SUSE-RU-2025:4338-1: important: Recommended update for multipath-tools

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# Recommended update for multipath-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:4338-1  
Release Date: 2025-12-10T07:31:19Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1253260
  * bsc#1254094

  
Affected Products:

  * Basesystem Module 15-SP6
  * openSUSE Leap 15.6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

  
  
An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for multipath-tools fixes the following issues:

  * Log offline path state if "log_checker_err always" is set (bsc#1254094)
  * CI: GitHub workflow updates. No code changes.
  * Backported fixes from upstream 0.9.9 ... 0.10.5 (bsc#1253260)
    * Updates to the built-in hardware table:
      * Add some NVMe storage array (VASTData, Infinidat, HITACHI VSP)
      * Add QSAN
      * Add EqualLogic PS
      * Add Quantum devices
      * Enable ALUA for AStor/NeoSapphire
      * Update NFINIDAT/InfiniBox config
      * Fix product blacklist of S/390 devices
      * Add Seagate Lyve
      * Add HITACHI VSP One SDS Block
      * Add SCST (SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux)
      * Huawei storage arrays
      * XSG1 vendors
    * Avoid a possible system hang during shutdown with queueing multipath maps.
    * Failed paths should be checked every `polling_interval`. In certain cases, this wouldn't happen, because the check interval wasn't reset by multipathd.
    * It could happen that multipathd would accidentally release a SCSI persistent reservation held by another node.
    * After manually failing some paths and then reinstating them, sometimes the reinstated paths were immediately failed again by multipathd.
    * Fixed the problem that, if there were multiple maps with deferred failback (`failback` value is greater than 0 in `multipath.conf`), some maps might fail back later than configured.
    * Fixed a problem in the marginal path detection algorithm that could cause the io error check for a recently failed path to be delayed.
    * Fixed a minor bug in the config file parser
    * Fixed minor issues detected by coverity.

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.6  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4338=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-4338=1

  * Basesystem Module 15-SP6  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-4338=1

## Package List:

  * openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    * libdmmp0_2_0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libmpath0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libmpath0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * kpartx-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-debugsource-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libdmmp-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * kpartx-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
  * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * libdmmp0_2_0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libmpath0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libmpath0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * kpartx-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-debugsource-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * libdmmp-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * multipath-tools-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1
    * kpartx-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253260
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254094

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