NVIDIA MLNX_OFED Documentation v5.9-0.5.6.0.107
Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v5.17

Bug Fixes in This Version

Below are the bugs fixed in this version. For a list of fixes previous version, see Bug Fixes History.

Internal Reference Number

Description

3229904

Description: Restart driver failes to load OFED modules after installing OFED on SLES15sp4 with errata kernel 5.14.21-150400.24.21-default.

Keywords: Installation

Discovered in Release: 5.8- 1.0.1.1

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3213777

Description: Oracle Enterprise Linux version 9.0 generates kernel module packages that have dependencies that are not provided by their own kernel RPM packages and thus are not installable.

Keywords: Installation, Oracle Enterprise Linux v9.0

Discovered in Release: 5.8- 1.0.1.1

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3247519

Description: On an Ubuntu 22.04 system, when installing using the apt install method to install MLNX_OFED including Open vSwitch, and if the distribution Open vSwitch package was previously installed, the install may fail because of a left-over systemd generated file: the symbolic link /etc/systemd/system/openvswitch-switch.service.requires/ovs-record-hostname.service -> /lib/systemd/system/ovs-record-hostname.service .

Keywords: Installation, Ubuntu 22.04, Open vSwitch

Discovered in Release: 5.8- 1.0.1.1

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3296578

Description: Dapltest on RHEL9.x (ppc64le) could fail to run with a segmentation fault.

Keywords: Installation, RHEL9.x, Dapltest

Discovered in Release: 5.7-1.0.2.0

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3261289

Description: The host driver probe does not check whether there are existing SFs which are present in the device. As such, the host driver did not re-create those SFs.

Keywords: Core, Scalable Functions

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3228719

Description: If there are multiple encapsulations and not all neighbors are valid, the kernel will go into panic mode.

Keywords: ASAP2, Kernel Panic

Discovered in Release: 5.7-1.0.2.0

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

2946873

Description: Moving to switchdev mode while deleting namespace may cause a deadlock.

Keywords: ASAP2, Switchdev, Namespace

Discovered in Release: 5.6-1.0.3.3

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3239291

Description: In some topologies, like logical partitions, mlxfwreset is not supported.

Keywords: Core, mlxfwreset

Discovered in Release: 5.8- 1.0.1.1

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

3220855

Description: Creating external SFs on BF ARM when the host (x86) operating system does not support SFs may cause the host to crash.

Keywords: Core, Scalable Functions

Discovered in Release: 5.8- 1.0.1.1

Fixed in Release: 5.9-0.5.6.0

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