PF Exception 14 in world #######:HELPER_UPLIN IP #x#####b##b### addr 0xa related to qfle3 driver

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Host suffers sudden PSOD with the following backtrace:

qfle3_sp_helper_func@(qfle3)
ecore_state_wait_enhanced@(qfle3)
ecore_config_vlan_mac@(qfle3)
qfle3_set_mac_one@(qfle3)
qfle3_remove_queue_filter@(qfle3)
qfle3_queue_remove_filter@(qfle3)
UplinkNetq_RemoveHwRxFilter@vmkernel
NetqueueBalDeactivatePendingFilters@vmkernel

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXI 8.x

Cause

The qfle3 driver tried to reference $rax which has a null value. The null-pointer error is an issue within the driver code.

Resolution

Please contact the driver vendor (hardware vendor) to resolve the issue.