ESX 9.0.1 Host crashed with PSOD "GP Exception 13 in world" due to storage adapter corruption

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

#GP Exception 13

Backtrace:
  0x4xxxxxxxxxx0:[0x4xxxxxxxxxx9]PsaStorVsiAdapterInfoGet@vmkernel#nover+0x71d stack: 0x4xxxxxxxxxx8, 0xc7ccd340, 0x6xxxxxxxxxx00, 0x4xxxxxxxxxx0, 0x4xxxxxxxxxx0
  0x4xxxxxxxxxx0:[0x4xxxxxxxxxxe]VSI_GetInfo@vmkernel#nover+0x197 stack: 0x4xxxxxxxxxx6, 0x68, 0x4xxxxxxxxxx0, 0x4xxxxxxxxxx0, 0x9xxxxxxxxxx0
  0x4xxxxxxxxxx0:[0x4xxxxxxxxxx8]UW64VMKSyscallUnpackVSI_Get@vmkernel#nover+0x171 stack: 0x9xxxxxxxxxx1, 0x7f2, 0x0, 0xc24xxxxxxxxxxf0, 0x9xxxxxxxxxx0
  0x4xxxxxxxxxx0:[0x4xxxxxxxxxx5]User_UWVMK64SyscallHandler@vmkernel#nover+0x17a stack: 0x4xxxxxxxxxx0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  0x4xxxxxxxxxx0:[0x4xxxxxxxxxx5]SyscallUWVMK64@vmkernel#nover+0xbb stack: 0x0, 0x0, 0x9xxxxxxxxxx0, 0xc2xxxxxxxxxxf0, 0x0

 

#0  0x000042xxxxxxxxx9 in PsaStorVsiAdapterInfoGet (nodeID=<optimized out>, instanceArgs=<optimized out>, out=0x453b350db718) at bora/vmkernel/storage/midlayer/scsi_adapter_vsi.c:434
#1  0x000042xxxxxxxxxf in VSI_GetInfo (nodeID=2034, moduleID=0, ifaceHash=<optimized out>, instanceArgsBuf=<optimized out>, instanceArgsBufLength=<optimized out>, nodeCommand=<optimized out>, outputBuffer=0x45xxxxxxxxx8, outputBufferLength=1730) at bora/lib/vmksysinfo/vsiDispatcher.c:286
#2  0x000042xxxxxxxxx9 in UW64VMKSyscallUnpackVSI_Get (rdi=2034, rsi=0, rdx=14000401xxxxxxxxx8, r10=<optimized out>, r8=103, r9=<optimized out>) at bora/vmkernel/user/x86/uwvmkDispatch.c:8273
#3  0x000042xxxxxxxxx6 in User_UWVMK64SyscallHandler () at bora/vmkernel/user/user.c:2239
#4  0x000042xxxxxxxxx6 in Syscall_InstructionHandler () at bora/vmkernel/main/x86/common64.S:323
#5  0x000000xxxxxxxxx3 in ?? ()
#6  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Environment

VMware ESXi 9.x

Cause

The PSOD happened because vmkAdapter->mgmtAdapter.t.sas (== vmk_SasAdapter)  was corrupted and it was accessed in PsaStorVsiAdapterInfoGet(). 

Resolution

This is a known issue,  please contact Broadcom support.