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<h1>Recommended update for multipath-tools</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2025:4338-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-12-10T07:31:19Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253260">bsc#1253260</a>
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<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254094">bsc#1254094</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6</li>
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<p>An update that has two fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for multipath-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Log offline path state if "log_checker_err always" is set (bsc#1254094)</li>
<li>CI: GitHub workflow updates. No code changes.</li>
<li>Backported fixes from upstream 0.9.9 ... 0.10.5 (bsc#1253260)<ul>
<li>Updates to the built-in hardware table:<ul>
<li>Add some NVMe storage array (VASTData, Infinidat, HITACHI VSP)</li>
<li>Add QSAN</li>
<li>Add EqualLogic PS</li>
<li>Add Quantum devices</li>
<li>Enable ALUA for AStor/NeoSapphire</li>
<li>Update NFINIDAT/InfiniBox config</li>
<li>Fix product blacklist of S/390 devices</li>
<li>Add Seagate Lyve</li>
<li>Add HITACHI VSP One SDS Block</li>
<li>Add SCST (SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux)</li>
<li>Huawei storage arrays</li>
<li>XSG1 vendors</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Avoid a possible system hang during shutdown with queueing multipath maps.</li>
<li>Failed paths should be checked every <code>polling_interval</code>. In certain cases,
this wouldn't happen, because the check interval wasn't reset by multipathd.</li>
<li>It could happen that multipathd would accidentally release a SCSI persistent reservation held by another node.</li>
<li>After manually failing some paths and then reinstating them, sometimes
the reinstated paths were immediately failed again by multipathd.</li>
<li>Fixed the problem that, if there were multiple maps with deferred failback
(<code>failback</code> value is greater than 0 in <code>multipath.conf</code>), some maps might fail back later than configured.</li>
<li>Fixed a problem in the marginal path detection algorithm that could cause
the io error check for a recently failed path to be delayed.</li>
<li>Fixed a minor bug in the config file parser</li>
<li>Fixed minor issues detected by coverity.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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<li class="list-group-item">
openSUSE Leap 15.6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4338=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-4338=1</code>
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<li class="list-group-item">
Basesystem Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-4338=1</code>
</li>
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<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>libdmmp0_2_0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libmpath0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libmpath0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>kpartx-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-debugsource-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libdmmp-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>kpartx-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libdmmp0_2_0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libmpath0-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libmpath0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>kpartx-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-debugsource-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>libdmmp-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-devel-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>multipath-tools-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
<li>kpartx-debuginfo-0.9.8+247+suse.863ae86f-150600.3.6.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253260">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253260</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254094">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254094</a>
</li>
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