rhel9: rasdaemon keeps outputting the error messages "ug! negative record size -8"

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Issue

rasdaemon keeps outputting the error messages "ug! negative record size -8" and the messages log has become very large (over 100GB). /var/log/messages:

<date> <host> rasdaemon[19162]:   ug! negative record size -8
<date> <host> rasdaemon[19162]:   ug! negative record size -8
<date> <host> rasdaemon[19162]:   ug! negative record size -8
<date> <host> rasdaemon[19162]:   ug! negative record size -8
<date> <host> rasdaemon[19162]:   ug! negative record size -8
<date> <host> rasdaemon[19162]:   ug! negative record size -8

The issue started occurring after a multipath switching between servers.

  • What is the cause of this issue?
  • Is restarting rasdaemon service a workaround?
  • Is there any workaround other than restarting?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
  • rasdaemon
    • all versions are assumed to be affected
    • the issue was observed on version 0.6.7-8.el9.x86_64

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