Bug ID 18957991
Issue: When using Red Hat-compatible kernel version 2.6.32-431 with Integrated Device Technology (IDT) PCIe switches to hotplug remove NVMe storage drives, the Advanced Error Reporting (AER) driver will print error messages that are similar to the following:
pcieport 0000:00:01.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0420 pcieport 0000:04:04.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0420(Receiver ID) pcieport 0000:04:04.0: device [111d:80b5] error status/mask=00000001/0000e000 pcieport 0000:04:04.0: [ 0] Receiver Error
Affected software: Oracle Linux 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, and 7.2
Workaround: These messages are not indicative of actual problems and can be safely ignored.