Vxconfigd hangs during hastop, failover, offlining or exporting of Disk Group on Infoscale 8
Article ID: 100053407
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Description
Error Message
The following is written to the messages logs;
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: INFO: task vxconfigd:19621 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: Tainted: P OE --------- - - 4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64 #1
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: task:vxconfigd state:D stack: 0 pid:19621 ppid: 1 flags:0x00004084
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: Call Trace:
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: __schedule+0x2d1/0x830
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: schedule+0x35/0xa0
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0x46/0xb0
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: blk_cleanup_queue+0x38/0xd0
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: vxvm_put_gendisk+0x3b/0x120 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: volsys_unset_device+0x1d/0x30 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: vol_rmgroup_devices+0x9b/0x100 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: voldg_delete+0x2c/0x130 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: vol_delete_group+0x2dd/0x330 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: volconfig_ioctl+0x8ae/0xdf0 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: ? bpf_lsm_capset+0x10/0x10
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: ? security_capable+0x38/0x50
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: volsioctl_real+0x38a/0x450 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x89/0xc0
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: ? vol_rwsleep_unwrlock+0x5b/0x70 [vxio]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: vols_ioctl+0x6d/0xa0 [vxspec]
Jun 29 09:57:25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX kernel: vols_unlocked_ioctl+0x1d/0x20 [vxspec]
Cause
This has been identified as a defect in the Infoscale product.and also been seen on SLES 12 and 15.
Resolution
This has been fixed in Cumulative Patch 7.4.2 Update4 for RHEL8 for RHEL8.
There are also one off patches for RHEL 8, RHEL7, SLES 12 and SLES 15. If these are not included in the latest cumulative patch release for the affected platform, please contact support for the private patch.
Issue/Introduction
