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Oracle Linux: Service Multipathd Crashes with Error 'kernel: multipathd[xxx]: segfault at 1b0 ip xxx sp xxx error 4 in multipathd[xxx+13000]' (Doc ID 2535352.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.6 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [4.14.35] and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Service multipathd crashed on the source compute node when  live migrating one or more VMs between 2 compute nodes:
Error as below :

multipathd: 3600144f0de02851800005b321efb128b: event checker exit
multipathd: dm-3: remove map (uevent)
multipathd: dm-3: devmap not registered, can't remove
multipathd: dm-3: remove map (uevent)
multipathd: sdc: remove path (uevent)
multipathd: 3600144f0de02851800005b321efc128c: event checker exit
multipathd: dm-7: remove map (uevent)
abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 4098 (multipathd) of user 0 killed by SIGSEGV - dumping core
kernel: multipathd[4105]: segfault at 1b0 ip 0000557a20dc1868 sp 00007f8ce4b3bcc0 error 4 in multipathd[557a20db9000+13000]
systemd: multipathd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
systemd: Unit multipathd.service entered failed state.
systemd: multipathd.service failed.

Cause

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