Below are the bugs fixed in this version. For a list of fixes previous version, see .Bug Fixes History v5.5-2.1.7.0.
| Internal Reference Number | Description |
|---|---|
2858237 | Description: NULL dereference may occur when performing port up/down. |
| Keywords: Host | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2697443 | Description: Reloading devlink in NetDev profile caused deadlock. |
| Keywords: Devlink | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2947734 | Description: When using NFS over RDMA rpcrdma.ko created some entry files under /proc folder (e.g., “-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 . . .). |
| Keywords: NFS, RDMA | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2905055 | Description: ECPF port was not properly recognized. |
| Keywords: ECPF | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2771739 | Description: Gratuitous ARP during rdma_connect is not handled properly. |
| Keywords: Gratuitous ARP | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2888178 | Description: A locking issue in steering rules deletion, at times, could cause a deadlock while inserting or deleting new rules. |
| Keywords: Deadlock, Steering | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2979734 | Description: ibdump sources were not shared under the sources directory. |
| Keywords: ibdump Sources | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2820245 | Description: Crypto offload of UDP traffic on top of IPv6 was unsupported. |
| Keywords: IPsec, Crypto, Offload | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2869109 | Description: IPsec crypto offload for non TCP/UDP encapsulated traffic broke. |
| Keywords: IPsec, Crypto, Offload | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2905896 | Description: Leaving a multicast group (rdma_leave_multicast) used the wrong address and left the interface in the multicast group. |
| Keywords: RoCE, Multicast | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2939691 | Description: Unsupported parameters were ignored. Now, when using unsupported syntax or unsupported command line parameters, the application will fail with an error message. |
| Keywords: Command Line, Parameters | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
3024670 | Description: When many MRs are allocated, the driver searches for a free MR with the best size fit. When the cache is dry, a huge MRs (1 MB) instead of small once (32B) could be selected because there was no better fit. The memory overhead was limited to avoid synchronous MR creation. |
| Keywords: Memory, MR | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
3020746 | Description: In the rdma-core library, the CMA device was retrieved in the wrong way when libnl is not used. |
| Keywords: libnl, rdma-core | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2939037 | Description: Ethtool that is part of the original OFED package failed to dump correct EEPROM values when using -m flag. |
| Keywords: Ethtool, EEPROM | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2582616 | Description: Manual pages were missing from infiniband-diags tools. Added manpages for all OSs that provide the python-docutils package. |
| Keywords: Manual Pages (manpages), infiniband-diags | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2979137 | Description: An increment of count variable was missing when looping over output buffer in mlx5e_self_test(). As a result, the garbage value of ethtool -t was resolved. |
| Keywords: ethtool, selftest | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2752622 | Description: On SLES 15, the inbox modules in the directory mlxsw (such as mlxsw_spectrum) was not supported. When they were installed when installing MLNX_OFED, they no longer worked (as they depend on a different version of the mlx* modules) and could cause an error at time of installation. |
| Keywords: Installation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-3.0.3.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2200320 | Description: In cases where MLNX_OFED was reinstalled on a certain system without using --force, the installation could fail requiring the removal of the infiniband-diags package. |
| Keywords: Installation, Force, infiniband-diags | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2984013 | Description: When uninstalling the kmod-xpmem package, xpmem module was not unloaded. From now on, after uninstalling, xpmem module will be removed automatically. |
| Keywords: Installation, xpmem | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2984098 | Description: OFED installation modified file "/etc/yum.conf" to exclude some packages from the Yum repositories. As of RHEL 8, /etc/yum.conf is a symlink to /etc/dnf.conf and this edit breaks the symlink. As there is no use in such an edit, OFED no longer edits this file. |
| Keywords: Installation, Yum Repositories, RHEL | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
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 Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2946450 | Description: In some cases, the firmware tracer did not work with NEO-Host. |
| Keywords: NEO-Host, Firmware Tracer | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2947645 | Description: current_link_speed sysfs was missing. |
| Keywords: sysfs | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
3025582 | Description: If the commands were not entered in the correct order when setting buffer size and allocation using the mlnx_qos command, on some occasions, the xoff_threshold calculation broke pausing functionality. |
| Keywords: Driver, xoff, Buffer | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2859206 | Description: First generation BlueField SoC based DPUs were not supported. |
| Keywords: BlueField, SoC | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2936867 | Description: Creating a TC rules with more than 30 actions caused kernel panic. |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Call Trace, TC | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
3016685 | Description: IP-in-IP packets received in one queue instead of hashing to multi queues. |
| Keywords: NetDev, Tunneling, RSS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
3023304 | Description: Fixed compatibility issue of mlnx_qos for python3.9 deprecated tostring/fromstring. |
| Keywords: Python3, Compatibility | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2887387 | Description: IPsec flow tables design caused the number of IPsec tunnels to be limited to 16K. Changed the flow tables design to support up to 32K IPsec tunnels per protocol (IPv4/IPv6). |
| Keywords: IPsec | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2887394/2887381 | Description: When configuring over 1000 IPsec sessions caused performance issues. |
| Keywords: IPsec | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2906002 | Description: Hairpin rules failed to send packet back to wire when IPsec full offload is enabled. |
| Keywords: IPsec Full Offload, Hairpin | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2901506 | Description: On rare occasions, the application did not use any raw WQE feature and unexpectedly got wc opcode IBV_WC_DRIVER2. |
| Keywords: RDMA, Raw WQE, IB_WC_DRIVER2 | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2890024 | Description: Under certain conditions, incorrect handling of resources caused memory corruption over software steering resources leading to failure of OVS to offloaded the traffic to the hardware. |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Steering, OVS, Memory | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2874200 | Description: Using hairpin tunnel traffic, caused incorrect TC rules to be created. Example: tunnel(tun_id=0×65,src=10.10.11.3,dst=10.10.11.2,ttl=0/0,tp_dst=4789,flags(+key)),…,in_port(vxlan_sys_4789),…, actions:set(tunnel(tun_id=0×66,src=10.10.12.2,dst=10.10.12.3,tp_dst=4789,flags(key))),vxlan_sys_4789 |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Hairpin, OVS, SwitchDev | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 | |
2891499 | Description: Adding a route with next hop object caused a warning in dmesg and could possibly lead to kernel panic. |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Route, SwitchDev, Call Trace, Nexthop | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
Fixed in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3 |
