CONTAP-240415: Outputting CIFS audit logs fails if NTFS long path is used and file path length longer than 30000 characters

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Apr 2, 2025
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Last Updated:: 4/2/2025, 3:30:23 PM

Issue

CIFS audit log generation repeatedly fails at the same point for a particular object.
There is a record which has a UNC path length longer than 30000 characters.

mpaudit.log includes following lines:

[00000004.00002e45 0000462e Sat May 11 2024 08:34:49 -07:00 [kern_mpaudit:info:10817] 0x80ba09000: 0: ERR: vserver1: return 8220 {in putData() at src/AuditConsolidationData.cc:362}]
[00000004.00002e46 0000462e Sat May 11 2024 08:34:49 -07:00 [kern_mpaudit:info:10817] 0x80ba09000: 0: ERR: vserver1: return 8220 {in audit_main() at src/AuditMain.cc:166}]
[00000004.00002e47 0000462e Sat May 11 2024 08:34:49 -07:00 [kern_mpaudit:info:10817] 0x80ba09000: 0: ERR: vserver: return 8220 {in consolidation() at src/AuditJob.cc:164}]
[00000004.00002ef2 00004ae3 Sat May 11 2024 08:36:51 -07:00 [kern_mpaudit:info:10817] 0x80ba09000: 0: INFO: vserver1: Consolidation Fails[8220]!! [0] records consolidate in [130] milliseconds {in audit_main() at src/AuditMain.cc:234}]
[00000004.00002ef3 00004ae3 Sat May 11 2024 08:36:51 -07:00 [kern_mpaudit:info:10817] 0x80ba09000: 0: ERR: vserver1: return 8220 {in consolidation() at src/AuditJob.cc:164}]
[00000004.00002ef4 00004ae3 Sat May 11 2024 08:36:51 -07:00 [kern_mpaudit:info:10817] 0x80ba09000: 0: INFO: vserver1: Not changing the opstate to clear as there are audit records belonging to Vserver[vserver1] which cannot be consolidated due to error[8220] {in start() at src/AuditJob.cc:399}