The ESXi host might fail with purple diagnostic screen (PSOD) while removing a Distributed Firewall (DFW) port

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

The ESXi host might fail with purple diagnostic screen (PSOD) on follow situation:

• One VM with DFW enabled powers on
• At same time, the DFW port is being removed

--The PSoD back trace was as follow:
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)@BlueScreen: ASSERT bora/modules/vmkernel/dvfilter/dvfilter.c:6626
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)Code start: 0x42000f400000 VMK uptime: 0:07:13:22.426
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)0x45394901a400:[0x420010b16076][email protected]#v3_1_0_0+0x186 stack: 0x4330f8c5dc00
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)0x45394901a440:[0x420010b19a88][email protected]#v3_1_0_0+0x2a1 stack: 0x80000ef00000000
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)0x45394901a600:[0x420010b44d82][email protected]#v3_1_0_0+0x3f7 stack: 0x45394901a91e
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)0x45394901a9f0:[0x420010b43b94][email protected]#v3_1_0_0+0x2d stack: 0x45394901ab28
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu59:##########)0x45394901aa10:[0x42000f744173]VMKAPICharDevDevfsWrapIoctl@vmkernel#nover+0xd8 stack: 0x1

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.0

Resolution

This issue is resolved in the VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3j (Build 25429389)

Additional Information

VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3j Release Notes
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/release-notes/esxi-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-esxi-80u3j-release-notes.html