ESXi PSODs with error "iscsivmk_ConnShutdown()" and "iscsivmk_TransportStopConn()"

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The ESXi 6.0/6.5/6.7 hosts fail with a purple diagnostic screen.
• You can see stack entries similar to:

   0x439114c1bb90:[0x41800f08347d]SPLockWork@vmkernel#nover+0x19 stack: 0x10010da7b00, 0x4305764ae850,
   0x439114c1bba0:[0x41800fc2d849]iscsivmk_TransportBindConn@<None>#<None>+0x31 stack: 0xbad0007, 0x43
   0x439114c1bbd0:[0x41800f823269][email protected]#1+0xeb5 stack: 0x5, 0x1b36d0
   0x439114c1bd70:[0x41800f8243fc][email protected]#1+0x13c stack: 0x3800000
   0x439114c1bdc0:[0x41800f1e8a7a]VmkApiLinkSocketCallback@vmkernel#nover+0x32 stack: 0x41800f1e8a6e,

Or

0x43915319bdc0:[0x41801fbee922]iscsivmk_ConnShutdown@<None>#<None>+0x37a stack: 0xe00000000, 0x4180
0x43915319be70:[0x41801fbf4450]iscsivmk_StopConnection@<None>#<None>+0x1d8 stack: 0x43910000e076, 0
0x43915319bef0:[0x41801fbf198b]iscsivmk_TransportStopConn@<None>#<None>+0x107 stack: 0x4306be2b1b90
0x43915319bf20:[0x41801f7fbbfd][email protected]#1+0x349 stack: 0x4306be29
0x43915319bf90:[0x41801f09c97b]vmkWorldFunc@vmkernel#nover+0x3b stack: 0x41801f09c976, 0x0, 0x43915
0x43915319bfd0:[0x41801f217d9e]CpuSched_StartWorld@vmkernel#nover+0xa2 stack: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0

 

Environment

• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in following versions: 

• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 Update Update 3b / Patch 1 (build 15160138) and newer version
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 Update 3a / Express Patch 15 (build 14874964) and newer versions
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 Patch 8 (build 14513180) and newer versions