- Issued:
- 2007-11-15
- Updated:
- 2007-11-15
RHBA-2007:0749 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
device-mapper bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated device-mapper packages that include various bug fixes and
enhancements are now available.
Description
The device-mapper packages provide a library required by logical volume
management utilities such as LVM2 and dmraid.
This update provides the following bug fixes and enhancements:
- Fixes a crash in 'dmsetup status' without '--showkeys' when used with a
cryptographic device mapping (for example, an LVM2 logical volume used with
cryptsetup).
- Fixes a problem where removal of a mirror would not remove underlying
device-mapper devices.
- Improves dmevent daemon and messaging protocol.
- Fixes the default 'dmsetup info -c' report buffering and adds
'--unbuffered'.
- Adds tree-based and device-dependency fields to 'dmsetup info -c'
reports.
- Fixes several memory leaks in reporting error paths.
- Fixes some error messages to always use standard error output.
All users of device-mapper should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues and include these enhancements.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 225487 - mirror remove leaves device mapper devices behind (dmeventd messages need id)
- BZ - 249004 - User interface to obtain usable dm devices (P2*)
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8fa945d3ff8d8271abc242613edc678179686a66ba5985333978a14ff7412527 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb3fb0ffaeeeda12c918ebc0c2bb9b67dc97bdaacb33d95c0de3497476739d96 |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb3fb0ffaeeeda12c918ebc0c2bb9b67dc97bdaacb33d95c0de3497476739d96 |
ia64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3177ebbe2d0e08072c511be6f1342b3edec0c535de837baca0691b7ca2f94e8e |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3177ebbe2d0e08072c511be6f1342b3edec0c535de837baca0691b7ca2f94e8e |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8fa945d3ff8d8271abc242613edc678179686a66ba5985333978a14ff7412527 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb3fb0ffaeeeda12c918ebc0c2bb9b67dc97bdaacb33d95c0de3497476739d96 |
ia64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3177ebbe2d0e08072c511be6f1342b3edec0c535de837baca0691b7ca2f94e8e |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8fa945d3ff8d8271abc242613edc678179686a66ba5985333978a14ff7412527 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb3fb0ffaeeeda12c918ebc0c2bb9b67dc97bdaacb33d95c0de3497476739d96 |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 131eabb720f49a0fa1854d855906811d197902d562cc534c3f8ffdf9f50e3a2d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8fa945d3ff8d8271abc242613edc678179686a66ba5985333978a14ff7412527 |
s390x | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 5842da95422c4867bd2680e0439adfb47111cffa03e95119360155a8dd3e5ce9 |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: d2ca9b0221ce91445e17aa8444fa712a14d0f88ef4a26133edf1c95e3bba3df9 |
s390 | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 5842da95422c4867bd2680e0439adfb47111cffa03e95119360155a8dd3e5ce9 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8fa945d3ff8d8271abc242613edc678179686a66ba5985333978a14ff7412527 |
ppc | |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 997c37d2a647e82d9a2d132f415e5b4d03fc4526d345e9c3cc8b05211a050f7f |
device-mapper-1.02.21-1.el4.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 65edd9fa6e0a78582383a8b0c6d8dd7bbe977abe2ef741e483ed0bd6db7dc277 |
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