RHBA-2012:0962 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated lvm2 packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The lvm2 packages provide support for Logical Volume Management (LVM).

These updated lvm2 packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Technical_Notes/lvm2.html#RHBA-2012-0962

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated lvm2 packages, which fix these
bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 464877 - Avoid scanning devices to find LV/VG in LVM commands
• BZ - 593119 - RFE: LVM RAID - Handle transient failures of RAID1 images
• BZ - 672314 - Check for suitability of LV segment types before changing the cluster attribute of a VG containing cmirrors
• BZ - 683270 - HA LVM service relocation after leg device failure causes resume transient error
• BZ - 731785 - RFE: add option to dmsetup to display device names for "dmsetup deps"
• BZ - 732449 - RFE: LVM RAID - Support RAID1 up-convert
• BZ - 732462 - RFE: LVM RAID - Support RAID1 down-convert
• BZ - 732531 - RFE: LVM RAID - Support RAID1 merge of LVs split from array with change tracking
• BZ - 733522 - --virtualsize device creation shouldn't cause errors when attempted with cluster VGs
• BZ - 736486 - Add support for encoding of udev-blacklisted characters in dm device names
• BZ - 738484 - clvmd hangs/crash if invalid local request sent
• BZ - 739162 - RFE: LVM RAID - Support snapshot of RAID
• BZ - 739190 - lvcreate -s throws dlopen errors
• BZ - 740290 - Restarting clvmd -S is passing every second exclusive lock and option -E is ignored
• BZ - 742607 - Add wipe_table command to dmsetup to release underlying devices held open
• BZ - 743640 - RFE: LVM - Extending mirrors should allow '--nosync' option.
• BZ - 746792 - RFE: disable the --mirrrorlog mirrored option when clvmd is running
• BZ - 747938 - Point out that md-raid is incomaptible with cluster in lvm.conf
• BZ - 748908 - RFE: LVM RAID - Support RAID device replacement
• BZ - 758552 - RFE: LVM RAID - Handle device failures
• BZ - 760946 - lvm2-monitor fails to start with lvm.conf containing 'command_names = 1' or 'prefix='something''
• BZ - 761267 - lvconvert --merge does not check if snapshot is invalid
• BZ - 769293 - Provide a way for read-write LVs to be activated read-only without updating their metadata.
• BZ - 771419 - lvm event log messages
• BZ - 773482 - Support (non-clustered) thinly-provisioned snapshots in LVM
• BZ - 773507 - [RFE] LVM support for thinly provisioned LVs (non-clustered)
• BZ - 785938 - nosync mirror is extended even when it reports "cannot be extended while it is recovering"
• BZ - 789408 - RAID5 device failure causes dmeventd to block
• BZ - 789421 - RAID4 device failure causes mdX_resync to block
• BZ - 790155 - LVM RAID: Unable to activate RAID device with a failed device
• BZ - 790162 - LVM RAID: converting from 'mirror' to 'raid1' does not preserve sync
• BZ - 794904 - Redundant log leg failure fails to repair and causes kernel hang
• BZ - 796348 - non raid1 volumes are not able to be repaired after device failure
• BZ - 796408 - Add detection of PowerPath devices to LVM
• BZ - 796602 - "lvconvert --splitmirrors" can create not valid Logical Volume names
• BZ - 796786 - stripe legs <= number of parity legs causes raid creation to segfault
• BZ - 796906 - raid volumes with multiple device failures need a way to do partial allocation
• BZ - 798267 - [lvmetad] pvcreate creating PV with PSize 16e
• BZ - 799158 - merged snapshot volumes may never disappear
• BZ - 801205 - minor device number change attempt fails
• BZ - 801967 - RAID1 down conversion with a specified device fails
• BZ - 802326 - Detect and use proper path for lvm binary in 69-dm-lvmetad.rules
• BZ - 804095 - Add lvmetad man page
• BZ - 804135 - vgscan does not populate lvmetad with metadata information
• BZ - 805300 - device-mapper: remove ioctl on failed; error when taking snapshot of inactive origin
• BZ - 805420 - Volumes for thin provisioning pools are not monitored on activation
• BZ - 806111 - RAID1 down conversion with 1st leg device specified fails
• BZ - 806465 - RAID1 split mirror fails when any PV but the last one is chosen
• BZ - 806885 - lvextend fails to extend striped thin volume with --use-policies
• BZ - 807069 - raid volumes containing snapshot devices fail to repair after device failure
• BZ - 807441 - vgreduce tries to unlock nonexistant vgs
• BZ - 807628 - lvm2-cluster package update must restart clvmd
• BZ - 807776 - invalid lvconvert --merge output should mention raid1 now
• BZ - 809576 - "WARNING: udev failed to return a device node" during deactivation and removal
• BZ - 816672 - Partial activation (missing segment replacement) is broken
• BZ - 817130 - Add warning when using snapshots of mirrors
• BZ - 820541 - declare conflict with vdsm < 4.9-113.0
• BZ - 821454 - LVM2 issues invalid ioctl sequence that crashes kernel when snapshots of mounted raid volumes are taken

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Technical_Notes/lvm2.html#RHBA-2012-0962