- **status**: assigned --> review


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** [tickets:#551] IMM:  Immnd coredump in finalizeSync at veteran nodes due to 
mismatched implementer**

**Status:** review
**Created:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:00 AM UTC by Anders Bjornerstedt
**Last Updated:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 01:40 PM UTC
**Owner:** Anders Bjornerstedt

This is similar to #2963  (http://devel.opensaf.org/ticket/2963) 
and #2918 (http://devel.opensaf.org/ticket/2918) both of which where
problems resulting from enhancement #1871 (http://devel.opensaf.org/ticket/1871)
delivered to OpensAF 4.3 for allowing saImmOiImplementerSet during sync.

There is again a case of apparent mismatch of implementer-id in finalizeSync at
veteran IMMNDs. Veteran IMMNDs (IMMNDs that are already up and synced)
oportunistically use part of the sync for verifying that they agree on cluster
resource state with the coordinator IMMND. In this case there is a mismatch on
implemener-id for a certain implementer-name:

    Aug 17 10:48:25 SC-2-1 osafimmnd[15998]: ER Sync-verify: Established 
    node has different Implementer-id: 3452 for name: TA-Tgen-PL-E1-safTg14-80,
    sync says 3438. 

The problem is rare and hard to reproduce. Such a failure can either be due to 
a real mismatch (true positive) due to some true inconsistency. But it may also
be due to a false mismatch (false positive) caused by the way the finalizeSync
message is generated at coord. The finalizeSync message is generated by the
coord at a point in the fevs sequence that is earlier than the point in the
fevs sequence where the nodes (including the coord) receive the finalizeSync
message over fevs. 

For operations that are allowed during sync and that affect some state of the
immnd, that state may then change in the fevs-sequence that occurs after the
coord genertes the message until it is received by all nodes. 





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