CONTAP-739621: Possible INPCB Leak Preventing UDP Socket Creation
Issue
Systems running ONTAP 9.16.1 can experience a severe networking failure which causes the node to become partially unreachable and unresponsive to administrative commands. This is caused by internal failures to create UDP sockets due to a memory leak which prevents different internal systems from communicating with each other.
System logs show repeated socket creation failures returning error 55 (ENOBUFS).
Core analysis can confirm that UDP socket creation failure is due to a memory leak.
System logs show repeated socket creation failures returning error 55 (ENOBUFS).
VifMgr: [kern_vifmgr:info:11798] [0x80b45cc00] [vifmgr_virtual_interface_iterator::get_imp] Failed to successfully calculate operational status: Unexpected error "NbladeWriter PCP RPC Error noSocket" encountered as result of getting link status for port(s).
Sktrace: 2026-04-21T18:21:18Z 10034467026364183 [48:0] L3_NET_CONFIG_ERR: fbsd_socreate_wrapper: error: 55
Core analysis can confirm that UDP socket creation failure is due to a memory leak.
