System Deadlock or Panic in Solaris clustering environments.

Products

• Critical System Protection

Issue/Introduction

 System deadlock or panic observed in Solaris clustering environments.  

Cause

Issue caused by sisips driver holding a critical shared lock around a blocking call.

Resolution

The sisips driver in SCSP 5.2.8 MP3 HF2 has been updated and now releases a critical shared lock around a blocking call that resulted in a system deadlock.

Applies To

Affected Operating System: Solaris 10, x86 and SPARC

Symantec Critical System Protection version: 5.2.0 RTM through 5.2.8 MP3 (5.2.8.264)