- Issued:
- 2011-01-13
- Updated:
- 2011-01-13
RHBA-2011:0051 - 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 fix several bugs and add an enhancement are
now available.
Description
The device-mapper packages provide a library required by logical volume
management utilities such as LVM2 and dmraid.
These updated device-mapper packages provide fixes for the following bugs:
- Filtering with many regular expressions (for example when using lvm commands
to filter devices) could have caused performance problems. This update improves
the parsing process for regular expressions and the processing performance.
(BZ#581830)
- After you issued the command for deactivation of logical volumes (lvchange
- an) and the command failed, the system could have deleted the symlink to the
device in /dev/VGNAME/LVNAME. With this update, the device deactivation function
fails if the device is open and the issue no longer occurs. (BZ#583646)
- The devmapper.pc file contained a wrong dependency on SELinux
'Requires.private: libselinux' and other tools could not resolve this
dependency. With this update, the dependency was reverted to 'Libs.private:
lselinux' and the dependency problem no longer occurs. (BZ#632298)
- Previously, due to the output limit in reporting functions (vgs, lvs), tags
seized to be displayed in longer reports. With this update, the output lines in
these reports are limited by available memory only. (BZ#649710)
- Filtering with regular expressions (for example when using lvm commands to
filter devices) could have failed. This was due to an error in removing a common
suffix. With this update, the optimization for common suffixes works correctly.
(BZ#651349)
In addition, these updated packages provides the following enhancement:
- The device-mapper package was upgraded to version 1.02.55. The upgraded
version:
- adds the manual page for the dmeventd service,
- improves the 'dmsetup' manual page and adds descriptions of the 'clear'
command and the '--showkeys' option,
- adds the '--help' option as an alternative to the 'help' command,
- allows use of the device-mapper header file in C++. (BZ#627539)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated device-mapper packages, which
resolve these issues and add this enhancement.
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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 581830 - lvm commands run time increases by a factor (x10) when using long filter
- BZ - 583646 - lvchange -an fails for an lv in use but deletes symlink /dev/VGNAME/LVNAME
- BZ - 627539 - Upgrade device-mapper to 1.02.55 version
- BZ - 632298 - libdevmapper.pc has Requires.private for libselinux
- BZ - 649710 - vgs fails to display tags when there are many of them
- BZ - 651349 - LVM filter regex causes lvm commands to fail
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
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device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 370895ac8c8fcb0b28da5267735e49bf17acf2bec027185b8a3607d1ad2c9558 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cc66ac834311133b920d02027e6bee218fa8cc6b72f9de7660840ca1267ca16c |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b62160003e6255ea04b40ed573e6f82057c1ef49d4c6e938ce365a997fe04cc9 |
ia64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 5ddc57c7b979b7d702e71e5d8282be14ac5f50df1ed7d19ede7bb215e4eb9ee1 |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 0e76c0615cc6ce9313f34ca4f3e2eb03e79d09a0983aed621f454733ac13efde |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b70a09a9c01d641cc4ce3d8aa860cf2c95ebbf7d60d048c26349bafd24201d16 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 370895ac8c8fcb0b28da5267735e49bf17acf2bec027185b8a3607d1ad2c9558 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cc66ac834311133b920d02027e6bee218fa8cc6b72f9de7660840ca1267ca16c |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b62160003e6255ea04b40ed573e6f82057c1ef49d4c6e938ce365a997fe04cc9 |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b70a09a9c01d641cc4ce3d8aa860cf2c95ebbf7d60d048c26349bafd24201d16 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
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device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 370895ac8c8fcb0b28da5267735e49bf17acf2bec027185b8a3607d1ad2c9558 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cc66ac834311133b920d02027e6bee218fa8cc6b72f9de7660840ca1267ca16c |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b62160003e6255ea04b40ed573e6f82057c1ef49d4c6e938ce365a997fe04cc9 |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b70a09a9c01d641cc4ce3d8aa860cf2c95ebbf7d60d048c26349bafd24201d16 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 370895ac8c8fcb0b28da5267735e49bf17acf2bec027185b8a3607d1ad2c9558 |
s390x | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 87d46323196eb92f65f160ef8600391c90f2b74f20399d243227b07c7c5eb166 |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: a70c75cd7db689c0545e462acc86388c046bf3aab2173eadab616950fff74139 |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 1774961e919dab373fba5b2417fe7f7f60c9ddc9bba22797771250a72fd78c4d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 370895ac8c8fcb0b28da5267735e49bf17acf2bec027185b8a3607d1ad2c9558 |
ppc | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 811e8b1740f9826c478679a038e9c35ffa4a8bd126ab45565f0fc7e179917e1e |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 8ecd907cf17dbce1d52a565c2b70067db45d9b104abe90d2c78d4ed0be452d49 |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 6b436f8db7323c2c804e308a115b86b60a1798f475ab7c115a88eaf79fe6eee6 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
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device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 370895ac8c8fcb0b28da5267735e49bf17acf2bec027185b8a3607d1ad2c9558 |
x86_64 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cc66ac834311133b920d02027e6bee218fa8cc6b72f9de7660840ca1267ca16c |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b62160003e6255ea04b40ed573e6f82057c1ef49d4c6e938ce365a997fe04cc9 |
i386 | |
device-mapper-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a33d2e98c45da436ba71a82ae046d2bc7e66f39144322a3ef8abcb618b7305be |
device-mapper-event-1.02.55-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b70a09a9c01d641cc4ce3d8aa860cf2c95ebbf7d60d048c26349bafd24201d16 |
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