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# sk151972 - Security Gateway crashes with "Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted"message in dmesg

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk151972 |
| Date Created | 2019-04-21 |
| Last Modified | 2019-05-06 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- Security Gateway crashes with vmcore file and the following messages displayed in dmesg:   

`
[fw4_0];FW-1: fwldbcast_flush_ex: fwlddist_buf_ldbcast_unread is not being reset fast enough (ur=3261,fwlddist_buflen=4000)`  
`
[fw4_0];FW-1: fwldbcast_flush_ex: fwlddist_buf_ldbcast_unread is not being reset fast enough (ur=3110,fwlddist_buflen=4000)`  
`
[fw4_0];fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted`  
`
[fw4_0];fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted`  
`
...`  
`
[fw4_0];FW-1: fwx_create_xlbuf: error allocating kbuf`  
`
[fw4_0];FW-1: fwx_get_xlation: fwxl is NULL`  
`
[fw4_0];fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted`  
`
[fw4_0];fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted`  
`
[fw4_0];[ERROR] fwconn_stats_get_new_kbuf: fwconn_stats_create_conn_data was failed. return -1`  
`
[fw4_0];[ERROR] fwconn_stats_init_conn_f2f: fwconn_stats_get_new_kbuf was failed. return -1`  
`
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:`

## Cause

Crash is due to dereferencing a null pointer value.

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