System log shows error - 'qla2xxx: Invalid completion handle' , F/W Error, and/or heartbeat failure events

Issue

• One or more of the following events from the qla2xxx driver are present within the system logs
  o Invalid handle events:

  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.0]-5032:15: Invalid completion handle (5df) -- timed-out.
  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.0]-5032:15: Invalid completion handle (5e0) -- timed-out.
  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.0]-5030:15: Error entry - invalid handle/queue (2be5).
  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.0]-5032:15: Invalid completion handle (408) -- timed-out.
  

  o F/W errors and/or heartbeat failures:

  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.0]-5060:15: 83XX: F/W Error Reported: Check if reset required.
  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.0]-5069:15: Heartbeat Failure encountered, chip reset required.
  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.1]-5060:16: 83XX: F/W Error Reported: Check if reset required.
  qla2xxx [0000:2f:00.1]-5069:16: Heartbeat Failure encountered, chip reset required.
  

• In-memory or on-disk corruption may be detected in conjunction with the above. events
  o Either of these may cause filesystem corruption which is detected at shutdown, reboot, or via manual checks by running utilities such as fsck.
  o Events may include following or similar:

  kernel: [3587261.439875] traps: multipathd[1171] general protection ip:7fd55eb76914 sp:7fd56038e8d0 error:0 in libc-2.17.so[7fd55eaf4000+1c2000]
  audispd: node=hostname type=ANOM_ABEND msg=audit(1577817890.485:6538936): auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 ses=4294967295 pid=1110 comm="multipathd" reason="memory violation" sig=11
  kernel: traps: multipathd[1171] general protection ip:7fd55eb76914 sp:7fd56038e8d0 error:0 in libc-2.17.so[7fd55eaf4000+1c2000]
  

• A system crash may occur in conjunction with the above events.