RHBA-2016:0964 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for lvm2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The lvm2 packages include complete support for handling read and write operations on physical volumes, creating volume groups from one or more physical volumes, and creating one or more logical volumes in volume groups.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of lvm2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 753914 - Improve handling of devices that get resized after pvcreate, detect smaller size
• BZ - 838257 - lvm2app.h defines uint64_t for signed properties
• BZ - 844493 - Various dm_task_run failures cause many continuing problems in LVM
• BZ - 866971 - Support policies for thin pool and being overfilled
• BZ - 889651 - segfault in dmeventd in low memory situations
• BZ - 908792 - Add support to lvs to display more status information about thin pools
• BZ - 985974 - document GPT partition type for LVM
• BZ - 1014806 - overkill of messages when attempting to deactivate a VG containing a thin snap being written too
• BZ - 1019328 - When using lvmetad, lvm commands do not warn about duplicate VG names
• BZ - 1021878 - LVM should display a more educated (or helpful) error when thin LV is in Failed "mode"
• BZ - 1130329 - lvconvert --repair won't reuse physical volumes if the device isn't specified
• BZ - 1194786 - LVM cache: 'lvs -o cache_settings' should show default values
• BZ - 1203456 - unable to specifiy a non default --poolmetadatasize when also using an external origin volume
• BZ - 1206381 - inactive VG remove attempt ignores a SIGINT when virt volumes are present and removes anyways with error "Giving up waiting for lock."
• BZ - 1211575 - Hanging FDs left over by dmeventd
• BZ - 1213735 - lvmconf is missing command line check for switching the config to clustered mode
• BZ - 1215228 - LVM (vgdisplay) does not show the true path hierarchy of underlying PVs
• BZ - 1219222 - device failure on exclusively active raid w/ snapshot (on top of cluster VG) leads to deadlock
• BZ - 1220529 - Under some conditions dmeventd can hangs on exit and eat CPU
• BZ - 1225580 - need to turn off ability to reduce size of thin pool meta device
• BZ - 1233954 - unable to rename thin pool with data volume stacked on top of cache volume
• BZ - 1240507 - bad .cache file prevents RHEV host from functioning after reboot
• BZ - 1244257 - alloc: Fix lvextend failure when varying stripes.
• BZ - 1260194 - Reproducible LVM errors on a few systems when .cache file contains a device that is no longer on the system
• BZ - 1267664 - add IO statistics reporting to dmsetup
• BZ - 1278920 - deadlock when removing snapshot of root LV from lvremove failing to mlock() itself into memory
• BZ - 1290775 - PV appears only on 2nd and further call after PV present in the system while /etc/lvm/cache/.cache not having it in its records before
• BZ - 1298932 - lvm_vg_is_* do not return correct values
• BZ - 1300964 - Partitions are not correctly recognized in LVM2 when using devices/external_device_info_source="udev"
• BZ - 1301744 - pvmove of device in two or more subvolumes can cause seg fault
• BZ - 1302398 - Document that lvmlockd|lvmpolld features are available only if compiled in
• BZ - 1315491 - unable to remove extended thin pool on top of raid - "Unable to reduce RAID LV"

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal