| Ref # | Issue Description |
|---|---|
| 3151884 | Description: If secure boot is enabled, the following error message is observed while installing Ubuntu on the DPU: ERROR: need to use capsule in secure boot mode. This message is harmless and may be safely ignored. |
| Keywords: Error message; installation | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.3 | |
| 2793005 | Description: When Arm reboots or crashes after sending a virtio-net unplug request, the hotplugged devices may still be present after Arm recovers. The host, however, will not see those devices. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net; hotplug | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.3 | |
| 3107227 | Description: BlueField with secured BFB fails to boot up if the PART_SCHEME field is set in bf.cfg during installation. |
| Keywords: Installation; bf.cfg | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.2 | |
| 3109270 | Description: If the RShim service is running on an external host over the PCIe interface then, in very rare cases, a soft reset of the BlueField can cause a poisoned completion to be returned to the host. The host may treat this as a fatal error and crash. |
| Keywords: RShim; ATF | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.2 | |
| 2790928 | Description: Virtio-net-controller recovery may not work for a hot-plugged device because the system assigns a BDF (string identifier) of 0 for the hot-plugged device, which is an invalid value. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net; hotplug; recovery | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2780819 | Description: Eye-opening is not supported on 25GbE integrated-BMC BlueField-2 DPU. |
| Keywords: Firmware, eye-opening | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2876447 | Description: Virtio full emulation is not supported by NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 multi-host cards. |
| Keywords: Virtio full emulation; multi-host | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2855485 | Description: After BFB installation, Linux crash may occur with efi_call_rts messages in the call trace which can be seen from the UART console. |
Keywords: Linux crash; efi_call_rts | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2901514 | Description: Relaxed ordering is not working properly on virtual functions. |
| Keywords: MLNX_OFED; relaxed ordering; VF | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2852086 | Description: On rare occasions, the UEFI variables in UVPS EEPROM are wiped out which hangs the boot process at the UEFI menu. |
| Keywords: UEFI; hang | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2934828 | Description: PCIe device address to RDMA device name mapping on x86 host may change after the driver restarts in Arm. |
| Keywords: RDMA; Arm; driver | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| - | Description: RShim driver does not work when the host is in secure boot mode. |
| Keywords: RShim; Secure Boot | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2787308 | Description: At rare occasions during Arm reset on BMC-integrated DPUs, the DPU will send "PCIe Completion" marked as poisoned. Some servers treat that as fatal and may hang. |
| Keywords: Arm reset; BMC integrated | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2585607 | Description: Pushing the BFB image fails occasionally with a "bad magic number" error message showing up in the console. |
| Keywords: BFB push; installation | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2802943 | Description: SLD detection may not function properly. |
| Keywords: Firmware | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2580945 | Description: External host reboot may also reboot the Arm cores if the DPU was configured using mlxconfig. |
| Keywords: Non-volatile configuration; Arm; reboot | |
| Fixed in version: 3.9.0 | |
| 2899740 | Description: BlueField-2 may sometimes go to PXE boot instead of Linux after installation. |
| Keywords: Installation; PXE | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.5 | |
| 2870143 | Description: Some DPUs may get stuck at GRUB menu when booting due to the GRUB configuration getting corrupted when board is powered down before the configuration is synced to memory. |
| Keywords: GRUB; memory | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.5 | |
| 2873700 | Description: The available RShim logging buffer may not have enough space to hold the whole register dump which may cause buffer wraparound. |
| Keywords: RShim; logging | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.5 | |
| 2801891 | Description: IPMI EMU service reports cable link as down when it is actually up. |
| Keywords: IPMI EMU | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2779861 | Description: Virtio-net controller does not work with devices other than mlx5_0/1. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net controller | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2801378 | Description: No parameter validation is done for feature bits when performing hotplug. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net; hotplug | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2802917 | Description: When secure boot is enabled, PXE boot may not work. |
| Keywords: Secure boot; PXE | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2827413 | Description: Updating a BFB could fail due to congestion. |
| Keywords: Installation; congestion | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2829876 | Description: For virtio-net device, modifying the number of queues does not update the number of MSIX. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net; queues | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2597790 | Description: A "double free" error is seen when using the "curl" utility. This happens only when OpenSSL is configured to use a dynamic engine (e.g. Bluefield PKA engine). |
| Keywords: OpenSSL; curl | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2853295 | Description: UEFI secure boot enables the kernel lockdown feature which blocks access by mstmcra. |
| Keywords: Secure boot | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2854472 | Description: Virtio-net controller may fail to start after power cycle. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net controller | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2854995 | Description: Memory consumed for a representor exceeds what is necessary making scaling to 504 SF's not possible. |
| Keywords: Memory | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2856652 | Description: Modifying VF bits yields an error. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net controller | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2859066 | Description: Arm hangs when user is thrown to livefish by FW (e.g. secure boot). |
| Keywords: Arm; livefish | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2866082 | Description: The current installation flow requires multiple resets after booting the self-install BFB due to the watchdog being armed after capsule update. |
| Keywords: Reset; installation | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2866537 | Description: Power-off of BlueField shows up as a panic which is then stored in the RShim log and carried into the BERT table in the next boot which is misleading to the user. |
| Keywords: RShim; log; panic | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2868944 | Description: Various errors related to the UPVS store running out of space are observed. |
| Keywords: UPVS; errors | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2754798 | Description: oob_net0 cannot receive traffic after a network restart. |
Keywords: oob_net0 | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2691175 | Description: Up to 31 hot-plugged virtio-net devices are supported even if PCI_SWITCH_EMULATION_NUM_PORT=32. Host may hang if it hot plugs 32 devices. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net; hotplug | |
| Fixed in version: 3.8.0 | |
| 2597973 | Description: Working with CentOS 7.6, if SF network interfaces are statically configured, the following parameters should be set.
For example: # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-p0m0 NAME=p0m0 DEVICE=p0m0 NM_CONTROLLED="no" PEERDNS="yes" ONBOOT="yes" BOOTPROTO="static" IPADDR=12.212.10.29 BROADCAST=12.212.255.255 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=12.212.0.0 TYPE=Ethernet DEVTIMEOUT=30 |
| Keywords: CentOS; subfunctions; static configuration | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2581534 | Description: When shared RQ mode is enabled and offloads are disabled, running multiple UDP connections from multiple interfaces can lead to packet drops. |
| Keywords: Offload; shared RQ | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2581621 | Description: When OVS-DPDK and LAG are configured, the kernel driver drops the LACP packet when working in shared RQ mode. |
| Keywords: OVS-DPDK; LAG; LACP; shared RQ | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2601094 | Description: The gpio-mlxbf2 and mlxbf-gige drivers are not supported on 4.14 kernel. |
| Keywords: Drivers; kernel | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2584427 | Description: Virtio-net-controller does not function properly after changing uplink representor MTU. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net controller; MTU | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2438392 | Description: VXLAN with IPsec crypto offload does not work. |
| Keywords: VXLAN; IPsec crypto | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2406401 | Description: Address Translation Services is not supported in BlueField-2 step A1 devices. Enabling ATS can cause server hang. |
| Keywords: ATS | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2402531 | Description: PHYless reset on BlueField-2 devices may cause the device to disappear. |
| Keywords: PHY; firmware reset | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2400381 | Description: When working with strongSwan 5.9.0bf, running |
| Keywords: strongSwan; ip xfrm; IPsec | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2392604 | Description: Server crashes after configuring PCI_SWITCH_EMULATION_NUM_PORT to a value higher than the number of PCIe lanes the server supports. |
| Keywords: Server; hang | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2293791 | Description: Loading/reloading NVMe after enabling VirtIO fails with a PCI bar memory mapping error. |
| Keywords: VirtIO; NVMe | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2245983 | Description: When working with OVS in the kernel and using Connection Tracking, up to 500,000 flows may be offloaded. |
| Keywords: DPU; Connection Tracking | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 1945513 | Description: If the Linux OS running on the host connected to the BlueField DPU has a kernel version lower then 4.14, MLNX_OFED package should be installed on the host. |
| Keywords: Host OS | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 1900203 | Description: During heavy traffic, ARP reply from the other tunnel endpoint may be dropped. If no ARP entry exists when flows are offloaded, they remain stuck on the slow path. |
| Workaround: Set a static ARP entry at the BlueField Arm to VXLAN tunnel endpoints. | |
| Keywords: ARP; Static; VXLAN; Tunnel; Endpoint | |
| Fixed in version: 3.7.0 | |
| 2082985 | Description: During boot, the system enters systemctl emergency mode due a corrupt root file system. |
| Keywords: Boot | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2278833 | Description: Creating a bond via NetworkManager and restarting the driver (openibd restart) results in no pf0hpf and bond creation failure. |
| Keywords: Bond; LAG; network manager; driver reload | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2286596 | Description: Only up to 62 host virtual functions are currently supported. |
| Keywords: DPU; SR-IOV | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
2397932 | Description: Before changing SR-IOV mode or reloading the mlx5 drivers on IPsec-enabled systems, make sure all IPsec configurations are cleared by issuing the command ip x s f && ip x p f. |
| Keywords: IPsec; SR-IOV; driver | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2405039 | Description: In Ubuntu, during or after a reboot of the Arm, manually, or as part of a firmware reset, the network devices may not transition to switchdev mode. No device representors would be created (pf0hpf, pf1hpf, etc). Driver loading on the host will timeout after 120 seconds. |
| Keywords: Ubuntu; reboot; representors; switchdev | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2403019 | Description: EEPROM storage for UEFI variables may run out of space and cause various issues such as an inability to push new BFB (due to timeout) or exception when trying to enter UEFI boot menu. |
| Keywords: BFB install; timeout; EEPROM UEFI Variable; UVPS | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2458040 | Description: When using OpenSSL on BlueField platforms where Crypto support is disabled, the following errors may be encountered:PKA_ENGINE: PKA instance is invalidPKA_ENGINE: failed to retrieve valid instanceThis happens due to OpenSSL configuration being linked to use PKA hardware, but that hardware is not available since crypto support is disabled on these platforms. |
| Keywords: PKA; Crypto | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2456947 | Description: All NVMe emulation counters (Ctrl, SQ, Namespace) return "0" when queried. |
| Keywords: Emulated devices; NVMe | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2411542 | Description: Multi-APP QoS is not supported when LAG is configured. |
| Keywords: Multi-APP QoS; LAG | |
| Fixed in version: 3.6.0.11699 | |
| 2394130 | Description: When creating a large number of VirtIO VFs, hung task call traces may be seen in the dmesg. |
| Keywords: VirtIO; call traces; hang | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.1.11601 | |
| 2398050 | Description: Only up to 60 virtio-net emulated virtual functions are supported if LAG is enabled. |
| Keywords: Virtio-net; LAG | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.1.11601 | |
| 2256134 | Description: On rare occasions, rebooting the BlueField DPU may result in traffic failure from the x86 host. |
| Keywords: Host; Arm | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.1.11601 | |
| 2400121 | Description: When emulated PCIe switch is enabled, and more than 8 PFs are enabled, the BIOS boot process might halt. |
| Keywords: Emulated PCIe switch | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.0.11563 | |
| 2082985 | Description: During boot, the system enters systemctl emergency mode due a corrupt root file system. |
| Keywords: Boot | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.0.11563 | |
| 2249187 | Description: With the OCP card connecting to multiple hosts, one of the hosts could have the RShim PF exposed and probed by the RShim driver. |
| Keywords: RShim; multi-host | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.0.11563 | |
| 2363650 | Description: When moving to separate mode on the DPU, the OVS bridge remains and no ping is transmitted between the Arm cores and the remote server. |
| Keywords: SmartNIC; operation modes | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.0.11563 | |
| 2394226 | Description: Pushing the BFB image v3.5 with a WinOF-2 version older than 2.60 can cause a crash on the host side. |
| Keywords: Windows; RShim | |
| Fixed in version: 3.5.0.11563 |
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