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    <h1>Recommended update for mdadm</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2026:0678-1</td>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2026-02-27T09:37:41Z</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>important</td>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257009">bsc#1257009</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258265">bsc#1258265</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7</li>
                    
                </ul>
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        </tr>
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    </table>

    <p>An update that has two fixes can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for mdadm fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update to version 4.4+39.g6e1c3b06:<ul>
<li>platform-intel: Deal with hot-unplugged devices (bsc#1258265)</li>
<li>imsm: Fix UEFI backward compatibility for RAID10D4 (bsc#1257009)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Update to version 4.4+37.gea219956:</li>
<li>Backport upstream fixes from 4.5 (bsc#1257009)<ul>
<li>Re-enable mdadm --monitor ... for /dev/mdX</li>
<li>Allow RAID0 to be created with v0.90 metadata</li>
<li>Moves memory management into Assemble to avoid null pointer dereference</li>
<li>Support non-absolute name during monitor scan</li>
<li>Don&#x27;t set badblock flag when adding a new disk</li>
<li>Fix metadata corruption when managing new imsm array</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">
                Basesystem Module 15-SP7
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-678=1</code>
                    
                    
                
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    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>mdadm-debugsource-4.4+39.g6e1c3b06-150700.4.21.1</li>
                        
                            <li>mdadm-4.4+39.g6e1c3b06-150700.4.21.1</li>
                        
                            <li>mdadm-debuginfo-4.4+39.g6e1c3b06-150700.4.21.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257009">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257009</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258265">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258265</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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