RHBA-2010:0308 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated systemtap packages that fix various bugs, enhance user-space
probing, improve support for debuginfo-less operations and apply several
other enhancements are now available.

Description

SystemTap provides an instrumentation infrastructure for systems running
the Linux 2.6 kernel. It allows users to write scripts that probe and trace
system events for monitoring and profiling purposes. SystemTap's framework
allows users to investigate and monitor a wide variety of kernel functions,
system calls, and other evens that occur in both kernel-space and
user-space.

SystemTap is now re-based on upstream release version 1.1 (BZ#515829). This
update includes numerous bug fixes for and enhancements to SystemTap. A
detailed description of this errata is available in the SystemTap section
in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Technical Notes:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Technica l_Notes/systemtap.html

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 users are advised to install these updated
packages, which fix the bugs and add the enhancements noted in the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.5 Technical Notes.

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 - 506959 - Few minor systemtap-testsuite issues
• BZ - 510282 - systemtap panics kernel when killing concurrent staprun processes
• BZ - 512202 - [LTC 5.5 FEAT] Systemtap Networking Tapset Scripts [201922]
• BZ - 513654 - Bogus testsuite failures due to permissions
• BZ - 516691 - man page bug of systemtap-{client,server}
• BZ - 519314 - "type definition 'task_struct' not found" in task_pid() function
• BZ - 521610 - Kernel crash when running multiple stap commands
• BZ - 536807 - para-callgraph.stp fails in pass 4 with ‘s0’ is used uninitialized in this function
• BZ - 559643 - Errata testing: systemtap.base/labels.exp hangs on ia64
• BZ - 564443 - hardening of unprivileged mode
• BZ - 564445 - Errors parsing .probes section in the presence of prelink

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)