SUSE-RU-2018:1654-1: Recommended update for mdadm
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SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for mdadm
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Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1654-1
Rating: low
References: #1032802 #1081910 #808647 #881530 #882634
#887773 #923920 #926517 #926767 #937363 #939748
#943028 #953595 #956236 #966773 #974154
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS
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An update that has 16 recommended fixes can now be
installed.
Description:
This update for mdadm provides the backporting of some critical fixes from
upstream, and replace some existing patches with their upstream
counterpart (bsc#1081910). The following fixes are included:
- Grow: Followup fix for a problem that reshape fails to continue after
restart on IMSM RAID array. (bsc#881530)
- mdmon: Ensure Unix domain socket is created with safe permissions.
(bsc#1081910)
- IMSM: Add a warning message when assembling a spanned container.
(bsc#882634)
- mdmon: Allow prepare_update to report failures. (bsc#1081910)
- DDF, IMSM: Validate metadata_update size before using it. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Do not try to restart if reshape is running. (bsc#887773)
- Grow: Fix a problem that was preventing resize of arrays to 32bit size.
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Improve error message if "--grow -n2" is used on linear arrays.
(bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Only fail auto-assemble in face of mdadm.conf conflicts.
(bsc#1081910)
- config: Add a new option to suppress adding bad block lists.
(bsc#1081910)
- Monitor: Stop monitoring devices that have disappeared. (bsc#1081910)
- super1: Do not allow adding a bitmap if there is no space. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Report when grow needs metadata update. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Fix resizing of array components to greater than 32bits sizes/
(bsc#1081910)
- imsm: Add support for OROMs shared by multiple HBAs. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Add support for second and combined AHCI controllers in UEFI mode.
(fate#317456)
- imsm: Add support for NVMe devices. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Add some detail-platform improvements. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Use efivarfs interface for reading UEFI variables. (fate#317456)
- Monitor: Fix a regression with container devices. (bsc#1081910)
- imsm: Simplified the support for multiple OROMs. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Fix "no uptodate device" message. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Allow a RAID4 to assemble easily when parity devices are
missing. (bsc#926767)
- Assemble/force: Make it possible to "force" a new device in a reshape.
(bsc#1081910)
- IMSM: Count arrays per OROM. (bsc#926517)
- Assemble: Do not check for pre-existing array when updating uuid.
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Only warn about incompatible metadata when no fallback available.
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Be more careful if the array is stopped during critical section.
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Be even more careful about handing a '0' completed value.
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Fix problem with --grow --continue. (bsc#1081910)
- Create n bitmaps for clustered mode. (bsc#1081910)
- Add nodes option while creating md. (bsc#1081910)
- Set home-cluster while creating an array. (bsc#1081910)
- Show all bitmaps while examining bitmap. (bsc#1081910)
- Add a new clustered disk. (bsc#1081910)
- Convert a bitmap=none device to clustered. (bsc#1081910)
- Skip clustered devices in incremental. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Add the ability to change cluster name. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Change the number of cluster node. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Ensure stripe_cache is big enough to handle new chunk size.
(bsc#1081910)
- Monitor: Don't wait forever on a 'frozen' array. (bsc#1081910)
- Manage/stop: Guard against 'completed' being too large. (bsc#1081910)
- Manage/stop: Don't stop during initial critical section (bsc#1081910)
- raid6check: Report role of suspect device. (bsc#1081910)
- raid6check: Get device ordering correct for syndrome calculation.
(bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Really ensure stripe_cache is bit enough to handle new chunk
size. (bsc#1081910)
- restripe: Fix data block order in raid6_2_data_recov. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Document the --homehost=any functionality. (bsc#1081910)
- mdassemble: Add "Name" definition. (bsc#1081910)
- mdassemble: Do not try to perform cluster check. (bsc#1081910)
- mdassemble: Include mapfile support. (bsc#1081910)
- super1: Do not create bad block log for clustered devices. (bsc#1081910)
- Fix --incremental handling on cluster array. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Make cluster raid also support re-add. (bsc#1081910)
- re-add: Make re-add try to write the sysfs node first. (bsc#1081910)
- Show device as journal in --detail --examine. (bsc#1081910)
- Enable create array with write journal (--write-journal DEVICE).
(bsc#1081910)
- Assemble array with write journal. (bsc#1081910)
- Check write journal in incremental. (bsc#1081910)
- Add help message and man entry for --write-journal. (bsc#1081910)
- Add a safeguard against writing to an active device of another node.
(bsc#1081910)
- Add crc32c and use it for r5l checksum. (bsc#1081910)
- Make sure 'path' buffer is large enough to fit 200 characters plus null
terminator. (bsc#1081910)
- Recreate journal in mdadm. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Allow cluster raid to also add disk within incremental mode.
(bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Output information more precisely when changing bitmap to none.
(bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Do not show cluster name once the bitmap is cleared. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Do not display bitmap info if it is cleared. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Do not try to hold dlm lock in free_super1. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Improve the safeguard for changing cluster raid's sb.
(bsc#1081910)
- Detail: Report correct raid-disk for removed drives. (bsc#1081910)
- Check and remove bitmap first when reshape to raid0. (bsc#1081910)
- Create: Fix a regression in setting raid_disk. (bsc#1081910)
- systemd/mdadm-last-resort: Add Conflicts to .service file. (bsc#1081910)
- super0: Fix reporting of devices between 2GB and 4GB. (bsc#1081910)
- super1: Allow reshape that hasn't really started to be reverted.
(bsc#1081910)
- super-intel: Ensure suspended region is removed when reshape completes.
(bsc#1081910)
- Fix wrong bitmap output for cluster raid. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Add '--nodes' option in GROW mode. (bsc#1081910)
- Consistent use of metric prefix in manpage. (bsc#1081910)
- Create: Check the node numbers when creating a clustered raid.
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Handle failure to load superblock in Grow_addbitmap().
(bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Simplify error paths in Grow_addbitmap(). (bsc#1081910)
- The sys_name array in the mdinfo structure is 20 bytes of storage
(bsc#1081910)
- monitor: Make sure that last_checkpoint is set to 0 after sync.
(bsc#1081910)
- Remove: Container should wait for an array to release a drive.
(bsc#1081910)
- Fix RAID metadata checking. (bsc#1081910)
- Allow level migration only for single-array container. (bsc#1081910)
- Fix bus error when accessing MBR partition records. (bsc#1081910)
- Add failfast support. (fate#311379)
- mdadm: Add bad block support for external metadata. (bsc#1081910)
- Use disk sector size value to set offset for reading GPT. (bsc#1081910)
- Always return last partition end address in 512B blocks. (bsc#1081910)
- Add detail information when can't connect monitor. (bsc#1081910)
- reshape: Support raid5 grow on certain older kernels. (bsc#923920)
- Assemble: Do not assemble IMSM array without OROM. (bsc#939748,
bsc#937363)
- Fix --incremental handling on cluster array.
- IMSM: Clear migration record on disks more often. (bsc#943028)
- mdadm: Remove the cluster-md related information from the documentation.
(fate#316335)
- Display timeout status. (fate#311379)
- Retry failed removes. (bsc#808647)
- Detail: Ignore empty inactive arrays. (bsc#966773)
- mdadm: Wait for remove to fix a segmentation fault from mdadm when using
--manage --re-add (bsc#974154)
- udev-md-raid-assembly.rules: Skip multipathed devices. (bsc#956236)
- super1: Fix superblock's max_dev when adding a new disk in linear array.
(bsc#1032802)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2018-1119=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2018-1119=1
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (ppc64le x86_64):
mdadm-3.3.1-26.5.1
mdadm-debuginfo-3.3.1-26.5.1
mdadm-debugsource-3.3.1-26.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
mdadm-3.3.1-26.5.1
mdadm-debuginfo-3.3.1-26.5.1
mdadm-debugsource-3.3.1-26.5.1
References:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032802
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1081910
https://bugzilla.suse.com/808647
https://bugzilla.suse.com/881530
https://bugzilla.suse.com/882634
https://bugzilla.suse.com/887773
https://bugzilla.suse.com/923920
https://bugzilla.suse.com/926517
https://bugzilla.suse.com/926767
https://bugzilla.suse.com/937363
https://bugzilla.suse.com/939748
https://bugzilla.suse.com/943028
https://bugzilla.suse.com/953595
https://bugzilla.suse.com/956236
https://bugzilla.suse.com/966773
https://bugzilla.suse.com/974154
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