RHBA-2010:0296 - 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(BZ#536814):

• Fixes crash when hash keys compared are different lengths.
• Restores umask when device node creation fails.
• Does not fork daemon when dmeventd cannot be found.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• Adds splitname command which splits given device name into subsystem

constituents.

• Adds y|--yes option to dmsetup for default 'yes' answer to prompts.
• Adds subsystem, vg_name, lv_name, lv_layer fields to dmsetup reports.
• Adds crypt target handling to libdevmapper tree nodes.

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 - 536814 - Upgrade device-mapper to 1.02.39 version

CVEs

(none)

References

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