in OnlineTimeout when the share directory for NFSv4 lock state information contains millions of small files.

DESCRIPTION:
As part of the Online operation, the NFSRestart agent copies the NFSv4 state data of clients from the shared storage to the local path. However, if the source location contains millions of files, some of which may be stale, their movement may not be completed before the operation times out.

RESOLUTION:
A new action entry point named "cleanup" is provided, which removes stale files. The usage of the entry point is as follows:
$ hares -action <resname> cleanup -actionargs <days> -sys <sys>
  <days>: number of days, deleting files that are <days> old
Example:
$ hares -action NFSRestart_L cleanup -actionargs 30 -sys <sys>
The cleanup action ensures that files older than the number of days specified in the -actionargs option are removed; the minimum expected duration is 30 days. Thus, only the relevant files to be moved remain, and the Online operation is completed in time.

* 4016488 (Tracking ID: 4007764)

SYMPTOM:
The NFS locks related log file is flooded with the "sync_dir:copy failed for link" error messages.

DESCRIPTION:
The smsyncd daemon used by the NFSRestart agent copies the symbolic links and the NFS locks from the /var/statmon/sm directory to a specific directory. These files and links are used to track the clients who have set a lock on the NFS mount points. If this directory already has a symbolic link with the same name that the smsyncd daemon is trying to copy, the /bin/cp commands fails and logs an error message.

RESOLUTION:
The smsyncd daemon is enhanced to copy the symbolic links even if the link with same name is present.

* 4016625 (Tracking ID: 4016624)

SYMPTOM:
When a disk group is forcibly imported with ClearClone enabled, different DGIDs are assigned to the associated disks.

DESCRIPTION:
When the ForceImport option is used, a disk group gets imported with the available disks, regardless of whether all the required disks are available or not. In such a scenario, if the ClearClone attribute is enabled, the available disks are successfully imported, but their DGIDs are updated to new values. Thus, the disks within the same disk group end up with different DGIDs, which may cause issues with the functioning of the storage configuration.

RESOLUTION:
The DiskGroup agent is updated to allow the ForceImport and the ClearClone attributes to be set to the following values as per the configuration requirements. ForceImport can be set to 0 or 1. ClearClone can be set to 0, 1, or 2. ClearClone is disabled when set to 0 and enabled when set to 1 or 2. ForceImport is disabled when set to 0 and is ignored when ClearClone is set to 1. To enable both, ClearClone and ForceImport, set ClearClone to 2 and ForceImport to 1.

Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.3300

* 4054264 (Tracking ID: 4046413)

SYMPTOM:
After a node is added to or removed from a cluster, the GAB node count or the fencing quorum is not updated.

DESCRIPTION:
The gabconfig -m <node_count> command returns an error even if the correct node count is provided.

RESOLUTION:
To address this issue, a parsing issue with the GAB module is fixed.

* 4054265 (Tracking ID: 4046418)

SYMPTOM:
The GAB module starts up even if LLT is not configured.

DESCRIPTION:
Since the GAB service depends on the LLT service, if LLT fails to start or if it is not configured, GAB should not start.

RESOLUTION:
The GAB module is updated to start only if LLT is configured.

* 4060792 (Tracking ID: 4057312)

SYMPTOM:
Load time vxfen tunables fail to persist the updated value after upgrade.

DESCRIPTION:
Typically, when any tunable value of GAB from /etc/sysconfig/gab is changed before rpm upgrade, it is observed that the old tunable values get updated with the default values.

RESOLUTION:
All the tunable values of GAB from /etc/sysconfig/gab will persist old values even after rpm upgrade.

Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.3200

* 4053180 (Tracking ID: 4053171)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 4.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
5(RHEL8.5) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.2900

* 4037949 (Tracking ID: 4037048)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 3.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
4(RHEL8.4) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.2800

* 4016486 (Tracking ID: 4011683)

SYMPTOM:
The GAB module failed to start and the system log messages indicate failures with the mknod command.

DESCRIPTION:
The mknod command fails to start the GAB module because its format is invalid. If the names of multiple drivers in an environment contain the value "gab" as a substring, all their major device numbers get passed on to the mknod command. Instead, the command must contain the major device number for the GAB driver only.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix addresses the issue so that the GAB module starts successfully even when other driver names in the environment contain "gab" as a substring.

* 4016487 (Tracking ID: 4007726)

SYMPTOM:
When a GAB message that is longer than the value specified by GAB_MAX_MSGSIZE is transfered, an error message is added to the VCS logs. However the error message is not sufficiently descriptive.

DESCRIPTION:
The current error message does not mention the type of the GAB message that was transferred and the port that was used to transfer the message. Thus, the error message is not useful for troubleshooting.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix addresses the issue by enhacing the error message that is logged. It now mentions whether the message type was DIRECTED or BROADCAST and also the port number that was used to transer the GAB message.

* 4019677 (Tracking ID: 4019674)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8 Update 2.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.2100

* 4002152 (Tracking ID: 4002150)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8.1 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSgab-7.4.1.1600

* 3990018 (Tracking ID: 3990016)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8.0 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
1(RHEL8.1) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.3300

* 4051532 (Tracking ID: 4057308)

SYMPTOM:
After an InfoScale upgrade, the updated values of vxfen tunables that are used when loading the corresponding module fail to persist.

DESCRIPTION:
When the value of a tunable in /etc/sysconfig/vxfen is changed before an RPM upgrade, the existing value gets reset to the default value.

RESOLUTION:
The vxfen module is updated so that its existing tunable values in /etc/sysconfig/vxfen can be retained even after an RPM upgrade.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.3200

* 4053182 (Tracking ID: 4053171)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 4.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
5(RHEL8.5) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.2900

* 4028780 (Tracking ID: 4029261)

SYMPTOM:
An entire InfoScale cluster may go down unexpectedly if one of its nodes receives a RECONFIG message during a shutdown or a restart operation.

DESCRIPTION:
If a cluster node receives a RECONFIG message while a shutdown or a restart operation is in progress, it may participate in the fencing race. The node may also win the race and then proceed to shut down. If this situation occurs, the fencing module panics the nodes that lost the race, which may cause the entire cluster to go down.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the fencing module so that it stops a cluster node from joining a race, if it receives a RECONFIG message while a shutdown or a restart operation is in progress.

* 4037951 (Tracking ID: 4037048)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 3.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
4(RHEL8.4) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfen-7.4.1.2800

* 4000746 (Tracking ID: 4000745)

SYMPTOM:
The VxFEN process fails to start due to late discovery of the VxFEN disk group.

DESCRIPTION:
When I/O fencing starts, the VxFEN startup script creates this /etc/vxfentab file on each node. During disk-based fencing, the VxVM module may take longer time to discover the VxFEN disk group. Because of this delay, the 'generate disk list' opreration times out. Therefore, the VxFEN process fails to start and reports the following error: 'ERROR: VxFEN cannot generate vxfentab because vxfendg does not exist'

RESOLUTION:
A new tunable, getdisks_timeout, is introduced to specify the timeout value for the VxFEN disk group discovery. The maximum and the default value for this tunable is 600 seconds. You can set the value of this tunable by adding an getdisks_timeout=<time_in_sec> entry in the /etc/vxfenmode file.

* 4019680 (Tracking ID: 4019674)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8 Update 2.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.3400

* 4056672 (Tracking ID: 4056673)

SYMPTOM:
Rebooting the system results into emergency mode.

DESCRIPTION:
Module dependency files get corrupted due to parallel invocation of depmod.

RESOLUTION:
Serialized the invocation of depmod through file lock. Corrected vxgms dependency in odm service file.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.3200

* 3983992 (Tracking ID: 3868609)

SYMPTOM:
While applying Oracle redo logs, a significant increase is observed in the CPU usage by the vxfs thread.

DESCRIPTION:
To avoid memory deadlocks and to track exiting threads with outstanding ODM requests, the kernels memory management was analysed. While the Oracle threads are being rescheduled, they hold the mmap_sem. The FDD threads keep waiting for mmap_sem to be released, which causes the contention and the high CPU usage.

RESOLUTION:
The bouncing of the spinlock between the CPUs is removed to reduce the CPU spike.

* 4052886 (Tracking ID: 4052885)

SYMPTOM:
The ODM module fails to load on RHEL 8.5.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to changes in the RHEL 8.5 kernel.

RESOLUTION:
The ODM module is updated to accommodate the changes in the kernel and load as expected on RHEL 8.5.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.3100

* 4040934 (Tracking ID: 4040933)

SYMPTOM:
VRTSodm driver will not load with VRTSvxfs patch.

DESCRIPTION:
Need recompilation of VRTSodm due to recent changes in VRTSvxfs 
header files due to which some symbols are not being resolved.

RESOLUTION:
Recompiled the VRTSodm with new changes in VRTSvxfs header files.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2900

* 4037955 (Tracking ID: 4037575)

SYMPTOM:
ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.4

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.4 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused ODM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support ODM on RHEL8.4.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2800

* 4018202 (Tracking ID: 4018200)

SYMPTOM:
ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.3

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.3 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused ODM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support ODM on RHEL8.3.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2600

* 4011973 (Tracking ID: 4012094)

SYMPTOM:
VRTSodm driver will not load with 7.4.1.2600 VRTSvxfs patch.

DESCRIPTION:
Need recompilation of VRTSodm due to recent changes in VRTSvxfs 
header files due to which some symbols are not being resolved.

RESOLUTION:
Recompiled the VRTSodm with new changes in VRTSvxfs header files.

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.2100

* 4001381 (Tracking ID: 4001380)

SYMPTOM:
ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.2

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.2 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused ODM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support ODM on RHEL8.2

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.1.1600

* 3989416 (Tracking ID: 3989415)

SYMPTOM:
ODM module failed to load on RHEL8.1

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.1 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused ODM module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support ODM on RHEL8.1

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.3400

* 4026389 (Tracking ID: 4026388)

SYMPTOM:
fscache and sfcache command exited with the following error while performing unpin file
UX:vxfs fscache: ERROR: V-3-28059:  -o load is supported only for pin option

DESCRIPTION:
fscache and sfcache  commands report error while unpinning file from VxFS cache device.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes introduced to fix the error.

* 4050229 (Tracking ID: 4018995)

SYMPTOM:
System gets panic in AIX when doing read ahead of size greater than 4 GB.

DESCRIPTION:
There is a data type mismatch (64bit - 32bit) in VxFS read ahead code path which leads to page list size being truncated and causing the system to panic with the following stack:
vx_getpage_cleanup
vx_do_getpage
vx_mm_getpage
vx_do_read_ahead
vx_cache_read_noinline
vx_read_common_noinline
vx_read1
vx_read
vx_rdwr_attr

RESOLUTION:
The data type mismatch has been fixed in code to handle such scenarios.

* 4053149 (Tracking ID: 4043084)

SYMPTOM:
panic in vx_cbdnlc_lookup

DESCRIPTION:
Panic observed in the following stack trace:
vx_cbdnlc_lookup+000140 ()
vx_int_lookup+0002C0 ()
vx_do_lookup2+000328 ()
vx_do_lookup+0000E0 ()
vx_lookup+0000A0 ()
vnop_lookup+0001D4 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
getFullPath+00022C (??, ??, ??, ??)
getPathComponents+0003E8 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
svcNameCheck+0002EC (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
kopen+000180 (??, ??, ??)
syscall+00024C ()

RESOLUTION:
Code changes to handle memory pressure while changing FC connectivity

* 4054243 (Tracking ID: 4014274)

SYMPTOM:
Gsed cmd might report a bad address error when VxFS receives 
ACE(access control entry) masking flag.

DESCRIPTION:
While performing Gsed cmd on VxFS filesystem, if VxFS receives ACE_GETACLCNT 
and ACE_GETACL masking flags; VxFS might report bad address error as VxFS 
does not support ACE(access control entry) flags.

RESOLUTION:
Added a code to handle ACE flags

* 4054244 (Tracking ID: 4052449)

SYMPTOM:
Cluster goes in an 'unresponsive' mode while invalidating pages due to duplicate page entries in iowr structure.

DESCRIPTION:
While finding pages for invalidation of inodes, VxFS traverses radix tree by taking RCU lock and fills the IO structure with dirty/writeback pages that need to be invalidated in an array. This lock is efficient for read but does not protect the parallel creation/deletion of node. Hence, when VxFS finds page, consistency for the page in checked through radix_tree_exception()/radix_tree_deref_retry(). And if it fails, VxFS restarts the page finding from start offset. But VxFs does not reset the array index, leading to incorrect filling of IO structure's array which was causing  duplicate entries of pages. While trying to destroy these pages, VxFS takes page lock on each page. Because of duplicate entries, VxFS tries to take page lock couple of times on same page, leading to self-deadlock.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to reset the array index correctly in case of failure to find pages.

* 4054387 (Tracking ID: 4054386)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS systemd service may show active status despite the module not being loaded.

DESCRIPTION:
If systemd service fails to load vxfs module, the service still shows status as active instead of failed.

RESOLUTION:
The script is modified to show the correct status in case of such failures.

* 4054412 (Tracking ID: 4042254)

SYMPTOM:
vxupgrade sets fullfsck flag in the filesystem if it is unable to upgrade the disk layout version because of ENOSPC.

DESCRIPTION:
If the filesystem is 100 % full and  its disk layout version is upgraded by using vxupgrade, then this utility starts the upgrade and later it fails with ENOSPC and ends up setting fullfsck flag in the filesystem.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes introduced which first calculate the required space to perform the disk layout upgrade. If the required space is not available, it fails the upgrade gracefully without setting fullfsck flag.

* 4054416 (Tracking ID: 4005620)

SYMPTOM:
Inode count maintained in the inode allocation unit (IAU) can be negative when an IAU is marked bad. An error such as the following is logged.

V-2-4: vx_mapbad - vx_inoauchk - /fs1 file system free inode bitmap in au 264 marked bad

Due to the negative inode count, errors like the following might be observed and processes might be stuck at inode allocation with a stack trace as shown.

V-2-14: vx_iget - inode table overflow

	vx_inoauchk 
	vx_inofindau 
	vx_findino 
	vx_ialloc 
	vx_dirmakeinode 
	vx_dircreate 
	vx_dircreate_tran 
	vx_pd_create 
	vx_create1_pd 
	vx_do_create 
	vx_create1 
	vx_create0 
	vx_create 
	vn_open 
	open

DESCRIPTION:
The inode count can be negative if somehow VxFS tries to allocate an inode from an IAU where the counter for regular file and directory inodes is zero. In such a situation, the inode allocation fails and the IAU map is marked bad. But the code tries to further reduce the already-zero counters, resulting in negative counts that can cause subsequent unresponsive situation.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to not reduce inode counters in vx_mapbad code path if the result is negative. A diagnostic message like the following flashes.
"vxfs: Error: Incorrect values of ias->ifree and Aus rifree detected."

* 4054724 (Tracking ID: 4018697)

SYMPTOM:
After installing InfoScale 7.4.2, when the system is started, it fails to start with the following message:
an inconsistency in the boot archive was detected the boot archive will be updated, then the system will reboot

DESCRIPTION:
Due to a defect in the vxfs-modload service, vxfs modules get copied to the system on each reboot. As a result, the system goes into an inconsistent state and gets stuck in a reboot loop.

RESOLUTION:
The vxfs-modload script is modified to address this defect.

* 4054725 (Tracking ID: 4051108)

SYMPTOM:
While storing multiple attributes for a file in an immediate area of inode, system might be unresponsive due to a wrong loop increment statement.

DESCRIPTION:
While storing attribute for a file in an immediate area of inode, loop is used to store multiple attributes one-by-one. Presence of wrong loop increment statement might cause loop to execute indefinitely. The system might be unresponsive as a result.

RESOLUTION:
Code is corrected to increment loop variable properly after loop iterations.

* 4054726 (Tracking ID: 4051026)

SYMPTOM:
If file system is created with inode size 512, the file system might report inconsistencies with the bitmap after running fsck .

DESCRIPTION:
With inode size 512, while running fsck some of the inodes are getting marked as allocated even though they are free . Bitmaps are actually correct on-disk but fsck reports it wrong.

RESOLUTION:
Fixed FSCK binary to mark indoes allocated/free correctly.

* 4055858 (Tracking ID: 4042925)

SYMPTOM:
Intermittent Performance issue on commands like df and ls.

DESCRIPTION:
Commands like "df" "ls" issue stat system call on node to calculate the statistics of the file system. In a CFS, when stat system call is issued, it compiles statistics from all nodes. When multiple df or ls are fired within specified time limit, vxfs is optimized. vxfs returns the cached statistics, instead of recalculating statistics from all nodes. If multiple such commands are fired in succession and one of the old caller of stat system call takes time, this optimization fails and VxFS recompiles statistics from all nodes. This can lead to bad performance of stat system call, leading to unresponsive situations for df, ls commands.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to protect last modified time of stat system call with a sleep lock.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.3300

* 4006837 (Tracking ID: 3987722)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS does not reset v_path from vnode when it reuses inode from the delicache list.

DESCRIPTION:
When VxFS reuses inodes from the delicache list, it does not reset the existing v_path from vnode. This leads to the failure of other Solaris utilities that are dependent on v_path. VxFS reinitializes v_path when it gets the inodes from vx_iget() through vn_reinit(). However, during delicache reuse on Solaris, it directly reuses the inodes, which causes the stale path to be set on vnode.

RESOLUTION:
VxFS is updated to reset the path from vnode when VxFS reuses inodes from the delicache list.

* 4044557 (Tracking ID: 4037035)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS should have the ability to control the number of inactive processing threads.

DESCRIPTION:
VxFS may spawn a large number of worker threads that become inactive over time. As a result, heavy lock contention occurs during the removal of inactive threads on high-end servers.

RESOLUTION:
To avoid the contention, a new tunable, vx_ninact_proc_threads, is added. You can use vx_ninact_proc_threads to adjust the number of inactive processing threads based on your server configuration and workload.

* 4046828 (Tracking ID: 3993943)

SYMPTOM:
A core dump occurs and the fsck operation fails on a file system.

DESCRIPTION:
A segmentation fault occurs in get_dotdotlst().
The stack trace is as follows:
get_dotdotlst 
check_dotdot_tbl 
iproc_do_work
start_thread 
clone () 
A core dump follows and the corresponding fsck operation fails.

RESOLUTION:
The fsck utility is updated to handle the segmentation fault in get_dotdotlst().

* 4050227 (Tracking ID: 3946098)

SYMPTOM:
When the 'mount -v' command is run, 'nommpacio' is incorrectly printed as 'nommpacio'.

DESCRIPTION:
This typographical error appears when the command is run on Linux systems.

RESOLUTION:
The mount command is modified to fix the typographical error.

* 4052884 (Tracking ID: 4052883)

SYMPTOM:
The VxFS module fails to load on RHEL 8.5.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to changes in the RHEL 8.5 kernel.

RESOLUTION:
VxFS module is updated to accommodate the changes in the kernel and load as expected on RHEL 8.5.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.3200

* 3983991 (Tracking ID: 3864111)

SYMPTOM:
Oracle database start failure, with trace log like this:

ORA-63999: data file suffered media failure
ORA-01114: IO error writing block to file 304 (block # 722821)
ORA-01110: data file 304: <file_name>
ORA-17500: ODM err:ODM ERROR V-41-4-2-231-28 No space left on device

DESCRIPTION:
In vx_logged_cwrite(), the request size is not rounded up to the next block
boarder before parsing from bytes into blocks. So if the request is smaller than a
block, the space argument for extent allocation will be 0, which will cause the
return of ENOSPC.

RESOLUTION:
Round up the request size to next block boarder in vx_logged_cwrite().

* 3983996 (Tracking ID: 3941620)

SYMPTOM:
High memory usage is seen on Solaris system with delayed allocation enabled.

DESCRIPTION:
With VxFS delayed allocation enabled, in some unnecessary condition, it 
could 
make some put page operations return early before pages flushed and without 
retry later. Then only one vxfs working thread works on page flushing 
through 
delayed allocation flush path. This will result in the dirty page flushing 
much slow, and cause the memory starvation of the system.

RESOLUTION:
Code change has been done to make the page flushing work through multiple 
threads as normal.

* 3989587 (Tracking ID: 3989588)

SYMPTOM:
Mark FCL bad for fileset (checkpoint) and deactivate FCL

DESCRIPTION:
During FCL (file change log) merge in cluster environment, if it fails then corresponding FCL is marked as bad and FCL is deactivated. This was happening due to race between fileset (checkpoint) removal and FCL merge. Since fileset is already removed there is no impact of data.

RESOLUTION:
Code is fixed to not to mark the FCL bad in such cases.

* 4039671 (Tracking ID: 4021368)

SYMPTOM:
FSCK fails with below error
             "UX:vxfs fsck: ERROR: V-3-26113: bc_getfreebuf internal error"

DESCRIPTION:
During fsck read ahead, it was observed that read ahead buffers were deleted before finishing actual async read. This resulted in leaking buffers in user buffer cache maintained by FSCK. When fsck tries to find buffer in buffer cache for next subsequent operations, it was failing to get free buffers because of these leak. This was resulting in failing fsck with "bc_getfreebuf internal error".

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to wait deletion of buffers till async read complete.

* 4042130 (Tracking ID: 3993822)

SYMPTOM:
running fsck on a file system core dumps

DESCRIPTION:
buffer was marked as busy without taking buffer lock while getting buffer from freelist in 1 thread and there was another thread 
that was accessing this buffer through its local variable

RESOLUTION:
marking buffer busy within the buffer lock while getting free buffer.

* 4042685 (Tracking ID: 4042684)

SYMPTOM:
Command fails to resize the file.

DESCRIPTION:
There is a window where a parallel thread can clear IDELXWRI flag which it should not.

RESOLUTION:
setting the delayed extending write flag incase any parallel thread has cleared it.

* 4042983 (Tracking ID: 3990168)

SYMPTOM:
Accommodation of new interpretation of error from bio structure in linux kernel greater than 4.12.14

DESCRIPTION:
Interpretation of error from bio structure in linux kernel greater than 4.12 is changed. VxFS need to accommodate these changes to correctly interpret error from bio structure.

RESOLUTION:
Code added to accommodate new interpretation of error from bio structure in linux kernel greater than 4.12.14 for VxFS.

* 4043494 (Tracking ID: 3985749)

SYMPTOM:
Observed hang in internal fsdedup test

DESCRIPTION:
During our internal fsdedup testing, one thread went into the hang state. The hang was occurred due to deadlock scenario and the stack trace of hang thread was as below.

schedule 
io_schedule 
sync_page 
__wait_on_bit_lock 
__lock_page 
lock_page at 
vx_page_alloc_sync
vx_page_alloc 
vx_do_getpage 
vx_getpage1
vx_segmap_getmap
vx_cache_read
vx_read1
vx_vop_read
vx_read 
vfs_read 
sys_read 
system_call_fastpath

RESOLUTION:
Added code changes to fix possible deadlocks.

* 4044639 (Tracking ID: 4013139)

SYMPTOM:
The abort operation on an ongoing online migration from the native file system to VxFS on RHEL 8.x systems.

DESCRIPTION:
The following error messages are logged when the abort operation fails:
umount: /mnt1/lost+found/srcfs: not mounted
UX:vxfs fsmigadm: ERROR: V-3-26835:  umount of source device: /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol1 failed, with error: 32

RESOLUTION:
The fsmigadm utility is updated to address the issue with the abort operation on an ongoing online migration.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2900

* 4016080 (Tracking ID: 4008520)

SYMPTOM:
CFS hang in vx_searchau().

DESCRIPTION:
As part of SMAP transaction changes, allocator changed its logic to call mdele tryhold always when getting the emap for a particular EAU, and it passes nogetdele as 1 to mdele_tryhold, which suggests that mdele_tryhold should not ask for delegation when detecting a free EAU without delegation, so in our case, allocator finds such an EAU in device summary tree but without delegation,  and it keeps retrying but without asking for delegation, hence the forever.

RESOLUTION:
Rectify the culprit EAU summary and its parent in case lost delegation EAU is found.

* 4016081 (Tracking ID: 4009728)

SYMPTOM:
System can panic, while trying to create a hard link.

DESCRIPTION:
There is a buffer overflow while trying to remove an indirect attribute inode. Indirect attribute removal happens while trying to add the hardlink as well, to over the buffer with the updated inode entry. This buffer overflow can also cause memory corruption.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to move to check the length of the buffer to avoid the overflow.

* 4018971 (Tracking ID: 4012544)

SYMPTOM:
Unmounting of bind mounted filesystem which is bound to VxFS mount locked filesystem fails with following error.
UX:vxfs vxumount: ERROR: V-3-26388: file system /root/access_data/fs1 has been mount locked

DESCRIPTION:
Bind mount operation executed on VxFS mount point uses all the existing mount options of the VxFS mount point for new mount point.
When unmounting operation is executed on bind mounted file system, VxFS umount command first checks whether the particular mount point has mount locked or not using mount options itself. If mntlock options exist and umount command is not provided mntlockid, then unmount operation is failed for bind mount point. If mntlockid is provided during umount operation,(as mntlockid is not associated with bind mount point) the umount operation fails while turning off mntlock option.

RESOLUTION:
VxFS umount command now checks whether actual mount lock exists for the particular mount point, before failing the umount operation.

* 4018972 (Tracking ID: 4017303)

SYMPTOM:
Bind mount of source directory on VxFS fails to unmount, after source directory is removed. Following error is displayed.
umount.vxfs: INFO: V-3-28386:  /mnt2: is not a VxFS filesystem.

DESCRIPTION:
The bind mount has vxfs in its mount options, hence command umount call umount.vxfs command internally. Command umount.vxfs gives out error regarding not being 
VxFS file system.

RESOLUTION:
Command umount.vxfs is modified to propagate bind unmount request to kernel through umount2 system call in case source directory is removed.

* 4020914 (Tracking ID: 4020758)

SYMPTOM:
Filesystem mount or fsck with -y may see hang during log replay

DESCRIPTION:
fsck utility is used to perform the log replay. This log replay is performed during mount operation or during filesystem check with -y option, if needed. In certain cases if there are lot of logs that needs to be replayed then it end up into consuming entire buffer cache. This results into out of buffer scenario and results into hang.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to make sure enough buffers are always available.

* 4022224 (Tracking ID: 4012049)

SYMPTOM:
"fsck" supports the "metasave" option but it was not documented anywhere.

DESCRIPTION:
"fsck" supports the "metasave" option while executing with the "-y" option. but it is not documented anywhere. Also, it tries to store metasave in a particular location. The user doesn't have the option to specify the location. If that location doesn't have enough space, "fsck" fails to take the metasave and it continues to change filesystem state.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to add one new option with which the user can specify the location to store metasave. "metasave" and "target", these two options have been added in the "usage" message of "fsck" binary.

* 4022225 (Tracking ID: 4012049)

SYMPTOM:
"fsck" supports the "metasave" option but it was not documented anywhere.

DESCRIPTION:
"fsck" supports the "metasave" option while executing with the "-y" option. but it is not documented anywhere. Also, it tries to store metasave in a particular location. The user doesn't have the option to specify the location. If that location doesn't have enough space, "fsck" fails to take the metasave and it continues to change filesystem state.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to add one new option with which the user can specify the location to store metasave. "metasave" and "target", these two options have been added in the "usage" message of "fsck" binary.

* 4037954 (Tracking ID: 4037420)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.4

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.4 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused VxFS module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support VxFS on RHEL8.4.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2800

* 3976693 (Tracking ID: 4016085)

SYMPTOM:
Shows garbage values, instead of correct information

DESCRIPTION:
Dumps information of device 0 while it was asking for other device information(may be device 1, 2).

RESOLUTION:
Updated curpos pointer to point to correct device as needed.

* 4004182 (Tracking ID: 4004181)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS internally maintains compliance clock, without this API, user will not be able to read the value

DESCRIPTION:
VxFS internally maintains compliance clock, without this API, user will not be able to read the value

RESOLUTION:
Provide an API on mount point to read the Compliance clock for that filesystem

* 4004927 (Tracking ID: 3983350)

SYMPTOM:
Inodes are allocated without pushing the ilist extent

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple messages can be sent from vx_cfs_ilist_push for inodes that are in same block. On receiver side i.e primary node vx_find_iposition() may return bno VX_OVERLAY and btranid 0 until anyone actually do the push. All these will get serialize in vx_ilist_pushino() on VX_IRWLOCK_RANGE and VX_CFS_IGLOCK. First one will do the push and set the btranid to last commit id. As btranid is non null vx_recv_ilist_push_msg() will wait for vx_tranidflush() to flush the transaction to disk. Other receiver threads will not do the push and will have tranid 0 so they will return success without waiting for the transactions to be flushed to disk. Now if the file system gets disable while flushing we end up in an inconsistent state because some of the inodes have actually returned success and marked this block as pushed in-core on secondary.

RESOLUTION:
If the block is pushed or pulled and tranid is 0 again lookup for ilist extent containing the inode. This will populate the correct tranid from ilptranid and the thread will wait for transaction flush.

* 4014718 (Tracking ID: 4011596)

SYMPTOM:
Man page is missing details about of the feature we support

DESCRIPTION:
Need to include new option "-h" in glmdump in man page for using hacli utility for communicating across the nodes in the cluster.

RESOLUTION:
Added the details about the feature supported by glmdump in man page

* 4015824 (Tracking ID: 4015278)

SYMPTOM:
System panics during vx_uiomove_by _hand

DESCRIPTION:
During uiomove, VxFS get the pages from OS through get_user_pages() to copy user data. Oracle use hugetablfs internally for performance reason. This can allocate hugepages. Under low memory condition, it is possible that get_user_pages() might return VxFS compound pages. In case of compound pages, only head page has valid mapping set and all other pages are mapped as TAIL_MAPPING. In case of uiomove, if VxFS gets compound page, then it try to check writable mapping for all pages from this compound page. This can result into dereferencing illegal address (TAIL_MAPPING) which was causing panic in  stack. VxFS doesn't support huge pages but it is possible that compound page is present on the system and VxFS might get one through get_user_pages.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to get head page in case of tail pages from compound page when VxFS checks writeable mapping.

* 4016077 (Tracking ID: 4009328)

SYMPTOM:
In a cluster filesystem, if smap corruption is seen and the smap is marked bad then it could cause hang while unmounting the filesystem.

DESCRIPTION:
While freeing an extent in vx_extfree1() for logversion >= VX_LOGVERSION13 if we are freeing whole AUs we set VX_AU_SMAPFREE flag for those AUs. This ensures that revoke of delegation for that AU is delayed till the AU has SMAP free transaction in progress. This flag gets cleared either in post commit/undo processing of the transaction or during error handling in vx_extfree1(). In one scenario when we are trying to free a whole AU and its smap is marked bad, we do not return any error to vx_extfree1() and neither do we add the subfunction to free the extent to the transaction. So, the VX_AU_SMAPFREE flag is not cleared and remains set even if there is no SMAP free transaction in progress. This could lead to hang while unmounting the cluster filesystem.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to add error handling in vx_extfree1 to clear VX_AU_SMAPFREE flag in case where error is returned due to bad smap.

* 4016082 (Tracking ID: 4000465)

SYMPTOM:
FSCK binary loops when it detects break in sequence of log ids.

DESCRIPTION:
When FS is not cleanly unmounted, FS will end up with unflushed intent log. This intent log will either be flushed during next subsequent mount or when fsck ran on the FS. Currently to build the transaction list that needs to be replayed, VxFS uses binary search to find out head and tail. But if there are breakage in intent log, then current code is susceptible to loop. To avoid this loop, VxFS is now going to use sequential search to find out range instead of binary search.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to incorporate sequential search instead of binary search to find out replayable transaction range.

* 4016407 (Tracking ID: 4018197)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.3

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.3 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused VxFS module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support VxFS on RHEL8.3.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2600

* 3983165 (Tracking ID: 3975019)

SYMPTOM:
Under IO load running with NFS v4 using NFS lease, system may panic with below message.
Kernel panic - not syncing: GAB: Port h halting system due to client process failure

DESCRIPTION:
NFS v4 uses lease per file. This delegation can be taken in RD or RW mode and can be released conditionally. For CFS, we release such delegation from specific node while inode is being normalized (i.e. losing ownership). This can race with another setlease operation on this node and can end up into deadlock for ->i_lock.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to disable lease.

* 3998797 (Tracking ID: 3998162)

SYMPTOM:
Log replay fails for fsck

DESCRIPTION:
It is possible for IFIAU that extent allocation was done but the write to header block failed. In that case ieshorten extop is processed and the allocated extents are freed. Log replay does not consider this case and fails as the header does not have valid magic. So while doing log replay if the iauino file has IESHORTEN set and au number is equal to number of aus in fset, iau header should have magic, fset and aun all 0 or all valid values. For any other value return error.

RESOLUTION:
Fixed the log replay code.

* 4001941 (Tracking ID: 3998931)

SYMPTOM:
Running fsmigadm command with target vxfs filesystem device gives mount error:

Mouting Target File System /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/testvol
UX:vxfs mount.vxfs: ERROR: V-3-23731: mount failed

DESCRIPTION:
When doing migration from ext4 to vxfs with SELinux enabled, vx_mig_linux_getxattr() gets called in the context of migration processes (fsmigadm, fsmigbgcp). 
But we don't serve getxattr/setxattr operations invoked through fsmigadm, fsmigbgcp commands. So, vx_mig_linux_getxattr() returns ENOTSUP and mount fails.

RESOLUTION:
Allow getxattr/setxattr operations during migration in the context of fsmig commands.

* 4001942 (Tracking ID: 3992665)

SYMPTOM:
Panics with the below stack:
vx_mig_linux_getxattr_int
vx_mig_linux_getxattr
vfs_getxattr
getxattr
sys_getxattr
system_call_fastpath

DESCRIPTION:
Panic occurs when vx_mig_linux_setxattr_int() tries to access a vx_inode immediately after fsmigadm start is issued. Because the vx_inode it tries to access is yet to be created and assigned to vnode.
The code to access vx_inode in vx_mig_linux_setxattr_int() was added to check for symbolic links.

RESOLUTION:
In the _xattr call on migration vnode, instead of trying to use vx_inode to identify the file type, get vfs attributes from source dentry and then use vattr->va_type to check the file type.

* 4002742 (Tracking ID: 4002740)

SYMPTOM:
Dalloc tunable gets enabled on CFS secondary without setting it through vxtunefs.

DESCRIPTION:
Due to a race condition between tunable setting on Primary mount and mount system call on secondary, dalloc might remain enabled on secondary node.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to fix this issue.

* 4002986 (Tracking ID: 3994123)

SYMPTOM:
Running fsck on a system may show LCT count mismatch errors

DESCRIPTION:
Multi-block merged extents in IFIAT inodes, may only process the first block of the extent, thus leaving some references unprocessed. This will lead to LCT counts not matching. Resolving the issue will require a fullfsck.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes added to process merged multi-block extents in IFIAT inodes correctly.

* 4005377 (Tracking ID: 3982291)

SYMPTOM:
ncheck command fails with error "UX:vxfs ncheck: ERROR: V-3-21531: cannot malloc inode space."

DESCRIPTION:
length passed to malloc was of type int and due to large value of maxinode, malloc length was greater than INT_MAX. This causes malloc failure

RESOLUTION:
Changed the malloc length to type size_t instead of int to fix integer overflow.

* 4006832 (Tracking ID: 3987533)

SYMPTOM:
Mount is failing when "df" thread races with it.

DESCRIPTION:
On solaris, there is race between df thread and mount thread which can fail mount with below error

UX:vxfs mount: ERROR: V-3-21264: /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol1 is already mounted, /busymnt is busy,
                 or the allowable number of mount points has been exceeded.

On solaris, Df thread increases the v_count on the vnode of mount directory. During mount, VxFS checks for v_count to be 1, to avoid nested mount. But if df thread races with mount, then v_count can become 2 which will fail mount process. By checking VROOT flag, VxFS can avoid nested mount.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to check only VROOT flag for nested mount condition in solaris.

* 4010354 (Tracking ID: 3993935)

SYMPTOM:
Fsck command of vxfs may hit segmentation fault with following stack.
#0  get_dotdotlst ()
#1  find_dotino ()
#2  dir_sanity ()
#3  pass2 ()
#4  iproc_do_work ()
#5  start_thread ()
#6  sysctl ()

DESCRIPTION:
TURNON_CHUNK() and TURNOFF_CHUNK() are modifying the values of arguments.

RESOLUTION:
Code has been modified to fix the issue.

* 4011363 (Tracking ID: 4003395)

SYMPTOM:
System got panicked during upgrading IS 6.2.1 to IS 7.4.2 using phased upgrade.

DESCRIPTION:
During Upgrade operation, CPI first stops the processes. In such a case the older modules get's unloaded. And, Then, the VRTSvxfs Package is uninstalled. During Uninstallation vxfs-unconfigure script is run, which leaves the module driver file, at the same location because we have checks which is conditional to whether module is loaded or not.

RESOLUTION:
Removing the module driver file unconditionally in vxfs-unconfigure, so that no remnant file remain after the Package uninstallation.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.2200

* 3986794 (Tracking ID: 3992718)

SYMPTOM:
On CFS, due to race between clone removal and inode inactivation process, read on clone's overlay attribute inode results in ERROR 
if clone is marked for removal and its the last clone being removed case during attribute inode removal in inode inactivation process.

DESCRIPTION:
Issues is seen with primary fset inode having VX_IEREMOVE extop set and its clone inode having VX_IEPTTRUNC extop set. Clone has marked for removal and  its the last clone being removed case. This clone inode is in inode inactivation process and it has overlay attribute inode associated with it. During this inode inactivation process we tried this attribute inode removal, but due to overlay attribute inode and clone marked for removal and its the last clone being removed case we return with ENOENT error from vx_cfs_iread() for such inode and end up hitting this issue. The race between vx_clone_dispose() and vx_inactive_process() is also a reason for this issue.

We have not seen this issue in case of LM as we do extop processing unconditionally during clone creation process on local mounts.
On CFS we need to handle this case.

RESOLUTION:
In CFS case, during clone creation operation do extop processing of inodes having VX_IEPTTRUNC extop set.

* 3989317 (Tracking ID: 3989303)

SYMPTOM:
In case of reconfig seen hang when fsck hits coredump and coredump is stuck in vx_statvfs() on rhel8 and sles15 where OS systemd coredump utility calls vx_statvfs(). This blocks recovery thread on FS.

DESCRIPTION:
On rhel8 and sles15, OS systemd coredump utility calls vx_statvfs().
In case of reconfig where primary node dies and cfs recovery is in process to replay log files 
of the dead nodes for which vxfsckd runs fsck on secondary node and if fsck hits coredump in between 
due to some error, the coredump utility thread gets stuck at vx_statvfs() to get wakeup by new primary 
to collect fs stats and blocking recovery thread here and we are landing into deadlock.

RESOLUTION:
To unblock recovery thread in this case we should send older fs stats to coredump utility 
when cfs recovery is in process on secondary and "vx_fsckd_process" is set which indicates fsck is in 
progress for this filesystem.

* 3995201 (Tracking ID: 3990257)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS may face buffer overflow in case of doing I/O on File Change Log (FCL) file through Userspace Input Output (UIO) interface

DESCRIPTION:
In case of Userspace Input Output (UIO) interface, VxFS is not able to handle larger I/O request properly, resulting in buffer overflow.

RESOLUTION:
VxFS code is modified to limit the length of I/O request came through Userspace Input Output (UIO) interface.

* 3997065 (Tracking ID: 3996947)

SYMPTOM:
FSCK operation may behave incorrectly or hang

DESCRIPTION:
While checking filesystem with fsck utility we may see hang or undefined behavior if FSCK found specific type of corruption. Such type of 
corruption will be visible in presence of checkpoint. FSCK utility fixed any corruption as per input give (either "y" or "n"). During this for this specific 
type of corruption, due to bug it end up into unlocking mutex which is not locked.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to fix the bug to made sure mutex is locked before unlocking it.

* 3998169 (Tracking ID: 3998168)

SYMPTOM:
For multi-TB filesystems, vxresize operations results in system freeze for 8-10 mins
causing application hangs and VCS timeouts.

DESCRIPTION:
During resize, primary node get the delegation of all the allocation units. In case of larger filesystem,
the total time taken by delegation operation is quite large. Also, flushing the summary maps takes considerable
amount of time. This results in filesystem freeze of around 8-10 mins.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to reduce the total time taken by vxresize.

* 3998394 (Tracking ID: 3983958)

SYMPTOM:
"open" system call on a file which belongs to a removed checkpoint, returns "EPERM" which ideally should return "ENOENT".

DESCRIPTION:
"open" system call on a file which belongs to a removed checkpoint, returns "EPERM" which ideally should return "ENOENT".

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done so that, proper error code will be returned in those scenarios.

* 4001379 (Tracking ID: 4001378)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.2

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.2 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused VxFS module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support VxFS on RHEL8.2

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.1.1600

* 3989413 (Tracking ID: 3989412)

SYMPTOM:
VxFS module failed to load on RHEL8.1

DESCRIPTION:
The RHEL8.1 is new release and it has some changes in kernel which caused VxFS module failed to load
on it.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to support VxFS on RHEL8.1.

Patch ID: VRTSpython-3.6.6.10

* 4056525 (Tracking ID: 4049692)

SYMPTOM:
Additional Python modules are required in the VRTSpython package to support changes in the InfoScale licensing component.

DESCRIPTION:
To support the changes in the InfoScale licensing component, some additional modules are required in the VRTSpython package.

RESOLUTION:
The VRTSpython package is updated to include additional Python modules.

Patch ID: VRTSvlic-4.01.741.300

* 4049416 (Tracking ID: 4049416)

SYMPTOM:
Frequent Security vulnerabilities reported in JRE.

DESCRIPTION:
There are many vulnerabilities reported in JRE every quarter. To overcome this vulnerabilities issue migrate Licensing Collector service from Java to Python.
All other behavior of Licensing Collector service will remain the same.

RESOLUTION:
Migrated Licensing Collector service from Java to Python.

Patch ID: VRTScavf-7.4.1.3400

* 4056567 (Tracking ID: 4054462)

SYMPTOM:
In a hardware replication environment, a shared disk group resource may fail to be imported when the HARDWARE_MIRROR flag is set.

DESCRIPTION:
After the VCS hardware replication agent resource fails over control to the secondary site, the CVMVolDg agent does not rescan all the required device paths in case of a multi-pathing configuration. The vxdg import operation fails, because the hardware device characteristics for all the paths are not refreshed.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix addresses the issue by providing two new resource-level attributes for the CVMVolDg agent.
- The ScanDisks attribute specifies whether to perform a selective for all the disk paths that are associated with a VxVM disk group. When ScanDisks is set to 1, the agent performs a selective devices scan. Before attempting to import a hardware clone or a hardware replicated device, the VxVM and the DMP attributes of a disk are refreshed. ScanDisks is set to 0 by default, which indicates that a selective device scan is not performed. However, even when ScanDisks is set to 0, if the disk group fails during the first import attempt, the agent checks the error string. If the string contains the text HARDWARE_MIRROR, the agent performs a selective device scan to increase the chances of a successful import.
- The DGOptions attribute specifies options to be used with the vxdg import command that is executed by the agent to bring the CVMVolDg resource online.
Sample resource configuration for hardware replicated shared disk groups:
CVMVolDg tc_dg (
    CVMDiskGroup = datadg
    CVMVolume = { vol01 }
    CVMActivation = sw
    CVMDeportOnOffline = 1
    ClearClone = 1
    ScanDisks = 1
    DGOptions = "-t -o usereplicatedev=on"
    )

Patch ID: VRTSveki-7.4.1.3300

* 4056103 (Tracking ID: 3992450)

SYMPTOM:
If the VRTSveki is installed when VxVM modules are already loaded through YUM , then the VRTSveki installation fails

DESCRIPTION:
If the VRTSveki is installed when VxVM modules are already loaded through YUM , then the VRTSveki installation fails and it does not create the proper links in /lib/modules/ directory. Since the links are not created in the directory then installation of VxVM also fails because of the same.

RESOLUTION:
code changes have been done to resolve the issue.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsea-7.4.1.3300

* 4054325 (Tracking ID: 4043289)

SYMPTOM:
In an Oracle ASM 19c environment on Solaris, the ASMInst agent fails to come online or to detect the state of the related resources.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to incorrect permissions on certain Oracle files on Solaris.

RESOLUTION:
The ASMInst agent is updated to handle the change in permissions that causes this issue.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsea-7.4.1.3100

* 4044135 (Tracking ID: 4044136)

SYMPTOM:
Package installation failed on CentOS platform.

DESCRIPTION:
Due to lower packaging version package failed to install.

RESOLUTION:
Increased package versioning to 7.4.1.3100, now package is able to install on CentOS platform.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsea-7.4.1.1600

* 3982248 (Tracking ID: 3989510)

SYMPTOM:
The VCS agent for Oracle does not support Oracle 19c databases.

DESCRIPTION:
In case of non-CDB or CDB-only databases, the VCS agent for Oracle does not recognize that an Oracle 19c resource is intentionally offline after a graceful shutdown. This functionality is never supported for PDB-type databases.

RESOLUTION:
The agent is updated to recognize the graceful shutdown of an Oracle 19c resource as intentional offline in case of non-CDB or CDB-only databases. For details, refer to the article at: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100046803.

Patch ID: VRTSvcs-7.4.1.3300

* 4054266 (Tracking ID: 4040705)

SYMPTOM:
When a command exceeds 4096 characters, hacli hangs indefinitely.

DESCRIPTION:
Instead of returning the appropriate error message, hacli waits indefinitely for a reply from the VCS engine.

RESOLUTION:
Increased the limit of the hacli '-cmd' option to 7680 characters. Validations for the various hacli options are also now handled better. Thus, when the value of the '-cmd' option exceeds the new limit, hacli no longer hangs, but instead returns the appropriate proper error message.

* 4054267 (Tracking ID: 4040656)

SYMPTOM:
When the ENOMEM error occurs, HAD does not shut down gracefully.

DESCRIPTION:
When HAD encounters the ENOMEM error, it reattempts the operation a few times until it reaches a predefined maximum limit, and then it exits. The hashadow daemon restarts HAD with the '-restart' option. The failover service group in the cluster is not started automatically, because it appears that one of the cluster nodes is in the 'restarting' mode.

RESOLUTION:
HAD is enhanced to exit gracefully when it encounters the ENOMEM error, and the hashadow daemon is updated to restart HAD without the '-restart' option. This enhancement ensures that in such a scenario, the autostart of a failover service group is triggered as expected.

* 4054271 (Tracking ID: 4043700)

SYMPTOM:
In case of failover, parallel, or hybrid service groups, multiple PreOnline triggers can be executed on the same node or on different nodes in a cluster while an online operation is in already progress.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because the validation of online operations did not take the ongoing execution of PreOnline triggers into consideration. Thus, subsequent online operations are accepted while a PreOnline trigger is already being executed. Consequently, multiple PreOnline trigger instances are executed.

RESOLUTION:
A check for PreOnline triggers is added to the validation of ongoing online operations, and subsequent calls for online operations are rejected. Thus, the PreOnline trigger for failover groups is executed only once.

Patch ID: VRTSvcs-7.4.1.2900

* 4026815 (Tracking ID: 4026819)

SYMPTOM:
Non-root users of GuestGroup in a secure cluster cannot execute VCS commands like "hagrp -state".

DESCRIPTION:
When a non-root guest user runs a HAD CLI command, the command fails to execute and the following error is logged: "VCS ERROR V-16-1-10600 Cannot connect to VCS engine". This issue occurs when IPv6 is disabled.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the VCS module to run HAD CLI commands successfully even when IPv6 is disabled.

Patch ID: VRTSvcs-7.4.1.2800

* 3995684 (Tracking ID: 3995685)

SYMPTOM:
A discrepancy was observed between the VCS engine log messages at the primary site and those at the DR site in a GCO configuration.

DESCRIPTION:
If a resource that was online at the primary site is taken offline outside VCS control, the VCS engine logs the messages related to the unexpected change in the state of the resource[, successful clean Entry Point execution and so on]. The messages clearly indicate that the resource is faulted. However, the VCS engine does not log any debugging error messages regarding the fault on the primary site, but instead logs them at the DR site. Consequently, there is a discrepancy in the engine log messages at the primary site and those at the DR site.

RESOLUTION:
The VCS engine module is updated to log the appropriate debugging error messages at the primary site when a resource goes into the Faulted state.

FILE / VERSION:
had.exe / 7.4.10004.0
hacf.exe / 7.4.10004.0
haconf.exe  / 7.4.10004.0

* 4012318 (Tracking ID: 4012518)

SYMPTOM:
The gcoconfig command does not accept "." in the interface name.

DESCRIPTION:
The naming guidelines for network interfaces allow the "." character to be included as part of the name string. However, if this character is included, the gcoconfig command returns an error stating that the NIC name is invalid.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the gcoconfig command code to allow the inclusion of the "." character when providing interface names.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.3400

* 4054323 (Tracking ID: 4001565)

SYMPTOM:
On Solaris 11.4, IMF fails to provide notifications when Oracle processes stop.

DESCRIPTION:
On Solaris 11.4, when Oracle processes stop, IMF provides notification to Oracle agent, but the monitor is not scheduled. As as result, agent fails intelligent monitoring.

RESOLUTION:
Oracle agent now provides notifications when Oracle processes stop.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.3300

* 4045476 (Tracking ID: 4041596)

SYMPTOM:
A cluster node panics when the arguments passed to a process that is registered with AMF exceeds 8K characters.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to improper parsing and handling of argument lists that are passed to processes registered with AMF.

RESOLUTION:
AMF is updated to correctly parse and handle argument lists for processes.

* 4053181 (Tracking ID: 4053171)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 4.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
5(RHEL8.5) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.3200

* 4044340 (Tracking ID: 4041703)

SYMPTOM:
The system panics when the Mount and the CFSMount agents fail to register with AMF.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs after an operating system upgrade. The agents fail to register with AMF, which leads to a system panic.

RESOLUTION:
Added support for cursor in mount structures starting RHEL 8.4.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.2900

* 4037950 (Tracking ID: 4037048)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 3.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
4(RHEL8.4) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.2800

* 4019003 (Tracking ID: 4018791)

SYMPTOM:
A cluster node panics when the AMF module module attempts to access an executable binary or a script using its absolute path.

DESCRIPTION:
A cluster node panics and generates a core dump, which indicates that an issue with the AMF module. The AMF module function that locates an executable binary or a script using its absolute path fails to handle NULL values.

RESOLUTION:
The AMF module is updated to handle NULL values when locating an executable binary or a script using its absolute path.

* 4019679 (Tracking ID: 4019674)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8 Update 2.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.2100

* 4002154 (Tracking ID: 4002150)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8.1 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSamf-7.4.1.1600

* 3990020 (Tracking ID: 3990016)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8.0 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
1(RHEL8.1) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.3300

* 3984175 (Tracking ID: 3917636)

SYMPTOM:
Filesystems from /etc/fstab file are not mounted automatically on boot through systemd on RHEL7 and SLES12.

DESCRIPTION:
While bootup, when systemd tries to mount using the devices mentioned in the /etc/fstab file on the device, the device cannot be accessed leading to the failure of the mount operation. As the device is discovered through udev infrastructure, the udev-rules for the device should be applied when the volumes are created so that the device gets registered with systemd. In case, udev rules are executed even before the device in the "/dev/vx/dsk" directory is created, the device will not be registered with systemd leading to the failure of mount operation.

RESOLUTION:
To register the device, create all the volumes and run the "udevadm trigger" to execute all the udev rules.

* 4011097 (Tracking ID: 4010794)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) caused system panic in a cluster with below stack when storage activities were going on:
dmp_start_cvm_local_failover+0x118()
dmp_start_failback+0x398()
dmp_restore_node+0x2e4()
dmp_revive_paths+0x74()
gen_update_status+0x55c()
dmp_update_status+0x14()
gendmpopen+0x4a0()

DESCRIPTION:
The system panic occurred due to invalid dmpnode's current primary path when disks were attached/detached in a cluster. When DMP accessed the current primary path without doing sanity check, the system panics due to an invalid pointer.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid accessing any invalid pointer.

* 4039527 (Tracking ID: 4018086)

SYMPTOM:
vxiod with ID as 128 was stuck with below stack:

 #2 [] vx_svar_sleep_unlock at [vxfs]
 #3 [] vx_event_wait at [vxfs]
 #4 [] vx_async_waitmsg at [vxfs]
 #5 [] vx_msg_send at [vxfs]
 #6 [] vx_send_getemapmsg at [vxfs]
 #7 [] vx_cfs_getemap at [vxfs]
 #8 [] vx_get_freeexts_ioctl at [vxfs]
 #9 [] vxportalunlockedkioctl at [vxportal]
 #10 [] vxportalkioctl at [vxportal]
 #11 [] vxfs_free_region at [vxio]
 #12 [] vol_ru_start_replica at [vxio]
 #13 [] vol_ru_start at [vxio]
 #14 [] voliod_iohandle at [vxio]
 #15 [] voliod_loop at [vxio]

DESCRIPTION:
With SmartMove feature set to ON, the vxiod with ID as 128 starts the replication where RVG is in DCM mode. Thus, the vxiod awaits the filesystem's response if the given region is used by filesystem or not. Filesystem will trigger MDSHIP IO on logowner. Due to a bug in the code, MDSHIP IO always gets queued in vxiod with ID as 128. Hence a deadlock situation occurs.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid handling the MDSHIP IO in vxiod whose ID is bigger than 127.

* 4045494 (Tracking ID: 4021939)

SYMPTOM:
The "vradmin syncvol" command fails and the following message is logged: "VxVM VVR vxrsync ERROR V-5-52-10206 no server host systems specified".

DESCRIPTION:
VVR sockets now bind without specifying IP addresses. This recent change causes issues when such interfaces are used to identify whether the associated remote host is same as the localhost. For example, in case of the "vradmin syncvol" command, VVR incorrectly assumes that the local host has been provided as the remote host, logs the error message and exits.

RESOLUTION:
Updated the vradmin utility to correctly identify the remote hosts that are passed to the "vradmin syncvol" command.

* 4051815 (Tracking ID: 4031597)

SYMPTOM:
vradmind generates a core dump in __strncpy_sse2_unaligned.

DESCRIPTION:
The following core dump is generated:
(gdb)bt
Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fcd140b2780 (LWP 90066)):
#0 0x00007fcd12b1d1a5 in __strncpy_sse2_unaligned () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000059102e in IpmServer::accept (this=0xf21168, new_handlesp=0x0) at Ipm.C:3406
#2 0x0000000000589121 in IpmHandle::events (handlesp=0xf12088, new_eventspp=0x7ffc8e80a4e0, serversp=0xf120c8, new_handlespp=0x0, ms=100) at Ipm.C:613
#3 0x000000000058940b in IpmHandle::events (handlesp=0xfc8ab8, vlistsp=0xfc8938, ms=100) at Ipm.C:645
#4 0x000000000040ae2a in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffc8e80e8e8) at srvmd.C:722

RESOLUTION:
vradmind is updated to properly handle getpeername(), which addresses this issue.

* 4051887 (Tracking ID: 3956607)

SYMPTOM:
When removing a VxVM disk using the vxdg-rmdisk operation, the following error occurs while requesting a disk reclaim:
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-0 Disk <device_name> is used by one or more subdisks which are pending to be reclaimed.
Use "vxdisk reclaim <device_name>" to reclaim space used by these subdisks, and retry "vxdg rmdisk" command.
Note: The reclamation operation is irreversible. However, a core dump occurs when vxdisk-reclaim is executed.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to a memory allocation failure in the disk-reclaim code, which fails to be detected and causes an invalid address to be referenced. Consequently, a core dump occurs.

RESOLUTION:
The disk-reclaim code is updated to handle memory allocation failures properly.

* 4051889 (Tracking ID: 4019182)

SYMPTOM:
In case of a VxDMP configuration, an InfoScale server panics when applying a patch. The following stack trace is generated:
unix:panicsys+0x40()
unix:vpanic_common+0x78()
unix:panic+0x1c()
unix:mutex_enter() - frame recycled
vxdmp(unloaded text):0x108b987c(jmpl?)()
vxdmp(unloaded text):0x108ab380(jmpl?)(0)
genunix:callout_list_expire+0x5c()
genunix:callout_expire+0x34()
genunix:callout_execute+0x10()
genunix:taskq_thread+0x42c()
unix:thread_start+4()

DESCRIPTION:
Some VxDMP functions create callouts. The VxDMP module may already be unloaded when a callout expires, which may cause the server to panic. VxDMP should cancel any previous timeout function calls before it unloads itself.

RESOLUTION:
VxDMP is updated to cancel any previous timeout function calls before unloading itself.

* 4051896 (Tracking ID: 4010458)

SYMPTOM:
In a VVR environment, the rlink might inconsistently disconnect due to unexpected transactions, and the following message might get logged:
"VxVM VVR vxio V-5-0-114 Disconnecting rlink <rlink_name> to permit transaction to proceed"

DESCRIPTION:
In a VVR environment, a transaction is triggered when a change in the VxVM or the VVR objects needs to be persisted on disk. In some scenarios, a few unnecessary transactions get triggered in a loop, which was causes multiple rlink disconnects and the aforementioned message gets logged frequently. One such unexpected transaction occurs when the open/close command is issued for a volume as part of SmartIO caching. The vradmind daemon also issues some open/close commands on volumes as part of the I/O statistics collection, which triggers unnecessary transactions. Additionally, some unexpected transactions occur due to incorrect references to some temporary flags on the volumes.

RESOLUTION:
VVR is updated to first check whether SmartIO caching is configured on a system. If it is not configured, VVR disables SmartIO caching on the associated volumes. VVR is also updated to avoid the unexpected transactions that may occur due to incorrect references on certain temporary flags on the volumes.

* 4055653 (Tracking ID: 4049082)

SYMPTOM:
I/O read error is displayed when remote FSS node rebooting.

DESCRIPTION:
When rebooting remote FSS node, I/O read requests to a mirror volume that is scheduled on the remote disk from the FSS node should be redirected to the remaining plex. However, current vxvm does not handle this correctly. The retrying I/O requests could still be sent to the offline remote disk, which cause to final I/O read failure.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to schedule the retrying read request on the remaining plex.

* 4055660 (Tracking ID: 4046007)

SYMPTOM:
In FSS environment if the cluster name is changed then the private disk region gets corrupted.

DESCRIPTION:
Under some conditions, when vxconfigd tries to update the TOC (table of contents) blocks of disk private region, the allocation maps cannot be initialized in the memory. This could make allocation maps incorrect and lead to corruption of the private region on the disk.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to avoid corruption of private disk region.

* 4055668 (Tracking ID: 4045871)

SYMPTOM:
vxconfigd crashed at ddl_get_disk_given_path with following stacks:
ddl_get_disk_given_path
ddl_reconfigure_all
ddl_find_devices_in_system
find_devices_in_system
mode_set
setup_mode
startup
main
_start

DESCRIPTION:
Under some situations, duplicate paths can be added in one dmpnode in vxconfigd. If the duplicate paths are removed then the empty path entry can be generated for that dmpnode. Thus, later when vxconfigd accesses the empty path entry, it crashes due to NULL pointer reference.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to avoid the duplicate paths that are to be added.

* 4055697 (Tracking ID: 4047793)

SYMPTOM:
When replicated disks are in SPLIT mode, importing its diskgroup failed with "Device is a hardware mirror".

DESCRIPTION:
When replicated disks are in SPLIT mode, which are r/w, importing its diskgroup failed with "Device is a hardware mirror". Third party doesn't expose disk attribute to show when it's in SPLIT mode. Now DMP refers to its REPLICATED status to judge if diskgroup import is allowed or not. `-o usereplicatedev=on/off` is enhanced to archive it.

RESOLUTION:
The code is enhanced to allow diskgroup import when replicated disks are in SPLIT mode.

* 4055772 (Tracking ID: 4043337)

SYMPTOM:
rp_rv.log file uses space for logging.

DESCRIPTION:
rp_rv log files needs to be removed and logger file should have 16 mb rotational log files.

RESOLUTION:
The code changes are implemented to disabel logging for rp_rv.log files

* 4055895 (Tracking ID: 4038865)

SYMPTOM:
In IRQ stack, the system panics at VxDMP module with the following calltrace:
native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
queued_spin_lock_slowpath
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave7
dmp_get_shared_lock
gendmpiodone
dmpiodone
bio_endio
blk_update_request
scsi_end_request
scsi_io_completion
scsi_finish_command
scsi_softirq_done
blk_done_softirq
__do_softirq
call_softirq
do_softirq
irq_exit
do_IRQ
 <IRQ stack>

DESCRIPTION:
A deadlock issue occurred between inode_hash_lock and DMP shared lock when one process was holding inode_hash_lock, but acquired the DMP shared lock in IRQ context and the other processes holding the DMP shared lock acquired the inode_hash_lock.

RESOLUTION:
To avoid the deadlock issue, the code changes are done.

* 4055899 (Tracking ID: 3993242)

SYMPTOM:
vxsnap prepare on vset might throw error : "VxVM vxsnap ERROR V-5-1-19171 Cannot perform prepare operation on cloud 
volume"

DESCRIPTION:
There were  some wrong volume-records entries being fetched for VSET and due to which required validations were failing and triggering the issue .

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to resolve the issue .

* 4055905 (Tracking ID: 4052191)

SYMPTOM:
Any scripts or command files in the / directory may run unexpectedly when the system starts and vxvm volumes will not be available until those scripts or commands are complete.

DESCRIPTION:
If this issue occurs, /var/svc/log/system-vxvm-vxvm-configure:default.log indicates that a script or a command located in the / directory has been executed.
For example,
ABC Script ran!!
/lib/svc/method/vxvm-configure[241] abc.sh not found
/lib/svc/method/vxvm-configure[242] abc.sh not found
/lib/svc/method/vxvm-configure[243] abc.sh not found
/lib/svc/method/vxvm-configure[244] app/ cannot execute
In this example, abc.sh is located in the / directory and just echoes "ABC script ran !!". vxvm-configure launched abc.sh.

RESOLUTION:
The incorrect comments format in the SunOS_5.11.vxvm-configure.sh script is corrected.

* 4055925 (Tracking ID: 4031064)

SYMPTOM:
During master switch with replication in progress, cluster wide hang is seen on VVR secondary.

DESCRIPTION:
With application running on primary, and replication setup between VVR primary & secondary, when master switch operation is attempted on secondary, it gets hung permanently.

RESOLUTION:
Appropriate code changes are done to handle scenario of master switch operation and replication data on secondary.

* 4055938 (Tracking ID: 3999073)

SYMPTOM:
Data corruption occurred when the fast mirror resync (FMR) was enabled and the failed plex of striped-mirror layout was attached.

DESCRIPTION:
To determine and recover the regions of volumes using contents of detach, a plex attach operation with FMR tracking has been enabled.

For the given volume region, the DCO region size being higher than the stripe-unit of volume, the code logic in plex attached code path was incorrectly skipping the bits in detach maps. Thus, some of the regions (offset-len) of volume did not sync with the attached plex leading to inconsistent mirror contents.

RESOLUTION:
To resolve the data corruption issue, the code has been modified to consider all the bits for given region (offset-len) in plex attached code.

* 4056107 (Tracking ID: 4036181)

SYMPTOM:
IO error has been reported when RVG is not in enabled state after boot-up.

DESCRIPTION:
When RVG is not enabled/active, the volumes under a RVG will report an IO error.
Messages logged:
systemd[1]: Starting File System Check on /dev/vx/dsk/vvrdg/vvrdata1...
systemd-fsck[4977]: UX:vxfs fsck.vxfs: ERROR: V-3-20113: Cannot open : No such device or address  
systemd-fsck[4977]: fsck failed with error code 31.
systemd-fsck: UX:vxfs fsck.vxfs: ERROR: V-3-20005: read of super-block on /dev/vx/dsk/vvrdg/vvrdata1 failed: Input/output error

RESOLUTION:
Issue got fixed by enabling the RVG using vxrvg command if the RVG is in disabled/recover state.

* 4056124 (Tracking ID: 4008664)

SYMPTOM:
System panic occurs with the following stack:

void genunix:psignal+4()
void vxio:vol_logger_signal_gen+0x40()
int vxio:vollog_logentry+0x84()
void vxio:vollog_logger+0xcc()
int vxio:voldco_update_rbufq_chunk+0x200()
int vxio:voldco_chunk_updatesio_start+0x364()
void vxio:voliod_iohandle+0x30()
void vxio:voliod_loop+0x26c((void *)0)
unix:thread_start+4()

DESCRIPTION:
Vxio keeps vxloggerd proc_t that is used to send a signal to vxloggerd. In case vxloggerd has been ended for some reason, the signal may be sent to an unexpected process, which may cause panic.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to correct the problem.

* 4056144 (Tracking ID: 3906534)

SYMPTOM:
After Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) Native support is enabled, /boot should to be mounted on the DMP device(Specific to Linux).

DESCRIPTION:
Typically, /boot is mounted on top of an Operating System (OS) device. When DMP Native support is enabled, only the volume groups (VGs) are migrated from the OS device to the DMP device, but /boot is not migrated. Parallely, if the OS device path is not available, the system becomes unbootable, because /boot is not available. Thus, it is necessary to mount /boot on the DMP device to provide multipathing and resiliency(Specific to Linux).

RESOLUTION:
The module is updated to migrate /boot on top of a DMP device when DMP Native support is enabled. Note: This fix is available for RHEL 6 only. For other Linux platforms, /boot will still not be mounted on the DMP device(Specific to Linux).

* 4056146 (Tracking ID: 3983832)

SYMPTOM:
When the disk groups are deleted, multiple VxVM commands get hang in CVR secondary site.

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM command hangs when a deadlock was encountered during kmsg broadcast while deleting disk group and IBC unfreeze operation.

RESOLUTION:
Changes are done in VxVM code check either by transactions or avoiding deadlock.

* 4056832 (Tracking ID: 4057526)

SYMPTOM:
Whenever vxnm-vxnetd is loaded, it reports "Cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/vxnm-vxnetd': No such file or directory" in /var/log/messages.

DESCRIPTION:
New systemd update removed the support for "/var/lock/subsys/" directory. Thus, whenever vxnm-vxnetd is loaded on the systems supporting systemd, it 
reports "cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/vxnm-vxnetd': No such file or directory"

RESOLUTION:
Added a check to validate if the /var/lock/subsys/ directory is supported in vxnm-vxnetd.sh

* 4056121 (Tracking ID: 4003617)

SYMPTOM:
Vxconfigd daemon dump core during node join operation on any node

DESCRIPTION:
Vxconfigd daemon dump core during node join operation on any node with below stack
which may lead to further transactions not getting processed due to vxconfigd level communication
between nodes is down

chosen_dalist_delete ()
reonline_received_disks ()
slave_check_darec ()
slave_response ()
fillnextreq ()
vold_getrequest ()
request_loop ()
main ()

RESOLUTION:
Workaround is to restart vxconfigd if HA is not available

* 4056154 (Tracking ID: 3975081)

SYMPTOM:
For AIX, After DMP Native support is enabled on the system, vxdmpadm native list command fails with following error.
VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15206 DMP support for LVM bootability is disabled.

DESCRIPTION:
FOR AIX, VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) has a binary i.e vxdmpboot which runs at boot time to enable DMP Native Support for Root FileSystem.
The binary executes at very early stage in boot phase on AIX platform and performs some licensing checks during execution. Earlier the licensing specific
library used to be a static library but now it has been changed to Dynamic library. At the boot time when vxdmpboot binary is executed, most of the file systems
are not mounted. The directory containing the Dynamic library is also not mounted and hence library would not be available at boot time when the vxdmpboot
binary is executed causing the failure in the licensing checks and failure of vxdmpboot execution. This failure prevents native support from getting enabled at
boot time for Root Filesystem.

RESOLUTION:
FOR AIX, Licensing checks as part of vxdmpboot binary have been disabled  to enable DMP native support successfully for root filesystem.

* 4056918 (Tracking ID: 3995648)

SYMPTOM:
In Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) environments, disk group import operation with few disks missing leads to data corruption.

DESCRIPTION:
In FSS environments, import of disk group with missing disks is not allowed. If disk with highest updated configuration information is not present during
import, the import operation fired was leading incorrectly incrementing the config TID on remaining disks before failing the operation. When missing disk(s)
with latest configuration came back, import was successful. But because of earlier failed transaction, import operation incorrectly choose wrong configuration
to import the diskgroup leading to data corruption.

RESOLUTION:
Code logic in disk group import operation is modified to ensure failed/missing disks check happens early before attempting perform any on-disk update as part of
import.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.3200

* 3984156 (Tracking ID: 3852146)

SYMPTOM:
In a CVM cluster, when a shared DG is imported by specifying both, the "-c" and the "-o noreonline" options, you may encounter the following error: 
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10978 Disk group <disk_group_name>: import failed: Disk for disk group not found.

DESCRIPTION:
The "-c" option updates the disk ID and the DG ID on the private region of the disks in the DG that is being imported. Such updated information is not yet seen by the slave because the disks have not been brought online again because the "noreonline" option was specified. As a result, the slave cannot identify the disk(s) based on the updated information sent from the master, which caused the import to fail with the error: Disk for disk group not found.

RESOLUTION:
VxVM is updated so that a shared DG import completes successfully even when the "-c" and the "-o noreonline" options are specified together.

* 3984175 (Tracking ID: 3917636)

SYMPTOM:
Filesystems from /etc/fstab file are not mounted automatically on boot 
through systemd on RHEL7 and SLES12.

DESCRIPTION:
While bootup, when systemd tries to mount using the devices mentioned in 
/etc/fstab file on the device, the device is not accessible leading to the 
failure of the mount operation. As the device discovery happens through udev 
infrastructure, the udev-rules for those 
devices need to be run when volumes are created so that devices get 
registered with systemd. In the case udev rules are executed even before the 
devices in "/dev/vx/dsk" directory are created.
Since the devices are not created, devices will not be registered with 
systemd leading to the failure of mount operation.

RESOLUTION:
Run "udevadm trigger" to execute all the udev rules once all volumes are 
created so that devices are registered.

* 4041285 (Tracking ID: 4044583)

SYMPTOM:
A system goes into the maintenance mode when DMP is enabled to manage native devices.

DESCRIPTION:
The "vxdmpadm gettune dmp_native_support=on" command is used to enable DMP to manage native devices. After you change the value of the dmp_native_support tunable, you need to reboot the system needs for the changes to take effect. However, the system goes into the maintenance mode after it reboots. The issue occurs due to the copying of the local liblicmgr72.so file instead of the original one while creating the vx_initrd image.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to copy the correct liblicmgr72.so file. The system successfully reboots without going into maintenance mode.

* 4042039 (Tracking ID: 4040897)

SYMPTOM:
This is new array and we need to add support for claiming HPE MSA 2060 arrays.

DESCRIPTION:
HPE MSA 2060 is new array and current ASL doesn't support it. So it will not be claimed with current ASL. This array support has been now added in the current ASL.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes to support HPE MSA 2060 array have been done.

* 4050892 (Tracking ID: 3991668)

SYMPTOM:
In a VVR configuration with secondary logging enabled, data inconsistency is reported after the "No IBC message arrived" error is encountered.

DESCRIPTION:
It might happen that the VVR secondary node handles updates with larger sequence IDs before the In-Band Control (IBC) update arrives. In this case, VVR drops the IBC update. Due to the updates with the larger sequence IDs than the one for the IBC update, data writes cannot be started, and they get queued. Data loss may occur after the VVR secondary receives an atomic commit and frees the queue. If this situation occurs, the "vradmin verifydata" command reports data inconsistency.

RESOLUTION:
VVR is modified to trigger updates as they are received in order to start data volume writes.

* 4051457 (Tracking ID: 3958062)

SYMPTOM:
After a boot LUN is migrated, disabling dmp_native_support fails with following error.

VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15883 check_bosboot open failed /dev/r errno 2
VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15253 bosboot would not succeed, please run  
manually to find the cause of failure
VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15251 bosboot check failed
VxVM vxdmpadm INFO V-5-1-18418 restoring protofile
+ final_ret=18
+ f_exit 18
VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15690 Operation failed for one or more volume 
groups

VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15686 The following VG(s) could not be migrated as 
could not disable DMP support for LVM bootability -
        rootvg

DESCRIPTION:
After performing a boot LUN migration, while enabling or disabling DMP native support, VxVM performs the 'bosboot' verification with the old boot disk name instead of the name of the migrated disk. This issue occurs on AIX, where the OS command returns the old boot disk name.

RESOLUTION:
VxVM is updated to use the correct OS command to get the boot disk name after migration.

* 4051815 (Tracking ID: 4031597)

SYMPTOM:
vradmind generates a core dump in __strncpy_sse2_unaligned.

DESCRIPTION:
The following core dump is generated:
(gdb)bt
Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fcd140b2780 (LWP 90066)):
#0 0x00007fcd12b1d1a5 in __strncpy_sse2_unaligned () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000059102e in IpmServer::accept (this=0xf21168, new_handlesp=0x0) at Ipm.C:3406
#2 0x0000000000589121 in IpmHandle::events (handlesp=0xf12088, new_eventspp=0x7ffc8e80a4e0, serversp=0xf120c8, new_handlespp=0x0, ms=100) at Ipm.C:613
#3 0x000000000058940b in IpmHandle::events (handlesp=0xfc8ab8, vlistsp=0xfc8938, ms=100) at Ipm.C:645
#4 0x000000000040ae2a in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffc8e80e8e8) at srvmd.C:722

RESOLUTION:
vradmind is updated to properly handle getpeername(), which addresses this issue.

* 4051887 (Tracking ID: 3956607)

SYMPTOM:
When removing a VxVM disk using the vxdg-rmdisk operation, the following error occurs while requesting a disk reclaim:
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-0 Disk <device_name> is used by one or more subdisks which are pending to be reclaimed.
Use "vxdisk reclaim <device_name>" to reclaim space used by these subdisks, and retry "vxdg rmdisk" command.
Note: The reclamation operation is irreversible. However, a core dump occurs when vxdisk-reclaim is executed.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to a memory allocation failure in the disk-reclaim code, which fails to be detected and causes an invalid address to be referenced. Consequently, a core dump occurs.

RESOLUTION:
The disk-reclaim code is updated to handle memory allocation failures properly.

* 4051889 (Tracking ID: 4019182)

SYMPTOM:
In case of a VxDMP configuration, an InfoScale server panics when applying a patch. The following stack trace is generated:
unix:panicsys+0x40()
unix:vpanic_common+0x78()
unix:panic+0x1c()
unix:mutex_enter() - frame recycled
vxdmp(unloaded text):0x108b987c(jmpl?)()
vxdmp(unloaded text):0x108ab380(jmpl?)(0)
genunix:callout_list_expire+0x5c()
genunix:callout_expire+0x34()
genunix:callout_execute+0x10()
genunix:taskq_thread+0x42c()
unix:thread_start+4()

DESCRIPTION:
Some VxDMP functions create callouts. The VxDMP module may already be unloaded when a callout expires, which may cause the server to panic. VxDMP should cancel any previous timeout function calls before it unloads itself.

RESOLUTION:
VxDMP is updated to cancel any previous timeout function calls before unloading itself.

* 4051896 (Tracking ID: 4010458)

SYMPTOM:
In a VVR environment, the rlink might inconsistently disconnect due to unexpected transactions, and the following message might get logged:
"VxVM VVR vxio V-5-0-114 Disconnecting rlink <rlink_name> to permit transaction to proceed"

DESCRIPTION:
In a VVR environment, a transaction is triggered when a change in the VxVM or the VVR objects needs to be persisted on disk. In some scenarios, a few unnecessary transactions get triggered in a loop, which was causes multiple rlink disconnects and the aforementioned message gets logged frequently. One such unexpected transaction occurs when the open/close command is issued for a volume as part of SmartIO caching. The vradmind daemon also issues some open/close commands on volumes as part of the I/O statistics collection, which triggers unnecessary transactions. Additionally, some unexpected transactions occur due to incorrect references to some temporary flags on the volumes.

RESOLUTION:
VVR is updated to first check whether SmartIO caching is configured on a system. If it is not configured, VVR disables SmartIO caching on the associated volumes. VVR is also updated to avoid the unexpected transactions that may occur due to incorrect references on certain temporary flags on the volumes.

* 4051968 (Tracking ID: 4023390)

SYMPTOM:
Vxconfigd crashes as a disk contains invalid privoffset(160), which is smaller than minimum required offset(VTOC 265, GPT 208).

DESCRIPTION:
There may have disk label corruption or stale information residents on the disk header, which caused unexpected label written.

RESOLUTION:
Add a assert when updating CDS label to ensure the valid privoffset written to disk header.

* 4051985 (Tracking ID: 4031587)

SYMPTOM:
Filesystems are not mounted automatically on boot through systemd.

DESCRIPTION:
When systemd service tries to start all the FS in /etc/fstab, the Veritas Volume 
Manager (VxVM) volumes are not started since vxconfigd is still not up. The VxVM 
volumes are started a little bit later in the boot process. Since the volumes are 
not available, the FS are not mounted automatically at boot.

RESOLUTION:
Registered the VxVM volumes with UDEV daemon of Linux so that the FS would be 
mounted when the VxVM volumes are started and discovered by udev.

* 4053231 (Tracking ID: 4053230)

SYMPTOM:
RHEL 8.5 support is to be provided with IS 7.4.1 and 7.4.2

DESCRIPTION:
RHEL 8.5 ZDS support is being provided with IS 7.4.1 and 7.4.2

RESOLUTION:
VxVM packages are available with RHEL 8.5 compatibility

* 4053234 (Tracking ID: 4053233)

SYMPTOM:
RHEL 8.5 support is to be provided with IS 7.4.1 and 7.4.2

DESCRIPTION:
RHEL 8.5 ZDS support is being provided with IS 7.4.1 and 7.4.2

RESOLUTION:
ASL-APM packages are available with RHEL 8.5 compatibility

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.3100

* 4017284 (Tracking ID: 4011691)

SYMPTOM:
Observed high CPU consumption on the VVR secondary nodes because of high pending IO load.

DESCRIPTION:
High replication related IO load on the VVR secondary and the requirement of maintaining write order fidelity with limited memory pools created  contention. This resulted in multiple VxVM kernel threads contending for shared resources and there by increasing the CPU consumption.

RESOLUTION:
Limited the way in which VVR consumes its resources so that a high pending IO load would not result into high CPU consumption.

* 4039240 (Tracking ID: 4027261)

SYMPTOM:
These log files have permissions rw-rw-rw which are being flagged during customer's security scans.

DESCRIPTION:
There have been multiple concerns about world-writeable permissions on /var/VRTSvxvm/in.vxrsyncd.stderr and /var/adm/vx/vxdmpd.log .These log files have permissions rw-rw-rw which are being flagged by customer's security scans.

RESOLUTION:
The files are just log files with no sensitive information to leak, not much of a security threat. The files may not require world write permissions and can be restricted to the root user. Hence the permission of these files have been changed now !

* 4039242 (Tracking ID: 4008075)

SYMPTOM:
Observed with ASL changes for NVMe, This issue observed in reboot scenario. For every reboot machine was hitting panic And this was happening in loop.

DESCRIPTION:
panic was hitting for such splitted bios, root cause for this is RHEL8 introduced a new field named as __bi_remaining.
where __bi_remaining is maintanins the count of chained bios, And for every endio that __bi_remaining gets atomically decreased in bio_endio() function.
While decreasing __bi_remaining OS checks that the __bi_remaining 'should not <= 0' and in our case __bi_remaining was always 0 and we were hitting OS
BUG_ON.

RESOLUTION:
>>> For scsi devices maxsize is 4194304,
[   26.919333] DMP_BIO_SIZE(orig_bio) : 16384, maxsize: 4194304
[   26.920063] DMP_BIO_SIZE(orig_bio) : 262144, maxsize: 4194304

>>>and for NVMe devices maxsize is 131072
[  153.297387] DMP_BIO_SIZE(orig_bio) : 262144, maxsize: 131072
[  153.298057] DMP_BIO_SIZE(orig_bio) : 262144, maxsize: 131072

* 4039244 (Tracking ID: 4010612)

SYMPTOM:
$ vxddladm set namingscheme=ebn lowercase=no
This issue observed for NVMe and ssd. where every disk has separate enclosure like nvme0, nvme1... so on. means every nvme/ssd disks names would be 
hostprefix_enclosurname0_disk0, hostprefix_enclosurname1_disk0....

DESCRIPTION:
$ vxddladm set namingscheme=ebn lowercase=no
This issue observed for NVMe and ssd. where every disk has separate enclosure like nvme0, nvme1... so on.
means every nvme/ssd disks names would be hostprefix_enclosurname0_disk0, hostprefix_enclosurname1_disk0....
eg.
smicro125_nvme0_0 <--- disk1
smicro125_nvme1_0 <--- disk2

for lowercase=no our current code is suppressing the suffix digit of enclosurname and hence multiple disks gets same name and it is showing udid_mismatch 
because whatever udid of private region is not matching with ddl. ddl database showing wrong info because of multiple disks gets same name.

smicro125_nvme_0 <--- disk1   <<<<<<<-----here suffix digit of nvme enclosure suppressed
smicro125_nvme_0 <--- disk2

RESOLUTION:
Append the suffix integer while making da_name

* 4039249 (Tracking ID: 3984240)

SYMPTOM:
AIX builds were failing on AIX7.2 BE.

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM builds were failing on AIX7.2 BE.

RESOLUTION:
Made build environment and packaging changes so as to support VxVM builds on AIX7.2 BE.

* 4039525 (Tracking ID: 4012763)

SYMPTOM:
IO hang may happen in VVR (Veritas Volume Replicator) configuration when SRL overflows for one rlink while another one rlink is in AUTOSYNC mode.

DESCRIPTION:
In VVR, if the SRL overflow happens for rlink (R1) and some other rlink (R2) is ongoing the AUTOSYNC, then AUTOSYNC is aborted for R2, R2 gets detached and DCM mode is activated on R1 rlink.

However, due to a race condition in code handling AUTOSYNC abort and DCM activation in parallel, the DCM could not be activated properly and IO which caused DCM activation gets queued incorrectly, this results in a IO hang.

RESOLUTION:
The code has been modified to fix the race issue in handling the AUTOSYNC abort and DCM activation at same time.

* 4039526 (Tracking ID: 4034616)

SYMPTOM:
vol_seclog_limit_ioload tunable needs to be enabled on Linux only.

DESCRIPTION:
vol_seclog_limit_ioload tunable needs to be enabled on Linux only.

RESOLUTION:
The code changes are implemented to disable the tunable 'vol_seclog_limit_ioload' on non-linux platforms.

* 4040842 (Tracking ID: 4009353)

SYMPTOM:
After the command, vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=on, machine goes into maintenance mode. Issue is produced on physical setup with root lvm disk

DESCRIPTION:
If there is '-' in native vgname, then the script is taking an inaccurate vgname.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to fix the issue.

* 4044174 (Tracking ID: 4044072)

SYMPTOM:
I/Os fail for NVMe disks with 4K block size on the RHEL 8.4 kernel.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs only in the case of disks of the 4K block size. I/Os complete successfully when the disks of 512 block size are used. If disks of the 4K block size are used, the following error messages are logged:
[ 51.228908] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o error occurred (errno=0x206) on dmpnode 201/0x10
[ 51.230070] blk_update_request: operation not supported error, dev nvme1n1, sector 240 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
[ 51.240861] blk_update_request: operation not supported error, dev nvme0n1, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0

RESOLUTION:
After making the necessary code changes, no error messages are seen in dmesg and logical block size is set to 4096 (same as physical block size).

* 4045494 (Tracking ID: 4021939)

SYMPTOM:
The "vradmin syncvol" command fails and the following message is logged: "VxVM VVR vxrsync ERROR V-5-52-10206 no server host systems specified".

DESCRIPTION:
VVR sockets now bind without specifying IP addresses. This recent change causes issues when such interfaces are used to identify whether the associated remote host is same as the localhost. For example, in case of the "vradmin syncvol" command, VVR incorrectly assumes that the local host has been provided as the remote host, logs the error message and exits.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes made to correctly identify remote hosts in the "vradmin syncvol" command.

* 4045502 (Tracking ID: 4045501)

SYMPTOM:
The following errors occur during the installation of the VRTSvxvm and the VRTSaslapm packages on CentOS 8.4 systems:
~
Verifying packages...
Preparing packages...
This release of VxVM is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
and CentOS Linux 8.
Please install the appropriate OS
and then restart this installation of VxVM.
error: %prein(VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2500-RHEL8.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2500-RHEL8.x86_64: install failed
cat: 9: No such file or directory
~

DESCRIPTION:
The product installer reads the /etc/centos-release file to identify the Linux distribution. This issue occurs because the file has changed for CentOS 8.4.

RESOLUTION:
Code Changes have been made to correctly identify the Linux distribution.

* 4039241 (Tracking ID: 4010667)

SYMPTOM:
NVMe devices are not detected by Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) on RHEL 8.

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM uses SCSI inquiry interface to detect the storage devices. From RHEL8 onwards SCSI inquiry interface is not available for NVMe devices.
Due to this VxVM fails to detect the NVMe devices.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to use NVMe IOCTL interface to detect the NVMe devices.

* 4039527 (Tracking ID: 4018086)

SYMPTOM:
vxiod with ID as 128 was stuck with below stack:

 #2 [] vx_svar_sleep_unlock at [vxfs]
 #3 [] vx_event_wait at [vxfs]
 #4 [] vx_async_waitmsg at [vxfs]
 #5 [] vx_msg_send at [vxfs]
 #6 [] vx_send_getemapmsg at [vxfs]
 #7 [] vx_cfs_getemap at [vxfs]
 #8 [] vx_get_freeexts_ioctl at [vxfs]
 #9 [] vxportalunlockedkioctl at [vxportal]
 #10 [] vxportalkioctl at [vxportal]
 #11 [] vxfs_free_region at [vxio]
 #12 [] vol_ru_start_replica at [vxio]
 #13 [] vol_ru_start at [vxio]
 #14 [] voliod_iohandle at [vxio]
 #15 [] voliod_loop at [vxio]

DESCRIPTION:
With SmartMove feature as ON, it can happen vxiod with ID as 128 starts replication where RVG was in DCM mode, this vxiod is waiting for filesystem's response
if a given region is used by filesystem or not. Filesystem will trigger MDSHIP IO on logowner. Due to a bug in code, MDSHIP IO always gets queued in vxiod with
ID as 128. Hence a dead lock situation.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid handling MDSHIP IO in vxiod whose ID is bigger than 127.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2900

* 4013643 (Tracking ID: 4010207)

SYMPTOM:
System panic occurred with the below stack:

native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath()
queued_spin_lock_slowpath()
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave()
volget_rwspinlock()
volkiodone()
volfpdiskiodone()
voldiskiodone_intr()
voldmp_iodone()
bio_endio()
gendmpiodone()
dmpiodone()
bio_endio()
blk_update_request()
scsi_end_request()
scsi_io_completion()
scsi_finish_command()
scsi_softirq_done()
blk_done_softirq()
__do_softirq()
call_softirq()

DESCRIPTION:
As part of collecting the IO statistics collection, the vxstat thread acquires a spinlock and tries to copy data to the user space. During the data copy, if some page fault happens, then the thread would relinquish the CPU and provide the same to some other thread. If the thread which gets scheduled on the CPU requests the same spinlock which vxstat thread had acquired, then this results in a hard lockup situation.

RESOLUTION:
Code has been changed to properly release the spinlock before copying out the data to the user space during vxstat collection.

* 4023762 (Tracking ID: 4020046)

SYMPTOM:
The following IO errors are reported on VxVM sub-disks result in DRL log detached without any SCSI errors detected.

VxVM vxio V-5-0-1276 error on Subdisk [xxxx] while writing volume [yyyy][log] offset 0 length [zzzz]
VxVM vxio V-5-0-145 DRL volume yyyy[log] is detached

DESCRIPTION:
DRL plexes detached as an atomic write flag (BIT_ATOMIC) was set on BIO unexpectedly. The BIT_ATOMIC flag gets set on bio only if VOLSIO_BASEFLAG_ATOMIC_WRITE flag is set on SUBDISK SIO and its parent MVWRITE SIO's sio_base_flags. When generating MVWRITE SIO,  it's sio_base_flags was copied from a gio structure, because the gio structure memory isn't initialized it may contain gabarge values, hence the issue.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to fix the issue.

* 4031342 (Tracking ID: 4031452)

SYMPTOM:
Add node operation is failing with error "Error found while invoking '' in the new node, and rollback done in both nodes"

DESCRIPTION:
Stack showed a valid address for pointer ptmap2, but still it generated core.
It suggested that it might be a double-free case. Issue lies in freeing a pointer

RESOLUTION:
Added handling for such case by doing NULL assignment to pointers wherever they are freed

* 4033162 (Tracking ID: 3968279)

SYMPTOM:
Vxconfigd dumps core with SEGFAULT/SIGABRT on boot for NVME setup.

DESCRIPTION:
For NVME setup, vxconfigd dumps core while doing device discovery as the data structure is accessed by multiple threads and can hit a race condition. For sector size other than 512, the partition size mismatch is seen because we are doing comparison with partition size from devintf_getpart() and it is in sector size of the disk. This can lead to call of NVME device discovery.

RESOLUTION:
Added mutex lock while accessing the data structure so as to prevent core. Made calculations in terms of sector size of the disk to prevent the partition size mismatch.

* 4033163 (Tracking ID: 3959716)

SYMPTOM:
System may panic with sync replication with VVR configuration, when VVR RVG is in DCM mode, with following panic stack:
volsync_wait [vxio]
voliod_iohandle [vxio]
volted_getpinfo [vxio]
voliod_loop [vxio]
voliod_kiohandle [vxio]
kthread

DESCRIPTION:
With sync replication, if ACK for data message is delayed from the secondary site, the 
primary site might incorrectly free the message from the waiting queue at primary site.
Due to incorrect handling of the message, a system panic may happen.

RESOLUTION:
Required code changes are done to resolve the panic issue.

* 4033172 (Tracking ID: 3994368)

SYMPTOM:
During node 0 shutting down, vxconfigd daemon abort on node 1, and I/O write error happened on node 1

DESCRIPTION:
Examining the vxconfigd core we found that it entered into endless sigio processing which resulted in stack overflow and hence vxconfigd core dumped.
After that vxconfigd restarted and ended up in dg disable scenario.

RESOLUTION:
We have done the appropriate code changes to handle the scenario of stack overflow.

* 4033173 (Tracking ID: 4021301)

SYMPTOM:
Data corruption issue happened with the big size IO processed by Linux kernel IO split on RHEL8.

DESCRIPTION:
On RHEL8 or as of Linux kernel 3.13, it introduces some changes in Linux kernel block layer, new item of the bio iterator structure is used to represent the start offset of bio or bio vectors after the IO processed by Linux kernel IO split functions. Also, in recent version of vxfs, it can generate bio with larger size than the size limitation defined within Linux kernel block layer and VxVM, which lead the IO from vxfs could be split by Linux kernel. For such split IOs, VxVM does not take the new item of the bio iterator into account while process them, which caused the data is written to wrong position of volume/disk. Hence, data corruption.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to bypass the Linux kernel IO split functions, which seems redundant for VxVM IO processing.

* 4033216 (Tracking ID: 3993050)

SYMPTOM:
vxdctl dumpmsg command gets stuck on large node cluster during reconfiguration

DESCRIPTION:
vxdctl dumpmsg command gets stuck on large node cluster during reconfiguration with following stack. This causes /var/adm/vx/voldctlmsg.log file
to get filled with old repeated messages in GBs consuming most of /var space.
# pstack 210460
voldctl_get_msgdump ()
do_voldmsg ()
main ()

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to dump correct required messages to file

* 4033515 (Tracking ID: 3984266)

SYMPTOM:
DCM flag in on the RVG (Replicated Volume Group) volume may get deactivated after a master switch in CVR (Clustered Volume Replicator) which may cause excessive RVG recovery after subsequent node reboots.

DESCRIPTION:
After master switch, the DCM flag needs to be updated on the new CVM master node. Due to a transaction initiated in parallel with master switch, the DCM flag was getting lost. This was causing excessive RVG recovery during next node reboots as the DCM write position was NOT updated for a long time.

RESOLUTION:
The code is fixed to handle the race in updating the DCM flag during a master switch.

* 4035313 (Tracking ID: 4037915)

SYMPTOM:
Getting compilation errors due to RHEL's source code changes

DESCRIPTION:
While compiling the RHEL 8.4 kernel (4.18.0-304) the build compilation fails due to certain RH source changes.

RESOLUTION:
Following changes have been fixed to work with VxVM 7.4.1
__bdevname - depreciated
Solution: Have a struct block_device and use bdevname

blkg_tryget_closest - placed under EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Solution: Locally defined the function where compilation error was hit

sync_core - implicit declaration
The implementation of function sync_core() has been moved to header file sync_core.h, so including this header file fixes the error

* 4036426 (Tracking ID: 4036423)

SYMPTOM:
Race condition while reading config file in docker volume plugin caused the issue in Flex Appliance.

DESCRIPTION:
If 2 simultaneous requests come for say MountVolume, then both of them update the global variables and it leads to wrong parameter values
in some cases.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is to read this file only once during startup in init() function. If the user wants to change default values in the config file,
then he will have to restart the vxinfoscale-docker service.

* 4037331 (Tracking ID: 4037914)

SYMPTOM:
Crash while running VxVM cert.

DESCRIPTION:
While running the VM cert, there is a panic reported and the

RESOLUTION:
Setting bio and submitting to IOD layer in our own vxvm_gen_strategy() function

* 4037810 (Tracking ID: 3977101)

SYMPTOM:
While testing on VM cert a core dump is produced, no functionality breaks were observed

DESCRIPTION:
A regression caused by read_sol_label using same return varible (ret) more than once. Added code to get sector size and used same return variable, the function was returning presence of label even if it does not exist

RESOLUTION:
Code repositioned in vxpart.c to assign only in presence of label to return value

* 4017906 (Tracking ID: 4017905)

SYMPTOM:
VSPEx is new array that we need to support. The current ASL is not able to claim it.

DESCRIPTION:
VSPEx is new array and current ASL is not able to claim it. So, we need to modify our code to support this array.

RESOLUTION:
Modified the asl code to support claim for VSPEx array.

* 4022943 (Tracking ID: 4017656)

SYMPTOM:
This is new array and we need to add support for claiming XP8 arrays.

DESCRIPTION:
XP8 is new array and current ASL doesn't support it. So it will not be claimed with current ASL. This array support has been now added in the current ASL.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes to support XP8 array have been done.

* 4037946 (Tracking ID: 4037958)

SYMPTOM:
ASLAPM package not compiling with RHEL 8.4

DESCRIPTION:
With the ongoing compilation issues for RHEL 8.4, the ASLAPM package was not compiling as the build wasn't proceeding

RESOLUTION:
Code fixes have been made for the compilation issues and now the ASLAPM package is built.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2800

* 3984155 (Tracking ID: 3976678)

SYMPTOM:
vxvm-recover:  cat: write error: Broken pipe error encountered in syslog multiple times.

DESCRIPTION:
Due to a bug in vxconfigbackup script which is started by vxvm-recover "cat : write error: Broken pipe" is encountered in syslog 
and it is reported under vxvm-recover. In vxconfigbackup code multiple subshells are created in a function call and the first subshell is for cat command. When a particular if condition is satistfied, return is called exiting the later subshells even when there is data to be read in the created cat subshell, which results in broken pipe error.

RESOLUTION:
Changes are done in VxVM code to handle the broken pipe error.

* 4016283 (Tracking ID: 3973202)

SYMPTOM:
A VVR primary node may panic with below stack due to accessing the freed memory:
nmcom_throttle_send()
nmcom_sender()
kthread ()
kernel_thread()

DESCRIPTION:
After sending the data to VVR (Veritas Volume Replicator) secondary site, the code was accessing some variables for which the memory was already released due to the data ACK getting processed quite early. This was a rare race condition which may happen due to accessing the freed memory.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid the incorrect memory access.

* 4016291 (Tracking ID: 4002066)

SYMPTOM:
System panic with below stack when do reclaim:
__wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0
sbitmap_queue_wake_all+0x43/0x60
blk_mq_tag_wakeup_all+0x15/0x30
blk_mq_wake_waiters+0x3d/0x50
blk_set_queue_dying+0x22/0x40
blk_cleanup_queue+0x21/0xd0
vxvm_put_gendisk+0x3b/0x120 [vxio]
volsys_unset_device+0x1d/0x30 [vxio]
vol_reset_devices+0x12b/0x180 [vxio]
vol_reset_kernel+0x16c/0x220 [vxio]
volconfig_ioctl+0x866/0xdf0 [vxio]

DESCRIPTION:
With recent kernel, it is expected that kernel will return the pre-allocated sense buffer. These sense buffer pointers are supposed to be unchanged across multiple uses of a request. They are pre-allocated and expected to be unchanged until such a time as the request memory is to be freed. DMP overwrote the  original sense buffer, hence the issue.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid tampering the pre-allocated sense buffer.

* 4016768 (Tracking ID: 3989161)

SYMPTOM:
The system panic occurs because of hard lockup with the following stack:

#13 [ffff9467ff603860] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath at ffffffffb431803e
#14 [ffff9467ff603868] queued_spin_lock_slowpath at ffffffffb497a024
#15 [ffff9467ff603878] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave at ffffffffb4988757
#16 [ffff9467ff603890] vollog_logger at ffffffffc105f7fa [vxio]
#17 [ffff9467ff603918] vol_rv_update_childdone at ffffffffc11ab0b1 [vxio]
#18 [ffff9467ff6039f8] volsiodone at ffffffffc104462c [vxio]
#19 [ffff9467ff603a88] vol_subdisksio_done at ffffffffc1048eef [vxio]
#20 [ffff9467ff603ac8] volkcontext_process at ffffffffc1003152 [vxio]
#21 [ffff9467ff603b10] voldiskiodone at ffffffffc0fd741d [vxio]
#22 [ffff9467ff603c40] voldiskiodone_intr at ffffffffc0fda92b [vxio]
#23 [ffff9467ff603c80] voldmp_iodone at ffffffffc0f801d0 [vxio]
#24 [ffff9467ff603c90] bio_endio at ffffffffb448cbec
#25 [ffff9467ff603cc0] gendmpiodone at ffffffffc0e4f5ca [vxdmp]
... ...
#50 [ffff9497e99efa60] do_page_fault at ffffffffb498d975
#51 [ffff9497e99efa90] page_fault at ffffffffb4989778
#52 [ffff9497e99efb40] conv_copyout at ffffffffc10005da [vxio]
#53 [ffff9497e99efbc8] conv_copyout at ffffffffc100044e [vxio]
#54 [ffff9497e99efc50] volioctl_copyout at ffffffffc1032db3 [vxio]
#55 [ffff9497e99efc80] vol_get_logger_data at ffffffffc105e4ce [vxio]
#56 [ffff9497e99efcf8] voliot_ioctl at ffffffffc105e66b [vxio]
#57 [ffff9497e99efd78] volsioctl_real at ffffffffc10aee82 [vxio]
#58 [ffff9497e99efe50] vols_ioctl at ffffffffc0646452 [vxspec]
#59 [ffff9497e99efe70] vols_unlocked_ioctl at ffffffffc06464c1 [vxspec]
#60 [ffff9497e99efe80] do_vfs_ioctl at ffffffffb4462870
#61 [ffff9497e99eff00] sys_ioctl at ffffffffb4462b21

DESCRIPTION:
Vxio kernel sends a signal to vxloggerd to flush the log as it is almost full. Vxloggerd calls into vxio kernel to copy the log buffer out.  As vxio copy log date from kernel to user with holding a spinlock, if a page fault occurs during the copy out, hard lockup and panic occur.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made the fix the problem.

* 4017194 (Tracking ID: 4012681)

SYMPTOM:
If vradmind process terminates due to some reason, it is not properly restarted by RVG agent of VCS.

DESCRIPTION:
The RVG(Replicated Volume Group) agent of VCS(Veritas Cluster Server) restarts the vradmind process if it gets killed or terminated
due to some reason, this was not working properly on systemd enabled platforms like RHEL-7.
In the systemd enabled platforms, after the vradmind process dies, the vras-vradmind service used to stay in active/running state, due to this, even 
after the RVG agent issued a command to start the vras-vradmind service, the vradmind process was not getting started.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to fix the parameters for vras-vradmind service, so that the service status will change to failed/faulted if vradmind process gets killed. 
The service can be manually started later or RVG agent of VCS can start the service, which will start the vradmind process as well.

* 4017502 (Tracking ID: 4020166)

SYMPTOM:
Build issue becuase of "struct request"

error: struct request has no member named next_rq
Linux has deprecated the member next_req

DESCRIPTION:
The issue was observed due to changes in OS structure

RESOLUTION:
code changes are done in required files

* 4019781 (Tracking ID: 4020260)

SYMPTOM:
While enabling dmp native support tunable dmp_native_support for Centos 8 below mentioned error was observed:

[root@dl360g9-4-vm2 ~]# vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=on
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 error in bootloader configuration file 

 cl
[root@dl360g9-4-vm2 ~]#

DESCRIPTION:
The issue was observed due to missing code check-ins for CentOS 8 in the required files.

RESOLUTION:
Changes are done in required files for dmp native support in CentOS 8

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2700

* 3984163 (Tracking ID: 3978216)

SYMPTOM:
'Device mismatch warning' seen on boot when DMP native support is enabled with LVM snapshot of root disk present

DESCRIPTION:
When we enable DMP (Dynamic Multipathing) Native Support featue on the system having a LVM snapshot of root disk present, "Device mismatch" warning messages are seen on every reboot in boot.log file. The messages are coming because LVM is trying to access the LV using the information present in the lvm.cache file which is stale. Because of accessing the stale file, the warning messages are seen on reboot.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is to remove the LVM cache file during system shutdown as part of VxVM shutdown.

* 4010517 (Tracking ID: 3998475)

SYMPTOM:
Data corruption is observed and service groups went into partial state.

DESCRIPTION:
In VxVM, fsck log replay initiated read of 64 blocks, that was getting split across 2 stripes of the stripe-mirror volume. 
So, we had 2 read I/Os of 48 blocks (first split I/O) and 16 blocks (second split I/O).
Since the volume was in RWBK mode, this read I/O was stabilized. Upon completion of the read I/O at subvolume level, this I/O was unstabilized and the contents 
of the stable I/O (stablekio) were copied to the original I/O (origkio). It was observed that the data was always correct till the subvolume level but at the 
top level plex and volume level, it was incorrect (printed checksum in vxtrace output for this).

The reason for this was during unstabilization, we do volkio_to_kio_copy() which copies the contents from stable kio to orig kio (since it is a read).
As the orig kio was an unmapped PHYS I/O, in Solaris 11.4, the contents will be copied out using bp_copyout() from volkiomem_kunmap(). The volkiomem_seek() and 
volkiomem_next_segment() allocates pagesize (8K) kernel buffer (zero'ed out) where the contents will be copied to.
When the first split I/O completes unstabilization before the second split I/O, this issue was not seen. However, if the second split 
I/O completed before the first splt I/O then this issue was seen. 

Here, in the last iteration of the volkio_to_kio_copy(), the data copied was less than the allocated region size. We allocate 8K region size whereas the data 
copied from stablekio was less than 8K. Later, during kunmap(), we do a bp_copyout() of alloocated size i.e. 8K. This caused copyout of extra regions that were 
zero'ed out. Hence the data corruption.

RESOLUTION:
Now we do a bp_copyout() of the right length i.e. of the copied size instead of the allocated region size.

* 4010996 (Tracking ID: 4010040)

SYMPTOM:
Configuring VRTSvxvm package creates a world writable file: "/etc/vx/.vxvvrstatd.lock".

DESCRIPTION:
VVR statistics daemon (vxvvrstad) creates this file on startup. The umask for this daemon was not set correctly resulting in creation of the world writable file.

RESOLUTION:
VVR daemon is updated to to set the umask properly.

* 4011027 (Tracking ID: 4009107)

SYMPTOM:
CA chain certificate verification fails in VVR when the number of intermediate certificates is greater than the depth. So, we get error in SSL initialization.

DESCRIPTION:
CA chain certificate verification fails in VVR when the number of intermediate certificates is greater than the depth. SSL_CTX_set_verify_depth() API decides the depth of certificates (in /etc/vx/vvr/cacert file) to be verified, which is limited to count 1 in code. Thus intermediate CA certificate present first  in /etc/vx/vvr/cacert (depth 1  CA/issuer certificate for server certificate) could be obtained and verified during connection, but root CA certificate (depth 2  higher CA certificate) could not be verified while connecting and hence the error.

RESOLUTION:
Removed the call of SSL_CTX_set_verify_depth() API so as to handle the depth automatically.

* 4011097 (Tracking ID: 4010794)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) caused system panic in a cluster with below stack while there were storage activities going on.
dmp_start_cvm_local_failover+0x118()
dmp_start_failback+0x398()
dmp_restore_node+0x2e4()
dmp_revive_paths+0x74()
gen_update_status+0x55c()
dmp_update_status+0x14()
gendmpopen+0x4a0()

DESCRIPTION:
It could happen dmpnode's current primary path became invalid when disks were attached/detached in a cluster. DMP accessed the current primary path without doing sanity check. Hence system panic due to an invalid pointer.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid accessing a invalid pointer.

* 4011105 (Tracking ID: 3972433)

SYMPTOM:
IO hang might be seen while issuing heavy IO load on volumes having cache objects.

DESCRIPTION:
While issuing heavy IO on volumes having cache objects, the IO on cache volumes may stall due to locking(region lock) involved 
for overlapping IO requests on the same cache object. When appropriate locks are granted to IOs, all the IOs were getting processed 
in serial fashion through single VxVM IO daemon thread. This serial processing was causing slowness, 
resulting in a IO hang like situation and application timeouts.

RESOLUTION:
The code changes are done to properly perform multi-processing of the cache volume IOs.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.2200

* 3992902 (Tracking ID: 3975667)

SYMPTOM:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup

DESCRIPTION:
When flow control on ioshipping channel is set there is window in code where vol_ioship_sender thread can go in tight loop.
This causes softlockup

RESOLUTION:
Relinquish CPU to schedule other process. vol_ioship_sender() thread will restart after some delay.

* 3997906 (Tracking ID: 3987937)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM command hang happens when heavy IO load performed on VxVM volume with snapshot, IO memory pool full is also observed.

DESCRIPTION:
It's a deadlock situation occurring with heavy IOs on volume with snapshots. When a multistep SIO A acquired ilock and it's child MV write SIO is waiting for memory pool which is full, another multistep SIO B has acquired memory and waiting for the ilock held by multistep SIO A.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to fix the issue.

* 4000388 (Tracking ID: 4000387)

SYMPTOM:
Existing VxVM module fails to load on Rhel 8.2

DESCRIPTION:
RHEL 8.2 is a new release and had few KABI changes  on which VxVM compilation breaks .

RESOLUTION:
Compiled VxVM code against 8.2 kernel and made changes to make it compatible.

* 4001399 (Tracking ID: 3995946)

SYMPTOM:
CVM Slave unable to join cluster with below error:
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-11092 cleanup_client: (Memory allocation failure) 12
VxVM vxconfigd ERRORV-5-1-11467 kernel_fail_join(): Reconfiguration interrupted: Reason is retry to add a node failed (13, 0)

DESCRIPTION:
vol_vvr_tcp_keepalive and vol_vvr_tcp_timeout are introduced in 7.4.1 U1 for Linux only. For other platforms like Solaris and AIX, it isn't supported. Due a bug in code, those two tunables were exposed, and cvm couldn't get those two tunables info from master node. Hence the issue.

RESOLUTION:
Code change has been made to hide vol_vvr_tcp_keepalive and vol_vvr_tcp_timeout for other platforms like Solaris and AIX.

* 4001736 (Tracking ID: 4000130)

SYMPTOM:
System panic when DMP co-exists with EMC PP on rhel8/sles12sp4 with below stacks:

#6 [] do_page_fault 
#7 [] page_fault 
[exception RIP: dmp_kernel_scsi_ioctl+888]
#8 [] dmp_kernel_scsi_ioctl at [vxdmp]
#9 [] dmp_dev_ioctl at [vxdmp]
#10 [] do_passthru_ioctl at [vxdmp]
#11 [] dmp_tur_temp_pgr at [vxdmp]
#12 [] dmp_pgr_set_temp_key at [vxdmp]
#13 [] dmpioctl at [vxdmp]
#14 [] dmp_ioctl at [vxdmp]
#15 [] blkdev_ioctl 
#16 [] block_ioctl 
#17 [] do_vfs_ioctl
#18 [] ksys_ioctl 

Or

 #8 [ffff9c3404c9fb40] page_fault 
 #9 [ffff9c3404c9fbf0] dmp_kernel_scsi_ioctl at [vxdmp]
#10 [ffff9c3404c9fc30] dmp_scsi_ioctl at [vxdmp]
#11 [ffff9c3404c9fcb8] dmp_send_scsireq at [vxdmp]
#12 [ffff9c3404c9fcd0] dmp_do_scsi_gen at [vxdmp]
#13 [ffff9c3404c9fcf0] dmp_pr_send_cmd at [vxdmp]
#14 [ffff9c3404c9fd80] dmp_pr_do_read at [vxdmp]
#15 [ffff9c3404c9fdf0] dmp_pgr_read at [vxdmp]
#16 [ffff9c3404c9fe20] dmpioctl at [vxdmp]
#17 [ffff9c3404c9fe30] dmp_ioctl at [vxdmp]

DESCRIPTION:
Upwards 4.10.17, there is no such guarantee from the block layer or other drivers to ensure that the cmd pointer at least points to __cmd, when initialize a SCSI request. DMP directly accesses cmd pointer after got the SCSI request from underlayer without sanity check, hence the issue.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to do sanity check when initialize a SCSI request.

* 4001745 (Tracking ID: 3992053)

SYMPTOM:
Data corruption may happen with layered volumes due to some data not re-synced while attaching a plex. This is due to 
inconsistent data across the plexes after attaching a plex in layered volumes.

DESCRIPTION:
When a plex is detached in a layered volume, the regions which are dirty/modified are tracked in DCO (Data change object) map.
When the plex is attached back, the data corresponding to these dirty regions is re-synced to the plex being attached.
There was a defect in the code due to which the some particular regions were NOT re-synced when a plex is attached.
This issue only happens only when the offset of the sub-volume is NOT aligned with the region size of DCO (Data change object) volume.

RESOLUTION:
The code defect is fixed to correctly copy the data for dirty regions when the sub-volume offset is NOT aligned with the DCO region size.

* 4001746 (Tracking ID: 3999520)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM commands may hang with below stack when user tries to start or stop the DMP IO statistics collection when
the DMP iostat tunable (dmp_iostats_state) was disabled earlier.

schedule()
rwsem_down_failed_common()
rwsem_down_write_failed()
call_rwsem_down_write_failed()
dmp_reconfig_write_lock()
dmp_update_reclaim_attr()
gendmpioctl()
dmpioctl()

DESCRIPTION:
When the DMP iostat tunable (dmp_iostats_state) is disabled and user tries to 
start (vxdmpadm iostat start) or stop (vxdmpadm iostat stop) the DMP iostat collection, then 
a thread which collects the IO statistics was exiting without releasing a lock. Due to this,
further VxVM commands were getting hung while waiting for the lock.

RESOLUTION:
The code is changed to correctly release the lock when the tunable 'dmp_iostats_state' is disabled.

* 4001748 (Tracking ID: 3991580)

SYMPTOM:
IO and VxVM command hang may happen if IO performed on both source and snapshot volumes.

DESCRIPTION:
It's a deadlock situation occurring with heavy IOs on both source volume and snapshot volume. 
SIO (a), USER_WRITE, on snap volume, held ILOCK (a), waiting for memory(full).
SIO (b),  PUSHED_WRITE, on snap volume, waiting for ILOCK (a).
SIO (c),  parent of SIO (b), USER_WRITE, on the source volume, held ILOCK (c) and memory, waiting for SIO (b) done.

RESOLUTION:
User separate pool for IO writes on Snapshot volume to resolve the issue.

* 4001750 (Tracking ID: 3976392)

SYMPTOM:
Memory corruption might happen in VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) while processing Plex detach request.

DESCRIPTION:
During processing of plex detach request, the VxVM volume is operated in serial manner. During serialization it might happen that current thread has queued the I/O and still accessing the same. In the meantime the same I/O is picked up by one of VxVM threads for processing. The processing of the I/O is completed and the same is deleted after that. The current thread is still accessing the same memory which was already deleted which might lead to memory corruption.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is to not use the same I/O in the current thread once the I/O is queued as part of serialization and the processing is done before queuing the I/O.

* 4001752 (Tracking ID: 3969487)

SYMPTOM:
Data corruption observed with layered volumes after resynchronisation when mirror of the volume is detached and attached back.

DESCRIPTION:
In case of layered volume, if the IO fails at the underlying subvolume layer before doing the mirror detach the top volume in layered volume has to be serialized (run IO's in serial fashion). When volume is serialized IO's on the volume are directly tracked into detach map of DCO (Data Change Object). During this time period if some of the new IO's occur on the volume then those IO's would not be tracked as part of the detach map inside DCO since detach map tracking is not yet enabled by failed IO's. The new IO's which are not being tracked in detach map would be missed when the plex resynchronisation happens later which leads to corruption.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is to delay the unserialization of the volume till the point failed IO's actually detach the plex and enable detach map tracking. This would make sure new IO's are tracked as part of detach map of DCO.

* 4001755 (Tracking ID: 3980684)

SYMPTOM:
Kernel panic in voldrl_hfind_an_instant while accessing agenode with stack
[exception RIP: voldrl_hfind_an_instant+49]
#11 voldrl_find_mark_agenodes
#12 voldrl_log_internal_30
#13 voldrl_log_30
#14 volmv_log_drlfmr
#15 vol_mv_write_start
#16 volkcontext_process
#17 volkiostart
#18 vol_linux_kio_start
#19 vxiostrategy
...

DESCRIPTION:
Agenode corruption is hit in case of use of per file sequential hint. Agenode's linked list is corrupted as pointer was not set to NULL
when reusing the agenode.

RESOLUTION:
Changes are done in VxVM code to avoid Agenode list corruption.

* 4001757 (Tracking ID: 3969387)

SYMPTOM:
In FSS(Flexible Storage Sharing) environment, system might panic with below stack:
vol_get_ioscb [vxio]
vol_ecplex_rhandle_resp [vxio]
vol_ioship_rrecv [vxio]
gab_lrrecv [gab]
vx_ioship_llt_rrecv [llt]
vx_ioship_process_frag_packets [llt]
vx_ioship_process_data [llt]
vx_ioship_recv_data [llt]

DESCRIPTION:
In certain scenario, it may happen that request got purged and response came after that. Then system might panic due to access the freed resource.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to fix the issue.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.1.1600

* 3984139 (Tracking ID: 3965962)

SYMPTOM:
No option to disable auto-recovery when a slave node joins the CVM cluster.

DESCRIPTION:
In a CVM environment, when the slave node joins the CVM cluster, it is possible that the plexes may not be in sync. In such a scenario auto-recovery is triggered for the plexes.  If a node is stopped using the hastop -all command when the auto-recovery is in progress, the vxrecover operation may hang. An option to disable auto-recovery is not available.

RESOLUTION:
The VxVM module is updated to allow administrators to disable auto-recovery when a slave node joins a CVM cluster.
A new tunable, auto_recover, is introduced. By default, the tunable is set to 'on' to trigger the auto-recovery. Set its value to 'off' to disable auto-recovery. Use the vxtune command to set the tunable.

* 3984731 (Tracking ID: 3984730)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM logs warning messages when the VxDMP module is stopped or removed for the first time after the system is rebooted.

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM logs these warnings because the  QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED and QUEUE_FLAG_INIT_DONE queue flags are not cleared while registering the dmpnode.
The following stack is reported after stopping/removing VxDMP for first time after every reboot:
kernel: WARNING: CPU: 28 PID: 33910 at block/blk-core.c:619 blk_cleanup_queue+0x1a3/0x1b0
kernel: CPU: 28 PID: 33910 Comm: modprobe Kdump: loaded Tainted: P OE ------------ 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1
kernel: Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10/ProLiant DL380 Gen10, BIOS U30 10/02/2018
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: [<ffffffff9dd63107>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
kernel: [<ffffffff9d697768>] __warn+0xd8/0x100
kernel: [<ffffffff9d6978ad>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
kernel: [<ffffffff9d944b03>] blk_cleanup_queue+0x1a3/0x1b0
kernel: [<ffffffffc0cd1f3f>] dmp_unregister_disk+0x9f/0xd0 [vxdmp]
kernel: [<ffffffffc0cd7a08>] dmp_remove_mp_node+0x188/0x1e0 [vxdmp]
kernel: [<ffffffffc0cd7b45>] dmp_destroy_global_db+0xe5/0x2c0 [vxdmp]
kernel: [<ffffffffc0cde6cd>] dmp_unload+0x1d/0x30 [vxdmp]
kernel: [<ffffffffc0d0743a>] cleanup_module+0x5a/0xd0 [vxdmp]
kernel: [<ffffffff9d71692e>] SyS_delete_module+0x19e/0x310
kernel: [<ffffffff9dd75ddb>] system_call_fastpath+0x22/0x27
kernel: --[ end trace fd834bc7817252be ]--

RESOLUTION:
The queue flags are modified to handle this situation and not to log such warning messages.

* 3988238 (Tracking ID: 3988578)

SYMPTOM:
Encrypted volume creation fails on RHEL 8

DESCRIPTION:
On the RHEL 8 platform, python3 gets installed by default. However, the Python script that is used to create encrypted volumes and to communicate with the Key Management Service (KMS) is not compatible with python3. Additionally, an 'unsupported protocol' error is reported for the SSL protocol SSLv23 that is used in the PyKMIP library to communicate with the KMS.

RESOLUTION:
The python script is made compatible with python2 and python3. A new option ssl_version is made available in the /etc/vx/enc-kms-kmip.conf file to represent the SSL version to be used by the KMIP client. The 'unsupported protocol' error is addressed by using the protocol version PROTOCOL_TLSv1.
The following is an example of the sample configuration file:
[client]
host = kms-enterprise.example.com
port = 5696
keyfile = /etc/vx/client-key.pem
certfile = /etc/vx/client-crt.pem
cacerts = /etc/vx/cacert.pem
ssl_version = PROTOCOL_TLSv1

* 3988843 (Tracking ID: 3989796)

SYMPTOM:
Existing package failed to load on RHEL 8.1 setup.

DESCRIPTION:
RHEL 8.1 is a new release and hence VxVM module is compiled with this new kernel along with other few other changes .

RESOLUTION:
changes have been done to make VxVM compatible with RHEL 8.1

Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.3200

* 4053178 (Tracking ID: 4053171)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 5(RHEL8.5).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 4.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
5(RHEL8.5) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.2900

* 4037952 (Tracking ID: 4037048)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 4(RHEL8.4).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8 Update 3.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
4(RHEL8.4) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.2800

* 4019681 (Tracking ID: 4019674)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8 Update 2.

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Infoscale Availability support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 3(RHEL8.3) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.2100

* 4002155 (Tracking ID: 4002150)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions later than RHEL8.1 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 2(RHEL8.2) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSdbac-7.4.1.1600

* 3990021 (Tracking ID: 3990016)

SYMPTOM:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 
Update 1(RHEL8.1).

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Cluster Server does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
versions later than RHEL8.0 .

RESOLUTION:
Veritas Cluster Server support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 
1(RHEL8.1) is now introduced.

Patch ID: VRTSsfmh-vom-HF0741500

* 4020130 (Tracking ID: 4020129)

SYMPTOM:
N/A

DESCRIPTION:
VIOM Agent for InfoScale 7.4.1 Update 4

RESOLUTION:
N/A

Patch ID: VRTSdbed-7.4.1.3100

* 4044143 (Tracking ID: 4044136)

SYMPTOM:
Package installation failed on CentOS platform.

DESCRIPTION:
Due to lower packaging version package failed to install.

RESOLUTION:
Increased package versioning to 7.4.1.3100, now package is able to install on CentOS platform.

Patch ID: VRTSdbed-7.4.1.1600

* 3980547 (Tracking ID: 3989826)

SYMPTOM:
The VCS agent for Oracle does not support Oracle 19c databases.

DESCRIPTION:
The VCS agent for Oracle does not support Oracle 19c databases.

RESOLUTION:
The VCS agent for Oracle now supports Oracle 19c databases.

Patch ID: VRTSsfcpi-7.4.1.3100

* 3969748 (Tracking ID: 3969438)

SYMPTOM:
Rolling upgrade fails with the error:
CPI ERROR V-9-0-0
0 Cannot execute _cmd_vxdg list | _cmd_grep enabled | _cmd_awk '{print $1}' on system_name with undefined sys->{padv}

DESCRIPTION:
The following prompt appears as part of the rolling upgrade process: Enter the system name of the cluster on which you would like to perform rolling upgrade [q,?] After the prompt, the installer suggests the names of systems on which to perform the upgrade. You may select one of the suggested system names, or you may type a system name, and then press Enter. Either way, if you specify the system name of the local node, the installer displays the following error and exits.
CPI ERROR V-9-0-0
0 Cannot execute _cmd_vxdg list | _cmd_grep enabled | _cmd_awk '{print $1}' on system_name with undefined sys->{padv}

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to verify if the fss disk group is available. This enhancements was made for the Linux, Solaris, and Aix platforms.

* 3970852 (Tracking ID: 3970848)

SYMPTOM:
The CPI configures the product even if you use the -install option while installing the InfoScale Foundation version 7.x or later.

DESCRIPTION:
When you use the CPI to install InfoScale Foundation, the ./installer option performs the installation and configurations by default. If you use the -install option, the installer must only install the packages and not perform the configuration. However, in case of InfoScale Foundation version 7.x or later, when you use the -install option, the installer continues to configure the product after installation.

RESOLUTION:
For InfoScale Foundation, the CPI is modified so that the -install option only install the packages. Users can then use the -configure option to configure the product.

* 3972077 (Tracking ID: 3972075)

SYMPTOM:
When the -patch_path option is used, the installer fails to install the VRTSveki patch.

DESCRIPTION:
When the VRTSveki patch is present in a patch bundle, if the GA installer is run with the -patch_path option, it fails to install the VRTSveki patch. Consequently, the installation of any dependent VxVM patches also fails. This issue occurs because the veki module, and any other modules that depend on it, are loaded immediately after the packages are installed. When a patch installation starts, the Veki patch attempts to unload the veki module, but fails, because the dependent modules have a hold on it.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates CPI so that if the -patch_path option is used when a VRTSveki patch is present in the bundle, it first unloads the dependent modules and then unloads the veki module.

* 3973119 (Tracking ID: 3973114)

SYMPTOM:
While upgrading Infoscale 7.4, the installer fails to stop vxspec, vxio and vxdmp as
vxcloudd is still running.

DESCRIPTION:
As the vxcloudd is running it fails to stop vxspec, vxio and vxdmp.

RESOLUTION:
Modified the CPI code to stop vxcloudd before stopping vxspec, vxio and vxdmp.

* 3979596 (Tracking ID: 3979603)

SYMPTOM:
CPI assumes that the third digit in an InfoScale 7.4.1 version indicates a patch version, and not a GA version. Therefore, it upgrades the packages from the patch only and does not upgrade the base packages.

DESCRIPTION:
To compare product versions and to set the type of installation, CPI compares the currently installed version with the target version to be installed. However, instead of comparing all the digits in a version, it incorrectly compares only the first two digits. In this case, CPI compares 7.4 with 7.4.1.xxx, and finds that the first 2 digits match exactly. Therefore, it assumes that the base version is already installed and then installs the patch packages only.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the CPI to recognize InfoScale 7.4.1 as a base version and 7.4.1.xxx (for example) as a patch version. After you apply this patch, CPI can properly upgrade the base packages first, and then proceed to upgrade the packages that are in the patch.

* 3980564 (Tracking ID: 3980562)

SYMPTOM:
CPI does not perform the installation when two InfoScale patch paths are provided, and displays the following message: "CPI ERROR V-9-30-1421 The patch_path and patch2_path patches are both for the same package: VRTSinfoscale".

DESCRIPTION:
CPI checks whether the patches mentioned with the patch_path option are the same. Even though the patch bundles are different, they have the same starting string, VRTSinfoscale, followed by the version number. CPI does not compare the version part of the patch bundle name, and so it incorrectly assumes them to be the same. Therefore, CPI does not install the patch bundles simultaneously, and instead, displays the inappropriate error.

RESOLUTION:
CPI is updated to check the complete patch bundle name including the version, for example: VRTSinfoscale740P1100. Now, CPI can properly differentiate between the patches and begin the installation without displaying the inappropriate error.

* 3980944 (Tracking ID: 3981519)

SYMPTOM:
An uninstallation of InfoScale 7.4.1 using response files fails with an error:
CPI ERROR V-9-40-1582 Following edge server related entries are missing in response file. Please correct.
edgeserver_host
edgeserver_port

DESCRIPTION:
When you uninstall InfoScale using a response file, the installer checks whether the response file contains the edge server related entries. If these entries are not available in the response file, the uninstall operation fails with the following error:
CPI ERROR V-9-40-1582 Following edge server related entries are missing in response file. Please correct.
edgeserver_host
edgeserver_port
This issue occurs because the installer checks the availability of these entries in the response file while performing any operations using the response files. However, these entries are required only for the configure and upgrade operations.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to check the availability of the edge server related entries in the response file only for the configure or upgrade operations.

* 3985584 (Tracking ID: 3985583)

SYMPTOM:
For InfoScale 7.4.1 Patch 1200 onwards, the addnode operation fails with the following error message: 
"Cluster protocol version mismatch was detected between cluster <<cluster_name>> and <<new node name>>. Refer to the Configuration and Upgrade Guide for more details on how to set or upgrade cluster protocol version."

DESCRIPTION:
In InfoScale 7.4.1 Patch 1200 the cluster protocol version was changed from 220 to 230 in the VxVM component. However, the same update is not made in the installer, which continues to set the default cluster protocol version to 220. During the addnode operation, when the new node is compared with the other cluster nodes, the cluster protocol versions do not match, and the error is displayed.

RESOLUTION:
The common product installer is enhanced to check the installed VRTSvxvm package version on the new node and accordingly set the cluster protocol version.

* 3986468 (Tracking ID: 3987894)

SYMPTOM:
An InfoScale 7.4.1 installation fails even though the installer automatically downloads the appropriate platform support patch from SORT.

DESCRIPTION:
During an InfoScale installation, the product installer looks for any applicable platform support patches that are available on SORT and automatically downloads them. Thereafter however, it fails to correctly identify the base version of the product package on the system, and hence fails to complete the installation even though the appropriate patch is available.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is updated to correctly identify the base version of the product package.

* 3986572 (Tracking ID: 3965602)

SYMPTOM:
When a patch is installed as a part of rolling upgrade Phase1, the rolling
upgrade Phase2 fails with the error:
A more recent version of InfoScale Enterprise, 7.3.1.xxx, is already
installed.

DESCRIPTION:
When a patch is installed as a part of rolling upgrade Phase1, the kernel
package version might get upgraded to a version that is higher than the version
considered for upgrade. 

This results in failure of the rolling upgrade Phase2 with the error:  A
more recent version of InfoScale Enterprise, 7.3.1.xxx, is already
installed.

RESOLUTION:
The CPI rolling upgrade prerequisites are modified to continue even if a patch
for InfoScale product is installed as part of Rolling upgrade Phase1.

* 3986960 (Tracking ID: 3986959)

SYMPTOM:
The installer fails to install the 'infoscale-sles12.4_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.100' patch on SLES 12 SP4.

DESCRIPTION:
InfoScale support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 is introduced with the 'infoscale-sles12.4_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.100' patch. However, the path of the 'ethtool' command is changed in SLES 12 SP4. Therefore, the installer does not recognize the changed path and fails to install. The following error is logged:
CPI ERROR V-9-30-1570 The following required OS commands are missing on <<node name>>:
/bin/ls: cannot access '/sbin/ethtool': No such file or directory

RESOLUTION:
The path of the 'ethtool' command is updated in the installer for SLES12 SP4.

* 3987228 (Tracking ID: 3987171)

SYMPTOM:
The installer takes longer than expected time to start installation process.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because, before it begins the installation, the installer incorrectly attempts to download latest CPI patches using a private IPv6 address until the process times out.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is updated to use first available public IP address to download latest CPI patches so that it can complete the activity and start the installation within the expected amount of time.

* 3989085 (Tracking ID: 3989081)

SYMPTOM:
When a system is restarted after a successful VVR configuration, it becomes unresponsive.

DESCRIPTION:
The installer starts the vxconfigd service in the user slice instead of the system slice, and does not make the vxvm-boot service active. When the system is restarted after VVR configuration, the services from the user slice get killed and the CVMVxconfigd agent cannot bring vxconfigd online. As a result, the system becomes unresponsive and fails to come up at the primary site.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is updated to start and stop the vxconfigd service using the systemctl commands.

* 3989099 (Tracking ID: 3989098)

SYMPTOM:
For SLES15, system clock synchronization using the NTP server fails while configuring server-based fencing.

DESCRIPTION:
While configuring server-based fencing, when multiple CP servers are provided in the configuration, and the ssh connection is not already established, then the installer does not create the sys object with the required values on the first CP server. As a result, the system clock synchronization always fails on the first CP server.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to create the sys object with the appropriate values.

* 3992222 (Tracking ID: 3992254)

SYMPTOM:
On SLES12 SP5, the installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1 and displays the following message: "CPI ERROR V-9-0-0 This release is intended to operate on SLES x86_64 version 3.12.22  but <<hostname>> is running version 4.12.14-120-default".

DESCRIPTION:
On SLES12 SP5, the installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1. During the release compatibility check, it displays the following message: "CPI ERROR V-9-0-0 This release is intended to operate on SLES x86_64 version 3.12.22  but <<hostname>> is running version 4.12.14-120-default". This issue occurs because the kernel versions included in the installer is different that the kernel version required by SLES12 SP5.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to include the kernel version that is required to support SLES12 SP5.

* 3993898 (Tracking ID: 3993897)

SYMPTOM:
On SLES12 SP4, if the kernel version is not 4.12.14-94.41-default, the installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1.

DESCRIPTION:
On SLES12 SP4, if the kernel version is not 4.12.14-94.41-default, the installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1 and displays the following message: "CPI ERROR V-9-0-0 0 No padv object defined for padv SLES15x8664 for system". When installing InfoScale, the product installer performs a release compatibility check and defines the padv object. However, during this check, the installer fails if the kernel versions included in the installer is different than the kernel version installed on the system, and the padv object cannot be defined.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to support different kernel versions for SLES12 SP4.

* 3995826 (Tracking ID: 3995825)

SYMPTOM:
The installer script fails to stop the vxfen service while configuring InfoScale components or applying patches.

DESCRIPTION:
When InfoScale Enterprise is installed using the CPI, the value of the START_<<COMP>> and the STOP_<<COMP>> variables is set to '1' in the configuration files for some components like vxfen, amf, and llt. During the post-installation phase, the CPI script sets these values back to '0'.
When InfoScale Enterprise is installed using Yum or Red Hat Satellite, the values of these variables remain set to '1' even after the installation is completed. Later, if CPI is used to install patches or to configure any of the components on such an installation, the installer script fails to stop the vxfen service.

RESOLUTION:
To avoid such issues, the installer script is updated to check the values of the START_<<COMP>> and the STOP_<<COMP>> variables and set them to '0' during the pre-configuration phase.

* 3999671 (Tracking ID: 3999669)

SYMPTOM:
A single-node HA configuration failed on a NetBackup Appliance system because CollectorService failed to start.

DESCRIPTION:
A single-node HA setup fails on a NetBackup Appliance system, and the following error is logged: "Failed to Configure the VCS". This issue occurs because the CollectorService fails to start. The CollectorService is not directly related to a cluster setup, so its failure should not impact the HA configuration.

RESOLUTION:
The InfoScale product installer addresses this issue by blocking the start of CollectorService on any appliance-based system.

* 4000598 (Tracking ID: 4000596)

SYMPTOM:
The 'showversion' option of the InfoScale 7.4.1 installer fails to download the available maintenance releases or patch releases.

DESCRIPTION:
The "showversion" option of installer lets you view the currently installed InfoScale version, and to download the available maintenance or patch releases. However, the InfoScale 7.4.1 installer fails to identify the path of the repository where the maintenance or the patch releases should be downloaded.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is updated to either use /OPT/VRTS/repository as the default repository or to accept a different location to download the suggested releases.

* 4004174 (Tracking ID: 4004172)

SYMPTOM:
On SLES15 SP1, while installing InfoScale 7.4.1 along with product patch, the installer fails to install some of the base rpms and exits with an error.

DESCRIPTION:
While installing InfoScale 7.4.1 along with product patch 'infoscale-sles15_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.1800', the installer first installs the base packages and then the other patches available in the patch bundle. However, the installer fails to install the VTRSvxvm, VRTSaslapm, and VRTScavf base rpms and exit with the following error although the patches available in patch bundle installs successfully:
The following rpms failed to install on <<system name>>:
VRTSvxvm
VRTSaslapm
VRTScavf

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to ignore the failures in the base package installation when InfoScale 7.4.1 is installed along with the available product patch.

* 4006619 (Tracking ID: 4015976)

SYMPTOM:
On a Solaris system, patch upgrade of InfoScale fails with an error in the alternate boot environment.

DESCRIPTION:
InfoScale does not support patch upgrade in alternate boot environments. Therefore, when you provide the "-rootpath" argument to the installer during a patch upgrade, the patch upgrade operation fails with the following error message: CPI ERROR V-9-0-0 The -rootpath option works only with upgrade tasks.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is enhanced to support patch upgrades in alternate boot environments by using the -rootpath option.

* 4008070 (Tracking ID: 4008578)

SYMPTOM:
Even though a cluster node may have a fully qualified hostname, the product installer trims this value and uses the shorter hostname for the cluster configuration.

DESCRIPTION:
The name of a cluster node may be set to a fully qualified hostname, for example, somehost.example.com. However, by default, the product installer trims this value and uses the shorter hostname (for example, somehost) for the cluster configuration.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the installer to allow the use of the new "-fqdn" option. If this option is specified, the installer uses the fully qualified hostname for cluster configuration. Otherwise, the installer continues with the default behavior.

* 4012032 (Tracking ID: 4012031)

SYMPTOM:
If older versions of the VRTSvxfs and VRTSodm packages are installed in
non-global zones, they are not 
upgraded when upgrade to a newer version of the product.

DESCRIPTION:
If older versions of the VRTSvxfs and VRTSodm packages are installed in
non-global zones, you must 
uninstall them before you perform a product upgrade. After you upgrade those
packages in global zones, you 
must then install the VRTSvxfs and VRTSodm packages manaully in the non-global
zones.

RESOLUTION:
The CPI will handle the VRTSodm and VRTSvxfs package in non-global zone in the
same manner it does in global zone.

* 4014984 (Tracking ID: 4014983)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer does not display a warning at the time of the pre-upgrade check to suggest that you will need to provide telemetry details later on if the cluster nodes are not registered with TES or VCR.

DESCRIPTION:
The product installer prompts you to provide the telemetry details of cluster nodes after upgrading the InfoScale packages but before starting the services. If you cancel the installation at this stage, the Cluster Server resources cannot be brought online. Therefore, a warning message is required during the pre-upgrade checks to remind you to keep these details ready.

RESOLUTION:
The product installer is updated to notify you at the time of the pre-upgrade check, that if the cluster nodes are not registered with TES or VCR, you will need to provide these telemetry details later on.

* 4015142 (Tracking ID: 4015139)

SYMPTOM:
If IPv6 addresses are provided for the system list on a RHEL 8 system, the product installer fails to verify the network communication with the remote systems and cannot proceed with the installation. The following error is logged:
CPI ERROR V-9-20-1104 Cannot ping <IPv6_address>. Please make sure that:
        - Provided hostname is correct
        - System <IPv6_address> is in same network and reachable
        - 'ping' command is available to use (provided by 'iputils' package)

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because the installer uses the ping6 command to verify the communication with the remote systems if IPv6 addresses are provided for the system list. For RHEL 8 and its minor versions, the path for ping6 has changed from /bin/ping6 to /sbin/ping6, but the installer uses the old path.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the installer to use the correct path for the ping6 command.

* 4020128 (Tracking ID: 4020370)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer fails to complete a fresh configuration of InfoScale Enterprise on a RHEL 7 system, and the following error is logged:
Veritas InfoScale Enterprise Shutdown did not complete successfully.
vxglm failed to stop on <system_name>

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because the installer tries to stop the vxglm service by using the following command:
# /etc/init.d/vxglm stop
The /etc/init.d/vxglm file is removed as part of the recent patches, and so, the installer fails to stop the vxglm service in this manner.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix addresses the issue by updating the installer to use the systemctl command to stop the vxglm service instead.

* 4021427 (Tracking ID: 4021515)

SYMPTOM:
On SLES 12 SP4 and later systems, the installer fails to fetch the media speed of the network interfaces.

DESCRIPTION:
The path of the 'ethtool' command is changed in SLES 12 SP4. Therefore, on SLES 12 SP4 and later systems, the installer does not recognize the changed path and uses an incorrect path '/sbin/ethtool' instead of '/usr/sbin/ethtool' for the 'ethtool' command. Consequently, while configuring the product, the installer fails to fetch the media speed of the network interfaces and displays its value as "Unknown".

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the installer to use the correct path for the 'ethtool' command.

* 4022784 (Tracking ID: 4022640)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer fails to complete the installation after it automatically downloads a required support patch from SORT that contains a VRTSvlic package. The following error is logged:
CPI ERROR V-9-0-0
0 No pkg object defined for pkg VRTSvlic401742 and padv <<PADV>>

DESCRIPTION:
During installation, the product installer looks for any applicable platform support patches that are available on SORT and automatically downloads them. However, it fails to correctly identify the base version of the VRTSvlic package on the system to compare it with the downloaded version. Consequently, even though the appropriate patch is available, the installer fails to complete the installation.

RESOLUTION:
To address this issue, the product installer is updated to correctly identify the base version of the VRTSvlic package on a system.

* 4029173 (Tracking ID: 4027759)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer installs lower versions packages if multiple patch bundles are specified using the patch path options in the incorrect order.

DESCRIPTION:
The product installer expects that the patch bundles, if any, are specified in the lower-to-higher order. Consequently, the installer always overrides the package version from the available package in the last patch bundle in which it exists. If patch bundles are not specified in the expected order, installer installs last available version for a component package.

RESOLUTION:
To address this issue, the product installer is updated to correctly identify the higher package version before installing the patch bundles. It does so regardless of the order in which the patch bundles are specified.

* 4033989 (Tracking ID: 4033988)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer displays the following error message after the precheck and does not allow you to proceed with the installation:
The higher version of <package_name> is already installed on <system_name>

DESCRIPTION:
The product installer compares the versions of the packages in an Infoscale patch bundle with those of the packages that are installed on a system. If a more recent version of any of the packages in the bundle is found to be already installed on the system, the installer displays an error. It does not allow you to proceed further with the installation.

RESOLUTION:
The product installer is updated to allow the installation of an Infoscale patch bundle that may contain older versions of some packages. Instead of an error message, the installer now displays a warning message and lets you proceed with the installation.

* 4040893 (Tracking ID: 4040946)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer fails to install InfoScale 7.4.1 on SLES 15 SP2 and displays the following error message: 
CPI ERROR V-9-0-0
0 No padv object defined for padv SLESx8664 for system <system_name>

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because the format of the kernel version that is required by SLES 15 SP2 is not included.

RESOLUTION:
The installer is updated to include the format of the kernel version that is required to support installation on SLES 15 SP2.

* 4042494 (Tracking ID: 4042674)

SYMPTOM:
The product installer does not honor the single-node mode of a cluster and restarts it in the multi-mode if 'vcs_allowcomms = 1'.

DESCRIPTION:
On a system where a single-node cluster is running, if you upgrade InfoScale using a response file with 'vcs_allowcomms = 1', the existing cluster configuration is not restored. The product installer restarts the cluster in the multi-node mode. When 'vcs_allowcomms = 1', the installer does not consider the value of the ONENODE parameter in the /etc/sysconfig/vcs file. It fails to identify that VCS is configured on the systems mentioned in the response file and proceeds with upgrade. Consequently, the installer neither updates the .../config/types.cf file nor restores the /etc/sysconfig/vcs file.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the product installer to honor the single-node mode of an existing cluster configuration on a system.

Patch ID: VRTScps-7.4.1.3100

* 4038100 (Tracking ID: 4034933)

SYMPTOM:
After installing VRTScps 6.2.1.002, the following error is logged in cpserver_A.log "CPS CRITICAL V-97-1400-22017 Error executing update nodes set is_reachable..."

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs due to unexpected locking of the CP server database that is related to the stale key detection feature.

RESOLUTION:
This hotfix updates the VRTScps RPM so that the unexpected database lock is cleared and the nodes can updated successfully.



INSTALLING THE PATCH
--------------------
Run the Installer script to automatically install the patch:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Please be noted that the installation of this P-Patch will cause downtime.

To install the patch perform the following steps on at least one node in the cluster:
1. Copy the patch infoscale-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.3100.tar.gz to /tmp
2. Untar infoscale-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.3100.tar.gz to /tmp/hf
    # mkdir /tmp/hf
    # cd /tmp/hf
    # gunzip /tmp/infoscale-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.3100.tar.gz
    # tar xf /tmp/infoscale-rhel8_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.3100.tar
3. Install the hotfix(Please be noted that the installation of this P-Patch will cause downtime.)
    # pwd /tmp/hf
    # ./installVRTSinfoscale741P3100 [<host1> <host2>...]

You can also install this patch together with 7.4.1 base release using Install Bundles
1. Download this patch and extract it to a directory
2. Change to the Veritas InfoScale 7.4.1 directory and invoke the installer script
   with -patch_path option where -patch_path should point to the patch directory
    # ./installer -patch_path [<path to this patch>] [<host1> <host2>...]

Install the patch manually:
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Manual installation is not recommended.


REMOVING THE PATCH
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Manual uninstallation is not recommended.


KNOWN ISSUES
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* Tracking ID: 4063559

SYMPTOM: If I/O writes are issued on secondary site of VVR configuration then Unexpected error: 30 is logged.

WORKAROUND: Currently there is no workaround for these default messages getting logged, will be considering this for future patch.



SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
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Following vulnerabilities has been resolved in 741U6(VRTSpython 3.6.6.10)
CVE-2017-18342
CVE-2020-14343
CVE-2020-1747
Resolution: Upgraded pyyaml to 5.4.1 version
CVE-2019-10160
CVE-2019-9636
CVE-2020-27619
Resolution: Patched the source code of the python itself referenced in corresponding BDSA to resolve the vulnerabilities.
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Issue: Xprtld service is failing to start if the hostname is more than 62 characters long
Workaround:
Add the hostname entry in /etc/hosts as below:
[root@hostname ~]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
xx.xx.xx.xx   hostname
 Restart xprtldctrl service
 [root@ hostname]# /opt/VRTSsfmh/adm/xprtldctrl start
 [root@ hostname]# /opt/VRTSsfmh/adm/xprtldctrl status
  
  Issue: VRTSvxvm Installation will fail if 7.4.1 Update5 is installed along with the 7.4.1 Base DVD on CentOS 8.4
  Description: This happens because the release identifying parameter has been changed in CentOS8.4, and cannot be parsed by 7.4.1 Base package.
  Workaround: Instead of direct installation on CentOS8.4, apply the 741U5 patch on previous CentOS version and then upgrade to CentOS8.4. Or, U5 packages can be manually installed on CentOS8.4 along with supporting 7.4.1 base packages, and later configured through CPI.


OTHERS
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NONE