RHBA-2009:1592 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated pciutils package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The pciutils package contains various utilities for inspecting and
manipulating devices connected to the PCI bus.

This updated pciutils package fixes the following bug:

• the pciutils use PCILIB, a portable, platform-independent library, to

talk to PCI cards. By default PCILIB uses the first available access method
but switches can be used to control its behavior. The PCILIB AND ITS
OPTIONS section of the lspci man page lists two such switches (-H1 and -H2)
that did not work as documented.

The -H1 switch was listed as allowing "direct hardware access via Intel
configuration mechanism 1" and the -H2 switch as setting PCILIB to use
mechanism 2. In the previous pciutils release, however, using either switch
on AMD64 or Intel 64 architectures resulted in an "invalid option -- H"
error. (Note: the switches worked as expected on 32-bit x86 architectures).

This error was due to the pciutils package not enabling these switches when
compiled for 64-bit architectures. With this update the pciutils spec file
includes a corrected build script which enables these features for AMD64
and Intel 64 and, consequently, provides Intel configuration mechanism
support to 64-bit architectures as documented. (BZ#505557)

All pciutils users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves
this issue.

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

CVEs

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References

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