Bug Fix Advisory kudzu bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:0970-1
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-05-18
Last updated on: 2009-05-18
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated kudzu packages are available that fix two bugs and add an enhancement.

Kudzu is a hardware probing tool run at system boot time to determine what
hardware has been added or removed from the system.

This update includes the following bug fixes and enhancement:

* kudzu's probing code for PCI devices would not properly find some modules
that work by binding to specific PCI classes, notably, the sgiioc4 driver
on SGI Altix systems. Without these modules loaded, the system would not
detect devices that depended on the driver. A new version of the probing
code is included in this updated package, which is able to successfully
find the affected modules.

* during SCSI probing, kudzu would open the /dev/st device node for tape
drives. This would cause the tape drive to rewind, which created a risk of
data loss. A new version of the probing code is included in this updated
package, which does not open this node and therefore avoids this issue.

* this version of kudzu includes support for virtio devices, for
accelerating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 virtual machines.

All users should upgrade to these updated packages.


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/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.src.rpm     7ea03beec027dc57647aba9f1b0458d6
 
IA-32:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     e1c2ef083a3db7787c58fbea90378ebf
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     f28165cfd145be91a625a66b2e203e4f
 
x86_64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     47f81453a5d656846ada8f27134589dc
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     27cba1f076710ff36f4ce58fac407603
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.src.rpm     7ea03beec027dc57647aba9f1b0458d6
 
IA-32:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     e1c2ef083a3db7787c58fbea90378ebf
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     f28165cfd145be91a625a66b2e203e4f
 
IA-64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.ia64.rpm     9088a8e3df1d8d4d6ebb703462554181
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.ia64.rpm     12d51c12d170706a4d359b61d96b9349
 
PPC:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.ppc.rpm     ad21ffd3bb8b46a23ef67e65c8a7ef46
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.ppc.rpm     81388209ca8e771a61a47dc6f55bdff7
 
s390:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.s390.rpm     ab81dd7e3a5ab937a16d66ea2c95533c
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.s390.rpm     2bafb1fb494947d740881d7bc7285d84
 
s390x:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.s390x.rpm     c184916d328defe53c80f107c8a9bba7
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.s390x.rpm     632595436ca09a04c9e44f7ca4396d2e
 
x86_64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     47f81453a5d656846ada8f27134589dc
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     27cba1f076710ff36f4ce58fac407603
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.src.rpm     7ea03beec027dc57647aba9f1b0458d6
 
IA-32:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     e1c2ef083a3db7787c58fbea90378ebf
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     f28165cfd145be91a625a66b2e203e4f
 
IA-64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.ia64.rpm     9088a8e3df1d8d4d6ebb703462554181
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.ia64.rpm     12d51c12d170706a4d359b61d96b9349
 
x86_64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     47f81453a5d656846ada8f27134589dc
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     27cba1f076710ff36f4ce58fac407603
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.src.rpm     7ea03beec027dc57647aba9f1b0458d6
 
IA-32:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     e1c2ef083a3db7787c58fbea90378ebf
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.i386.rpm     f28165cfd145be91a625a66b2e203e4f
 
IA-64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.ia64.rpm     9088a8e3df1d8d4d6ebb703462554181
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.ia64.rpm     12d51c12d170706a4d359b61d96b9349
 
x86_64:
kudzu-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     47f81453a5d656846ada8f27134589dc
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.26-1.x86_64.rpm     27cba1f076710ff36f4ce58fac407603
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

468680 - kudzu causes tapes to rewind causing data corruption.
479132 - RHEL4 kvm virtio: kudzu support for probing for virtio devices



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