Symptom

A Cisco switch may experience a crash within sif_mgr which may cause the member to reset. The last reload reason from the member that crashed may show: Critical process sif_mgr fault on rp_0_0 (rc=139) The resulting sif_mgr traces may show the following around the time of the crash: {sif_mgr_R0-0}{2}: [sif_mgr] [21237]: UUID: 0, ra: 0, TID: 0 (ERR): PTP SIF: parsing oobm data failed

Conditions

- This crash is seen when the PTP service attempts to parse through a non-PTP message. fix is added to avoid this scenario. - This crash happens only on cat9k stack platforms.

Workaround

No workaround available. Fixed version: 17.6.5 and 17.9.2 onwards

Further Problem Description