RHBA-2013:1704 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated lvm2 packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The lvm2 packages include all of the support for handling read and write
operations on physical volumes, creating volume groups from one or more physical
volumes and creating one or more logical volumes in volume groups.

The updated lvm2 packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/lvm2.html#RHBA-2013-1704

Users of lvm2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 814737 - Extend lvcreate to take thin snapshots of existing non-thinly-provisioned LVs
• BZ - 820203 - Provide option to validate lvm.conf files and report unrecognised entries
• BZ - 820991 - Adding an option to silently skip the clustered volume groups
• BZ - 834327 - Virtual snapshot does not get removed after removal attempt on a busy device
• BZ - 848599 - up converting an inactive mirror with insufficient devs results in an over concerned warning
• BZ - 861227 - lvconvert --stripes|--stripesize options appear worthless
• BZ - 880414 - lvm2app reports the stripe size of volumes incorrectly
• BZ - 894136 - [lvmetad] VG mda corruption is not handled when using lvmetad
• BZ - 902806 - Locales should be set with LC_ALL instead of LANG
• BZ - 903249 - LVM RAID: 'lvs' does not always report the proper status of a RAID LV
• BZ - 903411 - lvchange activation issues when dealing w/ thin pool volumes and discard options
• BZ - 910104 - OOM issues when running many raid -> thin pool conversions w/ lvmetad running
• BZ - 913644 - vgimport: Unable to import volume groups that have failed PVs
• BZ - 919604 - thinpool stacked on mirror volume fails to recover from device failure
• BZ - 921280 - thin_pool_autoextend_threshold does not work when thin pool is a stacked raid device
• BZ - 967247 - lvconvert fails mirror conversion when space is limited
• BZ - 976104 - lvconvert should convert to the raid1 segtype by default if mirror_segtype_default set to raid1
• BZ - 985976 - LVM RAID: Add ability to perform RAID scrubbing operations
• BZ - 987693 - [thin] Thin snapshot creation fails when pool created with --zero n
• BZ - 989347 - lvextend segfaults in _alloc_parallel_area when trying to extend 3-way striped logical volume
• BZ - 995193 - [RHEL 6.4] vgchange -cn vgname --config 'global {locking_type = 0}' does not work when using mirrored LV device.
• BZ - 995440 - lvmetad unable to update metadata after failed PV has returned to mirror.
• BZ - 995628 - LVM RAID: Unable to change recovery rate via 'lvchange'
• BZ - 997188 - lvm2app: lvm_list_pvs_free segmentation fault when system has no physical volumes
• BZ - 998730 - Should split off raid images (with tracking) have out-of-sync lv_attrs?
• BZ - 1005434 - striped raid extension into contiguous space is broken
• BZ - 1006945 - Udev resource limit introduced in recent versions of udev causing deadlock with lvm2+lvmetad+autoactivation
• BZ - 1007074 - the pool *_tmeta device can only be corrupted and then restored once
• BZ - 1007102 - request for clarification: will raid scrubbing be supported on stacked thin pool volumes
• BZ - 1007406 - LVM on Raid 1 array gets stuck in read only after reboot when lvmetad+lvm autoactivation is used
• BZ - 1007410 - Segfault while trying to finish pvmove on inactive LV
• BZ - 1008012 - cling_by_tags not honored in raid LV configurations
• BZ - 1009700 - mirror device failure scenarios lead to deadlocks
• BZ - 1016322 - lvmetad dies (general protection error in libc-2.12.so) during pv creation
• BZ - 1020304 - blkdeactivate loops when specific device name is used
• BZ - 1020401 - Creating and modifying logical volumes concurrently fails with Volume group not found error
• BZ - 1023072 - clvmd fails with tag based activation with error 'verify_message bad flags 8'

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/lvm2.html#RHBA-2013-1704