RHBA-2013:0378 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated iprutils package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The iprutils package provides utilities to manage and configure SCSI devices
that are supported by the IBM Power RAID SCSI storage device driver.

The iprutils package has been upgraded to upstream version 2.3.12, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version and
adds support for the suspend/resume utility for IBM BlueHawk. (BZ#822648,
BZ#860532, BZ#829761)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, showing disk details caused the iprconfig utility, which is used

to configure Hardware RAID devices, to terminate unexpectedly. Now, disk details
are shown properly and iprconfig no longer crashes. (BZ#826907)

• Previously, in some situations, iprconfig failed to change the IOA asymmetric

access mode if the saved mode in the configuration file located in the
"/etc/ipr/" directory was different than the current mode. With this update,
iprconfig sets the mode correctly and a warning message is returned when this
inconsistency is detected. (BZ#830982)

• Previously, iprutils showed the wrong disk platform location within the system

location string when the "iprconfig -c show-details sgx" command was used. Now,
the platform location for the hard disk is combined with the location of
"secured easy setup" (SES) and the physical location slot number which prevents
this error from occurring. (BZ#869751)

Users of iprutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs.

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 for Power, big endian 6 ppc64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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