RHBA-2009:1392 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated device-mapper packages that include various bug fixes and
enhancements are now available.

Description

The device-mapper packages provide a library required by logical volume
management utilities such as LVM2 and dmraid.

This update applies the following bug fixes:

• Fixes crash when dmsetup -U, -G, and -M options are used.
• Enforces device name length and character limitations.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• Adds "all" field to "-o fields" option, expanding to all fields of report

type. That is, you can add -o <field_name> to specify which fields to print
in certain commands; "-o all" expands to all possible fields known to report.

• Library now exports dm_tree_node_size_changed function and

correctly propagates table size change up the device tree.

• Prints warning message if application releases the library

and a memory pool is still in use (indicating a possible memory leak).

• Library is now compiled from merged device-mapper LVM2 tree

(device-mapper library is now part of LVM2 source code tree).

All users of device-mapper should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues and include these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 501752 - Upgrade device-mapper to 1.02.32 version

CVEs

(none)

References

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